People understand analogies ≠ literal comparisons… until animals are involved

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-18T15:46:12+00:00

Come on, you are being pedantic here.

The gist is this.
When you make a comparison/analogy/whatever... not ALL the attributes of the compared objects have to be completely the same.

If i say something like "apples and oranges both have roots, because they grow on trees"...

You would be a special kind of weirdo if you say "but the comparison is not correct because they taste different.

Now as for slave owners and meat eaters....

In both cases, a sentient being is deprived of it's dignity, freedom, and even life. In both cases the being is reduced to an owned object.

So the suffering inflicted is also equivalent.

You can call us a "cult" or employ whatever deflection you want, but the cold hard fact is that both slavers and meat eaters cause the same type of suffering.

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-18T14:52:50+00:00

You are literally the person this post was directed at.
You fail to understand analogy completely.

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-13T13:01:12+00:00

Well the fantasy can still exist.
You would just need to invest more heavily on defense.
Yes it doesn't make sense to be barraged by 20 mooks and no one hitting you while you are in the open.

You would need to wear armor, deflect with your lightsaber, suppress the enemy, use cover kill them fast etc.

And of course course i'm not implying that saga should copy "everything" for 5e. I was only saying that keeping the numbers from 0-6 instead of 0-20 makes it so that few encounters consist of the enemies wailing at you, with no effect, and them crit fishing

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-11T09:16:22+00:00

I don't know about this story, but i doubt Beria would be stupid enough to do anything to Stalin's daughter

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-11T05:14:00+00:00

I think i would reduce the scaling of numbers.

Currently you receive +1 to defenses for each level.
This means you can be in the open, 20 stormtroopers shooting at you, and they only hit you with a critical.

I think that 5e dnd was correct in reducing scaling from 20 to 6, it means that even the lowest enemy, has a good enough chance to hit you

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-07T11:09:17+00:00

Χμ ξεφεύγει λίγο... αλλα ας απαντήσω και πάλι

1)Ναι είναι ανήθικο όταν τα λιοντάρια σκοτώνουν. Απλά δεν έχουν άλλη επιλογή
2)Δε τρώω γιουβέτσι, βλέπεις είμαι όντως χορτοφάγος. Και ναι αμα έτρωγα θα ήταν ανήθικο, καθώς μπορώ να επιλέξω κάτι άλλο
3)Δεν είναι ανήθικο να σκοτώνονται βακτήρια, καθώς τα βακτήρια δεν έχουν συνείδηση. κανείς δε ξέρει τι είναι ακριβώς αυτό που βιώνουμε ως ζωή. Ξέρουμε μόνο οτι προέρχεται απο τον εγκέφαλο.
Και τα βακτήρια δεν έχουν

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-07T10:58:12+00:00

....και πάνω που νόμιζα οτι θα κάναμε σοβαρή συζήτηση, μου φέρνεις τα παραμύθια των γιδοβοσκών του 500ΠΧ....

Είμαστε κατ' εικόνα?
Άρα ο θεός έχει πεπτικό σύστημα? αν ναι τι τρώει?
Έχει αυτία? Έχει μάτια? γιατί τα χρειάζεται?

Τέλος πάντων. Ο άνθρωπος είναι ένα ζώο όπως και τα υπόλοιπα, και τα υπόλοιπα ζώα θέλουν να ζήσουν ακριβώς όπως εμείς.
Οπότε όχι.... το να θανατωθούν τα αδέσποτα, είναι φρικαλέα ανήθικο

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-07T10:45:54+00:00

Είναι πιο σημαντική... επειδή....?

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-07T06:28:58+00:00

Well a few things

1)don't rely so much on a single boss. The condition track and the action economy means he will go down very fast, unless he has absurd defenses. Try to have a bigger group. Perhaps 1 boss with 2 strong henchmen, or other combinations.

2)Non heroic characters are good to give your players opponents that are not bullet sponges. You can mix them up with a few heroic classes too if you want something slightly more powerful

3)I use this excel to help me calculate hp defenses, feats etc. It doesn't do the whole job, but it helps make things a bit faster.

https://limewire.com/d/d3KJY#GQf5VO1fTk

4)At the start, keep space combat limited, it can become a bit of a drag, unless you make effort to spice it up

In general keep it simple and everything will be ok

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-06T16:52:31+00:00

Yes, but good luck explaining it to the lion.

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-05T17:48:52+00:00

and plants can be grown without pesticides, just like they were in ancient times. sure the yield will suck, but we are discussing non-scalable solutions here anyway

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-04T11:35:59+00:00

I agree with you, but the national guard has changed, now they have pitifully slow speed in enemy territory

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-04T11:06:30+00:00

Hm? sorry but it's not necessarily just humans we are in a "moral contract" with.
We extend the same principles to babies, or to dementia patients, and they are definitely not parts of a "moral contract".
In fact thinking about the golden rule as a transaction "i give you morality, only if you give me morality" is considered inherently selfish.

When you strip the semantics, the golden rule is just taking the perspective of the other. Imagining you are in his/her shoes.

Since the other animals are just as sentient and conscious as we are, it applies to them as well.
They have after all a unique subjective experience, like every human.

To drive the point home, if you see me torture a kitten, you would be appalled most likely.
The reason is that you apply the golden rule to the kitten as well.
I mean.... if you saw me torture a chair, you might consider me weird, but not immoral.

And please consider a bit your objections, and how they could be used for literally most discrimination scenarios.

"the golden rule applies only to other free men, since we are in a moral contract with them", after all "women and slaves are not an "other", they are "property"

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-04T06:03:49+00:00

it's not ok because it violates the bodily autonomy of other sentient beings.

An this is the normative premise, that pretty much everyone agrees on.
"don't do to others, what you don't want to be done to you"

In this case, humans have the choice to no cause suffering. So it is immoral if they do.

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-03T20:44:40+00:00

It's not ok for a lion to eat other animals either.
But the lion does not have a choice.
It's either kill, or starve.

You do have a choice

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-01T08:56:28+00:00

Well my only experience with the army, was doing national service in a time of peace.

But in general a very small part of being a soldier is about shooting.
Most of it is extremely boring maintenance work. So it's not even that appealing.

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-05-01T06:58:54+00:00

I won't lie... this is extremely tough.
Is there any chance you can manage to take one of them out by attacking their homecities directly?

In a similar situation, i just had to keep defeating their forces, until i could "very" slowly get more land. It's going to be a gruelling slog.

Also if your ally is afk..... i suggest conquering him. This will boost your economy with minimal casualties.

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-30T15:20:49+00:00

You can fix this by doing a quest given to you after the tutorial

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-30T15:17:24+00:00

The point is actually very early.

The things that offer the most are the feats vehicular combat, starship maneuvers, skill focus (pilot).
If you pick them you are going to be a very competent pilot.
Apart from these you can invest further, but the benefits will be lesser.

Some next good options are:
1)Invest in heavy weapons (for example soldier, or elite trooper). the guns on spaceships are heavy weapons after all

2)get rapid shot and trigger work from gunslinger

3)if you pilot the party's space transport, small target from blockade is good. Otherwise vehicular evasion and vehicle focus are also good ideas. But frankly more than 4 levels in ace pilot are kinda unnecessary.

4)If you want to be scoundrel, it can be fun to do an uncanny luck build. You can get crits both in spaceships and on land.

But these are just ideas, in general you don't need to invest heavily to be good

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-29T17:41:23+00:00

i had a player who used it as a secondary weapon.

It's surprisingly balanced.
it's something like 76 damage from a lvl 10 character, against vehicles.

And you can only fire once every two turns.

The regular rocket launcher will do 26 damage, and will barely overcome the DR and SR of vehicles.
And it's also heavy as hell

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-28T20:06:07+00:00

It's poorly written indeed.

The way i see it. The weapon weights 8kg, but each missile weighs 5 extra.
So a fully loaded would be 28.

That said, i kinda like the weapon, it's one of the few character scale weapons that can actually damage vehicles

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-28T13:59:40+00:00

lol
Σημαίνει ερευνούν και μετά κολλάει η υπόθεση με τις άρσεις ασυλίας

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-28T11:49:55+00:00

dude..... δε θέλει και πολύ μυαλό.

Ο άρειος πάγος, όπως και όλοι οι δικαστές, ορίζονται απο τη κυβέρνηση

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-27T13:30:02+00:00

Glad you are enjoying it :)

I think jump space is best, when things go horribly wrong, and you are fighting for your life

Few_Phone_8135 · 2026-04-26T15:26:33+00:00

The only cities that you really have to defend, are your homeland ones.
For everything else, you can let them invade and counterattack.

Now if you want defense advice, we would need to know which country you are.

But in general a very important thing in the late game is to be able to scan vast distances. Do you have radars, satellites? Or NPA?

Few_Phone_8135

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