@bedirthan Heh. I hadn't even noticed that. Let me track down that lake, and see if I can find some history on it. That picture is from mile marker 252 on Highway 95 in Maine.
Though I've been drifting away from #DND5e for a while now, it's still feels really weird to be completely uninterested in the latest releases. I mean, not even a twinge of FOMO.
@Tim_Eagon@dragoncrown I’ll admit character generation for fantasy does little for me… but superhero generation is a different story. If a superhero game doesn’t let me have fun creating a dozen or so characters for everyone I “play” - then it’s not a good superhero game.
@bedirthan@Tim_Eagon@dragoncrown Hmm, I'm going to take an alternate position - I feel you are drawing a false distinction. Character generation is part of play - it's not a separate activity.
That being said, I do think ones enjoyment of character generation as play is dependent on where one falls on the simulationist to narrative axis of TTRPGs. Which is going to be different for everyone.
Of for one person within genres (Superheroes vs Fantasy for me).
@libraryogre@bedirthan@Tim_Eagon@dragoncrown 3.5 was the worst. Though at one time, you could die in Travellers character generation. Which is the most extreme example of losing character generation
@kyonshi This is something that's always surprised me.... the specs for email state that it can take up to 48 hours or so for it to arrive. It wasn't designed to be real time.
But since it is, in effect, real time more than 99.999% of the time, and has been for years, nobody pays the least bit of attention to how it was intended and designed to work.
Well, I went to my primary care doctor yesterday, and had a bunch of labs done.
In the words of my wife "They are disgustingly good". (She is jealous of my cholesterol reading).
My A1C is a bit high (I've had diabetes for a while) but just barely over what we want it.
Everything else checks out... the low side of normal.
Interesting!
You want to get that A1C fully under control? Go Vegan. I did for six months (my wife went vegan, that meant I went vegan). She fell off the wagon after six months, so I did too. But in that six months I lost 60 pounds and my A1C went to the low 5's. My eye doctor commented " I don't have diabetes. You do have diabetes, and your A1C is lower than mine!"
In the same amount of words it takes to list a single 2014 #DnD character's official personality I was able to list the six characters, their origin fiction and their personalities.
My wife and I finally (finally!) had a conversation about my increasing memory loss. And growing signs of early dementia.
It's something I've been wanting to do for a couple of years. She is quite upset, but I made my peace with it a while ago. It's just getting impossible to ignore. #memory#alzheimers#dementia
@robindlaws Those suckers are all over Georgia - They just moved in within the past 5 years. I live in Maine now, for the past two years. Before I left, I went around the old homestead looking. I found double digit numbers of the things, within an hours search.
I killed them all with salt and smushing, but realistically that didn't do squat.
So, the reason I was looking at Star Wars - and other games - was because I'm questioning the whole point of "Character Advancement" in games that aren't power fantasies.
There are many games where you're just a "normal" person or "Normal+" 😉
Why do so many of those games have "advancement" or "levels" or whatever? Is it just because it's become expected? If you're not playing a Power Fantasy then why do characters just gaining power and capability at an impossible rate?
@RogerBW@masukomi Keep in mind Traveller has been happily in print and use for almost 50 years. So they do slow improvement, and are still quite successful.
