Holding up the line
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I think you can have combat focused stories as long as your combat mechanics are lightweight and fast.
When I switched out my Shadowrun game to The Sprawl, and then eventually a homebrew, I actually got less afraid of letting combat happen because I knew it wouldn’t eat up ninety percent of the session. By volume of time spent, combat became much less of each session, and yet conversely combat could happen at any time and every scene could feel like a fight might break out because there was no sigh “Roll for initiative…”
With fast, lightweight combat mechanics (especially ones that do not have an initiative system) you get to weave violence into the substance of your story constantly, without the system taking place of the storytelling.
That’s not to say that less combat focused games are a bad thing. The other big change I found was that it was also much easier to run sessions where no fighting occurred, because I didn’t have to figure out how to fill the several hours that should have been taken up by a fight, and the players never felt like there was a difference between fighting and talking and everything else. It all just became part of the broader texture of the story, so a session with no fighting didn’t feel weird or out of place.
hm.
i do own the sprawl, and i don’t remember why now but that book made me uninterested in pbta as a whole. maybe i’ll go back to it.
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They aren’t familiar with Kilgrave and just make the meme based off the image and their interpretation of it
i just assumed it was the Doctor ranting at someone at the end of an episode
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Tenant does such a good job with the role that I legitimately had a hard time watching him as other characters for a while after. Kilgrave is so fucking vile on so many levels, but is still a fully fleshed out awful character by the end, and Tenant absolutely nails it.
Totally the same. Between this and him as Crowley in good omens I have a hard time seeing him as anything but these 2 characters.
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Every player is different, every DM is different. Thats why communication at the top is important, if you want to get heavily in to character and roleplay a detective mystery in the tavern, let your DM know that.
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This is why I suggest every caster either has note cards for their spells or a tablet with their spells bookmarked.
It’s fireball. It’s just gonna be fireball. Just roll your 8d6.
I don’t give a shit about how large is the room
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swing a sword four times
My group: “You guys make it to level five before the campaign falls apart?”
don’t most people start out in level 5?
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combat’s fine if you need actual strategy, like in pathfinder
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don’t most people start out in level 5?
I’ve always started lvl 1, I didn’t even know ppl started at higher lvls
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Unless some cataclysmic event has befallen the battlefield or a primary target or ally just died your turn should be no more than 1 minute at the longest.
I’m in a weird spot rn where I’m nostalgic for playing on roll20 because I wanted the ‘genuine experience’ of playing in person.
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It’s from Jessica Jones, a very, very good show. David Tennant plays a man with mind control powers who uses them in all of the worst ways you can possibly imagine. It’s technically a Marvel comics thing, but the creators were given total carte blanche and went deep into the absolute nightmarishness of the subject matter. It’s basically a mix of detective noir and horror. Tennant and Ritter both deliver incredible performances and the show really plays with the abject terror of living in a world with superhumans in it. It’s like a version of Invincible that refuses to ever undermine the horror by cracking a joke.
If you want a less explicit example of what he does that doesn’t really spoil anything, he picks some random family’s house as a base and tells the kids to stay out of sight. Iirc they just stand in a closed closet because they can’t disobey.
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Why would you use an image as a meme format if you didn’t know where it came from? That’s an incredibly bad way to communicate. You’re basically saying “Yes your Honor, but you see I was deliberately being an idiot.” Like, that doesn’t make it better.
You don’t have to know the history of every meme that you post.
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Bold of you to assume I know what my fighter is rolling.
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Why would you use an image as a meme format if you didn’t know where it came from? That’s an incredibly bad way to communicate. You’re basically saying “Yes your Honor, but you see I was deliberately being an idiot.” Like, that doesn’t make it better.
Go have a juice box buddy. You’ll feel better.
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Plan your next turn before it’s your turn!
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“NOW, JESSICAAAAA!!!”
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This is why I’m respeccing as a rogue this week.
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Plan your next turn before it’s your turn!
I did but then the sorcerer changed the whole situation with his bullshit!
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I don’t give a shit about how large is the room
This reminded me of a time our rogue fell into a pit trap that had a pair of mimics down there. The first turn it was clear the rogue was going to die without some help and nobody wanted to join them in the pit of dying. Me and the other sorc looked at each other, “hey rogue, you picked improved evasion right?”, fireball o’clock
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This reminded me of a time our rogue fell into a pit trap that had a pair of mimics down there. The first turn it was clear the rogue was going to die without some help and nobody wanted to join them in the pit of dying. Me and the other sorc looked at each other, “hey rogue, you picked improved evasion right?”, fireball o’clock
Did the rogue make it?
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I’ve always started lvl 1, I didn’t even know ppl started at higher lvls
Almost all campaigns I ran I’d have them start level 3-5 depending on what stories I wanted to tell. Pathfinder 1 the first couple levels are trash anyways and I personally felt like I didn’t have much interest with my own characters until I could see their unique abilities start to come online, so that’s where I liked to start players in my own campaigns
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