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Doh! I saw one at Half Price Books the other day. EDIT: Incidentally, em-cee-double-u-oh-dee sounds a great intro for an old school rap song.

Why do we need a mechanic that says would someone looks like at 1 hp? It says 1 hp on the character sheet. If a player asks, "How badly hurt does Pogo the Clown look?" that's a valid question. 1 hp is pretty badly hurt. "It looks like a bad scrape or a thrown rock would finish him off," would be...

Who said anyone needed to depart from Actor stance? WhatI said was that Actor stance was negatively impacted by the ability. You can, of course, continue to soldier on, making whatever rationalizations you need, but you are doing extra work. You are, of course, houseuling again, which was the...

Your example is made of straw. Someone down to their last point is not as spry as when they woke up this morning. Ziggy would easily discern Joe was in bad shape, most of the time. It's true, D&D doesn't have rules for crippled limbs, specifically. However, Joe would not be impaired until 0 hit...

If I find a word inadequate, I coin a new one that suits me. However, ... you are of course wrong. :) Emphasis mine. There are two things you should know. First, grammar is a pet subject of mine. However impressed you may be with Strunk & White's, it is decidedly a text to mature beyond...

Linguistic is "of or relating to language." I meant "of or relating to linguistics." Plus, linguistical is an accepted variation of linguistic anyway. Hence, linguistically, rather than linguisticly.

I agree that the evidence has not been furnished that this is a different of kind, rather than degree. I agree that the evidence has not been furnished that 4e as a whole is a different game of a kind, rather than to a degree. I do think that the identification of the problem some people have...

Well, it wasn't me. S&W are exalted by being recognized, not by being expert. I consider debunking S&W no more iconoclastic than calling into question Dr. Phil's expertise on relationships. Much as with Pluto's planetary status, the brontosaurus, and the oft-misunderstood "the exception proves...

The presence of goodwill may mean an "excuse" isn't needed. If the nicest person I know snaps at me, I assume something is bothering them, not that they've turned evil. Admittedly, I would never have seen the Anakin-becoming-Darth-Vader thing coming using that rule.

Just out of curiosity, is it against forum rules to make sexist defenses of mass rape? I don't want to point any fingers or accuse anyone specifically, but it would be helpful if you clarified for me the board policies on this specific topic.

They're named after their founder, a legendary hunter, 99th of his line.

"... not even in the face of Armageddon."

I value being able to believe someone is acting out of goodwill.

I can't give you XP, but let me link some unflattering commentary on S&W I demur to retype myself: The Elements of Style - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It wasn't a sentence. A preposition modifies a phrase, and there is no phrase for it to modify. EDIT: Wikipedia explaining why I am right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whom#Rules_for_determining_who_vs._whom_in_traditional_usage

By whom? Not by me. :) I first read it cover to cover about 19 years ago, and I had to memorize it for AP English Comp. But it's a short book with a very clear focus. That is a real rule. But it can protentially conflict with another rule. The book is by who wrote it. You wouldn't say "by...

Technically correct according to whom? "I am he" is technically correct.

Not only is it possible... but a simulation is by definition abtract! Otherwise it would be reality.

Those aren't different definitions. As he clearly spells out in the article, he considers Trick Strike to be dissociated, and re-associating it means house-ruling the ability every time it is used. He does not claim it is now and forever dissociated. Not by my reading of the article, or even...

Well, since you asked, no. Not in the slightest. Hit points can represent a lot of things, but in all cases, "I am low on hit points," is equivalent to, "I can't take much more of being attacked or I will die." In all cases, having lost hit points is equivalent to having been somewhat injured...