Recent content by Desdichado

Unless you play a diagetic, liminal TTRPG-punk game, I can't imagine how you could possibly conclude that. Thanks for playing.

Hexcrawls aren't really meant to be an entire continent. I'd eliminate the hexcrawl aspect of the whole game, and just do hexcrawls around lightning rail stations. There's only a relative few of them, so when they get to where they're going, that's where they hexcrawl the surrounding countryside.

That's interesting. I hadn't thought of agency, but I probably hang out in the wrong theory discussions. I can already see, even though I've never personally seen it, how that could almost immediately turn into a poorly used over-used buzzword. Problematic I only didn't pick because it's...

Barring that, just RPG buzzwords that you're sick of seeing tossed around. Some of these are a little on the older side, and a few are still new and faddish, but they've already become useless, IMO. Anyway, just a minor rant for amusement value. None of this should be taken too seriously. I...

Go back and forth quickly. I don't really think about it, but intuitively, it's probably similar to a tense action movie edit in terms of ruining back and forth.

I don't have them jumbled. I've been speaking English for over 50 years. I know what the definitions of justify and explain are. The nuanced distinction being made here doesn't matter in context.

But the dictionary does not, unless you're inferring a lot more nuance into the distinction. That's pretty much the same thing as explain. In this context they are synonyms.

Apple TV mostly. I got a couple for my wife, who wanted them, even though I'm a pretty anti-Apple guy. But it won me over with being better than the built in apps on the TV. I also do plenty on my phone and computer too, though.

Yes, I understand that I'm taking the next step in the conversation. If we're talking about understanding your preferences, then we're talking about asking people to justify their preferences, i.e., explain why they have them. Plenty of people don't want to, and honestly, nobody has to. I have...

Yes, but also no. I mean, ideally people would do that for themselves, but we shouldn't ever expect anyone to do that. Preferences are what they are, people are entitled to have them, and we cannot demand that people justify them. That's why people get defensive or disengage; because it's...

Nah, I've read it. Not recently, but yeah.

"Other than the core premise, it's nothing at all like Planescape! Because, see, they added all kinds of 2023 social activist talking points and diversity, turning it into a bizarre time capsule of 2023 that already feels dated and chintzy!" C'mon. You know what I mean, you're being pedantic...

I'm talking relative to the requests in this thread. Yeah, sure, those are newish. That gets to the other part of my post; I don't trust them to do anything new well enough to be good. Radiant Citadel was a poorer Planescape pastiche, for example, with a focus on going to festivals rather than...

Most of these suggestions are for WotC to bring back something old. That old stuff already exists, and can be readily adapted if desired. I don't think I've been excited by anything WotC has produced since Eberron, and I would have been excited for a Nentir Vale setting. I kind of want them to...