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If you actually read what I wrote , we aren't talking about the boundary conditions of the universe, dumbass, we mean that the critical factor that led to you missing your kid's baseball game was you . There is no fucking "you" in this context. You're not an agent making decisions, you ju...

It’s totally justifiable to punish them if the punishment results in less victims. In hard determinism punishing a criminal for killing someone is literally the same as punishing them because it rained. Bob has exactly as much control over the weather as he does "his" actions. The univers...

surely punishment isn't merely about justice, it's also about trying to change someone into a different person, one less likely to commit crimes? If people are going to act according to their nature/programming, why can't you alter that nature/programming? Everything is interconnected by the causal...

Except the existence of punishment as a consequence has an effect on those deterministic outcomes. It does, sure, since everything is causally related. But again, the question is one of moral justification. Is it right to punish someone for doing something that they no control over? In a determinis...

Why can't you change them? Or rather, you are going through the motions and it ends up with them changed. Presumably you can change people's minds by persuading them the determinist universe idea is correct, why not change people's mind by incarceration? In a hard determinist universe, everything i...

If you actually read what I wrote , putting criminals away from the rest of society because of their behavior would be sensible in a hard determinist universe. What would not be sensible or moral is punishment beyond that. You are attempting to reduce their impact on the rest of society, but there i...

Free Will is a dumb concept that can't be independently verified without functional time travel and has no consequences on how the universe is or ought to be. That's a neat opinion you have there. The question of free will, soft determinism, and hard determinism is an important one, with all sorts ...

EightWave wrote:fuck you, put tape on your face.

fucking wat

maglag wrote:Also Smash game players picking Gandonorf against other players.

I regularly smash faces in with the 'dorf, and not just against casual scrubs. You just have to understand his toolkit and its limitations.

I played it, with my folks.

I was playing a halfling thief, while my mother was playing a human paladin.

Nobody else.

We didn't get very far.

Thaluikhain wrote:Been wondering, how then do you playtest such a game?

5e has guidelines on how much an average person should be making. ... 80 gold is like a month's worth of wages. He told me that he'd looked through his books and hadn't found any good references for how much someone should make in a week, so he just eye-balled it. Like I said, though, at this point...

As a followup (and since it's been necro'd), I'm now in a 5e game. The DM is new, has never run any sort of TTRPG before, and is currently a player in another 5e game, which he's been in for six months, maybe a touch more. The other three players are all new to TTRPGs, to the point where one of them...

Would it be bad form to request an OSSR for something you've written?

I know the only real published work I've got to my name is... not great, but I'd be curious to see a real take on it that might point out things I've missed.

Kaelik wrote:Seriously, can a single one of you idiots accurately state our position on this issue? Literally just one of you?

...so, what is your position, then?

FrankTrollman wrote:5e is a fucking awful game.

Would it be possible to get a more thorough examination of why this is?

I've seen arguments to this point scattered throughout several threads, it'd be nice to have a central repository of "these are the reasons it is terrible."

I feel like this is a pretty good explanation of how the MtG color wheel works, philosophically, and why it would work as an alignment system. Specifically, it calls out that white is not inherently good, and black is not inherently evil, which I've seen used up-thread. Among many of the other thing...

I would guess because spell levels increasing every odd level except 19 bothered someone? If the half-casters are getting half casting off of set lists (like Starfinder I think) then going to 10 levels means they can literally get half of that. I guess I've just been under the impression that peopl...

The broader question of whether boss monsters could be not terrible is I think an open one. Video game bosses are cool, but they also exist in another medium where you aren't rolling all the dice and keeping track of all the damage with a pencil. It's not easy or obvious how you'd convert them to t...

Nonsense about the PF2 action economy. The fighter, for example, has a feat that you can select called Sudden Charge, which costs two actions but lets you to move twice your speed and attack once, allowing fighters to get right into the fray! So... a feat that lets you charge, which used to be a th...

In this case, berserkers have crap defense bonuses because they have the largest HP pool of the classes. Usually a class gets one +4 and two +2, or two +4 bonuses.

If you're going to have people pick from a list of abilities, you pretty much want to give them access to a new tier periodically. If 'better abilities' come online at 6th level, they'll have picked their top 2 at 2nd and 4th and now they're excited again... The disadvantage is that you have to wri...

Even if you don't want to have different progressions for BAB vs. saves vs. skills vs. whatever else (which I agree isn't the most elegant setup), I think it's good to have something (two or three universal progressions, large-ish bonuses at first level, or the like) to differentiate classes beyond...

directly lifting proficiency bonuses from 5e has got to be one of the weirdest. Personally, after spending a lot of time dicking around with BAB and save progressions, I decided to say "fuck it" and moved to the 4e model of adding half-level to everything. If nothing else, it makes class ...

I started sometime in the mid 90s, playing 2e with my folks and their group. The first character I remember playing was an elf ranger/cleric. I wanted to play an elf paladin of some nature deity in their homebrew setting, but my father - the DM - told me that elves couldn't be paladins. I think she ...