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I remember other things from that thread; I thought it was a full on "what if we made an Infernal sourcebook for a hypothetical AS release" which claimed that Nezumi were sometimes thought of as an Infernal type of zombie using some kind of logic that surely would also apply to other lycan...

Yeah, given the "in whole or in part" qualification, there's clear intent on Churchill's part to cause the deaths of Indians, and that this intent was driven by their ethnicity, so doesn't even squirm out of the UN definition that was carefully workshopped to avoid finding any of the signa...

You need to stretch the definition of genocide a lot to make the Holodomor fit. Here are some things I believe you'd need to consider genocides if you want to call the Holodomor a genocide: The Great Leap Forward. US sanctions against Afghanistan (and really any US sanctions that involve food and m...

Edited. Thanks for picking that up before it got used as a gotcha against me. Really I should've been more careful before commenting on something this serious.

You'd think this is a lesson the west would have learned when they wrote a bunch of scholarship about how the Holodomor was definitely a genocide, and then when the USSR collapsed and they went through the soviet archive it turned out that actually the Russians just implemented policies they though...

You don't need to lie about what Russia is doing or how they're doing in the war to make them look bad. Their military is underperforming, their action are wicked, but they aren't a horde of orcs or some shit. They're doing regular imperialist war stuff in a regular imperialist war. The word "...

Sure, throw out the Golden Company now.

Weren't we meant to say some shit over the Dai-Oni's corpse when the time comes?

Throw the Golden Company at the problem, see what the rules say about how many companions they count as.

Without wishing to endorse any kind of punitive bullshit for summoners, I feel like the constant reiteration of "but you could get hirelings" or especially "but you could befriend a barbarian" is a bad counterargument. Generally, you expect the difficulty of the challenges you're...

So we were told outright we'd be lost forever if we entered the wood. I think we go for the Endless Sands of Akhon next.

Obviously use an item; attacking would be obviously more harmful than just turning around and walking away.

This is about the only thing I remember other than one of the bad endings from having a physical copy of the book, and I utterly forgot the context.

Goading the attackers into an honourable duel is the most Dudes Rock honourable response to this situation.

What's the difference between summoning a human with a sword and shield via magick versus giving him like... 100 gold? There are two important distinctions. One, the spell gives a reason why your summon remains loyal unto death and follows your commands even when it loses all its hit points doing s...

What's the difference between summoning a human with a sword and shield via magick versus giving him like... 100 gold? There are two important distinctions. One, the spell gives a reason why your summon remains loyal unto death and follows your commands even when it loses all its hit points doing s...

Don't forget one-shot summons like FF style. Big AOE for one turn, with or without debuffs. I'm not sure FF is a good example - the "summons" there are not game mechanically summons in the D&D sense for the most part. Sure the flavour is that an otherworldly being shows up and perform...

Honestly I took tussock's comparison of Russia's supposed military goals to their actual results to be more of a "ok thats actually kind of funny" observation rather than in any way indicating that their stated goals (especially the dEnAzIfIcAtIoN bollocks, not that Ukraine isn't in dire n...

Russian asset media is legitimately capable of being nuanced. Redfish Media larps very well as an "independent media" source while really just being a Kremlin asset, and the piece that really brought that side of it on the map was a 100% factual piece of whataboutism flagging how the media...

Spoiler tags stopped working as far as I can tell.

Russia cannot "win the war" in the sense of utterly overwhelming Ukrainian opposition on a time scale consistent with their initial pre-scheduled "news" releases, if only because their original deadline has already passed. Russia, on the other hand, can almost certainly "win...

1: it's new. News is stuff that doesn't normally happen, and this doesn't normally happen. Counter point. Yes it fucking does normally happen. And it isn't normally news when it does. Certainly not like this is. It normally happens further away from Europe, and it normally doesn't happen to white p...

Start lucking damage when she's on 3 HP. Not sure we can do anything about her Attack Strength.

Is there any real advantage to having a big list of weapons that are going to get seldom if ever used? If the fighters are most likely going use longswords, do you really need to have an option for someone who wants to have a glaive-guisarme and won't take a glaive or guisarme or guisarme-glaive? I...

I feel like the unfailable tests would have been less unfailable if we hadn't been minmaxed to shit from the get-go; but also, it's 2022, we don't need bullshit deaths to pad out the experience. Was there any consequence besides missing out on Hero Points for losing the riddle contest, the flashback...

The fact that we're being given an out almost certainly means it's the right decision by gamebook logic. Kill the fascist extra for cowardice.

Named shivs are better shivs. Not sure why the other sword becomes unusable during the fight but oh well.