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Indeed. Good firstpost.

It should probably be replaced with a more subtle typeface tweak in the final draft.

Penalty dice are an elegant mechanic that vaguely remind me of Ironclaw's opposed die pools mechanism.

Starmaker wrote:Also, it's "Asymmetric".

this is correct

Oh for fuck's sake just use the goddamn ignore button and quit jerking off about what clever mockery you can deploy

My working theory as to why that's so is that women are predominantly portrayed as sexually desirable objects in western culture and men, generally, are not. Men ARE sometimes portrayed as sexually desirable objects in the media, but women are ALMOST ALWAYS portrayed as sexually desirable objects in...

Saying "the computer's Dick" is simply too silly.

Eat a baby chick. That raises your Evil score by +2. You can cancel it out with a slab of tofu.

Just Cause 2 is absolutely a fantastically excellent game.

I demand to see your gross feet!

Alrighty, and Shadzar goes on the ignore list...

Ha ha, that's awesome. What a perfectly elegant system!

Boxers aren't PCs. And yes, the boxer would also be a crack shot - because there's no 'boxer' archetype. There's the PC who wins fights.

Fuchs wrote:You won't get far in a charge against a chipped shooter.

Clearly, high-end swordfighters don't charge. They teleport short distances.

Mask_De_H, I'm not new, and I can assure you that your argument is really, really silly.

"Asymmetric Threat" is good, though, for all the reasons Orion mentioned.

I'm imagining a logo that incorporates a perfectly symmetrical summoning circle being rent asunder by a morass of circuitry.

Just play the group. The group is more important than the game, usually. Focus on having fun, not on inter-game politics.

I agree with Orion here.

Good thought, Grek.

fectin wrote:Normally you roll 4/2 for exploding open a door (aside: what's the right notation for that?)

My understanding is that this is called 'breaching' the door. Explosively breaching?

What drugs do people take in this setting that almost no one thinks of as drugs? Example given: caffeine.

You left 'choose spells' out of every edition except 4e.

So we might actually finally reach that distant future where everything is either shiny chrome or rusty iron?

So, energy efficiency of recycling compared to manufacture from raw materials varies based on what you're recycling. Accursed real world complexity!

Actually, the energy issue is one of the driving forces for recycling. It takes only 79% of the energy to make glass from glass as it does to make glass from raw sand. It takes 24% of the energy to recycle a plastic bottle, and only 4% of the energy to recycle an aluminum can. The energy savings on...