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Samnell wrote:

LazarX wrote:

Samnell wrote:

The practical effects of this are extensive: No chaplains for any government agency or in the military.

I'm going to take issue with this, mainly because as badly as we screw with our soldiers, we should not deprive them of a service that's vital to the bulk of them. On the other hand, I think that all faiths with a population should be represented including atheist counselors as well.

I have no objection to the military hiring psychiatrists and other therapists. If a clergyperson wants to go to college and get their therapy license, I'm quite fine with having them take a job with the military's social services.

If a clergyperson just wants to go preach to the troops, said clergyperson is free to enlist like any other person and do whatever said clergyperson cares to do with his free time.

I agree.

Oddly enough, despite being an atheist, I disagree. Religion is very important to many people. Military personnel, particularly in wartime, can be out of reach of civilian religious services for extended periods, while under great stress. I do not think it's necessary to deprive the military of religion in the name of separation of church and state.

It's a difficult issue, especially since, particularly in smaller groups, you can't supply a properly qualified religious official for everyone. You might have a forward base with 50 guys in it of a dozen different religions or sects. Do you add another dozen chaplains? It's not feasible.

Obviously, even in the military no one should be required, or even encouraged by their superiors, to convert or be proselytized to. There have been issues with this.

Wait.. the guy killed Seventy Seven people.... and he can only go to jail for 21 years...

Would some viking pazonian PLEASE explain THAT one?

Unlike him we don't believe in taking the right to kill someone else.

I came here back in early 2006 to ask a question after getting verbally pooped on by folks on another forum way back then.

Here I got nice answers, stayed, made friends, and the rest is history. I hate seeing the same behavior that drove me away from that other site happen here.

Be helpful, be nice, or ignore it and move on.

zylphryx wrote:

I do agree with many of the points raised so far in the thread so far. The one thing I would like to point out though, as it has not been done so clearly, posting snarky comments in an thread with an honest inquiry is not limited to "board veterans".

Indeed, the people who stand out for this sort of dismissive and off-putting behavior, are, by my standards, johnny-come-latelies who haven't been around for more than a year or two.

I haven't made a habit of flagging dickish behavior to new posters, but it seems like one of the better reasons to flag a post.

So true. However, there's a good number of folks who are regulars now that weren't around in the magazine days, and they kick much ass helping new folks out on certain topics. Some of them even hate some of the fast-and-loose methods some of the old pre-Pathfinder crew use to do things here. The [use of a certain word that changes your avatar], for example, worked for us for a long time and kept a neat and tidy community that was more focused on fun than the F-U. (Times when it was more a setting war than an edition war.) I understand how some of our tactics for community control just don't work with a bigger audience and can easily be seen as dismissive and disruptive. While a number of the vets either self-regulated their behavior, silently slipped away, or sequestered themselves to a more accepting section of the forums, some of us still kick around all of the boards, and for the most part, those old-schoolers rock the help-a-new-guy-or-girl method.

I just don't want the increased popularity of Pathfinder to create some exaggerated clique-mentality or a game with boards full of know-it-all jerks. We all swim in a bigger pond these days, so we need to help the school along...as a whole. It's a big game with a lot of rules set in a big world with a lot of nuance.

The best way to fight jackasses and jerks is to be better.

Be helpful.

Be nice.

Hi, new on the forum here. I made this picture of the Pathfinder Iconics in pixel version, and someone suggested in another thread to use them as avatars, and that this is the right thread to ask for this.

Pixelated Iconics

Feedback on the pic appreciated.

Do you know the rules of Chess, Go, Tic-Tac-Toe ?

I have never heard of RAI while playing any of these games and a myriad others.

Dear Paizo,

Please ensure that any future edition of Pathfinder is backwards-compatible with Tic-Tac-Toe.

Thank you for your time.

Could we get this thread locked? I find it personally annoying.

No.

If they drop into Archives from lack of posts, that's fine. But please don't stop some threads from being resuscitated when someone new or a new product offers more to discuss.

I don't understand the problem some people have with long threads... just skim through it to the end. It isn't that hard and many times someone has already offered the solution. You can also pick up lots of new hooks and ideas that you might never have thought of.