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I learned of this news a couple days ago, and I don't really get why they shot themselves in the foot for what is usually lost in rounding errors on their profit reports. Incompetence, mostly. If "some guy on RPGnet who is referenced by some guy on Reddit" is to be believed, the people ma...

Agreed - close the box.

It would be quite weird for a voodoo doll to just be able to select a new target like a rifle, and in any case we got dinged for using demonology even when it was actually quite necessary; attempt to fight Nazek "fairly".

But do take the healing salve.

All sidequests must be completed. Go find the witch. I'm sort of assuming this doesn't include a DestinyQuest style twist where it turns out she wasn't by any means the actual problem, but I guess we'll find out.

We went to the tourist trap tomb of the martyr, buy the souvenir beseech his aid.

reject fascism, turn left

do an aminal impersonation

no missed sidequest ever goes unpunished; go clear out the bandit camp.

Mask who?

...Ask about the Mask, because inevitably we're going to get fucked for not having poked every blind alley.

I am amused that "just actually get mugged" is not even offered as an option.

Try to trick her.

Jesus fucking christ. If I was playing at home I'd have save scummed this. And I can't shake the feeling that failing to turn the mercenaries gets Tasha executed too. Obviously that would constitute cheating. I genuinely don't feel it would constitute cheating to, having been told we are to bribe me...

...requiring them to not wander around murdering enormous numbers of things in each other's territories... You act like you've identified a "space for adventure" where high level characters don't prevent or diminish low level adventures. Despite having described by omission one fucking gi...

Ti'quon and Akihiro murder. Tasha for diplomacy. Sar Jessica for bodyguarding.

And also Skullcracker for bodyguarding if we interpret a war camp to not constitute a "city" for the purposes of being hostile to ogres.

It's easy to invent flavour text that would make it make sense. Maybe you have to be holding your hand in a decidedly not-fist-shaped position to maintain the Shocking Grasp spell, and thus can't strike with real physical force while also delivering the spell effect. Fundamentally, whoever decided w...

Have you ever straight up killed a defenseless opponent because you thought it was possible that they might sneak up and kill a party member while they were sleeping? One of those opponents that is 'too dangerous to let live'? Would you have felt compelled to do so if you KNEW that you COULDN'T get...

What's wrong with a system that is just simply not used is that it consumes some amount of your time, attention, and ultimately ability to understand enough to play the rest of the game. Not a large amount, but every drip makes it less likely that people will bother with whatever remains. For table...

We're not comparing systems where death doesn't exist and we're introducing a new and novel way to die - we're comparing systems where death exists and you can choose immunity. Or rather you are introducing a mechanic where some, and in my estimate many, groups will collectively choose not to die e...

Picking out how much of that shit is "the conversation has fucking moved since even May 2020 let alone whenever it was that Stahl actually brought up the video" is beyond my actual interest in the conversation, I said some shit that I regret nearly a decade ago and I would like to think t...

Picking out how much of that shit is "the conversation has fucking moved since even May 2020 let alone whenever it was that Stahl actually brought up the video" is beyond my actual interest in the conversation, I said some shit that I regret nearly a decade ago and I would like to think th...

Based solely on the snippets provided and with no particular awareness of the broader context (and biased by fond memories of when I was fixated on Crawl which among other things expected you to sometimes fight an invisible enemy when you didn't yourself have See Invisible) I would say that a dwarf ...

Research proportionate to the amount of shits I give indicates that "psychic magic" for players is Vancian psionics; while "psychic magic" for monsters still works on power points but has a much smaller PP scale and calls the PP "PE". Presumably whoever is actually goin...

So, the examples that I know my group has repeatedly flirted with over the years are Destiny Points from SIFRP and Fate Points from Dark Heresy*. In both instances, you have two broad categories of uses: * "spend" the points to get certain minor benefits to tip the odds in your favour, lik...

I appreciate my group is not a representative sample of the world - but when in situations where we are given a meta-currency that can be spent to Not Die, we proceed as if real character death is actually on the table and then just spend the currency when necessary.

Shinzo Abe hasn't been prime minister of Japan since 2020, so while this is an assassination of a relatively famous fascist, it doesn't mean Japan needs to immediately replace their head of state or anything.

Is this referring to something from the 2022 Summit for the Americas which didn't invite a third of the Americas and got snubbed by another third for that?