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The notion being that you can trade in dice so 4 dice can automatically succeed at DC needing 2 hits. 6 dice automatically can succeed at DC needing 3 hits. that sounds kind of terrible. At TN 4+, you get 4+ hits on 6 dice just 34.4% of the time - about one in three. If you can 'take ten' on a 3 hi...

I probably needed a better thesaurus when writing it. A difficulty 5 task is something that you'd need items to boost you into being able to expect to accomplish it, or be legendary to even have a hope of succeeding (it's about 10.94%).

So, on and off over the years (I can't believe I started this almost 5 years ago and did 90% of the work in the first few months) I have made little tweaks, fixing typoes and such. On the page layout front I finally converted from having 35 different files that I would compile into a single pdf over...

For a d6 Dice pool with TN4+* I went with something like this: Dice Ability Description 0 Utterly unable to perform 1 Deficient 2 Average potential, but not developed 3 Average and competent 4 Professional expertise 5 Top tier professional expertise 6 Legendary, at the limit of human ability 7 Absur...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ Italy seems analogous to US with a 2 week lead. My 2 year old nephew apparently is throwing up and has a fever I learned today. Probably just regu...

Central Indiana schools closed on Friday or Monday and won't be open til after their spring break ends in early April. I ran the boys at the state park Friday since they'd been indoors all day. It was pretty vacant, but was also around dinner time. I wonder if people will be avoiding the park in the...

I initially was posting this under Personal, but it is pretty heavy on medical info even if I'm not asking any questions per se (but won't be offended if someone throws words at me). So it's under control now but I had a bit of a health scare recently. Background: Mid-December I caught some sort of ...

Yes, but we were talking about cutting "a feller" in half, which is probably someone wearing somewhat less armor than an abrams has, but still enough to count as armor . Well, if this Not Rifts is at all similar to Rifts, then body armor is probably more durable than an Abrams armor plati...

The angles should be adjustable by changing the vertex (moving lens farther or closer).

Or for the price of a thermometer you can take an Uber to an airport and start coughing. Just ask em what the temp is when they scan you.

You’d need to know the distance you’re aiming at to know how much of an angle to spread the laser by, which is fairly trivial. With the energy being spread out you’ll need proportionally more energy to apply the same amount per area, which could be a lot depending upon how large your laser dot was t...

Motivational speaker: Can anyone tell me what happens at 212 degrees Fahrenheit? My smartarse hero coworker hollers out: You die! I hate questions like this because obviously it is the boiling point of water, but it discounts very important factors like atmospheric pressure. In Denver, water boils ...

Motivational speaker: Can anyone tell me what happens at 212 degrees Fahrenheit?
My smartarse hero coworker hollers out: You die!

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That is terrible. I don’t even remember those midbattle cuts, memory purge probably. That said. If they made a sequel I’d watch it! #johncarterunderrated #jctrilogynow

I seriously know someone who thought Carter was a married man macking on space princesses because he wears his wedding ring throughout the film and trust me, she did -not- approve. Hey, he's only Earth-married. Space law doesn't care about your gravity well customs. I honestly forgot John Carter wa...

For Nexus I had this same task. Came to much the same conclusions. I have a whole folder of images for inspiration. Lemme try and reverse image search em... (Note, I was going for rule of cool rather than scientific accuracy. Just wanting each one to have their own aesthetic) Particle beams bulky (s...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:fbmf's cool though, never seen him do anything questionable and I've crawled through 10 years of IMHO...

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People have tried to get me to drink about everything incorrectly predicting “oh you won’t taste it in this”. The only thing that contained alcohol and was nominally on the spectrum of palatable was peach schnapps. And my taste buds may have already resigned in protest by that point since it was abo...

All beer is terrible. It tastes like bitter rot. I don’t disbelieve people who unironically say they like the taste of beer but for me all alcohol is nasty bitter and beer is some of the worst. I’ll happily drink for drinking games since the drink is supposed to be punishment, and that checks out. I...

That meat sauce. It’s like they figured out how to put “trusting a fart too much” into a taco shell.

I’d imagine the docks themselves are essentially large rafts that boats dock onto. I’m presuming, possibly incorrectly, that the tidal shifts aren’t catastrophically fast. If they do change very rapidly then you probably have multiple docks with some that get submerged at high tides. It would be nea...

In Nexus I have different levels of radiation exposure with increasingly bad debilitating effects based upon 1 hour of exposure (exceptions at top and bottom). Multiples of 6 in extra time in a certain level is treated as being equal to the next higher radiation level for severity. From 0 (backgroun...

I was running rifts long long ago. Had a huge combat against 4 horsemen in Africa involving many NPCs fighting alongside pcs. I just used a stack of characters I had made for future use that would knew would never see play and started x-ing em out a handful per round. Lost more than a handful when o...