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RPG Ghetto / Re: So a buddy of mine wants to run an all-magic campaign in Pathfinder...

« on: September 04, 2012, 07:03:51 am »

I'd roll up a set of stats for a warrior and see if I can get in enough feats to make it bad-ass in hand to hand anyway.

but yeah, It definitely sounds like a gimmick... ask him for a detailed write-up of the world and see if he can give a decent plot hook.  If not I'd take a pass personally.

He basically thought of it off the cuff. It's definitely a gimmick.
And no, he won't allow straight fighters(though he did reconsider his previous no-weapons position and allow magi) But a summoner's the next best thing. You have Summon Monster for minions, and when things get really hairy you've got the eidolon to stand in for muscle.

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RPG Ghetto / Re: So a buddy of mine wants to run an all-magic campaign in Pathfinder...

« on: September 01, 2012, 05:18:57 pm »

I say join the game and break the shit out of it until he breaks down sobbing and tell him, "And this is why I said I what I did."

I'm thinking I'll be a Summoner. That way, I have an effective means of taking advantage of everyone else's physical weakness, and my high Charisma score will help with Use Magic Device, meaning I can just use wands for the offensive spells my class doesn't grant me.

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RPG Ghetto / So a buddy of mine wants to run an all-magic campaign in Pathfinder...

« on: September 01, 2012, 05:12:15 pm »

And right off the bat, he's talking about removing all the daily spell limits. And I'm like no, dude, just give us wands. Make them cheap. Apply the price adjustment that you'd apply to firearms in a Guns Everywhere setting and you're golden. Look, I have Ultimate Combat right here. 10%. There you go.
And then he starts going off about how maybe I'm right, but continues to kind of miss the point. He's like, "Maybe the battle mages have magic items that are kind of like wands, but they recharge every day and you can change which spells are stored in them." And I say no, you're underestimating wands. They'll do just fine.
And then it occurs to me that in a setting where everyone's a spellcaster, the schools of Illusion and Enchantment are almost completely useless. Conversely, spells that require Fortitude or Reflex saves are overpowered.

Is it worth trying to balance, or should I write off the idea altogether?

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Apple Zone / Re: I Have Had Enough of Your Shit

« on: August 29, 2012, 04:19:03 pm »

Semaj is back? Cool.

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Apple Zone / Re: Shake That Thing! - Music Needed

« on: August 27, 2012, 06:51:13 pm »

"Shake That Thing" by BEARFORCE1

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Apple Zone / Re: What's REALLY offensive.

« on: August 21, 2012, 01:22:31 am »

15. The Littlest Hobo.

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Apple Zone / Re: What's REALLY offensive.

« on: August 21, 2012, 01:17:51 am »

9.  Red Rose Tea.  It's CRAP!

Speaking of which, I believe I have a used bag of that horrid swill to mail to your house. I still haven't forgotten the Holy Quest, I'll have you know.

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Apple Zone / Re: No Cause, No Ally

« on: August 20, 2012, 09:05:52 pm »

All any of this changed my mind about was feminism. There isn't a "first wave", "second wave", etc., it's all Gloria Steinem first wave man-hate with a thin, faux gentle veneer of "this is for everybody's benefit!"

I remain pro-choice, etc. AS A HUMAN BEING, but I would MUCH rather be called "cunt" than "feminist".

At least "cunt" is honest.

We really, really got wrapped up in feminism as for what it means to women, so I understand where you're coming from, and parts of the discussion left me with a bad taste, too (some of which is my fault, let's be real). But I think it's generally acknowledged that feminism without intersectionality (because all bigotry and oppression feeds into other kinds) is meaningless, because it pretty much takes care of straight, affluent, white, Western women and leaves everyone else (women in the rest of the world, PoC, the queer community, the poor, etc.) out in the cold. It ends up boiling down into another flavor of bigotry because it's so exclusionary, intentionally or otherwise.

All politics are exclusionary.

I want to agree with that, but in order to fix shit, there needs to be some politics. There needs to be recognition that there are groups with fewer rights and freedoms and there needs to be action (in the courts, legislation, on the ground changes like your egalitarianism) to solve that. Because without that, how can we even hope to make everyone properly equal?

There's something horribly wrong with the bolded statement but I can't quite put my finger on exactly what it is that bothers me about it.

"Make." Am I correct?

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Apple Zone / Re: Introductions, part V: Don't Say We Never Warned You.

« on: August 01, 2012, 03:06:04 am »

Hello, I'm Uncle Wallified. I'm not actually new here, but I've been so incredibly shy for the past six months or so that I think I actually have to formally reintroduce myself just to get back in the habit of talking to people without having horrible panic attacks. I find this development troubling.

Just ask yourself, "What would your avatar do?"

Take hallucinagenics, and beat up random strangers, that's what he'd do.  I don't suggest you do that, come to think of it.

I'm told that I overthink things.

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Apple Zone / Re: Introductions, part V: Don't Say We Never Warned You.

« on: August 01, 2012, 02:51:19 am »

Hello, I'm Uncle Wallified. I'm not actually new here, but I've been so incredibly shy for the past six months or so that I think I actually have to formally reintroduce myself just to get back in the habit of talking to people without having horrible panic attacks. I find this development troubling.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: space travel

« on: July 19, 2012, 08:30:26 am »

Also, they say you can't travel at the speed of light, but I say that's bullshit if you cheat. Just find an object that's moving toward you at half the speed of light, and you travel toward that object at the other half of the speed of light.

Yeah, but wouldn't the collision be horrible?

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Apple Zone / Re: On the Nature of the Truth™, selected fragments (more or less as I think of them

« on: June 30, 2012, 12:09:47 pm »

Where are you posting it?

On a Facebook app full of whiny self-hating teenagers. Pinks of the worst kind. It's a bit like FizzyGrizzly without all the awesome.
I was thinking of proposing a safari a few months back and your opening paragraph reminded me of the place.
http://apps.facebook.com/itsdarksecrets/post-99730

No bites so far.

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Apple Zone / Re: On the Nature of the Truth™, selected fragments (more or less as I think of them

« on: June 30, 2012, 03:36:51 am »

How do they stand it?  All worried about what other people think about them and all pissed because they're all worried about what they think other people think about them and thinking this whole mess is somehow YOUR fault.

But I know...There is no answer because they CAN'T stand it.  And that's why they ARE the way they are.  They long since got to the point where they stood on their rooftops and shouted "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!" and NOTHING HAPPENED.  Then they said it AGAIN but EVEN LOUDER and STILL nothing happened.  Even LESS NOTHING happened than last time.

So they took whatever internal regulator there is in people off and the flywheels are spinning and screaming and red hot and emitting a foul-smelling smoke. And they don't have the BALLS to become SERIAL KILLERS so they just get MORE NASTY.

Why do you REALLY think we are supporting a pointless and obviously morally fucked-up war?  Do you fools think it really has anything to do with POLITICS?  Do you think it has anything to do with THE MEDIA?  Do you think it is because of GREED?

If so, WAKE UP PUPPET BOYS!  You've become CYNICAL, but not CYNICAL ENOUGH.  You've become CYNICAL, but not to the point that you LAUGH UNTIL YOUR GUTS BLEED.  You've become CYNICAL, but not cynical enough to believe that a whole nation of overfed, overindulged fatass fabulously wealthy white people can support the organized destruction of a nation of brown people NOT because they believe in it, NOT because they're STUPID, NOT because they've been duped by some well-organized CABAL, but simply and for no other reason than that they are NASTY and ILL-TEMPERED.

We WANT to kill thousands, or tens of thousands of NASTY SMUDGY PEOPLE not because we have ANY reason whatsoever for it but because we are MAD at our husbands, wives, children, brothers and sisters because they changed the TV CHANNEL while we were WATCHING SOMETHING, and we haven't got the BALLS to stand up for ourselves so we TAKE IT OUT ON SOMEBODY ELSE.

There IS no other reason, and that's why you can talk politics until you're blue in the TITS but you will NEVER find a political reason which explains it SANELY.

We go to war because we are NASTY CHICKENSHITS who DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE PETTY-ASS FRUSTRATIONS which constitute our LIVES.

No this is not the CLEAN FLAME THROWER WHITE HATE of a MUTANT DISCORDIAN I'm talking about here.  Just LOOK at them.  LOOK at the nasty bitter pinched evil faces around you, Brothers & Sisters. They aren't even capable of getting PISSED OFF correctly.  They DISLIKE their own ODOR.

You know who you are.  You know if you are one of them.  You know if you have been there chewing on your own teeth hating everybody while HOPING DESPERATELY that they LIKE you.  And you know, if a little part inside of you responds to that description, that it is CUNTS LIKE YOU that allow all the -real- evil in the world to go on.

Fuck you all and the armadillos you rode in on.

Permission to repost with attribution?

Sure.

Thanks. I'll get back to you with the responses.

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Apple Zone / Re: On the Nature of the Truth™, selected fragments (more or less as I think of them

« on: June 30, 2012, 03:24:44 am »

How do they stand it?  All worried about what other people think about them and all pissed because they're all worried about what they think other people think about them and thinking this whole mess is somehow YOUR fault.

But I know...There is no answer because they CAN'T stand it.  And that's why they ARE the way they are.  They long since got to the point where they stood on their rooftops and shouted "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!" and NOTHING HAPPENED.  Then they said it AGAIN but EVEN LOUDER and STILL nothing happened.  Even LESS NOTHING happened than last time.

So they took whatever internal regulator there is in people off and the flywheels are spinning and screaming and red hot and emitting a foul-smelling smoke. And they don't have the BALLS to become SERIAL KILLERS so they just get MORE NASTY.

Why do you REALLY think we are supporting a pointless and obviously morally fucked-up war?  Do you fools think it really has anything to do with POLITICS?  Do you think it has anything to do with THE MEDIA?  Do you think it is because of GREED?

If so, WAKE UP PUPPET BOYS!  You've become CYNICAL, but not CYNICAL ENOUGH.  You've become CYNICAL, but not to the point that you LAUGH UNTIL YOUR GUTS BLEED.  You've become CYNICAL, but not cynical enough to believe that a whole nation of overfed, overindulged fatass fabulously wealthy white people can support the organized destruction of a nation of brown people NOT because they believe in it, NOT because they're STUPID, NOT because they've been duped by some well-organized CABAL, but simply and for no other reason than that they are NASTY and ILL-TEMPERED.

We WANT to kill thousands, or tens of thousands of NASTY SMUDGY PEOPLE not because we have ANY reason whatsoever for it but because we are MAD at our husbands, wives, children, brothers and sisters because they changed the TV CHANNEL while we were WATCHING SOMETHING, and we haven't got the BALLS to stand up for ourselves so we TAKE IT OUT ON SOMEBODY ELSE.

There IS no other reason, and that's why you can talk politics until you're blue in the TITS but you will NEVER find a political reason which explains it SANELY.

We go to war because we are NASTY CHICKENSHITS who DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE PETTY-ASS FRUSTRATIONS which constitute our LIVES.

No this is not the CLEAN FLAME THROWER WHITE HATE of a MUTANT DISCORDIAN I'm talking about here.  Just LOOK at them.  LOOK at the nasty bitter pinched evil faces around you, Brothers & Sisters. They aren't even capable of getting PISSED OFF correctly.  They DISLIKE their own ODOR.

You know who you are.  You know if you are one of them.  You know if you have been there chewing on your own teeth hating everybody while HOPING DESPERATELY that they LIKE you.  And you know, if a little part inside of you responds to that description, that it is CUNTS LIKE YOU that allow all the -real- evil in the world to go on.

Fuck you all and the armadillos you rode in on.

Permission to repost with attribution?

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Apple Zone / Re: Rev Roger, Sermon #80: Pull Your Head Out of Your Ass

« on: June 20, 2012, 08:57:27 pm »

It's happening, Reverend. I'm feeling myself crumble away. I feel more and more robotic by the day, and soon I fear that I'll be nothing more than an appliance of The Company. And what's more, it seems to be confined to me. My coworkers chat and laugh and poke fun at each other, and all I ever do is scrub the dishes. I scrub with silent urgency. I scrub with rage, with intensity, but still I only scrub. I scare them, Reverend. I scare my coworkers, and I don't know why. I'll think I'm just wearing my default expression, but when I get a look at myself in a thinned-out pan I see a mask of fury.