Post

"I really like d4s" (IYKYK)

There is only ONE TRUE WAY to play D&D!

You have to play it rules as written otherwise you're literally not playing the game as it was intended to be played

Being able to counter spell a paladin smite is a great idea.

Anyone see me post that, is deffo a cry for help 😓

your arbitrary rulings make more sense than intentional design around a theme and a good host *can* make any game work

My wife (not on BlueSky) suggests: “It’s fine to be a power gamer. Why wouldn’t you want to be better?”

Bleh, solo journaling games? Aren't those just writing with extra steps? 😒

D&D is such a good system, I especially love it when people hack it around to make it fit other settings like cyberpunk, urban horror or sci-fi because those settings are underserved with good systems!

Homebrew defeats the point of playing the game. Just make up your own rules if you’re gonna homebrew.

It’s okay if you only ever play DnD, you don’t even need to read those books, just rely on your DM to tell you all the rules. Other/indie games are not worth the time/money investment.

That PDF is so well-organized, it doesn't need bookmarks or links in the TOC.

Starfinder 2e is flavorless and THAC0 is infinitely better than +/-10 graded success.

To be fair you're more likely to get committed to a lunatic asylum if you said that.

You only need one set of dice, ever...

That’s too much gaming…

GURPS

*eye twitch*

Your own enjoyment is all that matters. If your broken, over optimized character takes all the fun out it for the other players, it’s their fault for not optimizing hard enough. (This is sarcasm in response to the above post)

All games suffer from too much pace

Physical editions are the WORST!! Digital only, preferably reading it on a VR headset. Theres no other way to play.

The most important thing is to make sure the rules are followed to the letter at all times. GMs are just there to implement the rules as written, not to make judgements.

"I think TTRPG has too many women. That's right, I'm gonna write about men now. Only men. No girls allowed." *(blinks aggressively)*

The Warlock class is perfect and absolutely nothing about it makes me mad

I want to play D&D

“There’s nothing rpgs could learn from wargames”

D&D has always been a wargame - lines, cones, reach, movement, etc. 4E was just the first D&D where the tactics layer was 1: actually fun, and 2: not trivially circumvented with a single spell. 5E in a reactionary move tries to pretend it's not by forcing the DM to keep the battle map in their head.

Let’s bring back the discourse about the creators summit.

“I know EXACTLY what TTRPG means!”

"I don't need dice when I'm playing Champions,"

This hobby needs to be more hostile to women. They've had it too good for too long.

"If you won't memorize a 400-page rule book and a 500-page lore book, why are you even in this hobby?"

"it's normal and fine to continue supporting a product made by a company that sent Pinkertons after independent creators"

You know what, I've given it some thought, and it's really uncool that Paizo put a canonical trans woman on the cover of Knights of Lastwall.

Made ya feel kinda icky inside eh?

BRO IM FUCKING HOWLING 🤣

Ha!! Call the police.

And he was right to say it

bringing back dark sun to d&d was such a good decision

more games should go diceless...

-grainy camcorder footage of Drake holding a sign- “System doesn’t matter.”

Differential XP is good. You should be fighting other players for every point of experience and if someone gets more xp than you it means they’re just better at RPGs

"Dwarves aren't neanderthals"

Guys, let's play a board game instead of an RPG.

Rolled for butthole diameter and got a negative number.

If you say that, the kidnappers might actually recruit you and you might scare people from saving you

D20 systems are peak gaming and not at all overly lethal unless you build everything as a sand bag. And that they should have never been turned into computer games where they're significantly better.

"Human Fighters are the worst, most boring combination of class and race that you can possibly make for D&D and you should really just be anything else because with a different species or class at the very least you have some personality baked in."

The ongoing storyline of a game shouldn’t unfold as some sloppy aggregate side effect of player choices. It should be carefully crafted in advance by the GM, and revealed to the players in a way that enables them to observe the dramatic arc for maximum effect. [YUCK!]

"I'm done writing new stuff for D&D. I'm just going to subscribe to dndbeyond and rent whatever Hasbro wants me to pay for."

Pathfinder is needlessly complicated and feats aren't even that good! I much prefer DnD 5e 🫠

o7 pouring one out for your reputation 🤣

Hey, I used it for my first two games too! Fortunately @knaveofcups.com did a wonderful job totally overhauling the layout for Her Odyssey. I should perhaps think about redoing the layout for Pearl & Provenance as well, just to eliminate Cinzel Decorative from my body of work entirely

Yeah you're basically setting yourself up for failure regardless.

I had definitely seen some of it around but never really gave it much mind. I'm cursed now huh?

The typical TTRPG adventure is unproblematic. TTRPGs are just escapism :)

Love heavy RP during thematic board games not designed for it, especially competitive ones where I think my moves out ahead, but in RPGs I usually want to roll dice and kill shit and make numbers go up. Lethality in OSR makes combat fun so I seek it out bc RP & social problem solving is lame

The more mechanically distinct kinds of guns a game has on its gear table, the more fun it is going to be. Or maybe just Carrion Crawlers don't actually work in some #ttrpg settings and you shouldn't just crowbar them in.

it really is all about talking in funny voices

You know, horror has no place in D&D and Ravenloft is just a terrible concept for a setting