barrbaric [he/him]

If it’s true for me it must be true for you.

Teenage me pronouncing “braziers” as “brassieres” and my players wondering what the fuck I was talking about.

It needs your bones more than you do

Me when my players in a cyberpunk game are all on death’s door after a firefight goes bad: “Skill issue, I would simply not have been shot”

Square grid

Hex grid

Some of us never stopped

It was a thing last… summer? Where reddit announced they were going to start charging for every call a third party program made using the API. This was done with the intent of shutting down 3rd party reddit apps and to get users on the official one so reddit could make more money. However, it also destroyed a bunch of 3rd party tools that mods more or less needed, and which reddit had been promising to implement themselves for years with no progress. There was a brief protest where mods of many subs shut them down (mostly for less than a week, though some are still down IIRC). A bunch of users and moderators left reddit and went to other sites.

Systems with lots of classes

Classless systems

I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.

Meanwhile in my games PCs regularly never buy or upgrade equipment because nobody wants to waste time in session (good!) but also refuse to just do stuff through discord during the rest of the week (bad!).

If this guy ever falls over for any reason he’s taking 1d12 each of cutting, bludgeoning, and impaling.

The solution is as follows: the entire party rolls against a DC (typically passive perception though it could just be opposed), and so long as half of the party (round up) succeeds, you are sufficiently stealthy. Realistic? Not necessarily, but it lets a stealthy player do something without having to go off on their own and get killed.

Nah, it’s more fun to let them enjoy their high AC against martial threats but bring in more casters, demons made of poison gas, etc if things are getting too easy.

Pshaw, D&D barely even has encumbrance rules. Gotta play GURPS where your movement and dodge get worse the more you’re carrying, and bags of holding don’t exist.

Mine are super inconsistent now. Obviously I have uBO, but I can typically watch like 10-ish videos a day before the popups start, at which point I just turn on libredirect.

Fake: Players don’t read lore

It’s fine so long as everyone’s on board with PC death, but this is just an example of D&D struggling to hold onto a giant audience with conflicting views. If they get rid of death, the people who actually play D&D the way it’s meant to be played get pissed off. If they don’t, the more narrative-focused players (who really shouldn’t be playing D&D in the first place) will get pissed off. So they just ignore it.

This is why you’re still level 3 while Eternal Demigod Jaff Bayzoz is level 36, you gotta get on that #adventuregrindset.