Shane Jackson

@DEArmsteadJr1 @SandyofCthulhu Every game you mentioned is balanced.

@SandyofCthulhu I despise balance in games. I go for Australia/North America in Risk, Boardwalk/Park Place in Monopoly, & a couple favorite gambits in Chess. Forced game balance creates weak-minded individuals, strangles strategic learning, & thins competitive skins...

How to balance asymmetrical factions in a game. I cut my balancing teeth on making Age of Empires civilizations fair yet different. The most fun I ever had was working on Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs, which were the most different factions we'd ever created. After Ensemble Studios was murdered, I carried on my love for asymmetry. My game Cthulhu Wars is famously asymmetrical. It's available on the petersengames shop, Noble Knight, and plenty of other places. The factions have different abilities, different spellbooks, and even different monsters. They all want Elder Signs, but earn them differently. Cthulhu has shoggoths, starspawn, and deep ones. Yellow sign has undead and byakhee. This gives the game more replayability, because if you've mastered the tactics & strategy of Cthulhu, but now want to be the Crawling Chaos, everything is different. The same concepts won't apply. 1/4

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@SpareTank @Nerdcognito What are you even talking about? You can’t patent game mechanics. WotC once patented a specific method of indicating card state, but that wasn’t a mechanic and it wasn’t an rpg.

@Nerdcognito F 'em. Game mechanic patents are only good for 20 years. AD&D 3.5's mechanics are on the table...

Breaking OSR drama: Swords & Wizardry White Box delisted from DTRPG over "fanbase warfare" and "trolling." Classic rules censored? Is this corpo's agenda pushing platforms to kill old-school grit! Thoughts on this mess?

@CorpseKings The Blade of Unraveling

What's a cool name for a Cursed Lich's Sword, found hidden deep in a long lost Crypt?

If science class explained everything with Midwest emo music, we would have a lot more people paying attention. Nuclear power explained. It’s just a fancy way to heat water and make electricity. 🔊

@theamelia__ Me

Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right, and if you don’t understand this you have no business in law enforcement or government.

@HillbillyPlato @johnbryanesq If you were armed and saw a cop harming a child would you say “better not get involved, I’m carrying…”?

@johnbryanesq You do the Lord's work, John. Really. But carrying a weapon requires sound judgment. e.g. - if you're drinking, you don't carry. So, do you really think it's defensible, sound judgment to walk up on cops doing their job & start a physical altercation while armed?

Like a pack of coyotes with bloodlust at the mere sight (or mention) of a gun. Making it worse is the fact they know they are immune from lawsuit; immune from state/local prosecution, and have zero chance at internal accountability via their employer.

@JonathanTCasey MAGA doesn’t care about the Constitution

@wizard_elf @Cernovich They aren't coming to shepherd us. Try Lv9:34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. or Mt25:35 if you only believe the NT

@Cernovich Bishop Barron needs to re-read John 10:1-2 if he thinks that Jesus Christ would support open borders and harboring illegal aliens

I don’t respect him at all. This is the surrender that cost us dearly during Trump’s first term. These problems are created by Democrats and them not turning over criminals from jail. I don’t care if he sounds nice on podcasts. He’s up to something - and it ain’t good.

@SandyofCthulhu Weapons

Aterrados (Terrified) Creepy never-fully-explained overlap of a dark dimension with our own and investigators who stepped right out of the Call of Cthulhu handbook. 3/3

Not every horror film would make a good Call of Cthulhu game plot. Just as not every medieval movie makes a good D&D plot. That said, here are three horror films that make GREAT Call of Cthulhu plotlines. The protagonists literally act just like investigators. 1) Quatermass II - intriguing premise, government coverup, and amazing twists. 1/3

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous, not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful. - Ann Druyan

@Ford_Nick Mustard!

Brats.. Ketchup or mustard?

@BestinDogs Taco

You have to name him the last thing you ate🥹😊

@mistressdivy Descent is not a Quake killer.

Prove to me you’re an old gamer in one sentence. I’ll drop a like if I’m convinced.

@lady_valor_07 Quake

What is it?

@ksorbs And there it is, folks. How easily he rolls over to expose his soft underbelly to the tyrants his professed heroes fought and died to defeat. And why? Because democracy is messy which makes Kevin both lazy and a coward.

Wouldn’t it be great if bands could merge and put on epic concerts like Men at Work Without Hats?

@FreeLeaguePub is having a Black Friday sale for their @FoundryVTT products! I'm loading up! @Tabletop_Deals