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- Sun Jun 03, 2018 10:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Elves: The Slothful People
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6319
Elves: The Slothful People
So there's a standing problem, in nominal D&D demography, with having humanoids that live for 700 years but don't ordinarily aspire to very much more than Men who survive for a mere eighth of that time. What are level 1 Elves doing with so much extra time? Why do even the extraordinary, PC-quali...
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 8:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: So what the shit is so bad about Shadowrun?
- Replies: 250
- Views: 49840
I'm coming from a position of nearly perfect ignorance: How often do people end up generalizing? Is there anybody currently putting significant investments into pistols when they've gone heavy into squad-operated weapons that is going to suddenly and destructively have a whole bunch of nontrivial ex...
- Tue May 15, 2018 12:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Horsepower as a measure of attribute stuff
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6490
Momentum does matter because momentum is conserved. In a head-on collision: rider A is a 1000kg knight moving at 5m/s rider B is a 250kg light cav moving at -10m/s. Both have a kinetic energy of 25,000, right? But the knight has a *momentum* of 5,000 while the light cav has a *momentum* of -2,500, ...
- Fri May 11, 2018 7:22 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [MTG] the Prince and the Pauper
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2585
- Fri May 11, 2018 6:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 955754
Yeah, Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evolved was mostly predicated on delivering a reconsidered Vancian system and spell proficiency was one of the inclusions. I can't offer any raving review about the product but it achieve the fantasy heartbreaker gold-standard of delivering essentially a full alte...
- Fri May 11, 2018 6:13 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "My game has __ damage types that..."
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2804
Yeah I'm down for a person's grip on objective reality to slip along a status meter just like moving from shaken to panicked or chilled to ice-cube'd, but the notion of hard-wiring it to illusion spells, specifically and exhaustively, instead of being the result of direct mental impairment (and leav...
- Fri May 11, 2018 6:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [MTG] the Prince and the Pauper
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2585
- Thu May 10, 2018 10:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [MTG] the Prince and the Pauper
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2585
I wish I had more to say, because I really like the idea of Pauper, but I'm not into it and have nothing to reflect upon personally. But I was thinking that Pauper would be an excellent format to get into so that I could assemble a bunch of moderately priced decks that were all documented as being o...
- Thu May 10, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407330
To extend that idea, perhaps make it similar to Earth, and have fantasy counterpart cultures, but base them on submissions from people who actually live in the real world equivalents of those places? Sounds awful. Very close to 0% of respondents are going to be from a pre-industrial society and wil...
- Thu May 10, 2018 8:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "My game has __ damage types that..."
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2804
- Sat May 05, 2018 4:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Horsepower as a measure of attribute stuff
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6490
Part of the 200G you will experience on hitting the ground when falling from a very high height is in fact the 1G of regular old gravity you feel when you just stand on the ground. Same for swinging a bat and hitting a ball, or a head, the force applied through the impact does add to the force of i...
- Thu May 03, 2018 9:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dumb Wizard Tricks
- Replies: 99
- Views: 25047
I mean, that's what infinity means; if it ever could happen it is happening an infinite number of times If I started to transcribe the digits of pi but skipped writing every numeral 4, I would still be writing an infinitely long, non-repeating, irrational string, but it would never ever contain my ...
- Wed May 02, 2018 10:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Horsepower as a measure of attribute stuff
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6490
Re: Horsepower as a measure of attribute stuff
So... does this mean charging with lance on horseback should be x4 more powerful than Ussain Bolt charging with a lance? No. At constant power, force diminishes proportionally to positive changes in velocity. At constant power, top speed is achieved when exerted force is equal to opposing forces, s...
- Wed May 02, 2018 4:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dumb Wizard Tricks
- Replies: 99
- Views: 25047
To be absolutely fair, it just means that Tippiverses don't exist and the campaign world actually takes place on a plane of the abyss, because all the others were destroyed. The only safe space is being mind blanked inside a magnificent mansion with 9' ceilings. I mean, that's what infinity means; ...
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Adventurer-type classes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1741
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 11:19 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What would it take to make 6e not garbage?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 24691
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What would it take to make 6e not garbage?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 24691
4) DO get rid of the ridiculous 3-18 (which is really 3-25???) scale... which is used to determine what bonuses we get? So not only are the numbers unintuitive, the primary number is used to get a secondary number which is the actual relevant number for gameplay... This is one of those signature el...
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:29 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What would it take to make 6e not garbage?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 24691
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 11:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What would it take to make 6e not garbage?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 24691
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What would it take to make 6e not garbage?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 24691
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 6:56 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Unfucking Dragonlance
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12442
What if instead of being forgetful kleptomaniacs, what if Kender had more of a Marxist concept of property and ownership in that a thing belongs to whoever happens to need it at the time. In fact that's how their society works: Kender A picks too many apples off of his tree, so he gives the extras ...
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Looks like the Unusual Races chapter from RoW, but worse
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3129
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The ideal action economy
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12099
Countervailing methods: In Eldritch Horror you're on a team of globe-trotting paranormal investigators. Each round is broken up into three stages. On the first, you have two actions, but both serve as facilitation; you can move your character, stock up on focus tokens, use the local training option,...
- Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:43 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 938454
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:00 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 938454
The idea that authoring statute found to be unconstitutional would be criminal rather than merely inactionable is absolutely fucking hilarious. The year is 2002. The Supreme Court has just determined that it is, in fact, perfectly okay to jack off to lolicon. As a result, former president Bill Clint...