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Mors Rattus posted:So, I'm trying to find any time where someone might reasonably choose to use that spell even in the hands of like some peasant folk wizard, given that using it requires you to already have shears on hand. Wouldn't it be easier to just use the shears? Well, it lasts for ten hours so you could have a whole bunch of wizards 'using' the same pair of shears. That said: no. Just use the shears.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I've mentioned this before, but I was in a game fairly recently where the gun-and-gadget using secret agent got transformed into Living Land axioms, and my two-fisted Nile Empire PI got turned into a grimdark soldier. And how'd that work out?
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I mean, eta is appropriate for the time period but I would also not use the term when their descendants are still discriminated against, especially given its literal meaning. These authors really didn't know what they were doing in either balance or tone, did they?
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Night10194 posted:At least they're just vampires and not COMMUNISTS. Vampires keep blood for themselves while feeding off the masses, so they're capitalists and thus OK.
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Jan 20, 2017 21:10
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I can understand how that might have been hard to write but I actually found it pretty interesting. It has a lot of ideas and I'm sorry that they never seem to be brought up again. But as a Canadian, I have to say... Regina? Really? Regina? Regina has a population (in reality) of slightly under 200,000. You'd think you'd at least use Winnipeg first. (Capital of Manitoba rather than Saskatchewan; it's closer to the Eastern lands but further away from West and North.) That or Saskatoon, which is a city also in Saskatchewan that is a) larger than Regina and b) not already Saskatchewan's capital; this is normal, Ottawa isn't Ontario's capital either. If you're willing to risk going further west, there's Edmonton or Calgary on top of that, both of which are much larger cities that are presumably at least mostly intact since according to the map they're not in any non-Core realms (though Calgary is getting kind of close to some Dominant Living Lands territory). I'm going to assume they picked Saskatchewan, checked what its capital is and didn't bother thinking about anywhere else. Also, the territory up by Fort Providence is completely worthless. That entire territory - which at the time is everything from the boundaries to its west out east to Hudson Bay, as Nunavut wasn't founded when Torg was written, plus some stuff so far northeast it's not on the map Torg provides - has a population of about 70000. Like, total. I don't even know how there's enough people up there to get turned into power sources. Good place for a secret lab, but... Prism fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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MollyMetroid posted:I mean as a fellow Canadian, not thinking about Saskatchewan is pretty much a hobby of mine, so I can't blame them. I can't really disagree, but I wasn't the one who picked Regina either.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Don't look at me, I just report this stuff. Oh, I don't feel bad, nor do I blame you. I just think it's hilarious.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I second this read, it's fantastic. If you know of any in a similar vein I'd love to be pointed at them. Just to double-check, this is Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Parshall and Tully, right? I'm looking for more history books always and I'll see if I can shake out a copy of this from the library; just making sure I have the right one. Cythereal posted:The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Leyte Gulf in general and Battle Off Samar in particular), Neptune's Inferno (the naval campaigns at Guadalcanal), and The Fleet at Flood Tide (the later campaigns, notably Saipan). All are by the same author, though I agree with the prevailing opinion that Flood Tide is much weaker than his first two. It's a different author than Shattered Sword, but those four are about as good as you'll get for modern scholarship on the Pacific War. And these are Hornfischer (for the first three) and Massie?
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Doresh posted:Pathfinder (and probably 3.X) had some kind of negative energy dragon who attacks you with negative energy that's so hardcore that it doesn't heal undead. It's been clarified to say it does (though you're right in that it doesn't make that explicit in the base rules), which makes sense given that umbral dragons eat ghosts.
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Doresh posted:But how cool would it be for a Lich or regular necromancer to ride around on a dragon who can both kill his enemies and keep his minions patched up with a single action? The fluff section of the umbral dragon entry actually says they do that, but the rules don't let them. Pathfinder!
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Ratoslov posted:What is it with the Coalition's unholy lust for APCs? Aren't nazis supposed to love tanks instead? This lets them carry the skull power armours around more efficiently.
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Nessus posted:People are really committed to racism and while I think there is a point where you are letting the racists live rent-free in your head, this one was not a cognitive leap of great breadth or complexity. There is actually a Pathfinder archetype (and spell) for that! The spell, anthropomorphic animal, is for druids and wizards; the archetype, vivisectionist, is for alchemists, who then get that spell and can make it permanent without the permanency spell. (They also get baleful polymorph and regenerate and a bunch of other tricks that have nothing to do with anthropomorphic animal.) Sadly, there's no archetype that gets one as an animal companion. I think. I kind of wish there was, default anthropomorphic animals are kind of mechanically bad (in that they're often not great for the cost required, not that they're done in a confusing way). I mean, they're cool, just not good. They don't get any more HP than the animal had, though they don't lose any either. They lose some of their natural abilities in exchange for becoming intelligent and getting hands, but they're dumb as a post (INT 3; you'd think you could also cast awaken on them to make them fully intelligent, but that would make them a magical beast and you can't anthropomorphize those with the spell). The best way to get a powerful one is to use a really big animal. edit: T-Rex Man would be pretty scary though. Prism fucked around with this message at 13:04 on May 21, 2017 |
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Cease to Hope posted:there are two different weapon attachments named "deadly" in Ultimate Equipment? that is some extremely stupid bullshit One is a magical enchantment and one is a characteristic some weapons have. Under most circumstances it's clear which one you mean. Most.
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Pieces of Peace posted:In my experience Keeshonds hate nothing and are unable to even grasp the concept that they might bite or injure a living being rather than just licking it a bunch, so probably not the best soldiers. Mine was also a massive scaredy-dog; does RIFTS have rules for forcing Dog Boys to save against hiding under the nearest object if they hear the tiniest hint of an explosion? 'We can't deploy the Dog Boys on this operation.' 'Why not?' 'Thunderstorm.' *nods knowingly*
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wiegieman posted:I'm trying to elevate my mind such that I may grasp the concept of Peanut Butter Fudge, and failing, but I know now that the world is a brighter place than it was yesterday. It's mostly sugar and peanut butter with milk and butter and a hint of vanilla, or at least the recipe I've made is.
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I could even see two. (Money you can get your hands on quickly for standard purchases, and money you can't for slower large-scale purposes, but could burn the rating to get in a hurry - long-term investments and such.) I can't even guess what five finance stats would be.
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I mean, on one hand, it sounds stupid. And on the other hand, fridges that use heat to power the cooling systems exist. It's not efficient, and you need some ammonia or other chemicals, but it exists. Given all the other poo poo steamtech can do in Dragonmech, the concept of steam-powered fridges isn't the breaking point for me. The exact system of using it on a mech is pretty bizarre but, eh, you do you. Prism fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Cease to Hope posted:
Though many of the spells listed here have issues, this has less, because problem one isn't actually a problem and also helps with the other problems. A staggered character can make a charge attack (at normal movement speed, instead of double like a normal charge), which will both make them bite people and tie up their attacks since if you charge you can only attack once unless you have Pounce or an equivalent ability. Zombies actually are permanently staggered and thus pretty much always do this, which is almost certainly why the spell is written this way.
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Cease to Hope posted:The spell specifically says you make a separate move action and attack action to bite, and that "if the target lacks enough actions to attack on that turn, it moves as close to the creature as it can." Not only does it work badly, AFAICT it's intended to work badly. That's weird! Well, I tried.
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Young Freud posted:Which is plenty of bullshit, in and of itself. Wyatt Earp is believed to have worn a metal vest, particularly at the O.K. Corral shootout, although he denied it. George Goodfellow, the medical examiner and doctor in Tombstone, even developed early ballistic vests made from padded silk after examining a body where a folded up silk handkerchief stopped one of the bullets. This has antiquity behind it, though Goodfellow probably didn't know it; lightly armoured Mongol horsemen would wear layered silk, because they caught barbed arrows and made them possible to pull out (rather than cut out or push through, which was what you'd have to do otherwise). Prism fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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Night10194 posted:Sharp thing on a long stick is nothing to mess with. Any plan that worked for 400,000 or more years can't be all wrong! Actually, some theories are that it's more like 'multiple million', though anything beyond about a half million would just be rough sharp sticks like chimpanzees use. Stone-tipped spears are at least 300,000 years old though, and carved wood spears 400,000. (Fire-hardening came later, as did flaked stone heads - around 250,000-ish, I think.) Edit: Does Wurm have rules for atlatl or other spear-throwing tools, or have they not been invented yet? We're pretty sure they're at least 30,000 years old; 30,000 BCE is a little later than Wurm is set, as I recall, but it's close. Prism fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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marshmallow creep posted:If you had Sturdy, would that cancel that penalty too? Do Runesmiths not count as priests? The flavour text provided suggests they are priests of Hashut, but I wouldn't know how to read a Warhammer Fantasy statblock if I saw one. Edit: Or do they have a different priest class? Prism fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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Wapole Languray posted:Yes, but not in Europe at the time. Archaeologists have no evidence of spear-throwers existing until around 10,000 BCE. Same for Bow and Arrow. As primitive as it seems, Wurm is set about 30,000 years before the first evidence they existed. There's actually a reindeer antler spear-thrower from France that's ~17500 years old and that's the oldest one that's survived that I know of, but yeah, earlier than that is inference. I studied the era briefly and the general consensus seems to be that they were probably used for many years before the Dordogne spear-thrower, but it's hard to prove. It doesn't surprise me if they're not in Wurm, but it also wouldn't have surprised me if they were, hence the question. Night10194 posted:Their magic might be priestly but none of their Careers get Armored Casting. Ah, didn't know it had to be specifically granted. It was a good plan while it lasted. Edit: vvvv we're probably talking about the same artifact, ha ha Prism fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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Mors Rattus posted:who is 'they' in this case, because it sure as hell ain't Nasu, who gets off on five paragraph diatribes about magic circuits and the world of heroes and other insane bullshit The first warning sign is calling it ~the nasuverse~
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GimpInBlack posted:Not only did it occur to me, it occured to the author. I keep hearing decent things about Torchbearer. I should really look into it.
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I didn't mention it in the review because it was already getting long, but a bunch of the MOSs are explicitly compared to D&D classes, and she's posted about wanting to do a fantasy hack at some point. I think if you like Torchbearer, you'd dig a fantasy PATROL.
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Hipster Occultist posted:I can smell the Fedora from here. With a name like that, I think you're the most qualified to know.
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Zereth posted:I believe starforce could gently caress up your CD drive. Because it's from back when you needed the CD in the drive to play games. And, you know, you GOT optical discs of the game instead of just a steam code in the box. I'm curious how it destroyed hard drives/CD drives.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:If your skeletons are grappling each other, then they occupy the same space and you can theoretically compress an infinite number of medium sized skeletons into a given five-by-five foot square. In Pathfinder this is not true; they occupy adjacent spaces. This is true regardless of the creatures' reach, so if two giants grapple each other they are adjacent. (A Murphy is that it makes no accomodation for creatures who are small enough to not have any reach at all. It says 'If you successfully grapple a creature that is not adjacent to you, move that creature to an adjacent open space', so presumably you do even if you can't reach that space rather than the very small creature being in the same space as its opponent. A weasel, which automatically grapples if it successfully bites, is moved five feet away from whatever it just bit; weasels are Tiny, so it can't actually reach five feet with its bite.) In 2E who the hell knows, did it even have proper grapple rules? Edit: I forgot this wasn't the Murphies thread but you get the tiny grapplers issue anyway. Prism fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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Comrade Gorbash posted:Does any game have proper grapple rules? I'm not ruling out the possibility that someone, somewhere has managed it.
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Dallbun posted:Of course it did. Comprehensive, intuitive ones that were a pleasure to use in play. I actually remembered that punching table but forgot it has a wrestling half.
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Freaking Crumbum posted:I love that your move is independent of your positioning, so you can go from a leg lock to a bearhug at random based on a roll of the die. Rounds in that version were one minute, so there was plenty of time to shift around between actual clinches, I suppose. Or you can maintain the bearhug. Though this also means that, on average, you're gonna have to headlock someone for several minutes straight before they pass out.
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Dallbun posted:115: The Speedster One, this elf is amazing. Two, a speed of 480 outdoors is 4800 yards/minute (indoors it is measured in feet instead of yards, presumably so you don't slip and bash your head or something). Let's use the outdoors value since they're outside, and not even on a crowded street that might have obstacles, so he gets a straight run. That's 14400 feet per minute, which is 240 feet per second. This, sadly, does not break the sound barrier (the speed of sound is 1125.3 feet per second). But points for trying.
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What's hyperspace blindspot phobia? I'd guess that while in hyperspace you can't see directly ahead of you because of the speed of light thing (because by the time you see it, it's already here) and it's being phobic about that, but I don't actually know; I've never read anything Ringworld. (It's one of those things I kept meaning to but never found a copy of, like the Culture.)
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wiegieman posted:Hyperspace in the Known Space setting is literally impossible for the 3-dimensional mind to perceive. Look out a window into hyperspace and you'll see the edges of the window stretching inwards until they're touching each other, not a black window. Look up when you're out on a hull during a hyperspace jump (a rare occurrence usually arising from extreme stupidity) and you will forget the concept of sight until your neck hurts and you look down at the hull, at which point the sight of the hull will remind you that you have eyes. It surprises me that they have windows in that situation and don't just fly in an enclosed cockpit, reducing the problem. That's pretty cool, though.
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wiegieman posted:The thing to remember is that when they're in Hyperspace, they don't have windows. They have window rims with no windows inside them. For Humans, Hyperspace is actually navigated using a device called a mass pointer, which looks something like a radar screen and allows the pilot to steer around stars. Well, I meant why physically put them in at all instead of just flying by sensor? Like, being phobic about the inability to look outside is not a problem if there is no way to attempt to look outside. You might not even know it hits you that way. Edit: This is less a problem with the RPG though and more a minor point of issue with the source material, which I'm not familiar with. Prism fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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JcDent posted:what Nessus posted:e: For those who don't get what the gently caress, the pencil sketch version here is that in Known Space, humans evolved from a failed colonization project by the Pak, who have three lifecycle stages: Child, breeder, and protector. The "protector" stage is dependent on a symbiotic virus in a common Pak food plant. The Pak colony on Earth failed because the root didn't take, and the surviving protectors tried to make Earth as cozy as it could be for the breeders before they died out, in the hopes that some other Pak would be along eventually. The Pak breeders mutated and eventually became humans (and potentially other higher apes) - however, the potential to become a protector remains in humans, if somehow they get hold of the virus.
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I imagine that stuff will come out when Nessus actually gets to the Ringworld stuff.
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Night10194 posted:Something I forgot to point out, though; you get 3 different spell lists for the Lore, each with 8 spells. Additional spells from the Lore can be bought for 100 EXP each. The 3 lists are Koldunja, who get all the various spirit magic and Form of the Ancient Widow (and the curses), Vorozheja, who get all the luck manipulation and divining (and curses), and Znarkharja, who get all the healing and cleansing magic (and curses). Of note is that these are all altered Slavic words: koldunya is just a witch though not the most common word for one, vorozheya is a female fortune teller, and znakharka is a kind of folk healer (this one is Ukrainian instead of Russian, and I don't know what the equivalent Russian word is). Edit: Checking a second dictionary suggests I could be translating колдунья as sorceress or medium, so they are all appropriate words, even. Prism fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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Night10194 posted:Neat. It's been many years since I took Russian (and I wasn't that good at it, I'm not good with languages without a latin alphabet) but the last term just being Ukrainian would fit fine. Kislev is Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and basically everywhere else all mashed together, so I think the language is intentionally a big mashup too. I don't actually speak any of them, but I recognized Znarkharja/znakharka and looked up the others because I figured if one was a reasonably accurate modified word, the others might be too. Turns out they were! Given half the time in F&F when a foreign word is used, repurposed, or altered it's completely out of context or just plain wrong, I was pleasantly surprised. Prism fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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