i also wanna point out the link's estimates for non-wotc are inane crap lmao

if you try and google paizo's revenue the ai overview... just references this article lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooo

grips intelligence is wildly piss on the wall ai firm. they have a 2 year old youtube channel with 12 subs

it's not a weird phenomenon online rpg fans are hostile as fuck

as a group outside of dnd you're noticeably, significantly more bigoted and hostile to any idea that doesn't dovetail with your Chosen System

this reminds me of the time i was trying to introduce a friend to magic then she went to the sub and of course one of the many neckbeard anti-women blowups was happening and she took one look at that shit and noped out

honestly probably the biggest thing that kept me in ttrpgs early on was traveller 1e and playing solo

otherwise i probably woulda wrapped up my 5e campaign and just went "alirght" and gone back to playing doom or something

Praise makes me cringe more than insults I can relate

https://youtube.com/shorts/jcvrqeP1uzo?si=7AD5V0vQRVrfC-Z3

This happens every timeโ€ฆ | #dnd #rpg #dungeonsanddragons #shorts #short

YouTube

"DM freaks out that my Fighter has 19 AC at level 3 and rules my chain mail to cost 1000 gold."

lol fuck that guy

๐ŸŽต the merfolk have invaded italy ๐ŸŽถ

(sung to the tune of "they're taking the hobbits to isengard")

(to isengard
to isengard)

"PSA: AI is not a reliable rules reference for RPGs"

just figuring this out, are ya

hilariously, of course, this is compounded by the fact that actual humans just go onto places like reddit and lie about playing rpgs and knowing the rules, just shotgunning bullshit out there that chatgpt then just scrapes and misunderstands further for The Worst Game Of Telephone

gonna try and tie up my cyberpunk red campaign

i said i canceled my ongoing campaigns but seems like everyone got their shit together and we can go out with a bang

wrapping up a campaign on a rainy day is just pure efficiency ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

holy shit an android doctor called dr. vibe check is so smart

SO SMART

lol

"Games That Feature NO Damage Rolls?"

every rpg if you just use average damage

night's black agents has really annoyingly organized chargen
also they don't tell you how many general points you get in a "normal" game? just the two alternate modes? wtf?
maybe mirror IS the main game mode...

no it's not it's 70, they just decided to call them build points instead of general or investigative because why bother using your own fucking terminology

fuck me right

you can just change all of the regaining pool points section to "whenever the fuck you think it's appropriate"
you can't prove i started nda just so i can have a folding shotgun loaded with silver shot

i think it's always so funny when people react badly to anyone saying "i played this rpg a bunch, and i found the players/community there bad/annoying/toxic"

way to double down

also, as though /r/rpg doesn't frame the dnd community in broad strokes, ever
also, for the record, you can absolutely kitbash the fuck outta your systems/settings
you never know

i'm not wild about hot lead

actually not super duper impressed with night's dark agents overall so far, but it's, you know, a workable system

i suspect a lot of people like it because you can just... play it like a cold war spy thriller without any supernatural elements at all (which it acknowledges)

there's just not a lot of connective tissue between the core rules and the narrative flavor

(also its default setting is not cold war, it's like... circa 2010 or some shit?)

it has some very involved subsystems i haven't tried yet tho, like chase rules

i'll probably keep playing it, wrap up my little homebrew scenario, try to ram in their little crb demo scenario to see what's what unless i find something that ultra pisses me off xD

also there's so much nitty gritty bullshit to track, but somehow ammo and money are singled out for bogging down games

what about all your other bullshit bruh

i do like "you just get the clue" but that's just standard gumshoe theory stuff

not sure how much i like "you still need the investigative skill to auto-succeed" tho, because they basically tell you to make your pc group together and make sure all skills are covered

so like... what are we doing here, really? i cannot expect you to want to just auto-succeed all investigative checks, but also to split the party and gate pcs?

it feels very ivory tower in that regard

also like, if you do this if one pc dies and that player makes a new character... guess what investigative skills they're taking
i'm skipping over some context regarding pool points and stuff, but spiritually this is what the system wants you to do: auto-pass investigative tasks and anything that can actually fail is actually in an entirely different point pool: general abilities

it's strange that the game's strongest hook, spy vs spy vs vampires, isn't front and center

real weird

i should play the laundry

"best i can do is force ghost"

me, looking star wars purists right in the eyes: *dumps traveller anagathics into your star wars*

we already blew up the death star at alderaan what are you gonna do about it
crying as i try to organize my trav 1e notes
this was apparently also a time where i just freeballed first and third person
Neopets TTRPG Playtest Material Pulled for Controversial Material | TechRaptor

The owners of the Neopets franchise recently pulled Neopets TTRPG playtest material due to it containing controversial material by developer Geekify.

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@worthlessbums I discussed this the other day
@DarkestKale fucking bizarre