I saw that!
My wife and I buy one tacky nerdy christmas ornament a year from there and at the store I had to decide between this pudgy boi and a talking Dude from the Big Lebowski.
Obviously, I chose the ornament that really ties the room together.
I'm not really an olive fan. But, I will say, if you're gonna put olives on a pizza, use green olives. They at least taste like something. Black olives just taste like wet salt. Which, okay, just put salt on your pizza.
In my world that's called being a victim. Turning the other cheek just gets you slapped again.
Tread on those who tread on you, and all that.
That all being said it seems like a weird philosophical tangent, yeah?
Yeah, that makes sense. I sometimes lose sight of the fact that some people have to pitch and run public games with strangers.
That's about the only reason I can think of though.
But I'm lazy, so if my choice was between being an unpaid game designer on top of being an unpaid GM?
I choose...
I'm not disagreeing. I'm just saying that if you are less fortunate in life you shouldn't be made insolvent by performing a civic duty.
It shouldn't be that way.
I personally know people who've had to scramble to cover rent because they weren't getting paid for a couple weeks.
You say that now, but wait until you get selected for a three week trial and get paid in a ham sandwich and $20 a day. Most jobs aren't required to pay you while you're on jury duty. Some do, but they don't have to.
The thing that gets me about " I want to turn 5e into WFRP" or whatever isn't that it can't be done.
It's just why?
Just go play WFRP it's waayyyy less work on your part to just read that and use that thing made to do the grimdark thing.
I think the real trick is to just get a motorcycle, you can lane split and in the bay area you can basically ride all year long as opposed to here, where you can ride for like six months out of the year.
I was once stuck on the 101 North for three hours in the bay area.
I went 8 miles.
I then swore to never complain about Chicago traffic again.
You know, until I inevitably get shot in it.
Joke Answer: Your skill percentages in Rifts start low and remain so low throughout leveling that they may as well not exist anyway.
Serious Answer: I'm pretty sure their genesis in Palladium was from AD&D thief skills which were percentile (and also suffered from a similar problem as above).
Yeah, you gotta wonder about the legal advice they received on this one.
I'm pretty sure you can't use the parts of the OGL you like to serve your own purposes to create derivative content from and then say literally all the non traditionally understood product identity aspects (items, feats...