Another rec for GW2. I’d recommend you try the F2P game so you get a general sense of the mechanics and see if you like it, then wait for a sale to buy the “Elder Dragon Saga—Complete Collection” for half-price. I mean, there’s enough content for it to be worth 100 bucks, but for 50 it’s a bargain.
Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete....
Israel ordered people out of swathes of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday as it pressed its ground campaign deep into the south, sending desperate residents fleeing even as it dropped bombs on areas where it told them to go.
Almost 300 nurses in Switzerland leave their jobs every month, mainly because of difficult working conditions. This phenomenon also affects young graduates, and poses a major challenge for Swiss hospitals....
I get that we don’t want to increase healthcare costs more, but the working conditions of our public health service are dramatic and should have been improved 20 years ago.
We need a profound reform of the system, because healthcare workers should deserve 40 hour weeks like the rest of us, and doctors should be able to get enough operating hours to get their degree without having to work 70 hour weeks for a literal decade. It’s insane.
You know you can support the Palestinan cause without having to lie egregiously right. In terms of support, this is not “A first world, heavily subsidized, safe government” […] versus “a poor destitute region” alone.
Like Israel has the US as an ally, there is massive financial support from different oil-rich, Middle Eastern countries in the infowar in favor of Palestine. From one side Iran, which is sworn enemies with Israel, and is financing Hezbollah in Lebanon. From another Qatar, where Hamas leaders are (were? I’ve seen reports of them moving so I may be out of date) living in luxury. Hell, even Russia is probably using their troll farms because making Israel look bad makes the US look bad and there is no way they would miss that chance.
The world population lost more wealth last year than at any time since the financial crisis. Account balances also fell in Switzerland in 2022. The falling stock market prices were primarily to blame. Nevertheless, the Swiss remain the richest people in the world....
So why not lean into it fully and make the GM responsible for the whole balancing?
Because having things balanced properly in regard to the myriad options that are possible in people imaginations is hard, especially related to combat. Improper balacing leads to people having a bad time, while having an established, fair ruleset lets the DM and the players focus on other things.
No need for the framework to do balancing, because a good GM will do that.
But at this point why even have rules? A “good GM” can just entirely improvise a system.
I mean, to each group their own, but 4176 is the total of all together, which is a very unfair way of presenting it.
You’ll never have to choose between all of them, or even a decent fraction.
While leveling up, you’ll have to choose between 4-8 class feats accessible at your level, and you would usually prioritise ones available from your current levels to those available beforehand. Plus, at some point many feats require prerequisite, which means you can cut down half of options you can choose from really. Same thing with the race feats, skill feats and general feats.
8 possibilites maximum at every level up might be too much for some people, but really isn’t in the same ballpark of having to choose between 4000+ every time.
China is facing a growing international backlash after one of its coast guard vessels used a water cannon against a Philippine boat in the South China Sea on Saturday, an incident analysts say escalates an already tense situation and could see the United States and its allies speed up plans for joint patrols in the waterway.
Police say they are being misrepresented by filming of arrests by members of the public, with some voices calling for restrictions on video content being made public....
If they are worried about unfair representation, then fair representation can be shown through unedited video feed directly from the police.
Garra suggests that more officers should wear bodycams to balance up the available video evidence.
And visibly some police representative think so too. It should really be the norm. We shouldn’t kid ourselves that our police are perfect, even if they are magnitudes better than in some other countries. Complacency breeds corruption.
Technically PF2e has Crit Success, Success, Failure and Crit failure, but I somehow I don’t think you are looking for that if you want something similar to PbtA haha.
Overwatch 2 PvE completely canceled after poor sales: report - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
Jason Schreier’s original article is here...
Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' (www.pcgamer.com)
[Vote] Should we pre-emptively defederate Threads? (sh.itjust.works)
Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete....
Developers blast the celeb-laden Game Awards as 'an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs' (www.pcgamer.com)
Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them (www.reuters.com)
Israel ordered people out of swathes of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday as it pressed its ground campaign deep into the south, sending desperate residents fleeing even as it dropped bombs on areas where it told them to go.
Hundreds of exhausted nurses quit Swiss hospital jobs each month (www.swissinfo.ch)
Almost 300 nurses in Switzerland leave their jobs every month, mainly because of difficult working conditions. This phenomenon also affects young graduates, and poses a major challenge for Swiss hospitals....
California Has Spent Over $4M In Taxpayer Dollars On Gender Surgeries For Prisoners (freebeacon.com)
Why spend thousands of dollars on gender affirming care, when the California tax payers will pay for you to transition?
Swiss parliament approves ban on full-face coverings like burqas, and sets fine for violators (apnews.com)
A Textbook Case of Genocide (jewishcurrents.org)
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
Despite declining wealth, the Swiss remain the richest people (www.swissinfo.ch)
The world population lost more wealth last year than at any time since the financial crisis. Account balances also fell in Switzerland in 2022. The falling stock market prices were primarily to blame. Nevertheless, the Swiss remain the richest people in the world....
Swiss Federal government starts pilot test on Mastodon (i.imgur.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.ch/post/1019586...
Does 18 hit? (diyrpg.org)
Hot Take: 5e is too bloated with unnecessary rules and should be simplified (ttrpg.network)
I recommend this video to look more into OSR philosophy regarding the rules: www.youtube.com/live/bCxZ3TivVUM?si=aZ-y2U_AVjn9a…
5th Edition D&D books?
With the Trove being long dead, and the last torrent not really being updated anymore, I was wondering what alternatives are out there....
Aw hell (ttrpg.network)
Switzerland Freaks Out After Veselnitskaya Plot Is Exposed (www.thedailybeast.com)
Does your country have something similar to the GDPR?
Just curious....
International backlash grows after Chinese vessel fires water cannon on Philippine boats | CNN - WAR!!!! (edition.cnn.com)
China is facing a growing international backlash after one of its coast guard vessels used a water cannon against a Philippine boat in the South China Sea on Saturday, an incident analysts say escalates an already tense situation and could see the United States and its allies speed up plans for joint patrols in the waterway.
Swiss police cry foul over citizen filming of arrests (www.swissinfo.ch)
Police say they are being misrepresented by filming of arrests by members of the public, with some voices calling for restrictions on video content being made public....
Swiss woman under investigation for damaging Rome Colosseum (www.swissinfo.ch)
Italian police are investigating a young Swiss woman on suspicion that she carved her initials on the wall of the Colosseum in Rome....
Reposting my old stuff from Reddit #3: This isn't a jab, this is a warning. (ttrpg.network)
61,000 Europeans may have died in last summer's heat waves, experts say (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Systems with success/minor success/failure
Hello, first time posting in the new community. I am looking at games similar to Power by the Apocalypse or Forged in the Dark. Just to clarify:...