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I only require it if I can't figure out how or why something would work. The extreme example of your point of view is, Thief: I steal his pants! Dm: What? He's wearing them! *clattering of dice* Thief: Forty five! Dm: Uh, I guess you steal his pants? Party: Sweet... So if you're...

I saw. Like I said, I don't dislike all of them. Would you allow that with a makeup kit plus this feat? I wouldn't unless the player could describe to me, in game, how his disguise worked. And if the explanation made sense I'd probably allow it with or without the feat. The feat doesn't...

Agreed. To work well, these need to allow you to do something you simply cannot do with a regular skill check. If that's the case, then its basically just an extra way to use a skill that you can gain by spending a feat. Which is cool by me. As such: Alter Ego: Mixed feelings. Its good...

A legitimate concern, but a poor solution. If you're worried that page count doesn't accurately reflect value, its really unclear why you'd choose an article count as a replacement. Wouldn't you expect that to exacerbate the inaccuracy rather than repair it? I seem to recall the second half...

Hey, rationalize things however you want, but if you come back and just list the number of articles in the table of contents without considering whether those articles are actually the same length, we'll all assume that you're just concern trolling.

No, first assume a tunnel.

Just remember to compare by page count and not by article number. A two page spread on hexblades and a ten page spread on fighters should not count equally.

Ce n'est pas une thread.

Presuming its the "german students" study that was so big and well known, its not so much that the study is "biased" per se. Its more that the study investigates whether short term (a few month long) increase in the availability and rate of music downloads is correlated with short term...

Straw man IS a fallacy. I dub this the Flatus Fallacy! Fallacies for all!

The reason you guys are getting pushback is because reasonable statements like yours appear to be the first in a long chain of argumentation that seems to go like- 1. Its not theft, its infringement. That is totally different. 2. Blah blah blah 3. Blah 4. More blah 5. Steal underpants 6. ...

The ardoughter fallacy- the assumption that you need to formulate a fallacy before having it named for you. QED I vote that by the time this thread drops off the front page, everyone in the forum has a fallacy named after them except Rel.

I'm going to have to borrow Magic the Gathering terminology here. Over on the Magic boards, they sometimes refer to abilities by animal names. A "rattlesnake" card or ability, for example, is one that threatens to retaliate against someone if they do something you don't like. For example, a...

A little bit. Basically, people sometimes make smug comments about roleplayers versus "rollplayers," and someone decided to take things to the next level by refuting them with formal logic instead of just pointing and laughing. Then, geeks being geeks, the formal logic took on a life of its...

Possibly. I do believe this is a crosspost.

A well designed character sheet can fix this problem. Most character sheets really suck... let me show you mine. I'm going to upload it as an image to avoid document compatibility problems. The trick with a character sheet is to include as much information as the player actually needs, but not...

Basically... You know how one of the repeat, ongoing flamewars in gaming fora is the assertion that this or that group is all a bunch of powergamers who can't roleplay? Like, I start a thread mathematically analyzing expected damage outputs for various striker class characters in 4e, and...

The "Stormwind Fallacy" isn't so much of a "thing" here. People aren't going to know what you're talking about, and won't particularly care.

But that's just the thing... 1. Its not just about whether specific instances of file sharing harm "content producers" (not a fan of this buzzword). Its about whether a specific regime of copyright law enforcement or non enforcement is beneficial overall. 2. Given that we rarely have...