Ray Irving 🇺🇦

It would be perfect for me too! 😉

To be fair, I wouldn’t want to sign my name to these incoherent deranged ramblings either!

In The Hobbit the people of Lake Town don’t really believe in the dragon under the mountain anymore.
Apparently this is a “feature” of humanity - a potentially very destructive one…

I’m running #TheOneRing currently and finding the very idea of square based movement anachronistic!

The Hobbit mentions trade with Erebor/Dale/Lake Town and the rest of the world being much more before and after Smaug, I guess trade is just not relevant to the plot in LotR?

The current administration is not “just cool”, so that’s irrelevant.

Of course it is worse. Thats the whole point - it’s a deterrent. You are in a game of re-iterated prisoners dilemma, your opponent is repeatedly defecting, but you refuse to leverage your deterrent and punish him for not co-operating, so you loose again and again forever.

Please go read up on game theory and the prisoners dilemma then revert on why “I will never defect” is not a winning strategy.

That would require cohones, no evidence of that whatsoever…

👆🏻Word. I’ve players who will always RP their characters including not going on the adventure. It will ruin the session, they will not apologise, so I always lock the players into the adventure as described above.

Always record a voice note to
yourself immediately after detailing what happened, is my GM advice. Do it in the car, on the bus, as soon as the last one left.

Listening to an @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social #CallofCthulhu actual play. The investigators are early 90’s kids. For plot they have flashed back to an earlier game of 2nd edition D&D. So they are 2020’s adults RPing 1990s kids RPing 2nd edition D&D characters! 🤯 Love this Matryoshka meta spiral! 🥰

Going further: write a game with a template for scenarios so I don’t have to make my own cork board in order to be to run it! This is the case with most #CallofCthulhu scenarios - I end up turning blocks of prose into a mind map of locations and clues…

I really like how #TheOneRing #ttrpg has a formal Patron system where the party even get slightly different benefits according to which patron they have.

The Dragonbane core set is also incredible value for money and would highly recommend.

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I am *NOT* reading that paragraph out to the player! 🤯
I totally could text the screenshot and say “check your phone” while looking meaningfully at them… 🤓

You came up with game mechanics for tummy bugs Paul!? 😃

Just watched the ‘73 version recently. Presumably the guys with swords would have cut him down if he’d tried anything. But then again, what did he have to loose?

Think you can bring it to fruition?

Fair, B) is tactically very different and much more fun, challenging and memorable. Interestingly it might be most fun of all played PBTA style, if you’ve got the cognitive energy.

D&D combat is right between the two, so in spite of feats and abilities every combat is crunchy enough to takes ages but abstracted enough to be the boringly familiar. The setting, like the changing backdrop in a martial arts video game, is just scenery.

I’m not sure if the designers are responding to your OP or just making character creation into a mini game?
I’m seeing two routes to randomness:
MERP/WFRP style crit and fumble tables.
OR
PBTA storytelling game “you succeed at a price” style combat.

YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats For and Against National Service | Yes, Prime Minister | Comedy Greats

The Yes Prime Minister scene on polls remains definitive on this:

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Coincidentally I had a lot of fun playing in the Blizzard’s Teeth one shot last weekend. It went full PvP but somehow playing Finn Redtooth I made it out alive - the sole survivor…

Your history is incomplete without mentioning the CIA introduction of “Panama disease”, or “Fusarium wilt” - cleverly decimating the production Gros Michel bananas and ultimately leading to the overthrow of democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz

He used a dice pool of ‘em and rolled for “success at a price” - I wonder what how things are going to fail forward from here…?

This is how I feel about making PowerPoint right now!

I am so here for a different dinosaur on each note! 😃

For a proper love triangle one party can’t decide between the other two, who are vying for the his/her affection. What you describe sounds more like limerance and in The Hobbit Legolas just seems a bit jealous 🤷‍♂️. [I do prefer the fan edits that properly represent the book]