Recent content by ArchfiendBobbie

Xanathar's approach I am incredibly unhappy with. It basically felt like they took the idea of random rolls and went, "Let's do this for everything!" Even in areas where such random rolls are very much not helpful, and actually end up removing a lot of the noncombat roleplaying. If you're...

Eh. 5E could solve it with just one release. It's really not that hard to fully address.

A good portion of this book.

I am finding it too focused on combat, but that's not because of the amount of rules on combat. It's because of a general lack of rules in other areas and not enough effort to fix it. Pathfinder is just as combat-heavy as 5E, if not more so, and it still has plenty to do that is part of the...

Actually, knowledge of germs is close to worthless in 1203 CE Europe. You don't have any way of proving it without technology that will be invented later, and medicine is too primitive to benefit; there's not enough surgery going on for germ theory to be a relevant medical advance yet. It...

One thing to keep in mind is that gunpowder predates full plate by hundreds of years, and one of the early uses is in rocket launchers. In Europe, pistols and longarms both predate full plate by a minimum of one hundred years, and cannons were a common siege weapon by the time full plate was...

I'm ready. And, sorry for my silence. I had some things to work on outside of here. Including facepalming at something unrelated.

I can see that. It is very reasonable. Which is why I tried not reply with hostility. I will admit my comment about how quickly you took offense was rooted in surprise, and that at the time I thought I had stepped into a minefield. I can see now, looking back, that it came across as hostile...

I'll address this with the next post. Yes, I am aware of how it sounds with how I worded it. Yes, I am aware of how people would dismiss it out of hand when they see it presented that way. That's why I presented it that way; the objective is to show that, yes, the post is about me and I'm...

See my reply to Gradine. I am surprised people are not catching the icon bit, since I made a massive post detailing a strategy to use her that way earlier.

I was talking about my own stance and some of the uncomfortable things I came to feel about some of what I said when I spent some time considering. I did have supporters for it, too. The fact you took offense so quickly and leapt to the defense so readily is interesting, but not my realm to...

Yes, I have. But not toward the positive. I'm left questioning if the effort of even speaking on this topic is worth the bother, and wondering about my own temper control. I'm also left with the impression that many who have spoken in her defense really want Kate Welch to end up victimized by...

The trawling origin predates the internet. It goes back into Darpanet. The reason it seems more recent is that it has been more recently in internet history people have brought up the origin. For a lobg time, no obe cared where it came from.

Trolls are named after trawling, a type of fishing. Just "trawl" and "troll" are often pronounced the same and people confused the spellings.

I admitted earlier I am not being entirely rational in this thread. But to a degree, my instincts say I not give a :):):):) and focus on destroying him just out of pure spite. Unfortunately, learning to counter trolls in the very same manner Obryn advocates only brought me closer to the primal...