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captain yesterday wrote:

Most likely no one has flagged it yet, and they've been pretty busy fixing the website (that I didn't break) and rolling out Starfinder.

I wouldn't take it as an endorsement.

FWIW, I flagged it yesterday.

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There's currently a thread in Off-Topic about the Scientists' March on Washington, which has been open for a day and a half without being locked.

Can I presume then that the ban on political topics has been lifted, and I would be free to create a thread about, say, the March for Life going on right now?

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Kryzbyn wrote:
Trump voters aren't bogeymen who are going to come into your house and drink your milk.

But amazingly, insinuating that specific people on the boards are an imminent physical threat based on who they voted for doesn't violate the Community Guidelines

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Sundakan wrote:


People of all beliefs were allowed to participate in the discussions before, I see no reason why that would change. But the politics of this site do lean a certain way, in general. The people who are opposed or come slant-wise on those majority beliefs are, naturally going to come into conflict.

I'm not sure where you get idea of an echo chamber from by allowing people to post. You'd be as free to disagree as ever.

Did you not see the election thread before it got nuked? Insults and name-calling were routine, but when it came from the pro-Hillary camp, it was allowed to stand unchallenged. It didn't take long for the whole thread to devolve into a "Hillary or GTFO" dumpster fire.

Yes, I am technically allowed to post, but when I know it means I will be subject to insults and abuse that is implicitly approved by the mods, why would I want to?

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Sundakan wrote:

Shower thoughts, Paizo is a very progressive company. They take opportunities (for better or worse) to try and educate people on their viewpoints via their moderation practices. It's clear that they all care a lot about the views they hold, and consider them their definition of common decency.

In this rapidly changing political climate...shutting down discussion does not help in spreading that decency. There are a lot of things going on RIGHT NOW that are hard to keep track of and run counter to Paizo's ideology, and that of many in the community. Bills and protests and marches that can potentially change history or mitigate the damage caused by the current administration.

It seems to make sense for Paizo to want people to discuss these things, organize, and get out to make a change. Whether it be by joining activist groups or just "signal boosting" those problems to this audience.

Shutting down all political discussion is how the other side wins, in other words.

So you think political discussions should be open, so they can serve as a marketing tool for the particular ideology that Paizo endorses?

Do you realize that there are lots of people with differing, even contradictory, ideologies that would like to participate as full members of the community, and not be treated as second-class citizens?

I would rather have no political discussion at all, or full and open discussion, than set up a political echo chamber where I, and people like me, can be set up as an ideological punching bag. I don't want to participate in a community where I'm treated as a roadblock, or an enemy to be overcome, or "damaging" because of how I might have voted, without a chance to defend myself or present my own perspective.

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I think there IS value in having political discussions among people brought together for other reasons, because you'll get a bigger cross-section of views than in spaces created specifically for politics.

Of course, that advantage is moot if only one side feels comfortable participating because insults and name-calling against them are allowed to stand, while their civil disagreement is secretly moderated away.

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I think we need to address moderation policies before we bring back political threads. I've had multiple posts get memory-holed (moderated away without acknowledgement) for no good reason, while other posts that clearly broke community guidelines (but happened to align with majority/staff-endorsed views) remained.

Moderation either needs to be more transparent, or the community guidelines need to be expanded to explicitly describe which beliefs are sacrosanct, and which are not allowed to be expressed.


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Male Half-Elf Bard 2 | AC 12 | HP 15/15 | Perc. +1 | Insight +1 | S-1/D+4/Cn+1/I+3/W+1/Ch+6 | Spells: 1st (2/3) | HD 2/2 | Bardic Insp (d6) 3/4 | Insp [-] |

Alfonso is singing a boisterous tune to drown out the screams of the rats that he kills.

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Why do we not have a Die Hard-style scenario yet?

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Norman Osborne wrote:
Pan wrote:
Kind of hard to accomplish when you have contempt for a segment of the population.
That's very true. And I think it's part of the reason that the map ended up being so red. Liberal contempt for anyone who doesn't agree with them completely is a real thing, and it was a large factor.

Exactly. When you mainstream classism and racism against rural and blue-collar whites, don't be surprised when they fight back. And after the violence against Trump supporters in places like San Jose, it's no surprise they didn't make themselves known to the pollsters.

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Kryzbyn wrote:
HIllary couldn't keep enough of the black or hispanic votes to win. The swing states were decided by independants. I think the "angry old white people" rhetoric doesn't fit here.

Indeed, Trump out-performed Mitt Romney in terms of the black AND Hispanic vote. If the "angry white people" couldn't mobilize to keep Obama out of the White House, there's obviously something else in play here.

Protip: Don't listen to the "experts" who thought Trump had no chance of winning, to figure out how he won. They clearly don't understand the forces at work here.

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Comrade Anklebiter wrote:
RainyDayNinja wrote:
Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Made my one and only concession to lesser evilism:

My mother asked me to bring my retired father to the polls, but I've heard him talking on the phone with his gun club buddies about voting for Trump, so I left him home.

#VoterSuppression2016

To balance it out, I'm going to the parking lot here at work and slashing the tires of the first car I see with a Hillary bumper sticker.

Hey, it's less than a ten minute walk down the street. Not my fault he's to busy fixing his shotgun shell reloader.

Oh, and he just took off his pants.

What a party animal!

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Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Made my one and only concession to lesser evilism:

My mother asked me to bring my retired father to the polls, but I've heard him talking on the phone with his gun club buddies about voting for Trump, so I left him home.

#VoterSuppression2016

To balance it out, I'm going to the parking lot here at work and slashing the tires of the first car I see with a Hillary bumper sticker.

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"Before the Dawn, Part I: The Bloodcove Disguise" is all about dressing up in costumes and going door to door to collect supplies.

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I've a Paladin 2/Brawler 2/Swashbuckler (Noble Fencer) 1 in PFS right now, who's going for 2 levels of Medium next, followed by Fighter (Brawler).

He flurries with Unarmed Strikes while in full plate and heavy shield, and thanks to Snake Style, his Unarmed Strikes are piercing weapons for Swashbuckler goodies. Also thanks to Snake Style, he can use Sense Motive in place of touch AC as an immediate action, and the Noble Fencer Swashbuckler archetype lets him essentially use derring-do on those checks. Medium and Fighter levels are for cranking up the attack and damage bonuses. Saves are through the roof.

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Klara Meison wrote:
Secondly, if encouraging such an environment is an instant bannable offence, it should be mentioned in the damned community guidelines to prevent further incidents such as this.

Eh, the Community Guidelines don't mean much if they're selectively enforced.

The last post I had moderated away (without any kind of notification in the thread or otherwise) was calling out someone who compared certain styles of RPG campaigns to genocide. That comparison wasn't deleted, despite being a clear violation of the Community Guidelines, but my response to it was.


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George, the Secret Service may not have been involved in real life, but it was the only national law enforcement agency at the time, other than the Park Police and Postal Inspectors. I'm going to say that they are the appropriate people for this.

Morroway & Co.:

Agent Marshall looks Van Winkle up and down. "Are you his legal counsel? Otherwise I can't share details of the investigation with you."

British Embassy:

Mr. Smythe stops writing when Harry mentions the lizard men. He looks at the photographs calmly.
"I have no time for your Hindu superstitions. Please see yourselves out."

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Extend Spell would be much better as a rod, even if you have to buy a few of them.


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Male Half-Elf Bard 2 | AC 12 | HP 15/15 | Perc. +1 | Insight +1 | S-1/D+4/Cn+1/I+3/W+1/Ch+6 | Spells: 1st (2/3) | HD 2/2 | Bardic Insp (d6) 3/4 | Insp [-] |

Alfonso rushes to Treggor's side, and claps him on the back.

"Well, go get her, man! You're the best swimmer here! And it sounds like she has the hots for you, to boot."

Bardic Inspiration die for Treggor! I'll give one to anyone else who wants to go after her.

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This sounds similar to the planar magic traits, like Impeded Magic. That could be an interesting feature of your world or magic system, in which natural features of the world inhibit magic tied to opposing concepts. So create water fails in the desert, fireball is weaker in the arctic, and acid splash fizzles in, um... a limestone quarry?

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No one expects RPG Superstar!

Our four primary weapons are surprise, filigree, gore, a fanatical devotion to construction requirements, and-

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Rysky wrote:
Overthinker wrote:
I sword fight. It is an additional hobby of mine. When I feint in combat I am trying to decide my opponent. Feinting is not viewed as dishonorable in my circles, but you are tricking your opponent. A feint does not work if you do not device your opponent. Really, I never faint new guys because they can't read my moves to block the fake shot anyway. Feinting is deceptive. It is the nonverbal equivalent of yelling "hey look over there!"

No it's not, not even close.

"Hey look over there!" Is a distraction brought about by lying, it's completely different than feinting.

Even saying "Hey, look over there!" isn't a lie at all. You're not making a claim that there's something there worth looking at; you're just telling your opponent what you want them to do.

Likewise, feinting in combat isn't lying, because drawing back for a punch is not an implicit promise that you will follow through on that punch, rather than kick your opponent. Being hard to predict isn't lying, any more than changing subjects in a conversation when you don't want to tell the truth.

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Interested, if there's still space. I've got multiple characters in both subtiers.

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bugleyman wrote:
RainyDayNinja wrote:

Or, you know, that some people can recognize an obvious joke.

The fact that the media is presenting an obvious joke like this as a serious proposal is exactly why Trump's supporters don't care what the media says about him.

Oh right...the liberal (yet 100% corporate owned) media did it!

Was it an "obvious joke" when he called illegal immigrants rapists? Is the rampant misogyny also a joke? Or the part where he sure did admire Saddam?

Wake up. The only "obvious joke" is his candidacy.

You sure are putting a lot of words in my mouth.

I'm no Trump fan, but every non-issue that people like you elevate to a crisis, just chips away at your credibility when it comes to the actually important things.

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bugleyman wrote:
Scott Betts wrote:

Donald Trump literally just told Russia to hack a former Secretary of State in order to obtain what he hopes is classified information, and promised they'd be rewarded for doing so.

That actually just happened.

And yet his numbers won't take a hit. Just goes to show that his supporters don't actually care about little things like the law.

Or, you know, that some people can recognize an obvious joke.

The fact that the media is presenting an obvious joke like this as a serious proposal is exactly why Trump's supporters don't care what the media says about him.

Scarab Sages

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Elf AC 23 T 13 FF 20 | HP 51/51 | F +9 R +7 W +7 (+2 vs. ench, immune sleep) | Init +15 | Perc +10 (low-light, SeeInvis) | SM +0 | Abj (4/4) | Div (2/2) | Evo (4/6) | Trans (5/5) | HeightAware

Can I use Linguistics to aid someone's Diplomacy?

Linguistics: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35
Diplomacy Aid: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4

Well then...

"As any nitwit can see, these letters are crude forgeries. Names misspelled, incorrect titles, and the author using rather bizarre dialects and idioms completely at odds with the supposed leaders' backgrounds. Is this what passes for evidence among this kangaroo court?"


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Male Human Cleric of Njord 7 | AC22 | HP 24/52 | Perc. +8 | Insight +8 | S+3/D+1/Cn+5/I+1/W+8/Ch+1 | Spells: 1st (0/4), 2nd (1/3), 3rd (1/3), 4th (0/1) | Wrath 4/5 | HD 7/7 | Divinity 0/2 | Insp: [0] |

"Let us proceed with caution. One does not simply walk into more doors..."


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Male Half-Elf Bard 2 | AC 12 | HP 15/15 | Perc. +1 | Insight +1 | S-1/D+4/Cn+1/I+3/W+1/Ch+6 | Spells: 1st (2/3) | HD 2/2 | Bardic Insp (d6) 3/4 | Insp [-] |

..."work"?..."diligently"?... I'm sorry, I don't know those words.

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Conservative Anklebiter wrote:
Never understood why they call Trump Drumpf. Like, when I write or talk about Hillary I don't call her B#%$@ to be condescending to her even though I don't like her. Hell, I liked Sanders more.

Because everyone knows the best way to point out how petty and xenophobic a guy is, is to make fun of his funny-sounding foreign family name.

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ChucklesMcTruck wrote:
BigNorseWolf wrote:
As a skilled chef you could get any result you wanted from filet mignon to burnt to a crisp.
That actually makes a lot more sense to me. You'd be skilled enough to fake being terrible.

You're skilled enough to create terrible food. But you may not convince people that you weren't trying to make terrible food.

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ChucklesMcTruck wrote:
RainyDayNinja wrote:
Can you give an example? I would think it would be easier to just describe what exactly you intend to do, and try to "succeed" at that.

Let's say you're trying to pretend you're not as good at a skill as you actually are. For example: you're playing in the Wormwood Mutiny and you want to end up as a swab so you have access to certain parts of the ship. But, you've got a pretty good Profession (Cook) skill, so you may accidentally end up as the ship's cook instead if you are forced to roll. You "take 1" on the roll so you intentionally screw it up.

Or, say you're using the Awaken Contruct spell on an animated object, but you don't want it to become too smart so it's easier to control. You "take 1" on all the ability rolls and end up with an INT 3 and a CHA 3, which is better for your particular plans.

And so forth. I could probably think of half a dozen other examples but you get the idea.

Your first example would be a bluff check, to pretend you don't know what you're doing.

The second example isn't a skill; it's a random quantity, similar to rolling damage on a fireball. You can't choose the value.

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Mammoth Rider, obviously.

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First off, VMC isn't PFS-legal, so Bardic Knolwedge is out. On the other hand, if you're OK with worshipping Irori, you can take one of those feats you just freed up and pick up Deific Obedience for a +4(!) sacred bonus to all Knowledges.

Also, Breadth of Experience isn't allowed for humans. You could switch to a Dwarf, Elf, or Gnome (gnome would be best with the Charisma boost), or swap it out for Dilettante, which would still be pretty good if you want to spread your skills around instead of hyper-focusing on specific Knowledges.

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Trained-only skills just mean you need at least one skill rank in them to use them. That's all the training you need.

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Other flat precision damage would include things like a Swashbuckler's precise strike, or the bonus from Focused Shot.

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Chris Mortika wrote:

Also, you need to have a character participating in the game to spend Prestige during the session. Since you can't do that as a GM, a GM is never allowed to spend PP. (Or gold, for that matter)

To some extent, that's to get you off the hook. In a couple of months, you may be running a Tier 5 - 9 scenario, and a PC might get killed. Can you, as the GM, contribute to raising the character? No.

I don't think he's asking about spending PP on spellcasting services for the PCs, but rather for purchasing items for his GM credit character using PP. For that, you can just mark it on your sheet like you would a purchase you paid money for.

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It says "all ways", so yeah.

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I once tried to get my wife to run an Undine musket master gunslinger, alongside my Ifrit mysterious stranger gunslinger.

"Burns & Waters: Guns for Hire"

"No, she's Burns, and I'm Waters!"

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Scanning the Bestiary index for fey creatures (which tend to have the highest HD for their CR), the lowest 11 HD creature is the Sangoi at CR 7. However the Bagiennik has 12 HD at CR 6.

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Gloves are assumed to be fingerless, because we're all murder-hobos.

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Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Couple weeks back we met this guy who used to be a comrade down in Alabama but then moved to Massachusetts to pursue his goal of being an academic Marxist economist.

...
(Didn't even offer gas money.)

Are you trying to break my irony meter?

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