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There was a thread a while back about what a CN society would look like. The opinions on whether it could work seemed to come down to whether chaotic individuals were capable of enlightened self interest and, secondarily, cooperation. My feeling is that just as a lawful society will not grind to...

yeah, I got that as well. Fricka Fracka DM genies.... :p (It reminds me in reverse of a comment I heard once about how after a woman had a biopsy, all her friends and family started praying for it to turn out negative. And I found myself thinking "If she does have cancer, and their prayers had...

"she" ;) I post when there is something I feel like saying, and don't consider an initial post to obligate me to answer all comers, though I will usually try to hit a representitive sample of things that are interesting.

Hrm, would you mind defining civilization? The original context this came up with was the use of morals "outside civilization" when dealing with a presumedly tribal culture. By civilization, do you many any grouping of humanoids, or the level where they build big statues and carve laws in stone...

The only place I have dealt with a diagonal = side geometry was in the Civ game - and I have to say I found it very noticable and jarring. So it's not something I'm likely to adopt. While it's easy to say "you can always houserule it" I enjoy pickup games and one shots and a system that I can...

Yeah, it's been largely my education in psychology and biology that leads me to consider ethics a human norm, rather than philosophy per se. But I understand that many have a radically different baseline so it's not something I take personally if someone thinks the idea is crazy. ;) Of course...

nah, it was all stuff that had been covered earlier.

The concern I have with saying that it's ok for fighters to be heavy armored or bust and you can just play a rogue or ranger if you want light armor is the news about fighter weapon skills. The implication of that was that if you want to do cool things with a weapon, as opposed to just hitting...

Aside from adding to the "common terms sound funny when talking about fantasy worlds" list, this doesn't really inspire any sort of response.

I enjoyed my spellcasting rangers. Ah well, not the first change I haven't liked and unlikely to be the last.

No, he gave the ultimatum to the other fence sitter (there were originally 2).

I would just like to say that assuming IRV mean Instant Runoff Voting, you are just cool. ;)

Ethics, imo derive from applying logic to empathy. Since empathy and logic are inherent to the human species (and any other intelligent races with infancy) I see no reason to bring the degree of civilization into the matter. It is quite possible that the kind of abstract academic theories of...

For individual events that aren't making up people's full time jobs, I agree that it shouldn't be that big a complication. Large charitable organizations that need professionals for more time than you can expect them to donate do get more complicated, which is why you'll occasionally see those...

Why greedy? If you ask for a donation to auction for charity, you by golly better give the proceeds to charity, and if someone rich enough to sue you to give the proceeds back to them instead is the one who was misled, that just means you'll actually get what you deserve. (I also tend to think...

You are consistently assigning motivations to other people. This, to me, is worthy of villification regardless of topic, and the fact that the motivations are insulting (by implying an irrationally emotional motivation to explain a simple opinion difference) makes it worse. Now, as one of the...

The FUDGE combat system uses a similar idea to this - the amount of damage done is based on degree of success. While I like the idea in principle, I'm not sure it will map well onto the 3e combat system. For all it's claims of being abstract, the massive variation in weapon damage and different...

technically we can vote many, many times in our lives. ;) But yeah, it's not that weird. In the primaries you vote as a member of a party to guide its direction. Voting for a candidate in a primary is simply a larger and more simplified version of the kind of decisions made if you attend a...

It's unfortunate that there were no witnesses to Jason's magically endowed (and arguably higher level) ex wife cursing his to die in that exact manner, before her sudden disapearance. (except the audience, of course ;) ) The Gods help those who curse for themselves?

Oh, that's what the royalists would like us to believe, now isn't it! We all know the truth - that the "king" who died was a polymorphed pageboy standing in on the hunt while his highness was exercising the royal prerogative with a lady of good standing in the court. They can't reveal the truth...