TheGreatDarkness

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TheGreatDarkness ,

It's not ai, I remember seeing this art years before ai art theft was a thing.

TheGreatDarkness ,

Always gotta love when the villains fight smart and dirty

TheGreatDarkness ,

Always happy to see a page of this comic

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

I still got videos with titles like "Five Rule Changes that PROVE One D&D just return of Fourth Edition" or "Did Pathfinder 2e Remastered steal these rules from Fourth Edition?". Like a new clickabit fad, declare everything 4e or something.

And then WotC followed that example ( ttrpg.network )

Despite Margareth Weiss and Tracy Hickman's statement that Krynn has no Lycathropes, Orcs or Drow, TSR would publish a werewolf adventure placed near Daggard Keep in First Edition supplement World of Krynn. I lowkey suspect the Krynnish part of Vecna: Eve of Ruin was a reference to that.

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

og TSR was the one publishing 1st edition.

TheGreatDarkness ,

I see Hunter the Parenting becomes great source of WoD memes

5e has an advantage of not requiring doctorate in quantum physics to run ( ttrpg.network )

I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won't be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

To be fair, even Neuroshima fans think this book only comes out to capitalize on Fallout show's popularity, everyone sees it as a cashgrab.

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

Didn't knew that. Not using this template in the future, thanks.

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

The issue with the rolls arises when you have modifiers (like skills), which are in percentage, so you need to sum them up and then cover result and apply it to the roll. Oh and also, you apply Difficulty Levels to your relevant attribute, which are really weird. Easy is -2, Average is 0, Problematic is -2, but then Hard is -5, Damn Hard is -11 and Lucky is -15

So in theory your action should be "roll 3d20, see if you have two successes under relevant attribute" but in practice it's "add DL to your attribute. Sum up all the modifiers, then convert the sum to a percentage of 20.Roll 3d20. Apply the number you got to the roll results. If two or more results are equal or lesser than Attribute, you succeed, othertwise you fail".

And THEN you add complex rules for every single minutia thing on top of it. Or lack of rules for things that were deemed to important, because those were relegated to one of many, many expansions.

Oh and in combat you instead roll a d20, and you need 3 different d20's for 3 different phases of combat.

And then you add the poorly organized book, sometimes contradicting itself (eg. you are supposed to fill a questionnaire to explain character's concept and what they do BEFORE rolling dice in order for your attributes)

TheGreatDarkness ,

Well, that's one way to make your villain despicable. I need to use it in my games one day

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

If shareholders take you to the court for not prioritizing short-term profit at all costs, are you willing to defend this position?

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

I wish I could

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

You could still make hella profit, indeed. but when you are as big as WotC and, more importantly, Hasbro, hella profit may not be enough to make more profit than previous fiscal year. Shareholders only care about growth, not ethics.

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

And on the way shareholders fire you for not doing what other companies are doing, or exert pressure to force you to adopt the practices they want because they heard they bring profit

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

There's a Shadowrun hack?!

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

Thank you :)

TheGreatDarkness ,

The op of that tumblr thread blocked me after I asked him about the fact things he claimed were common knowledge about a video game I played extensively as a kid do nopt line up with my memory. So I'd take his claims with a grain of salt.

We have entered the time of Reverse Mercer Effect ( ttrpg.network )

Another thing I noticed is getting more common among RPG Horror Stories. When once it was common to see entitled players complaining the GM is not running the game like Matt Mercer runs on Critical Role, I have lately seen quite few stories where problem GM tries to use that to deflect criticism. It's usually the type to be...

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

You are already rewriting the lore as you speak. First of all, always evil races do not go to hell, they go to domains of their gods. Hell is for people who signed a pact or no one else wanted. You're full of shit

TheGreatDarkness OP ,

Precisely. In grander lore Nine Hells is composed off souls Devils basically stole from the Gods and all worshippers of gods, even evil ones, go to their type of heaven. And if that heaven looks like hell, that just tells you this god has some freaks for worshippers.

Quests from the Infinite Staircase will cause such a shitstorm ( ttrpg.network )

B4: The Lost City is a classic module for D&D. At one point it (in)famously stops giving full description of the rooms but instead lists monsters in each area and tells the DM to figure out why they're here themselves. Once the reprint will show up in new anthology, I'm sure people who complain online whenever WotC uses "ruling...

I lowkey hope these stories are fake or it's all the same guy ( ttrpg.network )

I noticed increased frequency of posts in places like r/rpghorrorstories, that describe a situation where the player brings a tiny veiled or just a shameless copy of a popular fictional character - Sokka, Scanlan, John Snow, Walter White - except "more based" or "less of a cuck". What follows is a story of the player doing some...

I wouldn't be bringing this back if someone didn't tell me Blades in the Dark "doesn't count" [read description] ( ttrpg.network )

I get used to people telling me to try another game, but if I do and you tell me it doesn't count for some stupid reason and basically saying what you meant was "Pathfinder or old editions of d&d"? Yeah I'm fucking mad....

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