The Old Hack

https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/wie-139

Explorer the Cat, fighting the Foot Clan!

If Legal Eagle wrote fan fiction, would it count as legal fiction?

You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.

So how much AC do the various aircraft they are shooting at have?

A friend of mine told me that in one of the editions you could only hit the Tarrasque if you rolled a '1'. To him that sounded like, "Even your hits automatically miss." I admit that makes the darn thing even scarier.

I am not sure I dare to ask about how it works when you elect village dogcatcher.

20 was auto save. 1 was auto fail. We had a huge discussion about whether we should do away with auto fail one time. Ironically enough I was the deciding factor. It happened in a massive boss fight where the Big Bad was a massive slaad. My sorceress cast a death spell on it with a fort save of 29 (mostly because I couldn't think of anything else to do, I did not expect it to work). The boss slaad had a +200 fort modifier. It rolled a '1' and died. After that we changed the rules so automatic fail could no longer happen.

What he did was nonetheless still necessary and important for winning the war. He was part of the effort that freed my homeland from Nazi control and so allowed me to live free. I thank him for his service.

Lazy and scientifically _extremely_ implausible. Then again they had enough self-awareness to parody themselves. After all, this was the show that featured the line "The singularity is about to explode."

This was 3.5, as I recall it. I played a 6th level fighter with a will save of +5. Turned out the save DC was 26 total which means my pluses were pointless as only a 20 would have worked anyway. I was so mad.

To be fair to the Russians, these tractors are brutal. They have towed any number of abandoned and captured vehicles to Ukrainian repair shops for repair and conversion to Ukrainian use. Actually it is comparatively recent, at least in Denmark. We used to write it using two As in a row, but people got tired of it and introduced the Å in 1948. I wish science fiction writers of that kind of series would study at least a little linguistics. The history of Latin evolution is eminently traceable through the Indo-European language tree all the way back to Sanskrit. If they had been arsed to at least make their language the ancestor of Sanskrit it would have been 1) much more believable and 2) way cooler, insinuating that ALL Indo-European languages could trace their ancestry back to the Alterans.

https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/wie-138 Poor Nanase. But well roleplayed by Larry!

Not Stargates. Stargåtes. These are off brand imitations with a silly modified A to get around the trademark. They are an endless hassle to maintain and every week or so you get invaded by creatures from the beyond or crap like that. All in all they are more trouble than they are worth.

Almost word for word what King Pyrrhus said. But this kind of too-expensive victory is sadly a constant throughout the history of warfare. For some reason this name gives me a terrible mental image of a defending American force led by Archie Bunker. I suspect these were the worst possible officers to lose as they were courageous ones leading their men into the teeth of terrible opposition.

On a mildly related note, Europe seems to be dealing fairly well with the Russian gas embargo. Prices have now dropped to prewar levels. It seems that the principal accomplishment of the Russian gas embargo has been to gradually wean Europe of dependence on Russian gas. As Darth Putin says, "I remain a master strategist."

An expensive victory can still be a victory. The Kursk offensive failed and cost Germany so much they could no longer muster a serious counteroffensive on the East Front for the rest of the war. Russia could replace its losses; Germany couldn't.

Ah yeah, the 'reasonable' DM. I've met that kind. After a long and frustrating game my Strong-Willed character got hit by a Hold Person spell. A 19 die roll was not good enough, I needed a natural 20 to save, taking me out for the rest of the fight. Fantastic climax to the game.

Superior to, perhaps, but not necessarily his direct superior. Consider: Dwight is the equivalent of a beat cop. Law enforcement. Liam strikes me as more like a noble or politician of great rank, let's say a Senator. A regular beat cop would probably give a lot of deference to a Senator, especially in what was obviously becoming a complicated political situation.

Absolutely agreed. But it is all situational. The point isn't which is better, a sniper rifle or a minigun. The point is what kind of action they are preparing for.

Which was generally a very, very short time after trouble became apparent. At times this interval could be measured in microseconds.

New game rules. But though George is aware of what a tank is, he is not aware whether the group's current tank can be trusted to do his job. Speaking from personal experience, just assuming that can at times be... overly optimistic.

Big talk from the Pharaoh who couldn't even put warp engines in his pyramids.

Nope. Not a cop. I said less likely to face oppression from royalty. He is clearly aware of the inherent unfairness of the system. On the other hand, the gate guard griffin was clearly in the position of law enforcement and look how he reacted to Virginia when she showed. It's a bit like cops from our world facing a Black man with a cell phone and shooting him twenty times. I do not know how that would have ended if Liam had not intervened but I am, shall we say, not eager to bet a thousand dollars on the outcome being harmless and without injury. Liam, I suspect, is in the position of being immensely privileged but not having the leverage to intervene directly. He may be helping the rebels because he believes he can shape the situation to reach a less destructive outcome than open warfare. It would be unsurprising if saddening if the rebels were much less optimistic about that and were preparing for violence anyway.

If a gun presents a danger to even a powerful mage, a minigun would probably be even more so of one.