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Injured! Whenever you take 10 or more damage from a single effect, you gain the Injured Condition. It prevents any roll with which you are proficient from adding your ability bonus, you lose your DEX bonus to AC, and are unable to roll CON checks to spend Hit Dice in combat. Said condition only goe...

I haven't played Ars Magica since high school, which I assume would have been 1st ed (25 years ago). All I remember about the game mechanics was it was extremely difficult to actually do anything.

Wearing a mask at the store is now a fucking political statement. Someone actually said to me that it wasn't going to protect me, so I shouldn't bother wearing one. When I responded, "I don't wear it to protect me. I wear it to protect you," they just shut up. Huh. Wearing a mask to the s...

Zephyrus and Euria are their own encounters, but themed similarly in that they are both fey beings who are actually one of the Four Winds. They stole the Instruments of the Muse, divine instruments whose music has magical effects, from the Temple of the Five Gods. The PCs can gain said instruments ...

Way, way back when I got 2nd ed 40k and saw it had rules for bows and crossbows and other weapons taken from WHFB, I'd wondered about using 40k rules to play WHFB. Now, of course, that wouldn't have worked very well, but I'd wondered about using the same set of rules to play different tech levels. ...

On the Wong-Baker Pain Scale, where is stubbing your toe? For calibration purposes. https://www.verywellhealth.com/thmb/jZ-8gyz_BM5m5dqYN5Iq2JwbWgA=/536x239/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/wong_baker_faces-56a6e17b5f9b58b7d0e53979.gif echo I would imagine it would depend on how b...

Isn't the X-Men thing largely inspired by LGBT people to begin with? And the civil rights movement, of course. No. X-Men were nuclear fallout and eugenics. Quite literally, mutants in Marvel were human beings mutated into a new, superior species when their parents were exposed to radiation before o...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Just to clarify things: Do you spawn a horrible inbred cthulhu-wolf if you do the dogfucking, or do not do the dogfucking?

Neither. The horrible inbred cthulhu-wolf things are when werewolves fuck other werewolves.

Rage has multiple cards that cannot be played because the list of requirements is so stringent that none of the characters in the set meet them. What cards couldn't be played? As someone who played this game a lot when it came out, I don't recall ever encountering a card I couldn't find a way to pl...

Whatever wrote:South Korea had an almost perfect containment until patient #31 spread the virus to thousands of other people.

Turns out churches are terrible ideas. Who knew.

Frank touches on this, but the Werewolf playing field is...complicated. It's not, really. That graphic grossly over-complicates the game (at the time the graphic was made, at least. Don't know about post-90s stuff). I don't buy this. Even your post seems pretty damning when you realize that each de...

Frank touches on this, but the Werewolf playing field is...complicated. It's not, really. That graphic grossly over-complicates the game (at the time the graphic was made, at least. Don't know about post-90s stuff). You have the evil demons that can be played. Generally, kinda dumb to waste slot to...

Because reading is haaaaaard , and finding TTRPGs which really do organic growth is hard too. Speaking of which, do you know of any? I've been fantasizing about how I'd write one recently, but haven't bumped into much that already exists, at least not with organic growth that actually makes charact...

and he had a one-night stand with Kitiara (this was before she became Blue Dragon Highlord). Huh. That's directly from one of the novels from the "Preludes" series. Sturm and Kitiara flew to the red moon (Lunitari) with a bunch of gnomes and craziness ensued. Evidently the red moon is mad...

What is the actual origin? All I have ever thought of was Lillian Gish. It's a term from the in-game lore of the Githyanki. It's a title that their Fighter/Magic Users had in AD&D. It's from the Fiend Folio, 1979. What I do not recall is whether the title had any reference or meaning in The Dyi...

San Francisco and the Bay Area are under a Shelter in Place order. This means "it is permissible for people to leave the house for facilities related to the following activities defined as essential: law and safety; essential government services; health care; pharmacies; child care; farming; g...

virgil wrote:I like using the word Gish

Whenever I see anyone use the term "Gish" I wonder if they have any idea of where it comes from.

Frank: So let's consider Blood Snow and Shivering Touch . Both are 3rd level spells, and most people who have played 3.5 D&D have heard about Shivering Touch and Blood Snow has been lost to memory. So first off, Blood Snow causes an area of snow to very slowly kill everyone near it. If people l...

I'm not.

Calling Rey a Mary Sue because she is implausibly competent is sexist. The problem with calling Rey a Mary Sue because she's implausibly competent is being strong in the Force makes you implausibly competent. That's really what the Force does. Sure there are a few tricks you can do, but the main th...

Haven't seen Solo so can't defend it on its own merits, but it is meant to take place before Han's redemption arc in A New Hope. "Solo"'s biggest problem isn't that it takes place before his redemption arc, it's that it ends before his fall from grace/into cynicism. The movie needs a sequ...

In paper you just show the cards and say "I have unlimited mana now, I will have one thousand mana now" and move on to the rest of your turn. Unless you have one of those players who will not accept this - mandating that you either go through the full motions or not get the benefit. I had...

Prak wrote:Started working on my taxes, was looking at something like $800 rebate, then I added my Lyft income and that fucking plummeted to $200.

ffs.

Did you deduct all your miles and other related expenses?

Maj started this thread. She's an friend of mine. Is she still around?

Edit: Just realized Gio is now about 10. Hope he slowed down a bit.

Pariah Dog wrote:Did I fall into some alternate dimension where the entertainment thread has merged with the news thread?

No, you fell into the reality where the news and entertainment crossed streams.