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How do you rule using a Hand Crossbow with a nick weapon
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In a vacuum, it is equally valid I agree. However, if you intentionally choose to play a game you know isn't designed that way, and...
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How do you think this MFer dragged me through four books lol? :) I agree he could write a hell of a magic fight scene. I am quite glad...
Aug 17, 2025
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Ok, but my brain still goes to the geometric shields of the Gnosis (?) school & some of those scenes of magic as just plain awesome...
Aug 17, 2025
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No. That's just denialism, and by that logic no game since about 2016 has been at all successful, and no previous editions of D&D were...
Aug 17, 2025
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D&D has been insanely successful because it was good and because it was the first of its type. No other game can ever be the first RPG...
Aug 17, 2025
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You tell me, you were the one arguing that only D&D counted.
Aug 17, 2025
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I don't think they do though in any way that matters to this. I don't they think in a base at all for "small" math (which certainly...
Aug 17, 2025
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You say you've "seen a number", and my instinctive inclination was to agree, then I looked on Kickstarter just to find some funny...
Aug 17, 2025
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I don't doubt that's true, but I'll just note I've seen a number of non-IP based games that had pretty good kickstarters and then...
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Kirk bemoaning his suggestion to send an away team down to the planet felt like a bit of a Space Whale Aesop. "Don't recklessly send...
Aug 17, 2025
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Yeah that felt kind of funny, like maybe that was written before the earlier scene? Because in the earlier scene, he's pushing for an...
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I think that The Battle of Algiers is a great movie, a true masterpiece, IMHO. I also appreciate that while it is a very "partisan"...
Aug 17, 2025
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Facts not in evidence. Without a source for this claim, I don't think you can rely on it, especially many human cultures used a base-12...
Aug 17, 2025
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I disagree quite strongly. He's an apparent nihilist and a "neuroscience" bollocks artist. His most recent deal is he's obsessed with...
Aug 17, 2025
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As someone who literally owes my life to what I learned from Camus’ The Myth Of Sisyphus and The Rebel and Franks’s Man’s Search For...
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