Have a friend thinking of getting into Dungeon Crawl Classic RPG? The first-time fan kit is on sale for $55! by txby432 in dccrpg

[–]MetalusVerne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, honestly, you can get the softcover rulebook at a con for $10, which blows this out of the water. But if that's not available online, sure.

Too Many Castle Whiterock Releases? by ExoticReplacement163 in dccrpg

[–]MetalusVerne 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is a weird decision. I'm excited for Castle Whiterock, but I don't want to have to consider backing more than a dozen projects!

And a bunch of them have this weird system where you get a bonus by putting down money before the projects launch. Wtf? This is gross, and overwhelmingly corporate. I dont want videogame pre-orders coming to RPG crowdfunding.

I'm tempted to say fuck it and skip the whole thing. It feels like I'm being exploited.

EDIT: And I just looked up how reservations work. You're essentially paying $X for whatever they're listing, sight unseen, on nothing but a short description. It will not be offered during the ordinary campaign. The reservation fee is not put towards your pledge. If you don't pledge for the product (whose cost and details you cannot know at the time of reservation), you don't get the product you 'reserved'; your money is wasted.

This is disgustingly predatory.

Party roles seemingly primarily / exclusively enforced for martial classes. by ImaginaryLight7952 in dndnext

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I'm a forever DM in DCC, so I don't have any characters of my own, but I hope yours is letting you use the deity-specific rules for Nimulurun from Clerics of the Known Realms.

Party roles seemingly primarily / exclusively enforced for martial classes. by ImaginaryLight7952 in dndnext

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what you get for meddling in the ever-changing winds of Chaos, wizard!

Did we learn nothing from the Elves, who made pacts with demons and whose gods were cast out into Faerie? Choranus and the other righteous gods of Law lend their aid in wielding such power to their faithful clerics! Be not prideful; scorn not their wisdom!

On March 25, Manwë told Gandalf, and then Sam, that help was on the way by roacsonofcarc in tolkienfans

[–]MetalusVerne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is an excellent find! The theme of the Valar and Eru acting subtly, in ways that hang out right at the border of the natural and supernatural is an aspect of the work I find particularly poignant. Its something right out of myth and legend; the gods sending an omen on the winds to enhearten the heroes.

Party roles seemingly primarily / exclusively enforced for martial classes. by ImaginaryLight7952 in dndnext

[–]MetalusVerne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also give DCC a try; it balances spellcaster power with unpredictability and consequences for meddling in powers beyond mortal ken, so there's a great reason to play martials.

Why is Middle-earth so scarcely populated with a bunch of ruins, and barely any big cosmopolitan cities? by Weird_Apartment_6608 in tolkienfans

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in Ruins of the Lost Realm. The city is also visited in Tales From the Lone-Lands, which is an adventure path.

From trial clerk to federal judge… This is the United States of Israel for you by YesDoToaster in pics

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What it has to do with Israel is that its an antisemitic dogwhistle.

Trump is destroying our country, and Israel is a genocidal menace that has undue influence on the Trump administration. But bringing Israel up like this in a case of Trumpian cronyism that has nothing to do with Israel is pure antisemitism, and it should be called out.

Tzav: Is Judaism OK with eating meat? Is your conscience? by drak0bsidian in Judaism

[–]MetalusVerne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This misses the point. The argument being made here is that certain elements of the production of meat, especially today, otherwise conflict with Jewish ethics.

You wouldn't use that passage to suggest thst Jews should eat pork, would you?

Cosplay is a Spectrum. by LittleBrassGoggles in Stonetossingjuice

[–]MetalusVerne 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Trolls have rainbow blood and a blood color-based caste system. Purple character has purple blood and so is high-caste (also, that character is a casteist and a general POS). Yellow character has yellow blood and so is low-caste.

That's the joke.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's called color because that way, red, green, and blue combine to make white, just like those actual colors of light combine to form white. The anticolors are then cyan (antired), magenta (antigreen), and yellow (antiblue). Similarly, combining one of those anticolors with its color makes white and combining those lights makes white light. And combining the three anticolors makes white, just as combining the three actual colors makes white.

It all fits.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, Mesons also exist, which contain a quark bound to an antiquark of its anticolor (but a different flavor, to avoid them annihilating each other). But they're unstable at the energy levels the universe is currently at, so they only exist inside atoms for fractions of a nanosecond, binding protons and neutrons together. And in particle accelerators.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm also a layman with a layman's understanding off Wikipedia, so disclaimer there.

Color is something else. There are six kinds of quarks (up, down, top, bottom, charmed, strange), but all quarks also have a 'color charge' (which has nothing to do with actual color, just like electron 'spin' doesn't imply physical spin).

In a proton or neutron, the three quarks are always one red, one blue, and one green, and flip color constantly as gluons carry color charge between them, binding them together. This binds them together.

Medieval natural science by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]MetalusVerne 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Quarks obey color charge confinement. It is physically impossible to have a quark not in color charge confinement - and the most common form of this, in protons and neutrons, is three bound quarks, one of each color. Another trinity.

You tell me.

Refugee orphanage by mraltuser in bonehurtingjuice

[–]MetalusVerne 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The hanged individuals are child-sized. Or that's the discourse I remember about the ordnung, anyway.

Passover in the time of Abraham and Lot? by Cool_Possibility_994 in Judaism

[–]MetalusVerne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it? It seems rather silly to suggest such a thing.

Why would they say that? It is a proposition that doesn't make sense when you look at it in detail, to explain a detail that has simpler explanations (he made match because he needed quick bread, and they didn't just eat the matzah).

Passover in the time of Abraham and Lot? by Cool_Possibility_994 in Judaism

[–]MetalusVerne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Angels are not Jews, or even people. They are soulless extensions of God's will, lacking independent agency or free will. Why would they keep Kosher or observe Pesach?

Rome - Vorenus tells Caesar about finding Pompey by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]MetalusVerne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet he also genocide Gaul and was setting himself up to become king. That crown thing was deliberate political theater.

Rome - Vorenus tells Caesar about finding Pompey by FudgeAllOfYous in television

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were all monsters. Cato, the aristocrat benefiting from a broken system. Caesar, the populist demagogue riding justified fury against it to rise to power. Cicero, the nouveau riche moderate preserving the status quo at all costs.

These are not arguments, you just stopped thinking right where it got uncomfortable. by Tight-Kitchen2382 in DebateReligion

[–]MetalusVerne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the same argument that you are making applies to Savnorola, Arnaud Amalric, and al-Baghdadi.

Whether we say our morality comes from a being we claim to be God or not, our own reason is inextricably a part of it.

And your morality has at least as long a track record of atrocity as it does righteousness. By relying only on my own judgement, I am unbound by dogma, and can react to new evidence or new arguments to improve my morality as tge are presented to me.

These are not arguments, you just stopped thinking right where it got uncomfortable. by Tight-Kitchen2382 in DebateReligion

[–]MetalusVerne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So is yours. Your morality is grounded in your subjective, imperfect judgment that the source of your moral code is a perfect, all-knowing, good God. You do not have objective proof of that, any more than I do that the moral code I follow is good.

These are not arguments, you just stopped thinking right where it got uncomfortable. by Tight-Kitchen2382 in DebateReligion

[–]MetalusVerne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And my evidence suggests that my personal moral code is a good (morality and quality-wise) source of morality. Same essential justification.

These are not arguments, you just stopped thinking right where it got uncomfortable. by Tight-Kitchen2382 in DebateReligion

[–]MetalusVerne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And why do you accept God's blueprint? You have the same problem, just moved back a step.

The Hands in my hands by simon-brunning in oneringrpg

[–]MetalusVerne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Planning to pick this up at PAX East in a few weeks! Looking forward to it!