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Is good.

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4 days ago

Gods goons.

The kids are Moby Dick-posting gain.
Nature is healing.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social

okay so I’m like one chapter into “Moby Dick”, and when you guys all said it was super gay I was just picturing like your standard mildly homoerotic shirtless sailors, not an innkeeper giving Ishmael a complete nervous breakdown by saying they’re out of beds and he needs to share with another man

1 day ago

Imagine using 'Well, actually ALL states are kinda funded on illegally occupied land, right?' as a pro-authoritarian-asshole-state argument.

Fucking amateurs.

Exited for a moment when I saw 'Questioning the legitimacy of nation states' season started, only to realise it was the fucking amateur league that only want to discuss that one certain state for some unspoken reason.

But doing the same thing one great and influential writer did can be criticised when that was 70 years ago and the genre evolved a bit since then.

I often wonder how Tolkien's work would look if he had learntore from the pulp fantasy authors that came before him.

People who are travelling for fun legit scare me a bit. Having that level of stress resistance and energy reserves, that's some super villain shit.

Yes please! It's been what, 70 years and I still need to know if Sam and Frodo make to Mordor!

"What, the game with heavy metal artillery witches who summon bombs straight out of hell are not tradcath conservatives?! Who could hav known?!"

Especially since they made the same mistake in understanding media again: When somebody makes a game about hilariously horrible fanatics at war this doesn't mean they agree with ideologies leading to hilariously horrible fanatics at war.
It's so dumb.

So the 'We failed to gatekeep Warhammer against Woke!' crowd tried to invade the Trench Crusade community, got kicked out and now is against gatekeeping?

The internet was a mistake BUT at least a hilarious one.

Read the news earlier and for a moment thought it was satire, this coalition sounded too absurd.

That also stood out to me! What an extremely confused and/or dishonest argument,

Debating with a partner if 'Trebuchet' is a valid Fur(niture)sona.

I'm a 'fan of the characters' kinda GM and I can't imagine a single scene that would become more interesting if a character had less halberds than their player would like them to.

But if they say 'Guess I'll need to leave the halberd behind here' themselves it's my job to make them miss it later.

Just saw the first three episodes of the not-quite-discworldly The Watch and I can't bring myself to hate it. The actors are fun to watch, most jokes work fine and I kinda am into the whole urban fantasy punk thing?

They should have just filed off the serial numbers and called it something else.

Somebody saw a bus and thought what it really missed was an inbuilt intergenerational contract metaphor.

Aesthetically great but doesn't dance enough. Billionaire Cop makes much more sense when he dances now and then.

Especially Frank Miller-Batman

Happy Conan-soundtrack-on-loop-stuck-in-my-head Tuesday to all who celebrate!

The unusual 2003 Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game uses energy point resource management as core mechanism, no random mechanisms involved.

needlessly complex mechanism that takes hours to concuss Bret Hart, call that a regular Goldberg machine

While I favour an outcome that says it is consequentially "impossible to play D&D" - this might imply this definition is of limited helpfulness because it does contradict the lived experience of, well, anybody who cares about these games.

Also, perhaps this guy just deliberately makes up shit because it's cooler than the real history? It's a baseball ren fair!

Or rather: There is the right group for every game.
The question most times is: Can I make this game work for my group from what I get in the book?

And I think here comes the reviewer's experience and knowledge into play. Finding issues or noticing missing parts and adressing these after taking a long first look at something is kinda what a review should be all about, right?

The right group make every game work. But you can't buy groups.

Not to get too meta here but I think the difference is if the review is about the game or if it reviews the book.
In most cases the book is what I am actually buying.

I think it's easy to miss because the examples given are mostly about adding minor stuff, yes.

It says creating and modifying game mechanics, in these terms.

Blades has a MAKING THE GAME YOUR OWN page and a CHANGING THE GAME chapter.

I am confused.

D&D has it? Huh.
Proves that sentence alone doesn't solve any problems.

Is there an example of a game without it that's good and didn't miss this by accident?
Serious Question.

If "Play how you like" is literally written in the rules then not playing RAW is playing RAW, creating a paradox only escapable by rolling a 6 or higher.
On whatever die you want, I'm not te cops.

For a long time I thought tankies could at least be comrades you can successfully cooperate with.
Until I found out they didn't really have tanks.
That's just dumb, folks.

True, better never forget Ennis' writing often means being in danger of some good old 90s homophobia.

So whenever you read a good and inspiring Superman story your mind goes: Wait, why isn't Superman stopping Dogwelder instead!? He's still out there, welding dogs to people! He can hear these poor puppies whine with his kryptonian super-ears, right?

Perhaps not everything should be connected.

Remembered today that Dogwelder 'exists'.

Perhaps a good example how nonsensical comic book 'canon' is: Garth Ennis makes up a joke character who appears like twice in Hitman so now there 'officially' is a HERO who welds dogs to people in the same worlds as Superman.

'If you are DMing newbies' makes every kind of game more work at first.
To make the most of the game the whole table needs to learn to play it cooperatively. This doesn't take long - if they are into that kind of game and don't seek something like strategic, competitive play instead, sure.

"Bitd dumps all that work on the GM every roll." - Not necessarily. In the game I run it became very common for my players to just suggest complications for their own and each other's rolls. This also helps keeping players who are not present in a scene involved with the action.

Okay, hear me out: They should build the team around Bliss and Cross going for tag team gold and all the guys are just there to distract their opponents with absurd spooky ghost ride nonsense.

I absolutely love supernatural heel stables but I am a little worried about this one. On paper it looks like a really great collection of supporting characters but I don't yet see an obvious central figure here.
Will be tough to live up to Bray's legacy.

Ebayed a barely used copy of the Banner Saga board game because I wanted some Varl miniatures - just to restart the PC game once again now.
So beautiful.

Oh, yes. I'm in a game where I somehow achieved an absurd number of four rerolls per session - and the game's authors couldn't know we would play online sessions of about two hours and never get much done so I basically can reroll everything now? That's silly.

But that's about the only way I can imagine enjoying such a rule. Combined with a regular game with dice and stuff real world time limits would only stress and/or trying to discipline the players and I really don't need that.

I once happened to end up in a 'this game will end in exactly 90 minutes, you have that long to find a good ending' game that I actually enjoyed as a cooperative experience, but that was a game without any mechanics, just narration with a few guidelines.

I choose to believe that's how writing English with a Dutch accent works.

Lore was a mistake.

I'd like for everybody to get back to calling it fiction or story.

And when they ask "But what did anarchist ever accomplish?!" you just say "A) Getting murdered by the state so you get the first of May off but also B) Tubthumping" which is more than most other political movements ever did for you.