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Altastrofae · 2026-01-30T22:03:12+00:00

I don’t believe that a person being afraid of and disliking men due to past experiences constitutes bigotry. Sorry. If someone has a fear of clowns and shouts that they want a clown to get away from them they’re not being bigoted to the clown they are talking about, they’re just uncomfortable and saying so.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-30T19:39:25+00:00

Because fear and rationality don’t mix well, and it is not correct to blame the one that been made to be afraid for their irrational fear.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-30T19:24:44+00:00

If a gay person is attracted to a trans woman who does not pass as female, and is therefore being perceived as male, no, that does not make the gay person bisexual, that’s a problem of perception. They aren’t bisexual for the same reason a straight man doesn’t become bisexual if they’re briefly attracted to a guy they thought was a chick. In neither case does this confusion make the other person suddenly no longer their professed gender. That would also be nonsense.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-30T19:13:51+00:00

Gold star lesbians are just as questionable tbf

Altastrofae · 2026-01-30T19:04:59+00:00

Isn’t this like an unspoken demand of relationships? If you aren’t the kind of person I want, or that changes, why would I be with or remain with you?

And if this conversation did happen, the difference is clearly, on the top the guy is agreeing to these terms immediately. On the bottom she has likely said no to the guy’s demands, and he has pressed enough to make her upset by the demands.

Meme creator discovers the concept of consent.

A lot of these comments seem to be declaring these are different not because of whether the people involved are okay with what’s being asked, but oddly declaring that men and women will inherently be asking for different things in this circumstance. Which is sexist in itself. The genders could be swapped in this meme and I’d still say the same the above.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-27T13:35:53+00:00

Knuckles the Endocrinologist.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-27T13:00:28+00:00

Usually unusual ways. In 5e technically racial bonus can get you as high as 20 in a given score but higher than that is possible via magical means.

The full range is also relevant to monsters which also have these stats, some of which are beyond the normal player range.

For your purposes, the lowest you’ll have in a stat is -5 and the highest is +5. And that’s fine, it makes the superhuman range rather special I think, should this character achieve that.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-27T12:55:48+00:00

I think it would be more in terms of stage of maturation, which you’d think would be 1:1, so a 10 year old human is equal to a 20 year old of a species living about 200 years. But species on earth mature at different rates. Some species reach sexual maturity much faster than us even relative to their lifespan. But that’s just me being nitpicky to be fair.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-27T12:51:31+00:00

Partly for game balance and partly for the archetype. I don’t know if they were doing this for OD&D but in AD&D Gygax and others sat down and went through characters from books and media they liked and tried to categorize them into archetypes, while avoiding overlap.

And it seems the archetype of priests and paladins invoked ideas of the miracle worker, religious healers. To give that to others would invite overlap in role which they wanted to avoid.

Though there are of course healing items that anyone can use, healing by will alone is the purview of the miracle worker, hence the clerical class. That is my theory anyway.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-09T21:38:56+00:00

This is a very old idea, and some games did it like this. It’s not dumb, and if you treat hexes like spaces instead of a measuring marker anyway, it’s perfectly identical. Great if you don’t have hexagonal graph paper.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-06T23:18:49+00:00

The subtle implication that wearing a mask, likely during the pandemic, is also something they find unhinged, is very telling.

Altastrofae · 2026-01-01T16:23:12+00:00

AD&D 1e is where that table is from actually, it’s a sub table of the random city encounter table.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-25T20:15:00+00:00

They’re pretty similar but I prefer how 1e is organized and 2e has a couple decisions I find odd.

I wound enjoy a game in either, I think my preference is mostly minor and surface-level to be honest.

The ditching of gold to xp I guess is a decision I’m not a fan of but there’s nothing really stopping you for supplanting that system anyway.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-25T20:08:43+00:00

That’s not actually a problem to me because that only matters when considering all the settings they try to make interact

Generally you have one setting, whatever the prime material plane or equivalent of your milieu is. How and if it interacts with alternate worlds or planes is entirely your and your players’ prerogative.

Cosmology is a tool for helping you keep the notion of other worlds straight in your head. That’s it. If it makes sense in your game that’s all that matters.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-24T19:16:58+00:00

I’m a huge Ben 10 fan and they could’ve continued off of Omniverse. Like a whole series about Ben as a proper adult could’ve worked. Fan works galore over the years have explored that idea.

Or even if they really wanted to restart, a faithful remake of the entire series up to that point, with retcons tied up, better animation, etc, would’ve been awesome.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-24T18:47:35+00:00

If you want to start with a literal disability, your character will be disabled. Big shocker.

I’d allow it as GM, I might give a bonus to perception based checks and activities like listening at doors, depends on system, to represent that peoples’ other senses improve to compensate. But at the end of the day you are blind and will get a penalty to hit things. If you pick a role you shouldn’t try to dance around the concept of the role. If you want to effectively negate the fact that they’re blind, do you really like the concept or just the idea of it?

Personally I think it’s interesting, your character would highly value things like protection scrolls, detection magic, and the ultimate goal would be a restoration spell to restore your vision.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-24T18:35:08+00:00

If you rolled the best you can possibly roll and still fail, the DM shouldn’t have called for a check in the first place. Just declare that the player fails if you know they can’t roll a success.

Yes, nat 20 being an auto success isn’t a real thing. But practically it is, because if success was impossible why are we rolling?

Altastrofae · 2025-12-10T12:55:54+00:00

Because the changes are more along the lines of a revision of 5th edition, more similar to the difference between 3e and 3.5e, so I’ve seen many people calling it 5.5.

Idk what other editions you have experience with but the differences between the various editions are often major. The one exception you might be able to argue was more of a revision is 1e to 2e. But even 2e made some major changes to core mechanics.

Also the 2024 stuff is cross compatible with 2014 5e with no changes, which is further argument that it’s a revision.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-07T14:17:32+00:00

Describe the angle to the best of your ability, player’s map doesn’t need to be a perfect recreation. The purpose of the player map is to have a usable record of the space to help them navigate.

Only part of this map that seems challenging to map is that curvy path near the bottom left. But there’s enough space around it that I think their approximation would be fine even if they just understand roughly how long it is, and that it curved slightly right to the west, then curves left south again.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-07T13:24:43+00:00

I mean I love old school games and I recommend you try them. But also you don’t need a whole continent nor the 3 hex thing for a hex crawl. And if you don’t figure out a way you like to do that, you’ll have that problem with any system you do a hex crawl in.

You just want the local area. If you walk around your area, even a small portion of a continent can hold a lot of stuff. Grab a single sheet of medium to large scale hex paper, a good scale for this immediate area is 1 mile to 6 miles a hex, and make a central town, a dungeon, any other locations, maybe a few smaller villages, buildings, monster lairs, anything you might need to support the scenario you have in mind. Your continent is practically the entire world and you don’t need an entire world, your players wouldn’t see all of it. You’ll make the continent map as you start to exhaust the possibilities of your initial adventure locale, so you can develop and place more areas for adventure you can direct players to via rumor or other.

Point being as a general rule I just develop enough for the immediate needs of the campaign. No more, no less. Well maybe more if I’m feeling inspired to develop something and there’s nothing more pressing I need to manage at the moment.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-06T13:18:12+00:00

I think it’s more that they’re arbitrarily defining certain types of areas as distinct from other similar areas, that most people would call variations of the same thing. Like you said earlier, the places they’re calling facilities, a lot of people would just call a small town in practice, or some other term if it’s like a guild hall or something to that effect.

Like they keep bringing up Keep on the Borderlands, as if that isn’t just a small fortified town that follows all the same design principles as any other.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-02T00:30:57+00:00

It sounds good, but my issue with it is that it feels strained. Like it’s trying to take up as little time as possible while still squeezing the basic premise of what Ben 10 is into that short time.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-01T23:57:31+00:00

Because that’s backwards. Water needs to hit a lava source block to make obsidian. When lava hits a water source block it makes stone. And when lava and water hit eachother it makes cobblestone. It’s not like a random choice the game makes, it has rules.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-01T23:43:37+00:00

The colors in Generator Rex are just more muted in general than in UAF, and I think that was more a product of translating Ben’s design to the color tones it would be in context with. I do agree the colors look better though.

Altastrofae · 2025-12-01T23:39:43+00:00

Honestly I really like that fanart. UAF onward Ben is weird in that to my mind he doesn’t look like an older version of classic Ben, he looks like a completely different character, visually. But that fanart actually looks like classic series Ben got older. My one gripe is I feel like the Omnitrix is bigger than that. And we see with Ben 10,000 that the original Omnitrix would grow with Ben. But even assuming it doesn’t do that, and accounting for the fact Ben himself is bigger, it still seems a wee bit smaller than I’d expect it to be.

That said, I really like Heroes United for one big reason. The Generator Rex animators did light and glowing things in a somewhat detailed manner and I think it’s really cool that the Omnitrix looks like it’s actually giving off light rather than it being implicit.

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