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Pretty sure it was just that ARB typoed it once and it stuck.
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I still don't understand why it's hard for people to understand that an edition change doesn't mean your old books suddenly cease to exist.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:31
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Ferrinus posted:It's very easy to take 3e, 3.5e, Pathfinder, 5e, or whatever other D&D chassis you want and fix the LFQW problem: give fighters and rogues increasing amounts of per-day abilities that are comparable in power to spells of the same level. You don't have to touch existing casters at all - just make everyone quadratic. There's a relatively well known set of homebrew for 3.5 that does this. It's an absolute loving mess because it turns out the already broken underlying system breaks even harder if everyone is wizards.
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Mar 10, 2018 19:04
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As I already said it was tried with a set of 3.5 homebrew, which just showed that the 3.5 system curls up and dies even harder if you try to bring everyone up to the wizard's level.
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Mar 10, 2018 21:23
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And if you're really worried about it, talk to a lawyer.
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Mar 20, 2018 08:33
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Patreon seems to be totally fine with smut, provided only your patrons get to see it and there's little or no mention of it on your public section. And not in a "we'll look the other way as long as you're not reported" kind of way either.
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Jul 7, 2018 06:24
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Zereth posted:hint: "ravish" is a euphemism for "rape". the meaning of that sentence does not change one bit if you replace the word "ravish" with "rape". Seems to me like people were making GBS threads on Holden and also the current state of Exalted 3, which while the former is 100% deserved, the latter is kinda misplaced.
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Aug 5, 2018 07:55
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PenguinKnight posted:In the pathfinder 2 play test being androgynous requires a skill feat and training in deception. Did you get a screenshot of what was said or anything, because that page doesn't seem to exist anymore.
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Aug 6, 2018 03:37
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Nuns with Guns posted:What were the rules got dialed down to "only being able to affect NPCs" then? I'm legitimately unaware of any, to be quite frank. But it's also a very large book and I'm sure as hell not gonna bother reading charms in trees I'm not currently using.
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Aug 6, 2018 04:20
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Kurieg posted:Could it be that the reason why the game has very large explicit text saying that powers that enable you to rape people can't be used on PCs, has such a thing because at some point in the development process powers actually existed without such protection? Could you point out where those rules are? Like I said, I've never seen them before and would like to read them for myself.
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Aug 6, 2018 04:50
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Kurieg posted:There's a rule in EX3 that's called the "Red Rule" in the fashion of the Golden Rule that basically says "unless all the players involved in a sexual action agree that it's going to happen, it doesn't happen." Nope, the red rule was what I wanted, and was in a part of the book I hadn't read. Like I said, I only read the parts directly relevant to the characters I've played. The Abyssals preview was 100% indefensible, but isn't going to actually be the rules because Holden was rightfully thrown off of Exalted.
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Aug 6, 2018 05:09
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Yeah, everything Holden did definitely has left a stain on Exalted, because everything ends up looked at through a lens of "was this because of something creepy?"
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Aug 6, 2018 05:15
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Joe Slowboat posted:EDIT: Also, uh, why do we specify 'Holden' when it was both Holden and line dev/actual harasser Morke aka Hatewheel? Like I'm just saying if anything left a stain it's Harasser Man, not his sidekick Mad On Internet Boy. Because Holden's antics started this discussion to begin with and it's easier to say "Holden" than "Holden and Morke".
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Aug 6, 2018 05:30
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Bedlamdan posted:It’s pretty active, if only because entire splats are being put together from scratch instead of having to wait for the next book. Which is explicitly not allowed in the Storyteller's Vault.
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Aug 25, 2018 07:02
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I have no experience with HM 4e, but I've played a few games with 5e. Overall I like the system, but it has some warts that I'm not a huge fan of, such as "realistic" elements that aren't realistic at all, including being 100% unable to even attempt to swim in anything heavier than light armor.
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Oct 28, 2018 00:17
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Honestly the whole "group nominally agrees to play not-Pathfinder/5e but complains about it the entire time so we just go back to Pathfinder/5e" thing is part of the reason I left a long running group I was in. Which is personally funny to me because the reason we kept going back was to not lose the guy who complained most of the time.
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Jan 26, 2019 18:43
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Mors Rattus posted:I went to TotalCon once, years ago. It was easily the worst convention I've ever been to, stuffed into a tiny hotel area. So would you say it's a total con?
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Feb 27, 2019 22:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:I thought HackMaster 4th Edition read pretty well. 4th was the parody edition, 5th is the one being complained about (there was no 3rd edition). Kurieg posted:To be fair this is the illigitimate birth table... Forget malus, they always roll on that chart. Dwarves and elves never do, not because those things never happen apparently, but because they have such low birth rates they cherish all children equally or something. Gnomes, half-elves, and halflings roll on it 1 in 20, gnome titans and humans 1 in 10, half-hobgoblins 19 in 20. Oh and the reason that half-orcs always roll on the table is because for some goddamn reason they decided it would be a really good idea to make orcs barely more than animals that only reproduce by rape. moths posted:IIRC they brought in some clunky Aces & 8s mechanics, took all the humor out, and introduced this gem: Not all, just most, and most of what remains is kinda painfully shoehorned references, like the Silver Ball spell that shoots out a silver ball that bounces around the battlefield while the wizard is struck blind, deaf and dumb for the duration.
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Apr 10, 2019 19:12
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"The gnomish equivalent to the spartans" according to the book. They're a more militant gnome variant that always has the Inappropriate Sense of Humor flaw, the only race that knows how to kick people in the nuts when they're on the ground, and I guess are so OP they had to be balanced with an XP penalty.
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Apr 10, 2019 19:37
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slap me and kiss me posted:Everyone on the internet should post with the confidence of a mediocre white man. I don't think I can be that confident.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:29
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Arivia posted:Who's Loomis? Rick Loomis, one of the founders of Flying Buffalo Games, who publish Tunnels and Trolls. He's also the one who made Grimtooth's Traps, plus a bunch of other stuff.
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Aug 28, 2019 23:19
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Kurieg posted:The correlary to part 2 is that the pregens need to be good to inform your decision making process. I want to say literally all of the ones that appeared in official products.
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Oct 9, 2019 22:11
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I'm gonna go with "no one was looking".
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Feb 11, 2020 18:26
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Probably about the same that Pathfinder 1e did, which was also a subscription model. Not everyone who plays buys a subscription, since that's only worth it if you plan on using literally every book available, rather than picking and choosing. And yeah, if you're playing in their Organized Play you get some minor bonuses if you buy stuff from the store you're playing in and show the GM your receipt.
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May 8, 2020 21:35
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As a kid I always loved Star Wars Monopoly, and I honestly don't know why.
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May 14, 2020 01:24
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Lumbermouth posted:Probably the cool metal coins. The original version did not have those, so that can't be it.
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May 14, 2020 01:28
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Zereth posted:How does Jr. differ from normal monopoly? Money values are way lower (everything is single digits), the board is smaller, you have to buy properties you land on, the amount you get when someone lands on your property is the same as what you paid for it (or double if you have both properties in a monopoly), there are no property improvements, you can't mortgage properties and the game ends as soon as one person is bankrupt. There's probably some other changes I'm not remembering. But it makes the game way faster.
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May 14, 2020 09:32
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Yup. If you play it RAW all the properties get snapped up pretty quickly and there's no random cash injections, so the games actually have a chance to end. But, uh, it's still not a fun framework under all that.
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May 14, 2020 19:28
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Nickoten posted:If anyone is interested in playing a faster, more fun version of Monopoly that uses the same basic concepts, I would recommend the video game Itadaki Street. It has a stock element that lets you anticipate what properties are going to make money and take a cut of it through investment. Plus depending on the version you get to do it as Sephiroth or a Dragon Quest slime or whatever. Yeah, Fortune Street's actually pretty fun.
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May 15, 2020 00:43
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Loxbourne posted:I wonder what they get out of that. Unless the plan is to sell it back as part of a premium stats package or something? Well, from an implementation perspective it's much easier to transition to a new system if you don't have to bring in any of the old data and they don't want to have to maintain a system to access the old data. This is almost certainly just a case of them going "This is cheaper and no one really cares about it anyway so who cares?"
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May 27, 2020 02:15
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Kurieg posted:Also it's not buried in the announcement, I know for a fact we were talking about it a while ago and I think it was even in their official FAQ on the subject. From what I can tell "buried in the announcement" means "didn't literally title the announcement 'We're deleting all your old match data'".
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May 27, 2020 07:23
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Yeah, pretty sure they wanted more money from people like me, who would just subscribe for a month whenever a big update happened, download the character builder, and then gently caress off again. Instead everyone I know who did that just stopped subscribing and went to  instead.
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May 28, 2020 06:09
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thetoughestbean posted:The people who made Cards Against Humanity being huge pieces of poo poo is super not surprising. You've answered your own question. People like it because it's offensive, and many people mistake being offensive for being funny or otherwise having a personality.
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Jun 9, 2020 01:36
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Loxbourne posted:That bit about how each colour stands for different things is...is that real? Is that something old white American boomers believe? It's just so ridiculous. Is it what lots of people believe? Yes. Is it what was originally intended? No.
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Jun 15, 2020 10:59
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Dexo posted:Related lol. I'm impressed by the guy somehow claiming that Drow aren't depicted as having black skin 99% of the time.
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Jun 28, 2020 02:21
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theironjef posted:My favorite argument in that thread is "If all the races aren't inherently evil, then what happened to diversity?" That's actually from the same guy who thinks that drow have never been depicted as being dark skinned, except by ignorant outsiders. He is full of amazingly bad takes.
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Jun 28, 2020 02:52
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Leraika posted:I got to the one who was going 'it's cool and good that evil races exist so my players can kill them without qualms' and had to stop there. That is also the same guy. Edit: Oh, wait, there was a different guy who said it first. It just got echoed later by others.
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Jun 28, 2020 02:59
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I feel it's less that It Came From Something Awful and more they're afraid of possible backlash if they end up banning someone popular, which means of course that those people get to effectively run the forums and everything gets shittier and shittier.
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Jun 28, 2020 03:09
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Some genius there linked to this opinion piece on Psychology Today dismissing the controversy about racism in D&D, which in turn had this gem: So later in the thread that poster defended linking that article, and also claimed that being mean to racists is the real problem, because it totally just makes them more racist guys. Not quite as bad as the poster that equated being mean to racists with the Rwandan Genocide and everything the Nazis did, though.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:*record scratch* An idiot posted:You know, that dehumanising someone because of their ideology is only slightly less awful than dehumanising them because of their race. Like yeah, you can choose an ideology so that's a factor someone has more agency over, but really the awful thing is the dehumanisation. The removing of a person's personhood. That they chose their ideology is the icing on the awful cake. The dehumanisation is the awful cake.
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