exocrinous

joined 9 months ago
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Actual Plays can introduce you to new styles of playing and DMing and improve your skills at the table. For example many people started running planescape campaigns due to Rolling With Difficulty. Before RWD, lots of people had no idea that D&D has spaceships and what is essentially a sci-fi setting. If you're a GM who wants to get better at running the game, then obviously my first recommendation is Matt Colville's videos, but try listening to a few different actual plays and learning from the styles of different GMs. Maybe you hate the way Matt Mercer runs the game, but you really like how Brennan Lee Mulligan does it. Maybe you didn't know it was possible to run the game in a different way than how Matt Mercer does it. If you don't have three decades of experience playing with diverse tables, then actual plays provide a substitute for that experience.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Technically if magic were real, then the rules of magic would be the rules of physics. Plus any rules of nonmagical physics.

This is invoked hilariously in Harry Potter and the Natural 20, which involves a D&D 3.5e character being portalled to Magical England. His name is Milo, and he works a little differently than the people native to this universe. For example, he takes actions over the course of exact 6 second increments. And he can heal almost any wound with 8 hours of sleep, with his body magically knitting itself back to full health at the moment 8 hours have passed. He's not capable of learning new skills over time, his level of proficiency stays exactly the same in all tasks into he levels up, at which point improving his abilities requires investing skill points. He finds the idea of learning and healing gradually to be ridiculous and silly. Also, he can move faster going at a diagonal than a cardinal.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

GNU Terry Pratchett

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Hey, I learned this the other day from Practical Engineering!

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -4 points 7 months ago

Yeah lol this is a funny joke but the way he draws black people isn't exactly PC these days

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You mean we could have seen this meme a dozen times already?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Great, now how am I supposed to get porn of myself fucking a dragon?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Oh no! Wha will w do wihout and ?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago

I think the employees should get all the profits from the business, since they take on all the risk.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Video games aren't a duopoly. There's lots of great indie games coming out. I just started playing The Talos Principle 2, which came out this year. Helldivers is from what I hear a smashing success, and Hades 2 is coming out soon!

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"Yes, we already have more empty houses than homeless people, but I'm sure building more houses is the solution to homelessness. We can't disrupt the economy, after all."

We need to instill voters with the courage to vote for actual left wing parties so we can get some politicians in Parliament who'll just do what needs to be done, and seize the empty houses from the investors and landlords.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Users on Lemmy think another person's feelings, if those feelings are in any way self-positive, are a direct and personal assault on themselves.

The thought, "You think you're better than me!?" Has become a core driver of interpersonal interactions

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