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I understand the mechanical reasons behind it, but much like Concentration, it just... isn't fun to actually play with. I'm playing a Fighter 1 / Wizard 3 and everyone else just got their stat boosts/feats while I'm lagging behind. Granted, I'm easily pulling my weight, but just... gimme my stats. ...

I just hope they fix the warrior multiattack problem in the very least, when a character has like 4 levels of Fighter and 1 level of Barbarian, they still get 1 attack... Because it's stupidly hardcoded into the class progressions rather than something like Base Attack Bonus. Wizards REALLY hate ty...

https://thehill.com/latino/573053-hundreds-of-haitians-return-to-mexico-after-expulsions-from-texas-begin https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1441097080873762826 @PressSec on Haitian migrants being sent back: "First of all, they're not deportations. People are not coming into the country through...

The rather speedy co-option of AOC into the corrupt core of the liberal-conservative consensus is why I say that the Democratic Party must die out in the next few years -- or humanity dies shortly thereafter the apocalyptic deadline due to some combination of climate change, ecofascism, and strong AI.

With the Democrats allowing the parliamentarian to shoot down immigration reform in budget reconciliation, they've all but sealed their fate for 2024+. Granted, I think it was pretty much impossible to recover from the damage Obama did to the Democratic Party with his own mass incarceration/mass dep...

I think I understand why so many people are so cool with the Lady of Pain.

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It is almost certainly going to be an huge sweep of the House for republicans, And the statehouses. The GOP had 33 governorships after 2016. They're starting further down the hole now than in 2014/2016, but there are literally no good pickups for the Democrats unless you want to count Maryland and ...

The GOP is going to gain a Constitution-rewriting statehouse supermajority very soon. 3 years tops, by the end of 2022 most likely. https://www.propublica.org/article/heeding-steve-bannons-call-election-deniers-organize-to-seize-control-of-the-gop-and-reshape-americas-elections It has only been a fe...

If it makes you feel any better, this has been, callous as it sounds, the optimal scenario for long-term survival ever since Reagan became President. The ranks of the middle class (the actual middle class according to Marxism, not America's weird idiosyncratic definition thereof) have been drained l...

Dems have completely disarmed themselves so that they can do nothing about issues outside their party or even deal with problems* within it. Don't get it twisted. It's not that they can't, it's that they won't. Liberals are capitalists first and anything else second. It suits their purposes to pret...

So I have been saying for years that the GOP is ripe for a fall. I still maintain that. And if you just look at the electoral battlefield, I don't know how you can conclude anything else. For fuck's sake, President Pigboy was, well, President. Which doesn't mean anything in of itself, but he still h...

Actually Lago that the death of the democratic party is not relevant to the conversation but that conversation once ignored is a jumping off point to you talking about a different thing you want to talk about is exactly the example of what I dont want. The Biden Administration's actions are going t...

Yeah that. I think it can be an adventure in itself to trap, ambush an enemy in that way. Or you could just play and/or design a real class and not waste time on low-level Dumbass Melee Fighter Bullshit. I got kingdoms to save and demigods to kill, I do not have the narrative bandwidth for an adven...

I just don't care about people arguing about whether democrats will exist in 30 years, or in fact if they will have power in 5 years and this thread is about the next 4 years and the specific things they do, not really about prognosticating about election results. I do think that it's kind of relev...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvNtw86OclM&ab_channel=Treantmonk%27sTemple Treantmonk, one of the oldskool 'basketweaving is for chodes, play a real class' advocates -- who has admittedly mellowed out a lot in the past few years -- thinks that 5E is approaching its twilight. And I agree. I do t...

So, it turns out that Biden is a white supremacist. Not a passive 'America is a force for good in the world' white supremacist you see from rank-and-file liberal Democrats, but a Richard Spencer-style 'Great Replacement' white supremacist. From that leaked audio with Biden's chat with black activist...

I saw an interesting Twitter thread about Mandalorian yesterday: https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/1335281474434633739 https://i.imgur.com/k2NceAQ.png It got me wondering: are there writers or artists, anywhere in the EU whether Canon or Legends, that depicts both the New AND Old Republic as...

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While apparently the pandemic has been a mini-revival for D&D, I have to say that I'm glad that Ray is at the helm instead of Mearls.

Read this thread for some background information : WotC is being sued twice, one of which is lulzy and the other one isn't. What I want to know is how this relates to Mike Mearls being replaced by Ray Winniger. Everyone knows that Mearls is a reactionary dork and doesn't know the basics of project ...

Like, for all of Fire Emblem: Fates faults that game at least wanted you to play it. I think that the game's biggest problem is that it tried too hard to get you to want to play it, but that still makes it a better game than Chrono Cross who cared more about getting its message out and cultural pos...

Like I said, Chrono Cross one of the worst games ever because it actively disrespects your desire to engage with it. Among a lot of other fucking things, it changes up basic assumptions of RPGs not out of a desire to entertain or try something new, but simply because it cares more about its image th...

Copying my comment on YouTube I get how 'worse game ever' seems hyperbolic, because I've certainly played games that were more boring/offensive/intellectually dishonest/money grubbing/buggy/badly written than Chrono Cross. Fire Emblem Fates, a horrible game that I think Chrono Cross is still worse t...

I have exactly zero energy to consider the next four years. They suck, but they suck less than they could have. Conversation over. You are being way too lenient and conflict-averse. This election result is exactly what I was talking about in the post that fbmf quoted. Now, I'm an open accelerationi...

Starfinder doesn't have 9th level spells, I am completely uninterested in it. A post-industrial revolution game that reduces the power of magic for the sake of theme and game balance is a game that categorically doesn't know what the hell.

That's just supposed to be emblematic of the trend I saw. There wasn't a real point being made there.