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Also, setting up books up by a singular dedication to an ethnic group is a really weird way to go about writing a tabletop horror rpg....

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It's mostly in the character roles and cooldown-based balance (Overwatch having combined the Controller and Leader into a general Support role). At the end of the day, of course, 4e still doesn't resemble a video game; it's just D&D where everyone has a caster-like resource management game....

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For added laughs toward the "4e looks like a video game!" comparison, the video game that 4e resembles is Overwatch, which came out a long time after 4e's end run....

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If you want to be obtuse, you can search YT on your own....

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That was in the first slideshow presentation we got from ParaWolf....

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The nutrition was only ever part of it. The other components had to do with stress and constant use of energy to deal with dumb shit placed in the way as an obstacle. To get a clear reading on that, you have to clear away the obstacles, and that would mean observations taken in a place where none of the present cultural biases are coming into play, which is the difficult, time-consuming, and likely quite expensive part. You would need to have a location completely free of modern systemic issues, which, being systemic, are difficult to eliminate running experiments as-is....

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I think at that point, chimps have a greater degree of political savvy. They actually have to cut deals and make alliances to get on top in a troop, after all......

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Clean rooms exist for a reason, and trying to prevent memetic contamination is arguably even more demanding on resources, so after everything is said and done and the effort expended, it would totally be what you had to do....

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I'm not convinced either would bes above Strength 4. Strength 5 allows you to potentially lift up a rhinoceros (4 metric tons) or throw an ox (1.5 metric tons) for distance, so that's probably well outside of "human" capability unless you're a DC character....

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NB: The Triatic Wyrms are Celestines. Incarnae are grouped under them, with certain Urges under the envelope a Triatic Wyrm. Then you get to the banes.

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Without an actual control, that would just get you more of the same. And the corresponding control, for reasons noted above, does not exist....

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I doubt that lingering biases and attendant attitudes just went away like magic just because of a relatively recent social guideline. In order to properly test the variables, you would need to go much further in scouring away the lingering cultural biases of technicians, supporters, and anyone else who might come into contact with the groups in question. To do that is an undertaking of social change that we're not likely to see for a very long time.



Firstly, sexual dimorphism in humans is nothing compared to social support, preferential division of nutrition, and maybe...

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I had assumed that, if used, they would have to be a cross-tribal camp in this case ....

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You'll find that real life is rather terrible for gaining results that are free of biases against women in this case, especially when culled from a culture that tries to ensure that women are kept well away from anything that could induce growth or muscular hypertrophy, such as conditioning exercises or a social acceptance of gaining weight. So, in the Realm, where women are not being preferentially starved over their brothers as children or encouraged to remain dainty, small, and delicate, you'd probably get some much better results in athletics from the distaff side, even considering that men...

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Weren't there some dragons around prior to the die-off in the setting that could melt it? Because a social character might know an Elemental Dragon capable of doing that...

Or it could involve summoning The Kukla for the proper burnination....

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Red Talons Kitsune as the aggressive, anti-human tricksters?...

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The torpedo ray has a great deal of old folklore behind it as an inexplicable source of numbness and paralysis (inexplicable before the discovery of electricity, anyway). It is, in fact, the origin of the word torpor. I was asking about threading the concept through a bad touch Charm on account of how you seemed to be against Charms keying off of bioelectrogenesis in the prior replies, and was approaching through said folkloric/mythological angle....

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So would a Charm that causes targets to fall down and/or end up KO'd at a touch be possible, with Protean and Totemic tags for electric fish?...

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What about the Totemic Charms?...

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Because it'd be really embarrassing to practice....