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Just wanted to say I'm glad you're keeping this updated!

I'm trying to write a setting that's a combination of industrial/"steampunk", post-industrial/"contemporary" and futuristic themes and it looks like this material was grappling with a lot of similar concepts, so this is appreciated reading... might take a look at it myself. I app...

I can see arguments for an alternative hypothesis that Hasbro, Kelman et al are so incapable of understanding how oppression works and why people are taking issue with them that they're trying to shelve anything with a large profile that hasn't been meticulously audited by the team of variously marg...

Frank actually insisted that being trans was a mental delusion and long-windedly berated anyone who took him to task on that, as I recall.

Endorsed. This sort of thing kept me from actually using this forum (rather than lurking) for a long time and I appreciate this being laid out here.

Be well. <3

I never expected to describe Frank Trollman as "pathetic," but here we are. Quitting the forum "forever," changing your handle, and slinking back months later to issue a parting shot loaded with self-serving faux martyrdom - as though you haven't been reading every word since yo...

maglag wrote:Politics discussion was given a second chance after Frank packed it in by fbmf, and it just kept getting worst until it was permanently banned, despite being completely Frank-free for many weeks.

I stand corrected, but that's really not very important to what I'm actually saying here.

Zinegata wrote:lots of whining, not much of substance

You aren't listening, and you're not as smart as you think you are. Ignored for the sake of my sanity.

too much, yet so far from enough I thought you left the forum? Seriously, you're assuming so much about my motives with this last paragraph - stop quoting me if you're going to speak in several-paragraph diatribes without saying anything. I've barely used this forum for talking about politics for r...

Except that Frank leaving didn't result in "sincere and open discussion on political matters". It resulted in the political discussions getting even worst to the point the forum's owner just went "Fuck your noise, all political discussion is banned". Remember that time Crissa go...

Which is why the main point, as I said weeks ago, is that the actual political arguments were completely inconsequential . They accomplished nothing, and changed nothing. I disagree, the politics were always there and it's only with it being aired and talked about that I feel OK actually expressing...

one (1) person who apparently made Biden memes is a shitbag and a sex offender. But go ahead and claim everyone who won't do free door-knocking and campaigning for him and is that guy. This is the essence of it. Honestly Frank, accusing a bunch of people of being pedophile-affiliated because they s...

Like, if Sunwitch comes in and says "some individual observations seem valid, but lots of others look like nonsense, and it's not clear that there's any connection between the valid parts," I could ask her to name a couple of valid parts and see if I could justify how they're connected. f...

I don't get how people do that. I see a giant pile of nonsense with a few bits of sensible buried in it and I call it nonsense, the nonsense over-rides the sensible. Especially when the sensible is only name drops on the determined and unswerving train to crazy town. Orion never stopped to discuss ...

i think "realism" can mean a lot of things in this context, including (roughly): - what i think the initial meaning of the OP was, roughly like "people not having superpowers" - the extent to which magic, superpowers etc interact with the world in a way that conforms to real-worl...

I understand it as... Embedded = You need X specific thing to advance in this mission. X is an option not all characters have. And then an 'unembedded' mission is doing what the game expects everyone to be capable of, like walking on dry land down stairs into a dungeon to deal hitpoint damage. So t...

GNS at least has the advantage of sorta describing various things that different players will be looking for, in some degree, when they come to an RPG table; as much as it collapses on itself if it's thought of as a discrete, exhaustive or particularly substantive list of different "kinds"...

RelentlessImp wrote:Does the Sneak Attack follow the classic progression on odd levels (1, 3, 5, etc) or does it progress on even levels now?

"(round up)" implies it's the former.

I think attacking the terrain is fine because to get the proc you have to deal damage. That means you need to get through the hardness of whatever you're attacking (so the ground is a no-go, but a tree you'd stand a chance). I mean, I can't imagine it's that difficult to reliably deal 9 damage with...

At its worst, it's a bag of rats-style whirlwind attack that deals 5d6*rats damage to everything within 30 feet It's not. The rats will die to the first hit, so you don't get to continue attacking their dead corpses and stacking the 5d6. I think the best you can do is the bit with the TWF and slam,...

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Sometimes, I try to play with Good and Evil as if they're some kind of "element" system at this point. Concepts come to make more sense if you just whittle down alignment to its mechanical skeleton and then fluff something else on top of it. Sort of like "Light/Holy" and "Da...

The most obvious way is to trigger the ability at most once per round and increase the damage to compensate. Add in a save if you're concerned about the lack of counters for sonic. Something like: While active, your Master Fighting Style deals level*d6 sonic damage (Ref save half) to all creatures ...

Hi. I'm throwing a Tome Monk together for the first time in years and I'm trying to recall something. I think it was brought up ages ago, how there are numerous ways the 5d6 Sonic damage bonus under the Master Fighting Styles could be abused (depending on your definition of abuse). At its worst, it'...

i liked phantom brave more than you did apparently! It does have a lot of things I like, but also a lot of things that were annoying. I found it worked best on an emulator because you could cheese the grind-dungeons with save states if you didn't just want to gain masses of XP and Mana in the tradi...