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Following the Geneva Convention with people who spit on it means you just shoot them. If you want formality you run a summary court martial. Not complying with the laws of war makes you an outlaw, beyond the protection of the law. If you make that a standard policy then no one will surrender to you...

I want to see how "modern sensibilities" do in a warzone. Quite well, actually. There is a reason that the laws of war exist and thrive. They work. Armies with a reputation for following modern ROEs are, by and large, going to be more successful than equivalent armies who do not. Armies w...

The only thing that makes D&D morality shitty is people who want to play characters who are terrible people. And that is fucking all. That isn't true at all. The thing that makes D&D morality shitty is people who want to deal with game scenarios that more more complex than He Man vs Skeleto...

When you hear someone say an old man like me "The War" you think of Vietnam or Korea or World War II. In your small mind those were horrific bloody conflicts. But I can't really blame you for your limited context. I wanted the world this way. It's much more pleasant than what came before. ...

You're going to have to explain what the Lawbreaker perk does. I have no idea what it does. Basically, it gives you +1 to breaking that Law. But you can get it for free in play. For example, if I summon Cthulhu than I get a Lawbreaker (Seventh) +1. Every time I call up something from beyond the Out...

This seems overly complex and silly. Let alone the fact that this should either work with all spells or none, so now you have to come up with a nature for every single type of magic and the characteristics caused, as well as work out what every wizard NPC has cast over their whole lives. Then there...

whether hollow worlds are more realistic than floating islands Floating islands, clearly. I am the smartest; you are too dumb to live; hollow world, obviously. That gives me a great idea: tiny Dyson Spheres powered by lava flows! I am tired from all this thinking; someone else write it up. I must p...

This seems overly complex and silly. Let alone the fact that this should either work with all spells or none, so now you have to come up with a nature for every single type of magic and the characteristics caused, as well as work out what every wizard NPC has cast over their whole lives. Then there...

So, yes, doing bad things makes you evil, and magic makes you look it. However, there are two caveats here: 1) This means we have to have at least a sampler list of "Crimes" and they can't be circumstantial, or rather, they can't be generic or blanket. Avada Kedavra being evil is actually...

As far as the Dark Arts, I'm a fan of the initially stated (but not followed up on) Harry Dresden/Starwars system, where doing nasty shit to people with magic inevitably turns you evil. If you want to be a good guy, you shoot people's wands out of their hands, create illusions, trap them in force-c...

However, you're right in that doing so should be an extreme countertactic only used when undeniable facing a malicious hack - walking around without a cyberview of somesort should be as awkward as wearing a full gas mask. That solution has been suggested a million times, and it does not fucking wor...

You're assuming that fighting the gods is a valid solution to the problem. That isn't necessarily the case. Consider the possibility that absolutely nothing good can come from perpetuating an eternal unwinable universe-destroying feud. Somewhere, someday, a player will play this game and figure out...

You're taking a courageous moral stand against treating mortals as toys and using your omnipotence to abuse those less than you. No, you are a pussy. The courageous stand is to fight the gods, or use your power to help the mortals, or anyone else that helps the situation. Sticking your head in the ...

There is the overwhelming moral disconnect, unfortunately. If you have great power and don't use it to help people you otherwise could help, you are a douche. The fact that you are doing it so your beer tastes better and because you don't feel like it makes you even more of a douche, and a coward t...

Assuming http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=50259&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 is the thread in question, I'm reading it now, and thank you for pointing it out to me. However, I'm a little skeptical that "subverting the lower-is-better goal" is a meaningful problem, espe...

I don't really see how Swordslinger's proposal can work at all. I mean, the instant people can trade a ship or a castle for a handful of potions, they just do that. They don't need castles and ships to survive as adventurers, but they do need potions. Of course, you could make ships and castles che...

Then again, Thor is a physical god with a big magic hammer. Take away that hammer and he's still a physical god, but he's substantially less than he is with it.

Losing weight is a matter of burning more calories than you consume.

So long as calorie output exceeds calorie intake you'll burn fat.

It is simple, just use calories instead of XP.

But big problem is when they want some aspects of high level campaigns but not others. It's perfectly reasonable to have a group that wants to teleport into Asmodeus's fortress and bitchslap his guards but doesn't want to deal with flight. The solution to that is to just remove the offending powers ...

I'd suggest that the way to do this without making it grindy or counter-intuitive is to limit it to automatically upgrading skills that are used to directly advance the plot at the end of the adventure. If you pick a random lock you don't get anything. If you pick the lock on the Tomb of the Evil Gh...

Official boards agree that the rules suck and need to be torn down, freelancers included. It's gotten to the point that the Erata practically rewrites entire books from scratch (which is damned annoying since it makes looking up current rules horribly difficult). Well... it's good they saw the ligh...

But I think you get that's not what I meant . I should rephrase it to "scripts should be non-trivial / non-obvious" or "we're gonna use hidden information to make scripting more than a turn in advance usually non-optimal" or something. Combat scripts are never going to be non-tr...

EDIT: And there is a ton of people who defend Solar-level combat model (which, if I need to remind, boils down to long-ass attritionfests in which you spam the same optimal move and the stronger character invariably wins) as a deliberate and well-thought out design decision, even though it makes at...

tzor wrote: People like Frank and Catharz probably go insane when I go Kennedy on them.

You're no Jack Kennedy.

The thing that Doom seems to be missing is that money is not real. It has no real value. If you start scratching that veneer you soon realize that nothing really has any value. The real value of anything depends on the relationship between the buyer and seller and the needs and desires at the momen...