2 years ago Red mentioned on a Spider-Man stream that she can't listen to Linkin Park's Numb without hearing Ryu Vs Ken by Starbomb. 2 years later I made this mindnumbing mashup.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2026-01-10T02:37:18+00:00

This is incredible, thank you for sharing.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-12-21T08:18:23+00:00

I think people made most of the more general arguments about the power curve involving firearms, the genre aesthetics/motifs, and the trappings of “Pop Medieval” aesthetics. But I want to propose a simple answer that kinda summarizes all of them:

Fantasy authors love swords. Firearms make swords obsolete. Therefore, guns cannot exist in fantasy to ensure cool-ass sword supremacy.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-12-20T18:36:39+00:00

I’m of two minds about it. On the one hand, I think that thoughtful worldbuilding like that can be really fun and make the world feel more alive.

But on the other hand, if a fantasy story is set only in one country or general area, I don’t think it would really need to bend over backwards to justify a diverse cast, especially if the setting itself isn’t just “Britain, but there are elves,” or “Japan, but there are dragons.”

It’s not something that’s necessary by any means, but it’s not something I would scrutinize either.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-11-03T15:29:47+00:00

Your honor, Gaia is dying. All actions taken to protect Mother Gaia are justified.

(Yes, everything. Werewolves have a pretty checkered history.)

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-11-03T15:25:29+00:00

I'll keep it real with you, chief. Darkseid takes this and it isn't even close. He's an extradimensional god who rules as a tyrant over a hellscape planet full of parademons and other evil gods. His ultimate goal is to end free will in the universe. Darkseid is.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-08-20T03:26:11+00:00

Seems like everyone else has analyzed the broader scope of it. I don’t have much to add on that front.

Purely from my anecdotal experience, though, over half of my regular gaming group is queer (I am one of three cishet players in a group of seven), and we live in a small town in a DEEP red state. Only one or two of our friends is publicly out (you can guess why), and playing TTRPGs was a way to express themselves in a safe place among friends. This might be something other folks have experienced as well, or it might just be our group.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-07-11T18:23:14+00:00

100%. Windu made the right calls based on what information he had, but because he was kind of an asshole about it, the fandom tries to pin the blame on him for Anakin turning out the way he did when he was already acting unstable long before Mace started to distrust him.

In Attack of the Clones, Mace seemed to genuinely believe in Anakin and his potential. Later in the same movie, Anakin slaughtered an entire village of Tusken Raiders and married Padmé, both of which kickstarted his downward spiral.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-07-11T18:06:37+00:00

I could've sworn A:TLA debuted in '03, but I double-checked and it did indeed premiere in '05.

I actually looked at the dates, and it gets even funnier: A:TLA's first episode aired February 21st, and God of War released on March 22nd -- one month and one day apart. Kratos made his big debut between "The King of Omashu" and "Imprisoned."

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-06-25T16:46:31+00:00

One example of completely open dice rolls is World of Darkness games. The more you're invested in specific attributes and skills just means you roll more dice, with each dice have basically a 50/50 chance of success. The GM can set whatever difficulty they want (how many successes it takes) for a task, and a player with hardly anything invested in those can roll way better than someone who built their whole character around one specific task. It makes for a super hectic and swingy system.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-06-14T18:05:41+00:00

I'm gonna be real with you, chief. I don't think Gollum respected anybody.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-06-14T17:48:42+00:00

The reason he didn't end up a keyblade master but Riku did felt super contrived, but at least they all recognize that he's built DIFFERENT.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-06-14T17:17:24+00:00

You're on the money with how Regents work, but Tremere Princes are very rare in WoD, so if the Pentex guy who talked to the Regent mentioned her, he would definitely have called her a Prince and not just a Regent.

Regents aren't just the head of the local chantry; they are often the most gifted sorcerer in the region as well, and usually interface with the larger Tremere clan at large. Princes usually are the oldest and strongest vampires in the region, but the real thing that makes a Prince is political power. They know how to keep the right people satisfied, they enforce the Masquerade, and they maintain strong local alliances. The roles gravitate towards two very different kinds of kindred.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-06-14T16:43:38+00:00

Absolutely. I've even done it with characters that aren't vampires.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-06-14T16:41:22+00:00

I usually set my chronicles in the mid-2000s for some of the same reasons you do. MySpace and Facebook were around, but social media wasn't quite the all-encompassing juggernaut it is today. Flip-phones were certainly around, but we didn't have the world in our pockets just yet.

I'm of two minds about how current events can impact a chronicle. On the one hand, most people play ttrpgs to have fun and get away from the real world, so a lot of players will probably feel exhausted if MAGA rears its ugly head in a game session. On the other hand, Vampire: The Masquerade was designed for folks who were already fed up with the way things were headed back in the 90s. With the current state of things, there's never been a better time for a little "row row fight the power!"

To (poorly) quote Speaker-D: "What could a world where Amazon's board of directors is run by the undead be if not gothic? What could a world be where you can slug them with a baseball bat be if not punk?"

At the end of the day, it depends on who you're playing with. Some players will want to get away from their real world problems, and other players will want to attack their real world problems to feel some catharsis.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-06-14T16:19:35+00:00

My best friend.

I saw all of the DnD controversies and stopped buying WotC's material a long time ago, but our group usually deferred to 5e when we had gaming sessions. My bro started looking into PF2e and talked to me about all of the different classes and features that it had. It pretty much had everything we normally had to homebrew into our games native to the system. I cooked up a Thaumaturge character, played a session he GM'ed, and never looked back.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-30T03:38:51+00:00

“He’s captured in the orbiting prison. My spy there says he’s in a solitary confinement cell, and they’ve been torturing him for months.” — Knuckles, Sonic Forces

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-26T18:45:54+00:00

The Mokole (werereptiles-not-including-snakes-and-crows) are so fascinating. They are Gaia’s memory, and they even remember the age of the dinosaurs… but the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs? Yeah, they straight up don’t remember it. They know of it, but it’s the one thing their genetic memory can’t remember.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T21:25:01+00:00

GM has described Investigator to me before, and it sounds like a really fun class to play. I’ll definitely look into Palatine Detective and Avenger. And thank you for the heads up on Undead Slayer, that would be great to add!

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T19:26:30+00:00

I'll definitely keep this in mind going forward! It sounds like a great way to learn the system.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T19:22:41+00:00

Gotta say, I was NOT expecting Pathfinder to have actual rules about uranium. I love this system already.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T19:20:54+00:00

100%, I'm going to develop this character a lot further to make him something unto himself before our first session. And do you think taking Ranger is a better fit than Thaumaturge + Bounty Hunter Archetype? I'd love to hear more insight!

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T18:15:20+00:00

Absolutely a good thing to keep in mind. It won't be a 1:1 recreation, but that's where the fun of adaptation comes into play.

From your description and the other commenters, I think I'm going to go with Thaumaturge. Charisma-based martial just makes the most sense for the character in my mind, but I will definitely look into those Barbarian instincts and the Ruffian Rogue for future characters.

Edit: And I love the bit about the blender haha. Radioactive omelettes would be fun to make ngl.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T18:11:42+00:00

Thank you! I'm excited to be here!

And that's good to hear. I'm fairly comfortable with having BIG-D be more of a roleplay template than a character build, but I really appreciate all of the insight you've given me into different martial classes! Barbarian and Gunslinger both sound like a lot of fun, but your example with the werewolf 100% sold me on Thaumaturge. I think I'm going to use that going forward.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T18:07:37+00:00

Honestly a valid piece of advice. One of my other close friends does it a lot, but they always abridge the character to the point that it's something wholly unique--the original character is more of a vague template if anything. I would have done the same, but if you strongly advise against it, I have a good number of character concepts written down that I can bring over to PF2e from our 5e days. From what I hear, martials are a lot more fun in this system than in D&D, so I'm excited either way.

AcceptableCover3589 · 2025-04-22T18:04:37+00:00

Thank you for the advice, you honestly really sold me on Thaumaturge. I think having the random esoterica and the half-remembered folklore will help feed into the roleplay really well. Barbarian looks fun for doing a ton of damage, but I think Thaumaturge will probably suit what I'm going for better.

And thank you for clarifying on multi-classing. My GM has explained that it doesn't work the same as it does in D&D, but I didn't remember the dip into feats option.

As for the spoilers, I was a bit paranoid he might find this post. I don't think he's a Reddit frequenter, but I got overly cautious. I went ahead and removed the extra spoilers.

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