Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Bogeyman-label should be right. You will sooner meet someone who introduces himself as a child molester than someone who says they are a cultural marxist. As for their playbook - if it existed it would look something like the protocols of the elders of sion, which is a hoax, if someone ever were in doubt of its authenticity. "Cultural Marxism" is a rehash of an old method of ascribing ill intent to someone you do not like.
Free your mind and the rest will follow. The only hope for humanity, or your country, is if you liberate yourself and stands out as a beacon of hope for the rest of us. No actions can free a person that wants to be enslaved. Somebody mentioned Norway in this thread. I happen to be from Norway. I am a member of Høyre, the leading liberal conservative party in this country, which makes me a class-C traitor in the Anders-lingo. I read the entire manifesto of mr. Breivik, our homebred terrorist, so I am quite aware of the way he uses the concept "Cultural Marxist". I think he coined it very well. According to american standards Høyre would be a socialist party, with many members suspected to be communists. Around here we don't see it quite like that. The biggest social-democratic (see how they do it, instead of calling themselves "socialists" they water it out by adding "democratic" - social marxist trickery?) party is Arbeiderpartiet - the Labour Party. At the moment they are the senior partner in the government coalition. The Labour Party in Norway were members of Comintern, a Communist organisation between 1918 and 1923. One of the minor members in the coalition government is Sosialist Venstreparti - Socialist Left Party, and the started out in 1973 as the Socialist Electoral League, an electoral coalition with the Communist Party, Socialist People's Party, Democratic Socialists – AIK and independent socialists (an electoral league is a technicality which allows different political parties to count their votes together and distribute any offices according to a premade plan). So there is some merit to the idea of communists riding on the tailcoat of socialism, at least in Norway, home of the most well-known exponent of the concept of "cultural marxism". On the other hand, the true hard-core communists, "Rødt" (meaning "Red") is a merger of former parties, all with revolutionary communist aspirations (non-violent of course), and they are not part of the government coalition. One very obvious reason for this is their total lack of seats in the parliament, and their track record for cooperation with the socialist parties is abysmal. They get 1-2% of the total numbers of votes cast each election. I voted for them twice, just to give Erling Folkvord a seat in the city council. He is probably the only honest politician in Norway. Norway is a rather peculiar country. We get high revenue from the oil installations in the North Sea, this obviously is a big boost for the economy. The prices in Norway are high - a pint of bear costs ~$4 bought in a store or ~$12 when bought in a bar. A drink is ~$20. A Big Mac is ~$10. A small (0.5 liter) soft drink bottle is ~$3 in the cheapest stores, and $5 gives you an economy bottle (3 times the size, or 1.5 liter). One bread (750 grams~=1.5lbs) will cost you ~$4. Gas is ~$10/gallon. A car is twice as expensive as in the US - except electric cars, which aren't taxed. However, the median income is $70000 at the current exchange rate, which helps explain a price structure 25-40% higher than in neighbouring countries. Norway has no legally fixed minimum wage. Unemployment is around 3%. The population used to have a high degree of cohesion, but the last 20 years I have experienced this fraying at the edges. If oil suddenly lost its value, places like Groruddalen in Oslo, where I live, would become difficult places to live in ~2 years. Also, if we had not had oil I suspect our policies and economic outlook would be like Greece. links
Stephen Cheney wrote: The particulars of capstones are still in flux, so your feedback on this thread is extremely helpful. I think the best path to pursue is to give the capstone ability to anyone completing the archetype no matter how they did it. To do it any other way creates way more problems than it solves. I love the idea of an open system with lots of possibilities. If you want to keep open the possibility of getting abilities from multiple archetypes, and this is going to be extra useful due to a system of synergies between archetypes as hinted, you will be hard-pressed to keep distinctive archetypes in the game unless keeping to one archetype is awarding in and of itself. There are more than one way to do that. Some alternatives:
DeciusBrutus wrote:
I think they get it from here: From the Blog, 2012 January 12 https://goblinworks.com/blog/index.html#20120104
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A lot of the posts in this thread assumes that all bonuses from having earned a "special merit badge" are additive with every other "special merit badge". It is much more likely that you get the best benefits of each type, whatever they are, like multiclassing worked in (classic) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Also, some Abilities might counteract each other. Consider the following hypothetical setup for Barbarian and Fighter (based on how I would design the Archetypes to make "classes" make sense). speculation starts
Fighter: Must have High rating in Fight, Armor and Fortitude. When reaching a threshold in these skills, as well as a much lower threshold in secondary skills like Willpower, Avoidance and a few skills of their own choice, and doing things expected by a fighter (like taunting an opponent away from a teammate), you get one or more Abilities. For a Fighter these would be things like Weapon Specialization and Combat maneuvers like disarm, trip etc. These abilities could counteract each other: If you used a rage power, for as long as that power was active, and 5 seconds after that, you lost you Weapon Specialication bonuses and couldn't use the Fighter Abilities which are based on the concept of a controlled fighting style.
That is how I expect the game to work. Thus, you would multiclass for versatility, not power.
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