Malgas

I just looked it up, and apparently it’s /ɡɛʃ/.

Never would have guessed that.

In fact Diyonisius Exiguus made some errors when counting back to establish the anno Domini date system and as such Jesus would likely have been born between 4 and 8 BC.

“Roll a d6”

[Result table has 8 entries]

It’s funny, I don’t think I would even understand the attack matrix reference, had I not just watched a yt series about Gamma World (and Metamorphosis Alpha).

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.

Never ask:

• A woman her age.

• A man his salary.

• Odo what he did during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.

Honestly, perception checks should be rolled behind the screen. Or anything where the character wouldn’t immediately know the outcome.

Sure, players shouldn’t act on things their character doesn’t know, but why give them the temptation?

Or mind-affecting stuff with will saves.

It gets even weirder in terms of game mechanics. High strength and no armor is kind of an unusual combination. Barbarians and bards (buff or otherwise) both typically wear armor. As do fighters, rangers, rogues, clerics…

Wizards and sorcerers don’t but also don’t usually benefit much from strength. (Not to mention that bard is a strange multi for either.)

Conclusion: Terry as pictured is clearly a monk/bard.

In the future Star Trek wants us to imagine a black female officer is completely unremarkable.

Interestingly, in the unaired TOS pilot Pike did in fact remark on a female officer (albeit Una rather than Uhura), saying he “can’t get used to having a woman on the bridge”.

Of course, being unaired, the episode’s canonicity was pretty questionable. Until SNW used the exact clip of him saying that as archive footage.

(n.b. None of this is intended to negate the point you’re making. It’s just a strange little thing that could have been brushed aside as an artifact of the show not quite having figured out what it was yet, had not modern Trek gone and affirmed it.)

There’s a quest like that in the recent Rogue Trader crpg, in which you help a party member obtain a permit from the Administratum.

The original Battlestar Galactica.

You could do something like ((d6-1)*20+d20)/15.

But that’s an awful lot of work just to avoid having a d8.

You don’t even need a special die for this. Just roll a d8 and subtract 4 if it’s 5-8. Just like using a d6 as a d3.

Could magic overcome, resolve or undo a disability?

Some, certainly. Assuming D&D, mid-level clerics can restore missing limbs (and, though the spell description doesn’t mention them specifically, I would argue ocular, auditory, and spinal injuries as well). So disability due to injury should at least be less common than in the real world.

Congenital issues, on the other hand, are much more difficult. Wish would work, but that’s not exactly accessible.

That said, there’s considerable potential for the magical equivalent of prostheses and other accessibility devices to be more effective than their real-world counterparts.

(laughs in maths)

D&D math jokes? Let’s go!

Q: What phases through stone and is equivalent to the axiom of choice?

A: Xorn’s Lemma

Note, too, that there is value in being rigorous about “common sense” assertions.

Some of the most exciting discoveries happen when something everybody assumed they knew turns out to be wrong.

Or replicate the parts needed to assemble an exact copy.

The Enterprise’s computer is Hex, confirmed:

++?????++ Out of cheese error. Redo From Start

Sometimes I wonder if I was around in the 60s if I’d hear more people bitch about her being a woman or her being black.

Not really important in the broader context, but I think Pike was talking about Una here.