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Adrius

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Reader of Fantasy books. GM of TTRPGs. User of Open Source Software.

  • Exposing Jewish Exceptionalism In Canadian Media

  • Sure but there's also a dog whistle aspect. Honestly though as a non-jew but also a non-jew hater it makes lemmy a really unappealing platform when every network I go on just wants to talk about (((the jews))). I know that if you click the link and read the article the word Jewish comes up 143 times and Israel 60 but guys.... I just want to read about Canada or something else unrelated to the middle east.

  • Exposing Jewish Exceptionalism In Canadian Media

  • A lot of Lemmy is obsessed with 'the jews'. It's honestly super tiring. I guess there's a reason reddit still dominates.

  • Unusual TTRPG mechanics?

  • Fangelsehala includes using a "Doom Stack" for health. Basically you have to stack d6s as you take damage and when the stack falls, that's when your character dies.

  • Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars SO BAD!?

  • Does anyone have an explanation or link to the video where he talks about needing streetcars and a subwat that serve the same stops? He references it a few times in the video but doesn't explain why he thinks that and I'm currious.

  • GMs - What are your methods to mitigate no-shows?

  • I've moved away from the kind of game that has a planned plot and requires players to know a lot of rules. Many players put in as little effort as possible, to the point of not reading rules and not giving notice of a failure to show.

    If you feel you need to invest in characters I'd advise only doing it for players who consistently show up.

  • What Stormlight Archive lore do I need for Dawnshard?

  • I finished Dawn Shard now and I enjoyed it more than Way of Kings but not enough to want to read more Stormlight Archives. I actually found the story to be a fairly self-contained story on a boat. I think already knowing a bit of spoilers about spren and void bringers was enough.

    There were sometimes parts where characters would mention things like briefly being a king in the past, which I'm sure comes from another book but wasn't important for the plot of this book.

    Overall I'm just not a Sanderson fan I think. I don't like his humour and I found I really didn't care about the characters in Way of Kings. The big problem is that his books are so long and it seems like not much happens until the end. I saw fans calling this an avalanche but I really couldn't stand it. No hate on others who like it but it's really not for me.

  • What Stormlight Archive lore do I need for Dawnshard?

  • Fair enough but I really didn't enjoy the first book and these books are huge. I'd rather be confused and get through it than buy and read two more massive tomes I likely won't enjoy.

  • Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics

  • Should he be detained like that, no.

    He's an absolute scumbag though

  • "So what games are people running in your shop?"

  • I'll send you an update once it's done. My group rotates GMs and systems but within a few months I'll have them doing Gradient Descent.

  • "So what games are people running in your shop?"

  • I'm prepping a one-shot with Fangelsehala and a longer campaign with Mothership.

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  • They'd need to be able to boost our morale with the litanies of hate. I did play in the Deathwatch RPG though which has a Chaplain class.

  • It's Women's Fault

  • Wow yikes. You sound like fun at parties. Go find someone to care about.

    For the record, I think there is a loneliness epidemic for both genders.

  • A FATAL Mistake

  • The worst part of this is the "This is part of the story"

  • It's Women's Fault

  • This is just a toxic gender wars meme. Go outside, touch some grass, meet someone nice and move on with life. Memes like this come from and perpetuate the loneliness epidemic.

  • Uhhhh

  • Sounds horrible tbh. A big part of the hobby is meeting new friends. This sounds like a good way to become socially isolated and depressed.

  • Uhhhh

  • In my personal experience that's much more difficult

  • Uhhhh

  • If this happens, the RPG is too complex for that player. Play a simpler system.

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  • I ran a game of "Index Card RPG" with the setting "Blood & Snow". The setting includes an adventure seed where Cavemen have to search for ancient relic pillars every generation to stop an Ice Age. I never told my players, but in my mind we were playing a Warhammer 40k game and this was a world a space marine chapter used to recruit those who were strong enough.

  • Combat vs RP

  • B/X is good. When characters have d6 hp and it's instant death at 0 the combat becomes way more serious and tense.

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    Favourite lvl 1 adventures

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    Drivethru RPG raises Print-on-demand prices starting April 1st

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    What Stormlight Archive lore do I need for Dawnshard?