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  1. MGibster

    My Fingerprinting Woes Continue

    <shines intense light> What I'm hearing is you're some sort of crime prince and you've altered your prints to facilitate criminal activities. <shines intense light>
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    Matt Colville's Community

    I feel as though that's a different question. Sure. One of the biggest problems with online discourse is it's easy to forget you're communicating with other human beings. We can't read one another's body language, put any inflection onto the words we write, and sometimes people read something...
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    Matt Colville's Community

    I don't remember writing anything saying anyone who gets upset at online discourse needs to work through some issues. Here's what I actually wrote: Do you see how my sentence is narrowly tailored compared to yours?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Circle Casting is gonna break a lot of games

    Finally! WotC is doing something about the relatively anemic power level of PCs!
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    Matt Colville's Community

    I honestly don't believe my expectations are unreasonable because they're the norm (in my opinion). When someone tells me Starship Troopers is a terrible movie or the lunch special at the grill is horrible they generally don't don't feel the need to make it clear they're giving me an opinion...
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    Matt Colville's Community

    I might be the odd man out here, but I remember in 4th or 5th grade completing quizzes where I had to determine whether a statement was a fact or opinion. Discerning a statement of fact from opinion is something I expect the listener to automatically do. If someone tells me GURPS is the...
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    Matt Colville's Community

    Whereas I don’t understand why anyone would need for someone to state their opinion is in fact an opinion.
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    D&D General Metal Miniatures Based On the 1977 D&D Basic Set Box

    This is a phoenix produced in plastic from Archon Studios' Dungeons & Lasers line retailing for about $35. As you can see, we're long past the days when plastic means softer details.* At roughly 5 inches in height and about 8.5 inches across, this miniature would be very difficult to manage if...
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  10. MGibster

    What is your favourite character type, (prof, class etc) And why?

    For any game I play, I prefer having a character who can talk to other people. I don't care if my character is some sort of warrior, a scholar, or a farmer, I want him to be able to interact verbally with NPCs. The reason for this is because it's what I consider to be the best, most unique...
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    D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?

    I kind of think golden ages of past civilizations with magical wonders are the default for most D&D settings. It's where all those magical artifacts and dungeons come from.
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    Gaming Cons Have Changed (I'm Old)

    You have a rate because the con represents a steady, reliable source of income and you don't want to kill the golden goose. If hotels or other accommodations are lacking, the con may very well decide to move elsewhere in the future either because their needs aren't being met.
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    D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?

    Steampunk is considered a sub-genre of science fiction by most people. Space fantasy is of course a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But then people have been arguing about what science fiction is for more than a century now. I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I accept any...
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    D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?

    They're just going back to D&D's roots with adventures like Expedition to Barrier Peaks or the inclusion of a cowboy complete with six shooters as a god in Greyhawk. Blending fantasy and science fiction was pretty popular in the 70s and 80s with Masters of the Universe, Krull, Thundarr the...
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    Gaming Cons Have Changed (I'm Old)

    Yeah. Poor me didn't have an automobile. My wife dropped me off at the con in the morning and I walked back to the hotel late at night. I brought my trusty backpack with me which contained water and various snacks including homemade beef jerky. Over the years I've noticed CPM has also...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    You have accomplished what I have never accomplished in my life! I salute you!
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    Unearthed Arcana WOTC still can't get the backgrounds right in the new FR book.

    Because it's D&D. It's the same reason I saw an awful lot of Sailor backgrounds in D&D 2014. It wasn't so much about optimizing for story, it was about having access to Perception. I imagine this is a problem that will continue to plague backgrounds so long as you attach skills or attributes...
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    [Chaosium] Today, on Halloween, The Chaosium officially turns 50 years old

    I don't know about anyone else, but I think Call of Cthulhu is really going to take off.
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    Still working on skiin. I put on a few layers of lighter skin and finally a flesh wash on the left half.
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