Recent content by DammitVictor

Take the Warlock chassis, with Pact Magic, and replace Mystic Arcanum with half-caster progression. Your spells only go up to 5th level, total, but you get 5th level spells as quick as a full caster.

Honestly, I can cope with edgy loners and bastard heroes. The one that breaks my teeth is that I can't run Street Fighter: the Storytelling Game without the first application–every time–and more than half of the applications being players who don't want to play PCs who fight. What do you even...

I'm sorry, I'm feeling poorly this morning and I'm a mite tetchier than normal. That's a healthy reflex, truth told, but like the "DM's authority" it's conditional and negotiable. If the character you want to play doesn't fit the game on the table–for reasons of their "personality, alignment...

Your argument would hold a lot more water if the same D&D players we're both complaining about were willing to play in anything but published settings and even specific pre-written adventure paths. And, quite frankly, your attitude sucks and if that's the way you feel about playing at my table...

Goes hand-in-hand with online RP culture, especially in D&D spaces, being dominated by players who want to play their character and don't necessarily give a damn about the game they're playing it in. Feel like a lot of grogs would complain that they want to play their "build" or their "toon"...

Yeah, most groups. Most of the problem players hang out on online gaming platforms or in game stores.

Really just depends on what I'm running and for whom. My current "D&D" game is basically Phantasy Star + Level Up with a smattering "pure D&D" content. Party's a Human 2024 Cleric, a Musk Cat Adept, a Dragonborn 2024 Ranger/Rogue, and an Axon Hunter. When I run AD&D, there are no Fighters...

Hyperbolic, I suppose. Mea culpa. It's not "most" of the Western private sector. It's just a large and growing portion of the private sector, particularly in the technology and media industries, so it seems like a larger problem to people within those industries.

The tech is actually really useful for people who want to do the work; the problem with Idea Guys is that they're unwilling to admit that Idea Guy isn't a job, and unless you actually have the creative skills to execute–which is the only thing worth money–the only thing that LLMs can actually do...

No... my AD&D "core rules" are all the black border books (minus Council of Wyrms) plus Oriental Adventures; I love the idea of psionics in D&D, but I'm not a fan of the 2e rules. I use the hell out of the PHBRs when I run AD&D, but not as-written. Pretty well understood that some Kits are...

I don't really have a litmus test for generic games; most of the time, if I'm trying to run something I don't have a system for, I run Cortex... and Cortex isn't really a "generic game", it's a cave with a box of scraps. I do have a Holy Grail, though, for superhero games, which are as close to...

Would have been compatible with 3.X and PF1 anyway. Just translate the spell point costs and assign the class spell lists to Major and Minor access for each class.

Not great! My personal life has taken priority from pursuing my career for most of the past couple of years. I have got the general shape of things: spells and spell levels work largely according to 5e, and each spell level has point costs for free/fixed and minor/major; spells will be arranged...

Not gonna lie, I low-key hate this. The cartoons were created and designed as 22 minute commercials for the toys... with ad blocks built in to show commercials for other toys and breakfast cereal. But that's also what drove the cartoons to develop so much of the lore that future adaptations...

Yeah. Like, the really hardcore MOTU fanbase more less expects this the way hardcore TMNT fans do, but it's always a bone of contention until the new adaptation either proves itself or falls on its ass. A lot of it depends on how the rest of it feels as an adaptation, and a lot of it depends on...