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The RPGPundit's Own Forum / Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Last post by Daztur on March 27, 2024, 08:15:40 AM »
It was always about getting unelectable Harris in by the back door. I believe they're surprised he didn't die yet, as they were planning for V.P. becoming interim President, then incumbency leading to 8+ years of President Harris.

Why would people be invested in Harris specifically? She's not popular among the democratic base (for doing horrible things like fighting against the release of a man who had already been proven to be wrongfully convicted: www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/daniel-larsen-murder-conviction-overturned-innocence-project/2058098) and there's a hundred other establishment politicians who could fill the same role as her.
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  San fran has made many crimes non crimes.  Just like NYC.   There is NO policy that will fix urban crime problems caused by teens and youths.   Let's see how long NYC stays "low crime" with their new influx of "immigrants".    Chicago and Detroit are well known success stories in the lowering of violent crime in Illinois and Michigan.

I was talking about homicide rates, which are the most clear-cut among crime rates for comparison.

For policy, you say there's no fixing crime, but crime rates went down by nearly half across the U.S. from a peak around 1990 to the early 2000s. Rates have risen some since then, but are still below their 1990s peak. That's nationally. For specific states and cities, there are some different patterns of change. So something changes crime rates, though I wouldn't claim I know what does it.

As far as immigration, NYC and SF have been centers for immigration for essentially all of their histories, and certainly since the trend of rising immigration since 1965. Yet their homicide rates have gone down over the past few decades. I'm open to being shown otherwise, but it looks to me like the high immigration rates don't correlate to high crime.

Also there was a large decrease in murder in 2023 with murder rates seeming to be going back down to pre-pandemic low levels. Unless something else happens to make murder rates go up and down murder rates should stabilize as the people who had their brains fucked by leaded gasoline are too old to get up to much murder these days.
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Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion / Re: Tips for Running Cyberpunk?
« Last post by S'mon on March 27, 2024, 07:36:13 AM »
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Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion / Re: Orcs vs goblins
« Last post by The Spaniard on March 27, 2024, 07:23:24 AM »
Piggy faces!  In my campaign, Orcs are a separate race.  Goblins and Hobgoblins are related, and much like in LOTR, Hobgoblins (Uruks) dominate goblins when interacting.
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Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion / Re: Tips for Running Cyberpunk?
« Last post by S'mon on March 27, 2024, 06:20:40 AM »
@Simple cheers!

@Tenbones - I think in my setting Kessler Syndrome following the Last War will pretty much prevent manned space flight currently, but I do want to bring in exotic locations over time.

I came up with the following this morning:

Space in 2064

War debris Kessler Syndrome has closed LEO to humanity, probably for at least the next two decades, and the Starlink global satellite network did not survive the War, but further out in Geostationary Orbit 35,785 km (22,236 miles) over Nairobi Kenya, the vast ESA-owned, publically accessible Crystal Palace station is battered but still largely intact, and still inhabited - sort of. As well as the teams of hundreds of ESA and Corporate reconstruction workers, technicians, security and scientists, there are rumours of radiation-crazed cannibal cults, rogue killer drones, bioenginered space monsters, diehard Russian Cosmo-Spetsnaz still fighting the Last War ... in Space, everyone will hear you scream. 
  ;D

Officially Crystal Palace is at the Earth-Moon L1 point but that seems very far out (326,869 km), and only useful as a staging point for large scale lunar colonisation. The way it's described as functioning it feels much closer. (I think the authors confuse the Earth-Sun L1 with the Earth-Moon L1).
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If the player characters come to a door that is stuck, I don’t make them open a physical door in the real world.  Nor do I have the players bend bars, lift portcullis, pick locks or move stealthily around the gaming table.  So of a player tries to fast talk a guard, I will ask to describe roughly what the character says and if it is reasonable, and believable, I’ll make a reaction roll and add modifiers as I deem fit.

If the player wants to method act his way through the encounter I’m cool with that as well. 
The reaction roll is always there when I need it. 

If the player’s character has a 6 (out of 18) Intelligence score and that player is solving riddles and doing calculus to get the party’s asses through a dungeon…whelp I’m not going to punish that player.  I just won’t award any bonus xp for good role playing. 
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The RPGPundit's Own Forum / Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Last post by yosemitemike on March 27, 2024, 05:27:29 AM »
"Poor kids are just a good as white kids." - Joe Biden

Swear to God, I heard those words right from his mouth.

Senile of bastard has no idea what he's saying or doing.

Democrats are going to loose the White House.

Biden has been babbling nonsense like that for his entire career.  The media has been downplaying all of the stupid, incoherent shit he says for decades.  Biden made a lil gaffe again.  Oopsie Doopsie.  He's a damn fool and always has been. 
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The GM tells the players what their character see and know about the world. The players decide what the characters feel and think about it.  So, yes, deduction is a challenge for the player, not a skill gate for the character. INT should effect finding the clues in the first place and doing the research to discover their significance, not forming conclusions about them.

So intelligence isn't actually a measure of the character's intelligence.  The character is as good at deduction as the player and the number by INT is irrelevant.
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Nothing would be changed in any concrete mechanical sense if the intelligence stat didn't exist at all in that kind of example.  The players are as good at deduction as they are in real life and what is says on the sheet by INT doesn't matter.
The GM tells the players what their character see and know about the world. The players decide what the characters feel and think about it.  So, yes, deduction is a challenge for the player, not a skill gate for the character. INT should effect finding the clues in the first place and doing the research to discover their significance, not forming conclusions about them.
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If an Int 6 and Int 18 are looking at the same thing, the Int 6 is dumbfounded while the Int 18 get it is, and shares with the Int 6. 

If the player is the one doing the deduction, then this isn't really the case in any significant, mechanical way. 

However, I am open to dumping mental stats to avoid characters stated beyond the player's ability to roleplay and the problems that brings. I am happy to replace them with qualifiers for observation, knowledgeability, and force of personality.

Nothing would be changed in any concrete mechanical sense if the intelligence stat didn't exist at all in that kind of example.  The players are as good at deduction as they are in real life and what is says on the sheet by INT doesn't matter.
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