Why does fantasy have to follow the "Nature good, Society bad" formula?
>>98171166That's actually a convention of all well written stories.See, the ancients have a word for people who put abstracts like ideology or "Society" over nature."Hubris".You are essentially complaining that the fantasy genre has a built in facility for outlining the folly of hubris.You cannot bargain with nature, and you cannot "overcome" it.Those who try, are ultimately destroyed by their own folly.Nature is the sum total of all things; the rules of the game we are all playing, whether we like it or not.Any story that places something above Nature itself, is a parable for fools.
>>98210798Sounds like a treatment to our current predicament, but one with it's own side-effects.>>98211078>Don't cry for me, Argentina
>>98217290The tranny-jannies are too busy babysitting their own personal shitposting threads, please understand.>>98211078Thanks, I'll look into it. Was always curious what was the exact flavor of schizo that I'm spitting out.>>98217604To be fair, any solution will likely have a load of side-effects we'd have to deal with.Also, it doesn't quite "solve" our current predicament, merely improves things somewhat. It's a much more complex set of problems.The transnational financial capital is one of the major contributors to why things are shit. It is, however, far from being the only one.Say what you will about the industrialists, at least they had vested interest in seeing their country prosper, as it would benefit them as well.Conversely, when it became possible to ship industry off to China, there was no longer any incentive to work towards the good of the country.Detroit is a great example of what happens when you let capital do whatever it wants, and the terrible consequences of that.
The future is so gay
>>98219442You’re gay
So, what's the consensus on solo TTRPGs? Are they cringe or comfy? What are your experiences playing solo RPGs? What kind of things do you like in solo games? what kind of problems have you had in solo games? You're not allowed to use "can't find a game" or "no one else want's to play game" as an excuse. It's all you
I just recently got Down Crawl, and started a solo campaign to get a feel for it. Seems like an outstanding supplement for world building and narrative design. But it's definitely a supplement, and not very well designed to be run on it's own. Like the the entire Tack system, which is the primary resource for exploration, seems like it's intentionally designed to punish you, and kill you before you can get very far in any given campaign. For example, the only clearly defined way to get more Tack in a city or town, is that you gain +1 when you arrive in another area, and then you can choose to gamble to gain more. The gambling system in the book has a 80% chance of failure, and the best possible outcome is that you gain 2 tack by risking one. It's statistically designed to burn your resources if you engage with it at all. So the only way to keep your amount of Tack in the positive is to just get lucky on all your traveling encounters, or have a GM fudge the rewards to keep the campaign going(which kinda just feels like a scumbag move when playing solo), or additional home brewing to work around this.The other thing I don't like about using just this system by itself is that the only plants you can forage or harvest are different types of mushrooms. Just feels like very little variety in that aspect
>>98212909>No consensus.>Cringe.>I tried Ironsworn, it's shit.>I don't like anything in solo games.>The problem is that they're not fun and masturbatory.
>>98219084>>98219089>>98219094>>98219098Damn I think I've seen this one before
>>98223106>Masturbation isn't funMaybe you're just doing it wrong?
>>98214402fpbp
I used to hear about the "Hunt a Killer" ones as sponsors for podcasts all the time back in the day. Shocking nobody that sounds like it ended up being a bit of a scam selling you bits per month that didn't actually connect up and were totally winging it. But the idea of stand alone boxes intrigues me.My local store has some but nobody has bought or played them. The idea being a rough 90 minutes where 1- 4 players sit down around a table of evidence both written and physical objects and you check off all the false leads to identify a killer.Now i'm not quite the target audience that i think would be summed up as "true crime girlies" but me and my friends love call of cthulhu but most over investigative trpgs just can't compare to CoC's variety and level of support but we still want something different now and then y'know? these seem to have a nice balance of mystery, americana and urban gothic a good group investigation at my table loves but all the reviews seem basic bitch "i didnt get it???" type stuff.Have any of you actually tried any of these? for £15 would you recommend them or are they just a cheap fad item like "escape room boxes"?
>>98216708I've played Murder at the Movie Theatre and Murder of a Millionaire. Both took about an hour to 90 mins and were diverting, but ultimately simple. If you know how mysteries are written you'll speed run it, if you know how detective work works you'll frown at the limited information (why wasn't this asked, where are the SOC photos) but still go through it without much challenge beyond reading and organising information. Overall more simply written but less moon logic than an EXIT game box. Grab em if they're on offer.
>>98216708I've gotten one for my mother for Christmas for the past four or five years, and we've done all of them together. I think only two of them have taken more than one evening, and I might have done them faster working alone, but we've generally enjoyed them. For one of them we did find the ultimate conclusion dissatisfying and, in our opinion, not well-supported by the given evidence--I think that was A Wealth of Murder, but I don't recall for certain--but they've been more hit than miss. I would probably not bother with anything rated lower than 3 stars for difficulty, though.
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>>98222186One depicts a singular, notable entity and the other does not. I guess there's multiple overlords of the floodpits.
Get em on board, I'll call it in.>>98223113>>98223113>>98223113
>>98221940How the fuck??
>>98222295I am in fucking US wtf
>>98222965That hasn't been a real rule for over a decade now dude.
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>>98224201Im still working on it
>>98225487...nani the fuck? You're alive?????
>>98225642Don't fall for it. The WIP of the second page is years old at this point.https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/image/D4hcse7HjCmPCOJjS37znQ/
>>98223947This image reminds me of Surinical (non-derogatory).
>>98225487Nice try, NegaGil, but Saint Slayer is by Skellychad, not Gil.
Should adventures be broken up by comfy experiences (eg: tavern scenes) periodically or does it affect the vibe of the game?Give me some comfy experiences from your games.
Tell me about Puckee. Why do the mods protect him?
>>98207671>you meet at a tavern at the start>you meet at a tavern between key points in the adventureall that's fine, but what about:>you meet in a tavern after the adventure, the game is you retelling the story
>>98222258He's butt buddies with one of them.>>98207671Slit your own throat.
>>98207671Fuck off with the sloppa, you guys already have a general.
Why does he do this
Is there a way to live in a Hive City that isn't ultraviolent or insane or decadent or deprived? Can you just be a Normie?
>>98216129Watch Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
>>98216129No idea about hive cities. I find it hard to believe there isn't a semblance of a middle class within it.Other than hive worlds though, you can certainly live as a normie. The Imperium is massive and a lot of its world are relatively autonomous (as long as they pay tributes and vaguely venerate the Emperor in some form) and at wildly different stages of evolution.There are surely planets where life is identical as it is right now on earth, so there are literal normies inhabiting them.
>>98216129No. Even what could be qualified as "living nicely" in the Imperium is saddled with 1984-esque paranoia and neighborly espionage. You can do everything you're supposed to do and still get burnt as a heretic for not covering your mouth when coughing in the presence of a superior.
>>98221160There is a 'middle class' in most hives, mainly the low to mid level guild and Adepta personnel, clerks, tradesmen, mid-level clergy, etc. but the actual level of comfort they enjoy is equivalent to the poverty level lifestyle of current Earth. They have an apartment, some sparse comforts, not much in the way of luxuries or hobbies because they have to work from dawn to dusk just to earn enough cash to not lose it all to debt and meeting their Enforcer extortion fees. They're also not safe from gangs because this level of a hive is still only nominally 'lawful'. Also not safe from random witch hunts wherein your rivals at work are likely to nominate you for 'confession' of your heresies and this means getting burned at the stake whether you confess or don'tAs for non-Hive worlds, while some can be much less cruel and miserable than a hive planet, some are far, far worse. If you want high octane nightmare fuel just read up on Agri-worlds, Mining Worlds, and other industrialized nightmares. If you think Garden and Pleasure worlds are nice, they aren't; if you aren't one of the few wealthy elites living there, your job is to serve them by any whimsy they feel, even up to and including being made a concubine or used in palace hunts as cannon fodder because Lord Inbred III got bored of hunting groxen.
>>98221105the movie had some neat ideas, too bad they're all pushed to the background and central plot is basically "what no pussy does to a motherfucker"
Which class would be the best most non-toxic to date and which would be the most toxic?
>>98221598>>98220896Not ai slop
Fuck off and take your sloppa with you, puckster.
>>98213137>puckee aka redditor pucke℮21 spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/z8dw3w/comm_art_magpie_by_kartstudio/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/F-YogEcgXT9pq5W4sbU5uw/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/jynultXDc4JJ3_XSM1WuPw/>combined 96 times
>>98198981Fuck off and die, puckee.
>puckee
Does the DNDs' Paladin fall and lose all Powers if he gets Tricked into literally smoking Pots? Breaks 10 commandments of God... not Lawful Good!Lets say Paladin finally defeats the Bandit... Smashed in Half!Paladin brings out $1k Cuban Cigar to celebrate... Lights it Up!Problem is... Bandit saw this coming, Bandit emptied Cuban Cigars and made them full of Pots to make Paladin literally fall and lose all Powers!You know what they say... Paladin fall and losing all Powerers is literally Chekov's Gun! Its there so it WILL happen... basic Media Literacy.
>>98220402Paladin who insists he isn't addicted to weed because it's physically impossible for him to (he smokes 10 Gs a day)
>>98212858>TrickedGods aren't talmudic bean counters in most settings
>>98221474it is physically impossible to get addicted to weed. You may develop some physical dependence after heavy chronic use though but most of the time the withdrawal symptoms are less severe than say caffeine dependence. Psychological addiction is far commoner and a bigger problem though.
>>98221634Im not against it but the stoners in my group have had their coping skills atrophy because of it so when theyre not high, any inconvenience bugs the shit out of them.
>>98221692That is probably psychological. THC is stored in fat and can take a long time to actually leave the system. Unless they stayed away from the stuff for at the very least a week they shouldn't have any physical withdrawal. The thing is a lot of people use weed to essentially self medicate, numb whatever is bothering them, so when they are not high their problems start to affect them again. They should probably seek therapy and at least limit their intake.
We should never forget that Games Workshop are using Ai trash
>>98204141Kek
>>98204160You can’t formulate your own reasoning as to why you are anti-AI? So you’re just anti-AI for the fuck of it? Are you retarded anon?
>>98218457Gold grabbing knows no boundaries of sex, religion or race, anon. Greed binds all humanity together as one.
Kinda funny where each side ended up on the anti or pro spectrum when the anti side needs ai far more in a hundred years
>>98223294>the anti side needs ai far more in a hundred yearsAre you a time traveller? What happens in a hundred years??
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>>98217721Gunslinger?
Get moving, faggots.>>98226139>>98226139>>98226139
>>98224606Me ofc.>>98224916Not rly. Atlas is a man and always will be. But you will never be a woman.It all depends on the name of the mech. Banshee is a girl name but Awesome is a dude.There are few that could go with both or they like Locust.
>>98225134A great analogy, but the pronoun they is not a slur. So it's not the same, now is it?>>98225142I didn't say you should buy it, just that getting mad over such a frivolity is weird to me.>>98225182Does not compute>>98225121But why is it retarded?
>>98225408I think it's too late. You cannot make cgl change, you can only pretend it doesn't exist. Which is pretty weird in my opinion.
Should beastpeople have human ears along with their beast ears?
>he doesn't know
As long as they maintain their beast behavior
>>98220478Dogs are inherently lower on the soul scale, aren't they? Look at those two fuckers.I think purgatory isn't hell because dogs jump around its pastures. I think Heaven is bliss because cats slink among its alleys.
>>98220118>Elder catgirl with PTSD and can't hear through her cat ears but can sorta hear through her human ears being interviewed by Ken Burns for his "The Jungle War" documentary There is a story here that I'm not skilled enough to write.
>>98220599Pomeranian is a particularly empty headed creature.
Yuichi seems like a good example for this. Lets say, through some miracle he lives to see his 30s. He's an outsider, he's never getting a bloodname. And now he's old, so they don't want him even more. Does he get the same trueborn treatment of getting demoted to garrison/solahma duty? Does he also get the option to transfer to a merchant/civilian caste and retire? Do clans ever just, let their adopted bondsmen go free when they age out?
>>98202612Doesn't help that the artist for >98200359 always gives everybody the eyes of a tweaker-psycho.
>>98217024What weight category is the sink or does it depend whether it is bathroom or kitchen?
>>98216905OK but being a fantastic duelist should be useful in othe contexts. If anything it just makes the argument for Clan culture being the real determiner stronger and their gene modification more pointless.
>>98219460>wants other contexts beyond being The Ultimate Warrior dezgra
>>98203523>So the purported meritocracy is in fact completely bound to birthright and lineage? Curious.Technically no, but realistically yes. New bloodnames can be created via the Clan Council or the IlKhan, it's just so unlikely it doesn't start happening outside of super-duper special characters like Phelan until the Dark Age or IlClan era.The Sea Foxes, Goliath Scorpions, Ghost Bears, and Jade Falcons have started creating new bloodhouses for exceptional freeborn warriors or in the Falcons case, anyone left. The Foxes call it a Trial of Founding. I forgot what the Bears call it, but it's a big ass once a decade trial of bloodright open to anyone. Winner gets to found a new blood house. Losers are banned from ever participating again.
>See article about how Call of Cthulhu is more popular than Dungeons and Dragons outside the west>Comments are seething on a level i don't usually see outside of people on the spectrum>A year later the BBC does a puff piece on the same thing>Again people lose their fucking minds>Today see a youtuber talking about "Why CoC broke through in china and japan but D&d flatlined" and the comments are claiming he's paid propaganda from Chaosium.So whats the deal here? because no shit you infest god knows how much money on supplementary books, minis and all kinds of tat it can make some people get overly defensive but for some reason Call of Cthulhu being compared to Dungeons and Dragons makes people flip their shit in a way that just doesn't happen when stuff like Pathfinder or Traveller or the like get brought up.Why do you think only one game generates such a visceral reaction?
>>98214188Lifestyle consoomers. It happens with all high popularity media. When that one voxel game was getting some buzz a few months ago (I assume it flopped or only has a niche audience now since I no longer hear anything about it), there were openly hostile Minecraft kiddies attacking anyone who even mentioned it. There are 40k players who actively try to pull people away from alternate wargames and act like the very existence of those games is offensive. It's not just D&D, but D&D doesn't usually have anything "threatening" it.
>>98214232D20 dice were once hard to come by in Japan as well.
>>98217608They were hard to come by in America too, you used to have to special order them from school supply distributors. They were meant for geometry lessons.
>>98215631I wonder how amazed he'd be to find out that he's big in Japan.
>>98214188>Why do you think only one game generates such a visceral reaction?Because D&D players are mentally ill.
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>>98222310Nevermind then.
>>98221275Sounds like you were the one throwing the tantrum honestly.
>>98219481>metafagging tranny is never happy with the game he’s apparently so passionate aboutI like coming to these threads to laugh at the literal retards who still fall for the same scam every 3 years from GW lol. I’d ask you to play 3rd Ed but you’d probably find a way to ruin that too.
>>9821964940k players are such subhumans that gw can run this same scam for a decade pretty much and nobody cares.
>>98220427I've long sinced moved on to TOW and older editions of Fantasy, I just come here to shitpost
