sirblastalot @ sirblastalot @ttrpg.network Posts 1Comments 64Joined 2 yr. ago
If it's on a single line on a chart in the PHB, it's one object.
"The shopkeeper. No, really, do not murder random civilians. No matter how much of a good idea it seems like at the time. No, even if he has something you really want. Don't. HEY. DON'T. DROP IT....DROP IT! SIT. STAY. Good initiate."
Clothes
No, sometimes one of the bins moves between the bed and chair.
Hot take, but I think the martial/caster power imbalance is imaginary, and has been even in 3.5.
It comes from people doing thought-experiment characters, like Pun Pun, rather than actual play. You can have a caster player say "I use this series of spells in such a way as to break the game" but in practice it happens far less often than "I murderhobo the NPCs to break the game" and is easily dealt with the same way. If your caster is just playing like a normal person and fireballs a dozen goblins or whatever, the barbarian great cleaves a dozen more, everyone has fun, all is good.
"Shut up and help me carry these rotting baskets Wyll"
Besides, are you even really an adventurer if you don't swipe the silverware?
She complains about having to use her ration on coffee in one episode. Presumably that's why they divert to the coffee nebula.
I do love watching shuttle launches, but I'm not sure I'd call a bunch of public domain NASA footage the best opening sequence ever.
I feel like some of that was on purpose. Like, the whole point of the show was our bumbling first steps into space, there's gotta be mistakes. And it gives some latitude to explore plots that aren't all "Flawless Space Hero Saves the Day"
I think a lot of atrocities come from our need to be accepted by the people around us. Especially with fascists, whose group identity is based around excluding and hurting the outgroup, they're stuck in a constant cycle of egging eachother on. One fascist says "lets beat up a black guy", the others nod, and the person who feels most vulnerable to getting kicked out of the group tries to prove he belongs by saying "Nah, let's KILL a black guy" repeat ad nauseam.
It's not just a +1 fyi, it's a decent enchant
Yeah but you've already visited that location once, so everything that isn't nailed down is already gone!
Wait, you guys' pacts end in death?
Old man yells at cloud. Just because the groups/campaigns he may have played in the last 20 years apparently felt limiting and anti-improv, doesn't mean that that's some kind of trend and things were better back in the good ol days/
3.5 has limited slots for cantrips
3.5 has a ton of splatbooks, sure, but they're expansions. You go in one, if you want, at character creation to pull out a cool class you want to play. Not playing something out of that book? Then you never need to think about it. It's not like you have to have encyclopedic knowledge of all the hundreds of splatbooks; all the rules are contained in the DMG and PHB, just like with 5e.
Picking a ttrpg system (or a computer game engine) is about finding something that does as much of the work you don't want to do for you. If a system doesn't do much of the stuff you want it to, find a different system. If it does a bunch but has just a few things you don't like, it may still be worth spending some time fixing the parts you don't like. Or if the parts that are bad are also the parts you want to do for yourself anyway, then go for it.
There's arguments about systems because different DMs have different design strengths, weaknesses, and goals, and what you're looking for in a system changes from person to person.
And then the meta-rule for engine selection is, the best system in the world doesn't matter if no one plays your game. So if your party is only interested in D&D or rules light systems or whatever, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I'm only subscribed to two lemmys right now...an RPG memes one, and a furry memes one. And I love it when I can't tell which one I'm reading.
"A 25 in your primary ability by level 20? Nay, this shall not be!"
Same. My problem has never been generating content, it's been in parring down alllll the content I produce to actually fit in a game, and organizing it in a way that produces a cohesive narrative.
EDIT: Was thinking about this more and was going to add that I don't normally use random tables/generators, for the same reason. But there is one exception: I will absolutely generate NPC names. And it occurs to me that ChatGPT would be as good as or better than existing generators.