It’s always difficult finding the balance between in character and out of character knowledge. I recently had to explain to my players that their characters definitely knew about a major historical event in the setting, because while it happened 10,000 years ago it’s important to the origin of several gods, so is a widely known story.
The car [christened the Seagull], launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S.-made electric vehicles that cost three times as much....
BYD cars actually seem to be more reliable than other electric car brands, as they have slightly higher raw numbers of incidents than other companies, but sell almost 10 times as many cars as their closest competitors.
Also, gas and hybrid vehicles are up to 100 times more likely to catch fire than EVs, so even if BYD were particularly bad they’d still be safer than most vehicles in America.
Just Google the paradox of tolerance. It’s really not as complicated as you’re making it out to be.
Also, punching Nazis is always morally correct. If you wouldn’t attack a nazi because they’re not currently threatening you specifically then you won’t develop any additional moral prerogative in time of civil war - you’ll join them, because they’re still not threatening you specifically, while fair and equal redistribution of resources will effect you. You don’t have any sort of morality or ideology underlying your objection, you just think extreme things are bad because you’re not given a choice.
The alternative is sitting down, having a talk, drinking some tea and talking about our differences.
You literally talk in your other reply about how you’ll join them. You can’t just sit down and talk about how they want to kill the jews and you don’t - your willingness to hear them out inherently legitimises their ideas as being reasonable and able to be reasoned about.
I know you don’t fully understand how the way that you say something can be as informative as what you actually say, but I don’t need to assume - you did actually tell me in your comment that you don’t really mind nazis as long as they’re not being violent towards you.
but I mostly just want to be along for the ride until it’s time to roll some dice to hit something and let the other players figure out what to do otherwise
I’d say all RPGs, even 5e, require players to actively engage with the game, he just wants other people to do the active engaging. Nobody wants to play with people like this, because either you want to engage and want to play with other engaged people, or you don’t want to engage and want to play with engaged people you can piggyback off.
A party of players like him wouldn’t get anything done, even in 5e, because they don’t actually want to be playing a ttrpg; they want to hang out with their friends and play something more like Ludo or Snakes And Ladders - roll some dice, move some pieces, go back to the conversation until your turn comes up again. HeroQuest if they really need the fantasy aspects.
Whenever I buy clothes they always end up getting holes quickly, I burn through socks fast, my bags keep breaking, my phones magically shit themselves and my chargers melt. I’m sick of everything being a wear part and I’m wondering where people get things that last.
I can second fjallraven backpacks, mines still going strong after a decade. Recently found it’s because they’re made with best Korea’s national fabric, vinylon.
Delete this you fucking child, it’s embarrassing that you would misinterpret their choice this much - women aren’t thinking about fucking the bear, its your obsession with fucking that threatens them - the unwillingness to see the world from any point of view but your own.
Do not think that women are thinking about a best case scenario in this question: they are very much thinking about how much they’d rather be killed quickly than raped by someone like you and left traumatised for the rest of their lives. Men like you who laugh at the idea that you’re more threatening than a bear haven’t just misunderstood their answers, you’ve fundamentally misunderstood the question.
I’m not sure if you understand that we’re comparing how long it takes a bear to kill someone to a person’s entire remaining life span. I can absolutely 100% guarantee that a bear kills you a lot faster than natural aging.
And no, obviously it isn’t because of people like me, I actually respect women and their opinions - you, on the other hand, are very happy to diminish them and tell them to shut up because you know better. You demean and objectify them like every common or garden rapist - you, specifically, are exactly the type of man they’re thinking about in the hypothetical.
dean-smile Overwhelming majority of their users are fine, so I feel it’s worth just banning the handful of assholes, even if that includes their admins.
No they most certainly are not - if I list the traits of a specific person, and you get angry that I’m generalising because you share 1 of the list of traits, you are wrong. I am not generalising, I am describing someone who isn’t you.
he was not arrested or charged but only given a criticism
This is probably something like a caution but I’d like to imagine the cops were there going “your outfit’s shit, wrong colour, face makeup sucks, 2/10”
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won’t be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.
Where do you want to start? The player mechanics are way outdated and overcomplicated for what it wants to be, the GM mechanics are functionally nonexistant, the lore is cliched at best and still incredibly bigoted in many areas, the better adventures are just rehashes of 2e and 3.x adventures and still need entire communities dedicated to making them runnable, it’s unbalanced until you get to about level 10 at which point it becomes unplayable, and without pirating it’s incredibly expensive.
Trying to strap every possible setting and mechanic onto a fantasy rule system was one of the issues 3.x ended up with, and 5e hasn’t been designed to solve that.
Most boring take on dragons I’ve ever seen. Dragons have pretty much never been exclusively creatures of fire, with water and acidic bile being common themes across different cultural incarnations. Dragons should be pretty rare, what with their power allowing them to make hundreds of square miles their territory, but otherwise this article is just saying to make dragons the most basic gold hoarding lizards.
I will continue to have cool interesting dragons that hoard things other than gold and have motivations beyond power through fear thank you very much.
Honestly there isn’t anything in D&D worth saving that hasn’t been done better elsewhere. Making it good requires rewriting the system and lore from the ground up - they tried with 4e, but didn’t have the time to complete either so all the classes functioned like casters and the setting was literally lifeless. 5e has just been a “best of” collection, dressing up like old favourites and reissuing classic adventures.
PF2e alone is everything 3.x, 4e, and 5e wanted to be, has a massively detailed and extensive setting that isn’t filled with cliches and problematic elements, and has only had to undergo minor canon changes rather than universe changing events between editions. It has accessibility, diversity, and inclusion out the wazoo, heavily supports the player community, and a steady supply of high quality adventures. PF2e fits the exact same niche as D&D, while being an all around improvement, even on price.
[CW: Animal cruelty] [Spoilers: Abomination Vaults] My stupid asshole players decided to use chickens to disarm traps in the spooky lighthouse that makes undead and now I have to haunt them with spo (hexbear.net)
oky ghost chickens and it’s so fucking stupid....
Caption this. (mander.xyz)
It's weird this happenned twice (ttrpg.network)
Lessons Learned:...
Chinese EVs “could end up being an extinction-level event for the U.S. auto sector.” (apnews.com)
The car [christened the Seagull], launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S.-made electric vehicles that cost three times as much....
Check your email for the verification code we just sent you. (lemmy.sdf.org)
Telegram Reportedly "Ready to Fight Piracy" According to Govt. Official * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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Weird (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection....
the guy at your table who only wants to play D&D
Full post on Reddit. Final paragraphs:...
Where do people buy things that don't break?
Whenever I buy clothes they always end up getting holes quickly, I burn through socks fast, my bags keep breaking, my phones magically shit themselves and my chargers melt. I’m sick of everything being a wear part and I’m wondering where people get things that last.
How are they this naive
dbzer0 defederation vote
db0 and Unruffled have both been banned for reactionary behavior and, in the case of the former, DM harassment....
This post was banned from dbzer0 for being "Tankie" lmfao what a joke of a so-called piracy instance (hexbear.net)
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c437af3b-7c7e-40ce-b39d-e099ae471d3c.jpeg...
German art student posing as one of China's terracotta warriors (x.com)
A German art student posing as one of China’s terracotta warriors at the heritage site in Xi’an,2006....
5e has an advantage of not requiring doctorate in quantum physics to run (ttrpg.network)
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won’t be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.
Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding (sheepandsorcery.blogspot.com)
How would you save D&D if you were the new CEO?
The question is discussed in this podcast episode....
What happened to "You're welcome!" as a response to "Thank You"? It's not even included in the canned answers on an apple watch. Have we as a society abandoned it?
I hear “No problem” far more often.