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- Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
Then you get back to LotR. Or even the real world. In the real world, there are tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, famine, war, disease, etc. Or are you saying that all struggle in a real world game setting is meaningless? The crazy thing is that to some extent you can win or at...
- Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
- Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:22 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
So, your opinion is that unless you are literally omnipotent, accomplishments in the game are meaningless. ... Very few people agree with this. It is meaningless if there are other omnipotent people out there who hate what you stand for and try to protect are still out there. Imagine how Lord of th...
- Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:57 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Ok, I still have no clue who I'm voting for...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2703
- Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Racialism, Eugenics, and d&d
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1024
From a biological standpoint, species don't tend to survive very long if they are out-competed by another species. So the fact that both bugbears and humans still exist, and have existed for ages, implies that both are successful in their own way. So, whatever combat bonuses bugbears have, humans m...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:56 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Ok, I still have no clue who I'm voting for...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2703
I'd vote Green (or Libertarian, if I still lived in Texas) if they made more of an effort to get elected at the local level. We'll start there and work our way up, not start with some ridiculously screwy top-down campaign where the Green candidate becomes President and THEN comes the lower-tier poli...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Design lessons I've learned from games.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4394
Given that Nazism is a matter of belief, rather than genetics, that ends with everyone being a Nazi and having magic powers. I'm not entirely sure what the analogy is for, or the relevance to this thread. I intentionally Godwinized to point out how we should be fucking thankful that social darwinis...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
And because Moses parted the sea and God created life on earth, every fiction should involve some protagonists doing so? It's fucking Dungeons and Dragons . If some flesh colossus is uglying up your land or you're pissed off that the tarrasque is making a mess of things, instead of cowering in the ...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
Magic has a degree of predictability in it insofar that it works according to observable laws and rules. However, the part where having magic completely wrecks stable society and hope for the future comes into play where the strongest magic--the city-destroying stuff, mind--is for the most part out ...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Design lessons I've learned from games.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4394
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
Also, it's totally unnecessary. The gods are (barely) statable and if well played, are beyond the capabilities of any PC, unless you're abusing the rules like a complete munchkin. Now those are gods... the lady of Pain is a level of magnitude above the gods. Which means that any battle that involve...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why do stories go out of their way to justify the team wimp?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5871
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
Well I really doubt anyone is going to accomplish all that in a real game unless the DM just gives up, or you're playing ridiculously epic. And hell, if you killed the Lady of Pain, who is entirely statless, then your DM is basically letting you do whatever the hell you want. The victory was probab...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
That being said, science doesn't raise people up. Science lessens the power of the individual and enslaves the masses. Now, I'm not a Luddite who wants to crush the machines and give up on antibiotics, but I recognize the fact that because the government has tanks and nukes it means that there neve...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6014
We should be able to win D&D... by destroying D&D.
Okay, so, you crush the demon lords beneath your heel, you slay the entire pantheon of evil gods, you drain the Negative Energy Plane Shinra-style, and you turned the Lady of Pain and Cain into a pair of cute fuzzy slippers. That's the mega-ultimate goal of Dungeons and Dragons. And I still find thi...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Design lessons I've learned from games.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4394
- Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:38 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: New hate-filled whisper campaign about Gov. Palin.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1740
New hate-filled whisper campaign about Gov. Palin.
http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121 ... 486/580223
tl;dr version: highly circumstantial evidence points to Gov. Palin (R-Alaska) pretending to be the mother of her daughter's baby.
Scurrilous, I know, but I like to be on the cutting edge of hate and hypocrisy.
tl;dr version: highly circumstantial evidence points to Gov. Palin (R-Alaska) pretending to be the mother of her daughter's baby.
Scurrilous, I know, but I like to be on the cutting edge of hate and hypocrisy.
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD Wiki
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14084
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:49 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD Wiki
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14084
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Some unpopular questions that need to be asked.
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7205
The Democrats, post-Reagan are a party of fucking pussies. That's the way it always has been, that's the way it always will be. If they screw it up this go round despite having the factors for a perfect storm, I think it'll just be time to start a new political party with a whole new structure. Let'...
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD Wiki
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14084
I'd say depends it on if the fighter's bag of tactical tricks and maneuverability can keep him away the fact that when the Barbarian hits him, it will HURT. Comes down to feats and equipment, I guess... Couldn't a fighter just keep foiling a barbarian's attempts to rage, vastly reducing their tacti...
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD Wiki
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14084
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4e Initimidate - better than padded sumo?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7127
That's stupid. Being Casanova should in all ways be equal or SUPERIOR to the guy who just memorized charm person today. Similarly being Scary McScarypants the Scary Scaremonger should be equal or superior to being the guy who just memorized Cause Fear today. You are presenting the same tired old &q...
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:39 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Obama Cover-up on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8331
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:28 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Obama Cover-up on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8331
The Republican Party does stand for small government; unfortunately it only does so at the local level. In my own town of Riverhead we are currently trying to do with less only to realize that in some ways we have been doing without in areas that we can't afford. (As in our town criminal judge does...