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I thought the plan was to eliminate discipline passive skill bonuses.

For what it's worth, I can distinguish Frank's red/orange/light green/dark green/gray/blue, which is pretty rare for a game that has more than three colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Banyan

(I think this got a shout-out in After Sundown.)

The weapon and armor attunement are a real fuck-you, since magic weapons overwrite your bonuses. Using a flaming burst longsword at 13th level means no enhancement bonus at all, unless the cleric hits you with Greater Magic Weapon. Warriors are back exactly where they started, with just a little mor...

Are bar association ratings usually reliable?

Actually, funny story, they sent the bill straight to collections without sending it to us or our insurance.

Shrapnel wrote:Well, congrats. Boy or girl?

Thanks! Right now more of a baby than a boy or girl.

I have a kid now. It's pretty rad.

Thanks, Lokathor; you've highlighted a lot of important issues. I never noticed the overlap and lack of focus in Lure of Destruction and Descent of Entropy, but it would be a good thing to tighten up. It's also bizarre that the golem of Prague can't always be made of clay. Forget about game balance;...

Thanks, Kaelik. This is a really smart way of dealing with 3e skills.

This review is as long as the actual book. Next time consider cutting out the parts that aren't failed design.

At this point, we're just talking about #SackOfAthens. Remember that Greece is just ten million people, they could all die and it wouldn't really be that big of a deal in terms of percentages. The issue is that this gross and deliberate mishandling of Greece exposes the leaders of the world's large...

Another question, this one not urgent. My doc put me on lipitor (because I'm fat, you see). I was told to watch out for muscle weakness and unusual muscle pain. Due to the fact I'm in the gym 5-6 days a week working out until I am close to puking I have muscle weakness and pain most of the time. Ho...

The local news was pretty straightforward: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/article24880660.html http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article24872749.html Yes, we have a member of our state legislature saying 'This obviously may have been racial in his mind, but some mental illness or someth...

Is switching over to a monthly lease doable? That's what my wife and I have done, and although seeing our rent go up 16% sucks, it's still cheaper than moving somewhere else temporarily (especially somewhere like a motel + storage unit).

So: 1. Roll stealth check, record number. 2. GM compares your number to the static perception scores of all relevant NPCs (including modifiers). 3. Whenever you do something that increases an NPC's perception score (like approaching them), the DM compares the numbers again. You probably make the che...

I don't think they mean that cbt, Count. Pretty sure they're still talking about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. What I said could apply to either. Nah. One of the great things about cognitive behavioural therapy is they don't really try to mess with you head. It's more about helping a person determ...

So, I've been medicated for about three weeks now. First time I had a shrink that didn't either drug me until I can't feel feelings anymore or just told me nothing was wrong. And every once in a while, I literally shudder about how batshit fucking insane my worldview was... even when I thought I wa...

I think 'toon' originated in text-based multiplayer games, just like 'mob'. 'Mob' came from 'mobile', but the etymology of 'toon' seems pretty opaque. Maybe from a cartoon-themed MUSH?

Presumably hippogryphs and gryphons have hollow bones, large lungs, and other adaptations that make them much lighter than you would expect for mammals of their size. And they probably have very large wings, but not so large that they can't fold mostly out of the way. And those wings probably rely o...

I would also put forward an idea from The Vampire Lestat , of all places. Lestat talks about how his vampiric (read: high level) agility and memory allow him to play all the Paganini he wants, but it's quite obviously mimicry, and nothing compared to the work of a human master. So maybe there are s...

Just completely divorce different sorts of advancements from each other. If, in the end, Yoda can use 'force piano' to play as an expert-level pianist without investing in the pianist skill, that's fine as long as Victor Borge wasn't investing in piano instead of force. The main issue is how separat...

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Do perky dominatrixes exist?

Of course.

You are the first one who hasn't been able to grasp that the "ships" resource does not literally refer to every single ship that can possibly be produced, and that certain ships will in fact have to have weapons or advanced electronics attached to them before they are complete. You are al...