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Chamomile

Chainsaws are heavy, poorly balanced, and... And vampires don't exist so what's your point? Okay, so remember when you said this? If you want melee weapons that much, just introduce melee weapons you would actually use in this day and age: See, that's what you said in the post immediately preceding...

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Chainsaws are heavy, poorly balanced, and in order to kill someone with it, you have to hold the rotating edge against them long enough for it to chew through enough flesh to hit something debilitating. If you take that over a properly balanced sword with a decent edge, you are not very bright. Ther...

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The Mexican Drug War is pretty hella violent and kills journalists and government officials all the time. Why would that leave less of an impression than the Sicilian Mafia?

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Petition to put all posts in italics for the entire remainder of this thread.

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It's well known in video game design circles that players will seek the optimal path over the fun one, and it is therefore important that the optimal path actually be fun. I have definitely run games where players overplanned to the point where the pace of the game was harmed if I didn't push them t...

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Floppy vs iron and city vs woods sound weird because they're phrased flippantly, but "is wilderness themed y/n" is what distinguishes the druid from the wizard and cleric, the barbarian from the fighter, and the ranger from the paladin (and from whatever arcane knight class you decide to l...

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I haven't actually gone back and counted, but my impression from actually reading a bunch of Lovecraft stories is that the two most common outcomes for the protagonist are to be condemned as insane because of a perfectly accurate recollection of an alien encounter, or else for someone else to go ins...

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Emerald is doing Move #2 of people justifying shitty Star Wars plot points: bring out the EU. No? Like, Inside Star Wars is EU content, and the exact text from the AotC novelization is EU content, but the same scene appears in the movie with basically the same dialogue . The minor differences in ph...

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Eragon was written between age 14 and 19. "He started when he was 14" is the quote people give when trying to sell the author as a prodigy, but it's not really clear how much of the work was done when.

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If Warforged aren't immune to death effects, they probably aren't immune to this, either.

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I'm not surprised Age of Dragons was most popular amongst the most diehard Dragonlance fans. It allows for politicking and intrigue without just leaving the setting for another one that's better suited to that, something which will naturally appeal to people with a heavy investment in the setting, a...

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Re: Planehopping, I'd like to advocate against single-alignment worlds being the norm, not because anyone's defending it but just because it's the D&D norm. Firstly, the 3x3 alignment grid is bad, but even with the more agreeable "heroes vs. villains" alignment, there's no reason Mt. C...

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Wait. I'm arguing with Grek aka Silva I'm out Dude what ? What the Hell is this accusation? Grek joined in 2009, Silva joined four years later and was defined by his relentless shilling for the works of Vincent Baker, someone whom Grek derided in this very thread. This accusation doesn't line up at...

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Yeah, but I thought it was a joke on consumerism and the modern tendency to pay for something you can get for free. I didn't realize it was legit! You can't get reliability for free. And also I probably put in more effort than most GMs, but I'm pretty sure my main selling point is that two months i...

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The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: What the fuck? You mean paying someone cash money to GM for you?

I mean that other people pay me cash money to GM for them. I've had the link in my sig for like a year and a half, man.

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Also Hades is supposed to be mostly nice. It’s much closer to heaven than hell. It’s a judeo-Christian anachronism to make Hades hell-like. Achilles doesn't seem too thrilled with the place in the Odyssey: O shining Odysseus, never try to console me for dying. I would rather follow the plow as thra...

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It's purely anecdotal, but I have seen a lot of people get into 5e, preferring it to Pathfinder or older editions of D&D. Here's my anecdote: Every person I've seen start playing RPGs with 5e are either shitters who fail at every aspect of RPGing or they quit. I didn't run much 5e until I start...

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Players want to have skill improvements be a thing that they can achieve, but that is in no way the same as wanting things to improve with level . Like, in the strictly logical sense that it is theoretically possible for players to want one thing and not the other, sure. In practice players don't w...

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The entire point is that the measure of scaling from apprentice weaver to master weaver should not be character level . There are two kinds of players: Players who want their skills to rise with level and players who don't care about skills at all. You can make NPC classes that advance nothing but ...

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But there are no fixes for 3e's skill system that don't overhaul it on a fundamental level. Ranks and Bonuses doesn't work. It doesn't scale the way people want it to. Whatever amount of scaling you want, you could obviously achieve by adjusting the rate at which the amount of ranks you have and th...

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Okay, I guess we can do this instead. None of those are particularly contentious and how to address those issues in a D&D context has spawned multiple long threads. I held forth a broad category of fixes for D&D 3.X's skill system, that category being fixes that did not overhaul the system o...

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The skill system of 3e is hot garbage and produces bad results across the board. This is apparently something you don't actually want to argue about considering that you didn't, so rather than derail the thread with that barely related subject, I'll note that you implicitly agree with the broad poi...

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Simple argument - if player #2 wants to stay home and be a rune fang merchant, then he's going to do that and players #1, 3 and 4 are going adventuring in the jungles of Hythloth without him? That's bad, so you design the game around preventing that from happening. No, you don't, and I don't know w...

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If you want to run an inn, you need like a +10 bonus to a relevant profession skill in order to hit DC 20 on a take 10, at which point you are a good enough innkeeper that the average schmoe can only match your routine performance on their best day. If you max out the skill, take skill focus at leve...

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Maj wrote:They do not have Song of the South, but they have the original Fantasia. There is a content warning on it that reads, "This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions."

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