Forgotten Fantasy

@TheDezembro For the first three paragraphs I thought you were intentionally flubbing a summary of Dragon Age origins

You're a uh, Greymane which is like some kinda mystical protector warrior clan from the woods or some shit and uh there's like a wizard and a hot witch, and she's single btw, like they're not a thing, and there's some kind of ... intrusive force fuckin with the planet? and so u gotta like help people find cows and sheep and solve abyss puzzles and kill beasts and uh, oh i also got invited to a castle or sth to meet a "Lord" but I didn't go yet, I got busy trying to find out how to make a fish stew. Oh there's like a mob thing too, using bandits to terrorize ppl? But I haven't pursued that either, because to make the fish stew, I need lentils or beans, and so I been looking for that. Also found a "invincible tree" that if weapons are made from its wood, they'll be UNBREAKABLE. So I used my wrestling powers to rip it out of the ground, I SMASHED it on the ground to break it, and then i realized I don't have a wood chopping axe. So, I guess that plan is fucked. Also got attacked by weird cube crabs and so I had to run away from the area. Idk if the tree trunks are still gonna be there when I return. Anyway what were we talking about?

@BlackDragonCan @Nobleshield Which pulp stories? I'm not saying there aren't any, but I'm struggling to think of stories where Cugel, Fafhrd/Gray Mouser, Conan, Elric or Solomon Kane walk away with a big hoard of coins at the end.

In AD&D 1e: - monsters don’t “drop gold”, some monsters hoard loot, and the corpses of former adventurers are a source - XP for gold is a solution to a gaming problem, e.g., how to handle character progression flexibly - animals have no loot - it emulates pulp stories

@Sargon_of_Akkad You want the "M4 Book Edit".

No. Everyone knows the problem with the Hobbit is bloat. I have heard there is an edited down version floating around on the internet, but I've never found it.

@DaveXDavieau Why does she look like Avril Lavigne...

Gunna trap me a dragon....

@AcademicAgent_X Yeah funny that. It was all over the place in 2020. Seems to have quietly disappeared in the intervening years.

The word “gaffe” seems to be missing from the American lexicon

@TheBlackHorse65 Ben Shapiro has to be the most astroturfed public figure in America. He's been around for like 20 years, and in all that time I've never seen someone say they found him entertaining, charismatic, insightful or interesting.

The man lit his career on fire after 10/7; and severely damaged Daily Wire's buisness while doing it. It'll be interesting to see if he eventually gets fired.

@HazelAppleyard Men are results-oriented. If they stop doing something, its because they weren't happy with the result.

Let’s hear it, then…

@Blackmoor_Film @BarbarianDisco We all make that mistake on the regular 😝

@ForgottenWrit @BarbarianDisco No idea. The formatting could be from a dating app. It also just looks like something which could be easily faked. I should not have replied - I gotta stick to D&D things.

she's not even worth a .50 handie behind the Circle K dumpster.

@LawDogStrikes I just find that playing a morally upright character is a far more interesting challenge than just sociopathically maximizing personal gain.

#ttrpg #dnd I think my experiences across the whole genre spectrum of TTRPG has me assuming “The Assumption of Heroic Action”. Now this could just as easily be interpreted as The Assumption the Protagonists (PCs) will want to solve the plot. I know that the alignment system in D&D muddies the waters and people seem to want to play the most insufferable characters by utilizing CN, NE and CE but it is generally not like that in other genres. Superheroes are heroes, Military across all time periods follow orders as do spies. Horror genre PCs are trying to either save others or themselves. Not that you can’t have personality traits that are more individualized, but generally these genres don’t do well with “Sandbox” play. It’s not railroading as the Players have agency in how to accomplish their mission, but it’s far more reactive than proactive. D&D (and perhaps things like Gamma World) are the odd ducks out where folks seem to want the freedom to wander willynilly.

@MorgothsReview Anyone joining the US military should know they're potentially signing up to die in another man's war, but good luck finding a 19 year old who thinks that way. Our society, like most, puts a lot of energy into making sure you only think about the reward side of the risk-reward.

When the bodybags start to stack up in earnest, the remaining ride or die Trump fans on here will pivot toward a line of reasoning of ''it's what they signed up for'' or ''they knew what they were getting into. They will ignore the economic factors and incentives that make people from poor areas join the military.

@crescendogames9 @HariSel57511397 Thanks I'll have to give it a looksee. Not usually a big story gamer, but I have a soft spot for the far future science fantasy genre.

@ForgottenWrit @HariSel57511397 Try the Quickstart if you'd like. That way you don't have to spend a dime.

Book of the New Sun fans rn

@ceraliza Performative weakness/naivete, being a "princess". Smart men look for a woman with the moral strength and resilience to build a life, not some hot house flower they're going to have to carry when things get tough.

What something women think impresses men but actually doesn’t?

@crescendogames9 @HariSel57511397 Is that the Crescendo RPG in your bio?

@ForgottenWrit @HariSel57511397 I'm a millennial, and I loved the whole series enough to make a game mostly based off of it. So I can't speak for the zoomers. But Wolfe, in general, is far more honest about what people are like. And anyone who screeches "BUT HIS WOMEN" have never seen women in bootcamp.

@crescendogames9 @HariSel57511397 Zoomers'**

@ForgottenWrit @HariSel57511397 "the Zommers'"? For me it's just nice to have someone be blunt about human nature and what it actually takes to redeem it, messiness and all.

Could be worse. If you have to race-swap a character, Vivi is one of the better options you could go with. Still very curious how they're going to try to do Chopper, though.

Netflix released the first trailer for 'ONE PIECE' Season 2 Premieres March 10

@thegreatgwyn14 @Nobleshield It's not about faulting anyone. It's just a question of at what point your players will notice they're being steered. You want to avoid doing something that communicates to the player "hey I really need you to do this".

@ForgottenWrit @Nobleshield I’m sorry but I as a dm will never fault someone for missing a hint I said once. They aren’t in a video game actively looking at the space. Maybe they were thinking about something else maybe the misheard me etc

People wrongly think "railroading" means "giving the PCs a plot hook or adventure". That's completely wrong. THIS is railroading (courtesy of Knights of the Dinner Table):

@thegreatgwyn14 @Nobleshield Even that's a bit unsubtle for my taste. Optimally, the way you describe the room should draw their attention to anything important, but if they miss the hint or just choose to ignore it, you move on and improvise.

@ForgottenWrit @Nobleshield Really the only thing wrong with it was how he described the PC turning to look. If he’d said to a player with high PP “you notice a sparkle out of the corner of your eye as you turn to leave” boom nothing wrong at all

@MapEffects @nonregemesse Mask of Zorro is great too. Probably the only example of a soft reboot that's actually good.

@nonregemesse The Mark of Zorro is definitely one of my favorites.

What are the best duelling films? I’ve seen the Duellists