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you've made several claims, some rather outlandish, and haven't provided much actual support for your claims. Sure, you can continue to argue from authority, or just argue like a child that you're right and everyone who says otherwise is an idiot who doesn't know the true way to play d&d, but it...

I'm not especially fearful to have my d&d credentials card called into question. After you summarily dismissed the quoted passages from the planescape campaign and called me dishonest it's hard to know if you're just really young, having fun trolling people, or if there's some other issue going ...

Yeah, it's just amusing for someone to complain the 3x god stat blocks are under optimized and their super special pc would totally own them all. Annihilating Strike Any physical attack the deity makes can destroy a foe outright. Prerequisites: Divine rank 11, base attack bonus +20, Str 25. Benefit:...

Life and Death The deity can kill a mortal creature almost anywhere. Likewise, the deity can bestow life upon any dead mortal being almost any- where. Prerequisites: Divine rank 6, Gift of Life or Hand of Death salient divine ability. Benefit: The deity designates any mortal and snuffs out its life...

I'll nominate most of the gods from Forgotten Realms. Really any god based on D&D's default assumptions qualifies. You can't beat them in a fight because they're Level : Fuck You (take whatever level you think the game gets too crazy to be playable and add ten or twenty to that). They have port...

What are you talking about? You get checks to avoid drowning! You can use magic to keep yourself from drowning! What are you talking about? Checks only prolong not drowning, it doesn't save you from not needing to make another check to not drown. And the rules set is built to eventually force a cha...

Again, do you complain the plane of water is filled with a liquid that will drown you with no save? That literally nothing can be done to remove this liquid from the plane? The lady of pain could just be a concept given form, it would be like arguing against the nature of causality with the cogs of ...

Dragonlance was a low magic setting, being the only high level wizard when the most dangerous things are stupid dragons and level 10 fighter kings makes you defacto world emperor. Did you experience some traumatic event during a planescape campaign? Complaining about the lady of pain is like lamenti...

I give the lady of pain a pass since she's more of a setting than an npc, it's like complaining the plane of fire burns you, the lady of pain a plot crutch to explain away why gods, demigods, and pcs don't wreck sigil. They could of come up with other explanations but that's the one they went with, ...

Real life examples from actual play where order is in debate would be useful at the point. I would ask these rules master a clarifying question. If the same confluence of events occurred in two different games with different players, ought they be resolved in the same way? Or is there 'table negotia...

one issue with wild magic is speed of resolution, besides the joke d100 tables, just rolling the various requirements and possibly adjudicating contextual problems, adding in additional spells etc, tended to cause the game to crawl. rolling randomly to determine power seems ok, but it might be more ...

What of cases where they don't know, you mistakenly hand someone a poisoned gift, does convincing them to take the gift harder because it is unknowingly poisoned?

exploring my meta narrative currency idea more Meta-narrative currency Essence and Complication. Essence Anyone with a point of essence can spend it to create or alter minor narrative elements: examples might be naming a shopkeeper and having a prior acquaintance (former neighbors, alumni, associati...

so, do you have a rule set you can share and people can play test?

3: A full on social encounter. This is going to be when important discussions happen. Arguing in the king's court to try to broker an alliance, interrogating an important suspect during a mystery or investigation, anything that is substantial and important enough for the GM to decide that they want...

I think the risk in formalizing, or increasingly formalizing, social 'combat', is that humans are incredibly social creatures, our social structure and social interaction is as about as complex as possible, any formalized rules will result in situations where people will want different inputs or out...

I think in the context of a 3.x system, you would make these traveling grappling hooks an exotic weapon, it provides user with some base climb speed, you can adjust the climb speed by ranks in athletics, and assume people out of combat can take 10. Giving out free 'exotic weapon' proficiency is easy...

For outputs you seem to want suspects. If 0 clues gives you no suspects, 1 gives you 100? 10? If you can convert clues to suspects, you could also introduce 'false clues' that might introduce false suspects ('faked tracks', purposely killing during the 'wrong time'), or have clues be misinterpreted....

An indicator to mark when a house runs out of candy would make sense.

Could be a more general 'lights out' mechanics

auto success sounds a lot like telling players the choices they made don't actually matter. What about resolving PC vs PC opposed checks? Or really any opposed checks -- this really seems like a variant on MTP mechanics. Maybe the GM doesn't care about rando guard #7 noticing the party sneak around,...

If flipping cards is a major mechanic, there should be some visual identification that people can use to immediately identify which side a given card is in, could be a border, sticker, color palette.

There is a tension in the fail forward mentality, and a maybe a more 'context' driven fail sideways -- ie the door of orion will not open without the star-key. modules usually have a fail forward mentality either by design or GM artifice, but it can cause failure to lack consequence, or becomes mere...

These are claims you make Chamomile, but you're not the final arbitraror of truth, indeed based on what you've said you may not even accept there being any such thing, you may even deny that as a coherent concept. I think making a strong claim like 'objectice morality' doesn't exist is difficult and...

Moral philosophy will likely outlive Chamomile, but perhaps here in this forum we see the beast slain forever, and a new golden age of man has begun.

Likewise, Dante's Divine Comedy will be consigned to the forges as a heretical text, for no one could imagine such a thing.

I more or less agree with Kaelik, it seems people are tripping over words and meaning. I think a lot of this confusion comes from not having the necessary distinctions required to think through this clearly. Most religions make authoritative claims to objective moral truths. Of course religions are ...