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Kichae

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network Yeah, the ideas that “I’m not interested in receiving a message, therefore the things I consume have no message” or “this product was inexpensive, therefore the creator has no message” are pretty wild.

Sometimes the politics being presented are invisible to the author, and sometimes they’re not. In either case, they’re communicating real messages about the world, what the creator believes is acceptable, and what they believe is not. Not seeing those messages really just means that you thoughtlessly agree with them.

Which says more about the consumer than it does the producer.

Kichae

Presumably, they expected it to sell 0% more than their projections.

Kichae

SilverGM Oh, that’s incredibly common on Reddit. People don’t read the books, so have no idea that the treasure tables exist, nor that the DC tables exist, that there are guidelines for monster creation, or even that there are pre-defined actions for things like feinting.

The flip side of that, though, is that a lot of the people that new GMs are talking to are hyper-orthodox about the game, and have the default position of “why even play this game if you want to do [thing that deviates by an arbitrary amount from the Golarion setting]?”

Kichae

Oh man, I had a bootleg copy of SimTower that I could never get to run. Always wanted to play it. Never figured out how.

Kichae

🐀WASABIISOFT No, most of us are using different websites.

Kichae

SilverGM Yeah, but one hit per round is also a fairly good estimate, assuming you’re throwing primarily Pl-2 to PL+0 creatures at them.

I think that 1d4 would put it around Level 5, based on what I’ve seen.I wish we had more concrete guidance on item level damage and usage frequency, though.

Kichae

Ooo, do you have your hexploration brews on your blog?

Kichae

SilverGM Looking through AoN, the only thing I’m seeing that comes anywhere close to this kind of power budget is the Resonating Crystal Boots, which are a Level 8 item and do an average of something like 9 damage against as many creatures as you can walk past.

Your item looks to do about 15 damage to one target, with no saves and the potentual of no one being within melee range. Just based off of vibes, I’d place this at a similar level. That said, I wouldn’t hesitate to give it to the party. I think giving players over-leveled items is one of the best things you can do to leverage the game’s strong level system.

Kichae

Jürgen Hubert Lemmy is better than Mastodon, for sure, but man do I resent the move the Internet made from bulletain boards to “content aggregators”. Topics fall off on Lemmy and Reddit almost as fast ad on microblogging platforms. They’re still geared towards new content, not ongoing discussions.

Kichae

I really don’t have qualms about the game prices. People have obsessed over the increase, but honestly, I don’t buy console games without deep consideration, and I play them for years. $90 CAD vs $120 CAF is meaningless on that level.

But I’m not spending $700 on a Switch. I didn’t ask for a portable. I have no need for the little screen, and I resent paying for the tiny microcontrollers that cramp up my hand. It’s less valuable to me for all of the portability elements, not more. Definitely not 40% more than I paid for my Switch 1.

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