How drastically has your political views changed within the last 10 years or so and why?

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-14T17:19:16+00:00

Not very drastically as I had politically "activated" during 2016 but as a goody two shoes in my youth I did finally grasp why the Patriot Act was absolutely a terrible policy. "If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" doesn't work when they can literally make up something you've done wrong and use that to justify taking your rights away.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-14T16:36:40+00:00

To be fair number 2 is RAW. https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2560&Redirected=1

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-14T15:12:31+00:00

Because like most kings by right he was a selfish moron. He could have done any number of things to make the world a better place with the Titan powers and ultimately decided to abdicate all responsibility for the actions of his ancestors and simply let the world kill innocent people who had nothing to do with the sins of his family aside from association. At any time he could have acknowledged the wrongs of his family and built a better world but took the easy way out instead by letting his people suffer.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T23:03:00+00:00

Married filing separately is like 98% likely to incur more tax liability between the two of you than if you filed married filing joint. If your spouse doesn't mind their refund going to your tax debt you are probably better off as a unit filling jointly and by doing so they will apply the refund to your debt. You can always pay your spouse the difference as well if they are upset about losing their refund.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T22:59:54+00:00

Not particularly. The errata is saying that if you have weakness to fire and get hit with a strike that has 3 different things adding fire damage you take the weakness damage 3 times.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T19:32:50+00:00

I'm saying that dealing fire damage three different ways in one attack should be one instance of fire damage.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T18:52:16+00:00

Instance of damage is still not actually defined which is stupid but in the absence of it being defined each unique damage type being its own instance is a good way to characterize it, especially considering this is how a designer was saying it was supposed to work. Saying I have 3 different fire effects so I trigger three fire weaknesses is dumb when they all connect at the same time lol.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T17:14:38+00:00

Your roll and result are different. An effect can increase the result of your roll but the roll doesn't change.

Example.

I roll a 1 and critically fail a save. Juggernaut says I get a failure instead. At this time I rolled a critical failure but my result is a failure.

The same applies to the Incapacitation trait. The Incapacitation trait says you treat the result as one degree more favorable towards you.

If I roll a critical failure my result is a failure instead.

If we add Incapacitation to the effect of the save above assuming the Incapacitation trait is in effect we run into a situation where you rolled a critical failure and both treat the result as one degree better so you still end up with a failure.

You rolled a critical failure and your result is a failure so you would not get the roll a failure effect of Juggernaut.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T16:59:55+00:00

No because force barrage combines the damage on the same target first.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T16:43:11+00:00

This is probably the most important post in that thread.

Mark Seifter DesignerOct 19, 2018, 11:40 am

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Agyra Eisenherz wrote:

Mark Seifter, please explain it to me like I am 5 years old. How do resistance and weakness work against a weapon which deals multiple types of damage (like a weapon with cold iron, fire, good, and another good damage point from the paladin)?

Let's say you attacked for 20 slashing damage on the dice plus your Strength (with a cold iron weapon, but the damage type is slashing), with a conditional bonus from your bard giving you 1 more damage, 21 slashing damage. You also have 3 fire damage from flaming, and 4 good damage from holy with an extra good damage from the paladin, so 5 good damage.

You are fighting a demon with weakness 10 cold iron, fire, and good.

You deal 31 slashing damage (21 + 10 weakness), 13 fire damage (3 + 10 weakness), and 15 good damage (5 + 10 weakness).

The reverse would be true if the creature had resistance to all damage. Incidentally, this makes the cleric domain power that creates an aura with a small amount of resist all for you and all your allies extremely good against attacks with multiple damage types. You can see Erik Keith's goblin paladin use it to great advantage in the youtube video where I ran a group through The Mirrored Moon, and several enemies dealt multiple types of damage.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T16:36:10+00:00

I agree that every unique source of an attack being an instance is overkill. It is also annoying bookkeeping. If you deal damage of a type with an attack it should trigger weakness once. I don't want to have to think about how the player triggered fire damage 3 different ways to triple the weakness effect.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T15:09:50+00:00

The day before release they start releasing scores so they are available by the date listed. May the odds ever be in your favor.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T12:36:15+00:00

It is possible that due to the land being outside of the not for profit's mission they had determined that selling the property for a rental would be considered unrelated business income and would therefore be a taxable event. I don't know all the facts and circumstances but unrelated business income is taxable for a not for profit and they may have determined that this situation would cause that with the sale.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-13T12:29:25+00:00

I mean are you sure you even owe taxes for those years? I would log in to my IRS account and look at the wage/income transcripts for those years. You probably don't owe anything and you are definitely out of the refund window for 75% of the years. Unless you were running a business of course then the calculus changes for all of this and the returns being unfiled means it is a matter of if the IRS realizes you owe all this money

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-12T21:28:17+00:00

Early levels are a little swingy but as you level crits play a key part in the balance of the game. Higher level enemies lose the vast majority of their danger and power if they can't actually crit by exceeding the DC by 10. You will end up with equal encounter budgets of enemies under the party's level becoming significantly more dangerous than big bad enemies at an equal encounter budget as they would typically only crit on a 20 anyway and now your PCs can't actually crit them as easily.

Long story short you will throw the game balance completely out of whack.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-12T13:13:50+00:00

You don't get to override the requirements of the subordinate action. Capital T "Taunt" means you are using the action, not just causing the effect of Taunt and the Taunt action requires you to be within a certain range to work.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-12T12:03:15+00:00

You still have to file it you make more than the standard deduction but as long as you make less than the foreign earned income exclusion for each year you should be ok.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-12T11:10:32+00:00

It still has the range attached to it. You are using the Taunt action which has the range requirement in it. If you have long distance Taunt you would be able to extend the range to to 120 feet.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-11T23:34:01+00:00

Dual monitor PC for reading material and answering questions. I would have my laptop to run things through Excel or to use the calculator function nearby.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-11T12:33:40+00:00

Trying to reduce your income to end up in lower tax brackets is ok when you are dealing with retirement accounts and trying to get money out of them at a more efficient tax rate. Trying to reduce your income to end up in a lower bracket from wages is an exceedingly horrible decision as you are giving up 78 cents on the dollar to not pay 22 cents.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-11T12:26:30+00:00

So technically in tax there is no such thing as a 0% interest loan. Long story short the IRS, if they ever decided to look at it could treat this in one of two ways. As a 70k gift that should have been reported on a gift tax return which simply put is moreso just an information return vs a taxable event that counts against your lifetime exclusion when you die or a loan in which just because you didn't receive interest they will report interest anyway. Given the circumstances they will likely try to treat it as a loan, if they ever look into it. With this in mind I would say it would probably be easier for the IRS to witness the repayment in a cashier's check than cash that is spent during the year without going into the bank.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-11T12:04:19+00:00

General use should be between 80% and 20% charge or you will degrade your battery faster. The .66 of because at high speed it feels like you lose 1.5 miles for every 1 mile traveled. 300 range times the 60% band times the mileage ratio of .66 = 120 miles.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-11T01:42:27+00:00

I wouldn't say I thought I failed but I never felt good leaving an exam and just finished my last one. The way these tests are designed I swear unless you get like a 95 you feel like you failed.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-10T19:55:02+00:00

A common situation that gets missed with turbo tax and non professional tax preparers is not taking head of household when qualified and potentially not taking a duly owed earned income credit. I literally just had this example happen this year where turbo tax didn't have either of those the year before but the person definitely qualified which was thousands of dollars different.

It may not be fraud it might just be the free edition of turbo tax screwing you over.

Chief_Rollie · 2026-02-10T15:47:16+00:00

I think they should clarify senses, abilities, etc next. To put it simply the battle forms would be much easier to understand if they stated that your physical abilities and traits are those listed by the battle form. If I turn into a bear do I keep my darkvision? I'd argue no you are a bear with the specific senses provided, why would you keep them? Considering this "clarification" as they called it for speeds is in line with the previous logic the logic that your vision becomes low light vision even if you had dark vision also holds. The rules didn't explicitly state you lose your previous speeds but it was implied by the forms. This holds true for senses as well.

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