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It's the reddit pricing swapped over exactly, I'm not outright against an independent app creator having a paid option, because it's a very high quality app that deserves support, but I do feel it's soo steep. There are also subscription options but I never take those, and the ads are reasonably unobtrusive.

Man, this is what I get for being illiterate.

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I also use sync, although I bought the lifetime ad-free version for Reddit years ago for like $5 and now it's $100 which I can't afford here which is a shame. Still, it's my favourite app and I'm very familiar with it.

I find it interesting how many people are looking for the overall lemmy experience. The first thing I did was find the community niche that interested me and the relevant instance, then when I've exhausted that instance I switch to the Everything tab and all find the generic content.

Edit: I accidentally wrote fine the community niece...

If not for the fact that the ttrpg community was so important to me on Reddit, I'd probably not have migrated over, as addicted as I was to the generic /all content on Reddit, I'm glad to be rid of it.

But lemmy is yet to be able to sustain the equivalent community, I want to have access to that infinite pool of topical conversation that I can't find anywhere, I won't go back to Reddit but it's just getting smaller here on Lemmy.

This current wave of enshitification to online services is generally driven by said online services taking steps that they believe to be more profitable to the detriment of the people who use them.

That has always gone on but it feel like it's everywhere at once at the moment; with the place I live in, the transport I use, the food I buy, the media and art I consume etc.

1900 years ago, the world knew that the only things people desired were bread and circuses, i.e. to have your needs met and have entertainment, a lot of people have built their modern circuses off of things that are becoming unusable or deserve boycott. It's far better than living in a warzone or something but to have many things we rely on for satisfaction stripped from us at once.

I just wanna spend my free time entertained without having to perpetually change what provides that entertainment, is that not why most of us use this site?

Homebrew is rad, homebrew options that are accidentally stronger than official options are bad and homebrew options that are intentionally stronger require one hell of a game designer to keep the game reasonably balanced.

I was gonna say that this sounds like a killer delter green pitch.

Honestly I support the weakening of stunning strike specifically. The monk shouldn't be crap with the exception of one ability that is so encounter breaking that many DMs are weakening it anyway.

The monk should have been buffed otherwise of course but the modifications to stunning strike are more or less required.

I sort of agree, I have never played in a premade setting except for a 2-shot for city of mist and I've never GMd one at all, and I often spend a lot of time reading rulerooks for ideas for my own RPGs.

I've been trying to write my own collaborative storytelling game recently rewards players for taking on a storyteller role but doesn't stop players who would prefer to remain as one character for the session, and when I read Ben Robbins' blog post about Remember Tomorrow, I thought I could use a part of this and bought the pdf. I'm trying to build a royal court political thriller type system and I know that this was cyberpunk by default, but 3/4 of the page count is really guidance on how to make a specific tone of cyberpunk lore, with the rules interwoven between them.

I feel that if your system is novel and applicable to many tones and genres, it should be seperated from that genre any related setting in the rulebook, and similarly if you're rules and genre are wrapped up, it's a good idea to seperate setting slightly, which we commonly seen in fantasy RPGs.

I feel they should be in the same book, but unless your rules are absolutely dependent on your genre or your the two absolutely dependent on your settings, it's wise to seperate them to make your book more easily usable by those wanting to work your ideas into their own.

I have a piece of counter advice that allows you to on occasion plan a plot point. Generally your PCs are most invested in their beloved NPCs, either from backstory or the plot you've developed. If you have a cool idea, these NPCs can often be inserted into it and offer exactly what the players enjoy.

To my understanding (unless the biggest controversy of all is breaking right now), the current AI art scandal seems overblown and something WotC didn't want to happen.

Honestly although this opinion is probably as controversial as anything could be on Lemmy, I feel the mult-language SRD release of 5e we've just seen is a bigger good positive than any negative since the beginning of the year with the original OGL drama.

In about April, I actually shifted my stance towards WotC from outright boycott to purchasing only the content that I felt sure I wanted. So far that has been 1 ticket to see the movie and Bixby's guide to giants, which I really like. Currently nothing else on the roster this year is catching my eye, although I'm waiting on planescape reviews.

It may only be for PR but when a company actively tries to do good, they should be rewarded with some support. If they could fuck up once and be boycotted forever, then they have no incentive to fix their fuck up.

Happy to see you here, I think your stories have been quite influential on my next character and I presumed I'd have seen the last of you at the beginning of July when I stopped being able to use Reddit due to prefering mediums without ads.

I've not played it but I hear that Magical Kitties is a great RPG for kids, if it's the kids style of course.

Otherwise I'd absolutely recommend just hacking the one-page-rpg Lasers and Feelings. Hacking it is really really easy. You just pick two good buzzwords that oppose eachother and clearly set the tone of the game, ideally a planning word and a doing word but I once ran a hack called Scandal and Virtue that worked really well as it's basically the lawful - chaotic scale. Here are a list of hacks other people have made.

This is the first RPG story I remember reading, a few years before I played my first game.

I remember being 16 and standing in a car park with my friend, recounting this story and his only real response was "you fuckin nerd".

I literally think about this hobby every day now, and write about it in some way every day too, I guess he was right.

If this is how you feel, pick up all the kobald press monster books. Between Tome of Beasts 1-3 and the creature codex, that's probably more monsters than WotC have printed across all of 5e.

Also check out the Monsterous Menagerie be Level Up 5e, this book can take a few extra liberties as it's for EN Publishing's take in 5e, and that difference means they can really make interesting monsters that are basically compatible with standard 5e.

I'm also a fan of the Grimhollow Monster Grimoure, although it's probably the closest to current 5e content, and is only elevated by it's consistent dark fantasy tome, sort of like the monster from Van Richens Guide to Ravenloft.

There are probably 1500 monsters across all of there which are all more interesting than many WotC monsters, I couldn't recommend them enough.

To me, this sounds like a custom 'minor detrimental property', as seen in the DMG's guidance on creating artifact level magic items, page 220.

You don't really need specificity for this, if you look at the regional effects of a vampire for example, it reads "There is a notable increase in the population of bats, rats and wolves in the region". And that's enough of a prompt to cement that usage.

I don't know of any official items that draw in ghosts and spirits, and also just to ask, do you mean summoning them on use like "when you blow this horn, 2d6 ghosts are summoned" or do you mean it like a passive effect, like "Curse. Ghosts and other wayward spirits are drawn to this item"?