The original was for Final Fantasy Tactics as I recall.

Well, my character was a high priest and a fanatical follower of a sun god, part of delegation from a foreign country. Early on me and a few other people from out group were almost decided to kill another one of us since we thought he was a traitor and for roleplay’s sake I decided to give my god a say by drawing a single card out of a 78 card tarot deck. So of course the card I got that The Sun… Meaning I had to do a complete 180 and then spent the rest of the LARP doing everything he said and trusting him completely. He didn’t really know what was going on or how to do stuff, in-character or out of it. I was painfully aware that he kept sending me to do stupid shit that didn’t matter, but I was commited. It was hilarious, if tiring. Anyway, this was on the last evening (+ about an hour to wrap up if someone needed to the next day) and I was pretty exhausted, physically and mentally, so I decided I’d just stop playing and go to bed early, but then the dwarf arrived looking for our elf general (who was in a dungeon somewhere) and demanding that he’s honourbound to go to a pub with him - that’s a whole another story, one I was very much involved in, so I offered to go in his stead. It seemed like a very nice end to my B plot and it actually shook all tiredness off me. Anyway, we’re just drinking there while that guy I decided I’ll view as a beacon of truth went past, leaned to me and whispered me the bad news that our god was dead. As I found out later, he was mistaken, but I trusted him, so I asked the dwarf if I could have look at his knife and killed myself. And it worked out really nicely. I ended up getting a small 1-on-1 afterlife RP session with a not-quite-organiser who was present at my suicide, the scene that played out after my death was amazing (don’t worry the dwarf managed to convince people it was a suicice) and I went to get a spare simple villager costume to get back to drinking, which had the advantage of finally being able to have a good talk with some friends from the previous year (it just didn’t make any sense to talk to them as my main character that year). Plus I never died on a LARP before, getting to do the deed myself was a nice bonus to a new experience =P

Once me and my group go campaign post-mortem I plan to write my feelings and stories down and post in relevant subs here and on reddit

How rich are they expected to be? I’ve noticed that wages seem to have gone up from 3.5, with unskilled labor going from 1sp/day to 2sp/day, and skilled labor going from 3sp/day to 1gp/day. If you wanted to retire (for 50 years) comfortably (2gp/day), you’d need 36,535 gp, which I think is a lot more than a low level adventurer would have. A lv1 character starts with 100/150 GP (IIRC, depending on which class you choose), which is enough to sustain the character for 3+ months with average expenses. That being said, most expenses can be bypassed with magic (Goodberry, Tiny Hut, Create Food and Water), which means that the money can actually sustain the party a lot longer than that, and that’s on top of survival rules (tracking rations, travel hours, etc…) being almost completely nonexistent in 5e. As soon as the character hits lv3-5, they will probably have no compelling reason to go on an adventure anymore, except for the one made up by the player when writing their backstory. I’ve heard that so long as the small army has a way to deal damage at all, they’ll dominate even high level enemies. Did they change that? I think the whole idea of adventurers makes a lot more sense if they can’t just send a small army to easily deal with a dragon or whatever else they’re worried about. This was a bit exaggerated on my end: yes, action economy is king in 5e, and still is in 2024. What I meant is: a 2024 Barb can have up to 17 HP at 1st level (12 baseline + 3 from CON modifier + 2 from Tough), which are worth twice as much thanks to Rage granting them resistance to all damage. Wizards will take Spell Initiate and gain a free cast of Shield. Generally speaking, characters have a higher damage output and more resources compared to their 2014 counterpart, which was already high compared to previous editions of DnD. And that’s not taking into account how difficult it is to die in 5e because of the death saving throws rule. These are not necessarily bad things: people will probably enjoy the higher floor for baseline power, and there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s also nothing wrong with forgoing the dungeon crawling origins of DnD in favour of more of a more theatrical/role-playing experience, which has already been pretty much the only way people has played the game for the past few years. It’s just not something I particularly enjoy or crave for. After a while, playing an overpowered character with near-endless resources in a game that seems designed around the idea of you doing cool shit all the time, it gets old. I prefer grittier experiences, which 5e and especially 2024 are unable to provide.

Another trash AI post.

That turned out unexpectedly wholesome :3

True. Also, it assumes that the parent commenter was being at least a little bit reasonable and trying to work backwards from there. Maybe I should have asked them if that’s what they were doing.

He could have them loaded onto a USB stick and delivered by a mate. Or onto a MicroSD and delivered by carrier pigeon. Or recorded onto tape and driven in by express courier from the next city over. After all, don’t underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape drives hurtling down the highway.

Sometimes I wonder if boomers know divorce is legal in most of the world.

Still not as bad as the guy who casts level 3 Testicular Torsion.

Nope, third time’s a bricking.

I’m terrible at understanding a lot of DND these days, but greeting cards were originally sent out by a divination wizard. Either to friend or foe, attempting to alter those people’s futures. The naughty or nice list grew and the Santa creature somehow evolved, I’ll let someone else expand.

I sometimes detail the food people are offered to texture out a region. You managed to hunt this, the inn serves that, a vendor sells this other thing.

…y’got any more o’them pixels lyin’ round?..

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You mean like playing an old man coming from the north, wearing a big blue coat, riding an enchanted slight in the air with reindeer companions, carring a big bag of holding and having a big cane as weapon? I have no idea what you are talking about

Abomination Vaults, floor 3.

Bud is definitely not lawful though. Peak CG energy.

In 5e, yes. You would eventually become good at everything since DCs aren’t all that high. There are things you could do to combat that, but at that point you’d be homebrewing your own rpg system