Search results

  1. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    Diving into Tactics Ogre Reborn once again; hopefully this is the time I finally do a full playthrough on all three paths and complete all of the Coda. New update for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dropped I think yesterday, so it's a nice time to pick up what is almost certainly going to be the...
  2. Gradine

    There's A New Edition Of The Cypher System Coming

    I will have to checked out the revised rulebook then. I can't speak to all of the supplements and third-party stuff, but that level of guidance and empowerment to created your own focus is I think all that's really needed.
  3. Gradine

    There's A New Edition Of The Cypher System Coming

    My biggest issue with Cypher, at least from what I've been able to find, is how little guidance there is on developing character creation elements. Focii in particular are the most specific and character-defining aspect of creation, but they're the hardest to just make up so out of the box...
  4. Gradine

    Spoilers 3 Body Problem

    Just binged this show while my wife was out of town and... I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how I feel about it. I mean, it definitely has some of those wild swings in quality that we've come to expect to from the makes of Game of Thrones. The pacing is all over the place and the...
  5. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I think maybe I was unclear; what I meant was that the whole "you play D&D? <scoff> You should play a good game instead" attitude is the security blanket. Like... everybody knows how counterproductive and condescending it is but some people just cannot let it go.
  6. Gradine

    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    Sweet baby is probably a reference to Sweet Baby Inc., a perfectly normal sensitivity consultation firm in the video game industry that became something of a rallying call for the sorts of folks who make lists of games to boycott because they might have a gay character or woman with any sense of...
  7. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I swear for some people this exact attitude is their security blanket. They fall back on it because they don't know anything else, and it's deeply comforting. Ah yes, the absolutely singular way in which South Carolina is superior is North Carolina; SC BBQ sauce is far and away the best BBQ sauce.
  8. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    "dork :):):) losers" will always remain one of my favorite lines, thank you to a real one for giving that to the world
  9. Gradine

    John Kovalic Looks Back On Over Two Decades Of Munchkin

    Our favorite was always to mix Munchkin Bites with Munchkin Cthulhu. Swarming cultists was like the new version of running the Elvish Mafia from the original game
  10. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Time for one of my favorite games, trying to figure out how exasperated the mods are by what shade of red they're using for their text
  11. Gradine

    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    This is so important; the whole "do my homework for me!" is such a massive bad-faith tactic that it is difficult take it at such face value that you're willing to dedicate your own time and energy to appease somebody you can't even be sure is actually engaging you in good faith. Best practice is...
  12. 1753396961838.png

    1753396961838.png

  13. Gradine

    Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

    So, at the risk of leaning too far into non-gaming politics, but the way that platforms are treating NSFW-bans as bans on LGBTQ+ content is neither coincidental nor unintentional. The goal is, ultimately, to force all queer people back into the closet, a goal that is the explicit end of a...
  14. Gradine

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    This title makes me think of a home design show hosted by Kurt Russell and James Hong, which, I'm not gonna lie, I would watch the hell out of
  15. Gradine

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    Been playing Final Fantasy X because Clair Obscur was so good it reminded it how much I loved another one of my favorite games (and I have no way of playing Lost Odyssey currently) and chat, it's still absolutely awesome. Also Blitzball rules I will be taking no questions
  16. Gradine

    D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations

    Clearly everyone has lost the plot here. The generations are obviously: Kanto Johto Hoenn Sinnoh Unova Kalos Alola Galar Paldea
Top