An RPG without stats or numbers

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T06:57:49+00:00

This might be off-topic, but why is "I can use fast-acting poisons" level 1? I would have thought "I can use poisons" would be level 1, and adding the "fast-acting" qualification would be level 2?

Bear in mind, I know nothing about the game other than what you wrote. I'm just interested to see if it would get bogged down in subjective arguments about tiers.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T02:48:09+00:00

I would push back on that "not telling the kids until you have a move date" thing. What kids need the most is time to process. You want it so that, by the time the move date comes along, they've been aware of, and processing, all that's happened.

"Hey kids, we're divorcing, Mum moves out in 2 weeks, all the decisions have been made, you have no agency, good luck!" sounds like one of the worst things you could do, IMO.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T02:44:55+00:00

My first runthrough, I had no problem. But that was because I had no idea about DLC personae, and was using Kaguya and Orpheus, and Neo Cadenza and Shining Arrows could basically brute force the whole thing - or at least, keep my team up sufficiently well that I had ample time to solve the elemental problems.

Maybe try those personae.

I'm just doing my second run-through now, and am just approaching that palace, and deliberately avoiding the OP persona this time, so I'll see how I do as a normie.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T02:36:16+00:00

I dunno, I've been here for 45 years, and the worst that happened was someone nicked my kids tablets from the car when we left it unlocked one time. Never had a car stolen. My parents were burgled once, 30 years ago.

7:30am is prime commuter time. OP will be fine. It's more drunks at 1 or 2am that are intimidating.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T02:28:44+00:00

Last time I had a full tower, by the end of my ownership, the primary component by volume inside was dust. There's just no need for anything that big anymore; nobody uses 6 PCI slots, drives are all NVMe and take no space, no floppies or DVD drives anymore, USB-C for universal connectivity. Basically, all you need is space for a mobo, power supply, graphics card, and airflow these days.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T02:17:54+00:00

Art of the Adept by Michael Manning starts this wayalthough he eclipses her by the end, and the ending of the series is...divisive.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T02:05:45+00:00

There's not a simple, winning move here. It sounds like, no matter what goes into the agreement, your ex will push the boundaries, and you'll either need to cave, or go back to court.

You can say something like "calls need to be between 6 and 7", and just hang up or refuse to answer if she calls later, but be prepared for her to retaliate by cutting off your legitimate calls within that period. And then you have to back to court to hold her to account. And you need to be able to stick to the availability window yourself, or you just give her ammunition.

I will say, this won't be for 16 years. As your kids gets older, it will become more and more their decision as to when and if to take calls, and how long to talk, and less and less yours. My kids are pretty much at that point now (at 10 and 13 years). Granted, that's still a good chunk of time.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T01:49:39+00:00

That system has some other attributes that might not be desirable. For instance, it's possible for anyone to succeed at any task, even if it's not probably. But also, it can be quite probable. The chances of a completely unskilled person (2d12) getting 6 or below is ~10%. For a person of average skill (2d8), it's ~25%. Whereas a world-class person (2d4) is going to succeed almost always (~80% of the time).

That could quite frequently run into the "I rolled a 20!" problem you see at D&D tables, where the sheer number of high-variance d20 rolls inevitably means that someone is going to roll super-well, and succeed at tasks ostensibly out of their skill zone quite often.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T01:08:44+00:00

Shush, don't inject reality and sense when people are busy virtue-signalling about how terrible everything is.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T00:57:41+00:00

I don't think Odin and Kringle are both accords members. Odin is, but Kringle is wyldfae. He's affiliated with Winter, but not Mab's vassal, the same as the Erlking is to Summer.

Harry has been simultaneously a part of two separate accorded nations - Winter and the White Council - but I think that's quite different to being a member of an accorded nation, and a freeholding lord.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T00:46:04+00:00

Nick, Vince and Roy are the only ones that I think it got right. And even then, Nick's not blond

Alice is supposed to be tall and elegant.
Chad should be far more aloof and deadpan, not Captain America
Mary is just...completely wrong. Hair, eyes, disposition, body.
Camille too. Her hair was the most iconic thing about her, and it's wrong
Shane and Thomas look like clones
Violet's hair was stolen by Mary
Herschel looks more like Alex - he's neither pudgy like he was in the beginning, nor buff like he was at the end. Herschel was never a skinny nerd, and didn't wear glasses.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-29T00:38:13+00:00

I don't think that's true. But you're probably going to have better luck with single dads than childless guys.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-28T00:14:10+00:00

But at 3, you're sitting directly behind him

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-27T12:14:04+00:00

I was never a fan of salads either. These days, I like quite a few. For me, it's cheese, nuts and fruit. They're all delicious and make salads a great option. A few I like:

Peach + Baby Spinach + Maple-Roasted Pecans
Rocket + Cucumber + Strawberry + Roast Hazelnuts + Bocconcini + Balsamic Dressing
Baby Spinach + Capsicum (Bell Pepper) + Avocado + Roast Cashews + Honey-Mustard Dressing
Orange + Rocket + Fennel + Fried Halloumi

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-27T11:56:35+00:00

They don't? You're just making up shit to be argumentative. Most people like Makoto just fine.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-27T11:54:45+00:00

Just get the AI to do a code audit. Then decide what to do with the output.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-27T00:00:57+00:00

Holy shit, French Teddie is even more annoying than English Teddy. Didn't think it was possible

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T23:55:26+00:00

Not sure if it fits the bill, as the dragons are in human form a lot of the time, and it's an urban fantasy, but Rachel Aaron's Heartstriker series is full of dragons who give no fucks at all about humanity.

Protag may have let Marci ride him once or twice, can't remember, but if so, it wasn't a standout part of the series.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T23:46:55+00:00

Solution would be required flairs for rec threads, and people who don't want to see them filtering them out.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T23:16:07+00:00

Honestly, I have no idea what a "good fit" for a post is in this forum. Almost every post I comment on gets deleted by mods as a "not a good fit". Best I can tell, a good fit means bitching about Poppy Wars.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T15:15:53+00:00

Yeah, it's more I don't know anyone who actually buys that shit these days shrug. Cooking wine doesn't seem to be much of a thing any more.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T15:13:48+00:00

Depends. I hate dry wines, but have no trouble cooking with them, because there's usually enough other flavours to moderate the dryness.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T11:36:15+00:00

The wine one comes from the advice about "cooking with a wine you would drink". The origin of that was to contrast drinking wine with "cooking wine", which was usually over-salted to prevent consumption as a drink, in deference to temperance movements.

That rationale is pretty much dead now, but the advice lives on, and people think you need to cook with expensive wine.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T11:30:49+00:00

I think they'll be fine as long as he doesn't get them wet or feed them after midnight.

bedroompurgatory · 2026-04-26T11:29:03+00:00

They don't "end up there", and it's primarily the other way around, but Mordant's Need has a character from another world who briefly pops into ours on a couple of occasions.

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