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BrianBinh

@BrianBinh@dice.camp

I'm a simple man: I like my beer cold, my music loud, and my swords laser. I write TTRPG stuff & design nerdy t-shirts. (he/him/anh/anh ấy)

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    @LeviKornelsen The Sooth Deck is perfect for today's harried soothsayer who needs to say sooth in a hurry and hasn't prepared any sooth to say.

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    I don't think I've ever seen "wealful" as a word until I looked it up just now, going "If woeful is a word, shouldn't there also be...?"

    It's out of common use, but hey.

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen If you can heal someone until they're healthy, can you weal someone until they're wealthy?

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    Cory Doctorow once said (might not be verbatim) "Your problem isn't piracy, your problem is obscurity."

    And every time I see a new RPG designer stressing about idea theft and their copyright and the like, I think about that.

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    @LeviKornelsen The actual effort involved in producing a game from an idea is a better defense against having your idea "stolen" than any NDA.

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    The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

    "He's drunk" is just a description.
    "He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

    The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

    "Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".

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    @jewelpit That would be hilarious, but unfortunately "Spaniard" comes to English from French, where "-ard" is just a place name like "Picard".

    BrianBinh,
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    @bluedragon It's actually true! Adding -ard to words in Middle English was equivalent to slang today adding -ass. A drunkard was a drunkass motherfucker. A dullard was a dullass motherfucker. A bollard was a bole (tree trunk)-ass thing.

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    Next time you watch a movie or read a book, mentally substitute "wiseass" whenever somebody says "wizard".

    "Yer a wiseass, 'Arry!"

    "Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wiseasses."

    "That wiseass is just a crazy old man."

    "A wiseass is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

    "Do you think if I went, this wiseass would give me brains?"

    "Can't you just 'wiseass' it open?"

    "Mr. Wiseass! Get me the hell out of here!"

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    When life gives you lemons, focus on the lemons. Do not make eye contact with life. Do not try to comprehend how life is able to give you anything. Do not wonder if life has something approaching hands.

    The human mind was not meant to come into direct contact with life. Focus on the lemons. Focus on the lemons. Do not look up. Do not look up.

    BrianBinh,
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    @signalstation takes a long drag on a cigarette and whispers "Citrons, pomelos, and mandarins all exist in nature."
    jabs the air with a finger, smoke curling up from the cigarette, raises voice "Someone crossed the mandarin & pomelo to make a sour orange."
    Takes another drag, sobs "Someone else crossed that sour orange with a citron to make lemons."
    tears streaming down face "Life didn't give us lemons. We took something beautiful and ruined it. WE GAVE OURSELVES LEMONS! "

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    I'm generally a big fan of planned, incremental change, but if someone wanted to fire a few sandbags of metal shavings through the engines of every private jet on earth while they're starting up, I'd be very comfortable with that.

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    @LeviKornelsen It's still incremental if you do it one at a time.

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    @LeviKornelsen The "Drowning in Armor" card.

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen It's the only one I can remember.

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    @robindlaws Transmission received.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    "If you don't like the status quo in gaming, go make your own game" is one of those rare places where shitty cop-out and great advice merge.

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen
    Go make your own game!
    Gatekeepers 🤝 Cool Designers

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    I have, since Everway and Falkenstein, been theoretically in love with deck-of-cards-based resolution, while practically not being excited by any of the options I've encountered enough to actually run more than a couple sessions of any other than those specific two.

    So of course now I'm making a deck that works for one, because of course I am.

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    @LeviKornelsen I like the idea of cards, but it always feels lacking when they are used as a dice substitute. We don't need cards to generate numbers when we have dice.

    I like that cards can have different faces & be laid out in different patterns like tarot or solitaire. I think I prefer cards for generating situations & dice for resolving outcomes.

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    @LeviKornelsen Ah! I see you have played the Contract card. But—not so fast!—I have the Weasel card that lets me find a loophole to wriggle out of the agreement!

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    @LeviKornelsen Raise both hands with your elbows at 90 degrees and say in a loud clear voice "Will no one help the widow's son?"

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    "Bilbo" was just a nickname. His full name was William Beauregard Baggins.

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    @robindlaws Some writers never use em dashes—they're parenthetical cowards.

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    @LeviKornelsen In the box marked "Experience", write down the amazing sights you've seen. Under "treasures", write the names of the friends you've made along the way.

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    I knew someday I'd get too old to recognize new celebrities but I did not expect to get too old to recognize what celebrities are famous for. every day I go "is that a new singer" and then a person born in 2007 goes "ew no they're a peeble streamer on doop" as I inch closer to the grave

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    @VeryBadLlama I'm used to not knowing why celebrities are famous. It's been that way my whole life. As far as I could tell, Zsa Zsa Gabor became famous by just going on talk shows and announcing she was famous so she could start doing guest spots on Hollywood Squares.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    D&D has generally not actually required that you murderize your opponents to get that sweet sweet XP.

    But also, dumping the morale rules was a mistake.

    Fights ending with one side breaking and running or surrendering genuinely SHOULD be more common.

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    @LeviKornelsen Morale AND Reaction rolls.

    Now it seems like meeting a group of orcs is an immediate test of reflexes to see who gets to start stabbing the other first.

    Morale means you might kill one or two and scare them off. Reaction rolls could mean the orcs are drunkenly celebrating & want to invite you to join because you guys look cool & they're in a great mood.

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    @LeviKornelsen If you can copy a bunch of beardy dudes with robes and staves from a bible coloring book, then you can draw so many wizards! Just add some stars to their robes. Or add a bowling ball and you've got the Dude.

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    EDIT: Updated!

    If you're posting a game on Itch or Drivethru, and you're not sure what to write...

    That's sales copy, and there are books and books about it. I've read plenty, and then proceeded to write good copy for, like, three of my games. I'm lazy. But it DID improve their downloads, visibly.

    So if you want a very basic, one-page, zero-level starter, I have one for you; see the picture or the link. (Left column, how-to, right column, example).

    https://levikornelsen.itch.io/one-page-sales-copy-guide

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen Writing the sales copy for the download page is the hardest part of making a game.

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    @LeviKornelsen What if Radagast the Brown put on the one ring?

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    @LeviKornelsen @mintrabbit I'm in a lot of "Wishlist" or "Username's Collection" lists (and a lot of French & South American "JDR" lists), but there are some mysterious ones like "Stuff for the Thursday Night Group" or "Print for Samantha".

    The hyper specific ones are my favorite. "Owlbear" is in a collection called "Play as Animals (Especially Birds)".

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