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I've been idly entertaining a thought that a lot of D&D spells can actually be re-purposed with "modern" era phlebotinum. Fireball -> Grenade Arcane Eye -> RC Spycopter Teleport -> Private Jet Create Undead -> Assemble Robot Spider Climb -> Climbing Harness It actually works better in ...

A) No one here called you a secret member of the ECCtDSaKtG. Nope, but I originally brought up agnosticism in the context of being attacked by the local skeptics society for being a member of the ECCtDSaKtG because I wasn't willing to state with 100% certainty that god didn't exist. B) It was not a...

The problem here is that while masturbation over philosophical points is all well and good, it doesn't actually matter. Because none of that shit is the scientific epistemology. And science doesn't give a fuck about your untestable double secret potential gods. For a good example of how science tel...

So Sashi is using a variation of the No True Scotman for the definition of God ? If some definition of god is disprouved, then "Nope, that was Not True definition of God, some other god may still exist". You've got it backwards. "No True Scotsman" is when someone says "I do...

AGAIN you make the exact same fucking arrogant mistake that Kaelik makes. By declaring myself agnostic I'm not saying I'm holding out for Christianity to be proven right. The Null Hypothesis of the Judeo-Christian god is the nonexistence of the Judeo-Christian god, not all gods . And again some arro...

Ghostwheel wrote:Why is 1/3 better than 1/4? Would it make the player feel more special, more powerful, more uber?

Yes.

Wow, I don't even play the game and I'm going to call you a shithead. You have literally made every game design fallacy it is possible to make.

And yet Frank still somehow manages to generalize that contradictory dogma is what ordinary religious folk believe in, when it's been shown on this very thread that 40% of Christians in America don't even agree on the most basic dogma on the divinity of Christ . Most Christians "believe" ...

That guy's article, which was full of a lot of ranting, boiled down to saying, "The word 'know', in all non-touchy subjects, is used with the assumption that you can be proven wrong. Why should religion be treated any differently? I can 'know' that God doesn't exist, and I don't need lots of e...

If you want to assign some of the blame and moral culpability to ordinary folks because their apathetic and ignorant, that's fine. I would agree. I certainly don't think all Germans are guilt-free. They could have done more to press for accountability and such. My main concern though is that we sho...

Sashi, do Leprechauns exist? How about Garbaralalala-aasdfasdflkandsls? Are you agnostic about Leprechauns? No, you know that Leprechauns don't exist. Just like you know Unicorns don't exist. Just like I know that God doesn't exist. Haha, fuck you. I have high certainty that Leprechauns and Unicorn...

I don't see it that way. I see it more as people refusing to believe guilt unless they see it. There's a good ole boy network going on, though. Where the evidential requirements to even investigate a white man for murdering a black man are far higher than the opposite. So really, should you blame p...

Fuck you. I just spent 5 minutes of my life reading that blog defend the atheist position by trying to redefine "know" the same way Bill Clinton tried to redefine "is". That blog just reaffirmed my categorizing "atheists" into two groups: Fuckers want to use "athei...

All moderates of all faiths do serious societal harm not through their beliefs, but through the way their beliefs create casual societal acceptance of religious belief and make it far harder to question dangerous cults that camouflage themselves by pretending to be part of some larger religion. It'...

Just gonna post my own nerdrage. I get crap from everybody about being agnostic. "LOOK AT THE BIBLE! I PRAY FOR YOU AND YOU WILL GO TO HELL I AM SO SORRY FOR YOU" is usually the reaction I get. And when I press someone's beliefs, I usually end up with someone quoting some bullshit to get ...

If you want to get into a crazy random logic loops, argue about religion with a Jesuit, Priest, or a member of a denomination that is very obvious (like an orthodox jew or amish) and isn't isolated. Their faith has been challenged so often that they have thousands of prepared responses to any questi...

4E takes a much stronger "top down" approach to combat modifiers. In 3.5 a character's AC/Saves/attack bonus can vary by fairly surprising amounts just by having a player choose to buy a few items with large bonuses rather than a large number of items with small bonuses. So a 4E character ...

Just the commercials. It's really lame that way. The actual books have standard WotC-level art.

I would have actually given them mad props for going with simple B&W retro-style art that was sprinkled through the entire book like Sergio Aragones in Mad.

I guess if your goal was to just get really good NAD's and your primary and secondary stats weren't in the same stat group, you'd just have to put a 14 in your tertiary. Then you could take the first two in Heroic and the third in Paragon. If you don't care, then you can take improved defenses (math...

I see your point, but everyone has 3 NADs. So if you have one that gets hit on a 6+ and another on an 18+, I'd argue it's a better idea to try and make them all strong than try and get one of them off the RNG. After all, the DM is trying to kick you in the low NAD just like the players are trying to...

And just because I'm not shoehorning Charisma into direct mechanical alterations of shooting people in the face doesn't mean I'm deciding Charisma is useless. A charismatic character could provide bardic buffs, and could self-buff with feints and sneak attack. There's almost always someone who wants...

Can we alter the d20 rules so that there are four stats, or no stats, or two stats? Yes. Should we alter the d20 rules so that the stats are something other than the iconic 6 stats? That's a completely different question . The point of playing a modern d20 game is to play a modern game where you rol...

You don't get it, that "we like it" is sarcasm . Like "when I was your age we ate potatoes three times a day and we liked it , we were thankful!" We could get away with three scores: Tough, Fast, Pretty (just so there's something to dump). But this is d20/D&D/whatever. The po...

If you want to do that, then you go and play Feng Shui or Savage Worlds or something.

This is d20, we have six ability scores and we like it.

What are the requirements for Superior [Defense]? Is it true that the stat requirements basically mean they're for driving an already good NAD into the stratosphere, rather than compensating for a poor one?