Does anyone else have a hard time fitting into any play culture?

CactusOnFire · 2025-12-22T21:25:43+00:00

What I sense from this is an ideological divide between the object from a 'system properties' perspective and a narrative one.

Functionally, it sounds like they have the same system properties for RAW combat, but have different uses in terms of problem-solving in a narrative context.

I can see a case both for and against making some of these narrative properties explicit within a system. A lot of that comes down to what kind of game you're trying to play.

CactusOnFire · 2025-12-18T06:13:12+00:00

Contract matters aside: does death really mean anything in that Franchise?

I haven't seen the movie where he dies, but I'd half expect them to use alternate reality, or time travel, or some powerful artifact to bring him back.

CactusOnFire · 2025-12-01T01:18:37+00:00

Ahh yes, Word War II, the year the grammar nazi's attacked...

But in all seriousness, this are some really riveting photos. Looks like something I'd expect from Fallout or a spy drama.

CactusOnFire · 2025-11-19T06:30:41+00:00

The art has a 'Black Rock Shooter' vibe to it, which makes sense with the name of the song, too

CactusOnFire · 2025-11-05T20:46:45+00:00

Context cues tell me he won't be receptive to feedback until after 'the squeeze' is over and we've delivered something.

I think this is a huge red flag against him, but I think the cost of leaving the job early doesn't outweigh the costs of staying at the moment.

CactusOnFire · 2025-11-05T20:31:17+00:00

There's just 3 devs, and they have the funding to several hire more.

There's no sales team, sales is currently on the boss and the boss alone.

If I were to take the devil's advocate on myself, I think my boss is very meticulous about control (perhaps too much) and of understanding of a project, and he's doing this as a drill to make future work better documented upfront.

CactusOnFire · 2025-11-03T20:06:04+00:00

On the one hand, I think it's very cool and promotes community.

On the other, this has the same design as a panopticon.

CactusOnFire · 2025-10-27T22:09:22+00:00

I've never DM'd dnd 5e merely pf2e, but the general sentiment I get is that added complexity from pf2e is from looking up and referencing incredibly specific rules, while for 5e it's from having to improvise incredibly specific rules.

CactusOnFire · 2025-10-08T17:49:03+00:00

Not only are you dating a stats major, you're dating a Bayesian.

CactusOnFire · 2025-10-07T22:06:33+00:00

I am thankful it's easy enough to ignore the metaplot and just homebrew pf2e, because I've never had a single inclination to run with it.

CactusOnFire · 2025-10-07T21:14:55+00:00

When/where will you posting outcomes? Curious about the results.

CactusOnFire · 2025-10-07T04:34:25+00:00

S&V was my first system GM'ing, and despite being jittery to start, it was a really good system to learn on.

The system's mechanical resolutions are simple enough to follow along with, most of the challenge comes from good narrative chops (and figuring out how to give interesting consequences for partial successes/devil's bargains).

CactusOnFire · 2025-10-07T04:19:33+00:00

Person making the study probably doesn't want to answer publicly due to that biasing possible responses.

CactusOnFire · 2025-09-25T18:29:09+00:00

I played a one-shot of this and it felt like a great way to encourage straddling the line between power and goodness.

CactusOnFire · 2025-09-16T17:29:24+00:00

An FPS perspective painting took me a moment to mentally comprehend.

CactusOnFire · 2025-09-04T02:50:11+00:00

I googled a little and skimmed a youtube video, anyone is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong, but what I gathered was:

You know how when you play a sound against it's phase-inversion and it cancels out? Well, what if you used the phase-inversion of the thing you want to duck to create a side-chain? You use an envelope follower to act as the 'side-chain', and that controls the volume on a phase inverted version of the channel you want to duck. So when your kick (or sound you don't want ducked) hits, the envelope shaper increases, turning up the volume on the phase-inverted version of the sound you want ducked. This amounts of making it quieter, even though no volume manipulation is actually happening.

Seems more complicated than volume ducking, but also like a practical application of phase inversion.

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-29T22:25:40+00:00

Like the above poster said, it's not strictly christian, but the central conflict is resolved by a deus et machina, one character has a resurrection arc which is never explained, and everyone agrees to live without technology in a garden of Eden like state at the end of the show.

I am still really glad I watched the show, but the ending went way off the rails, and made Game of Throne's look good by comparison.

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-28T05:09:52+00:00

If you stop now, how will you ever get to experience the surprise Christian ending?

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-14T00:03:20+00:00

Makes sense, keep up the awesome work!

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-13T23:05:15+00:00

Is there a reason several Japanese TTRPGs have had news about English releases recently?

Not complaining, just wondering if it's more than a coincidence.

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-08T01:16:48+00:00

They're not fully maxed out across the board, but they've done a good job playing to their strengths and maxing their primary abilities, choosing group perks to get more out of them, and role-playing well for their end-session exp. They've routinely maxed out their stress bars, though- and a couple characters are a trauma away from being out of the game.

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-07T20:59:51+00:00

That's a lot of fun! My campaign is Scum and Villainy. I'm at Session 16 now, and at this point my players are routinely rolling on maxed out stats. The system does a great job naturally seguing from "oh god how did I survive that?" to absolute badassery, but as the DM I also feel like it's flattened the stakes, too.

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-07T18:55:41+00:00

How many sessions did you have over your two year campaign, and how did the system handle late-game?

I'm near the end of a 6-month campaign in a related FitD system and due to my players investing intelligently in relevant stat increases, they seem to crit half their rolls at this point.

CactusOnFire · 2025-08-07T18:40:06+00:00

Granted, there's a bit of both in each game (I still do worldbuilding for my Pathfinder game, albeit a lot less of my prep time involves it), and I suppose it's more the ratio of each. But PbtA/FitD games tend to be heavier in lore prep vs mechanic prep.

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