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I really want everyone here to stop what they are doing and start downloading the "Ultimate Intrigue" playtest. Paizo is presenting their new class, the vigilante. It's a batman-daredevil-ripoff, and it. is. Bad. Gloriously bad. The class has base abilities and abilities it gets from choos...

It is also shit that they even bothered to spend the time and effort to prosecute someone over that. You know, even in Orwell's books 'the law' did things for the greater good. I don't see how pursuing a legal case against someone who got rid of data while not even formally charged/under investigat...

Why are there so many assholes among the scientists ? Landau was famous for being the same. Because people who are payed to sit in their ivy towers and not have social contact with humans with a phd or lower develop bad manners? When I came to the university, the first thing I learned is that the s...

I do not think that needing to learn water dragon sword technique in order to defeat an enemy is the kind of plot that is in any way appropriate to a role playing game. Novels yes. Movies yes. Even video games. But that's just way too railroady for a cooperative storytelling game to handle. Do you ...

20 Ranks: Whenever you attempt a caster level check, attempt a Spellcraft check at a –20 penalty at the same DC. If the spellcraft check succeeds, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus on your caster level check. Is this as fucking stupid as I think it is? Why make one check, when you could make two and...

I suppose some of them might be decent if you don't have anything better to do. After a quick read, I would challenge that. 20 ranks in linguistics gives you the legendary ability "reading really fast". 20 ranks in stealth give you nothing the Ninja cannot get at lvl 11. This looks really...

Personally, I like being able to pull the night's combat encounter out of a larger section of the MM without having to adjust stats. It takes me *far* less prep to use the resources I want to set up the sort of event I want. There's also a strong subjective element. I'm one of the people that disli...

Oh, we're not even talking FanPro - I think the Bavaria sourcebook was third-party, wasn't it? And the whole Immortal Dwarf nonsense. Both of those are afaik Pre-Pegasus. München Noir was the last Fanpro/Freelance book before the Pegasus sale, and the immortal dwarfs are from Das zerrissene Land , ...

I have nothing against PegasusSpiel, mainly because most of them will admit that the old German-only Shadowrun publications, of which the Germany Sourcebook was a partial translation, are balls-to-the-walls insane. This. There is a big difference between the old Fanpro-guys and the new guys from Pe...

Why would you consider Mike's word enough? he is just another stranger, one who many or may not have a bias. I would treat his word as no more or less good then any of you unless he came with data that I could trust. This believe that a source is more or less credible the more you know her does not...

violence in the media wrote:

sandmann wrote: I'm a nobody here, so just for my personal shits-n-giggles, do you believe the holocaust happened, how old do you think the earth is, and would you vaccinate your kids?

You're a bad, bad man.

Hey, I'm just going for the hattrick. He asked for the topics.

I form my opinions because OF FACTS that means there are no easily found facts that would change them because if there were I would have changed it before. Do you hold views so quickly and easily obtained that a quick Google search will change them? do you spend that little time thinking things thr...

Blade wrote:At least, that's how it works in Europe right now. That and Germany hates you.

Now to be fair, if you ask, we will hate you for any reason you want. We were always proud of the highly efficient, always punctual part of our economy that is hate-based.

I am sorry you are right, by my own logic amazon would not be enough data, I have a feeling it would be a better indicator then online gaming but that is all it is. so we are back to the problem of having no data to go off of. No, we have data. The RollD20-data, the ICv2-data, the Wizard-Marketing ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/12/polit ... index.html

Now it's official.

This is exactly what I meant by saying that for many people living in US 100 years seems extremely long time. This is not how many people of the old world think. Their identity goes back hundreds of years. It really matters to them who was given the land in medieval times. This is the source of gre...

There is an interesting study about the perception of women in the Media that Concludes that not only do negative pictures of women turn people more hostile towards women, but that the people most influenced are the People that think they are influenced the least, or that they cannot be influenced a...

And that commanding role had counted for jack and shit in the end, the battle was decided by [...] a clever trick that made much of Stannis' force turn coats. Uhm, isn't that the textbook definition of "tactical acumen"? And by this measure, Robbs decision of splitting his army and Greyjo...

Mask_De_H wrote:Oh sweet fuck don't do this again.

So the thing about miniatures wargamming is its not actually about what rules are good, or even what miniatures are good (unless you just want to paint and not to play). Its about what you can find opponents for. This. Or you make your own group, when you can find enough guys who want to start a ne...

http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/

- great minitures
- free Rules + armybuilder
- "real"/hard sci-fi (like, they use guns. Because that makes sense in a world with guns everywhere)

= great game

We have to assume the GM was competent even before reading the rule. The rule will not make them less competent. A competent GM knows a donkey has 4 legs and knows that a king doesn't value a basket of apples that much and even if they did, other people besides the PCs could provide them and has ot...

The first. I don't know where the second is from, but if it's a real quote from me that isn't chopped up weird to make it look wrong it was a mistake. :shocked: If there is a criticism I haven't addressed, say that. So far as I know, I am actively talking about every part of the rule that has been ...

Zak S wrote:The charisma check bonus isn't the currency, shit for brains, the good or service that resulted in that Bonus is the currency.

Zak S wrote:There are social things in it and currency (in the form of bonuses in it).

So, what do you mean ? The first or the second ?

Looking up statblocks is fine--looking them up extra times for little reward is the burden. The fuck you're seriously saying that in a world with miraculous things like the d20SRD or even a fucking bookmarks that looking up a number on a monsters statblock is this huge burden? Dude, he is all in fa...