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With the press for the public option and single payer there were, in fact, people pressing to nationalize the insurance industry.

Also, utilities are, usually, kinda heavily regulated to make up for having a monopoly on a necessity.

My original statement was said in the context of the HEALTH CARE BILL. Crissa gave examples that were widely UNrelated to it.

Shorter Zinegata: Just because it's true in every other context ever doesn't mean it's true in this one!

@Gelare's one bolded part: Oh noes! I'm really failing to see where I should be affording any sympathy to someone that essentially wants to privatize gains and socialize losses. If you save $2-5K a year by not buying health insurance, for whatever reason, how does that help any of the rest of us? I...

This ability Giant Frog (Su): You gain a blue slaad alternate form. This grants you the movement, size, natural attacks, special attacks, and special qualities of a blue slaad, as well as the following attribute adjustments: Strength +6, Constitution +4, Dexterity +2, Charisma -2, Intelligence -4, W...

My big project, the Book of Elements, has been emailed so that a second brain can look at it. It's basically done now; it just needs to get looked over, have bugs hammered out, and so on.

I think it would be best for everyone if we discarded the notion that embezzlement shouldn't be as considered of a bad crime as burglary/larceny/robbery. Embezzlers should get the same kind of punishments other thieves get. This is ridicuous. Yeah, but embezzlement's something rich people do. Burgl...

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FrankTrollman wrote:Sort of like how Lucca in Chronotrigger is labeled “Fire” even when she doesn't know any magic.

Lucca does learn magic. You're thinking of Robo (Shadow).

Even when =/= even though.

Yes.

But if you go by the first definition of bigot listed in Merriam Webster, just about everyone here qualifies as a bigot: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices . Seriously, can you be assed to have just one ounce of intellectual honesty here? Nobody i...

I've often thought that books should just admit the power creep. Like, they should just errata all the old powers when they put out the next level of creep and power them up to match the new ones. So you might have a Complete Arcane-type book with new classes like Warlock, and then in the back you ...

Making fun of rich people is satire. Making fun of poor people is bullying. Bullying isn't funny. Satire is.

I could see a compilation of monsters being useful, where you compile all the new monsters released since the last monster book, bunch them together, maybe polish them a bit, and call it a Monster Manual. But, yes, a more full monster collection in specialized and setting books (Monsters of Setting,...

Wouldn't the SCP foundation be a branch of the Marduk Society, then?

Why is Twinneedle on more than one list? Classically, it's only available to a single pokemon (Beedrill)

The fishmen should either be compressed into one overarching race and the variants should be related-offshoots Why would you only have one kind of fish-people for all the seas (bigger than the land, and more mysterious to boot), when you have little differences making entirely new species on land?

School of magic doesn't mean anything, either. There's a bit of game mechanics to it: evocation is direct damage, mostly, while Abjuration has most of the defenses, but for some reason Mage Armor is Conjuration. Then there's Necromancy, which does everything, but in a creepy bad-guy way. As for the ...

Yeah. Leadership is provably broked. One level N character = CR N monster = EL N encounter. The EL system says that two Level N-2 characters = two CR N-2 monsters = EL N encounter. In other words, two cohorts is supposed to double your strength and basically make you another character on your own. T...

I'm in the process of writing a feat that allows you to use Raw Chaos to make either magic items or demiplanes. I'd be interested in seeing that. Game On, fbmf The main problem I've been running into with the Demiplane rules is that even after taking all of the general Create a Demiplane rules and ...

Per level recharge seems like another metagame ability set, the same way that "serendipitous plot twist" would be per-session. A good per-level ability would be to gain a new permanent schtick, similar to M&M stunting but permanent. Depends. If your advancement rate is reasonably cons...

Dominicius wrote:Speaking of planes and planar currency...

Has it ever been decided what they do? Raw Chaos? Hope? etc?

I'm in the process of writing a feat that allows you to use Raw Chaos to make either magic items or demiplanes.

Murtak wrote:Shadowrun is a scientific world. Weird artifacts will just end up in a lab.

Until they get stolen.

Seriously, the most charitable way I can read Roy is "I'm not gay, but my way to equality for gays is so important that we must not take one step back from it, even if it's actually a better way to equality." You also see that with dumbfucks arguing against gay marriage on the grounds that...

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CatharzGodfoot wrote:It's less star trek and more star wars. As far as I know LotR never had 10k types of elf.

No, but it did have two or three, High Elves, Wood Elves, and IIRC, Uruk Hai were basically half elves or something...

Uruk-Hai were, IIRC, orcs and goblin-men. Normal orcs were corrupted elves, though.

Roy wrote:Chances are, those people can get a less dangerous job. They're in the military because they want to. So lol, no.

In this economy?

So gay people can't be open about their sexual preferences in the military. Ok. As far as I'm concerned, sexual preferences aren't something to be open about ANYWAYS be you straight, gay, or giant fucking frog. So I'm not sure what the fucking problem is at all. A straight man is allowed to talk ab...