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Time to break the displays I guess.

What’s your least favorite trope of this genre? I used to read a lot of these while bored at work and by far the worst one to me is stuff like:

“Humans evolved on a death world with crushing gravity that blablablabla”; “There are thousands of predators there yet humans prey on them!”

my author in Christ if our gravity was notably smaller we would not have an atmosphere and the idea to have a planet with a biosphere but without any predators is stupid on it’s face unless you explain why that is, which you never do!

Honorable mention of aliens that have figured out interstellar space travel but still use their natural weapons to fight, who somehow are seen as scary by their peers.

The “One party but we fight because it’s fun to RP” system is the only political system that can work in a country as big as the USA!

BAR is really good and also free to play. If you want a sweaty RTS to play, here it is!

Saxony and Hesse are currently deep in the far right clutches of the Alternative für Deutaschland, so this does not really come as a surprise.

Ira Gamagori hours in this game

No worries, I am just opinionated about D&D ;)

The type of person that gets deep into TTRPG systems for their rules design will eventually want to apply what they learned (or think they learned) towards making a system themselves. Like with any skill, you want to flex it once you acquired it.

I am so done with D&D discussions. It’s a 10 year old system at this point and the new version won’t be meaningfully different. Heck, a lot of it’s systems are actually as old as it and it fucking shows.

Play different games. There is an almost unlimited number of them out there. If you stop talking about D&D, if you stop giving it this singular attention, you will feel better and,who know,s the authors of D&D might be forced to actually make something good, as opposed to focus testing subclasses like pasta sauce flavors.

The company demands I be in the office 2 days a week. This wouldn’t be so bad, except that the internet isn’t functioning but I still have to be here because policy is policy.

Good for them. Larian does not need D&D at this point. All the people who liked BG3 aren’t going to shun a new Larian game just because it doesn’t use a D&D setting. Quite the opposite, in fact. Them hyping up their own stuff can only help them keep people interested.

Meanwhile, Wizards can’t generate hype o matter what they do, because they are scared into stasis from the knowledge that they are out of ideas. Heck, a lot of the changes Larian made to the ruleset are things that the people at WotC should have made many years ago. It is very telling that those same people can’t help mentioning the game when they are trying to hype up their new version of 5E. A version that is scared to change anything except tiny details via a focus tested surveys and looks basically identical to the game they delivered ten years ago.

Sort by date is really newsworthy in 2024 I guess.

I highly doubt the medical data to do these are available to a hobbyist, or that someone like that would have the know-how to train the AI.

But yea, rare non-bad use of AI. Now we just need to eat the rich to make it a good for humanity. Let’s get to that I say!

D&D might be a soulless product of middling quality because it is so corporatized now that they refuse to take risks or even release an actually new edition for their big anniversary, but they changed a word so we need to celebrate them.

All the while games like Fabula Ultima don’t even have the concept of race or species and you can define it via a quirk if you feel there is something important to distinguish your character. Lancer doesn’t even ask the question and just wants you to define what your character is good at. And yea the default setting of lancer only has humans, but it’s also a post-scarcity hyper future where people can change their genes and looks with great ease.

But we didn’t read those games and in the TTRPG space, only talking about D&D gets clicks, so this had to be about D&D.

Wow, what a conundrum. Really difficult to implement multi-track drifting with this setup.

Sure, agreed . Too bad 99% of it’s use is still stealing from society to make a few billionaires richer.

I am commenting on this tweet being trash, because it doesn’t have a link in it.

Complain to who? Some random twitter account? WHy would I do that?

Post this to stormfront as a political compass meme

The most failing army in the world, folks!