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I’m not sure the 2-1/2-year-olds running around most fandoms would accept that the 4-year-olds are inherently “more of a fan” of the thing. Some of the conversations certainly reminds me of when my kid was a toddler though.

It never ceases to amaze me just how toxic some fandoms are. There's a lot of fantastic stories out there to enjoy but the moment you want to talk to other humans about any of that stuff...wow.

Anyone track down the source for that yet? I know I saw it but I can't seem to find it again. Be great to go from the actual video instead of memory. Times change. Perkins and Crawford were recent additions to their team. Prior to that it was all on Matt to do the heavy lifting despite having...

Ah. The toxic positivity of the fandom spreads. What joy. The Precious is perfect. Every aspect and permutation is perfect. You are not a real fan unless you think it perfect.

Still reading, but ever so slowly in fits and starts. A house full of kittens in not conducive to my ADHD-addled brain being able to concentrate. Surprise. Also reading a few books that would elicit red text just by mentioning the titles. In a now ironic twist, I started reading Gothic: A Very...

One of my many, many favorite aspects of OSR/NSR games is the notion of combat as a fail state. Your goal is to avoid combat as much as possible because it’s deadly. Think your way around or out of combat. Win the fight before it starts. Etc. So are there any OSR/NSR games out there that take...

Besides the already mentioned Monster Overhaul, I prefer monster books to be general-audience readers instead of game books. Books on myths, monsters, ghosts, weird creatures, cryptids, etc. I prefer monster stats to be easily done on a page, bookmark, or business card a la Blog of Holding’s...

"Yeah, well I'm more X than you!" is always such a weird, sad, gatekeepy flex. Replace X with any subculture, trait, or whatever.

Maybe don't assume I'm shaming people. Maybe don't assume I'm not a goth, too.

Now I’m being goth-splained to. I need to go lie down.

No. Check the post I just made. It’s custom for Tal.

According to the CR wiki Ashton and Beau were custom made for Tal and Marisha. The blood hunter started from Vin Diesel’s character in D&Diesel. The CR campaigns are planned for months with session zeros, individual sessions, duo sessions, etc all happening off camera before episode 1 airs. The...

Do you have a source for that?

This isn’t how I took that comment at all. It sounded far more like Brennan thanking the behind the camera people at D20 and CR for their hard work in making these TV shows possible. Camera operators, set design, lighting, makeup, etc. Not that other people were co-DMs.

Yeah. Between Tal and Liam, Liam is the more dramatic and dark goth type. Tal seems to be more attention seeking and performative “look at me.” I wouldn’t describe either of them as spotlight hogs.

Do you have a source for this? The blood hunter definitely seemed more put together but the gravity barbarian seemed like Matt was literally writing it as the campaign went along.

He’s literally the only one to do so. He’s the only one who has played a custom character in every campaign. C1. Only custom character was Tal’s gunslinger fighter. C2. Tal has a custom class, blood hunter. Marisha has custom subclass. C3. Both Tal and Sam have custom subclasses. We’re...

It comes down to the workload involved. Homebrew is great, forcing the referee to do a mountain of homework for you is not. Compare a class in OD&D to one in 5E. In OD&D, playing a dragon PC would be “you can fly, breathe fire, and have bite/claw attacks” and balance largely doesn’t matter. In...

No, but it does generally have constraints like pick something from the listed options. Taliesin seems like the kind of person to continually say no, I need to be more special than that. See C2, C3, and now C4. C1 made sense because they converted from PF which had gunslingers as an option. But...

To each their own. I think it's an interesting premise for an anime; terrible as a D&D character. Would be great in any other system that could actually accommodate something like that easily. It feels like he'd rather be playing some other game but can't, so he's importing the character. Or...