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homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

For me the phrasing is off, and I say this as a trans woman, there's something about it that seems poorly worded.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 01:57

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 05:52

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

Rulebook Heavily posted:

Examples I've seen mentioned include the older style "trapped" phrasing, the use of "hermaphrodite", and how one of the examples is an old dwarf beard joke while the other is an old lovely elf joke.

So, it's an effort. A sort of first-draft effort where no trans people were consulted (and at least one open transphobic stalker was).

Yeah, that's sums up how I feel pretty well.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 02:10

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

greatn posted:

4e doesn't have classes. There's one class.

4e is communism, which is probably why I liked it so much.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 02:26

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

Libertad! posted:

If 4E is Communism and 3E/5E is Capitalism, then what economic ideology does the OSR adhere to?

Dark Enlightenment.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 14:01

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

Ratoslov posted:

Okay. You only encounter it on a shoreline, where it attacks out of the water from ambush. It's a huge creature with decent AC and HP, and the ability to grapple medium-sized creatures with one claw. And it had a absolutely ridiculous grapple check. Also, it's type is Vermin, so it's immune to wide swaths of spells that might slow it down.

So, it's entire actions would be:

Round 1: From ambush, grapple someone squishy.
Round 2: Grab someone else coming to rescue their friend with it's other claw.
Round 3: Retreat into the ocean to consume it's prey at leisure.

And that's how you kill half the party with a single CR 3 critter.

And after the fight I guess the party might be a little bit crabby.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2014 23:32

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

ascendance posted:

Let's be honest here. I don't give a flying gently caress about your hurt fi-fis over the lovely play test, and how you feel your market segment has been ignored in favor of 3.5 grogtards.

You don't give a gently caress about my feelings either over the constant griping about how 5e is a worthless piece of poo poo, and everyone who plays it must suck at the teat of Tarnowski and Zak.

Which is why this thread is a cesspool of acrimony and vituperation, and why I proposed a separate thread.

lmao, it's like Zak S never left

# ¿ Oct 8, 2014 22:39

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

Talmonis posted:

Tell us on this doll where those mean ol' casters touched you. Or was it that they stole your boy/girl friend?

Haha jokes about child molestation, rofl my dude :cool:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2014 21:24

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 05:52

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

One thing I've always liked about the Aboleth is that they are scared shitless by mind flayers, because of their ancestral memory they can look back and see the rise of all other races, but the mind flayers came from a distant future and they have no memory of them. This is the worst case scenario for the Aboleth because it creates a great unknown variable. I like abberations

# ¿ Nov 5, 2014 19:36

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