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- Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: d20 Future OSSR
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13232
Honestly I'm inclined to agree with the thesis that oral history could okayishly-accurately record some pretty far-flung histories, as long as you can keep people reciting the repetitive, mnemonic storyline over and over, juxst, we abandoned that technology when a much better tech came up: the abil...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:09 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-political] News that makes you Laugh/Cry/Both...
- Replies: 3480
- Views: 458299
Ah, I remember that one. The first one I saw was a nice young south african woman (tagged as a human rights activist) talking about Israel and Palestinians. I had no idea about this group, and it wasn't the typical presentation. But then little buzzwords and the usual agenda started slipping in, and...
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 7:01 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-political] News that makes you Laugh/Cry/Both...
- Replies: 3480
- Views: 458299
The lawsuit text is bizarre. Systematic shaming and discrimination does not fly with the fact that despite being a white male conservative (while claiming he isn't, kinda?), he got his salary, a 8 performance bonuses, a promotion and stock options worth an additional $150K in less than 4 years. Yeah...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Angry Blind Readthrough: Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11063
What makes for a good cantrip in this edition? Scaling damage (which starts outpacing weapon damage at level 5, as they add a die at 5th, 11th and 17th) and useful rider effects, usually also combining them in a class that gives a stat bonus to damage (though that often comes very late). If you're ...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Looks like the Unusual Races chapter from RoW, but worse
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3176
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 9:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Angry Blind Readthrough: Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11063
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Angry Blind Readthrough: Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11063
So, mechanically, I thought Xanthar's had some cool stuff. The Celestial Warlock spec is cool, for example. But I FUCKING HATE THE FUCKING PREMISE AND THAT GODDAMNED BEHOLDER. What you don't like the idea that the super-genius paranoid beholder is a gabby, sociopathic ten year old? Conquest sounds ...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 11:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 412369
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 5:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 412369
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:19 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 945736
Eh. I don't really see the point. Settlements are a 'screw around if you feel like wasting time' 'feature' of the game. The gameplay doesn't do a good job of being convincing that settlements are in any way worthwhile or even useful. Just a good place to pile shit, while you wait to level and unlock...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 4:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 412369
I know Paizo prints their books in China. If WotC does as well then even if the print was done quickly, container ships and customs will make any 'immediate' restock difficult or impossible. They don't, surprisingly enough (or at least Xanathar's has 'printed in USA' on it)- China is usually the no...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 2:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is math so underrated?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 38255
1 Hit = Edible, 2 Hits = fast food good I think you reversed these. But regardless, the problem is in most games this doesn't matter at all. A GM calling for a cooking roll at all is deliberately wasting your time, except in absurd corner case scenarios. Craft rules determine how quickly you create...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 2:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Shadowrun 4e newbie questions
- Replies: 1072
- Views: 210708
Now, everyone who has read those texts twenty years ago would tell you it always has been clearly established there were six eras who all lasted 5214 or 5200 years, and that the mana peak that allowed the Horrors in happened at the middle of the two previous magical eras. Mostly what everyone actua...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 2:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 412369
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 6:54 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
TLJ could have easily started with the Resisty trying to capitalize on their victory and getting their teeth kicked in. Instead of extraneous plotlines and soap boxes, they could have been over confident, had a nice set-piece space battle, lost and then had to flee to Salt Planet not!Hoth. Everythi...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 2:34 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
Given that TFA has established the First Order as ludicrously dangerous and the New Republic as so short-lived as to be basically a non-entity in the actual stories depicted, the right move for TLJ is definitely to try and make that work rather than backpedal out of it. If you want to erase the stu...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:29 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
Nope. No treaty. Supposedly the Republic didn't believe the First Order even existed, despite the fact they're accumulating larger fleets and transforming an entire planet into Even More Bigger Deathstar. All of which obviously takes ungodly amounts of money, material, a huge construction corps and ...
- Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:24 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
Apparently his only contribution was to let the audience learn that if you're rich in the Star Wars Universe, you must be an arms manufacturer supplying both sides of the conflict. Which doesn't even makes sense or hold up, which makes me again wonder if Johnson was even vaguely familiar with the s...
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 4:29 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
The exit polls are very favorable, and at this stage that's what Rotten Tomatoes is supposed to reflect, too. It doesn't, so it's cooked. What the actual fuck? You're citing an article that is selectively culling 'random samples' and 'being allowed' to provide 'some ' of someone else's adjusted exi...
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 3:56 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 11:43 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
I think the problem with Rey is that she didn't have a two-minute scene where she is introduced to the Force. Seriously, just that small of a scene would have completely dispelled my authentic disbelief that she could fight toe-to-toe with a clearly powerful Sith. The problem with the Last Jedi is ...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 7:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 412369
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:10 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502564
Truthfully, I don't give much of shit about the old characters (beyond at least one 'critic' saying that since Carrie Fisher died any parts of the movie with her in it are immune to criticism, which is utter bullshit- Criticizing the film isn't a reflection on her anyway). Their arcs were finished i...
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:17 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 945736
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1697018