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tussock wrote:<snip factually wrong statements>

Dude, seek an optician.

There is... honestly so much to unpack in that post that the racism is only a small part of it. I mean it's bad, but the little throwaway to poisonous vaccines or the weird lumping together of muslim practices with blood rituals... I think reading this gave me cancer. Yeah, while "What if Week...

Saying that black people are ACTUALLY tainted is horrifying on several levels, almost all of them bad for the game and for you. The only way for this to be vaguely acceptable is if ALL the human peoples are actually tainted, but by different horrible origin stories. This way people can be racist in-...

You know, the problem of random peasants being able to succeed on heroic tasks, and heroes being able to fail trivial tasks is pretty serious when your main randomizer is 1d20, skills go up by +1 per level and you are supposed to be well into the superhero realm by level 6. It caused me some conste...

China's Stalin, for the few Brazilians that even know him. What this means exactly ranges from "godless communist monster" to "bold leader who had to take extreme decisions during a extreme time", depending of people getting their history lessons from the far right or the far left.

I find Chambers' The King in Yellow an easier starting point if you want to do "mythos horror". A lot of Lovecraft's scary reveals simply hadn't... aged well, as Frank pointed. But a lot of modern Real Life horror has to do with obscure agents hacking culture and society (usually to make p...

There's a simple and elegant test to determine Alignment based on actions, which this post is too narrow to contain.

FrankTrollman wrote:

Lago wrote:5E D&D's big innovation was to make straight hit-point damage without the rigmarole of save-or-dies a viable solution for parties.

How could you possibly list that as an innovation for 5th edition when it was the defining trait of 4th edition?

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saithorthepyro wrote:Also, why is it Rein*Hagen? Did he legally change his name to have an asterisk in the middle?

Wait, do you mean people don't pronounce his name out loud as "Rein dot Hagen"? I'm not serious

Re: /pol/ Online communities will end being defined and dominated by the most controversial discourse that's tolerated there. 4chan has genuinely interesting boards for anime, videogames, RPGs and Otaku culture discussions, but there's about 1 billion other online forums people can go to talk about ...

Re: "Alignments are forces / cosmic horrors and not morals" Dude, if you're not intending to keep the bizarre but nostalgic D&D content like Detect Evil, Blasphemy, the outer planes of Nirvana and Giant Frog, etc. then why the fuck are you worrying about alignments at all? Use Frank's ...

The use of the term "Triggered" in the Brujah clan weakness is at best an example of colossal tone deafness. Sometimes I wonder if we're getting old enough (I'm 42) to become seriously out of touch. If you head right now to "internet meme culture" places like say, imgur or Know ...

I don't follow White Wolf much these days, what with not being focused on chasing goth chicks, but seems some controversy has cropped up from how various topics are being presented and/or hinted at in the new revision: http://www.dogwithdice.com/whitewolfaredead/ And as there's nothing the Den love...

Can we go back to dry/wet and crunchy/sticky? ^ This. Also this: This is terrible. Possibly even worse than standard D&D alignments. It solves no problem created by the alignment system, and probably introduces a couple more: if you can talk people into rationalizing their beliefs, they seeming...

FrankTrollman wrote:There is no broader story or broader world. If something enters stage left, it literally did not exist before that. Not even in the minds of the authors.

Star Wars - Bear World Edition

The timeframe for populations losing or gaining a trait should probably be "One Generation". As for the lack of economic investment in D&D, you also need to consider two things: a) it's kind of hard to beat the ROI of "lets finance a raid". b) because all your neighbors also ...

EDIT: Spoilers for Deadfire and Tyranny inside. Frankly both Deadfire and Tyranny have about the same level of your choices mattering. Both stories are set in motion by the actions of a fuckhuge threat (Eothas / Kyros) and you can never meaningfully confront or even affect them. What you do instead ...

Presumably, this chart: Farmer Status Family Disposable Income Tax Revenue ... ... ... Free Peasants 15 koku https://i.imgur.com/J4jFeaj.png It had to be done. I'm not sorry. [hr] Seriously now, we got to remember that this is adapting ACKS dominions to D&D , which comes with its very bizarre (...

Computers have been solving targeting problems since at least Eniac. I was talking more about the real time / machine vision systems needed to figure "that's a human head" during a chaotic battlefield situation. You know, this: Apropo Killer Drones I wrote my post while this video was wai...

"Emergent malignant AI" is a science-fiction staple with the same level of realism of FTL, teleportation or martian invaders. That's it, it's something that people took kind of seriously before advances of science showed that reality just doesn't work like that. Its fundamental error is as...

The easiest way to explain elves master artisans is Frank's write-up where they digest cellulose. Elven civilizations bypass the neolithic revolution and instead organize in Smurf villages where about every elf is a different flavor of artisan, artist or soldier, since food for them is just ubiquito...

VladtheLad wrote:Would 5e break if you could have multiple advantage/disadvantage (3+ dice)?

Dicepools! I warned you!

I've never been so glad to not be into chinese cartoons. The only thing I've determined from reading both sides of this debate is that Darling in the Franxx sounds like it's so far up its own ass it's in danger of collapsing into a neutron star. No offense intended if you enjoy it, carry on. Dude, ...

Question: How 5e is dealing with errata? Back in 2014 we noticed that Contagion was a murder spell. Did they nerf it? Do they even care?