Because the sad truth is that to get ahead of climate change we must comsume less. And that is one heck of a hard sell. Drive less, eat less meat, local vacations etc. So far been seen as a manic arguing for reduction in consumption. Along with a non healthy does of “why should we do when them over there wont?”
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I should play BG3 and get out of Act1. Buuut it’s starting to be so long since I last played it that I am lost in where I was and were doing. And I honestly don’t like the zone designs with all their open emptyness while at the same time being soooo cramped. What does it take to walk from the druid’s encampment to the goblin temple? Two minutes? Three? Cooooome on. Would have preferred the druid’s having one map, then world map travel to goblin’s and then zoom in on their lair. Condense the adventure while keeping distances plausible. So I’ll keep on looking at my small settlers as I keep building their settlement in Farthest Frontier.
Doesn’t everyone, including the “side” one agrees with, have multi layered propaganda efforts? From state broadcasters to paid “grassroots” shills. Best to assume everyone is trying to sell you their story and critically evaluate everything you are being fed.
Or just go wave your side’s flag and drink the coolaide. It is what the powers that are want you to do.
Me and OSR are a complete mismatch in execution. But we work in theory and design. Where we clash is where the meme is. Simple basic rules that are to be used in pretty much every situation. Where the GM is empowered to make those rulings. Where the GM is King.
I have tried running them and constantly kept asking myself “according to the rules what am I supposed to do?” as I want to run systems as they want to be ran. What is a failure? How does the outcome space look like? And when I get to play I feel I get to relinquish so much control to the GM that I feel almost powerless. The GMs rulings and fiat rules. Sure these are my experiences and I can love OSRs and their designs while not wanting to acctually play them.
The Dathomir witches, especially the Nightsister clan (Star Wars)
Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
Hela (Marvel)
Cersei Lannister (ASOIAF)
But that said often you can just take a male villain and change them to a woman. Or non-binary. Would it be anything diffrent if it was EMPRESS Palpatine? LADY Vader would change a few things, but imagine on Mustafar Anakine being late in pregnacy. Duel with Kenobi plays out and she is left legless. Then waking up and being told “in your anger you killed them”. Oh the self-loathing and hatred towards kenobi. Dammit I need dark-as-frakk Lady Vader fanfic now.
Mine was a battle against a rival gang (we are working with them for backstory reasons), they had a manticore and we are level 3 so it was intense. Most of us finished with 2 or so hp! But looking forward to finally be level 4 after a year.
Side game. Got paid and a new job to bust a smuggling ring. Bought some scrolls of AoE spells to B.L.A.S.T. Artived at smugglers, botched assassination of sentry so had to go in guns (spells) blazing. Used one scroll then remembered I have a indestructible horn of blasting. 120g wasted. But then we are so rich my Bard cannot carry her 40lbs of gold…
Bicycling for me. Started off with a cheap old bike that I tried keeping in as goid condition as possible without spending too much on it. Problem with old bikes is wear and tear so things break and new old parts are hard to cheaply. So it became a hackjob. Then got me a new one and realised riding on roads only got boring so I started experimenting with gravel and singletrack.
Guess what? Time for a new bike. And a more expensive one. Carbon. And to maintain it I needed more tools. Also new tubes as the spare ones I had didn’t fit that big of tyres. Also moved to a new place and now I got a MTB arena within a few km from home. So of course I had to get me one of those. And to maintain the suspension I needed new stuff, oils and tools.
Clothing. Bags. Events. It becomes a lot after a while.
Also planning for bike nr4, a steel fatbike. Promised myself not to buy anything this year, but the year is soon over…
Did I mention bikepacking? Yeah that is another big black hole of expenses. But a fair bit of overlap with backpacking so costs are split.
The Craigslist hybrid? Riding the beater is often so much fun because you feel like you are allowed to ride it hard. Or it couldbe the older geometry making it more lively.
Marginal gains. Expensive marginal gains. I’m glad I’m not into that. When it comes to saving weight it is far better for me to shave it of me rather than the bike. And cheaper too!
DnD 5e mechanics works ok-ish, nothing really wrong with them. But 4e would have been waaaay better. Imagine more battlefield manipulation, more pushes and pulls. And a bit more dangerous ground, not DOS levels but a bit more. 4e would shine then.
Pillars of Eternity 2 took a different approach to resting by making pretty much everything encounter based, except for some “ultimates”. Was a while since I played it last but boy was it refreshing to not “needing” to rest after every encounter. The first game was more traditional with most things returning on rests. Two classes though were entirely encounter based and I used them in pretty much every run. Chanter (Bard) and Cipher (Psyker). Also Larian’s two previous cRPGs (Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2) don’t use rests.
But resting is a core feature in D&D and in the tabletop there is the trope of the five minute adventuring day for a reason.
Imagine not just punting goblins into the chasm but punting them into fire. Or that one on a scaffolding you drag towards you. And the bookshelf is now a projectile!
Don’t think 4e would have been a mess. It was a streamlined “computergamey” edition that wasn’t that well received, hence the creation of Pathfinder. It had a vastly different approach to the battlefield forcing it to be dynamic. So many abilities moving a target in one way or another. As a skirmish game it is pretty neat but severely lacks in the roleplaying department.
How can leftists get our hold on mainstream climate activism and create an organized mass movement?
What is it were missing? And how can we fit more pieces together to find out what to do?
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 04-09-2023 (lemmy.world)
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Same mfs who said anyone who protrayed China and the CPC in a Positive Light is a CPC Spy/Paid Shill (lemmygrad.ml)
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…
When one of your party members starts acting weird. (comicpress.socksandpuppets.com)
This comic is part of an ongoing story that might make more sense with full context....
Why are you on lemmy right now?
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The most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke
Cities Without Number is now released (www.drivethrurpg.com)
Kevin Crawford’s latest offering Cities Without Number is here. Pretty much more of the same good stuff but this time with cyberpunk flavour....
Non-male BBEG inspiration?
Hello everyone!...
How was your last game?
Mine was a battle against a rival gang (we are working with them for backstory reasons), they had a manticore and we are level 3 so it was intense. Most of us finished with 2 or so hp! But looking forward to finally be level 4 after a year.
What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough....
Yevgeny Prigozhin Leads Army Of 25,000 Undead Toward Kremlin (www.theonion.com)
Starfield is Bethesda's Least Buggiest Game to Date, Say Sources (insider-gaming.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 update finally lets short kings smooch Karlach (and other tall love interests) (www.gamesradar.com)
Finally, smooch vindication for the lil' guys
Why did Baldur's Gate 3 blow up? Larian lead writer says it's thanks to "a big gamble" with CRPG standards (www.gamesradar.com)
"We believe RPGs are big ... So we always believed the audience was there," says Adam Smith
2024 Republicans want to eliminate the Education Department. What would that look like? (thehill.com)
Multiple Republican presidential candidates made it clear at this week’s debate that the Department of Education is in danger if they are elected....