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Only now my dad (who had always been an atheist and only put up with Mom's interest in the supernatural because we had the money and he figured out he could spare some to avoid family arguments) is born-again and reads prayers in Slavic Orthodox. Holy fuck. Recommended reading: "The Quantity T...

Chamomile wrote:So what you're saying is that Jack Chick was spot on?

Chick went on about satanism and the occult. If you ditch religion to get into that shit, you haven't learned anything.

Depends on your brand of Christianity. Catholicism teaches that saints may intercede with God on your behalf if you ask nicely. Other Christians also pray for all kinds of things. All except the most fringe ones (like the crackpots who believe that 911 was God's punishment for allowing gays to serve...

I'm from a conservative, modestly affluent rural area and was raised as a Catholic. Pretty much everybody around me went to church every Sunday. We said grace before every meal. My parents would read to me from the bible at bedtime, and we'd sing a hymn before lights out. I went to confession period...

The basic arugment has to do with the conflict between fundamentally differing rights. The strongest case involves the direct threat to the mother. This is a case where the "right" to life is pitted against the "right" to life. Really you could argue both ways here, You can. It'...

Come to think of it, windlings are one thing I houseruled in my campaign a few years ago. In previous campaigns we found that windling archers and mages in particular are totally OP with their 60/d10 karma pool. As characters progress, they eventually get to spend karma on pretty much every roll tha...

Also, why should ignoring a large demand result in a large penalty?

If you ask me to give you everything I own, I'm hardly going to feel bad for saying no even if you plead your case admirably well. OTOH, if I say "fuck you" when you ask me to pass the salt... well. I might apologize.

I would say no. It's only if the PCs refuse the mission and the quest ATM tries to persuade them to take it anyway (or the PCs try to persuade the quest ATM to give them the reward anyway) that you would have to bust out the dice. Basically, if no one is trying to change anyone's mind, you don't ro...

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tenuki wrote:Please no tantrums, I'm genuinely curious.

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Works like a charm.

Thanks to Chamomile for the straight answer. May I expand the question? Do you also roll in non-hostile social interaction? Like whether the PCs accept a mission?

One thing I'm really interested in, how does the social combat faction handle things if NPCs want to get the PCs to do something or convince them of something? I don't suppose you roll some dice and tell the PCs, all right, all you guys now really want to do is give the BBEG all your gear, suck his ...

EDIT: Most of the below is moot. :) All disciplines get a huge karma bonus at circle 13. Like most extremely high-circle stuff, the resurrect self ability is not intended to be used frequently. It's just an extra layer of protection. ED has plenty of safeguards against PCs dying already that do not ...

I'm no part of this conversation but wanted to thank you both for expressing your positions. Got me interested in Earthdawn again. Like K, I had a pretty low idea of blood elves, but thanks to AncientHistory I actually revised that opinion to a much more favourable one. Cheers. Ancient's posts here...

go from rolling 1d8 (1-8) to 2d4 (2-8). In the former case, the addition of one die doubles the maximum outcome and increases the minimum outcome; in the latter, the minimum income increases but the maximum remains the same. Also, your likelihood of rolling an 8 halves, which is wierd. And your lik...

Every single rule limits the MC because in MTP the MC is infallible. The fact that rules limit the MC doesn't mean they exist to limit the MC. Their purpose is to facilitate play. The key here is to understand that as the MC, your job is to provide a living world background for the group as a whole...

Playing the "game" of asking the GM for stuff then begging, cajoling, arguing and cock sucking until he gives it to you measures NO skills that we WANT to measure, it does nothing particularly good for the game and does a number of notably bad things to the game. It is in actual fact a ma...

PL, it's obvious that we shouldn't be in the same group. Quick important questions I want answers to. Neither quick nor important, but all right. If it's answers you crave, answers you shall have. Last post for me debating you though, I've got a life to live. 1) Play whatever works for you. I've do...

PL, it's obvious that we shouldn't be in the same group. I totally understand what you're saying because I used to be on your side of the fence opinion-wise; I just happened to like the people on the other side a lot better. (Mostly because they use fewer capital letters, but there are numerous less...

So in short form. You don't actually use social mechanics, you use fairy tea party, you do not in fact have/support social actions as interesting, elaborate and powerful as regular combat so your invocation of the "that would be like making elaborate normal combat into one single roll!" q...

I used to be of the school that's tried to model everything to the minutest detail in their game mechanics, but I swore off. I like my games somewhat lighter on the rules now, preferably so that I never have to look anything up. (I usually trim a game system of what I consider excessive mechanics, a...

Fuck what else Swordslinger and Ice9 wrote. Just because I quoted a paragraph of Ice9's doesn't make me share Swordslinger's every opinion, or does it? I think I made my own case. If you check the thread, you'll find I wrote something in a similar vein relatively early in the discussion. So why don'...

You're all having this debate on the merits of consistently having the description always follow the roll, which parts of the description should be regarded as pertaining to statement of intent and thusly precede the roll, what constitutes a sufficient statement of intent in the social interaction s...

Zinegata wrote:Stated takers so far are Korwin, K, Av, Akula, Kaelik, and me.

I've found my CBM game, so count me out. Have fun.

Well, Grima's a powerful diplomancer in that setting . If no one in Setting X is above 5th level, then 4th level abilities represent the penultimate rank of ability, and thus would rightly be called a "quite powerful" diplomancer. Yup. Power is always relative, isn't it? However, my main ...

EDIT: This is in response to NineInchNails post above. I'm somewhat reluctant to discuss Middle Earth in D&D terms because, no matter what you think of one or the other, D&D is not very well suited for representing this particular background. See your description of what happens at level 20....

The king thinks like that... because he's been diplomacied. I'm not sure why this it so hard. When someone uses diplomacy the character is assumed to be presenting their argument to the person they're using diplomacy on. Yeah. But I'm finding it just the slightest bit implausible that a ruler -- wh...