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Really all I'm saying is that I'd have more fun in a world where my assets for convincing the King Of All Elves to lend the party aid were "Racist Jokes," "Really Good Whistling," and "Circus Penis" instead of Diplomacy x3.

5e's streamlining has something to say for it, in much the same way as 4e's skill list was the best D&D had ever seen even though their skill system was a dumpster fire. I'd assert that 4E's abbreviated skill list aggravated the failings of Skill Challenges. When the crux of the system is for e...

Um, there are like a shitload of options and exploring them is a matter of going to see a psychiatrist, talking to them, trying things out, and possibly undertaking blood/sleep/whatever tests. Depression is an influence on anxiety and vice-versa. Your anxiety may be shutting you down or your depress...

Well, factually, pretty much every motherfucker in the Adeptus Materfuchus has a little skull with a robot in it hanging around, or a necklace made of femurs, or something. But I'm wondering, if GW wrote back and said, "got it, skins off dogs are not okay. Are skins off dudes okay? What about d...

What if instead of wolf-skins, the Space Wolves wore the tanned hides of other human beings? Would that be more or less acceptable, I wonder?

Most players want to fan out their hand and see everything they're holding, and for that strictly physical reason, 7~ is, again, a pretty ideal number. But, as before, the number is essentially arbitrary from a design perspective. The crux of the matter is in what sort of probabilities you'd like a ...

Yeah, the Pokemon TCG set 60 as a hard constant, both the minimum and the maximum, just 'cause kids don't know what the fuck they're doing. ...Still had arguments about whether Bill was a good card or not, predicated around "well, every card in your deck should be helping you win, but Bill isn'...

And Sailor Uranus is a dykey lesbian in 1990's children's programming.

the real question is if you know anybody who can stand you for periods of time

*sets up basketball hoop directly over ur head*
*dunks it*

Okay so a deck that is interesting me this evening is Aetherflux Storm , otherwise known as the newest incarnation of Cheerios . Storm is a keyword-come-archetype that makes it useful to play as many spells in a single turn as you can. In Kaladesh, the Storm card is pretty interesting, because it wo...

The reason I brought this up was I was kicking around a sort of alternate color wheel. Something like. Void (Red) Light (Yellow) Nature (Green) Time (Blue) Mind (Purple) Looks like you took the MtG color wheel, dispersed White, and split Blue in half. This is not terrible, given that Blue is the be...

green is the only one that really doesn't have anything to reliably remove permanents from play... They've looked into that, lately. This is what Green is good at, now: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=394634&type=card http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?...

And also I thought I should mention that I looked it up and MIC has bracers that allow you to bypass DR/Silver and Magic and a ring that does the same for Adamantine.

Taking thematic exception and providing a reasonable alternative is very different from the actual and common allegation, "No, monks are literally not allowed to use iron gloves at all, it is against the rules and you are bad at reading the manual. Instead please consult the DMG for the Amulet ...

Whose slam attack? A generic monster in 3.5? Or a tomb monk? To the first one, no, just a lot of one-off bullshit. But to the second, you should consider that the slam attack is granted to resolve all the "unarmed attacks are different, except this guy's is different again back to being the sam...

So for D&D3.PF style game how do you balance poison out to support... * A dedicated poisoner who has poisoned weapons and so on that can fight in combat (more like a rogue than a meatshield) * poison does something useful/interesting but isn't fiddly bullshit to track and includes poisons immed...

I don't think Vehicles being non-creature by default is an issue, considering Vehicles require a pretty specific condition to act like a creature. Oh, come on . Vehicles aren't incidentally creatures. Being a creature is so entirely a vehicle's single solitary purpose that the power and toughness i...

I just realized that Vehicle isn't a creature type, which is all sorts of bullshit. They should have taken a couple seminars on content architecture way back when they were making Tribal a thing, but here we are like a million years later and their idiotic commitment to the fucked up taxonomy that t...

If we start growing slabs of beef and pork in factory biolabs instead of cutting them outta animate creatures, vegetarianism and animal rights might be due for a huge uptick in Moral Necessity because a whole bunch of people will find out that they can hold another progressive position without feeli...

Lots of stories have women who can turn into birds. Swans and stuff.

Selkies are were-seals. They, too, tend to be women. Horny sailors and mermaids all that.

Dryads are kind of like were-trees...

Basically, turning into something without big teeth is an effeminate quality.

If your assessment is based on the average wage minus cost of living, then the answer is Houston.

Can I just say I fucking love Heavy Gear ? I haven't actually played the tabletop game, but the PC games somehow fell into my lap before MechWarrior ever got to me. From what I figure, though, the whole fucking thing is a response to BattleTech indulgence. Gear are much more practically sized, and t...

Star Trek, frankly. Playing orcs as Klingons is the next most obvious thing after playing them like Uruk-Hai.

I don't know when people started going all Last of the Mahicans on them, but the release of Warcraft III marked an enormous surge in that kind of interpretation.

The difference between a soul and a planeswalker spark is semantic and arbitrary. They're totally fictional vagaries that work exactly the way the author says that they do, and there is no objective yardstick to hold those definitions to because nobody in the real world has either of them in any mea...

There can be an implicit dichotomy between cultural packages and serious speciation packages. Off the cuff, you can give everyone a minor resource and a major one, like the 3E Human's skillpoint and feat. Let them trade the skillpoint for chickenshit like "I, a dwarf, have +2 to masonry checks ...