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Special ability: Steal Tarts.
May 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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Realistically, it's pretty rare that you can't rapidly tell that people you're working with are idiots. Even assuming no interviews and...
May 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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What are you talking about? I ask because it's completely and entirely unclear what the subject of your concern is here. I can't even...
May 27, 2025
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Agree with everything you're doing here but I'm sorry, Knave? We've gone out of the frying pan and directly into the fire! You've gone...
May 27, 2025
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I'm not a fan of the Illrigger. But it's mostly because I can see what it -could- have, and maybe should have, been. 1) The Name...
May 27, 2025
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There's a gross pervasive attitude that art isn't worth much, it's just a pretty picture. But you're not just paying the piece, you're...
May 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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Quite - the only other good d20-era material, and stuff that kept selling even a little past the initial boom was Monte Cook's Arcana...
May 27, 2025
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There were a glut of products, but AFAIK almost none of them were successful. Is there even one such product that got further...
May 27, 2025
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That it's tolerated everywhere but Tyr sounds like a plot hook to me. "Oh, the dragon is flying around and eating all the virgins of...
May 27, 2025
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I don’t like the discipline name “Devilsh Tongue”. The ability is fine, but references to devils belong on a warlock. On the other...
May 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I'm sorry but that's just not the evidence you think it is. What that's evidence of is that people will absolutely spam out stuff to...
May 27, 2025
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My experience is that generic rules tend to produce bland technically sim-centered play that generally fails to capture what is really...
May 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I feel like the issue here is that you appear to be comparing adapting a heroic fantasy game to do heroic fantasy to adapting GURPS 4E...
May 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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Probably! And certainly I agree with the sentiment. For an easy recent example Outgunned and its relatives are absolutely both gamist...
May 27, 2025
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Wasn't it Edwards who pointed out that narrative and gamist agendas are pretty compatible? And yes, this sort of stakes setting serves...
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