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  1. billd91

    RPG Evolution: Weight, What?

    They did leave Bill at the entrance to Moria (he managed to flee successfully). And, yes, they did divide up Bill's load, but it is also explicit that they left things there that they though they could do without - particularly the cold weather stuff they had packed for the mountain passes. So...
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    Streaming services, which do you have or are you getting rid of?

    Looks like Disney is back-pedaling on the Kimmel suspension. Of course, they're saying it's because they've had fruitful discussion with Kimmel in the intervening days, but I think it's more likely that the immediate and vigorous boycott pressure has got them spooked.
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    And Black Lives Matter - which I see referred to fairly often on the interwebs. Brennan Lee Mulligan adds yet another BLM to the mix.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Durable feat

    I would agree with Rabulias that the minimum applies to the total. So if you have a fighter with a +3 Con bonus, for each hit die you roll (1d10+3), the minimum result is 6. That makes the effective range for each hit die 6-13 rather than 4-13. Not a huge benefit, but nice. And there's no real...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    I think a major part of the ranger's identity crisis comes from too many ways to encroach on its mojo (starting with the barbarian in 1e's Unearthed Arcana) and on trying to develop niche protection for it in all the wrong ways in 2e (with two-weapon fighting and tracking being available but...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    The bonus damage against giant-class enemies applied to melee damage. I don't believe there was any provision for it to apply to missile weapons. That said, it was still a lot better than the 2e +4 to hit against a poorly defined favored enemy. From what I remember of the 1e days, a lot of...
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    I'm not sure the majority WAS quite so different from that. Maybe not as over the top silly, but the cast of characters was chock full o' nuts or chaos agents. Chetney, Fern, Laudna (particularly with Pâté), Fresh-Cut Grass/Braius Doomseed... all generated a fair amount of weird comic moments...
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    King Kubrick: Ranking Stanley's Best Films

    Yeah, I’d agree with that. FMJ’s Vietnam segment is more impressionistic than Stone’s experience-grounded Platoon, so that part of the movie for me fits in more with Apocalypse Now, a movie I enjoy, but that Platoon still kind of blows away.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Seriously?!? That is totally effed up.
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    What constitutes a "hit" in your mind?

    I think prior posts are right that it depends a lot on the game involved. In Call of Cthulhu, I generally consider a hit to involve contact since the hit points ablated are so few, based on physical stats, and don't change as an investigator gains in skill and experience. In D&D or Star Wars...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Is it time to dump Disney+ and Hulu now? Maybe...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    A very serious hypothesis. It's helped by the fact that violence peaked and dropped off pretty much everywhere in the US at the same time, which suggests a wide-spread, even airborne, environmental factor that was phasing out of the environment about 20ish years before the decline. And that fits...
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    What constitutes a "hit" in your mind?

    I think Schindler's List would fit the definition of a hit as far as matching criteria - drawing a lot of business/ticket sales. But I think you're right in that people wouldn't normally call it a hit - doing so would be awkward and wouldn't match the unusual gravity of the subject matter. I...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Ooooo, schadenfreude! My favorite!
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Sometimes it's clear when someone really doesn't exist in the same universe as I do.
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    Witcher change up?

    Is it just me or has this taken, like, FOREVER?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Well, there's another RPG system that I'm going to avoid touching with a 10 foot pole.
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    Redirected to "Google" Site When Browsing EnWorld.

    Same here, I assume it's some ad that's doing it when it gets served up.
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