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They should just draw the creatures like when I was introduced to DnD, new interpretations ruin my game! The worst is that they force ME to include male medusa in my game. Worst game ever /s

IMO the failure of a roll should rarely be attributed to the character himself in the narration. The dice represent the random factors that influence every situation. The ability and prowess of the character are represented by the ability scores and proficiency scores. They are static. When a...

I use chatgpt for RPGs the same way I use random tables: To spitball some quick ideas to get my creative juices flowing. In the end it looks quite different than the result from ChatGPT because I connect them to other elements of the setting, character etc., Reframe them or they just inspire me...

I finished "Blue Sisters" by Coco Mellors yesterday. Its a #booktok hype, which made me sceptical, because I've DNFed multiple books that were hyped on tiktok now - but I am a sucker for family stories, so I gave it a try. And its actually good! I really liked the dynamic between the sisters and...

Yes, I think nerds won and fan culture is everywhere now. And as a nerd myself I kinda regret it. Turns out I don't like it if everybody in culture is like the comic book clerk from the Simpsons and I loathe a lot of stuff now that came out of nerd mainstream.

But the solution can't be to get even more obvious and get rid of subtext and implications at all. We will just make everybody dumber and dumber, nobody can learn it ever. I have no children so I don't know about state of schools nowadays, but I hope the acknowledge the issue and adjust.

Lets just say I have nowadays a better understanding for cultural pessimists.

It was pandering to the modern audience, disguised as a half-assed and drawn-out metajoke. IMO the movie would've been finished better without the last 20 minutes or so. I was yearning so hard for the credits to roll and then another scene came where the movie was explained for the x-th time to...

Because I or my players might like 5e? I played harder "gritty" 5e games. Its not that hard its just designing an adventure differently. But you have to design it anyway there is not a real higher workload in prepping. I agree that other games feel differently or naturally more hardcore, but I...

Appereantly nowadays yes, because implication and subtexts are just overread. People ask why we have to read literature and write interpretations in school, thats why. Another example from recent memory that differs from your example: The Barbie movie. I actually enjoyed the first half, but...

ayayay - I first thought its only about her terminal illness, whats the big deal? Than the actors fantasized about their fates and I wanted to stop - but than saw here that you specifically said to 33 minutes. Oopsie. That was a big cringe moment holy naughty word. Sounds like the fantasy of an edgy 13...

Some computer scientists try to coin different terms for it for reasons like this. These AIs are statistics on steroids, not very intelligent, but very good at calculating statistical models really fast. Contrary to human intelligence that is famously bad with statistics and very slow at...

It trivialized nothing, it makes difficulty adjustment more granular because they are more steps to death than just a difference of 6HP. Yes the default difficulty is much easier nowadays, but I can adjust it so far to run a highly deadly campaign in 5e without homebrew rules if I want to.

I mean the second movie had nothing to do with the first one storywise, so its not a problem for me. Its more of an anthology in the same world that examines different stages of the apocalypse, which is a fun concept to me. The trailer is really good. Love trailers that don't spoil too much...

off topic, but I feel its more like media literacy gone worse. Nowadays alot of folks need that someone in the content they consume clearly adresses the issues and categorize them as evil and bad. I read so many threads of people not liking movie/book/series XY because the character Z is such an...

I understand that, but I am saying I am not interested in a target goal of deaths per level. The average death rate is for me an interesting statistic afterwards, but I don't have any specific number in mind that a "good" campaign should have. Players who do bad decisions and have bad lucks...

Fair point. I don't mind anyway, sounds fine to me to not give it to full casters. They have cantrips as source for light effects with low resource cost.

I miss the option "I don't think there should be a defined rate of death per level". I don't care alot about how often death should happen. It also has only a "fake" connection to the edition and the system. I can build you in 5e24 a campaign where every second session a tpk happens. I can also...

Why would a divinitation wizard get a weapon mastery. But I bet each class will get a "martial subclass" at one point with weapon mastery incl. . Although it will make your game even slower, your problems with the feat are kinda pulling in different directions.

Thanks for the recommendation, because I definitely dig that. I like prose that challenges me and it feels good after reading relatively easy to digest books in the last months.