Probably something like kobolds for dex, due to their heavy use of traps. Strength could be something doing a lot of potentially breakable grapple checks. Con could be a lot of things, probably something poisonous. Wis could be a lot of things too, but for fun let’s say something that can kill you quickly if you fail to notice it in time, like rot grubs or green slime. Cha could be a court magistrate who wants you executed unless you can talk your way out of it. lol

Mostly basing these off the 3.5 ruleset incidentally. Older editions used to be a lot more deadly, overall.

I find it useful to remember that entertainment products are designed to be both understandable and fun, where real life was not designed to be understandable and fun.

With that in mind, no, I would not.

Not very good ones, my memory from playing Planescape decades ago. A quick googling of something like “planar death home plane planescape” should do the trick though. I am pretty certain.

Note, I am not referring to any of the recent editions, I’ve never really cared for WotC updates. 4.0 or 5.0 could say something completely different. They change shit all the time.

edit: Alright, I did a quick googling. Here’s a discussion thread on the topic with some citations:

https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/164187/is-there-any-lore-to-suggest-that-celestials-or-fey-can-only-be-killed-on-their

Any planar entity that dies on its home plane is dead-dead, unless otherwise specified in the lore of whatever you’re dealing with. No returning to the fugue or their afterlife plane or anything like that unless specifically mentioned.

This applies to petitioners, deities and everything in between.

(edit: this is why the parties of the Blood War are so interested in new recruits, incidentally, and prefer to fight battles away from their home planes. every battle on their home plane creates permanent casualties)

edit2: This might apply more generally to the outer planes, I’m not sure. If a lantern archon goes through a portal from Mt Celestia to the Outlands, and then dies there, it might be permadead now. This would not apply if it was summoned by magic though.

Just fyi, the Israelis use their own Merkava main battle tanks, not the Abrams. If I remember right, it’s more heavily armored, with a shorter cruising range.

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At least 16 Democratic members of Congress donated to Cuellar’s campaign through their campaign committee or leadership PACs during the 2022 election cycle, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of FEC filings. In total, the campaign received some $40,400 in political contributions from other sitting Democrats.

Not sure on 2020 numbers, they’re not as quick to find. Not exactly breaking the bank here though. Almost half of his funding that cycle (almost 2 million) actually came from AIPAC, and a lot of the rest from industry and business contributions.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/08/democratic-leadership-corporate-interests-help-rep-henry-cuellar-fend-off-primary-challenge/

Anyways, details are important. When we look at them, we see a lot more than some sort of “party suppression”.

The national party does not invest all that heavily into individual district primary races. When a few tens of thousands of people at most are voting, there’s just only so far money can go. It’s very feasible for a candidate with a small staff of volunteers to simply canvas the district themselves.

I’m afraid that conspiracy is not the reason we don’t have more progressives in the House.

Bernie is the most popular politician in the country? Regardless though, what popularity he has does not extend to all people who espouse progressive ideas, so other factors are at play.

I also don’t see that as a pivot as much as a slow march towards equal rights that dems have been fighting for for decades. And even so, it does not have much to do with the messaging strategy employed by the right. We’re not fighting against facts, we’re fighting against a messaging framework that paints progressive people as bad while ignoring the content of progressive policy proposals.

or realize that America is just not that moderate.

I think we can look at the House of Representatives for a better representation of how moderate/progressive the electorate is. Where a statewide or national election requires a lot of money, a single district is much more accessible for a candidate with a smaller staff to campaign in.

I think the real crux of our problem is the distance between how people feel about individual progressive policies vs how they feel about progressive people who espouse all those policies. The right has been very successful at linking the culture war issues to progressives and demonizing them as SJWs, to distract from actual policy proposals.

It’s not too different from the oxygen masks on an airliner: secure your own mask first before you help others. You always have to make sure you’re healthy and well first, and then you can focus on taking care of business.

Given the blow to morale this had, I have nothing against people that need to take a break for their own wellbeing. I don’t think most are permanently out of the game though.

I’m asking about guilt because you are so laser focused on it. Why? What is the value you see in focusing on it? What does it matter who is at fault for them being uninformed, so long as we understand they are uninformed?

I’m saying we know they are uninformed, and it does not matter who is at fault for that. You keep bringing up how it is their fault, though. Responsibility, fault, guilt, call it whatever you want. Why do you care so much about it specifically? Do you see “uninformed” as some sort of excuse perhaps?