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Can't speak for this example, but apparently there's a thing were you call your weremonsters "skinwalkers" to sound all exotic, despite skinwalkers in actual Native American tradition not really being at all like the way most people depict weremonsters. Same with Wendigos. Weremonsters in...

My opinion is that fear of cultural appropriation is in almost all instances balanced by fear of cultural erasure. There's definitely ways you can shit on first nations people (like so many ways), but pretending that you weren't inspired by Navajo mythology when making a monster doesn't seem obvious...

So it sounds like a lot of babies went out with a lot of bathwater and the fact that nobody fixed legacy issues with legacy mundane classes creates issues now that the structure of treasure distribution has been radically altered. A potential fix might just be 'dump treasure all over your players a...

The Tories have already done the "don't admit how bad it is" thing for over two days with Boris' illness. It was obvious based on actions that they took that Johnson had Coronavirus on a Wednesday , but they didn't actually admit that he had it until the Friday . Also even this week when h...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52164358 what the fuck is wrong with people? So the conspiracy goes that the first major city that got a 5G rollout on its mobile network was Wuhan. I think that might even be true, especially if you narrowly enough define 'major' (Wuhan has ten million people in...

Well isn't this why 5th edition tried to move to 'Suck dick to get item'? And then had to immediately backpedal because enough of the monster manual pretty much ignores you if you don't have a magic sword that they had to make an entire system for auctioning items in XGtE? The key is that 3rd editi...

My theory is that the number of people who care enough about Lord of the Rings to have an opinion about the birth years of Hobbits in between the books and yet also do not care enough about Lord of the Rings to have an opinion about the authentic feel of Dwarf and Elf tongues can't be a large group....

I've seen many a group of people in DnD games look at me like I was crazy when I said "yeh, let's not sell that item and instead put it on the character who can get the most out of it." Usually, they think it's some kind of ruse to funnel the items to myself, but after a few sessions they...

Everything that DSM says plus a very large number of the dead aren't being counted because no one bothered to test them before they died. Deaths from "Pneumonia" and "ARDS" are suspiciously high in untested people, and then you got people dying at home to be discovered later like...

but that if you were to find yourself writing more information about Tolkien's Dwarves for the purpose of cooperative storytelling and world building, that you should probably spend more time studying Jewish folklore than ruminating about Games Workshop. Erm...while that is the way Tolkien would ha...

If the system has any value to people in the future, I hope that it’s to propagate the idea that magic *should* be more like open ended engineering and less like a Vancian spell slinger. I just don’t think that is feasible to achieve in a satisfying way in Dungeons and Dragons. Every existing editi...

I feel I should point out that Hate doesn't actually work much like Hope. Enemies get their Attribute Level as a bonus to all Favored rolls without spending anything. Hate is spent only through their special abilities. Your basic orc has no special abilities that cost Hate, and can't burst effectiv...

I want to build a cyberpunk setting where wifi is civilian stuff, but most military criminal actions are wired with hardened hardware and custom software or something. So... I don't really know what makes electronics hardened from EMP's and so on though. What does it look like? The word you want to...

Any changes? Cause that was my interpretation as well, and it should work okay I mean, the damage from car crashes is so completely insane that all combat should be replaced by remote controlling cheap used cars and stolen cars and smashing them into things. The numbers are totally bonkers. -Userna...

I think the reason the corps don't pop is that for the most part they are widget based rather than personality based. Like, for a proper memorable evil megacorporation like Wyland-Yutani or Aztechnology what they actually make isn't really the point. They make "lots of stuff." The Cyberpun...

I FUCKING HATE THE TOILET PAPER THING! I have 14 untouched mega rolls of Charmin. I have three partially used rolls. I DON'T NEED TOILET PAPER. But this thought is absolutely plaguing my brain. I can't stop worrying about running out. I keep looking for it at stores and freaking out when they [stil...

The vehicle rules in SR4A make no sense and are written by people who don't know what they are talking about and don't care. What it means is that the two numbers of acceleration is how much you can change speed up or down if you do and do not taking the handling penalty for "running" and ...

So, you can't encircle enemies to surround them or get past their HtH people and attack their support people? Pass. There are functionally only two positions: close combat and not. There is some obfuscation of letting you pick three close combat stances, but functionally it's just that player chara...

Thaluikhain wrote: No move actions? How does that work?

Not very well. (drum beats, laugh track)

Your position in combat is either in close combat or rearward and able to use missile weapons. So... the combat positioning system of Might & Magic 2.

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Wait, when you say "the herd immunity hypothesis" do you mean the existence of herd immunity generally, or specifically that relying on herd immunity would lead to a merely tolerable amount of pandemic deaths? Or some of the people saying that actually COVID has been so undertested that t...

The weirdest thing to me about the whole "deaths or recession" nonsense is that acting promptly and severely reduces the economic impact. The British government's decision to ride it out and rely on herd immunity (narrator voice: there is no evidence for the herd immunity hypothesis) neces...

The US has now admitted to more dead from COVID-19 than from 9/11.

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I haven't watched it yet, but I found this courtesy of an RPG Discord server. I haven't gotten very far into it. They. Go. Really. Slow. Also they get caught up into weird asides where they try to shove things into boxes that they don't fit in. The point of the Orientalism triad of "Violence, ...

If left unchecked, these bot bidding wars can get the prices up to the millions of dollars for items that factually do not exist or at least are not available in any of the warehouses with associated bots.

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If Shadowrun wanted to be serious about how important internal body armor and guns that pop out of your wrist are they needed to make the idea of bringing real guns anywhere something you wanted to avoid under most conditions. The big conflict of course is the existence of "pink mohawk" s...