“People come into your life for a reason, for a season or for a lifetime.” I’ve never really been one to think that friendships are meant to last a lifetime, it’s cool if they do, but I know I’m horrible at keeping touch, and tend to want to be mostly alone unless I’m actively seeking communication time. Try not to have hurt feelings is all I can suggest, and appreciate the good times you did have together.

One fun fact about dice is you can have any higher faced die substitute for a lower faced one by rerolling any number not on the lower die. This is why I only carry a d100

Yeah 5e has them as using ki in ways that feels very much like they started building a psion and were told to change it to a monk. Pf2 has them also using qi magic (there it’s just the monk flavoring of focus spells, something most classes have), and doing a lot of classic monk stuff. There I’m far less unhappy with it being it’s own class, I just don’t think wuxia classes are generally fitting enough to belong in core 2 rather than a splatbook.

FoxNews? Gotta check that one out.

Ah, most tabletop roleplaying games, like DnD, tend to have a sort of chaotic “we didn’t think this through properly” seat-of-your-pants energy where the group bumbles from situation to situation and somehow still manages to succeed. There’s also a strong tendency of there being wildly different characters who somehow still work really well together.

I miss being a bear bearian

But does it work the other way around?

Font choice matters, kids

What’s with the quote at the bottom right?

Now I’m picturing snakes wearing fancy dresses and elaborate masks

rules lawyers are as happy as a pig in mud In my experience, rules lawyers get a certain special high from remembering some obscure piece of info and digging it out at the right moment. It’s their own special kind of magic. And - from time to time - it does make the game better, because you’ve got a guy who can say “Actually there IS a rule for jumping off a cliff, grabbing onto a big vine, and swinging onto the back of the rampaging Wyvern”. But when the DM thinks they know the rules and the Player thinks they know the rules, and then they spend half an hour arguing over the results of a dice roll, it is my experience that neither of them walk away from the table happier than when they started. The best you can ever get is the table stakes and the worst you get is feeling robbed or cheated. Fate is definitely among my top games. I recommend it to everyone who brings up gaming, but I never seem to be able to get into a group with it these days. I personally hate d&d for how it not only is the name everyone knows, but somehow has cemented itself as the only game people are willing to play. The d20 system is pretty quick to pick up but contains enough depth to allow for wide variations in setting and style. So many of the variants are just right there at surface level. Nobody has to work hard to make fireballing a goblin legion or sneak attacking a mind flayer cooler than it already is. FATE is perhaps too vanilla and really relies on the players/DMs to pick up the slack in their descriptions. The fundamental problem with a very story-based game is where you go with it when other people at the table just aren’t exciting enough to keep it compelling. Easy to say “I like this system over that system” when what you really liked was the group of Theater Kids (or just the friends you knew with a good set of in-jokes) that made the game pop. I know a few friends who swear by Call of Cthulhu as a system. But their DM is a phenomenal amateur horror writer. So, I feel like it isn’t the system that’s doing a lot of the work.

Oh. Yeah. That just screams Darwin Award.

Nice. Thanks.

That’s like an entire region’s supply of 5th-level characters. And they’re paladins, so they have to be 9th level redemption paladins.

Take the short flaw.

Also a Dwarf game: German Simulator games, with none of the jank.

So far 0. I haven’t finished designing the ship.

My bases would give you a heart attack. No trains. I barely understand circuits. I just brute forced my way to Aquilo, so far.

Ork behavior.

Path of the Giants Halfling FTW