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Sakuya Izayoi wrote:They've tried to have MMO players be the ones to "create stories" without ST or GM before. This tends to be the result: http://spla.sh/bp/oldstuff.htm

But occasionally it's this.

Not quite correct either. The "COBRA Assault Cannon" was not modeled on/after the .50 Barret BMG Sniper Rifle. It actually was nothing but a 0.50 Barret Sniper Rifle with a slight recoloring and a very select few plastic addons (mainly the scopes) . Compared to what they did to the Barret...

Wow, the coneheads got buff since the 80s

CatharzGodfoot wrote: Wouldn't you automatically be considered 'willing' and fail the save anyway?

No. The exhaustion from forced marches is not a spell.

Since it is new posts by Pathfinder people week... Ultimate Campaign's traits were astoundingly terrible. My favorite is Tireless Avenger, which lowers the DC for a forced march to 10+1/hour instead of +2/hour. But only when tracking a favored enemy. And only when saving against lethal damage. Note...

Oh yeah. The purpose of this thread. To answer the question in the thread title:

You don't. It's not a big loss, because you don't have anything interesting to say about rape anyway.

Pretty much all of your posts? But especially this. Creative License it a thing. I don't go to movies to get a history lesson -- there are plenty of other avenues for that. Unless the work has the "True Story" stamp on it, then "genre emulation" trumps "historical accuracy&q...

I am seeing more evidence for the idiot/ asshole theory I posted before.

Just stop posting.

Murder isn't a given. I could run a campaign about four reptilian rogues named after Renaissance artists whose adventures involved the bloodless deactivation of a clan of robotic planar invaders, and their clashes with a pig, rhino, high level fighter, and a golem with a brain in it always resulted...

And you can see it especially in the retcons with half-orcs especially where it's fine to have orcs as pillaging murderers, but having the products of rape exist in your game is taboo. There's also the fact that the idea that orcs are essentially evil has also fallen out of vogue over time. But ser...

That sure is a good-ass takedown of a point nobody at all was making!

Basically, this is you.

Allow me to clarify: Given the fact that it was indeed in the movie, I don't have a problem with the way that it was implemented. That is to say -- while I don't feel like it was entirely vital to the story (or even her story), I don't think that the manner of implementation was necessarily in bad ...

If you can't see why doing margin of success/failure is essentially incompatible with pre-roll difficulty modifiers on a curved roll, you should take a math course. I have taken a math course. It isn't essentially incompatible at all. Margins of success aren't linear, but they work exactly the same...

In the new 300 movie, both the "rape makes for strong woman" and "vagina trauma" tropes are a pretty big deal for Artemisia. Is this bad? According to the "Big 4", it is. But I don't see a problem with it. Hm, interesting point! Have you considered that the reason for ...

This right here is why GURPS is bullshit. Why roll under systems in general are bullshit. There is a vast spectrum of shittiness between "burnt cornflakes" and "the crust on the liquid center cake cracked slightly." If you can't tell me from a roll on my goddamn cooking test whe...

It's a skill based system that has soft rather than hard archetypes. If you want to play a Hacker/Street Sam or a Rigger/Face you are of course welcome to do that. You have to split your attributes, skills, and resources appropriately, but it can be done. Yes. Exactly. I was proposing making them a...

Build points are essentially meaningless in GURPS. People have already touched on how some things are expensive because they are powerful and some things are expensive because they are rare, weird, or hard. That's a problem, but there's another part to it. The lack of genre also means that, with no ...

How about swinging around katanas vs shooting a gun, should you be able to go full cyborg ninja and never rely on projectile weapons? Should you be able to deflect bullets with your high frequency blade? There's really no wrong answer. The only problem I can see is that deflecting bullets with your...

Rigging seems like it nearly slots into the weaknesses of the Hacker, though. It supports the guy who Shadowruns from his apartment or from the van. It supports "Kill a dude with a keyboard" in a way that doesn't make SR grogs froth at the mouth. It gives Hackers a core combat competency, ...

Well I've hit my lifetime quota of BDSM Elminater fanfiction.

Because, of course you ship it off to the printers. Then release previews. Not the other way around. No. SR5 is apparently terrible but this isn't really a fair complaint. Everyone does this; you use the finalized text for previews, to help reduce future confusion caused by rules tweaks between pre...

Zak S wrote:Not an answer. Yes or no: do you assume infinitely malleable NPCs who can be (without magic) persuaded to do anything?

Here's an answer:

Whatever, jackoff.

No, I am literally asking what he uses as a metric. It is not a rhetorical question. Stop assuming bad faith. Suggesting that you might be making a dumb argument but it isn't clear because your grasp on language is pretty fucking tentative isn't an accusation of bad faith. I don't think you're tryi...