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- Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Workers at Paizo unionize
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2006
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
- Replies: 219
- Views: 48704
Re: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
It makes a lot of sense that the guy with lots of ranks in Jump, Climb, Athletics, Tumble, and Break Doors is also the guy who most easily resists a poison sting from a giant scorpion, and the person with no ranks in any of those things is bad at it. The concept of high defense in the classificatio...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
- Replies: 219
- Views: 48704
Re: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
Again, bullshit. The logic for A is no stronger than the logic for ~A; we're just used to the system that happened to pick A. If you're making the choice to maintain that for aesthetic or balance reasons, fine. But let's not pretend that it's a logical requirement.
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:49 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
- Replies: 219
- Views: 48704
Re: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
When you’re called to make saving throws, it’s logical that a character with lots of magic and knowledge skills has a higher Will than the person that doesn’t. It's really fucking not. You know who completely fails his Will save in Lord of the Rings? Saruman, the wisest and cleverest of all the wiz...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
- Replies: 219
- Views: 48704
Re: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
trying to make ability scores work better is a fool's errand. -if they contribute to your primary shtick, then you fuck up everything else -if they only matter for minor checks, then you don't need that level of granularity. People can just be "strong" without trying to parse out Str 14 vs...
- Sat Oct 09, 2021 3:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wizards informally announces 5.5 edition
- Replies: 88
- Views: 50035
Re: Wizards informally announces 5.5 edition
I feel like they learned something from 4E. Nothing about game design, mind you, but a more important lesson: fucking up gets you fired, coasting does not.
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 4:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wizards informally announces 5.5 edition
- Replies: 88
- Views: 50035
Re: Wizards informally announces 5.5 edition
The problem with trying to license D&D is that there are no good stories or characters to sell. It's all trash. That gacha game would have been better if the characters were generics like "elf fighter/mage" and "dragonborn warlock" instead of "Bruenor Battlehammer"....
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 5:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wizards informally announces 5.5 edition
- Replies: 88
- Views: 50035
Wizards informally announces 5.5 edition
https://old.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/pw49ou/dd_celebration_news_new_evolution_of_dnd_will/ Someone transcribed the relevant portions of the video (none of which I've watched): "I can actually reveal today that we have earlier this year - we began work on the next evolution of Dungeons and ...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:03 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The imminent collapse of the liberal-conservative consensus.
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19698
Re: The imminent collapse of the liberal-conservative consensus.
Doesn't need to be an amendment. Court will decide it's always been there as soon as they have enough cover.
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:35 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The imminent collapse of the liberal-conservative consensus.
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19698
Re: The imminent collapse of the liberal-conservative consensus.
forum posting isn't a game you can win, but it sure is a game you can lose.
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:33 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Factol's Manifesto
- Replies: 328
- Views: 112566
Re: [OSSR]Factol's Manifesto
Alignment does a great job of importing people's stupid and contradictory personal beliefs about morality straight into the game without giving any kind of coherent rules basis for anyone else to object. It's the ultimate in mind caulk meets safe space. Just like the Lady.
- Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:17 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The imminent collapse of the liberal-conservative consensus.
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19698
Re: The imminent collapse of the liberal-conservative consensus.
This is a much stronger case for pessimism than anyone else has presented, bravo.deaddmwalking wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:34 pmI'm pretty optimistic. About just about everything, really.
- Sat Aug 14, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Have there ever been good sex rules for D&D?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3373
Re: Have there ever been good sex rules for D&D?
Playing through sex acts at the table sounds excruciating, especially if you're using the combat rules. Good sex comedy rules for D&D: Roll a d20 to do the sex 1: comical mishap (sleep with wrong person, genitals explode, etc) 2-7: ordinary failure (bad sex) 8-14: ordinary success (good sex) 15-...
- Mon Jul 05, 2021 3:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Writer CVS? Help?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 735
Re: Writer CVS? Help?
A CV should be comprehensive, so include everything and write a cover letter that highlights the most relevant parts for the specific position you're applying to.
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:26 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Stupid NY politics
- Replies: 99
- Views: 38285
Re: Stupid NY politics
Eric Adams is a cop and a machine politics democrat, but he's 100% correct that the vote totals are fake. https://twitter.com/bobhardt/status/1410055272308121603 Elections 2.0: Sources tell me the Board of Elections is going back to the drawing board and running corrected ranked-choice numbers tomor...
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Let's Read] The Koryo Hall of Adventures
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1488
Re: [Let's Read] The Koryo Hall of Adventures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonmin
This list of unclean professions included butchers, shamans, shoemakers, metalworkers, prostitutes, magicians, sorcerers, jail-keepers, and performers (like the kisaeng).
- Fri May 28, 2021 4:42 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Monte Cook's The Darkest House
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5920
Re: Monte Cook's The Darkest House
For d20 systems, does the house's 1-10 system match up to a DC/CR range of 3-30? I'm just curious whether this system is a lot like numenera, or literally exactly numenera (with 2d6 replacing 1d20).
- Mon May 17, 2021 2:18 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 23 - Masks of Mayhem!
- Replies: 463
- Views: 28986
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 23 - Masks of Mayhem!
Since our trusted armorer was apparently murdered (?), I also suspect Ifor. If not 49, perhaps we turn to 90 based on his last name? 45 by counting the letters in his first and last name? 20 by counting and multiplying?
- Thu May 06, 2021 3:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Does anyone play Pathfinder 2E?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3238
Re: Does anyone play Pathfinder 2E?
It's almost all 5e.
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:29 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Welcome Back!
- Replies: 152
- Views: 366342
Re: Welcome Back!
Did they have Whisper tags?
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: List of Frank & K Tome threads
- Replies: 17
- Views: 104561
Re: List of Frank & K Tome threads
Posts with the old whisper tags are currently set to hidden, per Zherog.
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 4:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: it's time to CANCEL AD&D 2nd edition
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2536
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: it's time to CANCEL the srd
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4252
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: it's time to CANCEL the srd
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4252