Recent content by tetrasodium

I agree on those 3 groupings but I suspect that if you look exclusively at people who actually use a vtt you will find a notable fraction to outright majority of the people who talk about group 3 needs are unlikely to ever use or spend money on a vtt. It has this weird dunning Kruger effect...

I don't think I would consider either "hosting" option a deal breaker, but i currently run arkenforge with a touch panel enabled tabletop display during in person meat space play. The big killer feature for me would be meaningful support for the touch panel on the tabletop display so players...

I would have agreed with that being totally reasonable up until ohhh... Twelve or so years ago. When 5e∆ went all in on rulings not rules and doubled down with intentionally overturned embrace the imbalance PC abilities it very much shifted the playing field of what is reasonable. It's tough...

Entitlement? I mentioned my experience with the group in question because the accusations I got for simply enforcing the rules of the game I offered to run when they differed from a game I didn't offer to run were eerily similar to some of the examples in this thread in ways that made it...

Yes "arbitrary inconsistent rules" are annoying. But the critical detail I is that players being unfamiliar with printed rules of the particular variant being played does not empower players to claim that the GM is making arbitrary inconsistent rule changes by forcing the gm to allow players...

Yes but your reply seems to echo the OP with the assumption that the GM is the one changing the rules rather than allowing for the scenario we where the player not knowing those rules for the specific poker variant they were explicitly invited to play. I commented about your metaphor extension...

No you are missing a step in the analogy. You might need to compete Chinese checkers night and a list of frustrations over how that game is not checkers. . They are playing levelup5e and a not insignificant chunk (or outright majority) of the things being called "house rules very much sound...

I think more noteworthy is that by completely redesigning a lot of sacred cows like the attack roll and really leaning into class based design with class specific resources that were viscerally specific in more than name during actual gameplay Draw Steel was able to do that without just...

Malice helps a lot, it's pretty much the director's unspoken "spice things up near quantum fueling resource" . Initiative is a bit different in ways I easily Allow gugantic dozen+ monster encounters too, there's a term not coming to mind but it's really easy to handle group(?)squad(?) based

I think that is an oversimplification that blames luck or the system for poor teamwork and a refusal of players to communicate in ways that allow them to work together with reciprocity. A lot of those kinds of watch for x and then do/get y events can be triggered by other players optimally...

@steffan raised a good question but I'll go one step further. Draw steel skill selection is not like 5e where you pick basically any skill you want. Instead you get specific skills and a choice from specific "skill groups. For example the fury is kinda the closest analog to what would be a...

You confirmed my suspicion but having read into some of the books written by people like Milton Erickson Milgram and others who seemed to be involved in some of the questionable/sometimes unexpectedly horrifying 1940s &1950s research into the topic and even done a bit of hypnotism on other...

In a lot of cases the deminimis exemption was used in ways that subsidized the seller's shipping at a cost to taxpayers who lost the jobs domestically producing warehousing or packaging those products too.

Don't we use terms like marketing propaganda and cult indoctrination for that though? Can you give some specifics if you are talking about something very different from those examples?

No need to get personal but you still aren't really making a case. Focusing the question through a lens like Star wars corrupts the discussion by forcing moral absolutism onto the framing. You yourself seem to have recent posts agreeing or admitting that the question needs to be answered in...