Wandering Adventure Party

🌈 Maddy StyLo the Unicorn 🦄 This has real “I’m immune to propaganda enery,” and no tou ain’t.

Jürgen Hubert If you’re into English language actual-plays, too, I can happily recommend Rotgrind, Rotgoons, and Rustcrew from Narrative Declaration, or Mortals & Portals if you’re into something a little more tightly edited and rules-loose.

But Dawnsbury Days is the most accessible hands-on experience for individuals currently flying solo exploring the system.

Jürgen Hubert Have you had the chance to play Dawnbury Days? It’s a short, independent, grid-based video game based on the PF2e rule set, and it’s a pretty good experience.

It’s not quite how I run the game – I like to massage and bend it to my purposes – but it gives you a default, RAW adventure where you can kick the tires for just a few euro.

Another animation short from Narrative Declaration’s Kingmaker 2e campaign

Yeah, I’m not seeing that many new faces. A few, though.

A lot more very defensive people playing apologetics for the CEO on other platforms.

Eric Wickham Always great to see PressProgress represented here! Greetings from nodeBB and the outer-fesiverse!

Garen gets the goggles, but he’s lacking some significant body parts for them.

Null That really isn’t in evidence in their government’s behaviour.

Null Oh gods, which Fediverse is Alberta? Is it Lemmy?

I bet it’s Lemmy.

Wherein the Eclectics adopt a bandit!

Jürgen Hubert I’m running PF2e and have a 12 year old who has taken 19th century European military history on as a special interest, while I’m much more into the 17th century aesthetic. So there’s no wrong answer here, as far as I’m concerned.

For the past year, I’ve been dealing with a series of unexpected health struggles. First it was floaters in my left eye, then it was an intense burning sensation in my abdomen coupled with severe health anxiety, then tingling in my fingers, and now sciatica and a return of the burning and anxiety.

I’m trying to figure out which oppressed peoples graveyard I built my hotel on. And also wondering where my hotel is.

Null Honestly, I’ve been convinced for like 15 years now that “gamers” don’t actually like playing video games, and I don’t think it’s a negativity bias in comments.

I think it’s an identity issue.

Making video games a core part of one’s identity – especially their public identity – turns them from a hobby activity into something that is deeply ego-bound. This means they become symbols of who you are, and emblems of your social value. They are vehicles for demonstrating your worthiness, your belonging, your place in the social hierarchy, and what have you. Liking the “wrong” games becomes a social risk, and hating on the “right” games becomes a demonstration of belonging and superiority.

But engaging in these social games directly affects how you feel about things. You are what you do, and online “gamers” are people who hate on games, not enjoy playing them.

This is the direction I’ve been moving, and my cotributions to this space are microscopic compared to yours. There’s just too much energy tied up in other peoples spaces, the product of which can blink out of existence without any warning or recourse. Too much focus has been put on building spaces that look and feel like mega-social sites. Falling into those tropes prevents us from focusing on creating something new and uniquely ours.

You have the tools to house your own communities. If you have the energy to do it, it’s best to build them on a foundation you can trust.

A big part of it, I think, is that “gamer” has come to mean not just “someone who likes to play (video) games”, but “someone who is good at (video) games”. And they are people who don’t seem to be able to actually analyze what a game is. So, they’re “good at games”, but wildly overestimate what that means.

These are people who have attached their egos to the outcomes of their play, have used the outcome of that play to feel superior about the thematic trappings obfuscating what games are, and then have formed little arrogance hives.

They’ll attack Ubisoft games for their tropes without any understanding of what those tropes really are or why they exist, because someone else noticed the tropes and said something in a smug tone. They’re just chasing that sense of smug superiority, while never doing anything.

And then a Silksong comes along, with all the hype, and all of the aesthetic that jams these guys jimmies, and… it’s too hard for them. And they blow their fucking tops.

It’s been a loooong time since I’ve played FInal Fantasy 7. Like, probably 25 years now. Maybe 20. But definitely before I permanently moved away from home. It’s one of my favourite games of all time, but also, one of the hardest for me to revisit.

I’m at the City of the Ancients now, and I’m finding myself woefully unprepared to handle it.

So many family recipes are documented this way, though, so it’s a significant problem when these are handed down.

“I just skip grandma’s chili because she didn’t record it using volume or weight for everything” isn’t a thing people say or do.

No, you’re not alone. There has been much ink spelled in defense of the removal of geneaological morality from the game, and from Pathfinder before it. It’s just that most of that ink has been in replies to people being cranky about the removal in the first place.

Good and evil being a racial trait is just something that about 1/3 of society seems to take for granted. It’s a belief they may not even know they have until someone does something that stops reinforcing that belief. These silent, often unnoticed beliefs are often the corner stones of ideologies, and people don’t like having their ideologies questioned or challenged. Or even highlighted, in many cases.

So, people who have an ideological belief that good and evil are simple concepts, that good and evil are inherent qualities of a person, and that good and evil are tied to heritage are going to be primed to be giant whiny babies about racial alignment being removed, and to put up a giant stink,while those who see it as a commom sense move are not going to be front and centre making headlines about it. They’ll be in the comments, getting down-voted by the tilted reactionaries who like their simplistic, black-and-white world.

I haven’t had to deal with the affliction rules yet (my players stomped a really deep mud hole in the Ghouls I threw at them early on). I’ve heard they can be a bit… punishing. I love that the game does give the player tools to overcome them, if they’re prepared!

Angela said in We played our Pathfinder 2 game yesterday and it was great.:

the fighter got some nice attacks of opportunity which helped out a bunch (I don’t think that’s what they are called in Pathfinder

It was up until last year, when they got renamed to ‘Reactive Strikes’. Most people I know still call them ‘A-Ops’.

These session recaps are really great, by the way. I’ve found myself quite invested in the party’s trials and tribulations! Especially after one of y’all got ate.