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Remove Disease would probably be used for cases like Drug-Resistant TB where a Divination-boosted Healing check just isn't up to the task. More useful spells would be those like Detect Poison (a cantrip!) for instant tests of patients with rapidly declining conditions, Divinations that give you X-Ra...

To my knowledge there hasn't really been a question of whether or not masks help in the medical field for at least a century. There have been extensive studies on what materials are the best, how to wear them, and probably even what shape of mask minimizes nose-itch desire. The question is about how...

Sneaking is a protectable role, but it's shit and you shouldn't do it in a D&D like game. The party rarely splits up and it's generally bad if they do, so a character that can't sneak generally acts as an albatross that prevents other player characters from using their stealth ability. Is there...

Frank is rather negative, but a multiplayer version of the pokemon videogam is basically a nonstarter. There's not enough there to sustain a party of characters, unless people play pokemon , and the trainer is an NPC. Definitely possible, since that's a thing that could just happen during a game of...

Players wlli be universally disappointed if they go to heaven and chicken dinners, apple pie taste the same. If someone picks a pear from a tree in heaven they expect it to be special and it should be. Every fruit grown in the celestial realms is fat and juicy because the soil is so rich with nutri...

Here's a magnemite being used to unlock a door to a Rocket office: Not so much unlocking as shorting the thing out and causing it to fail-safe. Hacking would be sniffing cards so that you can steal someone's credentials, this is a physical security problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDl4AO4an...

It seems like a best of both worlds option for day-length counters should be to set them on the Harmonious Four Day Time Cube Quadrant based on what's thematic for the character, but the PCs can do a ritual to sync their watches so the Necromancer's bone walls fall apart and the Paladin recovers the...

And then there's the problem that some spells are primarily balanced by the action cost to cast them, while others are primarily balanced by the limited number of times they can be used in a day. Even if the spells were actually balanced, having functionally unlimited access to haste would be a muc...

There are no "in-between" positions on that, and asking to find one makes you the bad guy in any discussion. https://i1.wp.com/reasonablehank.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Are-we-the-baddies.jpg?fit=450%2C239&ssl=1 Because there is no limit to ironic milkshake ducking, Robert Webb (w...

Is this something that could be covered by troupe play? If you're making a X-Mansion or MHA Classroom of characters, then it seems like there are going to be characters like Storm or Magneto who are Hulk-level threats, characters like Gambit or Beast who can throw down with Spider-Man without leavin...

Krusk wrote:They hit it with MM 1/2/3, PHB 1/2/3, and DMG 1/2 before dipping into essentials, and then that other rewrite that wasn't essentials, and then obscurity until 5e.

I wouldn't exactly call 5e a move out of obscurity. 5e has been in the 'death throes of 4e' state for its entire run.

Is this something that Troupe Play can help with? If Togusa is meant to be a playable character, does that necessarily mean he has to be played all the time? We could just make Pink Mohawk Cyborg an all-in archetype like Magician. The long-term course of immunosuppressants needed to deal with replac...

It's a moot point. Instead of producing a hundred silk bathrobes you produce one pre-scorred tear-apart sheet of silk bathrobes. You don't even have to do that. An object is any collection of matter that lacks a Cha or Wis score. So the definition of product is actually really loose. The three exam...

And the fact that Mearls immediate stopped talking to him as soon as the book hit the shelves tells you everything you need to know about how sincere that was and how much the cares of the OSR movement actually matter to the people left working at WotC. Whihc is only like six people and a dog, but ...

Well, if you absolutely must have a 'level appropriate climbing challenge', you can and should do a lot better than some flavor of 'it's bigger than a regular mountain'. Aggro Crag Piece While attuned to a glowing piece of that radical rock, you gain a +20 enhancement bonus to Climb checks, a Climbi...

I googled "Granblue Fantasy plot" and did not find dragonnewt art Obviously, you weren't looking in the right places. Granblue Fantasy is, according to Wikipedia, a JRPG on iOS. There doesn't appear to be any way to get it for Android in England. It's out for Android, and you can get it p...

My nose is often runny, and I've been doing well with OTC antihistamines (fexofenadine, specifically). But about every one or two weeks, I spend a day or two constantly leaking from my nose and sneezing when I sniffle too much. Decongestants don't help, and even diphenhydramine does nothing to slow ...

Actually, thinking about this stuff about FATAL on this thread yesterday, it made me sort of want to overhaul FATAL with a sledgehammer to make a decent hentai game. I don't think there'd really be a whole lot remaining of actual FATAL other than xp for fucking, though. If you want to do that, you'...

A minor note that people seem to be missing is that 3e Haste does not give an extra standard action. It gives an extra partial action, the action type you got during a surprise round. This means that, among other things, you could use it to partial charge at your full move speed, getting an extra at...

Haha, wow. As if Paizo pays any attention to any sort of playtest. They do, actually. Playtests are an important source of focus testing for Paizo. If their baying throng of Pathfinder loyalists doesn't think that something is 'cool' enough, then that means that the flavor needs to be tweaked or th...

But modern tentacle porn is largely a part of the "rape and degrade" sector of Japan's hentai industry, in which impregnation is just another way that the woman has completely lost control of what's happening to her (with disastrous consequences). I'd say that's not as true these days, ju...

It's been a while since I've read it, but the basic gist is that your character gets inducted as a low-level recruit into a shadowy cabal of time cops who are better than you and can solve every situation that your character will ever find themselves in and actually have all the time in the world to...

At this point, we've really exhausted all of the funny noises we can get out of Pike and we should probably discuss why they are completely wrong, and how that wrongness can be described as an elegant fractal of unrelenting horseshit. With that in mind, I'd like to explain the two apparent pillars o...

A visual novel translation website if Google is to be believed. They probably got hit with a takedown notice after one of the VNs was licensed.

I think to be true to Lovecraft, you have to accept that that Cthulhu is beyond the power of PCs to destroy. In fact, it would seem lots of mythos creatures are beyond harm. Unless of course, the PCs have access to that dread artifact spoken of only in furtive whispers. That awful, sanity-gnawing i...