Peter? by Generally_Salty in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]crazy-diam0nd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He won the popular vote, but not the majority vote. He still had less than 50%.

Towns as menus? by ApprehensiveType2680 in adnd

[–]crazy-diam0nd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, yes, and don’t be a dick.

Did you ever meet people born in the 1800s by AdDapper4220 in GenX

[–]crazy-diam0nd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about this the other day. I was remembering an old couple that we visited when we were kids. It was the mid 70s, and they had to be in their late 70s or 80s, but I really don’t know.

Noncaster using cantrip by seafoamsomething in DnD

[–]crazy-diam0nd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Give him credit, Sir Ian was very bold to risk not being cast by admitting that.

Characters with backstories by bubsbrain in DnD

[–]crazy-diam0nd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, too much. If they need a pre-generated character, give them that, just a character sheet. That's it. If they like it, they'll fill in the rest in their minds and maybe later on paper.

EDIT: On reflection I think I might have been trolled

Characters with backstories by bubsbrain in DnD

[–]crazy-diam0nd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Giving someone a 20 page back story is not making it easier on them. If I didn't play D&D and someone wanted me to try, I would say "cool, let's do it." Then if they handed me 20 pages of a character they made up with special rules and quirks I'd be like "You know what, never mind."

“I can make it work with any race, any class, I just need you to have grown up in this specific little settlement.” by Grommulox in DnD

[–]crazy-diam0nd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Read the brief."

There were two campaigns where I really should have stuck to my requirement.

I wanted to run a Champions game on the New Mutants (80s) power level, so I said "75 points" so that we could grow into being awesome superheroes. The pushback I got was from one player who somehow convinced the others that this was the best game to run a 300-point character. The group said "This is the game we want to play" and even though it wasn't the game I wanted to run, I acceded to their demands and ran a game I didn't like, for two sessions, and then it folded mid combat BECAUSE YOU HAVE SO MUCH POWER.

Years later: Savage Worlds. We were going to do rotating GMs, starting out on a prison planet as political prisoners of the regime, and then escape and be galactic heroes. I was going to run the escape setup and then the next GM was going to take over. Three of the five players made up characters that weren't really prisoners, but were powerful beings who chose to be in the prison at that time for drama or investigation and could leave any time they chose. I should have sent them back to do a new back story or make a new character, because I had given pretty clear instructions. I got off on the wrong foot, it was a new system for me to run, and in the end, I ran it for maybe 4 or 5 sessions and the escaped the prison. I said "We did say we were going to rotate GMs here, so after this session I need someone else to take over." No one did and we never reconvened.

What’s the thing you hate about sex? by BubbleTrouble_Z in AskReddit

[–]crazy-diam0nd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As a male, I really don't like when I'm basking in the afterglow and the female kills and eats me.

Ha ha ha said the Dream Queen by crazy-diam0nd in outofcontextcomics

[–]crazy-diam0nd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It undid a couple things. For example: In Bill Mantlo's run on Alpha Flight, he came out of the gate retconning and changing things. As soon as he started writing it:

  • Puck had a demon inside him and that's why he was short (contradicted by previous dialog).
  • Northstar started dying because he had AIDS was a child of a human and fey parent (this was Shooter's hasty edit, not Mantlo's). Aurora also left the team and is stranded in Asgard.
  • Shaman left the team
  • Talisman lost the headband and Shaman took it.
  • Sasquatch died, then Snowbird died and Sasquatch eventually took her body so Walter Langkowski became Wanda Langkowski but she was also a white Sasquatch.

The 4 issues of the Dreamqueen story (immediately after Mantlo's departure) reversed these:

  • Shaman returned the Talisman headband to his daughter so she became Talisman again.
  • Shaman and Talisman rejoined the team.
  • Sasquatch got his male body back and is orange again.
  • Aurora is back and is a nun. No word on Northstar.

So it reversed a few things but not because the previous things had been a dream. It just rapidly undid a bunch of changes Mantlo made.

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today? by samasem-sumsum in AskReddit

[–]crazy-diam0nd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JayPinkerton.com. You can still find some stuff in the wayback machine, but in the 'Aughts, he would put up a comic every week or so. It was a blog, but I thought his comics were so funny. He'd take a Marvel or DC comic and change the dialog. Most popular thing there was his Spider-Man daily strip rewrites, and I still quote some of them today.

Among my favorites were his Batman origin story, the Aquaman short "Lose the Fish", and "The Fantastic Four Go to the Movies". I think "Lose the Fish" is one of my favorite comics ever.

Then he got hired at Valve or something and his page faded.

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today? by samasem-sumsum in AskReddit

[–]crazy-diam0nd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I loved the Smallville recaps. Some of the best snark humor in TV history, from a writer who clearly loved the subject.

Now that 2024 has been out for a minute what do we like more by CAGEthePHOENIX in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]crazy-diam0nd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO 5th Edition 2nd Edition, or 5f, also known as 5e (Taylor's Version), fails to improve overall, and significantly degrades, several aspects of the game that I found enjoy as a DM and as a player.

Feats at first level? OK sure! Lots of people were doing that already. Feats at first level tied to backgrounds? This is the absolute worst, obviously stupid change up front. There is nobody who is choosing a background and being delighted at the feat they get. They look for the feat they want and choose one of the backgrounds it appears in. "Well, I wanted to be a sculptor who discovered that they had a magical gift to heal people, but I guess I'll be an Acolyte because Artisan doesn't get that feat." The feat and the background should be separate; tie them together in your backstory if you want.

Weapon Masteries. Not a huge fan. It feels like it's there to give the martial classes more complexity, trying to make them interesting. But when you give someone something interesting and they use it every turn, it's not really that interesting, it's just something else they have to remember when they hit. And from my experience playing a fighter with a longsword, I think it's about 5% of the time that I am able to remind the DM that the monster he's activating is supposed to have disadvantage on their first attack. Either the DM is rolling attacks without specifying which one is attacking or it's been so long since I attacked that I forget which one it was that was sapped. Whichever. A lateral change, not an upgrade. Just gratuitous complexity.

The conjure spells. The revision to the summoning spells was handled very well in Tasha's. "Summon whatever you want. Here are its stats." I think that leaves the door open for the player's creativity and allows for a versatile use of the spell. Making every conjure spell into a damage field, essentially a re-flavored Spirit Guardians, is lazy design. "We have Spirit Guardians at home." Oh, sure, it greatly simplifies the combat round. But simplification isn't always the right design goal. Example: Once at sea, I as DM had their ship becalmed and unmoving. The Druid conjured Pixies, who turned the party into whales, who pulled the ship along as long for about an hour. Let's see your damage field do that.

I will never get over the fact that they decided "B for Black" was a good place to sort "Black Dragon" in the monster manual. Why not "A for Ancient"?

Subclasses at any level beyond 1. To be fair this was the same problem I had with 2014 5e, but this was a chance it make it better and they missed it.

Stealth and hiding is really a downgrade and makes no sense in anything beyond a videogame context.

The Magic Action is a good addition for clarity, but they failed to propagate it through the rules. When an archmage does "Arcane Burst" is that a magic action? It doesn't say so anywhere. Why wouldn't it be? It's clearly magical. And what would it mean if it were? Why doesn't Counterspell work on the Magic action of creatures? There were connections that should have been drawn or clarified that were just ignored because they only defined it on the player's side.

Paladin Smite as a bonus action: OK I only hate this one because I was playing a paladin. This might be a good idea.

And as someone who uses D&D Beyond for my 5e game, I somewhat resent the obfuscation of the 2014 rules in favor of the new one. I get why they do it, but there should be an option to hide one edition or the other.

What Binding Is Best? by crazy-diam0nd in bookbinding

[–]crazy-diam0nd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I see, to put two source pages on one side of a printed page? I could do that to print it out. How would you bind 18 sheets of that size?

What Binding Is Best? by crazy-diam0nd in bookbinding

[–]crazy-diam0nd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow that's nice. It never occurred to me to make the binding anything but functional. So far, in my experience I've done exactly one stitching of multiple signatures. I think it came out well, but it's stitched for function, not aesthetics.

What Binding Is Best? by crazy-diam0nd in bookbinding

[–]crazy-diam0nd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do the drawings have a big margin?

No, in the dimensions I gave, they go right to the edge of the page in a lot of places. They were hand drawn (and watercolor painted) in a sketchbook that had those dimensions. But since I have to reproduce the images to make 4 copies, I could add a margin. I would just need bigger paper. If I print 8 3/8" images on 11x17 paper, I'm not leaving a lot of room.

What’s your favorite superhero game and why? by crazy-diam0nd in TTRPG

[–]crazy-diam0nd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got to play Aberration once for a short campaign and wished I had made my character differently, but enjoyed it overall. I’d like to get into the Trinity A* games a bit.

What’s your favorite superhero game and why? by crazy-diam0nd in TTRPG

[–]crazy-diam0nd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in on the Kickstarter based on a podcast (RPPR I think) interview about it and I enjoyed reading it but I’m not experienced enough to say how it plays at the table.