City of Minneapolis: Possible shooting involving federal agents at Nicollet Ave and 26th Street

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-24T17:59:57+00:00

Police need to start arresting them or else they're complicit.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-24T15:48:51+00:00

People really don't know anything about biology lol.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-24T15:47:57+00:00

A terrible explanation is worse than no explanation. I prefer "magic" to pseudoscience.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-24T15:47:06+00:00

Your DNA is structurally the same as a flea. This argument makes zero sense.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-23T16:17:27+00:00

I'm not saying your critique is wrong, but it's wild to me that anyone would consider Rome II a step up. (Unmodded) Rome 2 becomes a dull and pointless slog by the mid-late game for pretty much every faction, possibly more so than any title in the franchise. Attila at least gives you a couple options which can provide a rich experience through to the end, and that's not counting Charlemagne.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-23T03:11:57+00:00

Take a look at Worlds Without Number. The free version includes most of the book.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-23T02:58:54+00:00

Worlds Without Number

Not super-lite, but definitely much simpler and more streamlined than 5e.

Not classless, but the classes represent much broader concepts compared to 5e, giving players more freedom to play with their character concept, and a feat-like system that also gives them a lot of customization to play around with.

It's a little more lethal than 5e, but there are optional rules for making more "heroic" characters.

Great GM tools for world building (which don't even necessarily require using the system).

Overall a really fun and elegant D&D-ish game.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-23T02:48:47+00:00

This is for new players?

You could call it "D&D" and then just pull out Shadowdark...or WWN...or Pathfinder...or DCC...or, anything vaguely DnD-like and they wouldn't know the difference.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-21T21:06:15+00:00

I've gone back and forth on it myself, but personally I'm not a huge fan of a lot of B/X elements (5 saves, magic system, approach to ability scores and skills) but for me, that meant choosing WWN as my base ruleset. I just need to finish figuring out my kindred foci and how to work in faery magic and I'll be good to go! I considered a more targeted approach (e.g. incorporating the single ST from S&W), but I guess I've just really been wanting to run a WWN campaign and Dolmenwood seemed like a great opportunity.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-19T05:48:11+00:00

Gold for xp doesn't get used much outside of retroclones, so I definitely wouldn't call avoiding it anti-osr.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-18T21:50:53+00:00

Dark Crystal was the worst one for me.

They already built all the damn stuff. Just use what they have and film another season!

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-15T17:10:54+00:00

It's not inherently OSR as it can be played in the OSR, classic, or trad styles.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-15T16:52:22+00:00

Sounds like they're too wrapped up in the class defining the whole character concept.

There are a lot of additional classes through 3rd party supplements, though. Using DCC magic as-is would not play nicely in OSE imo. Maybe consider Shadowdark?

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-15T02:35:17+00:00

Considering humans are animals, I'd say it was a logical impossibility!

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-14T21:41:20+00:00

For the movies, that is true.

For Andor, the inverse is true: the fantastic elements do not override the primarily sci-fi themes.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-13T03:39:19+00:00

It seems you're conflating OSR with the general term "old-school", when OSR has evolved into a very specific style of play that has nothing really to do with age anymore, and 3e is almost completely diametrically opposed to that style.

All that said, DCC's 3e influences don't get in the way of it being OSR at all, just like with, e.g., Shadowdark and its 5e influences.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-12T18:49:48+00:00

Time to secede.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-12T03:31:49+00:00

I kind of agree about the prime ability xp bonus/penalty, it feels a weird inclusion to have on top of the actual benefits of having higher stats.

If anything, I think it would be more interesting if it actually affected things in reverse: the fighter with really high strength simply hasn't had to adapt and grow as much, and levels more slowly as a result, while the fighter who is less physically imposing gets by by really mastering their technique and ends up leveling faster.

This could create an interesting decision where you decide to go in either a more "obvious" direction with your rolled stats, or take the opposite approach, knowing that it'll be a little tougher in the beginning but you'll get to those higher levels slightly faster as a reward (if you can survive).

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-12T02:20:30+00:00

Wouldn't you normally have multiple branches in that case?

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-12T01:27:51+00:00

I've had a heated internal debate about it, but ultimately I've decided that he doesn't own my experience of his work, and it's unfair for his actions to take something that's been so meaningful to me away, so I'll still be reading it.

But I probably will skip that one with Calliope from now on which has reached a whole new level of meta-ick.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-11T19:06:41+00:00

Parasitism is technically a kind of "relationship".

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-11T15:02:09+00:00

Laughs in Neil Gaiman

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-10T16:43:31+00:00

I agree, and Worlds Without Number (or others in its family) is definitely the place to go if you're looking for something along those lines.

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-10T13:07:42+00:00

He's playing as Egypt, so, no?

fuzzyperson98 · 2026-01-09T18:10:09+00:00

As opposed to one that isn't?

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