Recent content by TiQuinn

And I’ve read posters who’ve claimed that players wanting to play non-standard PC races couldn’t possibly be doing it for roleplaying reasons and must be doing so for purposes to undermine the game. Others have decried the entire 5th edition as powergaming and designed for people who want to...

There’s been a lot of hyperbole but I don’t agree that it’s been one sided at all.

I think the problem is that some people seem to be really leaning into the power-hungry, narrow minded part as their reasoning for a hypothetical player asking to bring in a non-standard PC. In practice, the times that I’ve played with a DM who has said “no species from these sources” gave...

“Sorry guys, this new job has a really early start for me and I’ve got to keep a tighter sleep schedule now. I’m going to bow out, but hey…let me know how the game goes! I love the story!”

Yeah, this right here. It’s a game. That’s all it is. It’s not high art. It is not some rigid story built only to tell one particular story or theme. That’s the space of other media and ignores the advantages of TTRPGs to be fluid in the story that emerges from the game.

That would’ve been a cool plot. We lost a hell of an actor when Boseman died. The movie we got obviously was derailed as a result of that and if the movie resonates at all is a minor miracle - Coogler’s awesome. But sadly, Boseman’s performance was the reason that movie existed; he was the...

I may still buy it if my curiosity is high enough and it’s in some sort of sweet spot for me and my buying habits but it’s definitely been devalued in my eyes.

You can’t prove your opinion is a fact with someone else’s opinion as evidence.

It’s an opinion. There’s no proof necessary.

I read your first post up to the point that the lack of punctuation and grammar prevented me from understanding anything else that were saying, but based on what I could understand, I wasn’t confident that anything you wrote was going to be convincing regardless. For example, what’s a “bector?”

You cannot objectively say that the player who wants to play a tortle character is less of a roleplayer than the player wanting to play an elf, or any other fantasy character. You can only offer your opinion, which in this case is simply that you do not like tortles as an option.

“No”? That’s your response? No? Here’s the full sentence that you wrote: It’s a ridiculous point. Playing a tortle is no less silly than playing an elf, a dwarf, a wizard, a barbarian or anything else. You just don’t like it. That’s the only difference. It has nothing to do with the post you...

I would go with Shadowdark first because that really seems to hit all the qualifications - it’s dead simple for a player to get into as a beginner. As a backup choice, I’d look at OSE which is probably the cleanest, direct clone of D&D while ticking most of the boxes for you.

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I’m a petty bitch when it comes to this and can give as good as I get, namely because I have a good memory growing up of past grievances that I can obliquely reference.