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I thought she was rich because of royalties from her album sales.

Keep up the good work fellas, this thread is awesome!

I ran a group of friends through the Night Below campaign in high school. There was a part where the (3rd level at that point) group came across a family of formorian giants who by all rights should have handed them their asses. The paladin bitch slapped them all into oblivion. I can't remember my e...

• The PCs are escorting Mr. MacGuffin to safety. There is an assassin trying to kill Mr. MacGuffin. Note that one of the PCs is Mr. MacGuffin and one of them is the assassin... but no one knows who is who (except for the player playing said character). • The whole Eternal Hero thing. Several campaig...

About to start American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (again, for book club). Currently reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.

I've gotten off lucky over the years. The worst I ever had to deal with was a MC who assumed we could read his mind and tell what his house rules were (he never mentioned them otherwise unless there was a dispute). This guy was a total CHUD who seriously believed that cats were sapient and the unive...

If you have a potluck dinner and someone brings you a lettuce bouquet, would it be a violation of the rules of etiquette to kick them in the junk?

K brings up an interesting point about character limitations. In a lot of older literature (I would include pulp fantasy in this as well) the characters were badass enough to handle whatever the author threw at them. The "character with limitations" was the original form of the anti-hero a...

Catharz is right. By all means I should own half the fucking universe by now but I have no passions or directions in life which is why I suck.

DISCLAIMER: There is no irony in this post.

In other news, I just read Stephen King's latest, "Full Dark, No Stars". Very grim (but hey, it's King, what else is new), and quite good. I think King is becoming a feminist in his old age...2 of the 4 stories were about violence against women, and both had female protagonists who felt v...

I played Rifts with some friends of mine years ago. We all knew full well what a screaming shit show Rifts was and made the most insane characters we could think of, who would go on the most insane adventures ever.

Good times.

Interesting. So what Frank and Orca are saying is that Adepts are best employed as "skill monkeys." Maybe that's the way you should go, Foxwander. Focus on infiltration and social skills. You could do recon jobs and meet with Mr. Johnson (worst NPC name ever, by the way), negotiate deals, ...

At least that story had a happy ending.

@ stormhierta : Have you considered giving guidelines for the actual "playing" playtest? For example: Generate a character with levels in class X (X being one of the new psionic classes you have). Stat the character out at different levels (maybe levels 5, 10, etc.) and then run them throu...

... Most magic items should be along the lines of flaying carpets ... There are few things on the interwebz funnier than a well placed spelling/grammatical error. While we're on this train of thought, though, what do you guys think of cursed items? Normally I thoroughly despise them unless they sub...

The Laughing Jesus by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy.

Today I learned that someone who I thought was an unmitigated piece of shit may have actually been right about a lot of things, and a lot cooler than I realised.

I borrowed the Pathfinder Core Rulebook from work a while back to check it out. Some of the stuff in there looks good on paper but after thinking about it for a while, it wasn't really that good. On the plus side, half-elves and half-orcs don't suck anymore.

To be fair, he starts off sounding almost reasonable. It's just that they couldn't optimize if their lives depended on it, and well it's Caster Edition, and they're playing with beatsticks. Interesting way of putting it. I did consider that thread to be mental masturbation, but "playing with b...

I thought you guys might find this amusing:

Paizil guide to optimization

Bunny Ears Lawyer , with a splash of Cloudcuckoolander and Trickster Mentor thrown in. Take this as an opportunity to challenge yourself in making Very Deep Koans on the fly. Wow... that's almost as bad as one of my posts. Seriously, though, I like these threads. Since I haven't been able to really...

A big question is deciding what the fuck you want them to actually do . Because that's not at all obvious. Is the Eldritch Blast supposed to be your main combat action, or a weird niche action you can fall back on? Are you supposed to feel like a spellcaster, a Demon, or one of the X-Men? When you'...

Every one uses the DD+ terms these days! Is it just me or does almost every thread degenerate into an asinine flame war these days? Your mum degenerates into an asinine flame war these days. Wait, that made no sense. "Yo Momma" jokes don't really need to. In fact, the less sense they make...

Is it just me or does almost every thread degenerate into an asinine flame war these days?

Is it just me or is there a lot of pure, unadulterated crap being published in the RPG industry? Maybe if 4E tanks, then we'll get a lot of smaller publishers (those left over from the third party d20 craze) putting out half decent material? I'm not about to put my faith in third rate hacks like K-D...