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Not sure which figures you are talking about, but I take everything from the CCP with a large dose of skepticism. I'm half Chinese myself, I was actually supposed to leave for Taiwan to see family this weekend back before the whole thing started, so I'm not a big fan of theirs. Love China...

Yeah from what I've seen they were less hospitals and more "giant concrete boxes to park people in close quarters with questionable sanitation", but I do wish them the best in recovering from the virus. Those hospitals would also be excellent creepy pasta fuel though. I wonder if I could...

The Chinese ghost cities are fascinating and bizarre, and I've always thought they'd be a fantastic setting for an urban fantasy RPG dungeon crawl. Sure, they LOOK abandoned, but that's just because the things that live there aren't easy for normal mortals to see...

Or vice versa, with the PCs being the ambushers, which was actually the first combat encounter I ever ran in 5E. But yeah, that makes sense! I think I will just make it an official houserule from now on that surprisers get adv in the surprise round, even though it doesn't come up TOO often.

I quite enjoy abstract philosophical discussions, even ones which challenge basic assumptions that are usually taken as axiomatic. In the abstract, if a friend were to come up with me and ask "so why DO we value human life?", I'd be happy to engage in the navel-gazing. Especially after like...

Yeah I live in Central California, the middle of wine country. We export wine and whine in almost equal proportions.

Wait, does 5E not have it that an attack made on a character during a surprise round has advantage, so long as that character isn't acting in the surprise round? I guess that's a houserule then. :LOL: I've been playing it that way since literally the first encounter I ever played in 5E, back...

The thing about a personal philosophical crisis is, it's abstract. You have your whole life to work through it, debate it, question your first principles and what others are telling you, and work out what makes sense to you. An outbreak is concrete. Real people are put at risk of sickness or...

Yeah! Well we have uh...our slang is... Crap I forgot what I was gonna say. Now I'm just filled with hunger. Dire hunger.

Whatever man, we have double-doubles in Eagleland.

I was arguing with you in the assumption of good faith, but if you aren't convinced of the value of human life, we won't be able to have any kind of constructive argument. I wish you the best in your search for philosophical coherence, but also know that I find it monstrous that anyone could...

I mean no disrespect, but comments like this show that you are not very educated on the topic of epidemiology or public health. Please, listen to the advice given by the public health experts in your area when making your decisions, and keep in mind your behavior can be the difference between...

Yeah I support this, as well. We're ordering out from one of our favorite restaurants for lunch at the office today, and part of the conversation was explicitly "hope this helps them make it through the next few weeks". Of course, we are ordering out, not dining in, as we're also trying to...

As an immunologist who works in healthcare and is on the frontlines of this outbreak, I can assure you that medical science is nowhere near being able to cure all diseases, profits or not. I'm not gonna argue that corporate decisions aren't really shortsighted and inhumane in many cases, and...

I do that a lot in my games, but I have serious doubts whether I can call it "role-playing" when that's just me doing what I want to do, anyway.

And here on the other side, my old group still tells the story of that time our paladin paid to have his horse mount resurrected...using up the last funds we had, meaning we couldn't afford to raise the halfling rogue who died in the same fight. :D I mean, OOC the player who played the...

Oh man, I am SO telling D&D PETA on you. I mean sure, I bet they weren't thrilled with all the monster slaughtering that your party also gets up to, but as we all know the biggest crime you can commit is keeping domesticated animals!

So just to chime in on the thread, my group just decided to cancel our sessions going forward for a while. We aren't really internet players, so it will just lie fallow for a few weeks while the outbreak (hopefully) blows over. None of us have been sick, but many of us have kids or elderly...

I'm glad someone said this, because the moment I read the OP my first thought was of that dire wolf skeleton in the Tar Pits that is assembled behind glass in the middle of one of the exhibits. I saw it as a child, and the first time I read the 3E MM I flashed back to that exhibit in that room...