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Who says that they "let" him? Maybe he got an advance notice of his pink slip and wants to do a marketing spin for his new job. That article has the same looking-for-pity vibe as Brad McQuaid trying to sell his ass after the failure of Vanguard on f13. Of course, trying to give a "pos...

@Libertad

Loyalty to the source material + good old powertrip. "Realism" is usually one of the keywords that people use when they want to promote their powertrips, but can't directly say it.

I would start for the "Meet the Tiefling" video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqFPujRZWo

Reading the source material, in most Medieval Fantasy stories the martial classes are bouned by the "mundande" restrictions (in some cases up to wuxia levels, but that's it) while casters can do a lot more things. A problem with that is that is all fine and good when the martial protagonis...

Page 4 of the thread, with questions and answers! http://forums.white-wolf.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=56305&p=4 CycloneJoker wrote: Will it still be possible for a player to get by in his defense by just spamming perfect defenses against every attack, suffering minimal penalty for doing so? ...

the CPUSA is basically just a branch of Occupy Wall Street

Bullshit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA

Important bit:

I personally would totally vote for the CPUSA if it had a chance of winning

I'm going to put this under: "Why Frank Trollman shouldn't be listened when it comes to politics, and why he should be shipped to Cuba ASAP".

Charm spoliers!

http://forums.white-wolf.com/default.as ... ts&t=56374

@FatR

The last one isn't surprising, given that WW has been bleeding players like crazy, only the sycophants are left.

"Not in a nihilistic 'starve the beast' kind of fashion"

Hey, that works perfectly fine and is a rational decision these days.

http://forums.white-wolf.com/default.as ... ts&t=56305

Heh, I'm surprised.

I don't expect this to be an improvement on any way, shape or form because, you know, this is White Wolf, but the sheer resillence of the brand and specially of this game line is impressive.

*eyerolls* Listen, racial penalties are unimportant. They could be easily converted on special race powers or something. Thing is (and I'm going to repeat myself): a)Even with race powers, at the minimal attempt to make said race powers different, someone will number crunch the best race per class. ...

All that sounds nice and dandy, but it kinda runs into problems. a)The US is a federation, not a nation. Is simply too huge for letting a central goverment handle everything. Simple logistics. And there IS cultural variance between states, like it or not. Or are you going to tell me that Texas is li...

Less classes?

Carter didn't had the balls neccesary for foreign policy:

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php ... LOCK_ID=35

Not talking about religion (real religion, not fictional) or politics on a game is just good manners. Same as doing it on a job.

@Libertad

I understand your point, but:

...works of fiction intended for adults.

I'm skeptical on this one.

@Prak_Anima

There's no difference to me between the guy who brings atheism to a D&D game and the guy who brings religion or politics to it. They are all wankers.

FWIW, I don't like the people who feel the need to play atheists on D&D because they tend to be wankers.

No offense, but the idea that "if only the honly Federal-level Goverment existed and bringed regulation to everybody, people would be happy" is retarded. It's retarded when Frank says it and is retarded when you say it Lago.

@Artless

Ok, I would like to see what kind of system you propose. Because free-form narrative, which is what you get when you remove numbers from everything, is not a system.

About Race Balance, I have been arguing that since people will number-crunch the "best" race for a class anyways, is better to simply limit class choices. (To a 5/8 ratio).

So you don't get to be an Orc Wizard period.

From the 80's? We are talking about the hobby where people are perfectly fine with Casters being superior to not-Casters and punish anybody who dares to play a Paladin.

If it bothers you guys too much, just change "Intelliegence" for "Magic Ability". And then Orcs don't have much Magic Ability, so they are bad Wizards. But then you could change "Charisma" for "Willpower" (and fuse it with will) and give Orcs a bonus on Willpo...

Off-topic observation, but I think that J_E is a closet racist. He seems too fixated on the subject.