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Based solely on the snippets provided and with no particular awareness of the broader context (and biased by fond memories of when I was fixated on Crawl which among other things expected you to sometimes fight an invisible enemy when you didn't yourself have See Invisible) I would say that a dwarf ...

Research proportionate to the amount of shits I give indicates that "psychic magic" for players is Vancian psionics; while "psychic magic" for monsters still works on power points but has a much smaller PP scale and calls the PP "PE". Presumably whoever is actually goin...

So, the examples that I know my group has repeatedly flirted with over the years are Destiny Points from SIFRP and Fate Points from Dark Heresy*. In both instances, you have two broad categories of uses: * "spend" the points to get certain minor benefits to tip the odds in your favour, lik...

I appreciate my group is not a representative sample of the world - but when in situations where we are given a meta-currency that can be spent to Not Die, we proceed as if real character death is actually on the table and then just spend the currency when necessary.

Shinzo Abe hasn't been prime minister of Japan since 2020, so while this is an assassination of a relatively famous fascist, it doesn't mean Japan needs to immediately replace their head of state or anything.

Is this referring to something from the 2022 Summit for the Americas which didn't invite a third of the Americas and got snubbed by another third for that?

I remember other things from that thread; I thought it was a full on "what if we made an Infernal sourcebook for a hypothetical AS release" which claimed that Nezumi were sometimes thought of as an Infernal type of zombie using some kind of logic that surely would also apply to other lycan...

Yeah, given the "in whole or in part" qualification, there's clear intent on Churchill's part to cause the deaths of Indians, and that this intent was driven by their ethnicity, so doesn't even squirm out of the UN definition that was carefully workshopped to avoid finding any of the signa...

You need to stretch the definition of genocide a lot to make the Holodomor fit. Here are some things I believe you'd need to consider genocides if you want to call the Holodomor a genocide: The Great Leap Forward. US sanctions against Afghanistan (and really any US sanctions that involve food and m...

Edited. Thanks for picking that up before it got used as a gotcha against me. Really I should've been more careful before commenting on something this serious.

You'd think this is a lesson the west would have learned when they wrote a bunch of scholarship about how the Holodomor was definitely a genocide, and then when the USSR collapsed and they went through the soviet archive it turned out that actually the Russians just implemented policies they though...

You don't need to lie about what Russia is doing or how they're doing in the war to make them look bad. Their military is underperforming, their action are wicked, but they aren't a horde of orcs or some shit. They're doing regular imperialist war stuff in a regular imperialist war. The word "...

Sure, throw out the Golden Company now.

Weren't we meant to say some shit over the Dai-Oni's corpse when the time comes?

Throw the Golden Company at the problem, see what the rules say about how many companions they count as.

Without wishing to endorse any kind of punitive bullshit for summoners, I feel like the constant reiteration of "but you could get hirelings" or especially "but you could befriend a barbarian" is a bad counterargument. Generally, you expect the difficulty of the challenges you're...

So we were told outright we'd be lost forever if we entered the wood. I think we go for the Endless Sands of Akhon next.

Obviously use an item; attacking would be obviously more harmful than just turning around and walking away.

This is about the only thing I remember other than one of the bad endings from having a physical copy of the book, and I utterly forgot the context.

Goading the attackers into an honourable duel is the most Dudes Rock honourable response to this situation.

What's the difference between summoning a human with a sword and shield via magick versus giving him like... 100 gold? There are two important distinctions. One, the spell gives a reason why your summon remains loyal unto death and follows your commands even when it loses all its hit points doing s...

What's the difference between summoning a human with a sword and shield via magick versus giving him like... 100 gold? There are two important distinctions. One, the spell gives a reason why your summon remains loyal unto death and follows your commands even when it loses all its hit points doing s...

Don't forget one-shot summons like FF style. Big AOE for one turn, with or without debuffs. I'm not sure FF is a good example - the "summons" there are not game mechanically summons in the D&D sense for the most part. Sure the flavour is that an otherworldly being shows up and perform...

Honestly I took tussock's comparison of Russia's supposed military goals to their actual results to be more of a "ok thats actually kind of funny" observation rather than in any way indicating that their stated goals (especially the dEnAzIfIcAtIoN bollocks, not that Ukraine isn't in dire n...

Russian asset media is legitimately capable of being nuanced. Redfish Media larps very well as an "independent media" source while really just being a Kremlin asset, and the piece that really brought that side of it on the map was a 100% factual piece of whataboutism flagging how the media...

Spoiler tags stopped working as far as I can tell.

Russia cannot "win the war" in the sense of utterly overwhelming Ukrainian opposition on a time scale consistent with their initial pre-scheduled "news" releases, if only because their original deadline has already passed. Russia, on the other hand, can almost certainly "win...