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Looks like fun. I've been toying with a No-Core game idea for a while: No core races except humans No core classes No core feats (unless a class feature of a noncore class) No core spells (unless a class feature of a noncore class) No magic items from DMG No monsters from MMI Magical Classes...

The strength of 3.X lies in the sheer volume of material which is available - and that's only counting official products. When you include 3PP then it becomes astronomical. I think that with a game so broad, you really need to decide what you want to exclude, and by only including the elements...

The rule of thumb I learned for Caribbean punch was 1 sour, 2 sweet, 3 strong, 4 weak and It seems to work with pretty much everything. Eg: 1 lime juice: 2 simple syrup: 3 rum: 4 pineapple juice or 1 lemon juice: 2 honey: 3 whiskey: 4 apple cider Etc, etc,,,

Use an egg-rich bread like brioche or challah. If you can snag challah during Rosh Hashanah, you'll find it comes with raisins - this makes the best French toast imo. If you're feeling super indulgent, use chocolate babka. Use bread that's a day or a couple of days old. It cuts more easily, and...

He doesn't seem to be a rational actor in this. The legal docket is here: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/cacdce/2:2023cv02831/881511 He is represented by this lawyer: https://lawyers.justia.com/search?query=Katie+Marie+Charleston&match=any Both are matters of public record. I do...

The problem with Paul’s inner voice is that it’s hard to give it any objective truth value. I mean, Pol Pot and Idi Amin had inner voices, too. Edit: I mean, Paul’s messianic status is never really confirmed or denied; from a purely human perspective we are forced to consider whether he is...

I've never even heard of Ebony Dar'kness Dementia Raven Way.

Paul kills sixty-one billion people, but we should take comfort in the fact that his prescience* tells us that it would be worse if he hadn't. As Frank Herbert wrote: "I wrote the Dune Saga because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with the warning label 'May Be Dangerous...

Barnes and Noble seem to have not pulled the ebook yet: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1142895065 I'm tempted to get a copy for posterity, but unwilling to give a fraction of $13.49 to its author. By all accounts, it's even worse than you could possibly imagine. Worse than The Rings of...

Past a certain level with the relevant investment in feats - which makes sense; you'd expect this kind of focus to obviate the risk. But a 3rd level character casting a 2nd level spell without Skill Focus (Concentration) and/or Combat Casting is going to need to roll a 9 - which isn't great...

Steady Concentration. Yeah, that one’s borked.

True, that defensive casting becomes relatively trivial past 6th level given the right feats and skills, although Combat Casting doesn’t mitigate against damage sustained from a readied attack (Skill Focus: Concentration is arguably better overall). I’d still question the wisdom of a 7th level...

I don't think this is a fair criticism of 3.X. Spellcasting is routinely interrupted by AoOs and readied actions, casting defensively is not guaranteed, and casting a spell in combat from anything other than a secure position - i.e. protected by martials - is ill advised: when multiple enemies...

I'd take an entire Siberian salt mine with anything which Musk reports. He's blown any credibility he once had regarding pretty much everything. I think the fact that hundreds of employees threatened to quit unless Altman was reinstalled is pretty revealing about the way he was regarded by his...

Anyone following what’s been going on here? Thoughts? Speculation? Wild conspiracy theories? https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/

The USA certainly had to spin on a dime after WWII, and define its new enemy, and it's true that, as a nation state, the USSR payed the greatest price in WWII, but... The European and Pacific theaters - and it was the latter in which the US was primarily focused - were roughly comparable in...

I think an awareness of our own confirmation bias is about the best we can bring to any historical investigation - whether we're inwardly rooting for the slaves in the Third Servile War, or experiencing a general "ugh" feeling when a writer is obviously espousing a set of values with which we...

Not at all. In fact I specifically wrote that I do not think she is insufficiently attested - I think she meets a minimum bar (barely) for historicity. She’s not like Arthur or Romulus or Gilgamesh. But all of her characteristics, the specific nature of her vendetta, her central role in the...

I am not aware of any widespread historiographical tendency to question the historicity of a character, and to later revise that view and affirm their existence in the light of new evidence. In fact, I cannot think of a single instance of this occurring. Perhaps you might provide some examples...

Tacitus was regarded as generally reliable - at least in the broad strokes - for a long time, although a lot of criticism has been directed toward him in recent years (his anti-Tiberian rhetoric, confusion of some historical figures etc.). I'm not suggesting we throw him out - he's still the...