Recent content by Retros_x

Great who controls now that AI companies buy all their books they feed into the AI as training data?

I personally am a optimizer and power player. Although I don't use exploits and interactions, that were clearly not RAI. But I like to play efficient characters. I also enjoy deep roleplay and give my characters flawed and complex personalities and in general I am more on the reserved side as...

I think his Thrillers are a better thing to look for how his Bond movies could look like: Sicario, Prisoners, Incendies were are great movies IMO. I really like Villeneuve although I also don't love the Dune movies, his other works are much better IMO. Arrival is one of my favorite scifi movies...

Nowadays I only watch Dimension 20. When I listen to live plays while doing other stuff I miss 50% of the stuff that happens, I can't concentrate on both. So I only watch my favorite show, D20 - but they use mainly D&D. In the rare case they use another system they use more lightweigted...

Haha, that sounds amazing! What a great setting! The other sounded also cool but a lonely boat house at the coast of maine in a rainy night, sounds just right out of Lovecraft or King. I think the buy-in is the most important. Real fear is a very unpleasent experience, so you need the buy-in of...

Really I have seen scared players all the time. Not even in horror games, just regular D&D. Afraid of their PC dying, afraid of NPCs dying, afraid of the enemies I described in disgusting detail. I mean obviously never a REAL fear, but that is quite hard even for a horror movie. At the end we...

I miss Steinbeck in that list! One of my favorite contemporary American authors! But honestly King is not that far from this list of names. I feel he catches American culture really great (at least to me and my European perspective), has great characters and uses horror as effective narrative...

This btw was also fascinating and one of the reasons I did start reading King. While I stated in my previous post that my anti-King bias was rooted in mediocre King adaptions, what I didnt know: I was also watching some great King adaptions, I just did not know they were based on books by King...

Currently reading "Dr. Sleep" after starting my Stephen King readthrough with "The Shining" and "Carrie". At the moment not really a scary book, although it has some creepy moments, but more a contemplative story about guilt, recovery, generational trauma. I think after 2,5 books what surprises...

Interesting read and a good reminder that you should not try to solve out of game problems ingame. I feel like there was multiple serious out of character talks missing.

I would love to rank Wes Anderson movies, but its hard to do, I always confuse them with each other... (only half-joking)

Thats exactl what I do with the additional checks. For example something like the barbarian wants to do a jump attack from a heighened position onto an enemy and I offer the player to do an athletics check, if they succeed they prone the enemy and transfer their falling damage towards the attack...

IMO most battlemaster maneuvers are actions that are already possible but with superiority dice as bonus on top. I'll allow all martials the same moves just without the dice bonus. I also like the approach to just improvise and negotiate with martial players when they do special moves. I tell...

To bring the thread back to topic - I was a player last year in a 10-12 session campaign and I was quite intrigued. It was a mystery game in a "magepunk" setting a bit similar to Eberron in vibes in a flying city. Was a lot of fun - and not a test! We did not test anything, we just played a mini...

I absolutely despise litRPG - when a character levels up in a novel I feel the urge to barf - but everybody recommends me these books so I guess I have to give it a chance at least... How obnouxious are the "RPG elements"?