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Archibald tries to make small talk with Kothre, where she's from, what she does, stuff like that.

Archibald goes prone on the floor next to the alcove and dangles his staff down towards Kothre, shouting "I can't hold you, but you might be able to grab on or something!"

Korgan0: I don't know if this is helpful, but people around here use "Rage Meter" to mean power points that refill in some meaningful way during combat. Fighting game super meters, FF7 Limit Break, rage/energy/runes in WoW. D&D barbarians don't run on Rage Meter. I was guessing as muc...

At second level? With my character an elderly historian? We'll find out.

Okay. What the hell is it with "ch" being replaced with "tj"? The same thing happened on the Nifty Boards, which I know this place is descended from, but I have no idea what the hell is going on with that. Also, yeah, having a chapter dedicated to Infernal-based PC's is a really ...

I've never looked at serious analyses of Catan's mechanics, but I've never noticed any super-apparent flaws in it, and while it is fairly random, I don't think it's as bad as some other games. like Risk. I have next to no experiences with boardgames, though, so I'm mostly talking out my ass. Also, I...

I think there's some confusion here. If you have a rage mechanic similiar to a 3.5e barbarian, where you rage for an encounter and you have x rages per day, then you can adventure for x encounters per day. Since rages don't stack, having one rage left or seven rages left makes no difference in your ...

We just had to pick one "Applied _____cide". Pesticide, regicide, genocide, homicide, suicide (sadly, passing this one is problematic), herbicide, omnicide or whatever. Where did you go to school? My mother's taught mathematics in Australia for 20-odd years and I've never heard of anythin...

"Get back here, you imbeciles! If something comes out and tries to eat us I want someone far less digestible than me in their way!"

Well, we don't have a rogue or a healer. This'll be fun!

(2) You realise the cows will often fail their will save and fucking kill you, right? Hmm, I see I missed the target has to make that Will save every damn day as well, to make that trick even less useful. A target creature which fails the first save must make an additional Will save or lose their m...

Also, if you have BP left over, you can always pump Charisma and pick up a few of the sexier social adept powers, and pull dual duty.

"No, no Summon Monster. That might be a good idea, though. I think we should have someone see what's past that door up there, just in case there's something. Not my old bones, though."

Fuck it, I'll say it. Frank Trollman. That guy who did Settlers of Catan knew what he was doing, I'm pretty sure, and let's not forget Warren Spector (Deus Ex) and Chris Avellone and co. In terms of TTRPG's, I think we've covered most of them. The guys who designed Paranoia (Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelb...

"Someone drop something cheap down the hole, see how far it goes down. Also, dibs on the rearguard."

"If I can sleep during a student's presentation and recite it back to them word for word, then I can sleep here, dammit. Besides, I get cranky when I'm tired. Besides, it might help out young Olaf here, although I'm not a doctor."

Also, funnily enough, William of Ockham (a big-time medieval philosopher, and the guy that Occam's razor is named after) didn't actually come up with Occam's razor.

As soon as the review started talking about WoW, I was sure it was a parody. Before that, I actually wasn't sure. I think that's indicative of the current state of 5e.

[ooc]Sleeping, sorry guys.[/ooc] Archibald comes out of one of his ever-present reveries of thought, blinking owlishly at the carvings on the walls. "I guess he might need a hand out of this predicament, if you catch my drift. Heh, heh. See if there's a floor to that alcove thingy, there might ...

"What? Who are you, and who the devil is 'Chip'?"

"I swear, this is worse than the first week of a new term, as I'm not allowed to suspend any of you for showing up late." Atchibald hobbles into view of the rest of the party, and says "Olaf got his hand chopped off, does anyone know how to fix it?"

Dammit, Cadwyn, I'm a historian, not a doctor. There's nothing I can do, I'm sorry. I think we've also picked up another member.

[ooc]sorry, I was sleeping

I probably would have been lagging behind Cadwyn and Olaf, staring at some interesting carvings or something.

"What the devil happened to him, is he alright?"

I thought Neonet or MCT would have the best hackers, but whatever. What you could also do, although this probably wouldn't be enough by itself, is to modify whatever version of the force organization chart you're using: in 40k maybe Ares gets more or discounted Heavy Support because they manufacture...