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deaddmwalking wrote:I have a high tolerance for general stupidity as well as poor communication skills (remember Shadzar?)

I do! I'm glad to see you've returned to full fighting form!

No, because I find the term SJW to be a way to shut down discussion. I also do find most of the people to be nice and I had no real reason to expect this. I live in the SF Bay Area, there are a lot of places that are LGBT-friendly without being assholes about it.

So, I just moved into LGBT-themed communal housing situation. I'm asexual, but I don't generally associate myself with the LGBT community. The house doesn't require residents to be LGBT, but most are, and everyone must be accepting and supportive. I thought living there could be an interesting way t...

It seems like it would take some real effort to be as consistently wrong as tussock, but somehow he manages it.

Also, the gnomes can see in UV? What is actually generating UV down underground though? One of the most infuriating things about Gygax's Drow is the big rant about how they can see super well underground because they can see into the Ultraviolet. It's very very weird. Also dumb. -Username17 I'm gue...

I find that if I drink coffee on an empty stomach, it leaves me very jittery. So, I'd suggest that you be sure to eat something with your coffee.

Don't worry.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fi ... -are-over/

I just saw Hamilton. It lives up to the hype.

Damn that was a solid work!

I preferred the touring cast to the original one.

Sorry, I meant in-character moral greyness. If you can actually go see the Wyrm thrashing around, it's hard to argue smashing shit and wrecking face doesn't bolster it, but if no one's really sure the triat exists, it's a little more gray whether killing Wyrm-cultists hinders or helps the Wyrm. The...

I like how Spiderman yells out a response to the narrator in the second panel. I also like that the kids call her a real bunny.

It still allows triangulation. With two cars, you can get a pretty exact fix unless they are moving at speed.

I have an IQ of 170, tested in high school. No, you don't. The tests can't reliably measure past about 140, which is about what Stephen Hawkings is. First, IQ is not standardized. Some tests have a standard deviation every 15 points, some have it every 20. Also, they adjust test results based on th...

The general chance of going with no repeats is: (X-1) * (X-2) * (X-3) ... * (X-{Y-1}) / (X^{Y-1}) So for example, if you wanted the chance of no repeats with X = 100 and Y = 10 you'd do: 99*98*97*96*95*94*93*92*91/(100^9) Which is a 63% chance of no repeats or a 37% chance of at least one repeat. F...

Ancient History wrote:I've given up hope, faith, dignity, and exercise.

For Lent?

. I mean, a feat to return caster levels lost to Prestige Classes was in a book of dumb "Prestige Classes" that are pretty much just archetypes (altered main ability + different fiddlybits describes at least 1/2 to 2/3 of them) and would still be dumb then. But I man can still dream. Wait...

Ancient History wrote:...I still haven't finished the last three-word RPG I promised. I wouldn't wish that on anybody else.

Ah, but you can just give them the same three words and steal all their work.

So, Paizo just released my favorite bit of errata (or FAQ or whatever they call it). The trait Improvisational Equipment had a single sentence added to the end. Benefit: When using an item for anything other than its intended purpose—such as using a crowbar as a grappling hook or an old shirt to ban...

There's one of those AH images we all know and love(?)

Dogbert, keep advocating for player agency. Seriously, every game design decision that is Gygaxian tends to be the most boring & tedious of all possible options. When I referee, I always encourage my players in their Klugian decisions that allow me to referee non-Gygaxian games. Way to miss the...

Beyond that I disagree with the assertion of passive aggressiveness. Psiker seems to be trying to tread lightly in a new place in actively trying to avoid or disarm arguments. Which I can certainly understand at this point. In reading his general-internet tone he seems to be a default-nice person w...

Be careful with the Lobster. You know, for all that I usually disagree with Phonelobster and find him frustrating to argue with, in this case he's entirely in the right. It is a pretty big problem if your game claims to be based on another system while changing every aspect of that system. There is...

OgreBattle wrote:I know lorwyn's faeries look like elves+bug parts, but I don't recall "insect elves" other than the Acridian being insect type but ridden by elves.

He's probably talking about this. That's the only instance of bug/elf I'm aware of.

Starting to see why Gygax had the saves split on method of delivery rather than method of defence. Less offensive to people's imaginations if you're not telling them how they avoided the fireball, just that there was a spell and it gave you a save vs spells. Save vs aimed (Dex), vs contact (Con), o...

I would say that the obvious way society would validate her decisions would be for him to attempt to bring charges against her. That is usually how society defines what is acceptable.

I think this is the right thread for this?

http://newsthump.com/2016/10/27/destruc ... horcruxes/