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Hot Take: 5e is too bloated with unnecessary rules and should be simplified
  • Hello! So I’m not trying to stir the pot or anything.

    Have you looked at Shadowdark?

    https://www.enworld.org/threads/plenty-of-time-to-die-a-shadowdark-review.697134/

    https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/413713

    It was very highly anticipated, had a very successful Kickstarter, and he’s been very well reviewed.

    The author has written several well reviewed fifth edition adventures.

    Shorthand way to describe it I’ve seen is, modern rules, old school style.

    I’m throwing this out there, because it has been described as an old-school variant of fifth edition.

    It is so old school that you have to do three d6 down the line.

    Also, there is a very interesting real Times Torch mechanic.

    A lot of Osr games, put attention on things like scarcity and time this phone put a lot of attention on light.

    I haven’t read it so I don’t know for sure but to me that sounds like possibly inspired by dark dungeons. Although I know that wasn’t the first game to have a very prominent darkness mechanic either.

    Just wanted to throw this out here I never want anybody to change game systems. I just thought it might be interesting for people who hadn’t heard of it.

  • I’m just a big teddy bear really. ( nothing was ever proven.) 😌 scared player noises
  • Oh, and that is totally a thing that can happen!

    I’m so glad that you told them.

    This is a little bit of a different situation…

    The first villain was an elegant vampire. The second building is a cross between Pennywise, Jeffrey Dahmer in the skin, some murderer from the first pathfinder adventure path.

    But I really appreciate your attitude! Yeah, as both a forever player in the forever game master in two different groups, I have been guilty of that definitely.

    The struggle is real.

    🙏❤️

  • Wargs are scary, yo. 😱
  • I have! Its quite Fun. I actually really like the pitch black humor like how everyone is a mutant, and knows it ( that they are nothing. Everyone else’s ) including all members of the mutant hating society. Also, the fact that the hated communism had to be invented from old movies and propaganda film because this whole thing had nothing to do with the cold war is it all started because of an accident in the far future.

    Thank you so much for mentioning this game. It is a classic.

    I have I think two different versions in several of the classic adventures in an omnibus.

  • Wargs are scary, yo. 😱
  • Sorry about you guys. Definitely hope you get relief. I have hope for me!

    steroid shots may be coming.

    ( I’m also autistic. I have the darndest time with banter. I’m damn lucky I haven’t been defrauded. There are studies. Autistic people . not only can we not detect humor sometimes. we often Can’t tell when we’re being lied to.)

    But I have a question. Have you ever encountered any adventure, or monster or scenario where you were like this is really awesome but it’s super cheap and none of my players would live.

    Because that would be perfect for me to run in Runecairn!

    Honestly, if it weren’t mostly traps, which I don’t like the tomb of horrors would be great.

    And I wish you and yours all the best as well, my friend.

  • Wargs are scary, yo. 😱
  • Hi! Thank you for your feedback. I should explain . I’m suffering from an autoimmune condition where every joint is inflamed. I use auto voice text and then try to go back and fix it before I press send. I don’t always manage to fix everything.

    Voice text inserts, sometimes where I don’t want them.

    I do apologize for the unnerving experience, and will attempt to improve.

    I hope you’re having a great night gamer!

  • Wargs are scary, yo. 😱
  • I agree! Sadly, in many systems, the players likely just bleed out.

    There’s actually a really cool osr Adventure called of date of expiration. There are many opportunities for players to lose several limbs and get mechanical replacements.

    Sadly, for fans of replacement lens, like the both of us Runecairn would not let that work.

    Well, you can improve your stats by sacrificing souls to the bonfire. You are connected to the skein of fate.

    … of course your warden could just you know not do that.

    Rulings, not rules!

    Thank you so much for your comment.

  • Wargs are scary, yo. 😱

    Runecairn is a hack of Cairn a rules, light, dungeons, and dragons variant.

    It is designed for one game master called the Warden and one player.

    That is because the game is designed to emulate souls likes, and Norse mythology.

    Your player has a lot of combat options and it’s an awesome bad ass, but expect to die often.

    Resurrection is a mechanic. You will learn by being killed by cheap monsters, and then you will know what not to do.

    You do not have infinite lives, and until you can be fully restored, your stats, go down.

    If you die too many times, it’s for real. Your story is over.

    https://www.cercatoridiatlantide.it/en/runecairn-wardensaga-review/

    https://youtu.be/wYsTGRmbAEU?si=T7zZiMPD0vht44hl

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    Sad Paladin with secret love is sad. 😔 He worships Torm but maybe Sune can … 🥹?
  • Omg yes! I just discovered her and I think I listen to half of her bardcore covers already.

    I love her voice and I love how she changes the lyrics but only just enough. I also love how her versions are different just like how every covers a little different. Her hurt was apparently about an immortal king.?

    I absolutely love her Jolene to pieces.

    So I am utterly new to this genre of music. Is there any bardcore that you can recommend?

  • Sad Paladin with secret love is sad. 😔 He worships Torm but maybe Sune can … 🥹?

    https://youtu.be/TeFiIjMIlRw?si=jpbl8uF_GDU8R6fp

    This is an awesome medieval version of creep and where I got the lyrics from

    https://www.fellandfair.com/our-story

    This is where I got the very handsome gentleman’s photos from! They are a a company that does videos and photos, and also sells garb.

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    “And that is how you become a forever DM children. It happened to me.” 😔

    Not really! I love being a DM. But then unlike my two friends I wasn’t the regular DM weekly for 12 years. So there’s that.

    For forever DMs out there. Do you ever get to play?

    Do you take regular breaks?

    How does DMing work for you?

    And thanks. I see you.

    🙏❤️

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  • … are you proposing a sexual cone “attack”? ( consent first last and always)

    Such a spelled with maximize efficiency at orgies.

    For instance, it apparently took comedian Grant o Brian, 3 to 4 hours to suck 50 dicks. ( this was in a party underneath the supermarket in Brooklyn in 2012. It is unclear whether or not it was his birthday. There was a snack bar.)

    In any case, and oral variant of such a special less, you propose would allow him to have done it in a fraction of the time!

    Thank you so much for your comment and I hope you’re having a great weekend.

  • How big is the square though
  • You succeed.

    How do you proceed to have sex with this living two dimensional object?

    ( take notes for science)

    🧐

    Ps. Living rectangles pass the Harkness test so it’s cool. They communicate telepathically.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/harkness-test

    … shapes, but you can still figure out if they’re old enough and want to fuck.

  • How big is the square though
  • It is in fact, a refugee from flatland.

    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201

    Running from a terrible regime. But just like that one episode of Doctor Who, it turns out they are a horrific terrorist!

    They have deliberately does themselves with a virus that it’s going to turn every three dimensional, being into a two dimensional one. Under their control and therefore people take over the home dimensions!

    Thank you so much for your comment!

    Two dimensional mimics will, of course, feature into this adventure that I will not be writing because of chronic pain.

    🙏❤️

  • But it’s not gonna be random. My players gunslinger will have the choice between two doors. One of them will be labeled Dorothy Gale. The other will be labeled Michael Nicholas Darling.
  • Ooh. I just checked out shield maidens, and it looks amazing!

    I Love melding, science-fiction and fantasy and Norse myth together.

    I watched a friend play too human, and it looks dreadful, but the story was amazing.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Human

    It was set thousands of years in the past, and basically the easier were cybernetic post humans and the frost giants were artificial intelligences.

    Balder was declared to human by the rest of the gods, because he didn’t want to cybernetic ally enhance self in the distance himself from humanity.

    I hope you’re having a great Friday. Thanks again for your awesome comments.

  • But it’s not gonna be random. My players gunslinger will have the choice between two doors. One of them will be labeled Dorothy Gale. The other will be labeled Michael Nicholas Darling.
  • Oh yeah!

    And also apparently Knave? Been, Milton is listed in the credits page.

    I actually own both of those, and I’m saving up my pennies for print copies of the remastered of into the odd. electric bastion land and mythic bastion land.

    I’m really excited about mythic bastion land actually.

    Thank you so much for mentioning this! I just love how all of the systems kind of like speciate and them are still very highly a usable together.

    I’m going to be honest with you. I never running module in the system is intended for these days and I never have any problems.

    Thanks again!

  • But it’s not gonna be random. My players gunslinger will have the choice between two doors. One of them will be labeled Dorothy Gale. The other will be labeled Michael Nicholas Darling.
  • That’s awesome! What are the things that I really like about the rpg scene days is that there’s literally something for everyone. I know a role-playing game about a family that runs a Chinese restaurant in the 30s that’s being attacked by demons. I know a game about the experience of minority Canadians in World War I. That’s a really really specific experience!

    So I will say cairn is free so if you wanna check out the chassis you can look at it there’s a lot of cairn hacks, but they basically add details to make it fit the genre they want.

    https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/330809

    They all have only three statistics and auto hit. That’s right, under normal circumstances you do not roll to hit you just do damage. We deal and let is slightly different when you use artifact guns but it’s still mostly like that.

    Do you have a favorite very specific niche system right now?

    Because I’m a huge fan of Dungeons & Dragons, but sometimes I just like to do something weird.

    Thanks again for your comment!

  • But it’s not gonna be random. My players gunslinger will have the choice between two doors. One of them will be labeled Dorothy Gale. The other will be labeled Michael Nicholas Darling.

    http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-other-osrwe-deal-in-lead.html?m=1

    Review of we deal in lead. This RPG is a unabashed ripoff of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King but it is really well done in an excellent translation into games they can work with a lot of different things, but if using the rules of Cairn, a rules light and free Osr DD variant.

    Oz and Neverland by Andrew Kolb are very well reviewed RPG Settings that take the original books and mix them with really interesting new things.

    As I said in the title, my player will get to choose where he goes from the one shot that starts off the game tonight.

    I’m very excited!

    Wish me luck everybody. I’ve been out of the game for several months, so this is me dusting myself off and getting back on the horse.

    🙏❤️

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    What sex positive role-playing memes mean to me. Not safe for work, but only in terminology picture is quite safe.
  • 100 percent! Consent, first , last and always.

    That’s actually part of the definition of being sex positive which I listed!

    ( one of the reasons why I love Heartstopper both the web comic in the Netflix series . They put an enNormas emphasis on consent)

    And I’d like to add that everybody forgets that the game master is the player too. Safety tools are for game masters as well.

    So, if a player does something that is upsetting or triggering to you, you could use the x card.

    I’m gonna bring up a non-sexual example. About 19 years ago I was game mastering an Eberron campaign.

    I was actually adapting Monty cook the banewarrens.

    Everything was going great. The players we’re having fun. I was having fun. And then the players captured in NPC and tortured her for information.

    You see one of my players I just bought the real world book of vile darkness which had player facing torture information, including the exact dc of checks when you do things like cut off the victims finger, or use the pear of lamentations.

    I was deeply upset with this, but because I was immature and didn’t really know how to communicate my feelings I just went along.

    It’s not just sex that needs consent. Anything upset anybody at the table? People should talk about it.

    Thank you so much for making this point! It’s a game we’re here to have fun. Not make people uncomfortable.

  • “So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

    https://www.deviantart.com/mondoart/art/Smol-Mage-Looking-for-a-Tank-790142842

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    Post apocalyptic far future RPG Meme. When the party ignores all of the warning signs and enters a horrific waste site, tainted forever.

    This place is a message…and part of a system of messages…pay attention to it!

    Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be powerful culture.

    This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.

    What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

    The danger is in a particular location…it increases towards a center…the center of danger is here…of a particular size and shape, and below us.

    The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

    The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

    The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

    The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

    The above was a message that was intended to be conveyed, nonverbally in various forms of supremely hostile architecture, as well as intelligible pictograms.

    The intent was to warn people for 100,000 years to stay away from various sites, and we can only assume that language with revolve or just changed to the point that writing would not be helpful.

    The current situation with various social media platforms, maybe think about how way way way in the future what is the primary waste was, in fact, intellectual?

    What is the ultimate warfare turned out to be mimetic thought killer audiograms that we just enter your brain in either make you kill yourself or call you to destroy your own civilization.

    Many people in far future RPG could use a concept of waste sites, or like prisons for estimate for entities as dungeons z

    Honestly, that’s often trooper fantasy Dungeons you should not be here in this place people you have trespassed.

    So I made this mean. I’d love everybody to share how you’ve used like mental dangerous in Dungeons or possibly as treasurer as weapons.

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