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Related to what fox said, it's not that PF copied Tome, but that PF & Tome both mucked with dispel magic for the same reason. The cap is just an arbitrary limit that makes the spell bad in mid-level games. Mid- and high-level gameplay isn't meaningfully improved by forcing characters to spend a ...

RE:Kaelik, you're 100% right, I should have made it clear that I was pointing out a pattern of your behavior. The "Fuck old people" was meant to be an example of your posting style. My goal wasn't to show that this thread in particular was bad, but that our resident doomers usually make ba...

Again, a really good example of a TGDoomer post. Kaelik claims I'm a liar when I corrected his "fuck old people" comment, because when I said "it's not fuck old people" I secretly really meant "Emmanuel has some policy positions that are in some way related to old age"....

TAA, I appreciate you being honest and agreeing that this discussion isn't productive discourse. I am 100% with you on that. If some stick-up-your-ass denner wants to talk about US politics without anyone making jokes about how they're going to advocate for murdering homeless people, I guess they ne...

So I opened an MGuy post because there was an 80% chance of him making something up about me, and whaddaya know. DeadDM, this is what you're getting into by engaging in this thread. I have complained about denners making (and this is literally a quote from the post MGuy ostensibly read) "weird ...

I find that interesting. I vote for Democratic candidates, I donated [...] You're mistaking the purpose of this thread. A thread where we make up things like "Emmanuel hates old people" or "deaddm is a secret republican" is not a place where you are supposed to find meaningful p...

Damn, every big game is making a board game version. It looks like the game isn't actually finished... there most recent update apparently includes an overhaul to leveling and a redesign of the Warfare school. The fact that they are a year in and haven't locked down the rules sketches me out. I watc...

That's my fault for not writing properly about a legal topic. Instead of saying WotC was within their rights, I should have said that I personally thought it would be fair without actually considering what they negotiated with Weiss & Hickmann. I feel bad for WotC re:dragonlance, but I don't fee...

These do share a throughline: WotC claims that someone it is working with does a bad job, then it pulls the plug on its agreement. But in the case of Dragonlance, WotC wanted to back out because the manuscript was unsalvageable. But in the case of GF9, WotC pulled out of its agreements with GF9 over...

Kaelik wrote: Only if it is drilled into the skulls of every democrat in the house on a daily basis for two years, because otherwise conventional wisdom will be what the house leadership of 80+ year olds who want to murder poor people say it is.

Posting on TGD counts right?

I don't think this has been brought up yet, but someone showed me this pic from the Democratic Socialists's M4A twitter account. These are the outcomes of house races as they relate to M4A. https://i.imgur.com/jLLgyoH.png Relevant races seems to be: Mucarsel-Powell (FL) and Shalala (FL) did not camp...

Mguy already addressed YLM about the weirdness of quoting his post at me, but I'm seconding that because he hit the nail on the head. My problem with YLM is that he bitched at Kaelik for informing people of the (shitty) reality of the situation even though he also did his little half concession thi...

YLM: Biden won, Biden is shitty, it's good and cool to point out the ways he is shitty and how he could be less shitty. This thread is specifically about the 2020 election, which Biden won, so when he does nepotism people will talk about it. ++ to this, but I get the feeling you and I disagree abou...

There is nothing "doomer" about accurately understanding the reality of the democratic party and criticizing the decisions that they are making and are about to make. This is arguably one of the very few circumstances where we actually can address these changes. ++ to this, but I get the ...

With Username17 having disappeared, I find myself staring at Kaelik's doomer posts in conflict. On one hand, doomers are annoying and I don't enjoy talking to them. On the other hand, doomers are annoying and I worry people might believe Kaelik if no one ridicules him. I guess I'll try this at least...

Now, if we elect another dem after Biden, I will be well and truly fucking floored. Yeah I've got some hesitancy about where the future is going to go. But I'm with DSM in that I am pretty much emotionally spent, and I'm willing to think more about that in 1-2 years. Without the senate (I doubt Dem...

Good points.

I at least thought that Florida lined up with Biden's economic plan, which was strange. They voted for a $15/hr minimum wage, but then voted against the guy who included that in his campaign promises.

I'm actually skeptical that Biden's struggles here are the result of over-appealing to white Republicans. It looks like some of the Dems biggest losses, particularly re:latinos, were associated with social conservative issues. States like Florida indicate a shift towards socially conservative and fi...

Fox wrote:Of course balancing the spotlight is better than not doing so (well, keeping in mind that not all players actually want the same amount of spotlight), I just think it should be lower priority.

I am on board with that.

I think a more accurate description would likely be that the psyker got 18% with a lucky roll, each other player took up 3% by just chugging along with predictable actions, the DM got 20% for setting the scene, and the remaining 50% could really have stood to be more interesting. I agree with that....

Zine is notorious for doin that. Fox, could you put a "no zinegata" in the title to save us all some pain? A lot of this thread is "you have added this person to your ignore list" so I may be repeating something that someone already said: I don't agree with your examples. Situati...

As fun as it is to dunk on one denner as a group, can we skip that part for Zine? The only reason Zine keeps coming back is (a) to bait someone by saying something dumb, or (b) to say even more dumb things because someone took the bait. That anime review post is obvious bait. Just like the "I t...

Players will like any mechanic in the abstract so long as it is powerful, and cascade is very powerful. That said like OgreBattle alluded to players did not like that standard format in which cards with cascade were the dominant force, largely because decks built around cascade have a tenancy to be...

I don't think this is all that good of an article given that it exists to justify Cascade, one of the worst mechanics ever printed. Like cascade and miracle are the go to examples for mechanics that amplify the sort of variance that players dislike. That's a very aggressive statement, and the major...

I agree that Chapter 1 could use a prequel to grab people a little more. Or it could be shortened slightly to give it a little more punch. In either case, I would say your first chapter is the weakest chapter I have read so far (currently at Chapter 9). The story does meander a fair bit, but I'm sti...