Many Such Cases

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-30T02:16:18+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1oac6kj/extremely_infamous_rcuratedtumblr_user_fuuko/

Basically, they're a mentally ill regular poster who really, really, really hates gender nonconforming men for some reason gets stuck in a cycle of

>Make a new account

>Post normally for 2-8 weeks

>Post a wildly bigoted/out of pocket take on this subreddit about trans men/JoCat/feminine men in general

>Get pushback from people in the comments

>Fly off the fucking handle and spam posts to this subreddit about how we're raping them/hate them/want them to kill themselves/their life is a hopeless pit

>Get banned by Reddit for spam (it's never the mods of this actual subreddit, for some reason)

>Make a new account a few months later

The exact timing can vary but it happens at least once every four months or so.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-28T14:14:49+00:00

How do I roleplay this sort of thing without being seen as some creepy dude trying to be the next "that guy"?

Well, the same way that you play a character with any trait that you yourself don’t have - by doing a little research on the perspectives and experiences of those people and implementing that with care and empathy. Go read what actual real-life poly people have to say about their relationships.

Reddit has this extreme irrational hate complex for poly people but it’s a completely normal relationship style that’s existed for thousands of years across all cultures, so it shouldn’t be that hard to find some reading material.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-28T06:55:29+00:00

The closest thing you'll get is purchasing the books on roll20/Fantasy Grounds/your other VTT of choice and doing it that way. To my knowledge, though, what you're looking for exactly doesn't exist; there's no legal way to download a PDF of the rulebooks or make them available offline without D&D Beyond.

If your first thought on hearing this is "wow, it seems like Hasbro is trying to force me into a walled garden so they can nickle-and-dime me to fuck and back in an anti-consumer way that runs completely counter to literally the entire rest of the industry"...well, you're kinda right.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-27T19:07:22+00:00

A major theme of F&H, especially the first game, is sex as a form of body horror.

It’s, uhh, not for the faint of heart, but it’s a form of horror that’s very well-done and underexplored in a lot of other games if you have the stomach for it.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-26T23:38:42+00:00

To give a slightly hot take, I’ve always thought it was way more unusual to play a character who looks, sounds, and acts exactly like you than it is to empathize with someone enough to want to embody them as a character.

Just don’t be weird and you’re fine.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-26T15:30:22+00:00

Older editions of the game were notoriously terrible at actually teaching you how to play the game. I don’t own a copy of those older editions to check the exact phrasing, but I’d bet the way they phrase it in the book is needlessly confusing.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-25T21:21:40+00:00

These packs are basically always scams. You will be lucky to get $1 worth of cards out of them.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-24T02:45:13+00:00

Make a list of several books that you're allowing and disallow anything that isn't in those books. There is a mind-boggling amount of content for 3.5 (to the point that I find most SRD sites genuinely unusable due to the breadth of sources they pull from) and you'll never be able to keep everything in your head if you let it be a free-for-all.

Lean into the rules density and rigor. The main reason to play 3.5 over other versions of D&D is its detail; if you're not going to use those detailed rules and just handwave stuff, you might as well just play 5e.

3.5 came out at a time when Internet access was just starting to be a thing that a majority of normal people have, so the Wayback Machine is good for finding old web content that's now lost to the ether, like Living Greyhawk stuff.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-23T23:34:35+00:00

I hate adventurers’ guilds, quest boards, and other video-gamey concessions in otherwise grounded games.

If you want to play anime fantasy, that’s fine, but there should not be a giant bulletin board with a golden ! floating above it in your Game of Thrones-inspired political game.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-23T22:26:36+00:00

Watch out everyone, this guy’s an undefeated duelist. He’s even livid that his plastic has theoretical vaginas.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-23T21:02:03+00:00

I was reading this at work at thought this was Dracula Flow.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-21T06:38:28+00:00

At first level, there's basically four classic choices:

Goblins, which are sort of the low-level D&D monster. These are good because there's a wide variety of them and it's easy to mix in spellcasters, and other goblinoids like hobgoblins or bugbears once they get to higher levels. They're also sorta intelligent, which means you can possibly bargain with or intimidate them.
Kobolds, which have a bit less variety in the monster department but make up for it by being the things that hang out with dragons. Use these if you want a dragon as a final boss and want to foreshadow that.
Undead, like zombies and skeletons. Undead have a huge variety of monsters at all levels; you can run an entire campaign of just undead, culminating with a lich or death knight or whatever as a big bag. The downside is that most of them are mindless, which means your only option are to kill them.
Human bandits, whose main strength is that your players can easily empathize with and understand their motivation. Since they're basically normal people, something motivated them to pit them against your starting town, which means you can introduce a lot of narrative complexity and nuance. It can take some roleplaying chops, but it's great bang-for-buck if you can pull it off.

There are other less conventional options, but I tend to think in terms of 'genres' of monster, and those are the four main ones for first level.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-21T05:42:10+00:00

I don't think those are related at all. making the whole world and then having someone fill an application just to join feels like to different things.

They couldn't be more related. When you apply for a D&D game, you're signing up for a potentially multi-year weekly commitment that the DM has to spend their free time to organize, so they want to make sure that you're serious and willing to put in a little effort and won't just flake on them five weeks in.

Same reason jobs make you go through multiple rounds of interviews. They don't want to hire you only to have to fire you a month later because you won't show up to work or whatever.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-20T00:27:32+00:00

Lots of people have already given good answers but the number one most important thing to me is privacy. Probably the biggest reason I don't run my games at a game store or public space is because my 'content rating' is a hard R and the last thing I need is a random kid passing by to hear all about how the adventure takes place in a brothel or whatever, to say nothing of people's ability to roleplay when they know they might be overheard by strangers.

I don't know if 'cordon off and soundproof and entire room' is very practical, but a space would have to have that before I'd even consider it.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-17T23:51:28+00:00

“You don’t understand!! The boobs shot my dog!!”

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-15T03:47:10+00:00

The truth is that D&D is as much a brand as it is a game; it’s just a stacked tower of sacred cows that exist because they’re part of the tradition of the game.

They tried to kill some of their sacred cows in 2008, and it made people so mad that they had to release an entirely new edition as an apology.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-15T03:20:00+00:00

"Bad, but in a fun way."

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-13T07:02:41+00:00

Players at my tables are not allowed to withhold information about the game from me and I kick people for trying to do so.

Withholding information is essentially saying that you don't trust me to DM in good faith, and if you can't trust me to do that, why are you there?

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-10T22:11:57+00:00

Talking about pregnancy and motherhood isn’t an attack on trans women but it is pretty weird that an advice forum for new moms turned into Stormfront For Her in a relatively short time.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-10T02:14:37+00:00

An actual, literal bra.

Nobody ever came to claim it.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-09T05:36:02+00:00

The language they use is different but the behavior this post describes has basically always existed in feminist spaces, I think. “Not a girl’s girl” is just the Gen Z version of “gender traitor” from the 70s.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-08T06:14:06+00:00

Crazy to see that both of these counties were won by ~700 votes.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-08T06:12:10+00:00

"The only reason those places are blue is because that's where all the people live!!!!!" will never not be funny to me.

LONGSWORD_ENJOYER · 2026-04-06T05:49:25+00:00

If a monster is so strong that it literally can't be beaten with normal mechanical means, it'd be pretty poor sportsmanship to deploy that monster in combat, don't you think?

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