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Libertad wrote:Who asked for this?

393 weebs, presently.

1) Who is it that flags that transaction? The owner? The bank? The victim's bank would do the flagging. IRL, the way it works is that if someone attempts to use your credit card or bank account for a suspicious transaction, your financial institution's anti-fraud algorithms are your first line of d...

This is spooky. Tussock is not, IMO, wrong. tussock is always wrong, at all times, about everything, because he is not able to think. He is the kind of moron who would, from the statements "Socrates is a man" and "all men are mortal," reach the conclusion that "all men are ...

While there are massive differences, there's an argument to be made for "better than nothing" and something something normalisation. Preferably it's a little step that precedes a few much bigger ones, though. I agree with you that "better than nothing" is about the best that you...

tussock, hey, real quick, can you tell the difference between "making something because it appeals to you while accepting suggestions from others" and "making something because you hope it will appeal to someone else?" Asking for a friend. Also can you tell the difference between...

That depends on what the "kitchen" has become in your metaphor. I was responding mostly to K and deadDM regarding the availability of mechanical options available to the player in their character build. There's no intrinsic reason that having low-complexity (few build options) and high-com...

I'm not saying she can't be effective, just that I don't feel like putting in the effort needed to get there. Pearls before swine.

Your silence regarding Argent Adept speaks volumes.

When it comes to offering different players different levels of options within the same game, I rather like Sentinels of the Multiverse 's approach: all heroes play by the same rules, but some hero decks are very straightforward - play card, card does thing, end turn - while other hero decks require...

It's a fire sale https://www.vg247.com/2019/06/27/latest-humble-rpg-book-bundle-offers-almost-400-worth-dd-5th-edition-manuals/ OH MY GOD, WE'RE HAVING A FIRE... sale ... THE BURNING! Seriously what is all this shit? Are any of these 3rd party publishers making enough money on 5e tie-in products to...

From a broader standpoint of "modern RPGs" rather than design specifically, what distinguishes modern products to me is the level of pandering to the consumer involved. I guess you could generously call that "marketing." Products made in the OD&D to VTM era did not give a sin...

Wait, Whedon was fired? I thought he quit after Avengers 2 because he was tired and had enough dump trucks full of money (not that this prevented him from accepting more dump trucks full of money from Warner to reshoot Justice League).

The version of "wargame broken by what should be a stupid tactic" I remember was Doug Lenat testing his machine learning system Eurisko on Traveller's Trillion Credit Squadron tournament in the 80s, and winning the whole thing by just bringing a flotilla of defenceless, nigh immobile gun ...

I've heard good things about an RPG from the early 2000s called "Deus Ex." Really solid mechanics, good integration of gameplay and setting. I never noticed any math being egregiously wrong either. You should check it out. Later editions weren't received as well, and a new company bought t...

Is Shadowrun-style exponential damage scaling something that's remotely appropriate for D&D? This can't possibly be the first time a Denner considered implementing dicepool mechanics in a D&D heartbreaker.

So, there is a strong possibility that I lost my 3DS on a Lyft last Thursday, and I'm kinda freaking the fuck out. I called Lyft and talked to the driver I had, and he said he hadn't seen it. So, there's two possibilities here: 1) I left my 3DS somewhere else, or 2) Some worthless fuck stole my sys...

Thanks for the Spelljammer reviews. I've always had a soft spot for that particular brand of goofy space fantasy nonsense, so it's nice to be reminded of just how dumb and awesome it can be.

Kiefer Sutherland as the new head vampire?

I'll just leave this here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino#Government https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_San_Marino Their first elections were in 1906. :nonono: Nice try. they were having 'elections' long before 1906. they were not general elections, just like elections in the ...

LargePrime wrote:I'll just leave this here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino#Government

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_San_Marino

Their first elections were in 1906. Nice try.

This has to be the weirdest argument necro I've ever seen. Deaddmwalking was talking about anti-democratic peculiarities in the American implementation of democratic government. He attributed these peculiarities to the age of the American government. In context it's obvious that "oldest democra...

This document offends my eyes. There is no reason to have this many colors, this much clip art, and this much general fucking bullshit going on in your page frame. Random blocks of color around words in the text body are giving me an epileptic fit. The text wrapping on art is inconsistent; sometimes...

Yeah, those...only seen the one for modifiers against certain AC, not certain types of armour, the latter making a lot more sense. The first one is from Chainmail ; the second one, which made it into OD&D, is its direct descendant. Back in Chainmail days, your Armor Class wasn't meaningfully nu...

The problem with levels in all editions of D&D is that designers have never really advanced the idiom to account for the increase in player agency as levels rise. A starting Wizard might go on a quest for the town blacksmith where she uses Magic Missiles to exterminate rats in a sewer in exchang...

Hey, remember way back when when there was a giant table and each weapon got bonuses or penalties to hitting each AC? That was a thing that was a thing. These? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gu0GsOqd4To/T7bE3X62tJI/AAAAAAAAALw/RwpgMAVd7as/s1600/M2M.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kLdQ34URijs/UGUKXOVr5ZI/...