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Posted by Gregor Vuga on January 13, 2011

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Probabilities of 2d6 with common PbtA modifiers

Update : Here's all the data in a pretty graph. Original: Anydice.com crunching: 2d6-2 6-: 72,22% 7-9: 25% 10+: 2,78% 2d6-1 6-: 58,33% 7-9: 33,33% 10+ : 8,34% 2d6+0 6-: 41,66% 7-9: 41,67% 10+: 16,67% 2d6+1 6-: 27,77% 7-9: 44,45% 10+: 27,78% 2d6+2 6-: 16,66% 7-9: 41,67% 10+: 41,67% 2d6+3 6-: 8,33% 7-9: 33,33% 10+: 58,34%

Gary Gygax on the original Conan movie

"Conan Meets The Flower Children of Set” might have been a better name for the film —and if there is any resemblance between the cinema version of CONAN THE BARBARIAN and that of Robert E. Howard, it is purely coincidental. The disappointment which began to grow inside me about one-quarter of the way into the film was not mitigated by anything which happened later on. In fact, bad became worse. I refuse to become involved in even a brief synopsis of the movie’s story line. The armor was good; the weapons less so, but passable. The muscular Arnold Schwarzennegger made a fine Conan, except —as all Conan fans know — the Cimmerian has black hair, not brown. More important, Conan can take out any opponent, even a muscular dude with a huge wooden maul. He doesn’t need to resort to cheap mechanical traps versus anything less than the incarnation of a god, demon, or worse. If you like special effects, the film is passable. If you have any respect for Conan as presented by Howard, then ...

Thank you, Mandy

(Two days ago, I reshared this post by Mandy on G+. In case you haven't read it yet, please do so first.) After I saw the post, I just knew . I read it, confirmed my gut instinct, and reshared it. I had many thoughts to go along with it, but I withheld them. I also disabled the comments on the reshare, because I wanted the post to be about Mandy's courageous act and her and her alone. Now that the story is widely known and I had the time to process, it's time for me to say what I felt I needed to say. The few interactions I had with Zak were never...pleasant. I always came away stressed, even when I had no apparent reason for it. I was never blind to how difficult he could be online, but it took me a long time to properly get just how awful. The last time I bought something of his was R&PL in 2014 or thereabouts. It was only at some point after then that I finally resolved never to buy or support his work because of his behaviour. Despite this, I kept him in m...

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