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- Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:24 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56769
Biden promised two things: no tax increases on anyone making less than $400k and increased corporate income taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has tax increases on the poor scheduled to happen once Biden takes office (technically cuts expiring, but call a spade a spade)and a permanent tax break for co...
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 3:15 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56769
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 2:31 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56769
Biden is going to have a hell of a time in his first year in office, trying to get a meaningful Covid-19 response together, figuring out how to rescind the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (AKA: Republican ratfuckery which cuts taxes during Trump's term but has baked in tax spikes for the poor once Biden ...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:34 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Weis & Hickman sue Wizards of the Coast
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8010
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:24 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Replies: 100
- Views: 34307
I was the one to suggest that, yes, but the description isn't quite how it works. The actual idea was you'd have a periodically rising level of Horror which is resisted by Resolve. At first, Horror grants a bonus to your rolls, as the severity of the situation galvanizes characters to take action, b...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:43 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Replies: 100
- Views: 34307
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954112
You want output [highest 1 of Xd(2d6)] where X is the number of times you roll 2d6 and keep best. It goes 7.00; 8.37; 9.06; 9,49; 9.80; 10.04, putting +2 at two rerolls and +3 at five rerolls. You don't get to +4 before AnyDice tells you to fuck off, which happens at 12 rerolls, for an average of 10...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Does Planar Binding work in 5e?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9228
So... Is Planar Binding any less broken in 5e than it is in 3.5, assuming you can get the spell to work? 5e monsters basically never do anything cool beyond 'be a big sack of hit points and attacks', so the fact that you can specifically get elementals or demons working for you instead of geased og...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Does Planar Binding work in 5e?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9228
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 11:50 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
See, I was talking about you advocating for the assassination of Biden before he could get the nomination, in order to force the DNC to pick a different nominee. I didn't even know about the SCOTUS thing until it got brought up here - it apparently got edited out before I even read it. (Yes, I am aw...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the best game engine to hack? (No PL)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6897
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:44 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
Kaelik wanted more sweeping change... but couldn't articulate how to go about it and more importantly neither can you . Not so! I am totally capable of articulating Kaelik's 'plan'. It's just that doing so is against the forum rules regarding advocating for the death of real world people. Which sho...
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:11 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
MPSIMS got so bad that fbmf locked it for a few days in order to sort out who needed punished for letting it get that bad, resulting in Frank deciding to quit the forums rather than apologize for his behavior, followed by politics getting banned entirely when it turned out that Frank ragequitting di...
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orion vs. Lobster; how I think; rhetorical devices
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6965
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 1:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: High-Context (No Phonelobster)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11292
I'd like to zoom in on just one part of this whole feature wishlist: Gear: Because the challenges are not tailored to the players, they may find that they need specific magic items to get the job done. Player's should not have to beg the DM to get an item they need. On the other hand, it would be ni...
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orion vs. Lobster; how I think; rhetorical devices
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6965
Edit: Also I don't get the point is in making a separate thread to engage with your biggest critic only to then not do so. I do not know what Orion's problem with PL's criticism is because it is not clear here or in the other thread what he thinks PL is wrong about outside of the fact that he's not...
- Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orion vs. Lobster; how I think; rhetorical devices
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6965
I think that PL can safely be ignored here. He's just doing his 'nothing that I didn't have a hand in creating can possibly be good' song and dance from half a decade ago in response to what amounts to some extended musings on various metrics by which a TTRPG adventure modules could be judged, how g...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 6:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Rokugan Campaign Setting (d20)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9576
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 3:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Rokugan Campaign Setting (d20)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9576
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:29 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
The term 'alpha male' is an idiom. It no more endorses a specific model of wolf pack psychology than 'bite the bullet' endorses conducting surgical procedures without anesthetic. Calling someone an 'wannabe alpha male' is saying that they're being a loud asshole who tries to prove their social domin...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:14 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 1:55 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
You might think that talking about directly killing Republicans is somehow uniquely horrific but there are ideas far more objectionable to me that have been brought up in these threads. Honestly, yes. Not because of the Republican thing (the pro-murder argument I was refering to was regarding rival...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:53 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
I don't know which threads you've been reading Mguy, or who you have on ignore that lets you think that but the 2020 General Election thread was in no way a 'mild back and forth'. We had a QAnon guy. We had a guy saying all Democrats were White Supremacists and that the only reason he wasn't a Pizza...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:39 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 65101
I personally think the problems with this forum are unsolvable. Fundamentally, fbmf does not have the patience and free time required to moderate this forum; will not be able to find moderators willing to moderate this forum without either asking to be paid or asking to be allowed to ban people for ...