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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    You think the songs about her ex-boyfriends are something, wait until you hear the songs she writes about the DM who killed her character.
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    Spoilers TV Shows with Great Endings

    They filmed an alternate ending to Breaking Bad that was an homage to Newhart's
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    How Many Spells Does a Wizard Need?

    I keep wanting to make a joke along the lines of Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" But I can't think of the spell equivalent of "Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed."
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    Civilizations, RANKED!

    You know that story about Gandhi in Civ I having minimum aggression that would underflow and make him super aggressive? It's almost certainly completely wrong. Have you checked out Freeciv? The default rules are something of a mix of Civ II and III, but you can set it to be pure Civ II rules...
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    AD&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

    It's especially easy to confuse when the description of fireball seems to imply otherwise But I guess that's for the exception when you're using a figure ratio?
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    AD&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

    The multiclass table didn't appear in the original, but in errata in Dragon magazine. If you have a later printing where the errata are incorporated, the added tables appear on p. 72.
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    AD&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

    I was a little surprised by this, because I know the DMG (p. 38) has rules similar to Deities and Demigods, minus the parts about serving demigods and lesser gods. While verifying this, I noticed this obscure little rule hiding in the same section (emphasis added): Also, the distinction about...
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    Economic Board Games?

    The only explicitly Marxist game I know of is Avalon Hill's Class Struggle, which is not very good, but: Hegemony, already mentioned by a few people in the thread, has the players each controlling a different economic class in the class struggle, so is at least in the neighborhood. Imperial is...
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    D&D General What is the Quintissential D&D Mascot Monster?

    Unbelievable. How can y'all leave out the most iconic monster of all, the one monster featured in every single piece of D&D cover art? I speak, of course, of the invisible stalker.
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    E. Gary Gygax Sr. May Have Had Another, More Recent Will?

    Gateway to Adventure refers to a TSR ad from 1979/1980. TSR - Q&A with Gary Gygax
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    AD&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

    There is an example in the Monster Manual that makes clear the subdual probability is cumulative. 1e says "The breath weapon causes damage equal to the dragon's hit points (half that amount if a saving throw is made)". It is not explicit whether that means current or maximum hit points...
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    Picking Attorneys is Like Picking Kickball Teams: Don't Pick Yourself

    One other reason not to represent yourself, and why even lawyers (usually) hire other lawyers to represent them, is that your emotional investment in the case hinders your judgement. You might (for example) get caught up in making a particular argument a particular way because "I'm RIGHT, dang...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D's Inclusivity Language Alterations In Core Rules

    Respectfully, this kind of appropriation always affects the immigrant communities more than the people still living in the country. Irish people maybe be amused, annoyed, or offended by the stereotypes, but it doesn't affect them that much because it's happening far away and doesn't make a...
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    D&D General Vote Up a 5e-alike: Poll 6: Archetypes and Fighters/Warriors NOW WITH EXTREME FIRST DRAFT!

    Yea. I'm wary of trying to move all of the customization into feats, but I'd like a little more customization than 5e subclasses. Maybe at 10th level you can choose a sub-subclass. Not necessarily. I think if you're concerned about 1-level dipping, restrict 1-level dipping on the whole rather...
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    D&D General Is DnD being mothballed?

    Well, I would argue you're confusing existential and universal quantifiers. There is a difference between the statements "There exists a y < x such that f( y ) > f( x )" and "For all x > 0, y < x implies f( y ) > f( x )" Or, in your terms, "Making Y-change to the current state [at the time I...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Fighter (Playtest 7)

    I specifically brought up the Jackie Chan ladder fight scene with regard to Weapon Mastery (amazing that he had the foresight to take Weapon Mastery for ladders that day!), so I'm gonna take credit/blame for the Brawler. I meant for them to give it to the Monk though. The Champion is now the...
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