Some Guy From Canada

I could always be healthier

And you know our bigoted shitweasels are gleefully taking notes.

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I'm loving the mixture of symbolism here! Very cool!

Webtoons are absolutely like that.

The easiest way to find that is to ask what the rules aim to accomplish. As a GM for ttrpg, the rules exist to enable fun and fair experience, so those two maxims are the lenses by which the rules should be adjudicated and interpreted. Do your rules seek to reduce harm, to prevent discord?

It's likely to be contentious with one bunch of asshats or another regardless of what you do. If you're happy with having the room to interpret, let it stand.

While you can have diceless systems, or even systems where there isn't a need for randomness at all, I think the decision to include randomness chiefly keeps a table from devolving into playground 'I am the strongest so I win' level of argumentation. Even when rules aren't symmetrical, dice are fair

No matter the game, this kid had decided that being able to be the fastest thing on land, and having a name like 'Mittens' in the D&D game, no matter the tone was what he wanted.

As far as fairness, the roll of the dice, modifiers aside, gives us a relatively impartial arbiter of outcomes.

Randomness in #TTRPG should generally serve one of two functions:
1. Keep things interesting
2. Keep things fair

Random character generation especially keeps people from falling into particular habits or 'meta' picks. We had one person who would not play anything other than his meme tabaxi rogue.

Pop up on bluesky for the first time in days, and immediately get followed by some random account 'My Family's Survival Is In Your Hands'.

Even if it is authentic, I'm functionally broke.

I don't intend to be confrontational, it just occasionally helps to litigate a rules issue before you actually have to deal with feelings and real people being involved.

They're idiots, but loud idiots. Whereas someone can write absolutely tame prose and spend their time being a vocal mouthpiece for hateful bigots, or simply funneling their time and energy there. Is Rule 3 intended to catch the former, the later, both?

It's a good start.

You run into some issues with 'promoting bigotry' there. There's people who would say that depicting 'fantastic racism' in the vein of Fallout's anti-synth campaigns is 'promoting bigotry' by its depiction of any bigotry existing. The 'can't separate fiction' crowd.

An interesting little read, especially since I picked it up after getting really into his work. It has a relatively priveleged place in my collection.

Amen. We've got a couple of local stores around here, but this is a fairly metropolitan area, so those niches can exist.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Loot that drops from me after you defeat me:
1. Glasses, scratched and largely missing their coating.
2. At least one fiction book
3. A roll of 50% stickers (malus to enemy damage on application)
4. Nitroglycerin Spray
5. CURSE Customer Service Attitude

If the trucker convoy had been anything other demographic than what it was, they'd have been turning water canons on them in the middle of february, smashing their encampments with horses and trucks and rounding them up and jailing them. In short, they'd have been treating them like the unhoused.

So, I studied this. Regrettably, the business interests behind the money make doing journalism for a living very difficult. Reportage, honest, accurate and current, is an essential part of a functioning society, no matter what the state of its government.

I feel like this is an attempt at Morton's Fork. They want to find a way to get rid of refugees. Either by killing them from exposure, or by preventing them from coming in the first place. Make up the tax shortfall caused by millionaires and billionaires and the funds will flow.

"Er...how far is this going to go, Sarge?" "All the way, Billy." "But we took the oath, Sarge, and now we're disobeying orders and helping rebels. Doesn't seem right, Sarge," said Wiglet wretchedly. "You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government." "Night Watch," Sir Terry Pratchett (2002)

We are here, and this is now.

Checked reddit, and yeah the fantasy issue is what's getting me. I can throw something together given the assets but I haven't been able to procure them sadly

A little more than I was looking to spend and doesn't quite gel with what I want to present visually, but thanks for the recommendation.

Will do! Thanks for the advice.

There is something about adding the phrase 'No offense' that does seem to indicate that, no you kind of meant offense.

I'm annoyed, but given into shitty impulses doesn't benefit me any.

-When the players may never see that world again. You know your players better than I do though. Being generous with loot and the like probably not a bad idea either, if shopping isn't going to be easily or reliably available. I'd advise against Bag of Spilling them, in the style of Metroid games.

-Though in places like Athas, that might be tricky. Most other classes are just People What Do Things Good, with little bits of magic here and there depending on variety. The other thing to watch out for is that the usual 'you can't steal, the guards will be after you' excuses are hard to work with-

-That'll be more important to have easy answers to. As written, most other classes bring what they need with them. Paladins and Warlocks are their own batteries once empowered, Sorcerers and Wizards can use magic wherever there's magic. Even across different planes, Druids can access nature-