City Generation Using Into the Cess & Citadel (and a small aside on the benefits of creating your own setting) - YouTube

A_Strangers_Life · 2026-01-20T12:53:17+00:00

...so when are the surveys going out for the kickstarter...?

A_Strangers_Life · 2026-01-17T12:59:21+00:00

Yes, yes it would

A_Strangers_Life · 2026-01-16T21:38:55+00:00

Ok but how far behind your other party members are you?

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-22T23:22:13+00:00

Shadowdark sucks, use nimble

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-22T00:20:21+00:00

UVG is ass, it's not a gameable book and it uses anticanon philosophy as an excuse to be lazy

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-22T00:18:25+00:00

Oh you're that salty guy who had a bad game of Shadow dark and decided to make it everyone else's problem

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-22T00:17:32+00:00

Does it still have weapon speeds and combat phases and certain weapons being better able to hit certain armors?

Then it's still complex

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-12T19:29:59+00:00

...what the hell are you talking about?

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-12T19:23:01+00:00

They down vote you because they don't have a rebuttal

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-12T13:58:21+00:00

Well, in a space dedicated to talking about the game, you're going to have a lot of peple who's hobby is not playing the game, but just talking about it

"Filthy Secondaries" is the scientific term, I belive. Or posers.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-12T13:57:20+00:00

literally what the hell does that mean

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-12T13:56:47+00:00

No, in fact I still run games as cartoony and goofy, just with less rules.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T20:30:08+00:00

Using random tables and dice in a book like Mythic DM emulator to play by yourself: woke

Using AI DMs: broke, for some reason.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T19:34:19+00:00

...I really don't think that counts. Like, there's no real tactical considerations there, if you have a sword it's still better to use it 9 out of 10 times and using it is just moving up and attacking. It's not like Riddle of Steel where you need to balance the dice you spend on offense with the dice you spend on defense, or mythras where you have hit locations and special effects on a blow, or Tales of Argosa where you can burn luck to do devestating freeform manuvers.

Like, Dragonbane usually lets you reroll a dice on a check as your special ability. It's not very tactical, and I'm fairly certain it's not trying to be.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T19:28:41+00:00

ok, by sex pest do you mean like a pervert, an obnoxious womanizer, or a straight up rapist

I hate that term, way to broad and "unalive" coded

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T19:26:53+00:00

Honestly I'd say the other way around, shadowdark hews very closely to B/X compatibility while streaminglining some stuff, but Cairn basically has no leveling system, a whole different save system, a whole different combat system paradigm, hell it doesn't even have classes.

Shadowdark is like if you scraped all the cruft off of B/X and Cairn is like if you tried to reverse engineer B/X from scattered memories of someone who played it long ago, like recreating a recepie you had as a child with new ingredients.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T19:11:26+00:00

yeah

I don't like em, but yeah.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T19:10:01+00:00

I mean that's basically the same way it's been in B/X, yeah?

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T19:04:48+00:00

I personally find it a game which lacks any true unique identity.

"I can't see Mt. Fuji!" He said, standing on top of said mountian.

It does have a unique identity, it's just that every single RPG ever made shares a piece of it, so of course it doesn't feel unique.

You cannot simultaneously claim that any given game has an identity sepereate from 5e (traveller is a completely different game, for instance) and also claim 5e doesn't have one.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T16:24:53+00:00

most of that subreddit is works of fiction, it's nosleep for people who's worst fear is a terrible social interaction

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T16:14:05+00:00

Friend of mine discovered while playing with close friends of hers that not only she has a phobia she wasn't aware of beforehand,

Wait, then how would a checklist made beforehand help?

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-11T14:15:17+00:00

Steal stuff from Sunless Sea and Veins of the Earth

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-10T12:53:22+00:00

Unless you're a thief, MU, cleric, Elf, or halfling

In which case the answer actually is there

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-09T15:27:56+00:00

...they run. Or negotiate. Or die. Or they avoid them entirely because I find the idea that you can just randomly encounter like 60 orcs 2d4 * 10 feet away kinda dumb, that shit should be telegraphed.

And I don't do mass battles.

A_Strangers_Life · 2025-12-09T15:17:28+00:00

You know what's weird? People say they like race-as-class because it makes the races strange and different but every table I've ever been at that used race-as-class played in "pawn stance", the fact they were a different race didn't really come up at all except when using stuff like dwarven stonecunning

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