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Just riffing on what you’ve got so far… Maybe I don’t understand the magic gem lore. But, If they used lost eggs of Tiamat to reproduce, wouldn’t kobolds then be reviled by the chromatic dragons for perverting the noblest of evil dragon offspring because these eggs might have produced a great green ...

I googled the setting, because I had never heard of it before and for a second, I thought this was a 5E reboot of the 50 Fathoms setting from Savage Worlds because the map seemed so familiar.

But if you mean to say that D&D has no obvious literary inspirations, this is very wrong. I think the point is that if you literally transcribed the events of a D&D game campaign to a novel, it would not feel like a classic fantasy novel (even if it was an entertaining game campaign). Altho...

D&D is the most popular because it's been a cultural reference in the US since the satanic panic of the early 1980's . It's literally that simple. For all the hate piled on Gygax for his writing style and poor business decisions, we're still talking about the game he invented in the late 60s an...

The pull-out unequivocally from Afghanistan, in September, is a win. Yes? Feels like a win, so, rhetorical.

Does the tgdmb.com need a sponsor for a root certificate?
eg: full ssl certs, instead of what's now?

No one on this forum thinks 2e was a benchmark of innovation. You have been part of this forum for longer than I, so I’ll just reiterate: “What’s your point?”

Hahaha.

You’re shrill, regardless of gender. You picked a fight that was already settled long ago.

Shadow box all you want, but you can’t be taken seriously if you do.

Can you cancel something that is out of print? I’m watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time and just finished season 2. And, just learning about how Whedon’s real life doesn’t correlate with the inventions that are attributed to him. Meanwhile, I have to talk to my daughter about deceit ...

This country is fucking insane that Ted Cruz's last minute vacation decision gets more reporting than his private meetings with defense counsel when he's supposed to be an impartial juror.

Wasn’t there lots of opportunities to run into NPCs secretly being mortal gods during the whole Forgotten Realms story arc back in the 90s? I vaguely recall a scenario where Tempus turned out to be among our opposition and whooped are asses. Not sure if that was a published scenario or MC dickary.

Kaelik, every single aspect of this trial’s result points at “alternative facts” as the underlying malaise that effect civil discourse. And no amount of dealing with the symptoms will address the root causes. You’re are wrong to suggest drawing out the impeachment process for a predetermined result ...

You said, to paraphrase, impeachment is a public indictment and opinion. It is not a criminal trial and doesn’t follow those rules. And I am saying, public opinion is not even leveled against impeachment because: 1) isolationism in media and 2) elected officials only care about their apparatus to ge...

As an addendum:

Despite all the majority can do to fully expose in minutia what this trial is about. The right will acquit. And! They will demonize the process. And! Only that demonization will play out directly to public opinion.

Parlaying public opinion with congressional discourse is literally: Do I, call witnesses despite the fact that no right wing media channel will actually broadcast a damning public record of incitement of insurrection. Despite the fact that congressional al managers have a majority in the Senate. Ove...

Well, fine. If you’re too lazy to keep your current posts in mind while I reply then this is just lazy discourse. I’m not going to contort my posts with code to make it easier to follow.

And schematically, your grand gestures about witnesses and parlaying public opinion with congressional duty is ineffectual.

So I’m throwing back to your claim that less immediate, future forward, actions proposed by the majority would be ineffectual. And that claim is wrong.

Seriously! You didn’t parse the whole, “Your talk is just that, whereas I claim to have talk and action. Lets measure our private parts, dimwit.” response?

Are you a robot?

There’s plenty of examples of a level 2 enemy that can cast fireball or haste because of reasons. I’m kind of lost in the whole lady of pain argument, but honestly am not engaging.

It seems my statements are nonsensical to you because you waffle between raging against what was done and refuting what could have been done. It’s over. I don’t have much more to add here and clearly you think I never did. I’ve directly engaged in meetings with groups that argued against defunding t...

I’ll ask again, since there seems to be a lot of parsing replies going on. There is a 0-level NPC with godlike powers in an old AD&D module. There’s no reason he should be level 0, given his psionic capabilities. He is literally presented as a way to throw level/power metrics on its ass. Does th...

I’m pointing directly at the thing that segregates left and right wing opinion. I’m pointing at consumption capitalism. Anyone predisposed to tune into right wing media is only going to consume data that supports their arguments. Same goes for the left or middle. Why would Democrats have to mount a ...

But given the aforementioned behavior of Fox News, I don’t think it would have helped much. Honestly, there should be an FCC policy that states you’re not allowed to broadcast an incomplete public record of a Congressional Session. Because Fox News edited the impeachment broadcast at the exact momen...

Going to walk back a previous statement. I did hope the trial would have lasted long enough to impact polling about the subject. In that respect, witnesses would have been effective.