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It's like someone's strapped a bomb to him and it will go off if he doesn't publicly disgrace himself at least once a day.

My guess is that he forgot to edit the table so it fit the effect. Like, he probably intended it to be more like charming and dominating the undead, but he just slapped the table in and forgot about it.

Yeah, that's kinda my thinking. If you fix it to a set amount of damage, you're either going to have falls way too lethal for NPCs/low level characters, or no threat at all to high level characters.

To be fair to Gygax, it was capped at 20d6 (which you'd reach just after 60' fallen). Funnily, in the first printing of the rules, it was the more modern flat 1d6 per 10'. Gygax had written "1d6 per 10’ for each 10’ fallen," meaning a cumulative increase. But someone had misunderstood and...

No such thing as too well-engineered. The problem is when you give certain engineers free reign and no one makes them pay attention to things like logistics or economics. And suddenly you have neither enough tanks, nor the ability to properly support the ones you do have. Goes to a mindset of...

Someone who doesn't read the fine print, I think is their hope.

The thing about red flags is, they're often not an issue in and of themselves. They're just... a sign that you may want to look closer. I don't judge someone to be a Nazi just because they have an interest in WWII Nazi tanks. If they just like the strategy and modeling side of things, that's all...

I think it might be the opposite, actually. I think he's trying to play the "Well, of course the Hasbro CEO is worth more than me. I'm just a poor little gamer doing his best to get by, shucks and so forth."

It depends I guess on what his actual plan here is. It may be that he wants people to say Cocks has the greater net worth so he push the David and Goliath narrative.

Right, and folks have given decent explanations for why it likely happened. I favor the explanation that the poll was programmed to always add up to at least 100%, tossing the extra into the first choice. Fits the observed data. This is probably to keep people from looking at larger polls and...

I think they're implying that Wizards's ownership of D&D is somehow illegal.

Looking through the page for the studio, it looks like red belt is the last one they have before black belt. Still doesn't have much to do with roleplaying games or the hobby.

Eh, no point in speculating, really. There's no real reason to think LaNasa is part of their program. Most likely, like a lot of racists and awful people, he presents much more favorably to people he meets in person. Most people like this know how to mask up, keep their worst opinions to...

To be honest, that's kind of cool on the dojo's part. I wonder if they'd be happy if they knew he supported someone who was really into eugenics and eliminating people like that.

To be honest, it's only terrible because they're such a terrible company. If they weren't horrible racist grifters, then it would be perfectly fine for them to make a mention of the passing of a big name in the old gaming world, especially in the context of their museum for old grognard...

They've gotten used to (or been indoctrinated by elders who were used to) things always catering to them. To them, an exclusionary space where only straight, cis white dudes are allowed is a politically neutral proposition. That's the way things have always been (or at least, how they've been...

Doesn't really apply here. What we have is one of their low-to-mid-level lawyers leaving the case, and the senior lawyers staying on. But again, there are a lot of reasons that could be, none of which suggest any issues on the WotC side of the case.

Not just company resources, but also customer resources. Part of this is obvious; if your fanbase only has a certain amount of money each month for gaming stuff, you don't want to be in a position where you need to take in more than that. However, there's another consideration: whale saturation...

It's amazing the places you can go if you just make the worst decision possible at every juncture.

"We harmed your reputation? What reputation?"