Set up a map with 9 monsters as 5 different groups all independently happening to run into the players, leading to a three hour fight covering 18 seconds of gameplay.
It was glorious.
This was followed by vore, and a haunted house situation.
Great #dnd5e day.
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Going over Anarachy Realms, and talking about design, and next steps and what is coming soon!
Racism in TTRPGs
There's so much thinking I have to do to handle having different kinds of people in a #ttrpg. So D&D has been going down into a whole Species description, which honestly sounds worst to me than race, even with the concept of race being non-scientific. But they also went on to remove Half-Elf, which yeah, the TERM is a concern because it centers humanity, and doesn't answer what the other half is (it is assumed to be human).
Which when you say that Elf is a race, and we understand race as being the same species, it has this whole mottled connection with white supremacy, its language and ideas, just baked into what something is.
But... as a latinx individual who grew up in latinx communities but was called a gringo, and then treated as non-white by white people (omg yes I know, the wha wha refrain of everyone like me), having half elf representation, especially in characters like Tanis Half-Elven, helped me a great deal!
Wednesday d&d was fun! We did a DM rotation today. So every adventure we rotate DMs and we run one shot style content for the level people are at. Usually you level up afterwards. We are at a really interesting crossroads of level 7. Very similar to level 4, where you are almost getting some better numbers but you are kinda punching up on the monster difficulty. Level 8 you get ASI and Level 9 you get a prof bonus boost to +4. So yeah, 7th level is really tough.
Watching Quiet on the Set and its leaving me fucked up.
I was thinking that for print publishing I was gonna style my ttrpg like a zine. Just full punk aesthetic!
Skills have different ways of using them. Some provide you with remembering information. Others are understanding the information in front of you. And others are using the information.
Arcana - Knowledge, I remember that demons often have resistances to Fire and Poison.
Arcana - Analysis, This demon has immunity to Fire and Poison.
Arcana - Use, Activate this magic device to summon a Gem Immune demon.
What other ways have you guys noticed we use skills and what skills do you think are missing in 5e?
Playing ttrpg today! Honestly, Larian Studio is abandoning WotC, and I want to as well. But not for PF2e. PF2e is close to what I want, but I need to edit it a lot to get it to what I want, and their view on magic is to depower it too much for my taste.
I want something that has layers of difficulty, so that a player that wants a simple game and a more complicated game, can play in the same group.
Had such a rough morning. Then I go to stream and obs crashes, and I don't notice because I'm in the game. I stop, notice I only have less than half an hour of streaming and all my streaming work was useless, and it explains why I didn't see the bot promoting in the chat. So I quit the game, and half my programs are frozen, so I restart, eat lunch early, and scroll tiktok. I'll try to stream again either Sunday or Monday. It's not a big deal. There's no rush. But I'd rather put the rest of my energy to working on prepping for my D&D game tomorrow.
Been checking out a lot of people talking about Dagger Heart. It has a lot of similar goals to Anarchy Realms, bit it's funny seeing how different things are for things we are trying to do different. What I'm saying is the differences are very different.
I tried to do the beta, but it is not structured in a way for you to browse it. Instead you have to print it out to parse it. I really don't like that.
#daggerheart #anarchyrealms #ttrpg
Dagger Heart and so many other TTRPGs try to negate the use of initiative, but all my favorite games use it: D&D, PF2e, FFX, FFT.
So in fact, Anarchy Realm's Initiative System is CLOSER to Final Fantasy Tactics, allowing you to do such crazy things as casting an Explosion on an ally, and having them run into enemies so that the explosion triggers further away than you could have cast it!
Swashless Roguelock 5e guid video is up on PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/bit8EvqdpEYJUZgtWX5Lsa
#peertube #dnd5e #BaldursGate3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjJzlx9E9y4
Youtube link to swashless roguelock game play.
So frustrating! My last stream, the game didn't save, so I had to redo the last hour of gameplay with save scumming just to get it as close to the results as the live run!
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Testing real dnd5e builds in Baldur's Gate 3!
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Anarchy Realms is a six attribute system, with a combination of soft and hard meanings for each attribute. Think of it as an expansion of BESM tri-stat more than a renaming of D&D stats.
Anarchy Realms uses, Mind, Body, Soul, Blood, Heart and Bone. With the attributes paired in purpose for different things, while covering different soft skills. You want more health but are not a physical type strong man? Then lean more on your Heart, as your Health Pool is resourced from the higher stat of Body or Heart. This continues for the other attributes.
Really excited to announce that the start of Chapter 1 is posted on the Anarchy Realms website! The game itself will be freely available online, and I'll be putting together a book after for those who want to have the ability to pull up a pdf or printout.
https://ift.tt/DgPZue4
Okay, so I ended up with the IFTTT solution to take my posts here, and auto post them to my blog, which I was able to include into my website. So... I got that going for me! Since the test worked, I'll definitely be posting here more.
Honestly, for the price IFTTT has been great, but I'm locked in at a legacy rate, so not sure how that goes for other people.
I honestly just want to be able to get feed data and display links from Mastodon onto my website and Google pages in an easy way. But those places don't have Mastodon as an option so I have to figure out manual ways or ways of using RSS to autofeed into my other things. I'm trying with IFTTT. I'll post more once I know other people can see this stuff easily and in a way that isn't going to cost me 20$ a month or more.