They don’t specifically advertise that they can make bigger pockets
Which honestly, seems like a missed opportunity.
Dee
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Oh wow, it really is just a reskinned Mastodon instance. That's my first time actually visiting the site.
This is such a juvenile take that I thankfully put down when I grew out of highschool. It's people like you that make any sort of discourse completely exhausting. You're suggesting a path that inevitably leads to full on bloody revolution which would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in armed conflicts across the country. That's not even getting into the likely tens of millions that would die due to supply lines of medicine being disrupted, the horrible toll it would take on geopolitics, the power vacuum that invites far worse than the GOP into power. It's this warped sense of thinking that lets fascists into office because people stop voting against them since they feel it's pointless when it's clearly not as this last midterm showed. Michigan is already leaps and bounds better than it was and that's from a single election cycle. We can change the system without revolution, because we're already doing it. Go outside, get involved with your local politics, and vote. The changes are already happening.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, as they say.
It’s just different philosophies each with their own advantages.
Completely agree, neither one is right or wrong it's just what's best for each table.
I've heard about Dread but haven't had a chance to run/play it yet! I'll move it up on the list, thanks for the suggestion as well! 😄
Happy gaming!
Yeah, I can see the advantages but I enjoy the clean math of PF2 too much for that tbh. There's so much material to work with and it's all so balanced. I don't mind reading that all either, I actually read the core rulebook for PF2 cover to cover over a few days when I first got it because I was enjoying it so much! Everything just works, but it's definitely a bit more crunch than is necessary for people not running long complex campaigns. On that note, Shadowdark is a really fun system if you wanted to check something out that's more robust than Mini6 but still super simple rules that are quick to pick up.
Arguably, however, that’s something the GM should have been aware of when going into a system like DnD or Pathfinder and been prepared to raise the stakes to entirely different kinds of challenges.
Which is the point I was going to make! I still say it's on the GM to properly calibrate the story and/or player powers in the scenarios you outlined but overall I agree with you. I just think if a GM is trying to tell a very specific story/narrative then they should outline when each power rise occurs but that enters into railroading imo. Which at that point my advice would just be to write a book if they want THAT much control over the narrative since the players would have very little agency to alter the world around them. That's just not fun for most players I've ran games for, they always want that extra agency to get wild and as a GM it's always fun to see the unexpected and it keeps me on my toes.
GMs! Let your party be powerful if they figure out creative ways to achieve that power! It's more fun for everyone!
Mini6
Respect! It'd be too much work for me to use a system that bare bones for what I like to run but it's nice to see love for other systems here!
You don't have to steal it if you use DnD, the Alchemy Jug already does this and is likely what they're referring to.
As a GM this has always irritated me about other GM's complaining their players are too powerful. My dude, you're literally omnipotent. Your players cannot be too powerful, because you are all-powerful. Just throw bigger baddies at them. You only have to worry if one player starts getting way more powerful than the rest of the party. Then you either have to make sure everyone is cool with that asymmetrical dynamic or buff everyone else up to their level. But a party cannot be too powerful, it's just a lack of GM creativity. /rant
Edit: Dear GMs, downvoting this won't make it less true. Relax your grip on the narrative and you'll be surprised how much more fun everyone has.
Sure, that'll happen when only christians are elected. Just need to get the right person in there.
I was going to say, I'm pro-bikini but used to live in Texas and wore longer sleeves to keep the sun off my skin because it kept me cooler doing that than if I wore a short sleeve shirt.