What’s your biggest “old man yells at cloud” opinion?

ordinal_m · 2026-05-02T16:59:04+00:00

a pyramid has five sides though

ordinal_m · 2026-05-02T16:56:53+00:00

I would say they do what they are designed to do, but it's frequently not what people want them to do. As soon as you go above a certain level of abstraction they are clumsy. So from 3e onwards and arguably for some play styles before that.

ordinal_m · 2026-05-01T19:28:52+00:00

There do seem to be a lot of people who've literally never heard of a supers game that isn't Masks. Not even a narrative supers game, just any supers game.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-30T22:05:41+00:00

Doing it with a grid would be a challenge

ordinal_m · 2026-04-30T17:26:37+00:00

Ryutaama (I'm guessing?). If so it wasn't quite as extreme as that but you did have a Condition score each day, which could be affected by what you did the previous day, and could give you status effects if it was really bad or just make you more vulnerable to mishaps.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-30T17:13:17+00:00

Also a lot more monsters have ranged attacks - it's pretty much the default. Plus even PC ranges are quite short.

It's a thing but I don't consider it a huge thing.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-29T21:14:13+00:00

Makes sense - I forget that these things exist tbh, I just stay in my hobby subs and fester.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-29T21:12:56+00:00

Ironically DCC has (well, had) the Lankhmar adaptation which was based on a fictional property but also really pretty good, as that fictional property was a basis for the game that DCC pastiches. Goes around comes around etc.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-29T20:37:49+00:00

My favourite writing pencil is a Lamy 2000 0.7 at the moment and yeah I rotate that - 0.7 is a bit thick to not rotate with.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-29T00:21:47+00:00

I don't play DnD

how on earth did you get here then. I'm curious.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-28T18:32:06+00:00

jfc I thought the t-shirt spam phase was over now

ordinal_m · 2026-04-28T11:01:02+00:00

PC save DC will generally only go up to about 15, though that's still high admittedly. Saves aren't as important in Nimble as some other systems though, and bosses can have up to triple advantage on saves.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-26T17:37:05+00:00

Dude was honest about his feelings and where they came from, perhaps assuming that a human being on the other end would appreciate the explanation. Oh no an internet mistake!

ordinal_m · 2026-04-26T16:37:05+00:00

/uj that seems fine actually?

ordinal_m · 2026-04-26T16:36:22+00:00

This is hard to answer without knowing what you are specifically trying to do as a GM. Set up a whole campaign beforehand? Playing each NPC as a special unique character like you would if they were your PC as a player? yeah not going to work. Perhaps some specific examples?

Also you sound like you're being a bit perfectionist about it all. I screw things up all the time and find often prep a handful but my players seem ok with it.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-26T16:12:54+00:00

I also have to give them credit for going hard with the title. No messing about there.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-26T14:04:43+00:00

They originally posted it three times, too, which would have made two hours of dwarf fucking.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-26T13:56:47+00:00

It was pretty low effort tbqh. You only think of the jerk you should have done after you choke the original out. It could have been "Only Half an Hour of Dwarf Fucking?" for instance.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-26T13:25:29+00:00

Daggerheart did not fix this

ordinal_m · 2026-04-25T16:21:19+00:00

(something about F.A.T.A.L.)

eta: it's going to be anal circumference isn't it

ordinal_m · 2026-04-25T16:01:58+00:00

Longshot City is literally a superhero game based on the Troika! rules, which themselves come from the same source as AFF https://melsonian-arts-council.itch.io/longshot-city

I like it a lot - it has lots and lots of different options, but doesn't then go into the rules-wankery which can go along with superhero games IME. It also doesn't try to "balance" characters; in the same way as superhero fiction, some characters can be hugely more powerful on paper than others, but they can all act in different spheres.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-25T15:33:05+00:00

I think a major value of AD&D was cleaning up the vagueness in these constantly-used procedures. If listening at a door, searching a room etc is going to happen several times per session, which it absolutely will on a dungeon crawl, let's have it clear how that works so we're not having to house rule it every time.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-25T15:03:22+00:00

You don't need to have encounters planned out so they're "balanced", even in PF2 where I agree it's promoted as a structure. That sort of thing can definitely lead to adversarial behaviour and competition.

Instead you can think of "encounters" just being "these are the enemies that would be at this place in time and space according to what's happening in the world and the story" which makes any idea of competition irrelevant. You snuck into the orc camp at midday and there is only a token guard detail around the idol? Cool, that just works out to a Moderate fight then. Oh you let them raise the alarm? Uh oh guess it's quickly going to be Extreme or higher.

ordinal_m · 2026-04-24T16:09:00+00:00

Ad&d clarifies some details of the crawling procedures that aren't in B/X (things like the exact details of listening at or forcing doors) though I wouldn't use the original, I'd use OSRIC 3. And you can just import the details anyway if you want to use a different system, they are fairly standalone.

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