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).
@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.
I was tired when I got home from work and was tempted by the cheap energy of a mini Mountain Dew BUT I meditated for 10 minutes instead, calmed my brain (my brain gets amped up when I get tired, ‘cause I can’t reign it in anymore), and then went for the run.
So now I’m even more tired, but it’s the good kind of tired and my brain settled down. #GeekFitness#Running
5 books 📚, 5 VERY different takes on how to introduce a setting. A thread 🧵 looking at Numenera, Ebberon, Ravnica, Torg Eternity, & Spire.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to introduce my setting to players. I came away from a discussion with wifey (a writer) with homework to go read how other games approached it, and other tasks.
I started watching Columbo at the start of the pandemic (my Dad was a big fan of the show, so I had watched some of the later TV movies with him as a kid), but kind of dropped it. I thought I got farther, but I guess I stopped in the middle of season 3. Started watching again tonight with Robert Culp's third appearance as the murderer.
@Tim_Eagon Man, I do enjoy Columbo, though I've never sat down to watch it through.
There are some quite bad Columbo episodes, though most are pretty good! And some are great.
