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I just checked the Pathfinder SRD, and it looks like Shadows are the only core undead that didn't get the now-standard explicit statement that spawn become free-willed after their creator's destruction. Shadow spawn are also the only spawn that don't get a bunch of penalities for being spawn. They a...

Don't spawn stop following the orders of their creator when their creator dies?

The hider makes an Intuition + Stealth test to determine how long the base time to find them would be, and that time is divided by the hits on the Seeker’s Perception test to determine how long it would actually take them to find the hiding character. Emphasis mine. Whatever method is used to gener...

I just took a look at the default After Sundown hiding rules myself. The base time to find someone cannot be calculated. It is supposedly based on the Hider's hits on their Intuition + Stealth test and also on the chart of possible hiding locations. True, the rules don't say how the Hider's roll aff...

I baked them by throwing them in the oven at 350 F for ten minutes, then flipping them and cooking for another few minutes. Baking them at 425 F for a shorter time would probably work too. The canned chicken I use is already pre-cooked, so I just cook it at medium heat for two or three minutes while...

I've often seen a similar approach from the other end: genies (or whatever) aren't individually powerful enough to grant wishes, but they create something like an insurance policy that allows individuals to draw on centralized magical "funds." Each genie has to justify all wishes granted t...

Some systems offer open, catch-all disadvantages such as BESM's "Involuntary Transformation" that make taking the same disadvantage twice meaningful. In that case one could get an arbitrarily large number of points by having many copies of a single disadvantage. It's a ticket to DM Veto La...

I lost what little respect I had for Savage Worlds the first time I tripped someone. We looked up the rules and found that standing from prone is a free action you can make as part of defending yourself against a melee attack. Since it's harder to hit prone creatures with ranged attacks, being tripp...

I just played a game against Twitch for the first time. Gave up first blood because I didn't realize how bad trading hits with him can be. That little bit of extra True Damage doesn't sound like much, but it sure adds up if he hits you a few times. I may have to start playing him more.

Anime club finished for the semester on Wednesday. I hadn't actually shown up for several weeks, but I kept up with the full-length series. The last couple episodes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure rocked my socks off. Fate Zero made me alternate between loving and hating Archer because he's a smug basta...

I often read PhysNews, which is like big RSS feed for several sources of physics-related news. Potentially awesome things are announced basically very day. These are just a few things I remember from the site. Researchers have created transparent solar panels that can be used in place of glass windo...

Does anyone else get sequences of dreams that start the same? I had a few one night about a week ago. I would wake up in bed with my SO, and then other stuff would happen. The three I remember involved realizing we'd slept through a whole day, walking to stores in a different town, and saving my SO ...

One of the examples quoted from the book in a previous thread involved the pyschic cultists showing up and the player being told he would die if he tried fighting. If that isn't overwhelming opposition, I don't know what is. The mission was to kill the leader of the cultists, so conjuring overwhelmi...

I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance recently, and I can't seem to get the last story mission to spawn. I've completed Mission 23 and every location on the map has been placed. Is there something else I need to do to unlock it? Also, there are several areas that haven't spawned "Free...

rampaging-poet wrote:So Two Kinds just dropped a potential love triangle full of gender confusion.

It turns out this was an April fool's joke. I'm both disappointed and relieved because it would be an interesting direction to take things, but I'm happy to see the main plot advancing again.

Someone on another forum linked to Eerie Cuties , and I spent the past couple days reading it and its spinoffs. It's about several teenagers at a school for monsters. Main characters include a childish vampire that only eats chocolate, her popular older sister, a young werewolf, and an androgynous s...

What rpgs are there, besides Fate and ApocWorld, that make background game-relevant as per its rules ? Frank's RPG After Sundown gives every character points to invest in "Backgrounds" that represent the character's general background knowledge, contacts, and interests. Constructing a cha...

I would consider anything that has a clearly-defined interaction with the rules, requires an action to activate, and isn't just basic movement to be an activated ability. Under this definition, swinging a sword with the intent to strike something is an activated ability, it's just an incredibly comm...

So Two Kinds just dropped a potential love triangle full of gender confusion. One of the comic's main characters is Natani. She was born female, but nearly killed by a soul-destroying monster. A risky soul-meld with her twin brother saved her life, but caused her to begin identifying as a man and fe...

Yeah, Kill la Kill was great. One of theose series that just keeps building on itself. A friend of mine recommended Saint Seiya, so I've started watching that. I'm about twenty episodes in, and it's been decent so far. The way the symbolism is all over the map grates a bit, but so far neither the he...

shadzar, you're confusing status effects and activated abilities. "On fire" is a status effect - you're either on fire or not, and specific things happen (damage every turn) while you are on fire. "Cast fireball " is an activated ability - a wizard with fireball memorized may cho...

Pleas stop playing bots. Again, I only play one or two bot matches with each champ to give me an idea what my ranges are and how my abilities work. In fact, I had intended to play a completely different champion in the second game, but we already had a few champions that could top and nobody object...

I just tried new Xerath for the first time, and he was a lot of fun. I didn't really have enough damage to back up my stun and slow, but poking with Arcanopulse was good and securing kills from such a huge range was very satisfying. I'm just not entirely certain what to build on him. Liandry's seems...

Since Whateley Academy hasn't had a proper update in months*, I've started reading some of the fanfiction. Round and Round is about a high-school student who finds out he's a power mimic after imprinting on a supervillain that robbed a bank he was in. This includes duplicating the power that makes h...