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Thank you so much for sharing, that is beautiful. It is a humbling experience to listen to this relic of the ancient world. Music is truly a language that transcends all boundaries.

Rock gnomes have been the archetypical race for artificer-themed characters since long before artificers were added to the game. You get bonuses to Intelligence and Constitution, which are both good for an artificer who's wearing armor on the front line. You also get extra utility out of tinker's tools, and you double your proficiency bonus for Intelligence (History) checks related to any magical item, alchemical object, or technological device. Plus, Gnome Cunning is a solid defensive feature for any role.

yesssss it is unforgivable that the RC plane and helicopter had completely different controls than actual planes and helicopters

"Solve The Open Hand Murders." Too much running around, no real emotional payoff when speaking to the clergy of Ilmater after solving the murders, and Inspector Valeria is just complete and utter ass and I hate her. Why is there no option to say "IF BRILGOR 'OFFED HIMSELF' THEN WHY WASN'T THERE A MURDER WEAPON ON HIS PERSON YOU SHITEY LITTLE ELEPHANT?!"

You bring up good points, but to be clear, I didn't say violence is never a solution; just that the Pottawatomie Massacre was misdirected. I thought I was clear from the beginning that I believe the raid on Harper's Ferry was a much more well-conceived attack, both in terms of moral justification and strategic value. Surely you can see that attacking a military target with the intent to arm and free slaves is a completely different matter than slaughtering people for being merely associated with criminals just because you're so consumed by righteous anger in the moment.

Migration is not the same as casting a vote in an election when you are not a resident.

The victims of the Pottawatomie Massacre lived on homesteads in Kansas. Again, is guilt-by-association enough to condemn someone to a bloody extrajudicial killing?

They were led out into the woods, literally none of the five men killed were killed in front of their wives or any children who were not themselves adults and being killed as well.

I apologize that I had that detail muddied. I was recalling what I had heard from the historian at the Adair Cabin historical site but it's been a while. The Doyle men and Sherman were certainly led away before being killed; are we as sure about Wilkinson? Either way, abducting three men in view of their family and then murdering them within earshot (as attested by Doyle's widow) is only marginally better than murdering them on the front lawn.

They were only civilians in the same sense that John Brown himself was a civilian.

Is there any evidence that the victims themselves were murderers or had participated in armed violence against their government and countrymen? If the victims were, say, known members of Samuel Jones' posse or Quantrill's raiders then I wouldn't have even raised the issue.

when you're a member of a fraudulent legislative attempt to cement that political view over a region.

How so? To my understanding, Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers both migrated to Kansas in droves for the express purpose of voting on the issue of slavery. What was the fraudulent part?

There are plenty of people in my community today who have frankly abhorrent political views and are willing to excuse atrocities at home and abroad for any number of reasons - ignorance, self-interest, tribalism, whatever you want to call it. They're not all criminals. I don't think dragging them out of their homes in the dead of night and slaughtering them should ever be a solution that crosses anyone's mind. In the case of the Pottawatomie Massacre, all it achieved was steeling the bushwhackers' resolve and a fresh spate of retributive violence. In the two years leading up to the massacre there were 8 killings in Kansas over this issue; in the three months following and including the massacre there were more than 30. It was a reckless spark in a powder keg

Ah, thanks. I had to look it up. I think my folks just call them hand towels

I'm just saying, Harper's Ferry was heroic, Pottawatomie Creek not so much. Brutally murdering your civilian neighbors for their political views in front of their spouses and children, just because you're pissed off and lack the means to strike at the real enemy, is abhorrent.

In Kansas, he also had pro-slavery men dragged out of their homes at night and hacked to death with sabers in revenge for the sacking of Lawrence (the victims weren't known to have participated in the sacking, and they weren't slave owners themselves). The line between "hero" and "murderous terrorist" is blurry.

I still don't get it...

They're the good guys in Fallout 3 in the sense that they've taken it upon themselves to provide clean water and protect people from super mutants. They're also the bad guys in the sense that they make no attempt to discern sapient ghouls from feral ghouls; they shoot all mutants on sight. And of course their chapter had a civil war so there is a splinter faction present in Fallout 3 that clings to the old isolationist tech-hoarder ways.

An obviously photoshopped picture at that. The camera spacing is so weird and it doesn't even have a flash.