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2024-03-22, 09:27 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The Emperor has made his decision, now let him enforce it!329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 04:46 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)My dude nobody is discussing systems of government. This is 100% about the capability of the government. Which is bad, because it got kicked in the...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 12:48 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Where did anyone say the Empire is bad “because it has an Emperor”? The Empire in the 4th era is bad because it is weak and useless, and appeals...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 10:33 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Well yeah, when your entire driving ideology is racial supremacy it’s hard to integrate others as anything other than inferiors or slaves. Which is...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 06:30 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)If the empire was too powerful there wouldn’t have been a civil war. The fact is that the Empire is not sufficiently powerful to stop a secessionist...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 06:53 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread DM Help Ideas for "Grey morality" optional side quests in Roleplaying GamesThat's the easy way of doing it, yes. The better way is when the choice contains both good and bad, inextricably linked. You can have either or...31 replies | 2559 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 04:48 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)That only goes so far. It's not what Torygg thinks or believes, it's what everyone else thinks of him. The Empire isn't strong enough to keep him as...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 04:24 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)If you live in a culture where duels of honour are fought and you decline a challenge you also concede whatever the challenge is about. If Torygg had...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 03:51 PMYeah, but also part of the context is that it's very different for a DM to have one of several pieces disabled for 1-3 turns and a player to have...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 03:46 AMTBH 50/50 is still pretty bad for something a character is good at. If you had a character whose best odds of success at things they were supposed to...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-16, 05:42 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)We haven't seen any of the rest of the provinces in the fourth era in a game, so we can't say whether those laws are unique or not. But in other...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 12:15 PMHowever it’s quite easy to build a party that is worse at all their saves at high levels than they were at low levels. Even the ones their characters...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 11:20 AMThe point is that you can’t assume any particular ability available to the party when designing monsters for a table-agnostic design space like the...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-13, 05:29 PMThis all comes about because they were thinking different things when they designed the characters and skills system (relatively stable DCs...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-13, 04:59 PMThe party is not a defined unit with fixed properties, because it can be made of any number of characters in any combination of classes. And 5e...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-13, 10:38 AMAs has been pointed out several times in the thread though save DCs of monsters increase at a higher rate than even the supposed strong saves. ...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-13, 02:45 AMThat's not the contention though. The contention is that players always get worse at their saves. All their saves. They're running in six red...183 replies | 10358 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 07:10 PMYes, that’s the whole of Chapter 9. Manhattan comes to recognise value in humanity. The whole dialogue on Mars is essentially pitting the Jungian...200 replies | 13815 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 06:59 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Tbh my best play through was mage mage warrior dog. But that’s because I was playing an absolute git and killed everyone except Morrigan, Sten,...1254 replies | 95572 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 05:43 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)A lot of the combat goes away when you get the mass hold spell. Especially if you're a rogue and once it goes off you get infinity backstabs and you...1254 replies | 95572 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 05:09 PMYes, that's rather the point of the last two lines between Veidt and Manhattan: "I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end." ...200 replies | 13815 view(s)
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2024-03-10, 04:54 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)You mean a crime punishable by a fine of 50 septims right?329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-10, 04:28 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)Because they've unaccountably forgotten to give the female portraits moustaches at all, let alone the full General Melchett. How are you supposed to...1254 replies | 95572 view(s)
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2024-03-09, 04:38 PMWhich is why the ending of the movie sucks, but the comic version does present a giant psychic alien corpse to capture the attention.200 replies | 13815 view(s)
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2024-03-09, 04:35 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)There isn't really an "Empire" to speak of though. Black Marsh has seceded, Morrowind is in ruins, Valenwood and Elsweyr are taken by the Aldmeri...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-09, 03:59 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)There weren't any Thalmor agents involved in the Markarth incident, it was Jarl Hrolfdir who instigated a purge of the Reachmen and the Imperials who...329 replies | 6897 view(s)
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2024-03-09, 03:30 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)The Male Commissar portrait is the only one for me. Imagine going into space with anything less than the most glorious moustache possible? It...1254 replies | 95572 view(s)
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2024-03-07, 05:00 PMGloatingSwine replied to a thread What Are You Playing: 9 Years since the Last Dragon Age in Gaming (Other)TBH I just lean into maximum officer. Noble Officer. I am far too important to do things for myself. Yes, Yes I do take every single...1254 replies | 95572 view(s)
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2024-03-07, 11:01 AMI think he was rather more concerned that they were identifying with the emotionally stunted violent little fascist who is completely incapable of...200 replies | 13815 view(s)
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2024-03-07, 02:13 AM“I did it thirty five minutes ago” It’s not about stopping Veidt because he’s already done it. It’s about whether to reveal the truth about what...200 replies | 13815 view(s)
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