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Yesterday, 05:07 AMWell are you talking to a troll or a sidhe? (It's not an unreasonable expectation that trolls would act on the knowledge of evil threatening the...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-26, 03:11 PMThey can’t know it’s useful, they can predict it’s counterproductive, and one of them who might be the only one with any standing to speak has to...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-26, 12:51 PMBut then they're also playing as children, who as far as I can tell all but one of which are normal baseline humans (or are at least unaware of any...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-26, 10:41 AMThe password bit is that it's the consequence of how Talakeal ran the scene. If they didn't say that specific thing they didn't get help. They had...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-26, 08:47 AMAFAICT the players are the usual inhabitants of Bizarro World that Talakeal plays with, with or without Bob. The characters are children one of whom...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-26, 07:49 AMThere’s more than one reading of relevance here. The players know where the Werewolves are going but they don’t know why that information would be...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-26, 06:36 AMWhy would they think it was relevant?227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 10:36 AMThat was the reason for his moment of inattention to Vader and lack of expectation of attack from him, but it's also not some kind of silver bullet...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 09:43 AMI don't think that's really supposed to be the case, it's just a consequence of the dramatic form where the baddie has to be a big enough baddie to...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 08:16 AMWell he wouldn't be much of a phantom menace if he was around being an actual menace, would he?608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 07:53 AMOh it's worse than that. A Pooka has to pass a willpower test to tell the whole truth for five minutes, and if you botch the roll the storyteller...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 12:57 PMI didn't say it didn't work as a description of the films. I mean that it also necessitates the flaws in the Jedi Order of the time (and most...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 12:15 PMA tragedy isn't just when the hero loses. A tragedy is when the hero inadvertently brings about his own downfall, usually by the very effort he makes...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 10:52 AMThat's no moon, it's an idiot ball!608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 09:28 AMWhich is simply an assertion that George Lucas is incompetent. Why is any scene in the movie? Surely because silly old George just forgot not to...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 09:07 AMYou've missed the second part of the quote, I see. When you're assessing movies you need to proceed from the position that everything is there for a...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 08:03 AMRight, but I'm not saying the characters are "being completely stupid". I'm saying that their training causes them to be unable to think certain...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 07:50 AMThat doesn't mean he knows why the hole is there and is collaborating in a bit. He's going to ask Yoda because he can't think of a reason for it to...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 07:43 AMNo, that doesn't track, not exactly. Obi-Wan has no other reason to be in that room because he goes specifically to ask Yoda about the case of the...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 06:24 AMAnd also to at least Obi-Wan himself. He thinks something is afoot, but the obvious-to-a-child explanation "someone altered the archive" doesn't even...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 06:06 AMWe see that in the movies, with the fact that Kamino was erased from the Jedi Archives and it was an inaccessible thought to the trained Jedi that...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 02:57 PMIt doesn't. It's actually the only response to the build that preserves it. There are three paths here. 1. Use normally difficult traps...151 replies | 9459 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 11:01 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's in the in-game book "The Monomyth". Anu/Anu-el/Ahnurr is order and permanence, Sithis/Padomay/Fadomai is chaos and change. Most Tamrielic...619 replies | 16485 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 06:26 AMWe return to the simple truth that the Emperor, as presented in the OT, was not an insanely powerful evil space wizard. Sure he was a powerful evil...608 replies | 23190 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 04:40 AMProbably because they've been trained to think like that by DMs who did screw them like that, even if they weren't trying to. It's already a natural...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 03:18 AMYeah, I mean that's the thing isn't it. We're back to trust. If the players don't trust the DM they won't engage in a Guy Richie Planning Montage...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 05:30 PMA low casualty engagement for the Imperial Guard, you mean.227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 10:38 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Zodi Streams: Princess Peach Showtime! (Shin Super Princess Peach) in Gaming (Other)Only the first game actually happened. Every one since is a ceremonial reenactment.21 replies | 831 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 09:20 AMThat's why they've found someone else they think is willing and able to do it. Well it sounds like that's what they're going to do, but with...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 09:06 AMWhich is where we're back to trust, but also literally every story about the Fae ever making it exceptionally clear that you should never get...227 replies | 9073 view(s)
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