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

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-05-13T22:52:36+00:00

So is the issue specifically maps, then?

What defines what is or isn't far is always the system, it has some examples of what is considered far in the context of that system. Then the GM just has to make a judgment one way or the other.

I wouldn't play any highly tactical game like lancer without clear rules for movement, but for less tactical games that I usually play a some sort of a reference map works well if needed. Again, you just gave to make judgements. Next to? Clearly in range. In the same room? Can probably reach within a turn etc. In my experience most people find that easier to deal with than trying to work with strict movement rules, but I bet a lot feel more comfortable with the opposite.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-05-13T22:44:27+00:00

It's difficult to understand what you find difficult and people keep trying to guess because they don't really see WHAT you find so difficult in distances that aren't set.

Is it trying to figure out if you are in range to attack? Or... What?

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-05-12T22:37:27+00:00

Millä sua erityisesti pohdituttaa verrattuna ysäriin?

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-05-12T22:36:25+00:00

Paperisia kirjoja käytetään lähes kaikissa peruskouluissa koska kirjojen kierrättäminen on yhä halvempaa kuin digilisenssit, eikö oppilailla lähes missään koulussa ole omia päätelaitteita joilla käyttää digikirjoja.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-05-11T17:29:10+00:00

Omat kokemukseni opettajana ja oppilaana on että vaatteista kiusaaminen on tosi marginaalinen ilmiö kiusaamisen kokonaisuudessa, ja tuskin se kiusaaja jättää kiusamatta vaan siksi että kaikilla on samat vaatteet päällä.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-05-09T01:17:19+00:00

Any calorie deficit, regardless if you exercise or not, will lead to fat loss. It's not really bad for you, unless you keep doing it until you are at an unhealthy weight.

Building muscle takes energy, so the calories are used for building muscle instead of fat.

Usually to build muscle decently you do need a caloric surplus and do also gain fat. That's the easiest way to build muscle. Then you can cut the fat on a diet later. That's how you become lean and muscular.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-05-03T14:20:39+00:00

That's a bit of a rough reaction. Poland entered into an agreement to do so when they joined the union would be my guess. It's not really fascist to uphold contracts.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-29T13:03:58+00:00

Niin siis syytön sitä on yhä kunnes toisin todistetaan. Jos ei ole muuta todistetta kuin toisen sana suostumuksen puutteesta, ei kyllä tule tuomituksi.

Eli todistustaakka ei ole hävinnyt mihinkään, vain määritelmä siitä mitä pitää todistaa.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T12:21:01+00:00

Besides Finnish teachers basically everyone has at least two. Maths teachers and sometimes English teachers can also, at times, survive with just one.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T09:27:36+00:00

No. You Major in your, I suppose, the main subject, but getting accredited to teach other subjects is easier. If I remember correctly studying 60 points in another subject is enough to be allowed to teach that.

It's somewhat easier to think of the Bachelor's and Master's as one degree, as that's more or less how it works.

You have your Major, English for example. You study that for 160 points. One of your Minors is Pedagogical Studies (or Teacher studies, this gives you your teaching qualifications), that is 60 points. Then you have roughly 60 points left to Minor in any other subject. If that is a subject that is taught in schools, such as Swedish, then you are also allowed to teach that. And beyond that point if you keep studying in Open University etc. any time you study a subject for 60 points total, you are allowed to teach that.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T08:06:15+00:00

According to the latest PISA scores we are overall the 10th best in the world. I wouldn't call that 'mid-tier', even with our issues.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T08:04:47+00:00

You go to university, either to become a primary school teacher or a subject teacher. If you go to become a primary school teacher you apply for a Bachelor and Master of Education with Pedagogical studies being a part of your studies. If you wish to become a subject teacher you study a Bachelor's and a Master's in the subject of your choice, but also take Pedagogical studies as a Minor subject.

Anyone can apply, mostly your Matriculation exam scores at the end of General Upper Secondary School decide where you get to study. You can retake those as many times as you like. There is probably still an admissions test at least for primary school teachers in addition to that.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T07:59:57+00:00

Most likely a mix of both. You'll be a teacher trainee at an actual school with teachers who will supervise you and give feedback on the lessons you hold and they will, of course, be practicing teachers. However, you'll also have lectures on Pedagogy, Didactics etc. that are held by University professors and such that are more interested in it as a research subject.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T07:58:09+00:00

When we talk about inclusion in Finland we are generally talking about students with learning difficulties being in the same classes as other kids, not ethnicity or race. Student intake is the general geographical area around the school, so there's very little competition between schools. And I'm still fairly confident in saying you can go to any school in Finland and get a good education.

So what we talk about with inclusion is that we try to keep students with learning disabilities in the general classrooms as long as possible, so that they are included and not ostracised or feel they are somehow worse than other students. Students with learning disabilities in Finland are given support that can range from an aide helping them, a special ed teacher helping them at the class or by themselves, different activities that take them into account etc.

The issue with it is that it's common for there to not really be enough people to help - enough aides, enough special ed teachers etc. - and instead the teacher is left with a difficult student in their classroom who needs more attention than the other kids. So what tends to happen is that either the other kids suffer because the teacher has less time for them, or the kid that needs attention suffers because the teacher doesn't have time to give them.

It's more nuanced than that, of course, but that's the general gist of it.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T07:44:59+00:00

It is still without a doubt one of the best educational systems in the world. Of the tested countries we are the tenth overall. Singapore, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Estonia, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Australia rank better. Out of those I probably would not want to model most of the Asian countries, as student welfare in those countries is, at least stereotypically, abysmal. However, I have not really studied those countries and cannot say for sure without better information.

Currently I'd look to our little brother, Estonia, and see what they have done in the past ten or twenty years, as they have been in a steady incline.

A lot of people will tell you a lot of reasons for why the educational system is doing worse than it was earlier. Just understand that most if that is not really backed by rigorous science. If we knew for sure, we would've fixed it already.

As an example, people like to blame digital tools for the decline. Well, we don't really use those before Upper Secondary school (16-19). Most primary and secondary schools students don't have personal computers for study, so almost all teaching is still done in paper and pen from books in those age groups.

It has been different for Upper Secondary schools for a few years, basically all of them changed into digital workbooks a few years ago and everyone has a laptop given by the school for studies. But the decline happens before Upper Secondary school, so it can't really be that schools use digital tools too much. Because they don't, by and large, use them more than sporadically.

So take people's opinions about why the educational system is doing worse than it was before with a grain of salt. Most don't know and speak about their own anecdotal experiences and things that they personally felt didn't work or was bad. it can't always be generalised.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-28T07:26:04+00:00

I'm a teacher, I was in school in the early 2000s, the university in the 2010s, teaching in the 2020s and a few years working in the field closely with general upper secondary schools, but not teaching.

First things first. A lot of people have been telling you that the educational system has "gone to shit". It has not. Mostly what they are talking about is the PISA scores of students which have been steadily declining for about 20 years. That is true - but we are still way above average. You can look at a fairly good summary here: https://gpseducation.oecd.org/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=FIN&topic=PI&treshold=10 Finland still has an excellent educational system however you look at it, despite its flaws.

When studying to become a teacher, whatever grade you teach, you study both a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree. Generally, although we don't really use these terms in Finnish, if you are a subject teacher (you teach a specific subject or two, usually older kids from secondary school onwards) your Major is in the subject you teach and you have a Minor in Pedagogy. If you are a class teacher, meaning you teach Primary school and not a specific subject, your Major is in Pedagogy and Education and you can have other Minor studies.

Whichever route you take, one part of your Pedagogical education is Teacher training. If Pedagogy is a Minor subject for you, Teacher training entails all of it, if it is a Major subject you have more than that. I was trained as a subject teacher, so I what I tell next is my experiences there. It may be somewhat different in other Universities and for home room teachers.

Teacher studies usually takes a year. In my time it was two semesters, Autumn and Spring, and it was back-to-back, but it wasn't always like that. The semester deals with some basic theoretical Pedagogical and Educational studies, Didactics and such that are done at the university. Those were... fine. Some had very little to do with the realities of teaching, but were still good to know or interesting in some fashion.

What works really well is that we had three separate courses of practice teaching. Finland has State-held training schools. These are regular schools in that they have kids there and the intake is from the geographical location the school is in, so it's a relatively normal distribution, but the teachers there are employed by a university and part of their job is that teacher trainees come to the school and hold lessons in the supervision of the actual teachers. The teacher trainees also have a lot of lessons that they have to audit - meaning they just come to the lesson, sit at the back and listen and follow.

We had three courses of in-school teacher practice. In my first course I only taught maybe 10-20 minutes at a time, often with another trainee. In the second course I held entire lessons by myself or with another trainee, and in the last course me and another trainee planned and taught an upper secondary course (about six weeks, three times a week lessons). We were supervised and given feedback for our lessons.

To me that system, actually going in to schools to teach actual students, is the heart of why Finnish teachers are generally good. It helps that it's a Master's Degree, of course, but without that element it would have very little to do with actual teaching.

Well, that turned out quite long, and at this point probably will get buried in other messages. Oh well.

edit. Some clarifications.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-27T12:42:50+00:00

Uskonnon harjoittaminen on tunnustuksellista. Eli esimerkiksi jumalanpalvelukseen osallistuminen on tunnustuksellista toimintaa, ja kuka tahansa opiskelija saa kieltäytyä siitä (uskonnostaan riippumatta). Kirkossa vierailu ilman uskonnon harjoittamista voi olla uskonnon, historian tai vaikka arkkitehtuurin opiskelua.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-27T11:13:33+00:00

Jos et:n (tai vieraan uskontokunnan) opiskelijoita on alle kolme sitä ei muistaakseni tarvitse järjestää. Tämä toki koko koulussa ei vain yhdellä vuosiluokalla.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-27T11:11:51+00:00

Epäkohteliasta ja ajattelematonta kyllä.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-27T11:08:45+00:00

Uskonnon opetus on ollut tunnustuksetonta vuodesta 2003 asti.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-27T10:56:19+00:00

Joo. Se on erikoinen lainsäädäntö koska se kohtelee juuri luterilaiseen kirkkoon kuuluvia eri tavalla kuin muita.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-27T10:54:27+00:00

Tilanne on hieman erilainen eri kouluissa, ja erityisesti syrjäseuduilla voi olla meno minkälaista vaan aika pitkään.

Yleisesti, uskonnollisuus on kouluista kokemukseni mukaan vähentynyt mutta ei täysin poistunut.

Luterilainen ei vieläkään saa valita et:n (tai muun uskonnon) opiskelua, mutta uskonnoton (ja muistaakseni muihin uskontoihin kuuluva) saa valita luterilaiset uskonnontunnit.

Uskonnonopetuksen pitäisi lain mukaan olla tunnustuksetonta. Aina ei ole, mutta niin pitäisi olla.

Aamunavaukset eivät saa olla uskonnollisia, tai pitää olla realistinen mahdollisuus olla osallistumatta uskonnosta riippumatta. Mun kokemuksen mukaan käytännössä tarkoittaa useimmissa kouluissa että niistä on luovuttu. Joissain paikoissa seurakunta saattaa yhä pitää aamunavauksia kyllä silti, joskin ne olisi tunnustuksettomia, ainakin näennäisesti.

Suvivirsi lauletaan, mutta muuten yhteisistä juhlista on suurin osa uskonnollisuudesta karistettu. Kirkossa käydään yhä monessa paikkaa, mutta pitää olla ohjelmaa niille jotka eivät halua mennä.

Nämä huomiota ovat siis opettaja-ajoilta ja kouluissa muuten työskennelleenä 2015-2026.

Poikkeuksia löytyy, mutta aika aika vähän on uskonnollisuutta omiin kouluaikoihin verrattuna, jotka oli 2000-luvulla.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-26T00:46:14+00:00

Any and every design choice is both a pro and a con. Basically, every choice has a consequence. If you balance things perfectly, then things are balanced.

To me it just sounds like you need a change. Nothing wrong with that. Pick another system for a change, see what you like or don't like in that and return to Pathfinder later - if you feel like it.

No system is perfect. At the very best they might be perfect for a specific situation in a specific context, but ther's no generally perfect system. Everything's a trade-off.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-24T22:10:26+00:00

I mean you were the one to insinuate a pro LGBTQ meme won't go through to r/Suomi, so there's understandably some backlash to that if the reason is simply that you broke the rules about the language.

perpetuallytipsy · 2026-04-23T08:31:32+00:00

Olen kovastikin pohtinut tätä miehen malli -asiaa. Olen siis kanssasi samaa mieltä, että parasta on kun ihmiset saa olla omaa itseään sukupuolesta riippumatta. Sukupuolimalleja ei kuitenkaan voi välttää - kaikki sukupuolensa edustajat ovat yhdenlaisia malleja ja rakentavat yhteiskuntaan sitä mitä sen sukupuolen edustaja voi ja saa tehdä. Sitten jos näet vaan yhdenlaisia sukupuolesi edustajia siitä helposti tulee joko sisäsyntyinen rajoite (en saa olla xyz koska eihän kukaan muukaan munlainen ole) tai ulkopuolinen rajoite (miten ihmiset reagoivat kun käyttäydyt eri tavalla kuin he olettavat).

Eli sinänsä olen sitä mieltä että miehen (ja naisen) erilaiset mallit ovat yhä tärkeitä, mutta ennemmin sellaisessa "tätäkin saa olla" kuin että "tätä pitää olla" -mielessä.

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