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<blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9248031" data-attributes="member: 7028554"><p>Cringe comes in all sorts of flavors. <em>Fabula Ultima</em> classes like Darkblade and Weaponmaster are incredibly embarrassing to me. Making fun of Bards is played out, but totally deserved. And if you want to talk skills, the deadly serious and laughably specific nature of a lot of trad skills is, again, cringey in other dimensions. Plus a lot of the skill names you're griping about are often doing something you aren't granting them, which is <em>not</em> trying to be trad-style skills. Sometimes they're trying to be ground the character in the fiction in a non-simulationist way, or capture a range of different qualities and capabilities in one or two words. Meanwhile, a million gamers are out here still casually using "Wisdom" like it's not one of the vaguest, most useless terms in basically any context.</p><p></p><p>But here's the real issue here, and why I'm pushing back—you rappelled into the early stages of a thread that was about asking for advice, not to help in any capacity, but rather to winge about non-trad games being tryhard.</p><p></p><p>Totally useless and counterproductive activity. When you threadcrap, expect to get called out for it.</p><p></p><p>Now run along. We're talking about actual things over here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grendel_Khan, post: 9248031, member: 7028554"] Cringe comes in all sorts of flavors. [I]Fabula Ultima[/I] classes like Darkblade and Weaponmaster are incredibly embarrassing to me. Making fun of Bards is played out, but totally deserved. And if you want to talk skills, the deadly serious and laughably specific nature of a lot of trad skills is, again, cringey in other dimensions. Plus a lot of the skill names you're griping about are often doing something you aren't granting them, which is [I]not[/I] trying to be trad-style skills. Sometimes they're trying to be ground the character in the fiction in a non-simulationist way, or capture a range of different qualities and capabilities in one or two words. Meanwhile, a million gamers are out here still casually using "Wisdom" like it's not one of the vaguest, most useless terms in basically any context. But here's the real issue here, and why I'm pushing back—you rappelled into the early stages of a thread that was about asking for advice, not to help in any capacity, but rather to winge about non-trad games being tryhard. Totally useless and counterproductive activity. When you threadcrap, expect to get called out for it. Now run along. We're talking about actual things over here. [/QUOTE]
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