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It is killing bad people just because they are bad people. who is making a case for that? what I'm reading here is mostly 'killing bad people to stop them from acting like dicks ' the closest I've seen to a statement in favor of "killing bad people just because they are bad people." was a...

On the other hand, you seemed to miss the importance of the first part of the quote, "The only excuse, therefore, for going to war is that we may live in peace unharmed." Cicero gives the principle cause of war as self defence. Agustine would expand this to include the defence of others. ...

when the victory is won, we should spare those who have not been blood-thirsty and barbarous in their warfare.

sounds to me like Cicero agrees with sabs

quoteing out of context is one thing, but quoteing something that directly contradicts your point? that takes balls

] I personally think that if your enjoyment is predicated on not thinking about what you're doing and ignoring cognitive dissonance then something is deeply wrong. Your avatar is King Kupa, so presumably you think he's cool. Why do you think serial rapist-kidnappers are cool? Cracked.com would like...

Why do you even need a save? If someone tells me the illusionary orc is an illusion, why do I even need to make a save? - You already said the illusion persists as an opaque illusion regardless of whether or not you believe it, so there's no benefit to a successful save. - Figments can't actually h...

deanruel87 wrote: Heat is a sensation yes but it is also an energy form and one with big time real effects.

yeah... heat is a form of energy, just like LIGHT AND SOUND

Frank already started on something like this, here's the link to the old thread

http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=20 ... highlight=

So you're making magic items incredibly rare? As in, some random orcs would never have them, probably not even a general of an army would, maybe the ruler of a large enough empire might have a few. That's pretty different than the standard setting, but ok, we'll run with ... No just expensive relat...

BoVD is the book that Liquid Pain is in.

it stands for Book of Vile Darkness

Then it goes on to talk about roles. In FATAL, the game runner is called the Aedile (pron. EE-dial, apparently). Yes. It's apparently the title of a roman official who oversaw games. Cute. What was that at the beginning? Oh, right, things outside of medieval Europe don't exist in FATAL. Hmm... well...

so was this just abandoned? because I really liked the idea here

Improving a Resource doesn't give you anything, though. I figure that a good balance is that any time you make a Resource Check, its value is reduced by one after a successful check. no offense, but that's fucking retarded. that might work as a system for tracking uses of stockpiles (except I don't...

I think you've got it backward frank, nationalism starts with an arbitrary group of people and they try to get their own blotch on the map. either by ripping chunks out of an existing blotch (sepratists) or by mushing places together,( unificiation movements).

sabs wrote:
Orcs, it's a bit more dubious.. Gruumsh is the god of Survival, War, Strength and Hatred. So I'm guessing he's a Libertarian.

none of those fit the libertarian ethos particularly well.

war and hatred are bad for business.

Also Honorable guy who doesn't agree with the Dark Lord, but is apparently still willing to stab babies for him (or at least, look the other way while others do the stabbing). I say fuck that guy. Because everyone knows that military staff get to pick their positions and are allowed to leave if they...

Guy who was duped by the Dark King. This is fairly valid...but why do you hold the PCs to a higher standard than this guy? They have no way of knowing he's an innocent dupe...but you'll hold them guilty for killing him in self-defense, whereas you won't hold HIM guilty for fighting for an evil pers...

what do we think of the idea of having access to the rest of your abilities at a penalty? that way you'll typically use what the WoF gave you against level-appropriate opposition, but if you have a good enough combo or the enemy has a particular weakness, or is just trash-mob that the right attack w...

Every last gnome in halfling lands today is technically a slave. this seems... wrong, some how. if you're going with halflings as quasi-romans, it was not remotely uncommon for slaves to be freed. In fact, I'm fairly certain that manumission has been present to some degree in every system of slaver...

Fuchs wrote:Naval Power: F (landlocked. A few patrol boats with HMGs on the Bodensee and lake of Geneva do not count as a navy)

that description would actually fall under D, a brown water navy.

Since that specifically refers to "person" it tends to blow out of the water Frank argument of applying it to non-persons like dogs. a : one associated with another especially in an action a : an individual of a vaguely indicated group : anyone at all <one never knows> Depends on whether ...

For me the whole bestiality question (and I can hardly believe I am weighing in on "the bestiality question") is not about harm to the animal or lasting psychological trauma to the dog, the lion, or the moray eel chosen as a bestial paramour. This isn't about the wolves. That is a deflect...

This first came to mind as a joke, but now I seriously want the answer Frank, it's already been asked why creatures who both do not and never will have the requisite mental competance these rights which can be violated? which is what is required for the dog fucking to be morally wrong. do inanimate ...

There are real people who actually believe that "self-interest" means acting like a sociopath. They rationalize that belief by expecting everyone else to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Those are the people that the argument is targeted towards. If you want to complain, complain t...

I disagree with hogarth. Keeping up the Paul Bunyan theme, at low levels he's just a pretty damn good lumberjack with a heroic streak. Which Paul Bunyan story are you referring to? the problem here is that no one tells the stories about whne the hero was level one because people rarely care about l...

what Monk thread? I don't remember it and can't find it