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If that's so, I'll write up an Alternative Setting for the game. KDIs include: Does away with boring and overused classical european tropes. Focuses on being easy for new players to understand and established players to switch over to. No racist overtones, no complex cosmologies, nothing but the Se...

through the sexy scary wolf Wrong game company. Weel, cuzzin Billy-Bob, back in mah days a a little bahoy on a Tennessee farm, we didn't see many of them there girls, so we y'all had to do with forest critters. Bad People Bad People are just like normal people, but bad. Bad People are easy to tell ...

That is a pretty difficult question. I think I'm going to have to go with corporate profit. Because I feel that without any possibility of profit things would stagnate and we wouldn't get any new technologies etc. While humans will die anyway so in the long term their lives don't matter as much as ...

CatharzGodfoot wrote:In D&D Next, enemies come in six classes: Demons, Undead, Bad People, Beasts, Things With Tentacles, and Dragons.

Don't give Mearls any ideas.

He also proceeded to act like an arrogant dickwad when called out on it, This is then den, mate. accused people of ad hominem attacks when none were made, They quite specifically accused me of being a liar and intellectually dishonest, and failed to support either of those propositions. and subsequ...

So, it's okay because you linked to bad sources on accident. That somehow makes it alright? You made some ridiculous claims, backed them up with links you thought backed you up, but turned out not to. And now you're all butthurt because you got called out on it.. on THIS forum? Oh no! Someone cited...

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dr ... th_Edition

In case anyone is suffering from writer's block, /tg/ has made some helpful suggestions.

I don't think you understand what ad hominem means. It means to attack the character of your opponent in an effort to discredit their argument. Or hypocritical, for that matter. To apply a different moral or intellectual standard to one's self than to others. "You just googled "london cop...

No, saying that the numbers will be X, and having them instead be Y is not an example of no coordination, it's an example of bad coordination. If one of them was making Minotaurs that had a DC 24 save against Breath, while the PCs have the Fort/Will/Ref set up, that would be what I am talking about...

That's not how intellectual dishonesty works. Insulting people is not intellectual dishonesty, especially not when they are accurate. Releasing a torrent of Ad Hominem arguments "you are wrong because you are an x" and then accusing the other guy of intellectual dishonesty is a tad hypocr...

Except that they do coordinate, so you are just wrong. They do know if their are 3 saves on the Fort/Will/Ref, or 5 on the Breath/Spell/Wand/whatever, or the 1 of 4e. No one is making monsters with 3 saves while PCs have 1. Kaelik, you have assumed undue competence on the part of the WOTC designers...

It actually shows that you didn't even bother to read you articles, as you would have quickly understood that they weren't from the UK if you had read even the first paragraph. It's not a big mistake, but it clearly shows that you are basing your "reflexion" (if you can call it that) on y...

Duke Flauros, being caught making non sequitur citations is pretty bad for your standing; but when your response to being called out on it is both dismissive and insulting without substance, engagement, or embarrassment? That is you setting your entire credibility on fire. That tells us you didn't ...

Yes. This doesn't change the fact that you won't find guns on the majority of British cops. That said, my point was about European cops. Someone had stated they don't carry guns, which is simply not true - except for Britain, where they have special firearms units. Also true, but really, what I sai...

Alas, that is only true for (a majority of) British cops. Continental European police all carry guns. They don't shoot them very often though. British police, especially the London cops, are horribly violent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9vd-Gfdluw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZVToHetAE ht...

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kzt, which is more important to you- human lives, or corporate profit?

For simplicity's sake, you could say that each 10 archers adds a five- foot square to the volley, which has a reflex save of dc 10+ archer's attack bonus; on a successful save, you are struck by 1d3 arrows (or none at all with evasion), and on a failed save, you are struck by 1d10 arrows.

It occurs to me these these statements do not have to be contradictory. Mearls was talking about a monster having level-appropriate numbers. The "bounded accuracy" article was talking about how there's no such thing as level-appropriate numbers for the PCs. D&DN monsters will could th...

Slashdot has posted more of their interview with Mearls. You can view it here . Seems like he was trying to say "we understand the proplems, and we're going to fix them" and them propmptly misses the "fix" part. Considering that Rodney in the bounded accuracy article was saying ...

Also, note from an earlier post: The Old Testament has a lot of stuff that Christ specifically contradicts and re-writes in the New, he introduces the 'higher law,' so it's actually internally consistent to have many examples in the bible of things that Christianity no longer supports; remember tha...

That isn't faith. That trust is based upon reason and evidence. There are rules and laws many of which have been in place longer than we have been alive and we have every reason to believe that they will remain in place and that they will continue to be enforced to the best of our ability. Faith wo...

There are some pretty amazing people who've decided to devote their lives to the Catholic faith. I've met plenty. There are plenty of douche-whistles, too. Something a lot of people tend to forget when going on their rants. The problem here is that the decent, moral Christians can and must ignore m...

This; thank you. The bible does have some pretty fucked up stuff in it. Most of that is ignored in modern industrial societies, though (say what you will about that facet). My experience with various sects of Christianity has been one that promotes love, acceptance, community and (obviously) faith....

I feel like you wanted to say "people have done some pretty terrible shit in the name of their religions", but only got halfway there, saying something that could be construed as zen, or dada, instead. Which would have been more accurate; religion is very much tied to the societies to whi...