Tapper Foul (he/him)

They’re certainly not going into the city to shop at the places they can find in the suburbs.

Overheard from a passing 4yo:

“Jingle bells, jingle bells…gah! What’s the next line?”

And then if plunking away with at-will abilities isn’t fun, why make that the entirety of the toolkit?

This is one of those critiques I hear nowadays but never saw or heard back in the day. It’s certainly possible to build characters with a boring power rotation but in practice picking powers that aren’t at least somewhat situational and having encounters where that order isn’t challenged takes work

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

This is not unique to heroic fantasy ttrpgs but yes. I have no issue with higher and lower complexity characters, I just get tired of those choices also being linked to character concept and also always going in one direction.

It’s telling that a lot of University outside that stretch is relatively successful. Lexington to Dale hasn’t seen the kind of change Prospect Park has, but it’s still doing just fine.

If you want a street to pedestrianize, it’s 1st Ave.

What if Block E, but again?

It doesn’t help that the roads out of Mpls only take you to St Louis Park.

Mustn’t … rub … belly

Was this the real Hastert Rule all along?

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

I’m personally quite aware of it and think it’s bad for this exact reason.

At the very least it requires intensive, regular, mandatory screenings. I hope you enjoy fitting quarterly therapy sessions whose primary purpose is to prove you aren’t about to kill people into your life.

That’s what we do with bus routes which is what keeps transit poor-coded. I prefer an across the board approach. “When roads are scheduled to be replaced we bring them up to the current standard. This is the current standard.”

The last couple times we’ve been there at least one of them is on that rock.

Oh yeah those are way better

This isn’t the solution for every game, but it certainly adds a lot of variety relative to its added complexity. You need two more boxes for AC values. That’s about it.

My one-day hypothetical game will have some form of Pierce, Slash, and Bash as discrete basic actions. Weapon damage and traits will be linked to attack type. Armor would have varying strengths and weaknesses. Character abilities would build off of specific actions.

The relatively slow release schedule plays into this. They (and the media ecology around them) want to talk about the new shiny thing and the next big thing but actual releases are so few and far between.

I get people hate caucuses but if you get rid of them you get stuff like this by design.

At most the 10th worst thing in this clip but at no point does he mention that people might want to go through Union Station because they’re taking the train.

If you use one ability over and over again, that’s a game that’s bad at being a tactics game.

Need to zoom out further if you want to get all of uptown in that map.

Top right is also closest to Johnson pkwy (minus the extra park medians). It makes sense that the next big street over should get the same treatment.

I’d just run it straight down the rest of Larpenteur - probably to Phalen. Let it intersect N/S routes. If speed and frequency are good enough, a transfer is ok.

I wonder how much of this is an inability to conceive of a mixed mode share world. They are so used to trip=car that they can only think of swapping that for trip=bike or trip=bus. The thought of adding a step “which option will I take?” just doesn’t click.

Also “extremely conservative” is not a good match for the DFL by just about any metric. It’s a big tent, but not an all-encompassing one.