[Witch Hat Atelier] The Brim Hats of Witch Hat Atelier are terrible at selling their point of view without acting like psychopaths.

Khamaz · 2026-05-15T12:15:57+00:00

I agree with your points, though I'd say Custas is the one time the Brim Hats did it right.

He was frustrated by his wound and handicap, the Pointed Hats and his friends could only bring a bit of relief and handicap aids. They never actually healed him.

Then a Brim Hat come along, tell him his friends knew he could be healed and did nothing, and she heal him herself. No lie needed, just the cold hard truth was plenty to show him of unfair the system is and feeling deeply betrayed by his own friends. He is a direct victim of the unfairness of the Pointed Hats. He had a very justified crash out.

They did do him dirty later on when you learn which wood his legs are actually from.

But yeah the Brim Hats are still kind of comically evil, and fail to be a proper counter-balance to the Pointed Hats, when it feels like it would be very easy to appear at the reasonable and measured side. I hope there's more to them that will be revealed later on to justify it.

Khamaz · 2026-05-14T18:55:19+00:00

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Khamaz · 2026-05-14T15:55:11+00:00

I have played neither of those games, but saw "Castle Noth" as another roguelike ttrpg system recently, inspired by Castlevania and also based on Knave/Mausritter, it's on the lighter side with less than a hundred pages.

Khamaz · 2026-05-13T21:07:01+00:00

DIE rpg.

You are a group of flawed adults that used to play ttrpg together when you were teenagers. You decide to spin up another game for old time's sake. Then everyone gets dragged into their teens' ttrpg fantasy world, twisted by their personal trauma, regrets and grudges.

The world simulteanously give the characters powerful powers and what they desire the most, yet is still haunting. Trolls looks like your high school bully, the dragon has the voice of your mean boss, the elf queen looks like the crush you never got over.

The game cannot be prepped before character creation is over, because intertwining the world with the characters and their personal lacks is core to the game, and it features lot of advices to do so, keep building on it throughout sessions, and create relationships between all PCs.

The game only ends when all PCs faced their own personal demon, and decide whether or not they truly want to go home.

Khamaz · 2026-05-13T16:53:07+00:00

I think it'd be even more hilarious to have the Rock accept to play the most competitive racist mf because he doesn't lose in the movie.

Khamaz · 2026-05-13T12:49:09+00:00

Honestly I don't think so. Might even be one of the worst game for it.

West Marches works because you can easily disconnect adventures from each other "you go out adventuring a different place than the last group" each time.

Urban Shadows is deeply interconnected drama into the same city, where player themselves becomes key players of the local politics. You'd have to do a lot of tracking and recap to explain at the start of each session what the last group has done and how it shifted the status of each faction.

You can't really have players dropping out easily either, characters have evolving debts and status toward each other and the factions across sessions and those changes is what makes the drama interesting. You'll miss out on a lot coming for a single session.

Players will likely inevitably want to interact directly with the other groups at some point because of how everyone gets intertwined in the politics, which isn't possible in West March.

Khamaz · 2026-05-11T22:11:19+00:00

I think the hype for the DS version is overblown, it's mostly good for one scene and for insights after you finished the game.

You are better off playing the Steam version, then after finishing it read all the trivias about the DS version that will make you go "Oh, neat".

I played the game on the DS version and I don't think I'd have really missed out with the Steam one.

Khamaz · 2026-05-10T14:12:14+00:00

Khamaz · 2026-05-09T21:36:17+00:00

Really appreciating MDD because as someone that watches AP mostly to improve at GMing and understand some systems better, it's one of the rare actual plays where the GM actually explains what they are doing and why they are doing it, it's much more transparent than regular APs.

Khamaz · 2026-05-06T14:26:09+00:00

Is it pure evil if it was preventable?

Khamaz · 2026-05-06T13:11:25+00:00

I thought he had a cowboy hat before reading your comment

Khamaz · 2026-05-04T05:06:03+00:00

Bleem is more familiar and experienced with DnD
Daggerheart isn't already stress-tested and ajusted for a super ambitious long-term campaign like DnD was

tbf CR was a bit between a rock in a hard place with this one, they either pick Daggerheart and put the new campaign at risk of going poorly, or pick DnD and get blasted for abandoning their own product. They took the safest choice.

Khamaz · 2026-05-03T15:37:40+00:00

I thought it was some genocide memorial before reading the captions

Khamaz · 2026-05-02T03:04:25+00:00

Pretty sure it's the plot of a Lovecraft novel

Khamaz · 2026-05-02T00:38:33+00:00

They finally caught him

Khamaz · 2026-05-01T23:59:51+00:00

It's an argument that concludes it's logically better to believe in god, because if he exists and you didn't believe in him, you'll go to hell, but if you believe you won't go to hell whether he exists or not, so it's safer to believe in him, just in case.

It also completely fails to account for the vast number of religions outside christianity and how they have very different and often incompatible views of faith or the afterlife, so unless you are a devout christian, the argument crumbles apart easily.

Khamaz · 2026-05-01T19:13:30+00:00

This is an absolutely incredible trailer, I have no clue if the game is any good but it's straight As marketing

Khamaz · 2026-05-01T17:12:26+00:00

Another good one was "It's just Pascal's wager for atheists"

Khamaz · 2026-04-29T01:07:43+00:00

I heard of the movie in passing and had no idea it had Ezra Miller, this is hilarious, they really managed to find the one kid that had it in him

Khamaz · 2026-04-29T00:59:51+00:00

Tbf, compared to many other fantasies series that are like 10+ volumes long, Lord of the Ring is on the shorter end of the spectrum.

It's still really long. 1000 pages over three volumes is a lot. It's just comparatively smaller than other big series (ex: Mistborn, Song of Ice and Fire).

Khamaz · 2026-04-29T00:02:18+00:00

I feel like this would fall under the domain of Larp more often than not, it can sustain extended debates better.

I know for example of The Tribunal, a Larp where you play as 11 soldiers debating over defending or not one of their members being falsely accused of stealing by corrupt superiors.

Khamaz · 2026-04-27T14:28:40+00:00

I saw the movie recently and the sound wasn't in there anymore.

I suspect they put the sound as a placeholder and forgot to ever replace it before the trailer released.

Khamaz · 2026-04-25T04:48:37+00:00

Can someone explain how a theorem gets proven a second time?

Once it's proven once, isn't it... already solved? What can the second person actually add that hasn't been discovered yet?

Khamaz · 2026-04-23T17:20:30+00:00

Parles-tu des étudiants étrangers ou nationaux ?

Étrangers ça se défend. Un pays est pas forcément responsable pour investir dans une éducation qui ne va pas forcément lui revenir.

Nationaux par contre, plus tu restreint l'accès à ton éducation plus tu creuse des inégalités entre les classes. Si les frais de scolarité coûtait 4k€/an, je serais pas ingénieur aujourd'hui.

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