Jeff Wilder

I was a player and a wiz/builder on ShadowrunMUSH many years ago. It is definitely a gaming form that rewards those who can read and write well and quickly. I enjoyed it a lot.

The final two sentences in the film gut me to this day.

LFN has been redone four times (and I admit I like the Maggie Q series), but never even close to matched.

(There's also a joke in there about Grindr and hung, but I don't go for low-hanging ... uh, fruit.)

These jokes are sub-par.

My most common experience is different, but that's because the game is PF1E. It's a good game (which is why I still play it), but it is objectively overwhelming in its options. New players need a LOT of guidance. By contrast, my ongoing PF2E game is significantly easier (we're all new to PF2E).

I prefer Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

You know, in the non-Trumpian context.

What do you record with? How long are your sessions, typically? I've considered doing it, but our sessions are six hours, and it seems kinda unworkable.

But don't the players just, you know, DO things? Mind read? Recall Knowledge? Telekinetically screw with the tavern jerkwad?

Research and Influence -- from my limited experience from running Seven Dooms -- work fine as far as the numbers, but I agree about the dullness. I really have to work hard to make both of them evocative, and I definitely don't always succeed. (In fact, I'd estimate I barely manage 50%.)

From my observation the feels-bad usually happens when a game is 90%-plus combat. (This isn't a dig; I like combat-heavy games sometimes!) Casters have so much cool stuff they can do that isn't destroying monsters.

Not every situation should have a clock, but surely some do?

They always rest?

We have one player we caution in every campaign in which he plays a caster: "Make good choices; the choice to rest will be based on circumstances, not on your need to waste spells on the enemies the hitters can take." He never learns not to do it, but he has learned not to whine.

You are not kidding. If one is OCD, as I am, prepared casters are both the cat's meow and the cat's shitty litter box.

I assume you went mystic theurge, right?

The two non-Vancian systems I have played the most were GURPS and Shadowrun, and both had balance problems built in. Nothing an experienced GM couldn't handle, but it isn't like "non-Vancian" doesn't have issues.

I personally enjoy the immersion created when I need to customize my loadout daily.

I completely agree with you. I've been reading fantasy since I was literally four years old, and playing D&D since I was 12, and I have *never* felt like Vancian magic made for bad fiction. (Now the "book-keeping" argument is more resonant ... )

"I thirst for the salty nectar of your blood. Like, rilly. I'm so shure!"

I'd be very interested in a few examples, if you have them handy.

(As a veteran of D&D3.5 and PF1E (which I still play and GM, along with my PF2E game), I have to admit that the idea of PF2E being "overwhelming" with its level-up choices is kind of adorable.)

Me, too. Feedly is ... okay, but it ain't no Google Reader.

But hell, I still miss Google Wave. (I ran an entire M&M campaign using it.) Discord is a pale, pale replacement.

(And Bret Stephens is tripping merrily along the same path.)

I just don't read him anymore. He's become worse than the most strident MAGA cultist. He believes in every goal they vote for, while pretending not to and while actually having the information and understanding it. He's actively chosen what he's become.

Can't wait to see y'all again here in SF in a week!

It took me by surprise, but I absolutely loved Eberron.

I played Shadowrun from the very beginning (1990ish), and although the rules have ranged from "terrible" to "clunky and complex, but workable," the Sixth World setting has always impressed me.

HM: Deadlands, Scarred Lands, Faerun, Golarion.

We played the entire Adventure Path "Shattered Star" with my half-orc wizard and his best friend (a dwarven warpriest) introducing themselves to everyone as "Sharders," to the embarrassment of the rest of the group ... who never even tried to explain the problem.

#ttrpg #pf2e #pathfinder #pf1e

From last session's PF1E game:

"When Type I demons set up to do their Dance of Ruin, are they ... Vrockettes?"

(Funniest if you imagine a line of bricks in sequins, doing synchronized high kicks.)

#ttrpg #pf2e #Pathfinder #dnd

I'll help. It's what friends do.

Did you guys ever open for the Molly Millions?

Wow. During the D&D3E 3PP rush, I bought an absolute TON of stuff. Of probably more than 2000 books, I've kept 50 or fewer ... and among them are ALL the Scarred Lands books. I think I have three or four poster-size maps of Ghelspad.

Hasty generalization, or, more specifically, fallacy of composition, which is the invalid argument that what's true of individual pieces must therefore be true of the whole shebang.

FartBreak.

Death.