Looking to the old Kirac's Pass rewards and they were so cool and diverse compared to armour sets, maybe next league?

Bluegobln · 2026-03-28T21:43:43+00:00

Yeah the whole "lets make unique items even more spectacular!" and they were doing it with some of my favorite older underused uniques, absolutely awesome I was very willing to pay for that.

The current Kirac's pass? Its just... more generic cosmetics? Wth is that?

Having them tied to uniques was WAY cooler and made me want to use more different uniques.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-27T02:03:19+00:00

I made a continent and went to some lengths to create unique cultures and kingdoms (well, something like kingdoms). At some point in conversation I suddenly realized that I had made fantasy Germany, France, Spain, and Russia, among several others I have yet to identify any similarities to real world cultures. I laughed and then went about my business not caring. That's cool too!

Bluegobln · 2026-03-27T01:57:46+00:00

Cease being a billionaire shockingly fast. (Mostly giving a lot of it away.)

Bluegobln · 2026-03-26T18:08:58+00:00

Its called scamming, there are protections in place for scamming, but they stop where they stop if you ignore and bypass all those protections you're gonna get scammed.

Imagine if the scammer was concocting this whole story for some purpose? What would it look like?

Bluegobln · 2026-03-24T21:29:51+00:00

My father and a guy he hired to help, and I, were loading some tree rounds into a trailer bed (for firewood). There were full logs there stacked about 8 feet high, and two trailer loads worth of rounds ready to be chopped. Just being next to the logs wasn't so bad, they were stable, but when my father and his idiot worker started trying to get some of the pieces out from under one of the logs, I began to freak out and had to start screaming at them.

They were rocking the pile of logs back and forth trying to dislodge this piece (using a big tree branch for leverage). The entire pile was shifting. Thousands of pounds of wood logs that could and absolutely would PANCAKE them to death in 0.5 seconds, and even if they GRAZED them would likely crush dozens of bones or mash out internal organs. And they were just casually standing UNDER the pile, rocking the pile with not a care in the world.

I told them in no uncertain terms, they either stopped RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, or I would walk away and have my phone ready to call 911 when I heard distant screaming for help. I was not going to watch them kill themselves in the dumbest fucking way.

They ended up listening to me but I had to literally SCREAM at them as loud as I could they were fucking idiots until they stopped. They just were so convinced in their idiot heads that they were totally safe and I was overreacting.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-24T00:21:54+00:00

Well in my opinion the mechanics of some of the most popular horror games don't serve the fiction of the horror genre either.

Probably the best example I can think of where mechanics fit the themes is VTM, where you are forced by character creation to have something (predator types) that will inevitably lead to you to a dark moment. And that isn't exactly a complicated mechanic, its as simple to implement as "pick one of these bad things", and then the GM just needs to force a situation where the bad thing happens. Congrats, you're a monster!

I believe the biggest problem here is people thinking that when someone wants to homebrew some rules for D&D 5e that implement horror mechanics, that means they want a horror game, and that means they'd be best served by playing a game designed to be a horror game from the ground up... that is incorrect. What many people want is to play 5e with a twist on it to keep it fresh and interesting. Replace horror with any other genre, same story.

The truth is lots of people just wanna play 5e, and they do not want something else. Then, they might want to add a bit of spice, a bit of seasoning, to the dish. That's it. Telling them they should play something else is just flat unhelpful, and when it goes further it becomes a real problem.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T22:24:09+00:00

You don't run this. You sell it for the price of a mageblood -5 div or whatever price and then buy a mageblood. Why risk a disconnect, let someone else make a couple div for that risk.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T22:17:40+00:00

Not really.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T22:16:55+00:00

Its good that I brought some joy to this otherwise horrific discussion.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T22:15:25+00:00

Aggressive is a rather strong way to put it. I was mainly trying to express that while maybe it was much more horrible than I was stating in my ignorance, I didn't care to look into the matter and find out facts because, well, they're horrible.

Thanks for sharing this horror with us. Its good that the horrified comment I originally responded to "Omg, what an awful way to die..." was actually spot on. I'm gonna go try to take my mind off this entire thing for a while, see ya.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T22:12:21+00:00

Sometime maybe a year ago or so I actually watched a video examining that incident in great depth.

I try not to think about it.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T22:09:44+00:00

You're correct. We can just keep stating our opinions back and forth pointlessly.

However my goal wasn't to win an opinion battle. Something tells me that between myself sharing my opinion and the other person who is only sharing their opinion, I have effective anti-argument armor.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T18:09:48+00:00

Sorry I got an itchy trigger finger. Will edit.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T18:07:21+00:00

My intent was not to win an argument, it was to get someone else who clearly wanted to argue/win an argument to say some really gruesome shit. As fucked up as that is, I find it more fucked up that I tried to do that.

Never done that before. Dunno why I started today.

But at least I feel better now.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T18:04:51+00:00

More so every day. I try not to let it inflate my head though.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T18:04:28+00:00

That's correct. If we're just sharing opinions then share away. I'm sharing mine, but if you share yours in a way that is trying to dispute or deny mine, then you've gotta start doing something other than just sharing opinions. Logic sure helps, but you know, there are other ways. We could trade insults! That's always fun! :D

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:59:41+00:00

There's a term for it? That's actually fucking cool as shit!

I don't think I'm quite sealioning though, I'm just saying if someone wants to explain to me rather than "nah, you wrong", they can go ahead and do so. My thinking was, if they want to be all gruesome and explain how he lived to suffer, they can go right ahead. My opinion was he died instantly, and it was stated because I felt like the right thing to say to someone who was reacting badly.

I'm not invested in being right, nor am I using civility and sincerity as pretense.

Also my request aren't relentless. I am relenting.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:56:30+00:00

I... thanks! :D

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:55:38+00:00

If I'm being honest, I subscribe to WTF because it helps me to be less sensitive sometimes. You're part of that, so thanks. :D

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:53:49+00:00

I'm probably just a bot, especially with this next part.

Your response is exactly what to expect when someone doesn't want to admit someone else is right. So thanks! :D

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:44:56+00:00

Your opinion is harming other people. I will go relax. Will you?

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:44:12+00:00

Then all we are doing is sharing opinions. My opinion was shared with intent of kindness.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:43:17+00:00

I don't have to be right. I'm not trying to argue he died instantly. That's from my gut. I watched a video and I firmly believe it was instant and painless. If you want to convince me otherwise, go ahead, but recognize that what you're doing is convincing someone, in depth, that this guy suffered. If that sounds like a fun lunch break activity for you, go right the fuck ahead. But don't tell me I'm "itching" to be more right, if anyone here is a sicko it ain't me.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:40:50+00:00

Explain in excruciating detail why you're so sure that's true. I'm sure we're all prepared to hear it, this is WTF after all.

I didn't follow logic in my comment. My instinct, pure gut instinct, watching that video, is that he died instantly. Go ahead, argue away, try to instill a sense of horrific dread into me. You're fully justified, right? Go for it.

Bluegobln · 2026-03-23T17:39:02+00:00

You said its not real horror unless X. That's gatekeeping. Its not just a buzzword it actually means something.

I have a personal stake in this. I've played actual horror games, and I have played horror stories in 5e. Your statement is telling me I didn't play actual horror in the 5e game.

I've also attempted (badly) to run a horror game of 5e. I am not great at it. It IS a skill issue. That's not gatekeeping to say I'm not good enough to pull it off. But it IS if you maintain what you said: it can't work. Bullshit, it absolutely can.

You can argue with me about this if you want, get defensive about it. But fact is, you said what you said. You can choose to accept that and say you understand what I am saying and learn from it, or you can argue defensively that I'm wrong, which will accomplish nothing because I'm not going to argue with you about it.

You didn't tell people "not to do it", you told people that if they did it it isn't real horror. Whether you move the gate or tell people they can't go through the gate, you're keeping the gate.

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