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    X-Files season 10

    Did you watch the second movie? That has some explanation of why Mulder is like he is now. I thought it was pretty clear in the first episode Milder has been living out of sight and out of touch since leaving the X Files. He and Scully are no longer a couple because she couldn't take what he had...
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    Fury over Black Hermione Granger

    I assumed that she was white but I have over the years read many people of color especially if they are British posts theories that she was not white. People keep missing what Rowling has said she has not claimed that she was written as a black girl what she said was her race was never mentioned...
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    Fury over Black Hermione Granger

    You don't know your history. The discrimination you are talking about happened to immigrants coming into America from Europe in the late 1800s. But the ones who came before did not for example Andrew Jackson who became president was born two years after his parents immigrated from Ireland. And...
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    Fury over Black Hermione Granger

    I have been reading some of these comments and I can't believe that we still need to explain why black lives matter or why there were black colleges and black history month or even at one time black beauty pageants. It is because all history in the US is white history, white lives have always...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    I think his dislike of DnD comes from the old group and 3.0 and onwards. He has shelves filled with first and second edition I think there are things about the newer editions that really bug him. I know he feels the rules get in the way of building different characters and encourages power...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    I have been wondering this myself. I have known him for about 10 years. He is a friend of my son and I got to know him through my son. He is a little older than my son around 40. My son mentioned tonight to me that most of the group he used to hang with are avoiding him because he has been so...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    I think you have summed up better than I have the frustration we are feeling and why. We were told ahead of time what kind of game this was going to be and to make characters that would fit in this mercenary company. We don't have an issue with a player playing a quirky off beat PC. We don't...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    She is not giving her best that is the problem she has an 18 strength if you are not willing to pick up the feat to allow you to pummel people with your fists in combat without provoking an attack of opportunity then how about using a club. She put an 11 in intelligence which means no matter how...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    If we were being paid to babysit him then maybe we would be more willing to tolerate this behavior. And we had access to arcane magic via an NPC or other items. We have four players counting him so basically we have three characters and a pain in the butt side kick who is not funny. Joxer at...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    I have suggested to the DM to stop holding back and let the dice fall where they may. Pull down the screen and let the dice be seen. Now this is something I have never done when I run. I am a great believer of having the option to fudge in my tool box but I think that in this case saving this PC...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    It is causing tension at the table. It is not fun for the rest of us to have to do all the heavy lifting. There have been times where we really needed the skills a wizard has and we have failed at the mission and almost faced a TPK because of it. We like our characters to and we want to them to...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    like I said he is a friend and while we are at the point that he is impacting a lot of our fun the idea of hurting his feelings does not sit well with us either. Actually I don't think we would be weaker because at least our very limited healing would not be going to him every combat. We play in...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    Let me ask you this what possible role playing reason would a party have to keep a member who is a danger to himself to the party and sucks up the limited resource of healing? That is a question that we ask a lot and the only answer we have come up with is because it is a game and he is the...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    To be honest I think at this point many would rather not play with him. We are a heavy role playing group and it is not that we are opposed to the idea of an ordinary man style hero. But there has to be away to build that without being so lame that you can't contribute at all. Take combat there...
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    Dealing with lame duck characters

    Can anyone explain to me the allure of playing a lame duck PC? By this I don't mean choosing some less optimal choices but actually not being good at what your class it supposed to be good at. For example we are starting a new campaign and the lame duck character concept is a high strength...
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    Fury over Black Hermione Granger

    I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about. In the show Merlin Gwen was played by Angel Coulby a black actress she did a great job in the role. How many different actresses have played Gwen. In Elementary Watson is not only being played by a woman but an Asian woman at that. The remake of...
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    D&D 5E dealing with PCs when players leave a game.

    I can understand if you have a fluid game with a lot of turnover doing it your way. But in a game where that does not happen very often (I am talking about a player up and just quitting the game with no warning) then it is very unsatisfactory to do it your way. Now I am not saying it has to be...
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    D&D 5E dealing with PCs when players leave a game.

    There is a difference between a player can't make a session or is going to be late and a player has left the game permanently. It has nothing to do with rational thinking and I think it is rather insulting that you are implying that players who like role playing as well as story and who want...
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