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I suppose "minimum length" would get rid of one-liners and some snark. But it also would trip over its own shoelaces when a question is phrased so Yes or No would provide an adequate answer. Or imagine reading a paragraph just to find out the core message was "Sorry, double post". There are...

Cold Iron Similar to starsteel, but forged from dug-from-the-ground iron that never got beyond dull-red-hot, and was beaten into shape rather than poured into a mold. Weapon blows ignore Fey immunity / resistance to the damage type it inflicts. Armor acts as a repellant to Fey creatures; any...

I'm posting this from the bottom of Page One. 😇 I've discovered the hard way that if a moderator says in red ink "We've talked this particular point to death; drop it and move on", they don't care if you just read the argument-starting post 20 pages back but have read no further, and they don't...

I like the Pathfinder lore for Asmodeus better than the D&D lore. He convinced 1/3 of all the inhabitants of The Heavens to forsake their deity and follow him - do any of those beings feel betrayed / exploited / abandoned by Asmodeus, looking back in hindsight? There is your army. Maybe some...

Authored by Stewart Cowley? IIRC the title is Great Space Battles.

The Colosseum in Rome today looks half-built. This is because Dark Age and Carolingian generations were taking the really nice rock (marble &c) off the outside and putting it on their homes. Leaving behind the concrete and junk-rock "skeleton". Somebody in the game world did same and opened...

Worst: dragon flies into town and offers choice: hand over all the stuff you spent a lifetime accumulating / making your life more pleasant, or be breath-weaponed until dead. Best: surprise round Assassin sneak attack with a Sword of Dragon Slaying and rolling a Crit on aforesaid dragon. Be...

I may be repeating myself (not going to review 13 previous pages of thread) but ... I started with the concept of 'chief trickster': Trickery Cleric / Arcane Trickster Rogue. Then looking for a race that would give me a +1 or better for spell attack rolls and spell Save DCs. Hmmm, this...

That lack can be fixed. It would not be a bad thing if some wealthy nation not normally thought of as "cutting edge of technology" were to start research into "what medicines kill viruses?" It looks like we are going to face animal-to-human transmission of something new every decade or so...

Can I stow away in his luggage?

Just looked up GAIN at Yahoo Finance. The company pays a dividend every month. (Most US companies pay every 3rd month.) The Board of Directors also decided to pay a 'supplemental dividend' in June: the company brought in a lot of cash this spring, and they are sending it to shareholders. The...

One of those payments was probably a one-time payment, the other payment a regularly-scheduled dividend. What ticker symbol, if I may ask? Yahoo Finance may have articles that will explain better than my off-the-cuff guess. Enter your company's ticker symbol to the Search function. Scroll...

Apropos of recent event, I commend to this thread the book "Rumsfeld's Rules", essentially a book of advice how to conduct yourself so as to work productively with other people. Sec. Rumsfeld acknowledged that the work was a compilation, not stuff he thought of himself. Two examples: If you...

The merchant houses are part of Athas' society. You can make trade / travel like the Silk Road - only high-value stuff is worth the cost - but not make it so prohibitive that there are no return trips. If the city-states are distant from each other, there can be several villages called...

If the word came out that drinking a cup of Chai Tea and taking 100mg of Vitamin D every day (to make something up) would serve as immunoboosters against COVID, people would think "I can do that at breakfast, easy" and empty the store shelves of both. But the source announcing that discovery...

Just think how much angst could be avoided if there were a well-supported effort to get treatment medicines for COVID up and running. Something as effective as Contac or Nyquil or the 'store-brand' generics thereof are at dealing with the common cold. Maybe based on the (limited) research done...

There were strikethroughs before the Xenforo conversion, if the user deactivated his own account. I didn't notice what happened if the user was banned. I am aware of only one banned poster since the changeover, and no strikethroughs appeared in that name afterwards.

Larry Niven's later Known Space novels feature a single research ship (named Lying Bastard iirc) with an experimental Mk II Hyperdrive, which moves the ship so fast the pilot can barely swerve to avoid colliding with stars' gravity wells. It also has no speed control; the drive is either On or...

MidWest USA: Thermostat set for 76-ish °F. I am a physical toothpick.

I do not like to wake up early enough to fix & eat something substantial. I do need some caffeine, but never learned to like coffee, so: Glass of Pepsi / Coke / store-brand pop. On Saturday: my wife goes through cookbooks and tries every recipe, looking for the good ones, to repeat later. I...