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This entire thread is a great argument for why Alignment is bad for the game.

Or at least like the end of Casablanca, where you kill the local Head Nazi and blame it on some local petty theif.

So, I've owned Skyrim for a while but I'm just now getting around to giving it a serious go. At some point do the two mane factions give you the Hard Sell for joining their cause? I mean, from what I've seen the Imperials are kinda oppressive and the Stormcloaks are kinda xenophobic, and the only ar...

I have an interface overhaul called SkyUI, which requires SKSE. It's something of a pain because I can't start Skyrim directly inside Steam. Other than that I have only Lanterns of Skyrim and Unread Books Glow.

Wait, does the fact that Blink Dogs have average intelligence make schtoinking not be bestiality? Because they are still quadrupedal, they don't have opposable thumbs, and as near as I can tell they can't speak any languages. The MM says they have a comprehensive language made of dog sounds, but doe...

When I have seen the subject of 2nd Generation halfbreeds brought up at all in fluff, the rule is usually that if you have any racial mixing in the memory of your family history at all, you are considered a halfbreed for purposes of assholes being assholes at your asshole. I'm really not comfortabl...

Is there such a thing as a quarter-orc, or would it simply be a matter of the green-skinned genes popping up every once in a while, as a reminder of people's heritage? When I have seen the subject of 2nd Generation halfbreeds brought up at all in fluff, the rule is usually that if you have any raci...

Okay, so I think we've established why orcs haven't been wiped out. So, why haven't they gotten more sophisticated. Orcs are generally depicted as either nomadic or semi-nomatic savages whose technology is either stolen from more sophisticated peoples, or garbage glued together with shit. Why hasn't...

I was in a EP game for a while which mostly broke up because the system isn't very good. I personally have existential problems with Re-sleeving, but it's a role-playing game, it's fictional nature means I put this aside for the purposes of the game. If you aren't willing to meet fictions premises h...

So, if your 7th edition army required special figures that aren't in the 8th edition rulebook and your army book isn't out yet, you continue using the 7th edition rules for that model? How much backwards compatibility issues does that create? Also do they find ways to make miniatures obsolete too? D...

I am curious about something, though I suspect I'll not get an answer about it until this page gets unfucked. On average, how badly were players screwed over by the semi-continual edition rollover? I imagine that to an extent, it's like an edition rollover in D&D, where the extend you are screwe...

Death , the Taker of Souls, Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, the Harvester of Mankind. Not necessarily the Grim Reaper of the locality, but a Grim Reaper nonetheless. A seven-foot-tall skeleton in a black robe, and he carries a scythe. His eye sockets ...

"Fantasy action archaeology" is not so far from the themes of Earthdawn, so it fits. I see it working for a Dark Souls game too, where lore uncovering actually central to the game. Wait wut? I watched a comprehensive LP of Dark Souls 1 and am playing through it myself now, and that is com...

I have a Cavalier that's been making pretty effective use of them. Granted, he has a (I believe third-party) ability to share his teamwork feats with the rest of the party, and we're all pretty low-level anyway.

Accept, that adventurers do preform the necessary service of "preventing manticores from eating you in your sleep." Sure. But those are exceptional circumstances. If you have Sleep-Creeper Manticores, or a threat that is equivalent every day, you might want to consider moving to a safer n...

Societal pressure. Adventurers aren't farmers or carpenters or blacksmiths or guardsmen or hunters or merchants or anything else that makes society actually work . While they can and often do have the skills nessissary to do any of those tasks, that's not what they're here to do, and even if they we...

Okay, I really do have the impression that Silva started this thread so that people would shout "Apocalypse World!" back at him and he can have another ten pages of thread to try to contend that AW is actually a great game and it's YOU that suck.

If you find yourself constantly defending yourself from people who do not understand the points you are trying to make, perhaps the problem is not actually that you are surrounded by idiots. Perhaps it is more likely that you are really bad at describing your positions.

Just saying.

No, he's saying AD&D isn't D&D because they added the word "Advanced" to the title.

Phonelobster gave an objective definition to a subjective experience by saying that playing CoC as Virgil does is not fun. Why that is stupid should be obvious. If he doesn't like how Virgil runs CoC, that's great, but it doesn't make Virgil's game automatically bad.

I thought we established on Page 1 that the Henderson story was made up so people would call the writer clever?

Hey, if everyone's down for it, sounds like fun. I had gotten the impression that you were supposed to play CoC like characters in the books, people with more curiosity than is deemed healthy, and a profound lack of understanding of what you're up against. Like, you're supposed to lose, it's one of ...

Oh for fucks sake, if you're going to reply to posts you obviously didn't read, at least fucking be entertainingly stupid about it. D&D has a default setting, and has since the very fucking beginning. This is because system shapes the world, and the world gives rules context. There are games lik...

All 3e has that 2e doesn't have is a small collection of deities and I believe one obliqie reference to the Free City of Greyhawk, plus one race that existed in previous editions but wasn't in the core, one class that existed in other editions but hasn't been in the core since 1e, and one wholly new...

Where did the idea that players shouldn't know the rules to the game come from, and what was the reasoning behind such a stupid idea? Well, there are two main schools of thought that lead to this in my experience. The first says that in the mythical Real World, the average person doesn't exactly kn...