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To expand on this a little, the FDA (and many organizations like it) maintains a strict policy of treating all proposed medical interventions as pure quackery until someone has proven it to work in a randomized, controlled and peer-reviewed trial. Even if the treatment is obviously beneficial to any...

If we had a better answer for that than "antidepressants or CBT" mental health professionals would already be using it.

Just to clarify things: Do you spawn a horrible inbred cthulhu-wolf if you do the dogfucking, or do not do the dogfucking? My understanding of the issue is that horrible inbred cthulhu-wolf occurs when two werewolves fuck, regardless of form. In order to produce non-mutant offspring, a werewolf nee...

And Frank has mentioned before that what it's really trying to model is despair which... yeah, that's just a better concept all around. As you might recall, that was in response to this exchange:[hr] Sanity score. Everyone needs one. There are at least two ways to do this. One is to have SANITY WOU...

Random question, if doctors have to know a patient's blood type for some reason, I'm guessing they can't just take their word on it. What kind of documentation would prove that? Blood typing is cheap and easy. If there's ever an actual immediate medical reason to know someone's blood type, the doct...

But then you're making the whole player party premise irrelevant. You don't grab a sword/staff and go with your allies to explore the dangerous dungeon to slay the mighty dragon, instead you just get a bunch of hirelings to build up an army of killer mecha and nukes and bury the obsolete dragon ins...

The Englishyness of English is due to the way that related words share similar consonance. Where, What and When are all interrogatives and start with the 'wh' consonant, while their corresponding responses (There, That, Then) all start with the 'th' consonant. Similarly, Gleam, Glint, Glow and Gloss...

That is about half as much sleep as you should be getting, so you probably have your answer.

I'm going to answer out of order, because that last question is really important to understanding what's going on in the first question. What exactly is the practical stuff I can glean from a radiowave being the length of a human vs a microwave being the length of a butterfly? Realistically, nothing...

The player-facing numbers are based on however many Koku remain after the farmers have fed themselves and put aside some seed to replant next year. Turning everyone into zombies does not meaningfully change this number, as the replanting seed is exactly the same and it costs about the same to supply...

To be honest, I read the 'self-mutilation' thing as anti-trans rather than anti-circumcision, given that it came after he claimed to be anti-abortion and anti-gay.

People obtain magic by forging a connection with one of the three disembodied cosmic principles from which the universe emanates, collectively known as the Powers. Options include: The Hidden Flame, which is responsible for fire, love, mystery, eggs, the sun, flowering plants, teeth, thunder and dar...

If they're always on opposite sides of the planet from one another, then yes, the results will be similar to having one big moon instead.

Logically, how do you set up your docks so that ships don't get swept out to sea or dashed against the rocks all the time? By not putting them in the ocean. You'd have to put them a good ways upstream, in a river or else you just couldn't dock. Does that make the coastline more rugged, or more smoo...

Looking at the list, we have: Three Large Groups (Goblins, Rats, Skeletons). Three Big Monsters (Ogre, Spider, Ghoul). Four Weapon Users (Goblins, Orcs, Ogre, Skeletons). Three Thumbless Animals (Rats, Centipedes, Spider). Three Poisonous Things (Ghoul, Spider, Centipede). Three Undead (Ghoul, Zombi...

DrPraetor, challenges come first. Before you can figure out what abilities to give particular first level characters, you need to come up with about a dozen or so first level challenges. Drunk Ogre, Bandit Ambush, Gaping Chasm, Spooky Ghost, Hostage Situation, and so on based on your particular game...

Radiation exposure has both immediate symptoms and latent symptoms, with the severity of both and the latency period being effected by the total radiation exposure. For example, a 1 Gy dose of radiation will cause nausea in 50% of people for about a day, then seem to do nothing further for a whole m...

As far as setups which would actually work, you want to give every mundane class the ability to sneak around; the ability to perform basic feats of athletics such as running, jumping, swimming and climbing; the ability to impress people with your bravery and charisma; and proficiency with at least o...

Is that workable as a starting point? Almost certainly not. Let's start with the obvious: The Ranger, according to this table, gets to do everything that the Assassin, Rogue and Soldier does all in one character. This either makes him Better Than You (if he gets to advance each ability at a level a...

So... is there some opportunity cost to attracting new polities? Is there anything that needs to be done to make your domain be able to accommodate your 1st wave of new demihuman settlers? How about your 2nd? Your 10th? My understating of the situation is that, by default, you only get immigration ...

In 5e, it's not Handle Animal, it's Land Vehicle Proficiency. For some god-awful reason.

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote:

Iduno wrote:The riding dog thing sounds actually good, and isn't magic, so most GMs would find some way to take it away.

This.

Been a long time since I've seen a reverse Oberoni fallacy.

ColorBlindNinja61 wrote:And the primary problem with this concept is that doesn't work well in dungeons. Which are likely to be the focus of most games.

Small rogue, medium mount. I did an Eberron version of it where I was a Talenta Halfling riding a dinosaur, but even in bog standard D&D riding dogs are a thing.

Good to know. That said, being stronger than the mundane classes isn't saying much. If you're not allowing animate dead (or are allowing hirelings), the mundane classes aren't half bad. Stun Monks, cavalry Rogue and polearm Battlemasters are surprisingly not-shit in 5e, given what you'd expect from...

Artificer is better than most mundane classes and is a good 1 level dip for a Wizard, as it gives you the ability to run around in medium armour and a shield (while still casting spells), progresses your casting normally and gives you proficiency with Thieves Tools, Perception and Con saves where a ...

The rules post has 100% of the rules for this forum. Double posting isn't on the list.