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lorenlord wrote:

Coriat wrote:

lorenlord wrote:

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen an Imam come out and denounce any of these terrorist acts by Radical extremists of their faith, which seems to show either complicity or cowardice. I mean why else wouldnt you want to distance your faith from the extremists doing horroble acts in the supposed name of your faith, and say 'this is what it is really about', unless it's one of those two reasons?

It took about fifteen seconds on Google to correct you.

(if you were looking for specifically at least one imam and not general Muslim leaders, scroll to after the quote block)

Thanks, just was wondering, no specific Imam in general, just seems like there had been general silence in the past, thank you for the link, good sir/miss.

It's a common response after any terrorist attack: "Why don't the moderate Muslims denounce it?"

They always have. Somehow it never gets through to people that they have and the question keeps being asked.

I wonder why that is.

That's why I figured I'd ask. I havent heard anything, so I thought I'd put the question out there. And Coriat was kind enough to reply. Much thanks.

lorenlord wrote:

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen an Imam come out and denounce any of these terrorist acts by Radical extremists of their faith, which seems to show either complicity or cowardice. I mean why else wouldnt you want to distance your faith from the extremists doing horroble acts in the supposed name of your faith, and say 'this is what it is really about', unless it's one of those two reasons?

It took about fifteen seconds on Google to correct you.

(if you were looking for specifically at least one imam and not general Muslim leaders, scroll to after the quote block)

Thanks, just was wondering, no specific Imam in general, just seems like there had been general silence in the past, thank you for the link, good sir/miss.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen an Imam come out and denounce any of these terrorist acts by Radical extremists of their faith, which seems to show either complicity or cowardice. I mean why else wouldnt you want to distance your faith from the extremists doing horroble acts in the supposed name of your faith, and say 'this is what it is really about', unless it's one of those two reasons?

What an absolute tragedy over there. I may not have agreed with what the paper was satiring, but loss of life for drawing cartoons is a sad commentary on the world in general. I mean, it seems that between this and the craziness that went on with The Interview movie, there are alot of entities out there trying to push their will onto freedoms (like free speech)that should be available to everyone without fear of death or terrorist acts, but sadly aren't.

And it's a good thing France has such harsh gun control laws, so no one can just get a Kalashnikov and start shooting.......oh wait....

The guy filming from his apartment had a perfect view. Now if he only actually was able and had a rifle instead of a cameraphone, there'd be 3 less Radical dirtbags on this planet, and 1 more shot but alive police officer, plus who knows how many civilians. Tragic.

I hope that the families of all the slain are brought peace in time, and are hopefully taken care of so they don't have yet another thing like financial burdens to deal with.

The only class that feels incomplete is the Sorcerer. First thing, I'd add a generic, versatile bloodline, like the Arcane BL in pathfinder, as a Sorcerer option. Draconic and Wild Magic are both good bloodlines to include, but they're both very specific. In general, I'd also like all the classes to have at least three unique paths, one generic and two specialized.

Overall, my hope is that new standalone classes are kept to a minimum and that they put new options into existing classes whenever possible. Using Pathfinder as an example, most of the standalone PF classes are either already essentially covered by a 5E archetype (Hunter, Skald, Warpriest, etc.), or could be easily adapted and slotted into existing 5E classes as new archetypes, without building a whole new class (Bloodrager -> Barbarian path, Shaman -> Cleric domain or Druid circle, Swashbuckler -> Rogue archetype, Samurai -> Paladin oath or Fighter archetype, etc.).

I agree about keeping the standalone classes to a minimum. i'm hoping they just keep adding interesting archetypes to them, and maybe more backgrounds that arent so class-specific sounding.

Boondock Saints, V for Vendetta, 13th Warrior, among many, many others.

Nice work! That definitely stinks about the Testor's spray-on varnish. It works really well, IMHO. I pretty much only paint GW, Reaper, and Privateer Press models, since that's what I'm usually commissioned to paint, but it works and protects them very well under some occasional rough use. Hopefully they lift that ban and you get some available to you in 2015.

(2) The Beginning Tavern

Where every campaign seems to start.

I got Supernatural Season 9, some cash, and a Cruise to the Carribbean next year. It was an excellent surprise.

Well Games workshop is doing there fantasy campaign called the end times maybe thats what there all on about?

That's exactly what I was thinking. Even Games Workshop is schilling the End Times.

You could try looking up the icons for powers from the tabletop miniatures game Warmachine/Hordes. They have icons on the cards that might fit that description.

I definitely enjoyed the movies. I went into each movie just expecting to be entertained and see what someone else's idea of Middle Earth come to life was besides my own. I wasn't disappointed by any of the six films. I loved the battles in this one, and Dain was great! I love reading, and when they come out with a movie for a book I read, I usually go see it so that I can see the book come to life and see how close my interpretation was to the directors, and to the author's. But i just enjoy them for what they are: entertainment.

Hey Patrik, great job! If you're looking for a good spray-on varnish, I use Testor's. They have glosscoat and dullcoat. The dull is really nice for dulling out the shine, and then I go back with a brush-on clear glosscoat on to shine up weapons and such. Hope it helps!

Maybe large-scale EMP's, which seems to be the reason the military seems to be scrambling to "harden" everything? So build yourselves lots of Farraday(sp?) Cages.

Wouldnt end the world, but the human population would rapdily be decimated.

Wow, I am so very sorry, my condolances, thoughts, and prayers

lorenlord wrote:

Alex Martin wrote:

Tinkergoth wrote:

As Carell said on twitter, it's a sad day for creative expression.

This right here - spot on.

Whether you find the movie to be terrible or funny; whether there's a matter of safety involved, you have essentially allowed one of the most repressive, human-rights abusive regimes on the planet dictate what's acceptable to a major corporation and countries from a computer terminal.

When a Danish cartoonist made a slight parody of Mohammed, and several Muslim countries/organizations lost their minds and made threats, everyone was standing up for the "rights of the artist." But North Korea makes vague threats based on the work of hackers over a movie and it's OK to just be like "meh, I don't even like Seth Rogen." That's missing the point, I think.

Just great to see America letting terrorist regimes push us around and dupe us. Again. Great precedence we're setting.

So what should "America" do? Should Congress pass a law requiring Sony and all the theaters to show "The Interview"?

"America" is doing nothing here. Sony is a Japanese company and they pulled the movie. The theater chains may be US companies, but they're not "America".

I dont know, maybe show some guts, tell them "screw you" and show 'Team America' like was planned? But then again, yet another gutless movie (Paramount) company caved. it's a sad precedence. They alredy cancelled one for Steve Carrell's new movies as well because of this. So I guess if your country has in issue with a movie, just say you'll bomb every theater and they'll cave. Awesome.

Tinkergoth wrote:

As Carell said on twitter, it's a sad day for creative expression.

This right here - spot on.

Whether you find the movie to be terrible or funny; whether there's a matter of safety involved, you have essentially allowed one of the most repressive, human-rights abusive regimes on the planet dictate what's acceptable to a major corporation and countries from a computer terminal.

When a Danish cartoonist made a slight parody of Mohammed, and several Muslim countries/organizations lost their minds and made threats, everyone was standing up for the "rights of the artist." But North Korea makes vague threats based on the work of hackers over a movie and it's OK to just be like "meh, I don't even like Seth Rogen." That's missing the point, I think.

Just great to see America letting terrorist regimes push us around and dupe us. Again. Great precedence we're setting.

The game should be about the playing, not the building and theory crafting.

I've seen Warhammer players and Magic: The Gathering players who literally would just discuss what armies/decks they had, their compositions and then run numbers based on what the internet determined their relative probabilities of victory against the other was instead of actually playing the game.

I don't want to see RPGs end up in the same place.

I'm a big Warhammer Fantasy player, been playing for about 20 years, and I can't tell you how many times I've walked into my LGS and there are guys there with their armies out, just sitting and theorycrafting against each other (or Mathammering as we came to call it) instead of actually rolling dice and playing the game out. It amazes me.

I'm reading 13 Hours In Benghazi. It's a very good book co-written by the Contractors that were involved on the ground. Very interesting.

the Ascendant Murderhobos of Kelemvor.

LOL That reminds me of a character I had in one of our homebrew D&D 4e campaigns. He was an Avenger with an Executioner's Axe who worshipped Kelemvor and didn't believe in non-lethal damage, since his God would judge if it lived or died. So the combats were the party trying to capture an enemy and beating me to the final shot. It made for some hilarious moments.

Great name, Crunch.

Not a problem. I hope you catch up, It's been aome interesting episodes you've missed.

Purple Dragon Knight wrote:

hmm... last show I saw was Dean on blade of Cain withdrawal... fade to black with him struggling I think..

so am i caught up or not? was that the last show I saw in the spring?

you're still afew episodes behind.

I understand Sony's two-part rationale for pulling the movie: a)not get sued if something happens, even if it's a hoax and someone pops a bag, you know someone will sue for mental anguish. that's the sad world we live in.

And b)just shutting it down to make sure nothing happens.

Either way, we let the terrorists win, yet again, and that is stomach-turning. We're losing the cyber-terror war, and not even putting up any sort of resistance that the hackers don't see as laughable. That sets a terrible presidence for other terrorists to consider "risk/reward" scenarios more seriously.

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

Oh, this is sooooo not the forum for this discussion... XD

What is funny is he posted it in off topic and they moved it here=)

Yeah, I found that kinda odd. I thought it was posted in the correct forum the first time.

"A government by representatives, elected by the people at short periods, was our object; and our maxim at that day was 'where annual election ends, tyranny begins' " -Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Samuel Adams

IHIYC is banned for planking

My most recent group couldnt make an important roll....ever. So the DM dubbed them the Party of No Measureable Worth.

And a group I DM'd for always screwed things up and went places they were never prepared to go and try to handle, so they called themselves the Bumble Bunch.

Except for ** spoiler omitted **

Yes, yes he was.

Sucker Punch. All of that.

Who wants to put money in the pot that the mid-season takes place 1-2 years later and we find out all about how he came back to life next season in a bunch of flashbacks? =)

I second Cain, not touching that bet.

Interesting concept. And you guys are probably spot on, seeing as the seem to really want to keep the crossover available. Since the Flash now has a place to hang his suit in the

I'm definitely more excited for the next half of the season now.

but any well-crafted fantasy movie gets my money thrown at it. :)

Yes, I definitely agree with that.

I hope they show the same previews when you go, as all the movies looked good.

Well, I might go see it, might not. I've been disappointed by the first two movies, mainly in the way Thorin's character has been altered from greedy, grumpy, old dwarf looking to make a quick fortune, to young, dynamic anti-hero.

At this point, the denouement of the story, Thorin's realization that he was wrong all along, will seem completely out of place after spending so much time showing him so desperately wanting to reclaim his people's rightful place.

I thought in the third one they did a very good job portraying the gold 'poisoning' Thorin. it was excellent overall. I was definitely not disappointed.

Of old age, after I survive the I.Z.A.

I think that they went overboard because he had been picked up for this and other offenses so many times, that's the only thing I could think of, because you are correct, just write a ticket and move along. Unless they know he hasn't paid the tickets in the past. Still, THIS particular case there shouldve been an indictment, no doubt. I wouldve wanted to see the officer go to trial.

I saw it yesterday, my local Theater was showing the trilogy, so that was the only way to see it before Wed. I thougth it was very good. The battle scenes were awesome, especially the Dwarves, and the designers always seems to come up with interesting ideas for the big creatures (Ogres and such, don't want to give anything away). Plus Dain ws great.

Kthulhu wrote:

David Bowles wrote:

I suspect 5th has some form of WBL as well, or everything is just that nerfed. I did look at the DMG, and even for a level 30 monster, the recommended AC was 19. So maybe things are just that nerfed.

It is not nerfed, it is a different f$%#ing system.

No. No. The numbers are smaller. That means it's nerfed.

LOL,Jeff. Sadly, that is how some people think. A group at my LGS that I know are min/max munchkins were blasting 5e due to there being so small numbers, so it must've gotten nerfed. I was going to ask them if they've actually played a game, but didnt feel like wasting time I'll never get back.

my favorite parts of 5e are the backgrounds and advantage/disadvantage mechanic. And I definitely like the lesser amount of numbers to deal with. Like I said before, the only thing I wish they would've done is spread the saves around the abilities more, so there's more of a downside to dumping stats.

Star Wars operates on the rule of cool. It always has. (look at the physics of dogfighting starfighters for example)

Whatever problems a light-crossguard might have, and however negligible its benefits might be, it still looks cool. That's all it takes in Star Wars to "work".

Agreed. That's probably why when I was looking for another mini's game to play besides the unholy trio I play now, when I saw X-Wing and how simple yet fun the rules were, and how nice the mini's are, I was instantly hooked. You can almost picture an X-Wing/TIE batlle with score as you're maneuvering and firing in turn.

I just may have a vividly crazy imagination though ;)

Thanks for the explanation, things are a bit clearer now that a little of the lore as far as that episode and Martial arts skill comparison have been explained. Thank you. I was always a big Marvel Comics geek, but always liked Batman cause of the gadgets and (especially the Dark Knight) because he wasn't a "goodie-goodie", and I guess that's what I like about Arrow, beside the bow as noted before. Is his reluctance to kill from the comic, or is that for the show as well? Also, I feel like these flashbacks are a little more muddled than the ones from when he was on the island, might just be me though.

Creature abilities in 4E and D&D:Next sort of replace the need for feats IMO. An Orc doesn't need Power Attack, he could simply have a line that says "-5 to Attack, add an additional +10 to the damage roll" or to illustrate Lightning Reflexes "The Orc has advantage when making Dexterity saving throws."

An endless list of feats based on HD isn't required (and good riddance).

I totally agree. I'd much rather have a built-in "effect" than have to build charamonsters.

I know a bit of the lore, and IMO Ollie being able to easily beat Ra's and previously Slade on his first attempt would be selling the characters way short, especially since Slade was super powered.

Both have a ton of experience on Ollie, Ra's especially (on the order of CENTURIES).

I'm a bit biased in Slade's case (Deathstroke is one of my all time favorite DC characters).

Ollie's still new on the scene. If he was able to take out every big bad m*+&~*%*&!%# on the planet in hand to hand combat the character would have nowhere to improve, skills-wise.

Plus you're also forgetting this is NOT the finale. It's the MID-SEASON finale. The shows both come back in January to finish out this season.

This is not a loss in the final act, this is a loss in the second act, basically.

Fair enough, sir. Your knowlegde on the lore is definitely greater than mine. This show was my first intro to mirakuru(sp?) and other than Batman, I'd never heard of the League.

Valid points on the Ollie vs Ra's and Slade battling as well, I guess I was just expecting more, maybe, as much as they show Ollie training?

I guess what is frustrating is when they just keep bringing people back from the dead. I don't know if that's part of the series lore, but just when you think someone's been offed, they're back. I'm definitely watching the next half, as I like the character, probably because I've always had an affinity for bows.

Who, exactly, do you think "needs to go"?

The only character I can think of the show wouldn't be too much worse off without is Laurel (who they can't really get rid of after building up her storyline beginning) and Roy (who while he doesn't add much...doesn't detract from anything either).

I think about the best you're going to get is Roy maybe moves onto a new show if they decide to spin-off into a show with him and Nightwing and other such characters.

I guess i'm just getting tired, in general, of this buildup to the penultimate battle, and it's to the point that the hero loses all of them, all the time. I had hoped that Oliver would defeat Ra'as, but there would be a way that a deal would be brokered with the League, but going in I pretty much knew that Oliver would lose. Because all of the shows lately have the same setup: hero loses. i guess that's where the frustration lies, that every show feels the need to go away from the hero winning in the finale, to "buck the trend" they think. Well it seems now "bucking the trend" would be to have the hero actually kill the bad guy and have to live with the consequences.

I enjoy the show, and I guess I'm in the minority that wants to see Oliver and Felicity get together (could just be that I have a crush on Felicity :) ). But I guess I was just disappointed about that and, like Rynjin pointed out, it seemed a bit all over the place and disjointed. I never followed the comics, so i'm just watching and enjoying the show as-is, so I don't know the actual lore behind it.

I'm slowly losing interest in this series after all of the rediculousness that goes on storywise. The mid-season was not up to par at all, especially that ending. I really like the show, and I really want it to be big, but it keeps just putting itself in mediocrity with buildup and letdown. I'm gonna watch next season and hopefully they actually start killing people off that need to go.

lorenlord wrote:

An X-Wing, B-Wing, A-Wing, TIE Defender, TIE Bomber, TIE Interceptor, z-95 Headhunter, Slave-1, and Millennium Falcon for the X-Wing Fighter combat game. It's wayyy too much fun and addicting.

no y wing?

Good call, Freehold. I forgot that one. I have the E-Wing and TIE Phantom, but forgot one of the classics. Thanks for the assist :)

An X-Wing, B-Wing, A-Wing, TIE Defender, TIE Bomber, TIE Interceptor, z-95 Headhunter, Slave-1, and Millennium Falcon for the X-Wing Fighter combat game. It's wayyy too much fun and addicting.

I'm very much liking the setup of 5e, for many of the reasons noted. The ability scores having a cap without magical aid, and even then havign a cap is nice. I also love the feat or ability score bump decision. I think they did a great job with the MM, giving even the "weakest" of creatures a feel like they will be dangerous for many levels, and the big baddies some coool abilities, such as the great dragon's ability to auto-save x amount of times per day.
Maybe I'm one of the few that actually likes the fact that the number aren't as rediculously high as they were in 3.x/PF.
I just got the 5e DMG, and I must say I am pretty impressed with it. It details the planes really well, and gives options on efffects of spending time there. it also has a cool section on option al rules the DM can put in for flavor. It looks really nice.
Hopefully this is the direction the edition goes in, and shies away from piling on classes, and just enhances backgrounds and maybe some archtypes.

That droid is terribad. Now I know why droids arent allowed in cantinas. That dumb thing would be bouncing around spilling drinks the whole time.

But what if him returning means the world ends?

If the world is gonig to end on 12/21, I'm glad i'll get to see the final Hobbit. Hopefully 12/21 brings the I.Z.A.-I need to practice my headshots.