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Prak wrote: Also, does anyone else read the cynical warg as speaking with a vague russian accent?

I figured that was how it was intended to be read as well.

So, some guy on another forum I visit is going on about violent liberals at Trump rallies and the poor peaceful conservatives and I just can't organize my thoughts enough this morning to form a coherent response. My first thought is that is seriously small beans in terms of conflict, and that this g...

This might explain it.

For your hypothetical tiered system, I'd suggest you have 2 columns for that table. The one you presented could be "Normal D&D", and they you could have "Weaksauce D&D" for the people that want to play their Lord of the Rings fanfiction. They get the 5 tier differentiatio...

So, basically, we're all hopefully waiting for Cocks to give WotC a good reaming?

What would they even do with a 5.5edition? Add rules? No because then all the no rules = good game people will be mad. Add content? Then all the people praising 5th for the lack of content will be mad. I don't know what you could do with 5e that actual 5e fans would want. Every fucking 5e fan are n...

Prak wrote:And you guys have now effectively terrified me such that I will never go see my dentist. Thanks.

For a less horrifying experience, I had all four pulled in one visit with just local anesthetic. They only had to cut two of them in half, if I recall, and I drove myself home afterwards.

It's also worth noting that mongols had siege weapons, so they are not really something you think about when you think "nomadic tribe" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Mongolcatapult.jpg I like how the dude with the bow is all, "Wait. Whatthefuck is the plan again ...

In D&D combat ogre will never knock a town guard over with his club UNLESS the ogre is specifically using a combat maneuver. Like you can have 10 hp and take 9 from an ogre's swing, but by the rules that devastating blow doesn't budge you a ft. Shoot the only time that happens is if you're a Ro...

Now where 3.5 really screws up is in undead, where people seem to have an high chance of spontaneously coming back as some kind of super undead monstruosity when they kick the bucket. That's a good question. Why didn't D&D ever have a default table to roll on to see if a creature comes back fro...

Insight RPG blog Has anyone played/heard anything about this? I got an email notification from DriveThruRPG that the kickstarter for Insight Fantasy was ending soon. The elevator pitch about how player abilities to change the story the GM had in mind are baked into the system mechanically and that ...

Related to the point of republicans who would rather vote Bernie than Hillary, I've also seen an opposite trend among some Bernie supporters I know, who would consider voting for several republican candidates (Trump among them) over Hillary. Hopefully that's just the people I know. But it reminds m...

Blood sausage and blood cake dishes, would that work? Part of the reasoning behind rulings like that was the layered reality going on in a LARP. Vampires, by and large, don't eat and drink. The players in attendance do. So you'd periodically have people that would try to argue that by giving Tim th...

Never mentions it has to be pure blood. Give people energy drink samples. Every sip is a drink. "Clever" bullshit like this (and blood brownies, and blood chewing gum, getting enough blood off a knife blade for a ritual, etc and so on) is why most LARPs I played in house-ruled that you ne...

If you are going to share powers on different lists, they should work slightly differently. So one version of magical flight is faster, but subject to weather conditions. Something like that. Is this remotely worth the conceptual space overhead of having to remember if you got Authority: Cloud Memo...

I always figured they were an attempt at an impartial determination for times when the players were seeking out a specific class/level of person.

e.g. "Hey, we need a cleric that can cast Raise Dead. Is there one in this town?"

radthemad4 wrote: Is backwards compatibility a goal here?

I don't know that it should be. I think not being chained to a bunch of legacy stuff, nor making new players feel like they have to track down books from the early aughts to understand everything, would be beneficial.

TL;DR: Single race armies need to be treated like a decadent option for advanced players with huge collections because that is what they are . -Username17 QFT. Speaking as someone with a collection of literally 1000+ (mostly random and eclectic) miniatures, putting together even 100 of them into so...

At this point the only reason anyone still follows OotS is they've followed it for years and they want to see the ending goddamnit. Goddamn I want this comic to [limp along to its, likely, stupid and unsatisfying] end. It's nuts that you can go for a month without checking it only to discover 1-3 u...

See ? That's the point - your groups explored those themes at their own will. A game that's good at genre-emulation do not rely on "good will" for focusing on its target genre(s). The fact the "katanas & trench-coats" playstyle is so popular around the net - with zero focus ...

Angola is the US' third largest trading partner in Sub-Saharan Africa. Picking on Niki Minaj for doing business with Angola is fucking bizarre. The United States sells a billion and a half dollars worth of stuff to Angola every year. This is not a small an isolated dictatorship. It's a huge country...

Given the recent flap regarding Nicki Minaj performing in Angola (and the related issue of pop stars performing for dictators), I'm curious if there are any legal mechanisms for actually prohibiting that? I mean, the US and/or the international community have, in the past, enacted and enforced vario...

Oh, yeah, none of the components have to be vital body parts--those are just placeholder names for whatever the power components might wind up being. That said, I think there's still room for stuff like fur, feathers, and whatnot. You can make monster butchery a thing that's never profitable if you ...

I had an idea for a further complication on magical item randomness, taking advantage of the idea that this whole thing would be a program: What if you randomized the value of the mystical components prior to each campaign? So, in some campaigns, Fire Giant hearts are potent enchanting items, and in...

Obviously there's a huge tradeoff in how much "cool stuff" you can get into the charts versus how long it takes to generate these things. In this world of mobile phones and webpages with dumb superhero generators and shit, I would think that you could thread that needle by making it a com...