@Doomswords It's true. Alignment language is very real haha.
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The Basic Expert
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The Basic Expert
@TheBasicExpert1
☦︎. Family man. RPG Villain. Duck enthusiast. Artist. Gamer. TTRPG Designer. Illustrator. Musician. Video Games. Incredibly Mean. One True Wayer.
Caldwell, ID شامل ہوئے Ocak 2021
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Someone else: "Alignment language is stupid."
Me: "You just used it in public. Thanks."
W. N. Weaver@meanypunches
@DanielDnDYT Seriously though do the BroSR use alignment language? I feel that could be the next ‘big break thru’ they discover.
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By definition, I don't think you can be a barracks-room lawyer if you read the rules, understand them, and apply them to the game. It seems like the rule zero zealots fit the description. Credit to @NotJonMollison for pointing out what this word actually means.
Daniel@DanielDnDYT
The BroSR: A bunch of rules lawyers telling you to ignore what Gygax said about barracks room lawyers and telling you how great it is to play with a table full of rules lawyers.
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You have successfully convinced me out of mu solipsisme my friend, as your mind must exist in order to be this immature.
The Basic Expert@TheBasicExpert1
@NotJonMollison @Aba_KoTO This is a guy who simps for people in destiny's circle of retards. He doesn't have a chance at all of understanding anything beyond his own solipsistic retardation.
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@NotJonMollison @Aba_KoTO This is a guy who simps for people in destiny's circle of retards. He doesn't have a chance at all of understanding anything beyond his own solipsistic retardation.
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@Aba_KoTO You haven't the slightest idea how I see it's true nature.
It has nothing to do with pictures and everything to do with the fundamental premise on which it is built.
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You guys are actually more pathetic than the crazy satanic panic people from the 80s and 90s. They called DnD satanic because it's literally about demons, which is moronic, but you're calling it satanic because WoTC drew a picture of some gay people that one time.
Mr. Wargaming@NotJonMollison
D&D is satanic. There are ways to exorcise its demons and return it to its original purpose of bringing glory to God, but most of you aren't ready for that conversation.
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I can think of one Pundit in the hobby, for example, who is explicitly Crowleyian... Hehe
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@NotJonMollison Crowley did degenerate stuff. The modern rule zero guy is "Do what thou wilt" and degenerate stuff is pretty much celebrated in the hobby at this point. Lol.
GIF
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D&D is satanic.
There are ways to exorcise its demons and return it to its original purpose of bringing glory to God, but most of you aren't ready for that conversation.
Steve@sagacious_steve
@UnoriginalKoala 40 years ago you would have been saying DnD is satanic lmao
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@thehousegame Krita is good and obviously free. But I just like the way Clip Studio Paint feels when you are drawing. It's brushes and how they work is fantastic too.
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@TheBasicExpert1 Ill have to try Clip. Right now I am usong Krita for my tablet.
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And somebody who's been using Photoshop since like 1990 or 91, that is an interesting twist.
I did however not long ago download clips studio and purchase Krita. They are very good reasonable alternatives that can open PS files.
Adobe decided to jack their creative suite price to almost $70 and I told them the pound sand for their bug-filled dumpster fire of an application.
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@CRShipp Id be down honestly. People's epistemic justification is whack these days for what they want to try and argue.
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@TheBasicExpert1 Honestly I think you should master the art of logical debate and take on all of them publicly. Most people's epistemology is so broken that they can't utter a coherent justification for any of their opinions. You would expose them easily.
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This is a common and very wrong view I see narrative addicted GMs make. As if me connecting different roll results and player actions to actually make sense is similar to chatgpt meaninglessness.
It actually makes player choice matter because what they do becomes integrated into the game world and its history. That's the opposite of what these goobers mean with this argument and it shows they don't understand the opposing position. They would be incapable of restating my position without a moronic strawman.
They act like their railroad obsessed method of running high prep games has not been the norm since the mid 80s or so and sandbox or club style gamers are ignorant of their position and arguments.
We are very aware. There is nothing prep addicts and narrative addicted GMs can say that we player action driven referees like myself have not heard or even once believed. We've heard it. We don't care. We think your strawman arguments are bad. You are incapable of actually understanding a different view despite your "No wrong way to play" bumper sticker philosophy.
So no, low prep player driven club games still have meaningful stories. In fact, they have more meaning to the players involved than your gaslighting the players into thinking they are playing a game when they are actually being tricked to follow a script.
Checkered Goldfinch@checkered_finch
@TheBasicExpert1 Railroading makes players' efforts almost meaningful, sandbox turns master into ChatGPT. I agree, it's a spectrum. Also, Mercer have already explained how they do it, and it's neither. They do have prepared campain, yet players roll and decide in process.
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@0ldSch00l13 @checkered_finch More like explaining chess to a goldfish. Haha
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@TheBasicExpert1 @checkered_finch You are trying to explain chess to a pigeon.
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@arrnonymous_ I'm glad it can help you. I might download it just to see
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@TheBasicExpert1 OH MY GOD THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS IN THE TIME LINE, MR EXPERT!!! Life saver!!!
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@Hermes2110 @Urrej1 Oh neo platonic occultist. Extra retarded. Your entire world view is retarded subjectivism. Definitely go away.
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No, I'm reporting you to the D&D secret police right now to raid your playgroup. Clearly you playing wrong and bad ruins MY home game and it must be stopped!
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spoopy.poopy414@thegreatgwyn14
@TheBasicExpert1 @chhopsky Ok that’s what you play then. Play AD&D and let others play 5e like my table or 5.5e or 3.5e or whatever they want. If you don’t like it find a different table. I “railroad” my players with a narrative or prewritten module and get nothing but praise. To each their own.
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@thetshirtedone @checkered_finch @skepticalone44 I've been not nice the last few days. I'm tired and out of patience so new people coming to my replies get smacked down. Deserved or otherwise.
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@checkered_finch @skepticalone44 @TheBasicExpert1 @TheBasicExpert1 is actually a decent guy. You should respectfully reach out to him and listen to what he has to say. He's usually got some very salient points.
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The replies to this post are hilarious. Many of the "no wrong way to play" types are honestly the most vitriolic jerks out there on how to play. They cannot comprehend NOT railroading their players or allowing players to have input in the game world that may alter their railroad novelization plans.
I've felt for a while there are two different hobbies. There are pen-and-paper RPGs, and then there are storytime non-game practitioners who use the same language as TTRPGs in order to tell bad novels and fan fiction. But they are not playing pen-and-paper RPGs. They are doing something else. The sooner we acknowledge this difference, the sooner we can stop talking past each other. We are not in the same hobby and not playing the same game or games or even games at all.
It's like people who play mobile games telling people who play Counter-Strike they are into the exact same thing.
Aeres@AeresChronicles
DM advice that so thoroughly ruined an entire generation of D&D that the company is slowly discontinuing their own product. It's taken years for new gamers to shake off their stupor, and they might not fully recover. #dnd
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@checkered_finch And that it is also a play on BX, an old edition of D&D. Retard tourist confirmed.
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@checkered_finch You are too retarded to even understand my name and how it's self depreciating
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@checkered_finch @TheBasicExpert1 It takes you three minutes to read 4.5 paragraphs?
No wonder you can't read your rulebooks
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@checkered_finch You have the intelligence of a goldfish. Appropriate name.
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@TheBasicExpert1 Oh my fucking god. You used my single tweet to write a full letter of "expert" bullshit? Really. 🤣
What can I say, if you don't get my analogy, you should play Battlefield instead of ttrpg
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