Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

Personally, I think that if you survived the edition wars, it's probably best to not show your scars in every thread you join.

But then again, that's another way of saying I wasn't around for it.

Oh please, don't let these shakes go on.

 

[Ryujin]

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[RealAlHazred]

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Nah, plenty of the home games of my groups, all elven societies were innately kind of evil. They're incredibly long-lived and generally innately magical. If they had a mind to it, they could cure many, many ills that plague society, better than shorter-lived races could make trouble. But things are as they are, which means the status quo is exactly how the movers and shakers in elven society want it to be. Ergo, they're messed up.

 

[Scribe]

Nah, plenty of the home games of my groups, all elven societies were innately kind of evil. They're incredibly long-lived and generally innately magical. If they had a mind to it, they could cure many, many ills that plague society, better than shorter-lived races could make trouble. But things are as they are, which means the status quo is exactly how the movers and shakers in elven society want it to be. Ergo, they're messed up.

I really wish I could find the write up by the guy who wrote the early versions of D&D Elves. Unless (and lets be real there is a 90% chance) I'm hallucinating like your favourite AI, he essentially said 'Yes, they are racist, hello?'

 

[trappedslider]

What happens if you make a deal with a demon for your first born child, but you never have kids?
Are you obliged to have a child, or is this a loophole?

I'm thinking you could be obliged, since pledging your first born implies that you will be having kids and this fulfills that end of the contract. But I'm also thinking that since it's not explicitly stated in the contract (e.g., you WILL have at least one kid, and the first born is pledged) it could be a loophole?

What do you think?

 

[FrogReaver]

Sigh. The benchmark for every single RPG in the industry is not: yeah, but can it beat 5E? RPGs can be wildly successful without beating 5E.

Apparently some never watched the morally enlightened movie about Ricky Bobby. The first and greatest commandment is: Either you are first or you are last.

 

[JEB]

What happens if you make a deal with a demon for your first born child, but you never have kids?
Are you obliged to have a child, or is this a loophole?

I'm thinking you could be obliged, since pledging your first born implies that you will be having kids and this fulfills that end of the contract. But I'm also thinking that since it's not explicitly stated in the contract (e.g., you WILL have at least one kid, and the first born is pledged) it could be a loophole?

What do you think?

Assuming a reasonably clever demon, I assume they'd eventually start scheming to make sure you had a kid, planned or otherwise.

 

[MNblockhead]

Xena came out in 1995. While Lucy Lawless is awesome, Xena was well past the age of awakening sexuality that Hutt Slayer Leia hit for many of us.

Still appreciated by many of the awakened.

 

[MNblockhead]

I propose a new rule: there should be a minimum number of posts by other posters before one is allowed to post again in a thread. That should cut down on the circular churn we see so often near the end of a thread's life, when there are just two or three people endlessly going at it. Maybe with an exception carved out for the OP.

But...but...then I would have to start remembering to use multi-quote!