Forgotten Fantasy

@BlackDragonCan @Nobleshield Off the top of my head, Jewels of Gwahlur and Tower of the Elephant are the only Conan stories I can think of where he's primarily there looking for treasure.

@BlackDragonCan @Nobleshield Fafhrd and the Mouser start at least as many adventures trying to get laid as they do trying to get rich. I seem to recall Conan going in for romance, too, though ironically he's more of a gentleman about it. Maybe there should be a different kind of "XP for booty" rule. 🤣

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

@BlackDragonCan @Nobleshield A bit more seriously, Cugel's prime motivation in both Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga is revenge. In most of the Conan stories I can think of, he either just lands in a situation and is trying to survive, or he's fighting for some kind of cause.

@ForgottenWrit @Nobleshield It doesn’t have to be coins, it just has to be loot. I just finished The Dirdir and the protagonist spends half the book chasing “sequins” (their coins) and hauls back a ton by the end. Cudgel was always looking to score wealth. Conan chased loot, as did Fafhrd and the mouser

@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?

@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.

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