ObstreperousCanadian

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a player like this. He always specs out all the options on spreadsheets and tries to find the optimum builds for any RPG we play. Which is fine, but I got really tired of him telling everyone else how to play their characters in D&D that we've only been playing other RPGs for the past few years where build optimization is less of a thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm Brian and so's my wife!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, salmon flying downstream for the winter.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

This is why I liked the how Torture skill in Burning Wheel does just this: you decide what the victim says. It's not true, it's just what they admit to.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Don't give up skeleton!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the tweet is funny, but while most days when I worked in the office would take me roughly the same amount of time to get to work (~45-60min), sometimes there were accidents and such that could add up to hours.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Even if I don't directly use each book, I might find ideas and inspiration in them that I can bring back to the games I do run. This has happened plenty of times. Besides, they can be fun to read. This goes for old books too. Numerous times I've adapted old material for new games.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

America loves their school shootings. If they didn't, they would've done something about it by now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fair point! I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's just interesting to me cause I'm not used to it. I usually run D&D as medieval (like ~1300 AD) European fantasy with magic and a little bit of anachronistic renaissance stuff.

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