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You're also fundamentally reading the chart backwards. The Dark Powers percentage check isn't defined by the victim , it's defined by the perpetrator . Player Characters and Innocents get a 1% powers check for every lie they tell, regardless of the alignment of the people they are lying to. -Userna...

LAST MINUTE ADDITIONS: then any heinous lie to an evil monster like one that sends it into an ambush is a 1% or 2% chance Even if we accept your premise that things that explicitly don't require a check are "really" a check with a 0% chance and thus open to modification, what lie do you t...

I should Probably preface this with the admission that this whole chapter is pointless because A PC becoming a Darklord is probably the ultimate in derailing a campaign, so the DM gets screwed almost as bad as the player unless either it was planned for all along, in which case you can't trust it's ...

To take it one more step, I’m not even sure that even basic adventuring is possible. I mean, they want to you make Powers checks for LYING, so when the monster asks you where you’ve hidden the children that he wants to eat and you say “in the church” because you have an ambush waiting for him, the ...

To take it one more step, I’m not even sure that even basic adventuring is possible. I mean, they want to you make Powers checks for LYING, so when the monster asks you where you’ve hidden the children that he wants to eat and you say “in the church” because you have an ambush waiting for him, the ...

I'd like to request a true old school classic. I don't really care who does it, or even which specific book you do. It's just something that gets talked about a lot on the board. The request? Ravenloft . Which book doesn't really matter, whether it's the I-6 adventure or the Realm of Terror book. T...

Sigil is her cage and the magic that holds it together only works so long as she's there to imprison. Killing her, thus, is something that would completely destroy Sigil and no one wants that. Thus, she's mostly a figurehead. She's treated with respect and there is an unofficial rule against taking...

September 1937 - France, Britain, and Canada enter World War II. I know I'm wicked late in asking this, but why (and in what capacity) are these countries are entering the war 2 years early? I might have accidentally typed the wrong number, but that can't be it. No. It must be because the war in th...

2000: Turn of the century sees the arrival of the first Goat Spawn on Earth. After discovering that the Moon Beasts have been defeated, the Goat Spawn announce their presence to the UN and reveal the existence of Shub Niggurath. maybe my grasp of the Mythos is weak, why does the moon beasts getting...

2000: Turn of the century sees the arrival of the first Goat Spawn on Earth. After discovering that the Moon Beasts have been defeated, the Goat Spawn announce their presence to the UN and reveal the existence of Shub Niggurath. maybe my grasp of the Mythos is weak, why does the moon beasts getting...

Make actual classes. Announce that some of them are "multiclass" combinations. The Ranger is now a "Multiclass Fighter/Druid", the Paladin is now a "Multiclass Fighter/Cleric", and so on. The main class names are more popular than the multiclass combos, so you'd probab...

As far as I recall, armour never gave bonuses to saves. Ring of Protection gave you bonuses to AC and saves though, so even if it didn't help your AC any, you'd still wear it for the save bonus. I don't have my old DMG with me, but I distinctly recall that it suggested that armor should give a bonu...

What I find ridiculous and slightly offensive is the idea that religious institutions would store and safeguard ancient knowledge didn't The Church do exactly that through a big chunk of the dark ages? and then the Abbasid caliphate presided over what is commonly referred to as The Islamic golden a...

To put it in Fallout 3 terms, you can save-scum Fallout 3 by reloading until you pass a Speech check. In a hypothetical Fallout 3 that saved the PRNG seed, you could still save-scum it by failing a Speech check, reloading, and firing your pistol into the air a variable number of times. This makes s...

There is a difference between peace keeping and peace enforcement. Peace keeping theoretically involves a neutral tribunal to draw up legislation to which members must agree, with the aim of keeping all members content and minimising conflict between them. Peace enforcement comes in to play when tr...

It's worth noting that Angel and Angelus being separate entities was a flanderisation that didn't really set in until after he got his own spin-off. The first 3 seasons of Buffy they/he consistently referred to "each other" in the first person. after the third-person terminology crept in i...

I never understood the problem so fans many seem to have with Angel's curse. to me it always seemed obvious. Curses always have some end condition or escape clause, it's a genre staple for any subdivision of horror where curses appear. having the curse end only when it no longer bothers the victim, ...

I've got a question 67.) How is the UN structured in the 6th world? because I was just rereading a part of the old alt.war thread, and one of Frank's pages implied that the security council has moved away from the current arrangement of 5 permanent seats with veto power and 10 voting seats that get ...

The example of Farming as the example of what's wrong with the profession skill has always bothered me for one reason. shouldn't farming be a craft skill? the divide the PHB puts between the two is that craft skills produce a physical product, which farming does. First of all I don't particularly l...

Mostly it comes down to "In a world where Spinrad starts as a billionaire and you don't, what kind of drugs do you have to be on to think that Pareto optimization is a good way of doing things?" Pareto optimization by definition means that you don't take anything away from the people who ...

The example of Farming as the example of what's wrong with the profession skill has always bothered me for one reason. shouldn't farming be a craft skill? the divide the PHB puts between the two is that craft skills produce a physical product, which farming does. also we have much more precedent for...

One thought does occur to me with regards to the heat issue. the thermodynamic problem is that all of the necessary systems generate heat, but that heat is essentially a byproduct, it's waste heat. so if we discount any unobtainium based way to hide the heat of your ship, your detectability is direc...

The people of canada, camaroon, and the US Federal prision system have something relevant to say On a more serious note, I can foresee a few issues with using bonds as a "currency backed Currency", One of the ideal attributes of money is to be a STABLE store of value, which bonds don't sa...

Chamomile: I don't think he's getting it confused at all. In rough outline (hey, I only lived in England for a year) the bowler bowls a ball at the batsman, and the batsman (among other things) needs to make sure that the ball doesn't hit the wicket he's standing in front of. If it does hit the wic...