You do not need rules to know how to roleplay, but if you’re a first time player you do need guidelines to teach you how to roleplay.

Also, the exploration and travel rules found in 5E are incomplete to an unusable level. As written, 5E is a game where the dungeon master funnels the players to one encounter after the other without any meaningful exploration or emergent gameplay in between those encounters.

When the articles get sent to the senate, the impeachment becomes official and its forever recorded in the history of the country that he was impeached.

However, Impeachment is not removal from office. Removal from office is a possible followup to impeachment. It happens after the senate performs a trial that can actually punish the president for the crimes he was impeached for. The senatorial rules for removal requires statutory crimes be committed.

So, according to Noah Feldman, a constitutional scholar and one of the House’s witnesses for the impeachment, Donny’s impeachment isn’t done yet and can’t be classified as a real impeachment until Nancy sends the articles to the senate. And even if/when she does, removal from office may not even be possible. Removal requires the president be convicted of a statutory crime, and both of the charges against him are political opinion, not statutory crimes. There are no laws saying the president can’t “sound like he might be pressuring someone into doing something beneficial to him” nor is there a law saying he has to cooperate with impeachment proceedings of his own free will. The house sent formal requests, but not court orders.

Also, Nancy’s “won’t send the articles without proof that the trial will be fair” may actually be a statutory crime… oops.

So, according to Noah Feldman, a constitutional scholar and one of the House’s witnesses for the impeachment, Donny's impeachment isn't done yet and can't be classified as a real impeachment until Nancy sends the articles to the senate. And even if/when she does, removal from office may not even be possible. Removal requires the president be convicted of a statutory crime, and both of the charges against him are political opinion, not statutory crimes. There are no laws saying the president can't "sound like he might be pressuring someone into doing something beneficial to him" nor is there a law saying he has to cooperate with impeachment proceedings of his own free will. The house sent formal requests, but not court orders.

Also, Nancy’s “won’t send the articles without proof that the trial will be fair” may actually be a statutory crime... oops.

Jesus wasn’t anti-capitalist, so much as anti-banks using temple grounds for money-lending and anti-rich people not tithing.

I was thinking about how ‘Grinch’ and ‘Scrooge’ are words for people who hate Christmas but aren’t exact synonyms and then this chart happened.

Just let old Joey go to bed already.

Thanks Uncle Joe

FATAL is a hilarious train wreck of a tabletop RPG. Do yourself a favour and read it. Don’t play it. Don’t take it seriously at all. But look at it and laugh.

A refusal to protect the speech you hate ensures that there will be no defense for the speech you love.

WE TRIED

WE TRIED TO TALK WITH THEM

WE OFFERED THEM PEACE DEALS AND ALL WE ASKED FOR WAS THEM TO STOP RAPING AND STARVING THE THE PEOPLE OF THE ISLANDS THEY CONQUERED AND TO GIVE THE LAND BACK TO THE COUNTRIES WHOSE GOVERNMENTS THEY HADN’T KILLED YET

THEY REFUSED

PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION

AND IT WAS JAPAN WHO MADE THAT DECISION

My least favorite authoritarian talking points, in no particular order

“Yeah but why do you actually need [right]?”

“You’re worried about losing [right]? That must mean you plan on using [right] to do something evil!”

“But, without [right], you’ll be much safer!”

“These people have misused [right], therefore [right] is bad.”

“We don’t want to take away [right], you paranoid moron. We just want to restrict [right] until very few people have access to it!”

“Do you really think these bad people deserve [right]?”

So. Let’s piss absolutely everyone off, shall we?

#irrelevent but OP your username gives me anxiety

if i have to live with the memory of building a character for FATAL, you have to at least see its most well known meme.

Why do I get a little nervous about social justice advocates who have he/him in their socmed bio? Same reason why I get a little nervous about people who have 88 in their username and study WWII a lot.

Why do I get a little nervous about social justice advocates who have he/him in their socmed bio? Same reason why I get a little nervous about people who have 88 in their username and study WWII a lot.

5E has no good reason not to have playable orcs.

4E had playable orcs in the Monster Manual. Nobody touched them tho, because they were too used to orcs being a bad pick in 3.x.

3.x had playable orcs in the Monster Manual. But they were basically unplayable due to Light Sensitivity and Level Adjustment.

In TSR-era D&D they were an “Always Chaotic Evil” race*.

* And Ed Greenwood wasn’t sleeping with a player who wanted to play as one for a campaign... *cough* Drow *cough*.

I don’t “get” half orcs

Just make orcs playable you cowards.

I think “Californian Elitism” is the perfect term for the societal colonialism that invests the “Progressivism is our Religion, Gentrification is our Mission” hyper rich elites. We many not have invented it here, but boy god we’ve turned it into a goddamn science.

Serious Roxy Time for a moment, then I think I’ll go do grocery shopping and distract myself.

When I make ‘Californian’ jokes, the FEW times I make them, I don’t mean Californians, because my god, that state is as diverse as any. The issue is with a certain elitist subculture, and it’s not just a California thing.

There are people who think of themselves as better, wiser, and more enlightened than others, and they are, by and large, a danger. I won’t say a threat, that’s going WAY too far, but they have that whole… what’s the term? Dunning-Kruger effect?

It is the ultimate portrayal of ‘those who claim to be wise prove themselves to be fools’, mainly in the whole ‘I can’t afford to live where I am, because the taxes/prices are too high, so let me move to someplace cheaper, where I drive out the locals, push for changes in the government, disregard the local culture, and slowly turn it into an identical match of the place I felt forced to leave!’

And that is a problem. Not when people move into a new location, that’s not an issue. Not when new money comes in, or new cultures come in. That’s NOT A PROBLEM. We’re enriched when we share cultures, most places could use more economic growth.

The problem is when people come in, pushing their own culture over the local people’s, and it’s worse when they think they’re doing it for their own good.

And before anyone comments, I’ll elaborate a thing? There’s a MAJOR difference between someone coming in and bringing their own culture with, to coming in and forcing other people to follow their standards! And it’s also a thing where if your demands for new people moving in is that they have to abandon their own history and fit your standards instead? Yeah, you’re just as fucking bad!

Let people come in, let them make new ideas, and never let anyone dictate to you, or someone else, what is an acceptable cultural standard.

Well, within reason. If your cultural standards are illegal that’s a different discussion entirely and that’s where it gets even more complex.

James Corden Responds to Bill Maher’s Fat Shaming Take 

If they write their articles using emphatic statements, they get even worse harassment from “””Wikia Style Guide Experts””” who think encyclopedia can’t make emphatic statements without two corroborating sources or some shit.

Joke all you want, this is a sanity saving measure on the mods side.

Why do they always write their articles like this??

“All I’m doing is asking for some empathy.” You say as you discount the lived experiences of your political opponents, and refuse to acknowledge their humanity.

Did it only just become a problem when Trump took over doing it? Or has it been always been a problem since it started under Obama’s order? And if it is the later, why weren’t you speaking up with them when the Republicans were complaining 8 years ago?

“A government watchdog report published Wednesday said immigrant children who were separated from their parents at the border by the Trump administration last year suffered increased post-traumatic stress and trauma.”