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  1. Old Man
    Go where? Where the hell am I anyway?
  2. Old Man
    Or another presidential election?
  3. Old Man
    Since when do they have to be polite questions?
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  5. Old Man
    Yeah, I was the same way yesterday. Newer boy broke his arm on Monday and the pain kept him (and me) awake for two nights. He finally slept through last night.
  6. Old Man
    Of course there's no autohit in Hero*, but the usual way is with some combination of One Hex AOE, +OCV, autofire, sometimes NND does body, and sometimes even attack vs. ECV. Much like Sleep it becomes outrageously expensive, even after you tack on Charges 1x/day, but that just goes to show you how OP Magic Missile really is. Especially compared to Magic Mouth. Or Tenser's Floating Disc. The only reason it's not radically unbalanced in D&D is because of the hit point system there. * Which is a feature, not a bug.
  7. Old Man
    This may actually be the thread of the year.
  8. Old Man
    Are you questioning his question? Is this the right thread for that?
  9. Old Man
    If he'd like to get on with his life and leave government to someone who's not a Russian mole, I'm good with that.
  10. Old Man
    Conversely, Shadowpup (who a few of you may remember from here) once took a blowtorch to one of his d6s that kept letting him down. As an example to the others. I understand he got better rolls out of his dice from then on.
  11. Old Man
    Perhaps not nukes, but a military response should certainly have been on the table. If f--king with our elections isn't an act of war, what is?
  12. Old Man
    You like him? Should we try to get his phone number for you?
  13. Old Man
    The US reprisal for Russian tampering with the elections is pathetic. But here is the final Joint Analysis Report fingering the Russian government for direct interference (pdf). It's pretty dry.
  14. Old Man
    Who's "they"?
  15. Old Man
    Who's "we"?
  16. Old Man
    He's been holding ridiculous positions for years. All it got him was the presidency. He's not going to stop now.
  17. Old Man
    It's not a conspiracy theory when members of Trump's senior campaign staff had also run Moscow-supported campaigns for Yanukovich, when his advisers worked closely with Russian oil companies, and when Trump himself has been working with Russian investors for years in projects both in and out of Russia. It's a stretch to think that Russia wasn't closely involved in the campaign.
  18. Old Man
    I think one just went on the market.
  19. Old Man
    ECCENTRIC ASTRONOMER FOUND DEAD IN SUBTERRANEAN LAIR Neighbors alert authorities when they notice an improvement in the smell
  20. Old Man
    Never seen it for more than 4d6. Odds of it happening on 12d6 are 0.000000000459394 or thereabouts according to my phone--a bit less than half a billionth. The bell curve is strong with that one. Sadly I don't play enough Champions to be likely to see it.
  21. Old Man
    One thing that class systems do have going for them is if players don't know what they want to play. In that case it may be better to pick something off the value menu and call it good.
  22. Old Man
    My point is that if a character takes levels in Druid, he's stuck with all the restrictions and other baggage that comes along with that class. It may be fine for Disney Nature Princesses to be stuck with wooden armor and scimitars, and have high Wisdom, and be compelled to be one with nature or lose all spellcasting ability until they atone. But that's not likely to be true for Hands, or many other shapeshifter character concepts.
  23. Old Man
    So I'm reading into this "Wild Shape" thing that you mentioned and it's... really not a good fit. If you're going to "take levels in Druid", then your character is a Druid. I rather suspect that Hands Jankus or whatever could use metal armor and a longsword if she felt like it, hasn't got an unusually high Ego score, and can't cast a whole lot of spells that don't involve shapeshifting.
  24. Old Man
    Coming in 2017:
  25. Old Man
    I would argue that this just proves class-based systems can't handle certain types of characters. You can't say a class-based system can handle Character X when the system's method of handling it is Calvinball.
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