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This is like buying Halo CE on e-bay and it's completely normal but this is the cover:

This is amazing idc if I bought something else this is better

Who wants to bet the parents never even asked those kids if they want these hormones

Or told them what they do.

Or had them talk to a doctor about it.

Or...

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reactionary american trad cath types are so funny because like, "my faith is pure but the pope in rome is woke and sinful and leading us to corruption and degeneracy" you're just a protestant. that's literally what protestantism is. you're just reinventing it from first principles lol

My wife sent me this

I hope other people smarter than me see what the two parties of america are converging on.

eventually, the american right will say to the american "left" (nonexistent) that they must work together else be declared socialists.

the american left hates socialism enough that they will surrender.

I feel like it's slightly more acceptable bc with the white shirt and blue suit it makes the colors of the Chicago Bears.

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This is how I picture you writing this:

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Me trying to retrace my high thoughts so I can remember the post I thought of and then immediately forgot

HEY Chicago, whadda you say?

Who's your favorite Jedi? Wrong answers only.

fuck ICE

Because of how I like to tell stories, there'd have to be a combat system (so that in the worst cases you can punch a Nazi), but by fleshing out social and economic systems more and making them easier than the combat, violence is disincentivized.

Tbh the rules would probably be simple like an OSR game, but instead of being an adventuring party who looks for things to kill, the mechanics would be focused around building a community, with more discission of foraging and farming than death and colonization.

This whole thread has gotten me thinking about how I'd write a TTRPG system if kids were part of the target audience.

OH also I'd like to clarify that I said something *like* the BÖRG systems. I probably would not just give my kids any of those books (except *maybe* MORK ORG? It's set in an office, I imagine it's much less overtly violent than the others) unless I was there and an adult I know was running the game.

It also doesn't help that I haven't been able to branch out very much yet. Hell, I only have the BORG systems because a buddy of mine had the PDFs.

it gets pretty ugly for them pretty quick.

I also almost never play vanilla settings tbh. Even settings I really like, I homebrew in a way that makes them unrecognizable and bakes the lessons I'm trying to teach into the context the players find themselves in - like you said earlier.

That's fair. I'm so used to the industry standard of "You decide the nuance of violence in your world" that I haven't seen/thought about systems where the mechanics are designed to take a side. I also am a big fan of TTRPGs as consequence simulators, so if someone misuses violence in my games...

That's why I love the BÖRG systems so much- despite the aesthetic of rot and medieval violence (or cowboys, or spave pirates, etc.) they actually are built to subvert the worst tropes of the genres

Also, MÖRK BÖRG and the resulting systems go out of their way to tell you that your real enemies are just as often if not more often your rich questgivers than whatever youcwere sent to deal with (NOTE: Deal with, not kill. Diplomatic solutions work too, and so does telling the king to fuck off)

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*child not Chile

Also, yes system complexity is an issue. I was a hyperliterate chile and could not understand TTPRGs for most of my life. If you are starting your kids on something, it should be simple enough that they don't have to do homework or listen to a lecture before starting their first game (imo).

And I feel like the appropriateness of violence has more to do with its context than anything else. Especially considering the state my country is in, I'd rather teach my kids that fascism and racism usually have to be defeated violently than pass on the follies that got America to where we are now.

I mean, first of all these are the immediate alternatives to D&D that I started using immediately after switching away from WotC products because they were cheap or free. I have yet to branch out very far from those because I am poor as balls and can't find a group willing to try new things.

Anything is a soup if you simply insist it is a soup (PROOF: @fredo.bsky.social)

I’m once again telling you: look at this baby spood 🥹

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