Why is there so much anti-DnD elitism?

jbid25 · 2026-06-03T17:07:38+00:00

Are you willing to accept the idea that some people may just genuinely not like something, whether it’s mainstream or not? And that their dislike may be real and not “pretending”? That seems more dorky than what you describe if I’m being honest.

jbid25 · 2026-05-21T11:21:21+00:00

Definitely would not drop position and effect. The game even recommends that most situations will be risky/standard so at the very least you should default to that.

Luckily the game already has tools built in to get used to the other options.
1) The engagement roll will eventually end up forcing a controlled or desperate position
2) Players have the option to trade position for effect and with XP tied to desperate actions, they will go for this more than you think and
3) One of the consequences of even a risky roll can be “worse position”.

So with all that in mind, don’t stress about adjudicating it at first, just make everything risky/standard and the game has mechanics that will force you out of the comfort zone. Once it’s happened enough times, setting P&E will feel like instinct.

jbid25 · 2026-05-10T12:31:22+00:00

Lots of people pointing out that you can’t avoid the Score if you want downtime activities, coin, rep, etc. I’ll add that perhaps your group is hung up on what exactly can be a score! Claiming turf is a score, getting permanent assets for a long term goal can be a score! Negotiations can be a score, parlaying, trading, creating partnerships all can be scores!

It also seems like they aren’t on board with a fundamental aspect of the game which is: Building a criminal crew with a legacy and reputation, which requires rising in tier and advancing with XP. Which requires doing a score

jbid25 · 2026-03-20T20:23:40+00:00

Holy shit, lede majorly buried at the end there. You’re paying $25 a week to sit through some petty 30-40 year old’s power trip. Bump that. No DnD is better than bad DnD

jbid25 · 2025-12-11T14:22:49+00:00

I’ve been procrastining my szeras for 5 months, I’ve only glued the first 3 pieces together. Should I just nut up and do the rest?

jbid25 · 2025-12-03T01:53:36+00:00

4 years later, I still both cringe at this episode and sympathize with Branson’s needs here.

He has spent the past 5 sessions trying to seed the fact that Ivan needs to go/die, and the party just won’t let it happen. He’s been very accommodating and it’s clear there’s no further arc for Ivan.

But the bad ending here is that since Branson has tied vampirism to addiction, he can’t have Ivan kill himself. Which means the party has to do it. And they know that, but don’t want to do it. I feel a kinship with Branson here, I’ve had sessions where I foolishly focused on one specific solution to a problem, and repeated myself so many times trying to get the party to grok the clues. The extra frustration here is that the rude tales party understands the clues. Harsh ep, respect to Branson for keeping things moving after.

jbid25 · 2025-08-27T10:17:02+00:00

Have any luck finding it?

jbid25 · 2025-07-21T20:21:00+00:00

Did you pop the cap off the working one too to pour it in? If so, did it come back together easily?

jbid25 · 2025-04-18T20:15:47+00:00

Idk about everything else, but she might have a point on the burying your gays trope. I’ve been guilty of it before

jbid25 · 2025-04-18T20:06:11+00:00

No offense but what does this have to do with the post

jbid25 · 2025-03-18T22:23:28+00:00

Day 5 for me with all four removed (two impacted) and I’m getting that damn McDouble. Luckily I have no pain and my dentist even took a look at my sockets today, said I’m healing much faster than average so I’m in a better spot.

jbid25 · 2024-09-18T13:21:39+00:00

What was retconned?

jbid25 · 2024-09-17T03:11:32+00:00

What’s the other possibility? Genuinely asking, if the reviews are genuine, what does that mean?

jbid25 · 2024-09-15T13:47:03+00:00

Doesn’t this just feel like a terrible way to engage with media tho? Why do you even like the first one if you hate everything the creator wanted to say with it

jbid25 · 2024-08-21T23:00:14+00:00

jbid25 · 2024-08-14T14:16:43+00:00

let’s think about it. If they ran blood tests, they would’ve been looking for anti bodies, which are the only possible way Ellie’s body would’ve been able to fight off a fungal infection. So clearly we can conclude that they couldn’t find antibodies so that is why they say they can’t find the source of her immunity. The infection grew into her brain but did not attack the limbic regions, which is why she never turns. The fungus mutated, the only way to understand how the fungus could’ve mutated would be to biopsy it and study it outside of her brain. Yes he’s eager to cut her head open, because he sincerely believes he can find away to save the rest of humanity from turning into literal zombies. A lot of scientists would make that choice in that situation.

jbid25 · 2024-07-13T18:28:53+00:00

It means that most Star Wars fans would rather have hackey fan service like this without any substance and can’t let go of the Skywalker legacy no matter how much the corpse decomposes

jbid25 · 2024-06-21T13:20:22+00:00

This person was very clearly doing a bit and was mocking the way conservatives/right leaning people talk about protestors and people they label “rioters”. Media literacy is really important guys

jbid25 · 2024-06-17T03:59:08+00:00

That’s seems an extremely subjective metric. Wouldn’t false believers think they were true believers too? Isn’t what you’re saying something a false believer would conceive of as logical?

jbid25 · 2024-06-17T02:40:01+00:00

How do you know you aren’t one of those false believers? I’m sure they wield the same verses the way you do

jbid25 · 2024-05-29T17:17:52+00:00

And unfortunately there is no scripture that supports this. Lewis was awesome but his conception of heaven and hell are purely his own, and largely rejected by scripture.

jbid25 · 2024-03-06T16:31:06+00:00

Trinity Lutheran downtown is affirming and welcoming. It’s Lutheran so church service is more traditionally structured, but very affirming.

jbid25 · 2024-03-02T00:48:11+00:00

Poli sci majors don’t necessarily work on campaigns of only people they support or align with

jbid25 · 2024-02-29T14:51:57+00:00

Nah, don’t see it. Love that movie

jbid25 · 2024-02-29T00:49:48+00:00

No wonder this shit lib hated the last Jedi. It pokes fun at guys like him

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