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Biden promised two things: no tax increases on anyone making less than $400k and increased corporate income taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has tax increases on the poor scheduled to happen once Biden takes office (technically cuts expiring, but call a spade a spade)and a permanent tax break for co...

I'm pretty sure that Biden would like to repeal the tax cuts, if only for realpolitik reasons not not pissing off voters.

Biden is going to have a hell of a time in his first year in office, trying to get a meaningful Covid-19 response together, figuring out how to rescind the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (AKA: Republican ratfuckery which cuts taxes during Trump's term but has baked in tax spikes for the poor once Biden ...

I'm not a lawyer, but I CAN produce the highlights: Back in March of 2019, Weis & Hickman convinced Wizards to let them write another Dragonlance trilogy and have it published through Penguin Random House. Wizards would get a cut of the profits and W&H would get both royalties and an advance...

I was the one to suggest that, yes, but the description isn't quite how it works. The actual idea was you'd have a periodically rising level of Horror which is resisted by Resolve. At first, Horror grants a bonus to your rolls, as the severity of the situation galvanizes characters to take action, b...

Somebody sure has strong opinions on not posting here for a guy who still posts here. Not even just in this thread, but in the actual game design bits of the forum. You're either too cool to post here, or you're not. Either stop shitting, or get back in the pot.

You want output [highest 1 of Xd(2d6)] where X is the number of times you roll 2d6 and keep best. It goes 7.00; 8.37; 9.06; 9,49; 9.80; 10.04, putting +2 at two rerolls and +3 at five rerolls. You don't get to +4 before AnyDice tells you to fuck off, which happens at 12 rerolls, for an average of 10...

So... Is Planar Binding any less broken in 5e than it is in 3.5, assuming you can get the spell to work? 5e monsters basically never do anything cool beyond 'be a big sack of hit points and attacks', so the fact that you can specifically get elementals or demons working for you instead of geased og...

There's rules in the DMG for summoning stuff without the use of spells, but at that point you don't need planar binding because those same rules just let you flat out command the thing with its True Name/Magic Idol. Overall 5e is not very well thought out or playtested.

See, I was talking about you advocating for the assassination of Biden before he could get the nomination, in order to force the DNC to pick a different nominee. I didn't even know about the SCOTUS thing until it got brought up here - it apparently got edited out before I even read it. (Yes, I am aw...

Have you looked at Lancer yet? It's similar in design to *World, but with most of the things that make *World games bad (terrible move design, quantum bears, only really having one difficulty level) fixed.

Kaelik wanted more sweeping change... but couldn't articulate how to go about it and more importantly neither can you . Not so! I am totally capable of articulating Kaelik's 'plan'. It's just that doing so is against the forum rules regarding advocating for the death of real world people. Which sho...

MPSIMS got so bad that fbmf locked it for a few days in order to sort out who needed punished for letting it get that bad, resulting in Frank deciding to quit the forums rather than apologize for his behavior, followed by politics getting banned entirely when it turned out that Frank ragequitting di...

I really don't think anything I said was flaming. Or well poisoning, for that matter. His posts in the other thread have not been very helpful. See Orion's bit about him saying "just imagine me calling each part nonsense". And historically, when PL decides that he wants to call something n...

I'd like to zoom in on just one part of this whole feature wishlist: Gear: Because the challenges are not tailored to the players, they may find that they need specific magic items to get the job done. Player's should not have to beg the DM to get an item they need. On the other hand, it would be ni...

Edit: Also I don't get the point is in making a separate thread to engage with your biggest critic only to then not do so. I do not know what Orion's problem with PL's criticism is because it is not clear here or in the other thread what he thinks PL is wrong about outside of the fact that he's not...

I think that PL can safely be ignored here. He's just doing his 'nothing that I didn't have a hand in creating can possibly be good' song and dance from half a decade ago in response to what amounts to some extended musings on various metrics by which a TTRPG adventure modules could be judged, how g...

If someone was paying 60% of everything then they were an unusually oppressed slave. The sort of person who almost everyone would look down on and say "Thank God I'm not them" about. ??? If half of your work is done on your Lord's lands (where you see none of the harvests) and half is don...

Mechanically punishing people for not following some code is dumb. Having social in game pressure to follow a code is fun. Why do designers keep doing the first one. Exactly. Social expectations should be the Courtier's version of the Rogue's "flanked, flat-footed or denied Dex to AC" and...

Seriously, Count? What the fuck.

The term 'alpha male' is an idiom. It no more endorses a specific model of wolf pack psychology than 'bite the bullet' endorses conducting surgical procedures without anesthetic. Calling someone an 'wannabe alpha male' is saying that they're being a loud asshole who tries to prove their social domin...

Sounds like I should do a Lancer review then, because that's the first new TTRPG in over a decade where I felt like the contents of the book were worth the effort of having read it, let alone the price to get it.

You might think that talking about directly killing Republicans is somehow uniquely horrific but there are ideas far more objectionable to me that have been brought up in these threads. Honestly, yes. Not because of the Republican thing (the pro-murder argument I was refering to was regarding rival...

I don't know which threads you've been reading Mguy, or who you have on ignore that lets you think that but the 2020 General Election thread was in no way a 'mild back and forth'. We had a QAnon guy. We had a guy saying all Democrats were White Supremacists and that the only reason he wasn't a Pizza...

I personally think the problems with this forum are unsolvable. Fundamentally, fbmf does not have the patience and free time required to moderate this forum; will not be able to find moderators willing to moderate this forum without either asking to be paid or asking to be allowed to ban people for ...