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Similar to how it is technically possible to just roleplay what we call now a sorcerer on pre-2e d&d ediitions, but nobody really does (or ever did) It is possible to ignore mechanics, fluff and survivability and struggle to do it. Because "what is a witch but a female magic user?" am I right...

To me, they missed the forest for the trees. Changing stat priorities after character creation is but a fraction of the problem, which is, you shouldn't delay character defining choices. (And they sure didn't learn that lesson)

And it becomes what I call the "one character problem". After all that effort to reproduce the experience of a class, you are left with only one character without much more room for individuality and further customization. What was a diverse pool of possible characters very different from each...

The problem with this is that it encourages combat as the primary game mode. Nothing wrong with it if it's your thing, but for me it is again something that you could get better and more easily from a videogame. A cool idea still (I'd like wizards having to research/learn spells only from...

I like crafting. I love Minecraft and like crafting sidequests in other videogames. But for pen and paper tabletop, I'm not so sure I want it in. Unlike computers, we need to do the overhead by hand -or need computer assist-. Humans are just not good at bookkeeping, that's why we invented books...

I just saw this. @Steampunkette I like most of your ideas here. One idea I toyed with when I started to brainstorm my heartbreaker changes to 5e -that I discarded because I went with extreme simplicity instead- was to have wizards (and bards) be consumers of ambient mana, so their ability to do...

Hear me out. RPG With strong social and interaction engine, not just a dialogue tree that repeats over and over. And please, don't turn allies into non-entities/non-characters once they are recruited. Ideally allies would still be interacted with and they would keep their own distinct own...

Ok, lets see I have Prime (mostly keep it for the video, I don't buy online that often), Crunchy Roll Disney Plus (Similar to the Prime arrangement but with Mercado Libre) Netflix (with ads) Max/HBO -whatever- (with a lifetime half cost account) Spotify -as part of the family plan, I myself...

There's unsubtle, and there's blatant... n_n I wonder how many more vampire romance songs are out there? ( I can think of Vampire Heart -HIM-, Broken -Sonata Arctica- and Love song for a Vampire - Annie Lenox-)

Yeah, I knew, even before actually learning. During to my "vampire loving" phase -you know, when you just feel like you have to devour Anne Rice's books and wear black- I was primed to ve receptive to vampire subtext. And the song isn't exactly subtle. When I saw this fact in a listicle, my...

TIL that the tamagotchis caused some children to be depressed and faced with loss. Apparently specially in Japan. Here's a note from the NY times. But it only covers part of it. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/052297gadget.html

I moved to libreoffice and google docs long ago

And many times you can only find new versions of the songs which sound completely off. Maybe the vand changed vocalist and they only offer the song with the new one. Perhaps they changed studios and no longer control their masters. Maybe they earn more by putting their acustic unplugged remix...

I binged the whole thing. I like the world building and most of the relationships among the cast. However I didn't like the whole "introverts are there to be saved by an obnoxious extrovert who surely knows better."

I was looking for this picture: https://www.enworld.org/media/photo_2023-03-14_09-46-41-jpg.103806/ I grew up watching the first Japanese trilogy and Beast Wars. I was also exposed to a bootleg toyline that was all animal-based. The cool part was that half the figures were female characters...

More like 100% of the money, it just goes to you instead, doesn't it?

Uff fifteen bucks. That's a bit pricey.

I'm likely younger than you, so my period of collecting is in the late aughts. Back then, the amount of money I spent each month would at first buy 5 comics. Then four, and three, eventually just one, and now less than one. Part of it is our parity with the dollar getting worse, but the rising...

This weekend I watched this movie. (Took my mom to the movies for Mother's Day) I guess it is soon for spoilers as the rest of North America won't get it for three more Fridays. Still I wanted to open this up for now and later hopefully there can be spoilers then. In general, I'm not that much...

AI doesn't have experiences, nor needs or feelings. All of these color the way we "read" media and content. There's a book I love. The first time I read it was at seven or eight. I later did a book report on it during High school. Despite it being the same literal book, seven year old me read a...