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just my two cents on terminology, a simple google search shows that steve the crap covered peasent/farmer massively out weighs other uses of it. hell, it's used repeatedly in the tomes. I don't see trying to change that now as viable or disireable. also, I second the motion to refer to to douchebag ...

Because sane people like us know that while the some people cling on to stupid dogma, most people who call themselves Christians don't. Most Christians don't wake up in the morning going "Haha! All the Buddhists are going to Hell!", but are instead really normal people who find solace in ...

I'm expecting there to be something that breathes fiery swords. Then again, I don't know what to do in 2E if you use a wand to cast a spell that creates a poisonous breath weapon. you'd roll your save on the poison column. actually 2nd edition had a simpe linear hierarchy of priority for that. ther...

Let's try it again more slowly. A guy sits at the chess table, and 'takes 20', making the best possible move. He then gets up and leaves the room. Another guy comes in, looks at the board, and 'takes 20' for the best possible move based on the board, and leaves the room. They go back and forth like...

No. A 9C would have a 6" ribcage. Thus, my character (8C-25-40) had a 5" ribcage. I did not exaggerate when I called her a pine tree. ok, this is just wrong,you don't subtract the cupsize from the number. I don't know what gave you that idea. unless you're just knocking 3 inches off band ...

see, I was actually rolling with it all, in a subjective "morality" kind of way until I got the part where a c cup makes a character better at sex... That doesn't hold true at all, trust me. Also if you're going to roll for measurements, there needs to be some kind of racial bases and ran...

I just want to raise a point here. it was my understanding that in OWoD warewolves could be (and judging from how many campaigns and characters get their start, often are) born from the "kin-folk" without an actual warewolf parent. so their's no particular reason to assume both of a Lupus ...

Josh_Kablack wrote:

angelfromanotherpin wrote:On a THAC0 tangent... is there any reason a '3d6 roll-under-X' system couldn't become a '3d6+X, TN 21' system?

Yes.

The probabilities are only equivalent if you are starting with a 3d6-roll-under-or-equal-to system.

how about target number 22 then?

WHAT unlimited wealth? It's not like gold does something intrinsically useful (at this technological level anyway) like water or cattle or iron. it's not just that they can wish for gold, they can also wish for the things gold buys. •Create a nonmagical item of up to 25,000 gp in value. infinite we...

the game is inexplicably popular at the gaming club on my campus. last time it was brought up here it was asserted that there exists one optimal strategy which nearly guarentees victory. would anyone who supports that claim care to share that strategy?

the most well known position the church has is a staunch opposition to Abortion, but a vast majority of catholics have proven incredibly loyal to pro-choice candidates. Doesn't the Catholic Church bar you from communion if you vote for candidates that don't want to ban abortion? no, only if you ARE...

Jesus told me that socialists go to hell. Which Jesus? the one with blond hair from the paintings? or the jewish one from the book? or the one who hangs out infront of home-depot? on a more serious note... I'm not saying that catholics don't believe some things which I have issue getting my brain a...

I like this idea. Casters with towers can chainbind, research, scry, etcetera with hugely increased efficiency and efficacy, but the PCs can still invade as normal without being instantly raepd. It explains why casters in their towers always have all of their spells left for the day, and why their ...

I know this is late to bring up, but I don't understand why the lack of an over-arching superstructure which the covenants fit into would lead to their not being a word for them. I could understand if the terminology wasn't standardised, but if there is ever occasion to talk about them, then they wi...

I had always seen it as: dwarves=german Elves=french (a bit of a stretch) Illithids=russian EDIT: that las one may take some explaining, it's not actually the cultures but the geo-politics. it makes sense that the surface dwellers would support the dwarves as a bulwark against the mindflayers (germa...

I'm actually intrigued by the question of how Objectivist Gods would act. I suppose the most important question is whether the patheon sees themselves as a government (theft, vandalism and anyother infringment on property rights punishable by lightning bolt) or as individuals just like mortals (&quo...

my take on the MotP afterlife was that each alignment represents a "world view" (We all know that this isn't actually true, but bear with me) and when you die and go to the plane of your alignment you're being sent to a place where you basic outlook, your beliefs about how things should be...

Meanwhile really. Space Hulk WTF? Why do people like that monotonous boring ass game? Is it simply because they want what they can't have since GW refuses to sell it to them? Finally something we agree on. that piece of shit was one of the campus clubs aquisitions this year (one of few because it w...

Well, I'm putting Zinegatta on ignore now, I'm pretty sure he is just a lying troll throwing insults for lolz anyway. It isn't like he SAYS anything (certainly nothing coherent or even internally consistent). hoarding cards a dead giveaway? all you have to do is say " this hand isn't good for ...

The correct strat is to have everyone go do Excalibur first, then do the Grail. Since there is an unlimited number of people who can participate in both quests, you can have everyone go there. And since everyone who is there when the quest is completed gets +1 life, you can all essentially take 1 l...

hoarding cards a dead giveaway? all you have to do is say " this hand isn't good for any of the quests" and you've bought two or three turns of drawing cards. playing low fight cards isn't a giveaway with any group that's realized that it's viable to do so if done quickly. or for that matt...

hoarding cards a dead giveaway? all you have to do is say " this hand isn't good for any of the quests" and you've bought two or three turns of drawing cards. playing low fight cards isn't a giveaway with any group that's realized that it's viable to do so if done quickly. or for that matt...

2) Incredibly Limited Strategy and Tactics Really the choices were incredible lame. Each turn you had to activate a "bad things" mechanic, then do a good thing mechanic. So your "choice" was, activate the bad things mechanic with the lowest current bad progress bar. Then go and ...

Sarandosil wrote:

From her book, Capitalism: The Unkown Ideal:

Ayn Rand wrote:
[relevant quote]

hmm... shit. now I have to figure out who I was mistaking for her...

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... mistakenly believing it's how the US system worked, defended granting patents to the first guy to get to the patent office. uh... citation needed. I remember reading something making the exact opposite argument and I think it was from her, Although I may be mixing her up with some other free-ma...