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What the fuck are you talking about? Embed yourself with the enemy, from what we know those reports where just in the proximity to CIVILIANS . Non-uniformed "insurgents" and civilians are indistinguishable hence they are all targets and all potentially an enemy. If the insurgents cared fo...

Perhaps this is one reason why armed forces should identify themselves as such. When a man decides he is going to carry his Kalashnikov for a 30-minute ambush on a convey and then rush back to his house/bakery and put back on his apron, shit like this happens. Since the enemy has decided to conduct ...

Dude I think you wrote that response so quickly you forgot to provide the link. You are beneath contempt. You are hateful, stupid trash. STEP 1. Undertake a grabbag of shortsighted, historically disproved methods of achieving a lasting victory against an insurgency with popular support by undermini...

Eat a leprous dick, Lich-Loved. A war sold on lies and ambition whose negligent prosecution was hidden from the American public as completely as possible deserves to be revisited endlessly until ignorant chicken hawk fucks either get tired of looking like the completely heartless and brainless auto...

Would someone please post the Iraqi and/or Afghan insurgent Rules of Engagement for comparison?

Stay in electrical engineering. Seriously. It is one of the the very best 4-year professions you can get. When you come out, you basically have a slip of paper that says you can learn anything - and yes, when you get out you won't know anything you really need to know, but you will know everything y...

LL: You pay 1300USD a month!?! I work in offshore finance and the most expensive plan my boss sells is 8k a year...for 75 year olds...with a 50$ deductible. Yeah sucks man. It is for a family plan and our group is *very* small (7 employees) and the insurance is very good. I could pay a lot less of ...

let's see if this is enough info: I pay all of my own healthcare costs through my employer (basically my company pays 100% of the premium for me using income I earn through direct billing and covers 100% of my deductible. This is done for its business tax advantages). I pay about 1300 USD/month prem...

As a fiscal conservative, I cannot say I supported the heath care bill at its inception. However, I am very glad the CBO indicates this will actually save money and reduce premiums, so I admit my view of the bill is much better than it was. There is one thing that I have not been able to to see clea...

I don't even see why you call them magic items, since they don't do anything that magic items do. People do not find, trade, purchase, or seek magic items at all, they just put their own runes on their own stuff. Essentially what you've done is turned everyone into preparation casters in exchange f...

So, while the overall system has met a grisly death, does anyone care to comment on the WBL suggestion for "magical craft points"?

Shit.

You cannot rationally expect to set anything anywhere to any power level balance point that is less than the PHB wizard so log as you are making function calls to the PHB Wizard Spell List. I saw this right away of course, which is why I gave foes the ability to swap saves. It stands to reason that...

the thing is, while tonng down buff spells does make casters less awesome, your stated desire was to nerf casters to avoid "rocket tag." However, you don't seem to have done anything to reduce the ability of wizards to instantly subdue groups with powerful save-or-dies. Yes, I just realiz...

I hate to break it to you, but even with your changes spellcasters make warriors look like weak sauce. They just do it in full plate and tower shields now. To do what you seem to want to do, you'd need to remove Alteration, Evocation, Illusion, Enchantment, and Conjuration. And a few Necromancy spe...

Oh I see what you are asking now. It is a tomes-lite fighter. This means the fighter has all kinds of nifty things he can do and has class features he can do as well, with a fair number of them using the Action Point mechanism I mentioned above rather than having "always on" abilities. Her...

I mean, I see the "tear down tier 1" thing and immediately ask why. It is pretty simple. The 3.5 designers sucked at their jobs. Full caster classes completely own the other classes and the game is defined by what they can or cannot do. Everyone else is fodder. The Tomes try to fix this b...

With the Kitchen Sink thread headed to more discussion of the old issues of 15 minute days, character death vs mission failure and the like, I have decided to post an outline of things I have been working on to resolve these issues. This is a D&D 3.5 variant system with the working title of Deep...

That's not how the "psionics are different" variant works. Using PaD means that when spells refer to "spells", they don't work on psionic powers. Since the sphere blocks everything , it would still block psionic powers requiring LoE. meh. I can see your point. No argument here. ...

Deadlyfrog, you just gotta laugh at some of the posturing here; by all means do not take it seriously. Some people here are convinced they are the world's greatest reasoners and the other billions of us upon the planet, the mundane, are all to be quite glad that we are protected from their direct ra...

...Some scary shit... As they say on the Simpsons: Holy Flurcking Shnit! Ok, *now* I get why this law sucks so badly. I had no idea that the "access to abortion law" was so fucked up in Utah. I think we still agree that this law does not make miscarriage a crime, but given the general abo...

The fact that they made it so difficult for a woman or girl to get one from a competent medical practitioner is what drove the original 17 year old girl (and lots of other Utah residents, let's be honest) to attempt to induce their own miscarriages. The solution to that disgusting situation is to l...

First, they redefined criminal homicide to include every killing of an implanted zygote that was not part of an "abortion." . . So if you have a spontaneous abortion, it's not an abortion under Utah Law, because a doctor did not do it. And therefore it is "criminal homicide" und...

So, Frank keeps talking about how the human body fairly frequently aborts fetuses naturally. Well, Utah has called nature's bluff. That's right, this thing has passed the state legislature by veto-proof majorities and defines miscarriage as criminal homicide. Good times, right? Here's the local ACL...

The law that screwed him is something of a mess, and it's more about that than him being an idiot The law speaks to brokered third party independent contractors, not to people making a living on their own as a programmer. If Stack: (1) did his own marketing (2) found his own customers (3) properly ...