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Ancient History wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_death

I was curious what that would be a metaphor for, and then it was just the literal meaning.

It doesn't even mention the Indiana Jones series was killed off with a refrigerator.

SR4 works. If your power set is "looks like a fox, and is a person", that's not even going to affect things in-game except for roleplay. If you want to really get into powers and whatever, it's going to get wild quick, and everyone else should be playing something crazy like a full-blown c...

I think the real lesson here is just say "No" to solo opponents in Shadowrun. If the PCs can manage a 5 on 1 hit versus someone who can't scrape up a rando and 2 drones to hang out with then I am fine with letting nature take its course. Solo opponents are also a subtle way to show sams h...

I love that the way stats are printed is always "well, I guess we'll put it here, next to the declaration that the age started with them all dying." Not just Dragonlance. Important NPCs only seem to get stat blocks once they're declared dead. Also, thank you for letting us razz your favori...

When I got back to the apartment from walking the dog today, there was a balloon just sitting around inflated on the ground. I could tell she was curious, so I asked if she wanted to go check it out, and let her lead me over to it. She sniffed a bit but wasn't very interested in it until I kicked it...

Ancient History wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue

Also, I did a quick check and found that people do use that for painting 40k Ultramarines.

No-Treadmill Elevator Pitch: Level-based Point Buy. Just to be clear, the goal here is to combine the more complicated system of character creation with the less-reasonable (mathematically) way to advance characters in-game? Tone doesn't always translate to text, so I can't tell if you're making so...

The very next page is the start of the Table of Contents, and I have to admit, it?s a little overwhelming. It?s not one page , it?s not two pages , it?s not three pages ? it?s five fuckin? pages ? each 3 columns each with approximately 58 entries, so we?re talking 870 distinct entries per the table...

Point Buy in games like GURPS does not make point costs that correspond to power level. That is, the reasoning for why something costs more points is often opaque. Sometimes things cost points for being 'powerful' but other times things cost more points for being 'hard to learn' or 'especially rare...

The dwarves assert that the ten clans of dragons were fashioned by Reorx, god of the forge. The first five were fashioned from five metals given to him by Takhisis for their bodies, and their spirits wrought from Chaos: said dragons were later corrupted by her, and so he then made five for Paladine...

Over the years I've probably played one or two Shadowrun games per edition going from 3 to 5. I've never played in a game and outside of the basics I'm not all that familiar with the greater setting. What did Shadowrun actually get right as a cyberpunk dystopian setting? Prior to Catalyst showing u...

The entire point of a level-based system is that characters get level-appropriate attacks and defenses. Open multiclassing is not compatible with that. "trading raw power for flexibility" is a terrible design goal. If a character gives up "raw power" then they are no longer leve...

Different walking sticks are for different things. The most basic question is whether you're using the stick to offload weight from your legs or to maintain balance. Transfering weight wants to push down as directly as possible into the shaft. Offsetting torque wants the stick farther away for leve...

They didn't offer you physical therapy? No, I don't have one of the good HMOs. I was told that if I exercise enough, I will be in less pain, and when it gets too bad, they'll replace my knees. It was fairly expensive to get that, and I know better than to mention it possibly being work-related. Ins...

"If terf is a slur, then how come you don't hear the kids on xbox live using it?"

My knees are bad, and are only likely to get worse. Kneecaps slide side-to-side when the knees bend, which is apparently not normal or good. Therefore, I'll be needing a cane in not too long. Why do some canes bend so you center of the force you put on it is right above the straight part of the cane...

Many thanks all. It feels like a broad consensus that an efficiently-optimized PC should be somewhat stronger than a similar weight-class NPC and that NPCs shouldn't generally use the same optimization methods as PCs/ Or they should be a solo opponent. Just to check that I have understood what you ...

It always has an option to respond with an emoji but it didn’t let me use the eggplant. Pretty sandboxxy. Two hands facing opposite directions (as though they are reaching out to shake hands), and a circle in the middle? It's 3 emoji's, but it means one thing. I'm sure if they're doing line-item ve...

Ancient History wrote: The thing is, they don't cover any of the races you'd expect them to cover. Half-White Dragons.

Even for D&D, I think making a player put the words "half-white" under race is going to be uncomfortable.

Whirlwind wrote:Many thanks all. It feels like a broad consensus that an efficiently-optimized PC should be somewhat stronger than a similar weight-class NPC and that NPCs shouldn't generally use the same optimization methods as PCs/

Or they should be a solo opponent.

Which is a good thing, 5e's bizarre instance that magic items should be rare and you better be grateful that you get any you filthy power gamer , is stupid as hell. I've overheard people talking about the magic items they have in 5e, so it does sound like they've walked that back. It also means I h...

For Shadowrun I used to use quick dice pool estimations. I generally kept the NPC below the level of PC, except for exceptional NPCs. I've used "PC dice pool -1" for NPCs if they've got equal numbers in Shadowrun. Larger numbers of trash tier enemies, or one good enemy also works out well...

My primary concern with using 5e is that (aside from being ass) 5e doesn't handle multiple weaker enemies VS a couple stronger PCs. You try to fight 20 Orcs, you get your ass handed to you. ...over the course of a 2-3 hour long fight. But at least it isn't interesting combat. You could also do it i...

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Well, this is Bumble where the women have to initiate contact. Realistically I don't expect anything at all.

The best are the, I assume, joke accounts that instruct you to contact them first.