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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I hadn't thought to separate CD-dependant threats from people that are always a threat because outside the late-game teamfights they only ever engaged me with their CDs up. Managing enemy cooldowns is something I need to get better at as well. That particular game pro...

I played my first few ranked games today and found out that doing reasonably well as an ADC in normals means absolutely nothing. I understand the my role on the team is to take objectives (especially towers), but I really don't know how to contribute if I fall behind. My last game tonight was especi...

Occluded Sun wrote:Countries are a very important factor in societies. And I find it difficult to imagine why anyone would want that to be otherwise.

... because it would be better if there weren't arbitrary lines on a map that determined who did and didn't have enough electricity to stay awake at night?

Ok. Substituting (385,000 km + R_Earth + R_Moon) into my simulation yields 219,221 seconds to the Roche limit and 219,365 seconds until surface-to-surface contact.

I just ran a similar program in FreePascal. It yields a time for physical collision of 213,719 seconds, which is probably slightly closer because I used 10-byte Extended floating point numbers instead of 8-byte Double floating points. I also calculated the time to reach the rigid-satelite Roche limi...

That's a differential equation. The equatorial surface gravities and radii can be used to get the masses of the Earth and Moon. Once you have those, you can substitute them into the universal gravitation formula to get the force on the Earth from the Moon and vice-versa. Forces become accelerations,...

no the math wont work, and you really haven't put the pre-WotC system into d20, you jsut recreated the d20 system like WotC did with 3.0. I mean that is exactly what they did to reinvent it. but the system itself from pre-WotC won't work with all the things the d20 system are connected to. Game bal...

then end result is you are still just comparing two numbers to find if your roll produced the bigger number. thus they are the same thing, even the math has been shown by a 3rd edition player to be the same math just with AC starting at 10 going up, not down. still just a number line. Sure, THAC0 i...

I'm running Pale Moon here as well. The only plugins I'm running are Add To Searchbar and Greasemonkey, and so far I only use Greasemonkey to remove pointless "are you sure you want to redirect?" pages.

In the interest of "rules transparency" that people love today, where is the cap and when does the DM tell it to you since 2000? 3rd edition D&D didn't cap AC if the left-handed can do things just as well as the right-handed, then why should a southpaw have to do things right-handed? ...

yes BAB is THACO just with AC going up not down, and a limit to AC @ around -12. Some people have no need for ascending AC jsut for the sake of bigger numbers, because math works in both systems as they are the same. You don't need descending AC to have a hard cap. There's nothing wrong with saying...

My family eats bison and venison semi-regularly. Both are farmed locally, but fairly expensive. My family hunts, so most of the venison we eat is from wild deer we shot ourselves.

I just skimmed the entire 24-page anime thread and reviewed the list of anime on my harddrive. Many of them are probably "too anime," but there are a few I can definitely recommend. Some recommendations will be longer than others. Dennou Coil takes place in a near-future city encompassed b...

I was mostly talking about this bit: Keeping an extra die decreases the chance that you'll roll maximum and leaves the chance that you'll roll minimum unchanged. The variance is still hellish, but if you always add rolled dice every time you add kept dice then your odds of rolling minimum always dec...

If you do just use the Druid list, make sure your class have some other class features that make up for the reduced casting at higher levels. For example, when Bard casting yields a single 3rd-level spell at character level 8, the druid has three 3rd-level spells and two 4th-level spells. The other ...

I'm getting the "No Posts Exist for this topic" message when I try to view Page 15.
EDIT: And now my post is the first post of page 15 and everything is fine.

The Game of Thrones RPG uses Roll and Keep. Each "attribute" (which is more like a D&D skill) sets the number of dice you keep. You roll a number of dice equal to your attribute plus any bonuses from specialization or circumstances. It is therefore fundamentally impossible to increase ...

The Megaman Battle Network Internet is functionally identical to a D&D-style plane of existence. It has physical space, things happen on human time-scales, and in some circumstances there can even be planar bleeds (eg the last mission in Megaman Battle Network 2). The Digital World of Digimon is...

darkmaster wrote:By the way, if you guys want to hear how digimon is secretly in the megaman universe, I'm down for telling that story via PM.

That sounds cool to me.

Dante Mournhold is professor of necromancy at the Grey College. Following his unfortunate death in a laboratory accident last month, he rose as a ghost to continue instructing his pupils. He has vehemently refused resurrection , insisting his death provides an invaluable opportunity for his student...

My SO came up with a few and asked me to post them. Junko Dewleaf: Junko is a young half-elf student at the Grey College, and is the epitome of the stereotypical over-worked, neurotic student. While she is a gifted wizard, she has all the social grace of a hammer, and has the habit of accidentally s...

I seem to remember something about D&D spell effects stacking in whatever way is most favourable to [character], but can't remember where it is or whether it's the caster or the target that gets to pick the order of operations. Does that rule actually exist? If so, where is it?

Alexis Nomiki Pi is a malfunctioning kolyarut obsessed with the implicit contracts of games and social gatherings. It is dressed in its standard-issue red robe with a lopsided conical hat on its crown. It sometimes becomes lost in thought, causing small blue flashes and clockwork sounds to issue fr...

Inspired by Koumei's suggestion, Vorelisk is a juvenile brass dragon pretending to be a human man. His total Disguise modifier (including the -2 penalty for disguising oneself as a member of a different race) is +15, so only seasoned adventurers are able to penetrate his cunning disguise. Like most ...

"Thricecursed" Tom O'Malley: Tom O'Malley appears to be a half-fiend woman with red skin. His black spaded tail is curled around his waist, and bat-like wings are folded on his back. He wears a mithral breastplate and simple leather breeches in addition to his trademark cursed items descri...