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- Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:22 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Heartbreaker: Magic and Technology
- Replies: 664
- Views: 88429
What does a standard military fireteam look like in this setting of cyborgs and wizards? ... So basically the fire team is composed of people who have power armor that is capable of pretty much shrugging off 5.56 rounds and also allows each soldier to carry sufficient firepower to at least seriousl...
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:10 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 339941
...I don't think the delegates are going to manage it. If the GOP establishment was organized, united, and powerful enough to ratfuck Trump out of the nomination *now*, Trump would not be the nominee, they would've stopped months ago when it was much easier. Same reason you know that the guy with 1...
- Tue Jun 21, 2016 7:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Achtung! Cthulhu Guide to North Africa
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10468
- Fri Dec 25, 2015 2:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Minor game stuff from around the web for commentary...
- Replies: 1408
- Views: 187634
Out of curiosity I've decided to read a published Vampire adventure. Setting Clash of Wills takes place entirely in a fictitious County of Galtre . The author assumes the lands of Galtre to be located between London and Nottingham in England. Dark Ages Vampire, you had one job... I have no idea why...
- Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:57 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: So... Star Wars [Spoilers]
- Replies: 415
- Views: 106133
Yeah, I like the new characters, and they're not just pure Luke/Leia/Han retreads. But, an astromech droid carrying a hologram of vital information for the Rebellion is lost on a desert planet until getting grabbed by scavengers, a cantina scene where the heroes are hoping to get a ship to get that ...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 1:58 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 339941
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D6 Space-Is it any good?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1034
I suspect he's talking about strength as soak, so the Wookiee with 5D strength (or, worse, the Barabel with 5D strength, +1D resist energy, +1-2D armor) not being worried about blaster fire that would chop the rest of the party to pieces. If you're rolling in with 5D-8D soak against 3D-5D blasters, ...
- Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:11 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 339941
Kasich is doomed. The media has proclaimed him to be the reasonable moderate one, he's going down like Jon Huntsman. The base does not want someone labeled as a moderate, even though he's at least as far right as e.g. Jeb! I think Carson is going down, simply because his campaign structure looks lik...
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40282
Seems to me you people manage to find something to break/is broken in every game. :/ You might say that there's a lot of negativity on the Den -even though I think you'll find that people play and enjoy many of the games they criticize, and just don't tend to write about it- but if you do, this isn...
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 3:27 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Medical Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 962
- Views: 181383
What is the actual physiological cause of the pain and discomfort experienced when a lactose intolerant person eats dairy? Is it a pressure thing from the accumulation of gas? Not that I'm going to do this, but would creating a direct vent for the stomach/intestines, like say through a needle or cu...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Please teach me probability so I don't have to keep asking
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7605
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: So how are there non-believers in STAR WARS?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 26386
Edit: Nevermind Luke sells his speeder after the negotiations. Well, all that went out the window. I think it makes more sense that Han and Obi-Wan had merely arranged a deal, and the money would only be handed over when they boarded. Obi-Wan tells Luke after they talk to Han that he'll have to sel...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:01 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 339941
Lessig is promising to somehow make the election a referendum on voting and campaign finance reform, and says that if elected he will pass his proposed law and then immediately resign. Because he's astonishingly ignorant about politics . I think the chance he could get any of the Democratic candidat...
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: So how are there non-believers in STAR WARS?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 26386
Yes, with any luck the people who throw out all the material that never mentions midichlorians, but specifically kept in all the material that does mention midichlorians will take a strong anti-midichlorians stance... Or you know, not. The other thing is that I'm pretty skeptical that anyone is act...
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 932874
I looked up the stats and holy shit you are right. C3P-0 can reliably sneak up on a starting PC. R2-D2 can murder the entire starting party by himself. That's bad, but it's not the worst part. If you hyperspecialize into one very narrow field, you can sort of hang with the named characters in that ...
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 7:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 932874
Was Star Wars WEG any good? The skill list got bloated as fuck as it went along (there are about three different cooking skills!) and the difficulty examples are in general set absurdly high compared to the actual number of points you're given. If you try to make a basic smuggler who can adequately...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:42 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3793
- Views: 903387
So, effectively, the eurozone is a machine for turning small problems into major crises and medium problems into catastrophic disasters. And the only way to solve this is to get EU citizens to think of themselves as EU citizens way, way ahead of being Dutch or Spanish. For rich EU citizens to just p...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:43 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3793
- Views: 903387
The Institute For Growth in Greece (Luxembourg Branch) is its actual name. It is a fund created by the German Federal Government and located in Luxembourg, apparently so to avoid being subject to laws or scrutiny from Greece or Germany. It does what the German government tells it to, without any pe...
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Bug City
- Replies: 74
- Views: 39016
Governments get really popular when they are fighting a defensive war, and really unpopular when they impose draconian measures to fight epidemics. No government, no matter how evil and Orwellian and dystopic, is ever going to voluntarily perform a coverup of an event that would make them look good...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:44 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 339941
- Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:41 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 339941
Clinton isn't unbeatable by any stretch of the imagination. She was supposed to be unbeatable six years ago, after all. By this point in that cycle (i.e. March 2007), the polls were running roughly Clinton 30-40%, Obama 20-25%. Now it's Clinton 55-70%, Warren or Biden 10-15%. There's a huge differe...
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Races of Eberron
- Replies: 175
- Views: 66910
Huh. I must've blanked out on that changeling gender change paragraph and assumed they can't actually change their gender. The author fucked up the vocabulary in the same way you are. They might not be able to change gender. What they can change is their biological sex. We don't know if changelings...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:17 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3793
- Views: 903387
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:22 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TGDMB & Ars Magica
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12404
So, how how much faster does an Aristotelian object with twice the weight fall? Aristotle says that the speed is directly proportional to the weight. So a 10kg object falls 10 times as fast as a 1kg object. Of course, then you run immediately into Galileo's objection. Okay, so if a 1kg object falls...
- Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:07 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Classic Games obviated by modern games
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7729
You make some compelling points, but I want to correct one statement: in several of the quests in SoC, you have the option to place cards face up or face down. Face up shows the group what you're doing but playing face down allows you to immediately draw another card, which is a pretty damn big dea...