TheGreatDarkness 1 day ago • 100%
I'm seriously having fun making the builds, this may grow into a backlog similiar to d&d characters....
TheGreatDarkness 4 days ago • 75%
If we're specifically talking about kid's first bike, which the starter set or quickstart is an equivalent to, then looking down to people who want training wheels sounds like an asshole move.
TheGreatDarkness 5 days ago • 75%
I do like to have an adventure that shows me how basic beats of the game are supposed to sync up and how its suppsoed to be balanced, instead of having to guess based on the theory. Do you also look down on people who say your kid's first bike should have training wheels?
TheGreatDarkness 1 week ago • 80%
Thait is reassuring, thank you
TheGreatDarkness 1 week ago • 75%
Sent the DM
No I cannot afford it, I had surprise financial emergency this month. But seriously, either make the whole thing free or paid, don't get my hopes up only to dash them like that.
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I refuse to believe you all would really let your players bully you into running only d&d
TheGreatDarkness 2 weeks ago • 100%
it looks harder than it actually is.
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I refuse to believe you all would really let your players bully you into running only d&d
TheGreatDarkness 2 weeks ago • 100%
I run two groups right now - one for d&d and one for Blades in the Dark. Blades group are people with whom we tried D&D before but they found it too combat-focused and "like someone put his gross math fetish into a game". First group I may one day run Pathfinder 2e for ew camapign. Second one I don't even suggest this option.
Explanation: I'm the only person who runs D&D in my friends groups, so I get to play in other games under other Game Masters, but have a LOT of D&D character ideas I will never get to try.
TheGreatDarkness 2 weeks ago • 100%
You explained the part I got, I don't get the Phineas & Ferb or the title.
TheGreatDarkness 2 weeks ago • 100%
That, though, raises another question, because if the conspiracy theories are so easy to debunk that no rational person believes them, why worry about their existence?
Most people aren't rational, that's why.
TheGreatDarkness 3 weeks ago • 100%
I don't get it.
TheGreatDarkness 3 weeks ago • 100%
there's like ten different ways people call the update - OneD&D, OD&D, ODD, 5.5, 5e 2024, 5.24. We have to wait and see which one will stick, I just hope it's not Od&D because that one was already used for original White Box.
And they didn't even get full 3-actions economy.
TheGreatDarkness 1 month ago • 100%
If I had a penny every time Marvel made beefy Russian guy with whips, I would have two pennies. Which isn't much but it's weird there's two of them.
TheGreatDarkness 1 month ago • 100%
I did not expect to find Angela has connections to THAT Guild, if I'm reading the hinds correctly.
3.5 was edition I played the most. It was a reason why I quit RPGs for nearly a decade because I hated it so much. Every time I see another meme about how amazing 3.5 Tarrasque is, I remmember how amogn actual 3.5 players Tarrasque was the biggest joke. It was always brought up as definite proof designers have no idea how to make good monster. It was laughably easy to beat. A wizard could casually solo it, the same abilities people now miss in 3.5 amounted to ribbons. It was a laughingstock, forums had 100+ pages discussions how to fix it and general consensus was it';s beyond saving. It was first proof in 3.5 if you cannot use magic you're only good to roll over and die. I honestly don't know if everyone claiming 3.5 Tarrasque is such a horrifying monster are trying to rewrite history or unintentionally proving what a broken, unplayable pile of garbage 3.5 was, if it's biggest punching bag is actually dangerous in a different, better designed game.
Every time people lament changes to the lore that amount to "not every member of species X is irredeemably evil" and claim the game is removing villains from it, I think how villains of so-caleld evil species fall into two cathegories: a) bland and boring and b)have something else, unrelated to their species going on for them, that makes them interesting.
TheGreatDarkness 1 month ago • 100%
In Pathfinder 2e I think Half-Elf, half-Orc, and their equivalent of Tiefling and Aasimar are variants you can apply to other species.
TheGreatDarkness 1 month ago • 100%
We didn't have half-races in BECMI, despite having a guy who was going by the title "Half-Orc", he was just really ugly.
TheGreatDarkness 1 month ago • 60%
I wish it wasn't so obsessed with being upset about miniscule changes.
TheGreatDarkness 1 month ago • 100%
Isn't that twink a Goblin, tho?
Also, I'm ok with this, helps diffirentiate them from Goliaths. And Orcs were never potrayed as Goliath-sized.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
A lot of the games that I see coming out are faar from a "5e clone". No need to be rude to people who are creative for not just playing pathfinder.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
A lot of rpgs I see made this way go long way from 5e clone.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
Publish your systems.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
That's been true for multiple d&d editions too, especially 3/3.5 and 2e (argurably this is what killed TSR). 5e/ODD should have learned from these lessons, but shareholders jsut want to see the line go up, I guess.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 85%
I would go further, this isi an issue with EVERY game, not just D&D
I'm not complaining, more new games the better, and some of them are very interesting. Also, at least some of these youtubers turned devs have tried Pathfinder and that wasn't it, so spare the "why won't they just play Pathfinder?" comments
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
Yes, this baffles me as well.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
If I could draw, I would draw this and Tarrasque would be chasing kinds on bikes in this ford
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
I tried to push for more practical approach to playing without a single player, but both in my D&D and in my Blades in the Dark groups, players just feel...uncomfortable with the idea and don't want to play if all players aren't there. I once proposed a system where we could play in smaller groups to accomodate one player's schedule not matching others...and upon realizing they wouldn't be playing in full squad in this sytem, that player just quit the campaign.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
Fun fact, MCDM's Flee Mortals! book has its own stand-in for Tarrasque - Goxomoc. Fool's Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds also has Dire Tarrasque
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
This is because WotC designs for mass appeal, so their monsters need to be fair challenge even for an underoptimized group. Which makes them pathetically weak if you're playing with anyone else.
Also, because playtesters at Wizards don't use any magic items for some reason
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
Yes, it was in Acts of Vengeance, where Loki gathered various supervillains and suggested they switch their enemies in a grand alliance to destroy heroes. Loki assumed they're all evil so they'll get along...and then had a surprised pikachu when Magneto used portals, that Loki set between villain bases and their meeting hall, to go to Red Skull's base, wreck it and kidnapp the guy.
TheGreatDarkness 2 months ago • 100%
Angela is a great example of a Paladin.
source: He-Man/Thundercats #3 from DC Comics, I tihnk it was published in 2018.
TheGreatDarkness 3 months ago • 80%
It's not ai, I remember seeing this art years before ai art theft was a thing.
TheGreatDarkness 3 months ago • 100%
Always gotta love when the villains fight smart and dirty
To be fair to Barbarian, the guy was a werewolf and Barbarian is racist against werewolves.
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 100%
Always happy to see a page of this comic
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 100%
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.
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 100%
og TSR was the one publishing 1st edition.
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.
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You're the GM, but haven't prep anything for tonight. How do you make tonight game a succes ?
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 100%
I think one way I have seen was to at first session get list of few details about PCs, then pull out an adventure based on it. Eg. If your cleric told you there is a food his religion forbids, he is suddenly ordered to deal with a heretic who argues othertwise.
Lessons Learned: 1. Despite entire fandom constantly talking about the Chaos Gods and threat Chaos poses, most of the Imperial Guard aren't supposed to know anything about it, less alone the specific names. 2. Despite their enemeis in Sabbath participating commonly in diablerie and fandom making big deal out of what an unforgivable crime it is, it is not something an average Vampire of Carmarilla knows about in any way.
Vampire: The masquerade
The World of Darkness gets fun
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 25%
Wow, that last comment sure sounds dismissive and kinda rude of the person who tried to paint the franchise in a non-mocking light.
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 100%
I have a player who is also very clearly there to be vibin with the friends. She's an elderly lady, who I had trouble adjust to because she will pivot to most simple playstyle possible (when she was playing Bard/Rogue she would each turn do sneak attack plus healing word and ignore other spells or bardic inspiration) and ignores plot hooks I place for her. It took me time to realize she is there to hang out with her friends and I don't have to press her to participate more, she is having fun just being in the group and watch others roleplay. She is okay to play any rpg, however, not just d&d. I actually plan to ask her, after we finish this campaign, to try moving to my other group, which plays more narrative games, as I see she struggles with d&d ruless.
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 100%
I see Hunter the Parenting becomes great source of WoD memes
Vampire: The masquerade
Surely you'll get those vampires next time!
TheGreatDarkness 4 months ago • 100%
You never know if vampires aren't witholding blenders from being sold at 99p store
TheGreatDarkness 5 months ago • 100%
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)
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.
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 acting creepily towards women, both in and out of game, enjoying juvenile, overtly edgy humor and/or insisting of all kinds of bigotry for "historical accurracy". And when the players confront him (as it's almost always a guy) about it, he's going to say something like "Stop sucking Mercer off, this is real D&D!" or "Go play at Matt Mercer's table, if you don't like it!". While, as usual, there is possibility these stories are fake, I can see these being true - the kind to engage in those specific behaviors is also the kind to grab on buzzwords or try to twist real problems to deflect criticism.
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 not rules" or "DM decides" or "these parts were left for the DM to fill in" in their design (and then continues buying WotC books to keep *removed* and doesn't touch 3rd party or other games for some reason) is going to be normal about it. /s
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 horrible manosphere shit. I know that a lot of posts on places like these are fake, but in this case I kinda hope they are. Or that it's all the same guys at different tables. Either is more comforting that an idea of an army of incels trying to rp their extremely toxic fanfiction on the table.
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. EDIT: Because I see reading comprehension is bad af here: Someone told me to play a different game. I told them I'm already doing Blades, first session tomorrow. they told me Blades doesn't count and told me to play Pathfinder and older editions of d&d.
Btw, feel free to share any good homebrews I could pillage.
Explanation: I learned recently that apparently Grummsh, god of Orcs, Conquest and Destructions, is enemies with Bane, god of Tyranny, due to desiring his domain for himself. And apparently good gods secretly back him up just because Bane is that much worse.
Here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGj_HkKhhSE
I recommend this video to look more into OSR philosophy regarding the rules: https://www.youtube.com/live/bCxZ3TivVUM?si=aZ-y2U_AVjn9a6Ua
I was thinking of an idea of having one of the PCs experience by visions of dark future - sudden attack, party dead, all their beloved npcs killed, their home base destroyed. Visions would be sent by BBEG to tell that PC "if you won't join me, this is what will happen". I was considering few options how to implement this in session, weighting ups and downs of each and thought to ask your opinion which is best - A vision is simply narrated to the party or that player in a solo session - Run a game where suddenly party is attacked by an overwhelming force and killed in combat, with that PC being last one standing, then reveal its just a vision they experienced and everyone is fine - As above but in secret talk with that pc's player beforehand and tell them this is going to happen and is not the first vision they had like this, but 2nd or 3rd - Warn the party in advance either there will be a fake tpk or some "dream/vision shenanigans" - Tell all players except the one whose pc will experience the vision and ask them to be my "co-conspirators" and help "sell" this moment by playing along.
Long story short: While part was shopping in a rich city, in which Orcs, Kobolds and Ogres are doing cheap labor, Artificer cast suggestion to make Warlock say out loud how much her new magic gloves cost. I had an orc worker passing by ake snide comment about rich adventurers. Warlock proceeded to intimidate and humilate that Orc so bad the guy would later start angrily ranting about it on the street, his angry rants eventually causing a small riot. The Warlock would later run into an Orc who woas worried about his cousin in that city, Carl Tusks, who sends him letter full of "strange and dangerous ideas" ever since he got humilated by "rich tourist in expensibve gloves". Party recently returned to the city and just by sheer coincidence Warlock burned police files of "dangerous activist" Carl Tusk to resummon her familiar. She then convinced the cops the guy had to break in and do it himself, leading to his arrest. Artificer is now expecting communist uprising to soon follow.
I don't even think I will play the ODD after what WotC pulled out, but if I get to comment what I think of their shitty ideas, I will. Seriously, what kind of asshole decided to nerf the game's weakest class and then make subclass that do everything it can do but better and for one of already strongest classes.
