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Theoretically, if we all social distance really hard, could the coronavirus die out on its own? Sure. If there's no contact between any two people, then the virus has no chance to infect anyone new. Once the active cases resolve (that is, once some people get better and the rest die), then you have...

This is the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html I have been practicing emergency medicine for 30 years. In 1994 I invented an imaging system for teaching intubation, the procedure of inserting breathing tubes. This led me to perform research into th...

South Korea had an almost perfect containment until patient #31 spread the virus to thousands of other people.

The (acting) Secretary of the Navy resigned, so it's not like there's been zero fallout.

They didn't "agree to act in concert". DeBlasio proposed it and Cuomo prevented him from doing it: https://www.newsmax.com/us/deblasio-nyc-shut-down/2020/03/17/id/958682/ Cuomo quickly stopped the idea of shutting down the city, reports The New York Times. “It cannot happen," Cuomo sa...

World leaders don't get standard care. Are you imagining that there's a secret cure for SARS-CoV-2 that's only available if you're the PM of the United Kingdom? He'll get the best they can give, which is to try to keep his body alive and hope he recovers on his own before the virus or the ventilato...

We have to be prepared for a two front war so that we can invade Canada and Mexico at the same time.

http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=55422 here's the Earthdawn 1E Old School Sourcebook Review (OSSR), it goes into a lot of detail about the good and bad of the system. If they like D&D as such, and want a system where the world reflects those rules naturally (like characters being able to say &qu...

So the conspiracy goes that the first major city that got a 5G rollout on its mobile network was Wuhan. I think that might even be true, especially if you narrowly enough define 'major' (Wuhan has ten million people in it and is the size of London or Chicago). And... that's it. Just that correlatio...

It's fine if there's a "right answer" to a given tactical decision, as long as it's not the same answer every time. For example, if your two attacks are Fire Bolt and Fire Ball, it's not going to be a huge mystery when to use the area attack and when to use the single target blast. But if ...

Sometimes bots raise the price on items when they don't have it in stock, but they think they can buy it from another seller and ship it to you. Two such bots can get into pricing wars where they each think the other has the item in stock, and continually outprice each other.

It turns out that having your rules boil down to "the numbers don't actually *mean* anything, just do what feels right" works really well for improv roleplay podcasts and livestreams (given sufficiently talented participants). That gave 5E a huge audience, many of whom picked up the game. ...

So does flu jump from ducks into humans every year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza In short: no. There's lots and lots of versions of the flu. Some of them are only found in birds. Others are found in other animals (such as dogs, pigs, and horses), and some are also, or only, found i...

Out of interest, is the quarantine and isolation expected to make significant effects on other diseases? Fewer people will catch pneumonia or the flu, sure, but those gains are very likely to be outweighed by the people who do catch it not being able to get the medical care they need because hospit...

https://staythefuckhome.com/ This shit is the real deal. If you have *any* cases in your local area then you're looking at hospitals being overwhelmed in a matter of weeks. Exponential growth means this looks like it's not a big problem for a while, then it gets visibly bad really quick, then it's ...

If you're going to hide under your Cloak of Darkness, you better have brought enough for the whole class to share.

Why are certain words capitalized? Does “Jewish Causes” mean something specific to new-nazis? By MDA, does he mean the muscular dystrophy association? Is he trying to claim good-boy points for donating towards research that benefits European Jews. Is the M in “Ashkenazim” a dog whistle? The bit on ...

A few more dog whistles that stood out in the other sections: My family crest attests to 3 European Crusades, and I regard that as a calling. Holy shit where do I even begin. This one should be self explanatory That means I am pro-life, anti-gay, and against self-mutilation. "self-mutilation&qu...

Would you want to have a general set of rules for "this could be a regular adventure but the players decided to delegate it"? Seems like smashing a bunch of demon temples would fit the bill there, in a way that tax collection would not.

Summoning and Calling spells get the [evil] tag when the creature summoned or called is [evil]. That would be a good place to start, especially if you get +50% to the HD limit on lesser planar binding.

Prak wrote:I mean, yes, but these would be separate, ad hoc, and let fighters have nice things.

Secret Class Feature: artifact sword magic quirks is fine for a single table, so go wild, but it's not a particularly good approach to take if you're trying to make a system for other people to use.

Hi Welcome as a sarcastic greeting originated with Dungeons and Dragons Online close to ten years ago. It got a bunch of people banned because the moderators there realized they were getting trolled even if they didn't understand how.

I guess someone from DDO made it over here and spread the meme?

Rogues/Thieves are straight up garbage and should not exist in any sensible version of D&D. Let's look at all their possible justifications: 1) "trap remover" -- terrible mechanic, everyone else sits and waits while 1 person deals with a problem. Don't handle traps this way at your gam...

One thing that's very important for playtesting is the difference between testing your mechanics and testing your rules. I've run into this with non-RPG games I've made and tested for fun. When you're testing your mechanics, you tell everyone how everything works, and you watch them try it out. This...

Since in the previous half of the sentence I suggested a point buy system with a "power level" statistic, I felt that I had nailed down that detail. Yeah, I see what you mean now. If you have levels, then you can scale abilities to level whether you picked up those abilities by leveling, ...