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This already sounds like total shit. DR from being drunk? That's fucking stupid.

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K wrote:Do we really want to go through the list of iconic DnD material that was an unsolicited submission?

I would find that interesting.

Stuff like ToB is helpful, but it doesn't really go far enough to help the "beer and pretzels" players you are talking about. You still need to put some work into a "build" to make a ToB competent character that doesn't suck as you start to gain levels. But the basic point you gu...

(probably not Races of War, if they desire a power level below CoDzilla but around Factotum/Beguiler

Huh? Beguiler just destroys fucking Factotum. You put them on either side of the slash like they are teh same, but Beguiler can play with CoDzilla and Factotum can't unless you cheat.

DO you enjoy speculative gossip? I bring speculative gossip: Monte Cook ditched 5e and we laughed. He has posted some stuff since then on his personal blog and I will engage in some insightful interpretation of these posts. I am basically psychic so you can take for granted I know what I'm taking ab...

An argument could be made that in doing so, it trivializes the act of rape. In fact, putting rape into a game could prompt the same argument (I wouldn't make this argument, but I know people who would). I would say such an argument fails insofar as D&D is being discussed, rather than something ...

What? You make no sense, Fectin. FATAL doesn't handle anything tastefully. And there is no connection between "condoning X" and "handling X in a tastefully". I don't condone killing people, but we can handle killing people in D&D "tastefully" in a manner of speaking...

The mainstream is for losers. The mainstream enjoys things such as Kim Kardashian gossip and Justin Bieber songs.

I can only think that some people have had such horrible personal experiences with one freaky fucker at the game table that they are terrified by the notion of anything sexual being referred to AT ALL during an RPG. When people start getting erections (or lubricating), you're already taking the sexu...

Do you really expect shadzar of all people to provide a coherent, intelligible answer about why Feats are bad? With that in mind, I really wish someone other than Shadzar would provide commentary for all these stupid articles coming out of WotC. Shadzar is not funny and not enlightening so what's th...

goodness hyzmarca, you are all mixed up. I can't speak for other people, but I was for one was not talking about having fat old nerd men describe in graphic detail people having sex, consensual or not. I dont want to hang out with fat old men PERIOD, but you know if I was hanging out wiht such types...

Mainstream media like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox are so full of shit that when they "report" something you can pretty much safely assume it is untrue. I figure Holonet News would be similar.

Oh god, D&D is racist. Tolkien is racist. Racist racist racist. What is with this forum saying everything is racist?

This is totally awesome and I will play with this way more than 5e.

Whoa dude calm down. But yeah, should a DM with more system mastery help "bad" players who have less system mastery? Like, "yo, don't take that feat, it sucks!", or "if you want to be a powerful holy warrior character, you should use this class instead of that class..."...

** Seriously, Dragonlance? Using some of the most shit fiction and settings in the history of fantasy and fiction as a reason for justifying this is just retarded. Damn it, didn't you notice me say "when I was a kid"? I was IN THE SECOND GRADE. Like 7 years old or whatever that is. It was...

This is the exact issue that I'm running into in my game currently. We have one guy who is awesome at optimization and then we have the rest of the party who play about average power level characters. ... When he's not in combat, he's also literally doing everything else. He's playing the Face and ...

hmm. Awkward. Anyway, rape is totally appropriate as a storytelling device in D&D, because the game implies that there is a lot of raping with half-demons, half-orcs, half-ogres, half-dragons, et cetera. THis should never involve demons blowing their load on you as a special attack however. That...

If 5e ends up being good I will eat my own shit. The reason I am comfortable saying that is Mike Mearls is so fucking stupid that there is NO WAY anything he is involved in will be good. The reality is he still has way too much influence on the overall direction of things for 5e. His design credits ...

I found this fucked up demon or devil ability in a 3rd party 3e supplement called "Book of Fiends". Spittleseed (Su): Vuall uses his own fertility as both weapon and tool. Once every 2 rounds, he can spit a glob of his diabolical seed up to 30 feet as a ranged touch attack. Anyone struck b...

I bet Cook initially had high hopes going into the 5e design process. But although he is a pretty bad designer, he was probably smart enough to recognize that Mearls was a fucking unbelievably big sack of dumb shit. Once Cook realized that the pieces were coming together in such a way that Mearls wo...

Jesus was a human hasidic jew who convinced some people he was God, or a god, or an avatar of God and/or a god, or something. We can assume in real life he did not have any magical powers. But if he DID have some magical powers, like if he raised the dead or something crazy like that, then more peop...

[*] Oftentimes people don't complain precisely because of the chilling effect of being called in various ways uppity or worse. For example, if you as a woman complain about 'slut shaming' that's like painting a target on your face for being thought of or even called a slut. Maybe you don't interact...

Okay, I let this pass once, but this is the second time you have spouted this bullshit moral relativism. Pointing out that there are more important subjects to argue on does not refute an argument on the current subject. Using such a non sequitur only damages your credibility. Stop doing that. That...

I cry at night because 5e is going to suck so bad.

It would be hilarious if someone took a big shit on Mike Mearls desk at the WotC offices. That's the least he deserves, for taking such a huge shit on the D&D brand with his shitty 4e game.