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    What are you reading in 2025?

    You might be surprised just how common that attitude is. Or you might not. This is one of the major reasons I despise the pretension of academia and so-called critics of literature, film, art, etc. It always comes from a place of snobby elitism and a need to look down one's nose at others...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    That's a great way to put it. I think my playtest suffered because the players mostly had the D&D 5E power-gamer, tactical-play mindset despite some of them being Critters and OC fans. Not sure how to get people to engage with the game as it is rather than how they think it should be. In my...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Same. I'm not a big fan of salads, mostly because when I make them at home they're boring. But gimme a good salad bar and I'm in. Absolutely love the seemingly random ingredients they put out.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Yes, because this tangent started from my playtest experience of players getting super upset about all the negative effects of the dice mechanics. As mentioned during that discussion up thread, one player was so upset that despite me tracking the rolls and showing them that log they accused me...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Gotcha. Yeah, I suggested much the same up thread. I think that might be a great house rule for Daggerheart. I seem to have the opposite play experience despite a similar attempt to start on the same page with players.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Yeah, that can absolutely work with the right kind of players. But that's not everyone. A lot of gamers I've played with would just say neither and get mad. Borrowing the terminology from the video linked up thread, there are theater kids and math kids. The theater kids would revel in that...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    People have seemingly evolved to anthropomorphize everything.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    My group was a mix of critters and not. They mostly were the kind of OC player who would like CR whether they actually watched or not. For example, despite it being a playtest, one of the players had a 8-10 page backstory written up for their character. There was definitely an air of power...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Yeah, that's a thing. As some others have mentioned, when playing games with complications besides just success/failure it doesn't feel as bad to get a complication thrown in the mix. But here it felt worse, for my players at least. It really did feel like a double or triple whammy. The crit...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    Yep. That's one big reason why D&D 5E stuck success at 65% and fixed the leveling, PC, and monster math around that. We tend to feel failure twice as much as success, so if you win 2/3 of the time and fail 1/3 of the time it feels like you're at 50/50. I kept track of the rolls of my playtest...
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    It’s also back in stock at the CR store. https://shop.critrole.com/products/daggerheart-core-set
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Daggerheart playtest: success with fear.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    If you’re trying to get one Barnes & Noble has copies and ships within 1-2 days.
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    Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

    I bet he did. That's how they got that "clone".
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    Old shows that you enjoy?

    Defiance. I remember that one. It started strong then just faded into the background.
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    Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

    Right? They can't top it. Wouldn't even think to try. Another one like that is Baahubali. Absolutely nuts historical-fantasy film. It's a long Bollywood film that comes in two parts. Absolutely worth the watch if you haven't seen it.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust, yeah...
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    Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

    The animals in cages breaking out scene. That was so wild. So good.
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    Old shows that you enjoy?

    Oh, yeah. Alien Nation the movie and TV show. TimeTrax the time travel cop show. Voyagers! the time travel pocket watch show.
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    D&D General The D&D Memes Thread

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