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Fucking Nazi killed 49 people and wounded 80 more up the road a bit. Because our stupid fucking gun laws had quietly fallen apart over the last few years under steady appeals by a gun shop chain, and our stupid fucking spies who just got a large funding increase and can do whatever the fuck they wan...

Echoing MGuy's question, what is the best way to help somebody you suspect is in an abusive relationship? Be an uncritical friend with a lot of time for them, or help make time for someone else who wants to do that where you can't. Abusers generally work pretty hard at keeping their victims isolate...

Sorry for dropping on this, by the by, I have a bit more written but I'm on an extended mental health bender that's ... well half the reason I was writing here in the first place. Um, I wish I knew how to get unstuck on things, but yeah, I'm also stuck on things from 20 years ago still, so ... hmm. ...

Original D&D had DPS Wizards, Tank Fighters (in ablative form), and Healer Clerics. The reason the monsters had to hit the tanks was there was a lot of them and the corridor was 10' wide and leaving melee through them was simply not an option. You did lose Fighters over time though, poison saves...

Some of d) and g) there is bad if the results are worth having, Nockers. Being a pain to the rest of the party is in fact seen as an upside to certain players, and they should not generally be rewarded for it. Also, "everyone wait here for a year while I get infinite power" being available...

So many distractions. WoW Blood Elf are just regular 3e Elfs. Warcraft3 is 2002 and WoW is 2004 and it all completely just rips off 3e art for it's new things. https://regles-donjons-dragons.com/notesimages/topic2106notesimage1.jpg That's 3e's no-pupil angelblood guy, and he totally has pointy ears,...

See, Tiefling art in 4e, it's not just that they dumped the rather eclectic nature of Tiefling appearance in Planescape and 3e, with their range of identical to human all the way to cloven hooves and vestigial wings. https://i.warosu.org/data/tg/img/0339/12/1407284090198.jpg And were often a bit suc...

Things like Swordmage sort of show they understood some of the core problems themselves, quite quickly too. But the core books, it's not here. :sad: Whatever passed for playtesting didn't get into the core books at all as far as I can tell, other than perhaps some tweaks on the number of healing sur...

It is a bad onion, Gât, there are so many layers, and they are all bad. The mechanic they gave all Defenders is in particular, very, very bad. Marking doesn't work. Plus, they gave you limited healing surges, so getting hit is also a bad idea, sharing the damage around a bit is just better, so what ...

Those Expertise feats start in PHB2 a year later with Weapon Expertise, that initial version is worse than the later ones, but in principle it got you the +3 Feat bonus (at 25th level). Core here is 15/30 level + 6/30 item + 4/30 stat, and I guess the MM writers expected a Power bonus to attacks tha...

Bugbear is also Oversize, and Str(Dex) Fighter is better. The Mino (or Orc) is the Con build, sure, and potion spamming works, we'll get there later. I could program the sort of virtual tabletop they were promising at the time. I mention this because I know what someone like me costs, and I know wha...

I believe a market split was inevitable with this game as it is. Not having Paizo against them would've helped, they had such a good company name, but someone would've published a 3e clone with good art eventually. I hit a snag, it told me to pick a race and class. [hr] It's here we get into the mea...

D&D does "is tired by fights" trivially by removing unlimited healing between fights. Eventually someone is tired because there is not enough healing for everyone. Falling from high cliffs onto sharp rocks is quite tiring even for great heroes. But fatigue gets to be fun when something...

-10 only a PC cap in 2nd edition as well. PCs in 1st edition faced some wickedly complicated stacking rules on AC bonuses, hidden in the magic item descriptions mostly, but there was the odd one got down to -14 after Unearthed Arcana with full plate. -8 best for 1e Wizards, easy to hit -10 in 2nd ed...

Player's Handbook 1 https://www.dandwiki.com/w/images/6/6e/Player%27s_Handbook_4e_New.jpg They don't have a 1 on it, but it is. [hr] How to Play They call out Fighters and Wizards, Ruins and Wastes, call themselves the pinnacle of fantasy roleplaying games .... In 2008 the in-print fantasy roleplay...

Hmm. There's so much to grump about, doing a bit of research for this is just, even the real fan boys in the day had a lot of reservations. Even the people who loved it had colossal numbers of house rules and radically changed how it played, and were obviously mind-caulking it with 3e or even OSR ru...

Without knowing the AC, it's the same to use as ...

Subtract the d20 roll from your THAC0. That is the best AC you hit.

eg: THAC0 20, you roll 17. 20 - 17 = 3. AC 3 is hit.

Modern combat rounds are six seconds. Oxygen debt from high effort won't hit for something like 40 rounds, heart rate can't keep up eventually and starves the brain of Oxygen, you fall down. You might sprint, max effort, but that makes you fall over after 2 rounds, brain runs out of O2 massively qui...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars I may not be the right person to ask. I mean, basically, it's how to commit genocide out of public view. You forcibly and unconstitutionally move massive numbers of people into giant open air starvation...

@CapnT, link away, I'm reading over heaps of the commentary of the edition as I go. But I disagree in general that anyone in this dev team saw it that way. You're mistaking their press output of "everything is fine and we expect great things" from the obvious, published, internal dissent a...

Home run! It's been interesting to go over them again. As a hot tip, using coloured backgrounds under compact and encoded information is poison, and you should not ever do that in your RPG project. Little tabs and stuff are fine, colour dots, bold headers, indents, plain dots, single dark line betwe...

#Ogres ; a digression. I'm curious, how does that work? I'm making something with very little similarity to D&D but it indeed has an ogre in the monster manual. Say an ogre has 30 HP and a two-target +1 to hit 3d6 melee attack compared to a starting character's 15 HP and single-target +1 to hit ...

And did I ever run into that in my day of N-S, Frank. Who was that said spell lists were murder? jt. Because spell lists were not murder, this is murder. Sure, spell lists could've often been improved with single line spell summaries, as found in the class spell list section of the 3e PHB, a short r...

They mostly carried large knives as a general tool. Knife to the liver is extremely lethal and completely debilitating from the start with pain. Turns out when the guy across the table at poker draws his 6-shooter, he has to cock it first, which upsets the aim, and that means you can stab him in the...

Y'all keep getting ahead of me. Forgive my small repeats of what others have said before in this thread, I'm writing these in rather short efforts through the day. [hr] On we go, woohoo. Hag had the decency to cover the shame of not being able to make the extensive classic hag powers happen at all, ...