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[Tabletop Games] The White Throne of Midnight Regrets
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My brain is incredibly silly 🙃
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
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I would expect him to try to fuck with the license somehow despite that being settled. Thank heavens for Paizo and the ORC.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
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I refuse to believe anyone could have tolerated him at their table at any point in his life
he just says shit like this to pander to his weird creepy fanbase
the only reason he bought twitter was because he fucked up and said something that was legally binding
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Even then he tried REAL hard not to.
Not to mention he's acting like anyone who plays D&D gives a quantum of shit about the reputation of Gary Gygax
The vast vast majority of people who play D&D care way way more about Matt Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan.
(Honestly, odds are that they're either deep in the OSR rabbit hole or else are some kind of AD&D 1E übergrog?)
Yeah, a lot of OSR products are very much left-aligned and not full of shitty opinions at all. While a sizable portion of them ARE shitty, I wouldn't figure they're a majority of the OSR market (though they are definitely loud as hell) (and I could easily be wrong, I don't actively follow a lot of OSR stuff so I'm just going off of vibes)
oh there's a bunch of good people there and tbh B/X et. al. are pretty close to My Ideal Game
it's just that if someone's a hardcore D&D traditionalist then you just know that they're not touching anything with ascending armor class
they're out there playing some godless hybrid of LotFP and ACKS ("godless" because there's even odds that they cut the cleric, and thief while they're at it)
especially when it was difficult a year ago
Fortunately I am immune to propaganda, so.
*finger to earpiece*
Love to be hyper dialed into an activity for 90+ minutes.
Munchkin - still fun but will rip families apart
Anomia - fun competitive Categories games
Hues and Clues -great way to feel dumb about not knowing words to describe colors
If you ordered a copy, let me know if you got the digital link and if there is any fuckery in accessing it. I hate fuckery.
I got with my bank to do an automated transfer to the printer, and despite me being ON THE PHONE with them when I initiated the transaction, they flagged it as potentially fraudulent.
When I called them, they asked for a case number, which I didn't have yet. So now I get to wait for a case number to get my payment moving again.
Fun times for a first time game self-publisher.
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Origin ID: Discgolfer27
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I played Hues and Clues w/ family around the holidays last year; while my family was upset by my description of a dark green as "bruised Kermit", it helped them pinpoint the square almost exactly.
And uh if anyone has any winter or ice themed 5e monsters on hand to recommend throwing at them I would certainly appreciate a tip
From my experience I think it depends on the medium. Discord + Roll20 isn’t too bad but there is a slight learning curve to it, at least on the player side, which is all I’ve experienced.
I’ve been wanting to run VTT on the WFRP or 40K ttrpg side but that too has a (imo) steeper learning curve at least for a GM.
There’s good options out there though and definitely support considering this all came about in no small part to the Pandemic
I've been playing almost exclusively through Roll20/Discord for a little over a decade with the same group of people, and it's been great for me. I have been lucky to have an amazing regular group to play with, and that certainly helps a lot. I don't think I could do online play with random people from an LFG group or whatever. We've played multiple different systems using this set-up.
I feel like you can lose a little bit of socializing and whatnot, but sometimes I feel like that's a boon. For me, it feels a lot easier to say, "Ok, it's time to lock in and start now" online than it feels in person. Playing online is also nice for having most things be a button press away and automated from online character sheets rather than being all on paper (this is less of an issue if you were using an online character sheet in person to begin with).
I do miss rolling physical dice, and I can't/won't stop buying dice, so I should probably find a way to play more in person...
And in a lot of my games, whether I'm running or playing, I like to get absurd and silly and insert a lot of humor, and if people are on PTT, I have no earthly idea if I'm overstepping or not.
It's not like being in a 40-person raid where you need everyone on PTT and exercising massive mic discipline, you can just have it on open mic and it's fine. If you're worried about noise there's lots of ways to reduce noise thresholds too.
There is a lot of super interesting game design from the 70s from Gygax among many others (see books like Playing at the World and The Elusive Shift) but it takes a real weirdo to get all upset about the "reputation" of those people.
And even when there is interesting game design (and I dont think any modern games do dungeon crawling specifically as well as some 70s games) the lack of desktop publishing software means the books as produced back then are really really bad in terms of stuff like layout, organization, proofreading etc...
also the small latency involved