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I had a read through the book at a B&M store but sadly lack purchasing funds as much as I would like to throw dollars at it. All of the classes looked interesting, although the Solarian seemed like the most iffy perhaps? They seem to be a sort of Star Monk with a dash of Jedi. They get to...

D&D armour, weapons and damage are all designed for ease of play and have little or nothing to do with realism. If you're not differentiating between a club, a crossbow bolt, and a fire bolt, why is the bullet (but only a pistol bullet, not a sling bullet) the odd man out? There are plenty of...

So in my current pathfinder campaign we're in town to do some shopping. Yay! My 8th level Cavalier is in the Order of the Tome and has a shiny new ability to use any divine scroll. Only, I don't know the spell casting lists in Pathfinder and honestly don't have much interest in trying to...

No I really wasn't. Look, I usually enjoy these sorts of discussions, but you seem to be focusing on picking the argument apart rather than trying to understand it. You might consider the possibility, that when you keep redefining my terms and then telling my whats wrong with them, than the...

A bit, but my skills are ancient and rusty. Human (and broader biological) psychology and neurology are more my field. I don't know much about modern AI programming but neural networks are pretty simple. I not sure why you keep inserting the word human into your responses. Who said anything...

Yeah, I never understood the whole earth/acid thing. Why not just let earth attacks do earth damage like in Arcana Unearthed? A rock to the head is painful. I'm not sure it's worth the trouble of formally splitting out, but if a player wanted to retype a characters earth themed damage away...

Perhaps, but the great irony there, especially in light of your thesis that droid designers would want to avoid human traits, is that C-3P0 and R2-D2 were inspired by the peasants Tahei and Matashichi in "Hidden Fortress."

I think you are using far too large an assumption of rational self-interest on the part of droid designers. We've already spent plenty of time trying to make AIs mimic human behavior, with predictably awful results. You are also assuming a design process insufficiently iterative to start...

If the door is horizontal, the Barbarian probably already opened it.

RAW can a fire bolt take down a door. Sure, although as noted the DM sets the stats for the door. Game balance wise is it a problem? Nope. The ability to open a door is unremarkable. Realism wise is it a problem? No, not really. A Firebolt can kill a healthy man in a few seconds. It takes a...

Indeed, I present a clear and present danger, and I can only hope someone will stop me before I post again.

The in game reality is that modeled by the rules. The rules are those agree upon at the table, and the XP awards are well within the GMs purview to alter to fit the tone of the game. In a Bushido style game where the XP awards are only granted for a fair victory then a Samurai's honor literally...

It depends on what you mean by "Personhood." Droids are clearly capable of being sentient, self-aware, reasoning beings who possess individual personalities and can even set their own goals. That qualifies as personhood in my book. If you mean attaining legal status as an 'emancipated droid' I...

Also remember that D&D is a fantasy universe. The soul is very real, provably so. Spells like speak with dead, etc argue that the soul may be more the seat of memory than the brain is. It is certainly the seat of morality, and friendship. So while your brain may be that of a T-rex, your...

I like what you're doing, but I don't think I would let a force user ignore the Morality system. The whole light side/ dark side dichotomy is just too much a part of the universe to be ignored. Now you could have views on it which may or may not be correct, frex I had a character in an...

That's not entirely true though. Yes, Obligation is a source of trouble but it does (in part) reflect your reputation in the underworld. The threshold system reflects this by showing how reactions to your party will change based on the degree of that reputation. High Obligation makes life harder...

Actually the abstract range system has another virtue in that it drastically simplifies movement. Without that, every race should have a listed speed, and droids would need to have a list of specified chassis with different movement speeds and modes. It opens a huge can of worms. I'm not saying...

I've played a fair amount of the various FFG 40k games. This is a series of 5 RPGs which, in spite of portraying the same universe and using what is ostensibly the same system are not particularly compatible. In fact they have a lot of compatibility traps and weird differences between them. So...

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Well, recall that 5e is kind of a "Return to old school" edition. And in the old days you sometimes had sort of a stable of characters who would do different things. So sure, Frank the Wizard might take a year off to make a circle, but that's okay because his old college roomie Bob the Barbarian...