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Creating a bit of vocabulary isn't hard, creating a language is hard. If you want to add a bit of flavor to a race I'd heartily recommend the former over the latter.

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I don't have anything to say about 4e that hasn't been said already, but I'd like to point our for Sir Aubergine benefit that there is a nifty tag, [ hr], that will add a horizontal rule to your post. It looks a lot nicer than a big line of X's and won't force the page to be wide. An example: [hr] E...

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I think the best solution I've heard for the "low level HP problem" is to have an honest-to-gosh basement tier. For example, you could start all PC classes at level 6, with 1-5 reserved for rats and mud-covered peasants and such. All of the HP and damage scaling starts at level 6, so a wiz...

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You'll have to wait for the rest of the season, but yeah the first episode was excellent.

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OgreBattle wrote:Armor Class is an odd DnDism that I haven't seen any other fantasy RPG's use.

That's because the term was originally from a naval warfare game that Dave Arneson made before Blackmoor*. The same goes for hit points, whose meaning is not at all intuitive were it not for cultural momentum.

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Now I'm interested in bolting other tabletop games onto D&D with some tweaks to the mechanics to provide use for the PC's abilities. For example, Forbidden Desert would make a pretty compelling "asemble all the bits of the MacGuffin before time runs out" minigame. You could make all of...

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It might be term leakage from Hearthstone. Aggro and face are synonyms in that game - decks that aim for late game burst (Renolock with Leeroy, Aviana druids, etc) are usually control. They have to survive long enough to get to 9-10 mana (barring some miracle with Emperor), draw tons of cards to get...

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Light is entirely visual - I can't see why you couldn't use Silent Image as a torch in a pinch, or to block light from a torch by putting an illusory bucket over it. It wouldn't produce its own heat or block the heat from the torch. Somebody who notices the discrepency would get a disbelief save and...

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Ideally the developers would have an expected power curve. Deviating from that too much will upset your encounter design (and mention player enjoyment), and since you've sold a bunch of adventures to your customers that is a problem. Too little power is bad design but is somewhat self-healing. Playe...

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I would definitely consider reworking and limiting zones of control. The more penalties you put on players moving around, the more they're just going to stand there and slug it out.

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Because you're going to have to create some scifi tech to make it work in the first place, how economical it would be to operate a 500g accelerating ship versus a 1g accelerating ship is an input of your setting, not an output. --- A quick reminder: more acceleration doesn't give you linear returns....

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You don't need to know anything about the legal system up front. Court staff will explain anything you need to know. They may provide hot drinks and snacks, but if you might be there for a full day (rather than a half day) I'd pack a lunch.

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Not sure it matters at this point. I think a large reason we got on this tangent is that the topic of the election is more-or-less exhausted. Unless something explosive happens in the electoral college (unlikely), it's over.

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On top of what JE said, I want to note that Elrond and Elros (Elrond's brother who is Aragorn's ancestor) were literally given the in-universe choice between elven and human racial traits. In other words, exactly what Chamomile described.

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As I understand it, the difference between fighting a fluffy bunny and a legion of psychic superwarriors is that MC is supposed to alter how much a result level gets you. So against the bunny a success might mean that you handily kill it and skin it ready for dinner, but against the legion you barel...

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My favorite (nearby) rude name place is Molly's Nipple. They're all over Utah. According to Wikipedia, it "is the name given to as many as seven peaks, at least one butte, at least one well, and some other geological features in Utah."

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DSMatticus wrote:... and control of 2/3rds of the state governments to unfuck the rest of it.

3/4ths, actually. 2/3rds of the state governments together can propose an amendment, but it takes 3/4ths to ratify.

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Prak wrote:Also, being colossal comes with a large penalty to attack rolls, which kind of matter when trying to initiate a grapple.

It's a touch attack. You don't need a terribly high attack roll to hit essentially everything. Not fitting into streets or castles or dungeons would be the bigger issue.

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deaddmwalking wrote:If you are carrying a weapon and the world

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How likely are the republicans to try to make an amendment or law or something that prevents anyone married to/related to a former president from running for president? Extremely unlikely. Two reasons: Both sides have active, important political families. Neither wants to remove potential candidate...

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Libris Mortis has a copy of Awaken Undead, but it's a 7th level spell and costs 200 xp a pop. It's permanent rather than instantaneous, which means you can just dispel it. It's also dismissable, which on reflection is horrifying . "Do as I say or I turn you back into a drooling automaton, no sa...

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It's not exactly news. He put out Donald Trump's Contract with the American Voter back in October. The only question is how much of it will survive contact with Congress.

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It feels like every election people talk about moving to another country. So few actually do. Ripping up your life, leaving your friends and family behind, adapting to a new cultural and political environment - it will turn your life upside down. You have to really want it. If you do, then I wouldn'...

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...if they repeal the ACA and leave people in the lurch... That's not an "if." That's happening, and fast. Trump and the now fully Republican-controlled Congress are on the same page about the ACA. Good as gone. I do find it amusing that term limits topped Trump's 100-day action plan. Tha...

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Learning to Play With a Lion’s Testicles: Unexpected Gifts From the Animals of Africa

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Couldn't find A Passion for Monkeys with five seconds of looking, and I can't be bothered to put more effort in. I did find this gem during the search though, so not all is lost.

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