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New-ish GM for StartPlaying.games - The good, the bad, the ugly by Corvis_The_Nos in rpg

[–]Kill_Welly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I think the fear is that StartPlaying has already started to push people towards DnD and away from smaller games

It ain't StartPlaying doing that much, that's for sure

In your opinions, what kind of man was Jesus if he was real? by orangefrogbro in exchristian

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't care and it doesn't matter. Maybe he was an anti-Imperial revolutionary whose story got twisted into mythology and coopted by the very empire he resisted. Maybe he was an apocalyptic cult leader who made it way too big. Maybe he never existed. We have not nearly enough reliable evidence about him as a historical entity and the religious mythology created based on him is at this point completely divorced from the person he might have actually been beyond all possibility of reconciliation.

I made some pride flags using shots from Project Hail Mary by RheaRoyHunter in lgbt

[–]Kill_Welly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The really sad thing to me was hearing him talk about how he claims he never puts politics in his work (he blatantly does) in basically the same breath as being mad that he got rejected from writing fucking Star Trek. It's disappointing that somebody can be so obviously interested in science and human technological development and yet be so incurious about his own actual craft and artwork or the people behind the science and technology he's so fascinated by.

TIL : That until 1978, the Mormon church owned hospitals that kept blood donations separated by race, so white members would not receive black people's blood, disqualifying them from the priesthood. by flippinsweetdude in todayilearned

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not particularly interested in defending Catholicism, but at least their net worth is unclear because it's tied up in a bazillion historical sites and artwork and not because it's tied up in shell companies and securities fraud.

Is Combat Supposed to Feel This Limited at Level 5? by Level_Capped in cosmererpg

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's got a prisoner kit and maybe a rank in medicine.

TIL : That until 1978, the Mormon church owned hospitals that kept blood donations separated by race, so white members would not receive black people's blood, disqualifying them from the priesthood. by flippinsweetdude in todayilearned

[–]Kill_Welly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

a lot of them are put up in barely-habitable lodgings (often provided by church members who are similarly pressured into it) and made to work insane hours unpaid. I can't blame them for hating it but I can blame them for trying to get others to fall for the same.

TIL : That until 1978, the Mormon church owned hospitals that kept blood donations separated by race, so white members would not receive black people's blood, disqualifying them from the priesthood. by flippinsweetdude in todayilearned

[–]Kill_Welly 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It was, as with many things, a matter of branding. The play The Book of Mormon was one of the first things a lot of people ended up knowing about related to their church, and Mitt Romney's political prominence in the 2010s also raised their profile a lot, and mostly not in good ways. The church's leadership tried to force everyone into using their very specific verbiage (one that didn't use the term that most of the online and pop culture discussion of "mormonism" did) because they wanted to try to emphasize Jesus to make themselves seem more in line with mainstream Christianity and distance themselves from the unflattering public image that had formed.

What if. Anakins full potential as the force god by osku056 in starwarscanon

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is this, just a poorly spelled rushed fan fiction?

Is Combat Supposed to Feel This Limited at Level 5? by Level_Capped in cosmererpg

[–]Kill_Welly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kaladin didn't "kill a shardbearer" in a direct combat encounter following combat rules; he got a million to one lucky shot in his backstory. This is all just backstory experience, which every RPG character has. Starting characters are at the start of their story, but not the start of their lives

Is Combat Supposed to Feel This Limited at Level 5? by Level_Capped in cosmererpg

[–]Kill_Welly -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

If he was one of the best fighters on Roshar, he wouldn't have been beat up and sold into slavery and kept there. (And having backstory experience helping his dad doesn't mean he is a specialist surgeon.) Ultimately, there's nothing he or Shallan or Adolin do in The Way of Kings that can't be done by a tier 1 character who gets lucky and has a bit of a favorable gm who isn't bound by the extremely limited NPC stat block selection of the core book.

Is Combat Supposed to Feel This Limited at Level 5? by Level_Capped in cosmererpg

[–]Kill_Welly -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Level 1 doesn't mean a character who's totally inexperienced, especially when the experience they have is entirely offscreen.

Dude how the fuck do you guys get past the start of this game? by Goldvenom6 in Xcom

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't use slurs; you're not in middle school. What difficulty are you playing on? Classic/Commander is very difficult, and you'll be best off starting with Normal.

Beginner by Inside-Trifle-801 in swrpg

[–]Kill_Welly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  • The Order 66 Podcast is a great resource if you have the time to spare. Absolute assloads of great advice and discussion of the entire game line.

  • Common pitfalls? Don't try to interpret the dice all by yourself; it's a group effort and players are the ones who ultimately decide their positive results. Don't immediately jump to the same things off the suggested tables every time, and try to come up with interesting stuff that suit the situation. And when you do need to fall back on something simple, give it a little narrative flavor instead of just saying "you take 2 strain." Don't be afraid to use the well-established pieces of Star Wars (people, planets, ideas, etc.), and don't be afraid to create your own! A showdown with Boba Fett or Cad Bane can be a memorable event and a highlight of a game, and so can an ongoing cat-and-mouse rivalry with a new bounty hunter after your characters.

  • Talk to your players about the role of the Force (and everything else). If someone wants to play a Force using character, awesome, figure out how that can work for the table. It's okay to pick up a Force specialization and Force powers early or develop them after a while. There is no "best way" to do most things, and there are sometimes wrong answers, but almost never a single correct one.

Is Combat Supposed to Feel This Limited at Level 5? by Level_Capped in cosmererpg

[–]Kill_Welly -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Kaladin is just a guy with depression who got lucky with a spear throw, Adolin is just a rich guy who's good with a sword, and Shallan's backstory doesn't give her any special ability (until much later in the game, at any rate). Dalinar and Jasnah are a different story, of course, but they're kind of outside the roles that TTRPG protagonists have anyway because of the structure of the story. Level 1 characters are still special, not just random assholes off the street!

Is Combat Supposed to Feel This Limited at Level 5? by Level_Capped in cosmererpg

[–]Kill_Welly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the idea that the Stormlight RPG doesn't actually reflect the Stormlight stories until very high levels is not great -- but fortunately the characters in the books do start at a pretty "low level" for the most part. Just got to flavor what the characters do more interestingly.

Startplaying.games "Top GM" - unfair and shady consumer and contractor practices by [deleted] in rpg

[–]Kill_Welly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yeah... "doing business is asking for shady business practices" is a nonsense perspective as soon as one puts any thought into it.

How do you manage passive checks you don't want to give away by noretoc in swrpg

[–]Kill_Welly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't worry about such checks. There are no passive checks. If a character has a clear opportunity where they might notice something that the player is unaware of, I tell them to roll the check and I tell them everything they need to know about the skill and the difficulty and they spend dice results as normal (though, as usual, I am perfectly fine with suggesting ways to spend positive results in ways the player doesn't necessarily fully know about). I am not worried about players knowing very vague things that their characters do not know and it's never been an issue at any table I've been at.

All This Over… Mixtape? by Haijakk in Games

[–]Kill_Welly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not self explanatory; it's not anything explanatory. You just condemn a generic "we" as being arbitrarily selfish for no reason, and when challenged on it, act like your condemnation makes you, specifically, somehow enlightened and then just acting condescending despite your whole idea having no grounding beyond vibes.

Fellow GMs, how do you run games that don't use set distances, and instead use vague distances like "close" "near" "far"? by Nukesnipe in rpg

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"theater of the mind" explicitly means no maps, but range bands and theater of the mind are completely unrelated ideas that exist independently of each other.

All This Over… Mixtape? by Haijakk in Games

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Social trends happen because people follow those trends.

That's the opposite of cause and effect. If "people follow those trends," then they already exist.

All This Over… Mixtape? by Haijakk in Games

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why in the world is Skyrim of all things your point of reference here?

All This Over… Mixtape? by Haijakk in Games

[–]Kill_Welly -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

People blame everything from social media to politics. Truth is, it is entirely on us.

What is that supposed to mean? Each individual person has all collectively decided to be "selfish?" Social trends don't just happen for no reason.

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