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So 62 is a measure to repeal the death penalty. 68 is a measure to have moar death penalty and also put death row inmates to work in slave pits with the proceeds going to private citizens. That is not a joke. 62 is sane and 68 is insane, and I have no idea what happens if they both pass. If they bo...

Hey, I thought I'd post my thoughts about California ballot measures, now that I've wrote something about them. 51 (Big School bond measure): Yes, fund schools. 52 (Hospitals pay a fee to receive state money which is matched by the federal government, this writes that setup into the constitution): T...

This is one of those cases where I've seen a bunch of people tut-tuting "We should not celebrate his death. He had people who cared about him." and I'm just like "So what?". He was an awful person doing his best to spread poison and the world is a better place with him gone. (Adm...

First, I thought this was good: http://www.trumpisnotateamplayer.com/ Firstly, the basic level, you don't think Hillary Clinton is capable of coming up with the idea of holding off on releasing bad news about Trump until right before the election? I mean, Clinton isn't doing that, and we know that f...

Prak wrote:But they have to make sure they don't start caring about one another.

No, that's still fine as long as no one else cares about any of them.

Prak wrote:Best BBEG- undead tainted scholar who just cast Chain of Sorrow once and is waiting for the entire world to fall into a coma and starve to death.

It's up to the PCs, a group of friendless orphans, to save the world. They are the only ones to be safe.

This is, the USA in the old days was extremely efficient in exterminating the natives and trapping the survivors. And they didn't have any fancy jets or satellites or tanks or "smart" missiles back then. And the natives had cavalry on top. I've been staying out of this, but I'm not going ...

Ancient History wrote:

That reminds me of this music video.

Featherbow Whenever an arrow is fired from this bow, it turns into a bird. If fired more than 30', the bird turns aside to miss the target. Otherwise, the bird's impact deals half damage to both the target and the bird. Birds created by this item are permanent. Seven-League Boots Every step in thes...

Staff of Balance This lesser version of a Immovable Rod does not hover in the air. Instead, it may be placed on any solid surface and given the order to balance, whereupon it will balance vertically on one end. Bad Penny This copper piece is "cursed". Once it has been picked up, the beare...

I'm not quite sure why this is an argument. (Except that Kaelik is in it, that's a good reason.) I don't think anyone here really thinks that piece of errata was needed, so it seems like everyone is angrily agreeing with everyone else that it's shit.

Actually, flipping through my MM2, most things are badly CRed one way or another. Discounting monsters of CR 13+, my random flips to a few different points hit the Abiel, Darktentacles, Fihyr, Grimalken and Swamplight Lynx. I would argue that all of those are either under or over-CRed. Monsters of ...

Actually, flipping through my MM2, most things are badly CRed one way or another. Discounting monsters of CR 13+, my random flips to a few different points hit the Abiel, Darktentacles, Fihyr, Grimalken and Swamplight Lynx. I would argue that all of those are either under or over-CRed. Monsters of F...

So that was the process here. "Scavenger hunt the general area for your unique ID before anyone else can find it at the last minute, if it's even out there, which in some cases it isn't (or isn't any longer". Well that sounds like fun. What sort of prizes do you win if you find it? You ge...

The line "this ties into the huge success of 5e and the growth of RPGs" tells you all you need to know there. Unless you're talking about computer RPGs, neither of these are at all true.

Does anyone know where that piece by Frank about grognards and their relationship with the rules was? I think it included a guy who wanted to just go to the mountains and expected to be able to find a terrorist hideout? I'm arguing with this shitweasel over on MinMax who's trying to say that if a pl...

You probably don't want to post that to a public forum.

For the first, the Dragon Magazine Compendium had the Diopsid insectoid race. You could give it some sort of immunity to vorpal's instant death and toss the LA without much trouble.

You know, come to think of it, I regret murdering Lago in cold blood... :confused: I asked what happened to Lago in ATGD. Is this the story I've been waiting for? Game On, fbmf Obviously not, can you imagine Kaelik doing anything in cold blood? He could be in the most relaxing situation on Earth an...

Oh, I know your opinion on Pathfinder, I was just marveling at their inability to competently plagiarize rules.

Oh goddam. Pathfinder implemented in their unchained book(s?) some new wealth system. Where, get this. All your flat bonuses scale with level, and don't come at the cost of item abilities! Another brilliant Pathfinder exclusive idea that no one ever thought of before, like skill ranks equaling char...

It's like character death in killer GM games. The players stop investing. Now I want to play a campaign that starts with a long-established adventuring party that has had such high turn-over that we don't even know what the original quest was, only that it was extremely important. We could constant...

"Trickle-down wealth should just be called golden showers."

Huh, my brother works for them.