sirblastalot @ sirblastalot @ttrpg.network

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Captains are actually fully autonomous, admirals just exist to make sure they feel like cool badass maverick rebels.

Fuuuuuck I wanna be in that superhero game.

Now I want to play the reverse...a fake barbarian. A really intelligent wizard that realized people don't ask him to work as much if he pretends to be illiterate and dumb. Quickened True Strike when he rages, etc.

It's hard to get anything through the court in hell, what with every lawyer in history getting involved.

It's called Theatre of the Mind. I've definitely done it, and it has it's advantages (cheap, lower prep time) but I don't favor it nowadays. Especially in my last campaign, a swashbuckling pirate adventure, I tried to always have at least some kind of visual aid, because it's critical to that swashbuckling feel - the players can't swing from the chandelier if they don't know there's a chandelier.

Queercoding villains to make them seem dangerous and deviant to the people of the time (and those that are still stuck in that time). Admittedly, the people making that decision probably weren't conscious of that being why they thought eyeliner made him look villainous.

Every day I feel better and better about leaving reddit.

The Warlocks were all Pact of the Fey all along.

"The town guard arrive, but they are startled by an acorn falling and shoot you 27 times."

I'm saving that for a "journey to the new world" campaign at some point in the future.

Peckromancer

"Try more games" is great advice, and it's always good to expand your horizons, but at some point it stopped being actual advice and became the catchphrase of people who just can't handle the idea that someone would choose to play D&D.

Training my players to constantly make perception checks is the last thing I want to do. Nothing bogs down a game faster. If there's no point in rolling the dice, don't make them roll. If you're worried that calling for a roll will make them metagame paranoid, call for an occasional pointless roll, don't make it a constant expectation.

Brock Sampson seen here having just had to kill his hotrod.

Be the change

What DM would deliberately sabotage their own game like that? No one actually wants to spend a session waiting for someone to examine an endless supply of rocks.

Babe turns around and starts recking them too

Be the change and send me a copy

You select the level of abstraction for different things based on what is and isn't the most fun to delve into. If your group enjoys poking every surface with a 10 foot pole, it's not wrong to play with that level of granularity. It's just that all the interesting things you can do with a 10 foot pole are pretty mined-out after 50 years so we tend to direct our attention elsewhere.

That's a refreshing optimistic take. My inner cynic says that wizards would just compete to see who could spellcraft up themselves the biggest schlong