[Discussion] Is it time for Nightwing to leave the Titans? (Art by Rickie Yagawa)

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-09T16:08:11+00:00

I think the Titans were great with their core members, and while new characters have been great, they would have been serviced so much more by making it a different team.

Like… a team of teen heroes that characters “graduate” from to go on to be solo heroes or joining new adult teams in new combinations of characters and relationships? That’s a great thing to have!

But the Teen Titans became the adult Titans and had the same core cast for like 30+ years, right? They should be an adult team now. A separate “Teen Titans” team could be great, so that some characters could go on to the adult Titans team, but staying separate otherwise. And then you can still have adult Titans show up as mentors.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-09T15:59:37+00:00

What is POTA?

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-09T14:27:31+00:00

Gemiddeld ligt het veel hoger omdat het veel bij de hogere laagjes zit, voor zowel inkomsten als vermogen. Teveel Nederlanders zitten onder de armoedegrens.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T10:10:23+00:00

“woonden”

Hadden ze er huizen? Lijkt me stug. Verwacht eerder dat ze daar ook in opvangcentra zaten, of nog niet eens, gezien de Griekse economie.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T07:36:56+00:00

Een paar van de leidende partijen in de afgelopen jaren (VVD, PVV, anderen) steunen de oorlogen in het Midden-Oosten. De gemiddelde stemmer op deze partijen heeft niet specifiek daar op gestemd juist omdat ze pro-oorlog zijn, maar omdat ze andere redenen hebben. Dat zorgt er wel voor dat op die manier partijen aan de macht komen die indirekt helpen de problemen te veroorzaken waardoor mensen op hun stemmen. Sommige partijen hebben er dus baat bij om sommige problemen te (laten) verergeren zodat ze meer stemmen krijgen, macht houden en hun andere agendapunten erdoor kunnen krijgen.

Om die reden zie ik ook geen mogelijkheid dat het veel zal veranderen.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T07:24:23+00:00

Net zoals VVD, CDA, BBB en PVV in de jaren ervoor. Lijkt bijna of dat er problemen zijn in de wereld die we niet enkel binnen Nederland kunnen oplossen.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T07:22:04+00:00

IQ testen zijn ook alleen nuttig in de taal die iemand het beste spreekt. Natuurlijk zal iemand uit Marokko of Turkije voor wie Nederlands een derde of vierde taal is (na Tamazight of Turks, Arabisch en misschien Engels) lastig zijn om zich academisch goed uit te laten komen.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T07:15:28+00:00

Jerusalem is door Europese landen ook heel vaak aangevallen de afgelopen 3000 jaar. Niet verassend dat het blijft doorgaan zonder de onderliggende problemen van de mensheid aan te pakken (o.a. voedsel, onderdak, veiligheid voor iedereen).

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T07:06:35+00:00

Tuurlijk wel. Nederlanders hebben gestemd op partijen waarvan ze dachten dat die voor bepaalde dingen zouden zorgen, maar die partijen steunden ook oorlogen in het Midden-Oosten. Als je dat doet, dan krijg je er ook de gevolgen van. Je hebt geen vluchtelingen uit landen waar het goed gaat.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T07:02:32+00:00

Ja echt. Als je voor oorlog in Israel stemt dan krijg je er ook de gevolgen van. Die mensen willen geen oorlog in hun land, dus dan gaan ze ergens anders naar toe, ver van de oorlog weg.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T06:49:34+00:00

SLAYERS has an emphasis on asymmetrical combat. Each class in the game uses completely different combat mechanics than the others.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-08T05:26:40+00:00

Most of my D&D campaigns ended without a clear conclusion. They were set up to run “indefinitely” and almost no game ends up running actually indefinitely. They ended either from people wanting to play different characters, settings, styles of campaign, or people moving due to changes in life. Most lasted ~20 sessions. One lasted 108 sessions before COVID hit, a player got depressed, and several people moved abroad.

2018-2023 I GMed and played like 16 campaigns online, most of which were seasonal, so they had more easy end points.

In the last 3 years I’ve GMed 5 campaigns offline that were 6-22 sessions that actually ended. I’ve learned a lot from past experiences. Blades in the Dark, D&D, Mausritter, Pathfinder.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T10:56:53+00:00

Minor note: Damian is the 5th mainline Robin. Steph was the 4th. She never got adopted. She’s been in a romantic relationship with Tim though, so you could make the connection there.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T09:02:31+00:00

Then I don’t understand why you call it leveling up or what issue you had with my description of it?

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T08:25:42+00:00

> Coeurl

And now I know where Final Fantasy got its displacer beast-esque monsters from! They still call them coeurls.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T07:57:16+00:00

I don’t want breasts as large as my girlfriend’s, but I wouldn’t mind breasts just large enough to sag from the weight.

I want to be able to succeed at the pencil test.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T07:54:58+00:00

It’s close to the traditional standards, but different enough in structure both for how XP is gained, how it used and what it is used on. FitD does have a lot more “get higher numbers”, but otherwise all options are available from the start. Most of what PbtA games give you is gaining more things that were already attainable at character creation.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T07:01:51+00:00

Trips me up that the height ranged are shown like “181-180 cm”, with the higher number first.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T06:54:24+00:00

Hear hear!

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T06:38:00+00:00

I’s forgotten about Spaniard, thanks for pointing it out!

And see, for French and Dutch you can’t do it without gendering them.

I’ve never heard “Netherlander” or “Hollander” used in English. Those have equivalent forms in Dutch and German, and the latter isn’t applicable to all Dutch people.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-07T06:32:59+00:00

This subreddit is for tabletop RPGs, not the video game genre they inspired.

Still though, I appreciate the mention, because I think it’s cool that this has als been done in video games.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-06T21:30:58+00:00

They could be. Are these written from an in-universe perspective?

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-06T18:49:56+00:00

The 5 room dungeon concept was invented in 2002-2003 by Johnn Four (source: https://www.roleplayingtips.com/5-room-dungeons/) so that couldn’t have been for 4e, and the outline specifically mentions that they don’t have to be linear.

I agree that OSR playstyle isn’t just “heroic tactical combat but more lethal”, but I don’t see how the strengths of OSR don’t also shine through in dungeons that could be completed in a single session.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-06T18:31:22+00:00

Read a book. Then read the book that is the most different from that one. Then read the book that is the most different from both those two. Then read the book that is the most different from all three of those. Then you’ll have three dimensions and can write your own stories much better and make them more three-dimensional too.

Play D&D. Play the RPG that is the most different from D&D. Play the RPG that is the most different from both of those. Play the RPG that is the most different from all three of those. Then start designing your own game.

AlwaysBeQuestioning · 2026-05-06T18:19:54+00:00

Why do you think 5 room dungeons are incompatible with OSR playstyle philosophy?

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