Are these people who would portray a more conventional character as not-a-cartoon? Or is their default mode of play just like that?
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Are these people who would portray a more conventional character as not-a-cartoon? Or is their default mode of play just like that?
But then it wouldn't make sense to call them "taterpigs."
Joined the Soulframe Discord last week. They have a channel for posting fanart and the mods are absolutely vigilant about deleting attempts to post AI content.
Love to see it.
I think it's a combination of slab-shaped smartphones not being very ergonomic and no longer shipping with earbuds. Because it's not just phonecalls. I feel like people also watch videos and listen to music on their phones in public without headphones a lot more than they used to.
I maintain they should have called it D&D 50. Because it was for the 50th anniversary, and it's just a revision of 5E.
A greenish black toad with large, widely spaced warty bumps on their back, perched on a stick! The warty bumps are brown in color, as is the top of their head, their large parotoid glands, and the back sides of their legs!
Our friend the Udzungwa Glandular Tree Toad was first described as a new species just a few months ago! Like other toads in genus Nectophrynoides, they do not lay eggs and instead give birth to fully developed toadlets! (photo by John Lyakurwa)
The first TTRPG I played ever was a Star Wars homebrew a friend made based on WH40K 3E. But, for published works:
That wasn't branded-as-D&D? The WotC Wheel of Time d20 game.
That wasn't structurally D&D? I think I played a session of the old TSR Marvel Superheroes RPG pretty early.
Desktop or laptop, depending on whether I'm home or out.
Disappointed to learn you're neither a stork nor an ambulatory metal orb.
My gut feeling is that those would be a bigger conflict of interest than reselling review copies.
I would say character-driven more than story-driven. But I get you.
Like, narratively it's in kind of the same space as Apocalypse World. It's about playing characters with their own agendas which may or may not come into conflict with each other. But its systems for handling those conflicts are ROBUST.
Someone else suggested it, but I want to +1 The Burning Wheel. Its systems are intensely designed for several different types/scale of conflict, and it assumed players would use them against each other.
I think not competitive, but a lot of early PbtA assumed some degree of player vs player confrontation. I remember Apocalypse World 2E having examples of play involving characters trying to kill each other. (Don't have the book in front of me).
I think, from the example of Shut Up & Sit Down, No Pun Included, and Quinn's Quest it less incentivizes negative reviews and more incentivizes review-as-entertainment.
Graelent and Launfal emphasize the titular knight's masculine virtues more than Marie's version. But all three versions have the knight get saved from poverty, betray his lady's trust, and then get saved by her once again.
I wrote a paper comparing three versions of the story for a college medieval lit class back in the day. There's a maybe contemporary, maybe older Old French lais called Graelent that's basically the same story. And a later Middle English version called Sir Launfal.
Others have said it better, but it's less about purity and more about not eroding audience trust. Making money on ad revenue doesn't incentivize a favorable review. Making money selling a review copy does. Or, can give that appearance.
Presumably, you can make ad revenue off video or site traffic regardless of whether a review is favorable or not (as long as it is useful/entertaining).
A favorable review from a big platform can make a game with a limited run sell out quick, which can drive up the price on the secondary market.
Was the gnome one of the "hit random on D&D Beyond" pieces you did on stream?
Legitimately Reproduced by a Sanctioned Mint in the Light.
Even in Arthuriana, my favorite story is the Lais of Sir Lanval in which the titular knight is rescued from poverty by his lady. He then gets himself in trouble by breaking a promise to her, and is only rescued from the consequences by once more receiving her generosity.
Tinker.
Tailor.
Soldier.
Spy.
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I forgot if I heard it from an actual (ex)WotC designer or if it was idle musing by an observer, but I read somewhere that 4E was designed in part as a response to the CharOp section of the official D&D forums. And I do remember lurking and posting there in the 3E era.
A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life
The only good food metaphor for TTRPGS is coffee.
A screenshot of the first round of Bloggies: Theory posts. "The Language of D&D Imply a Specific Setting" against "There is a point to Tom Bombadil (or how I approach lore)."
Of all the first round of Bloggies mashups, having to make this decision is criminal. You should read them both. Hot damn.
On the Blades calendar, it would be 1049.
