@G.Moylan I saw some recommendations for 1980s cyberpunk "classics," and would like to suggest, instead, stories which deal with those themes but don't treat Asian cultures and people as just an aesthetic or an antagonist. Blackfish City, Sunvault, Octavia Butler again, The Waste Tide...
Lately the cyberpunk works that get me at all excited, have been TRPGs by SEA creators.
Help Lav Move! Unleash the <O> A bundle by DarkLavenderVoid. $16.00 for Central:Directive - Central Booklet, Harvest Valley, Home Renovation of Great and Terrible Power
Mud: A Golem Memoir by Turtlebun. Play out the story of a golem from the moment of its creation to its final return to clay. Mud draws on the mythology of the golem, an animated construct from Jewish folklore, to tell a story about queer and Jewish identity and the experience of feeling out of place in your body.
[sigh] Magpie Games works with excellent creators to make awesome games. They almost as regularly support the slimiest, creepiest corners of the TRPG industry. This Avatar thing they're doing accomplishes both at once.
Their latest stretch goal announcement -- only two days before the Kickstarter ends so it's harder for people to figure out what's going on and cancel before Magpie Games collects pledges, that's not suspicious at all -- is an Actual Play event for which they're hiring someone who is a major associate and supporter of some of the most notorious contemporary names in the industry.
I'm not gonna give details here in main chat, 'cause nobody should have to see that unless they want to, but the receipts are publicly available.
Alright I got a theory. Every adventure novel I have ever read falls into one of two groupings. In the first grouping, the novel starts off with no danger for a short period of time, then the characters leave ‘home base’, and go on an adventure. The whole adventure is minor risk, spiked with intermediate and major threats. Once or twice throughout the novel, the characters arrive at a safe haven for a brief period of time. In the other model, the characters are for the most of the time, in their home environment, with little or no threat. Every so often, it is spiked with minor or major thr…
TTRPG adventures that are like the first one seem to be (for the most part) the ones where the DM plans a story and railroads the players at least somewhat. The second one, on the other hand, is more episodic, lending to player driven games.
@AncientSwordRage This has always been the problem with both the Avatar franchise and Magpie Games; simultaneously uplifting great and terrible people. At least this time they've put more Asian people in decision-making positions. I have no judgement for backers who want to still back it to support the excellent creators making the game, but also no judgement for backers who find Magpie Games' troublesome history and current support of known enablers to be a deal-breaker.
About 20 minutes in and they're just starting to define the castle and court, so I don't have a lot to say about it yet. I'm not sure they've picked up on the subtext but they're having fun.
The blurb text under the video suggests that whoever wrote the blurb really doesn't get what motivates goblins.
They're leaning into the "goblins are happy and helpful but humans confuse them" thing though.
> A character is a different: - physicality; it moves different than you. - vocality; it sounds different than you. - and motivation; it wants different things. It is very important that we understand motivation as haunted house performers, because our characters often want to kill everyone who walks through! As an actor, we cannot let that happen. We have to control that. ( from "Samurai" performer training by Allen Hopps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeSTkSGuBk )
The Way of Mercy Monk's Hand of Harm feature says:
When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to deal extra necrotic damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die + your Wisdom modifier.
However, the Way of the Kensei Monk's "One with the Blade" feature says:
...
Can a Circle of the Moon Druid in Wild Shape issue commands to creatures summoned with Conjure Animals?
The accepted answer to this question:
Communicating with Conjured Creatures
suggests that the spoken language does not really matter, because the conjured animals understand the intent behind t...
@nitsua60 you’re certainly welcome to! If you need more advice or clarification on whatever (or want to vent about library bureaucracy, which annoyed me multiple times when I started doing this) let me know
I've seen this comment at rpg.se a couple of times:
Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations. – Community
I guess a bot adds it. A suggestion to add "working code" is usually irrelevant in the context of TTRPG, unless we're talking abo...
@BESW so it was completely blocked before, and I made this argument and had to go up the chain to learn it was bandwidth, not just policy
They said recently "I've been asked to block access but instead I'm just going to ask you not to use it".... so I have been, but now it's saying I'm offline
@AncientSwordRage We don't litigate requests for Dragons-moving, we just do it. That's one of the only ways it can stay an actual, legitimate tool for keeping this room low-harm and non-hostile.
@Someone_Evil It's not working, the so called 'fix' in the inane auto community comments. Unable to flag as 'no longer needed' - flag gets rejected. Yet another addition of Noise over Signal by the SE tools.
Part of making my character was choosing from this list of Archetypes, twice. First for my character's "Nature," which defined her inner life and how she perceives the world and her place in it. Then for her "Demeanor," which is what she projected outwardly to the world and is the filter for manifesting her Nature.
@Someone_Evil @V2Blast Feedback up the chain: I left a comment for krist+many under Thomas' answer. Gist of it is: if you want to dis-incentivize the community mod function, make it frustrating and awkward to use. Your unpaid volunteers, upon whom you rely for the community mod function - which is necessary for the smooth running of SE sites - will not spend their time if you create a disincentive to do that Please send that up the chain.
If I've learned anything it's that there are alarmingly many ways to convince yourself that something is a great idea when, in reality, it very much is not
I like to let interiority emerge through play, and instead start with prompts for how my character moves in the world. The why behind the moving comes later for me.
Well, how do they feel about it? Is it an exciting opportunity or a frustration? Do they look forward to being more confident about themself or do they want to stay in this exploration mode as long as possible?
It's a fun start to grad school when you have a wrongly added hold on your account, one of your courses is listed wrong due to a system error and so you (and the rest of the class) can't access it, the nearest dining hall is closed from lack of staff, you are the only student who doesn't have an assigned school (my co-operating teacher quit), and you and one other person have schedules designed so horribly that you can spend at most 2.5 hours on any given day visiting your assigned school.
Luckily most of these are fixed, or will be fixed within the next three days, so I'm just laughing at the sheer coincidence that these all happened now
@BESW I wasn't terribly familiar with the Cyberpunk genre on a broader scale before playing 2077, but yeah now that you mention it the treatment of Asian cultures and people really stand out.
There's perhaps an argument to be made that 2077 is simply a continuation of the ideas put forth in the original Cyperpunk RPG, which, from what I understand, had a decent amount of influence of the direction of the genre. So it's perhaps not necessarily that they're furthering the stereotype per se, but they're instead simply following the original story beats. But still, it does ring a bit sour that the big bad is - surprise, surprise - Japanese.
And she apparently get her COVID shot so early that she sent in the confirmation before the school had set up their system to receive them, and so she received an email last Friday saying should would be fired on October 15th (she's since fixed this error)
I imagine the first week or two of school will have plenty of obscure hurdles and system errors for everyone to figure out together. Like the doors not unlocking at the start of the school day XD
@ThomasMarkov only advantage I can see is search terms. if someone is searching and stumbles upon that one they can trace it back to the OG for the answer
There’s some broader context to it that the mods need to consider anyway, so I’ll leave it to them.
I think we’ve used the phrase “belligerent question” before to describe a question that isn’t really genuine and is used more to air some sort of grievance about some other site interaction.
Yeah there's subjectivity to what actually meets our standards, what actually answers a question (especially given that frame challenges are a thing), and then I'm sure there's people who just want to see massively negative answers deleted because they think they look bad and shouldn't be read by most people
And I lack any real statistics on whether keeping a -50 answer around actually makes people avoid following its advice or only serves to further the use of such bad ideas, so I don't even know what is right. I really just know what MSE suggests
Speaking of deleting answers, I've got one that I've been contemplating deleting, but it's highly upvoted. Should I still consider deleting it, seeing as someone (or many someones) has found it useful? the Question also has a LOT of views. And while I stand by the point I make in my answer, I'm not 100% on the quality of it
@ThomasMarkov And that's fair. Though if it added actual support that both interpretations are sensible by explaining why/how they are sensible, I doubt anybody would have deleted it
@Medix2 what would make this an actually valid answer is if it engaged with the question in such a way that demonstrated that Leaving it up totally up to the DM is the best approach. As written, it doesn’t engage with the problem of the question at all.
Apparently I had upvoted it. If you wanted to improve it, maybe don't bury the lede.
Probably stick a tl;dr at the top, "The long and short of it is, there's not a great way to "convince" your player to play D&D, nor would I recommend pushing it if this player decides it isn't for them."
dropped the weasel words for you.
Some people just hate diagonal moves. Chess is not a game for them.
@GcL I've revised it multiple times and I think it's as good as it will get at this point. I've just been on the fence about it meeting quality guidelines, but I think perhaps I'm just being hard on myself
@NautArch Book eight or nine is the one you have to change your expectations for a bit. Winter's Heart doesn't cover a lot of time, but does tie up a lot of story threads. After that it's smooth reading.
So I reviewed all the iterations of the DGtS discussions in preparation for my answer to the latest episode. Wasn't too bad. I thought to myself, "I'll go review all the discussions we had about rules-as-written to familiarize myself with the history." Nope. Too much.
> proposition: a dragon's size grows with the value of their hoard > scenario: a dragon whose size varies wildly from minute to minute because their hoard is a bitcoin wallet
Scenario II: The wallet holds DogeCoin, and the dragon has a marketing contract running Elon Musk's and Mark Cuban's twitter handles. When threatened, the dragon uses his legendary actions during the first round to send tweets.
@KorvinStarmast I have difficulty writing myriad of meaningful choices where the players have a model and can weigh what they're going to do instead of just selecting from a multi-choice list. Also, defining goals for exploration in such a way that the players know when they've succeeded or failed can be difficult.
I’m picking up where I left off last week, on the Auraic Academy. Today, I thought I’d cover classes, which are a very important part of, you know, being a school. The academy has a handful of ways to determine what classes students take. Every student has certain classes they must take every year or almost every year; those are core classes. There are also non-core classes, which are further…
Burn It! increases fire damage:
Your spells and alchemical items that deal fire damage gain a status bonus to damage equal to half the spell's level or one-quarter the item's level (minimum 1).
Wildfire does fire damage per square:
A creature that moves on the ground through the area takes 1 f...
Basically, after all the apparent "apocalypses" over the past 20 years (Y2K, Second Coming of Christ, Mayan Calendar, Dyslexic Mayan Calendar, etc) a group was formed to keep an eye on things ~ 12 hours into the future to give the rest of the world a heads up if anything happened overnight.
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I'm currently sitting a 9.44am on Friday the 3rd, and at this point, nothing is out of the ordinary.
The Way of Mercy Monk's Hand of Harm feature says:
When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to deal extra necrotic damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die + your Wisdom modifier.
However, the Way of the Kensei Monk's "One with the Blade" feature says:
...
I've seen this comment at rpg.se a couple of times:
Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations. – Community
I guess a bot adds it. A suggestion to add "working code" is usually irrelevant in the context of TTRPG, unless we're talking abo...
Burn It! increases fire damage:
Your spells and alchemical items that deal fire damage gain a status bonus to damage equal to half the spell's level or one-quarter the item's level (minimum 1).
Wildfire does fire damage per square:
A creature that moves on the ground through the area takes 1 f...
