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I don't remember most of my school readings, but I do remember the bad ones I've had.

In elementary, I had to read A Wrinkle in Time.  I don't remember it particularly well, but the plot seemed really incoherent.  These kids find these old women who aren't old women, they bounce around a bunch of random dimensions, and then they kill this brain thing ruling over this  town by thinking really weirdly.  And that's the story.

Middle school had me read Into Thin Air, which was this non-fiction that had to do with a bunch of Everest climbers getting stuck in a big storm, I think they made a movie of it recently.  The main problem that kept me unengaged was the shear amount of characters.  There were multiple teams of climbers, each team had like 10 people and a boatload of Sherpa.

We also had to read a bunch of Jack London, whom I swear writes the same book every time.  Its Alaska, its fucking cold, long parts of some guy freezing to death because its Alaska and its fucking cold, and dogs that are wolfs but not really.  And its fucking cold in Alaska.

In High School, we had to read Nineteen Minutes, which was terrible.  It had to do with this fictional school shooting and all of the court stuff afterward, with a teenage romance subplot on the side because why not.  I wasn't sure wether I wanted the kid to be innocent pr guilty or whatever, because every character was incredibly unlikable or forgettable.

I ended up turning off the day cycle.  All the lighting wrecks my performance.

because the backburner only crits from behind

But you already had to attack them from behind to gain any amount of success

And the backburner doesn't need to be charged to get crits, it always has them, and on top of that it has access to airblast.

Definitely. Now Pyros can't rush a group of enemies and use the Phlog to both heal and prepare for an asskicking. Now they have to *gasp* sneak around and get into an advantageous position before using MMMPH instead of rushing the nearest clump of enemies. Otherwise they'll get shot to pieces before they can use the MMMPH or activate it too early and run out before doing much damage. And then get shot to pieces.

So why not just use the backburner?

What the heck is OSR?

As far as I understand, a remake of classic D&D.


I do have the option of just running KotB with 1st ed AD&D rather than converting it to 5th

If pathfinder didn't have so many feats, we wouldn't have experienced the glory that is sacred geometry!

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Another thing.  I want to convert/run the original Keep on the Borderlands in 5th Ed.  Anyone have any tips for attempting this?

Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 19, 2016, 02:11:12 pm

Why kill purple androgynous embodiment of /tg?

He/she/it's not dead, just stuck in a box on an Aelf's shelf.

Personally I suspect that GW shoved him/her/it out of the way in AoS because they wanted to do more with the Horned Rat (Skaven were/are a popular faction) but wanted to stick with there only being four major chaos gods and Slaanesh was both the least popular and the least suited to the AoS aesthetic.

GW probably didn't want bright pink chaos warriors anymore

Actually a lot of the reasons American comic books are almost wholly superheroes was due to the Comic Code back in the 50's, which heavy limited what content you could put in comics.  Superhero comics lived on as they were the easiest to get past all the censoring.  This code wasn't eased all that much until the 80's, and was totally gone around the 2000's.

Much like how some video games sparked the creation of a rating system, but in this case it was more "you can't do that".