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How are Hatians supposed to have an agrarian society in which they don't own the land and the US tariffs all their products to not compete with other US protectorates? -Crissa If you're asking me about this, the solution is for the US to stop keeping them dependent . The problem isn't the Haitians ...

As rounds get shorter, the ability to have real world events occur goes away. The police have a response time. The cavalry have a response time. Everything has a response time. Poison has a progression time. Bleeding has a progression time. And so on. A very good point. However, I wonder how moveme...

The D&D monsters are distinct creatures (even if they're all variations of dog) that you can imagine have their own existence out there somewhere even when they're not being a level-appropriate encounter. A scaling guard dog is a guard dog that you never get any better at fighting. A Dire Wolf i...

Expert Access to a Sphere for the price of a feat is overpowered, since being a 2nd level Conduit gives you a free feat for every Sphere you have Expert access to. If your Expert Access feat is a [Fiend] feat, a 2nd level Conduit gains all spheres it grants access to for free. If it's not, then they...

Personally I can't see the need for (Magic) Feats. The point of (Combat) feats was to give non-casters class features as powerful as spells. Spellcasters already have a class feature as powerful as spells. The Tome additions have just about got non-casters to an equal footing. Give casters another ...

Juton wrote:If you where able to implement a system like I mentioned I think you could get at least a doctoral thesis and a dozen papers out of it, which is a pretty good score if your an academic.

Well, technically, it might be a fallacy, but in this case, the intention is really absolutely clear, isn't it? Is it? The wizard just rescued a peasant - is the peasant his ally? If so, can he kill him with this power and still have him count as an ally? Is an unconscious party member an ally? An ...

Good, now find an example where that dwarven miner has a history, relationships to other NPCs, has dialogue, will attack a lone orc on sight or run and alert his settlement at the sight of an orcish army. And while you are at it pick a game with a threedimensional world please. Twodimensional tile-...

Haiti would also be in a lot better shape if they had an agricultural economy like they used to before the US crushed it, instead of trying to set up a factory sweatshop economy and overgrowing their cities (seriously, Port-au-Prince's population in 2000 was more than 12 times its 1950 population). ...

CatharzGodfoot wrote:I think Tzor was agreeing, with his offbeat sort of sarcasm.

Hard to tell. For most of us, a statement completely at odds with known objective reality would be taken as sarcasm. With Tzor you really can't tell.

Josh_Kablack wrote:

They are developing the Skill Challenge rules using the Monkeys with Typewriters model.

But Frank, the infinite monkey theorem has been debunked

Are you saying that just because something has been debunked, WotC can't rely on it?

There's an agreement where decker and mage PCs don't switch sides because corps pay better, but there's no reason why NPCs wouldn't. I mean, the corp's magical/network defenses have to come from somewhere.

Or the subclass can give a choice of abilities, so that there's at least one that synergizes with every main class. It doesn't matter if the choice isn't really a choice for any given class, as long as it makes the subclass viable overall.

Interesting idea. I was thinking of items providing talents directly (such as strength or martial skill), increasing your options. I hadn't considered the idea of having items augment the number of uses. If Thor's gloves and belt work together as an IGStr item he would still get benefit from them b...

Since the bug with the quote tags (you know the one) is not going away, can we have a feature where we can ignore a specific post to save the thread's formatting? I've tested and adding the user to your ignore list does work, but it seems like a clumsy solution for this. So I'm suggesting adding a b...

There are two competing ways to do items. These are more extremes of a spectrum than distinct types, though: 1) Catch-up items. A catch-up item lets you do something that you can't ordinarily do, but someone else can. These items usually don't stack, or don't stack very well, with having that as you...

It's pure vertical stacking power, and basically lets you add three times your base attack bonus to your damage for free. The knockdown ability on it is good, but it's really the only thing that makes you qualitatively different for having the feat as opposed to not having it. Also, bonus attacks ar...

You don't role protect anything important in an RPG. You might role-protect, for instance, Combat Teleportation. Tanking, though, is something every group needs, and if it's role-protected at all then that means that you have to have one of the classes that it's role-protected for. Better to protect...

I thought that Jews and Muslims, at least in the foundational writings, believed in multiple deities. I mean, I'll believe nowadays that both believe only in Yahweh, but it seems as though Christians were the ones who really kicked off the monotheist movement. This may have been already addressed b...

EDIT - 4% of unutilized Brazil is roughly 350k km2, and the Midwest is around 2.1M km2. So it's a bit smaller in terms of arable land, but still roughly comparable. That's a sixth. Brazil has a sixth the arable land of the Midwest. You started with "more," then when you got hammered with ...

I was going to ask if these descriptions considered that spell which creates demiplanes (which seems infinitely superior), but all I can find is Genesis . Was I imagining it? There's an Arcane version in the Epic rules. Frank, if you don't mind, I'm going to yoink a bunch of the stuff on the Negati...

Alternately, just make monster identification automatic for common things that aren't disguised in any way. A knowledge skill tells an albino red dragon from a white dragon, to use the classic dick example, or an Eye of Fear and Flame from a Lich. But even without making the check you can guess that...

Our current best guess says that entropy will eventually increase to the point that the universe will be incompatible with human existence. There is actually a finite end to time. Also, the world is and has always been in flux enough that forecasting more than a few centuries out is hard enough that...

Quick question: where would Tome of Battle, Tome of Magic, and Magic of Incarnum go? Softcover? Trash bin? Those were mechanics testbeds for 4e, not actual real "3e" books. Tome of Battle was a cool book, and so they based 4e's mechanics on it. Ideally, though, there wouldn't be a need to...

I have some of the High Adventure on the Elemental Planes written up for myself, too, although not quite finished anywhere. I've also rewritten the environments for some of them. My Plane of Fire and Frank's, for instance, are completely different. I'll post what I have for Earth. High Adventure in ...