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Every thing you're talking about here is exactly what I'm saying. It's (a) anecdotal and (b) entirely self-fulfilling. Optimizers go out into the wild and tell stories about how GMs never call for these skills (never mind that skill usage is entirely on the players, if you want your GM to call...

Yeah, a lot of this, especially the quote-unquote "low tier" skills are mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy. CharOpers decide which skills aren't exploitable which means fewer players take those skills which means fewer DMs generate circumstances for those skills to shine which means fewer players...

I mean, under ideal circumstances, the rankings would be: 1: Perception 2-Tie: Everything else Perception is too baked in as the superior skill in the system to unthrone, but everything else is extremely DM/campaign-dependent, and again, ideally that involves working into the game...

So, for those of you who are new, a quick breakdown of how judging will work from this point forward. Each judge will be posting their judgment individually and independently. We will not be reading each other's judgements as we do so. Each judge will be able to offer one vote towards...

We are in the home stretch now; there's less than twelve hours left in this match! Happy writing, DMs!

It's a great thing, then, that this is a historical film. As we've all found out about the world we live in, nobody ever learns from history. So we should be pretty safe.

If'n ye be amenable to video games fer yer entertainment purposes, ye could do quite a load worse than givin' Uncharted Waters: New Horizons a gander. Twas a Super Nintendo game set in the groups age of exploration, where ye could choose t' engage in discovery, trade, and a even wee bit o...

Russell Crowe keeping the goofy accent era of his career still rolling strong

@humble minion and @AustinHolm, your ingredients have been posted.

IRON DM 2025: Round 2, Match 1, humble minion vs AustinHolm @humble minion and @AustinHolm, you have 48 hours to post your entries to this thread. Please limit your entry to a title, a list of the ingredients used and 1500 additional words. Please include your list of ingredients at the...

Alright, we'll be kicking off Round 2 in a little under two hours! We hope you look forward to the very fun batch of ingredients we've brought together!

It was a truly great show. Well... except for the gas leak year. We don't talk about the gas leak year. I appreciate that you are coming from a good place. I just hope that you consider that I am speaking not of a place of imagined fear, but of experience, and leave it at that.

I want you to know that I mean absolutely no offense when I say this, but this is unbelievably naive. At the very least when we're talking about the internet, no, at least 90% of the time it is malice, it's just not usually not so obvious as it was here. Your problem is framing this as...

This, on the other hand, is not it. Not to say that straight calling a person a loser is a worthwhile endeavor, but it's especially difficult to "try to see people with whom you disagree as human beings" when the root of our disagreement comes from them not seeing me as a human being.

This is the point that always gets lost in THAC0 arguments. They often come down to trying to measure just how difficult/easy or complex it was to actually deal with in play, which is a deeply subjective sliding scale that people are, very understandably, not going to agree on. It's not even a...

Lucky are we, then, that we get to participate in a space where they do not get away with this kind of stuff.

Very well, we'll kick off Round 2, Match 1 then!

@AustinHolm and @humble minion, how does a start this Thursday at 11:00 am PDT?

I do believe that Shadowrun's editions have also advanced the timeline forward at times. I also think the same is true of Paranoia