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    US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price

    Do you have a link to a story/report/change that says they big shippers won't be able to use (b) the duty equal to the rate? I mean, I fully believe that the customs folks will be overwhelmed, I just hadn't seen that (b) wasn't going to be usable yet. (And the "across all covered shipments...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Right. But I am guessing it might have been designed to catch the idea of the big hero being able to blow through the crowd of littler things. The magic using classes probably didn't need any help since they had picked up the big area affect spells that would have wiped out hoards anyway (and...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I was skimming the pages before the combat tables in 1e this morning and there are a lot of things I don't remember hiding, including some that still be around in later editions (albeit in different forms).
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    RE: Chess over time Chess's rules have changed a lot since the 1200s. And even if the rules of chess haven't really changed much since, say, 1828 (with three-fold repetition, touch-move, white always goes first, and some others afterwards)... the actual play that occurs by those who know what...
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    My imaginary heartbreaker sometimes has Strength just called Athletics and using different encumbrance rules (so I can stop being annoyed by 5e halflings) and Intelligence and Wisdom replaced by Perception and Willpower and makin replacing the rest by the knowledge skills (so I can dispense with...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Another thread... It is not my job to make an obvious reply that might only be humorous to me, it is not my job to...
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    (ninja'd by @Crimson Longinus ) As good as real-life people are at renaming/reframing things so they can still talk down about the groups they want to, and humanity's penchant to target others based on nationality, religion, or whatnot, I don't think the cultural explanations will do what...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Mooks in 13th age have pooled hp (from the 13thagesrd):
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Thinking about the place of minions in the game reminded me of this from 1e. I thought it was by DMG combat tables, but it is on page 25 of PHB under the table about fighter, paladin, and ranger attacks per melee round (that increase from 1 to 3/2 to 2 as they level): Granted that melee...
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    Looking for something else in the 1e DMG I stumbled across this note for table "1.B. Attack Matrix for Fighters, Paladins, Rangers, Bards, and 0 Level Halflings and Humans" that I had no recollection of:
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    ::: waves arms at the who supposedly wrote the Hobbit and LotR in universe, as well as at copies of The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, the 12 volumes of the History of MIddle Earth, the nine other books published since 2005, and the various letters Tolkien sent out...
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    This seems to call for an experiment of giving the ring to Otho and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins for a while...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I mean, it's no Level-Up ;-)
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    I can see how someone seeing him immediately murdering his friend might think it corrupted him immediately. Is corruption like being moldy - one can have a bit of mold or be entirely covered - or is it an all or nothing thing?
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    I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism

    This makes me think a bit of the 3.5 rules for how some monsters as characters worked: Monsters As Races :: d20srd.org For the ones where the monster species had default things clearly well above those of a human/dwarf/elf, those counted as levels. (Would Tolkien's elves have enough powers to...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Barbarian didn't die this time! (5e online last night) Cancelled, COVID in the house (5e in person planned for tonight)
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