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"Beyond the Wall" (S07E06). Season 7 is generally poorly written, but episode six is just terrible.

I propose two intertwined solutions: Meta-currency and world-affecting power (as separate from tactical power). Meta-currency is your basic handful-per-session hero points. Archer Guy picked "shoot many dudes" as a power, and can just do that. Sword guy can, if he's high enough level, pay ...

Magicial items are a type of technology. And D&D is also predicated on this. Greyhawk, Mystara, and the Forgotten Realms are all predicated on the idea that the World used to be a lot more awesome than it was, high-tech/high magic civilizations rose and then fell and ancient ruins are full of t...

The biggest issue with skills is that some of them are low-level abilities (swim, climb), some are your buy-in to important minigames (stealth, perception) and some are bullshit treadmills (disable device).

Ideally, I'd prefer if taking ranks in Climb was simply not an option at level 10.

If the droids are right , Han faces odds of 3,720 to 1 to successfully navigate an asteroid field. Successfully surviving a direct run against a Star Destroyer are 725 to 1. In-universe, the odds of just those two scenes are approximately 1 in 2.7 MILLION tries. Riiight. And we should totally put s...

Zaranthan wrote:You're just shifting the question: why are the dunderheads in charge?

Politics. I mean, have you seen who's president of the USA? I'd discuss my own country's current slide into racist fascism, but that's hardly international news.

"Our customer base for this product consists entirely of grognards in deep Stockholm Syndrome. Let's give them....Nostalgia. Grognards fucking love Nostalgia. "

Shrapnel wrote: (I also never said I threw a temper tantrum. A broken monitor does not mean a tantrum.)

I think you will benefit, in life, from developing an adult professional definition of "tantrum". The one you're using seems to be off. Way off.

Tolkien was a bona fide linguist, and his use of linguistics adds up to long-winded masturbation.

TI: 3, which I have played many times with all expansions before I had a kid, is an endurance game. Especially once the easy Imperial strategy is removed and you add importance to the flow of Objectives. You win when the other players are too cracked out on suger, booze and/or sleep deprivation to k...

Yes, because the problem with Milo is definitely that he's gay. And because gay people are all pedophiles. That's definitely the track you want to go with. .... Did you miss the part where he defended pedophilia? I mean there are definitely issues where republicans went super harder on him for this...

Look at this fucking piece of shit: Babau Demon . Is that a good statblock? Do you need to know that this CR 6 demon with at-will greater teleport has +11 open lock, that is has +1 Survival and Use Rope? How about sneaking past this guy? Oh, he has no listed Spot modifier? Well, at least you're a pr...

4e races were fucking terrible. A) racial stats and 4e classes and math meant every race or class had right and wrong choices. If you mismatched stats you did it wrong, and were objectively worse than you should be forever. 3rd races and classes have the exact same issue you fucking twat. In PF, th...

I very seriously doubt this. So, when was the last time one of your characters benefited from "seeing twice as far in starlight or torchlight"? Because my guess is fucking never. . 4E lowlight vision interacts with things that actually happen. A) Literally the last time I played a charact...

*Low-light vision. Vision and light in general. I very seriously doubt this. So, when was the last time one of your characters benefited from "seeing twice as far in starlight or torchlight"? Because my guess is fucking never. . 4E lowlight vision interacts with things that actually happen.

Despite being a mismanaged dumpster fire, 4E did do a few things better than 3rd. *No skill point accounting. *Daily resource management. As in, it was clearly identified as an issue and a solution was proposed, instead of the half-assed 3rd paradigm, where HP transitioned from a daily resource to a...

OgreBattle wrote:The question that comes up to "skills only is" "what do you default to"

And that gives you either a pretty good (if complicated) answer like GURPS, hot garbage like Shadowrun, or something in between (like D&D). Providing a better answer than D&D is not hard, at all.

Castle Falkenstein, a fairly succesful game (by the metric of "published many splatbooks over a long period of time") did away with ability scores in favor of skills only, and that was in 1994.

I found it really disturbing when Danny Rand was grooming Colleen Wing for an abusive relationship. Did no-one else catch that?

What I'd really like for knowledge skills used out of combat is a set of rules that quickly and robustly models Cliff Clavin, Homer Simpson and Ross Geller trying to agree on the attributes of a given Steve and moving forward with a plan. Having the usefulness of each characters contribution be hidd...

Big-ass propellers (or jet engines, if you want to be less silly), and a gateway device that puts your ship 1% into a parallel dimension where those propellers can interact with something. Of course you can crank up the gateway field to increase acceleration, but then things start slipping through.

How is this a mixed bag?

Around Pearl edition, "Shadowlands cards" mostly meant Corrupt Iron Mines and Corrupt Silver Mines. EVIL silver mines that cost zero gold and produce 2 gold, 3 for the right clan. Oh, and a small honor loss. Because they're EVIL mines. Actual zombie samurai and demons and shit? Go fuck you...

I thought this would be a betting pool on how long it's going to take before Trump just straight-out murders someone in public for no other reason than showing that he can get away with it.

Because I'd like to put 10$ on week 12.

There are a few more Win Events:
"Do you currently have all four Walls of Otosan-Uchi in play?" and, IIRC,
"Can you produce an effect from each of the 5 elements in one turn?" (Yes. Yes I can).