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DragonChild wrote: The people I've seen who seem to be supporting 5e the most are the sexist, harassing asswipes who freely call people gendered slurs thinking it wins debates.

In other words, Tumblr supports it?

Ba dum tss

It's a super fun game though, so you're in for a ride, just remember, before you revolt and start conquring, people won't accept your rule if you don't have a high reputation, low controversy, and high right to rule. Otherwise everyone will dog pile on you.

It's a Japanese term that's kind of similar to demon, but really it's closer to the idea of Fae, the Japanese have a lot of creatures like that.

So? If you want "creature that supernatural but not evil and just lives somewhere else" Youkai is a perfect fit for just that reason.

What about... Youkai?

You got a point with reach, but I was under the impression that kiting is in theory a valid pitched battle tactic rather than entirely a feature of guerilla warfare, and the use of ranged weapons means size is no longer the limiting factor on reach. The problem with this is that if the enemy doesn'...

First, it actually doesn't. Even if every halfling has just as much strength as a human just being small still cripples you in combat because if fucks your reach by both just being smaller and requiring smaller weapons in the name of being weildy. So trying to force halflings to compete in the same ...

The problem with this argument is manifold, first is that mammoths are animals and while there is evidence humans occasionally hunted mammoth they almost certainly did so like every other pack hunter ever and targeted old and weak specimens and took them down as a large group. But other races do not...

For the love of fuck Kaelik, this isn't hard, no the rules don't specifically say anything about monks dealing more damage with gauntlets, but they do say that Gauntlets are in every way identical to unarmed strikes except that they change the damage to lethal damage and the later table references t...

Chamomile, I was going to point out how your rebuttal doesn't actually change a goddamn thing and skilled labor will still be far more expensive than unskilled labor and changing the value of currency therefore doesn't actually effect the argument at all. But I'd much rather talk about animals, and ...

How do you know? Have you seen all of time? What about dinosaurs? or whatever ends up hunting humanity to extinction? No reason time can't have monsters. It would also explain the decay the fog causes.

Why not call it Time?

Okay Chamomile, it's good to see you have nothing to add, but let's just go over this nice and slow. Skilled labor, like building walls and castles, has always and will always pay much more than unskilled labor because it is more scarce than unskilled labor. And while actual prices for labor will va...

Okay, so the DM's guide says laborers are hired for 1 sp per payment period, but here's the thing, the numbers for hiring people as given in the DMs guide make no fucking sense. According to the DMs guild you can hire an architect or engineer for only five times that which makes exactly zero sense. ...

Well, yes, but in the scope of D&D the value of dirt farmers is measured in copper. In other setting maybe not so much, like in Sarindor the world is permeated by Mana which all living things use as a source of energy, like the sun. So plants actually grow larger and faster in Sarindor, making f...

Except the price of dirt farmers is seriously measured in copper so 1000 gp is actually really expensive compared to just getting more people

It's important to remember that we are not the only animals, and there is not actually any reason to not consider other animals when thinking of the traits of other races. For instance I based the Dwarves of Sarindor on horses. I absolutely included the word sapient to make that distinction. And I ...

First, we must acknowledge the fact that we only actually know about one species worth of sapient psychology. This can be limiting when we try to come up with what others from another humanoid race, or what others from a non-humanoid race, might have as their "average" mindset. At the sam...

I find myself... skeptical. I don't know it seems kind of fishy is all, so I'll believe it when I have the product in my hand, or, more likely, when someone around here gets really drunk and reviews the thing.

Okay, I'm just going to chime in and say that generally speaking when you're designing a game you want your design philosophy to be rewarding rather than punitive. You want to reward good play rather than punish bad play, and give your players choices between different, good, options rather than for...

I actually mentioned the climate thing briefly but I really didn't think of socialization, good catch, as to halflings and Elves. Halflings basically have no defining cultural characteristics, but they do have some defining physical features. Namely, they're small, and what being small means is that...

Alright, I have been posting the setting details I've been putting here on another forum cause I wanted to share it there too. But I decided it was appropriate to preface the stuff there with just sort of the concepts I've been working from for humans and I thought it might be worth it to post that ...

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Well, the first thing that comes to his mind is that he believes his conceptions are perfect and it is, therefore, impossible for people to dislike them and anyone who complains, therefore, must be lying about it.

Well, more pertinently we can't diagnose shitmuffin for narcissism because doing so would require the behavior to be present across multiple aspects of his life which we cannot actually analyze. But he certainly shows the classic signs in his internet and in that regard we can say with authority, Za...