[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 hours ago

Car crashed into the supermarket I worked at in high school. Low speed, low damage.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 hours ago

I was playing a little life sim game (Kynseed. It's not bad)

I bought the town general store, and money just started rolling in. I didn't really have to do anything. The staff I hired dealt with customers and stocked the shelves, but I was keeping all the profits. I actually felt kind of guilty about how brazenly but also thoughtlessly capitalist it is.

I felt less bad when I started bringing in rarer stuff to sell (because people need to buy monster parts and fish, I guess), but the default is just "I own this so I get money without work"

Anyway. It's just a video game but it made me think

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 points 9 hours ago

It's nearly impossible to do anything good when you have a major conservative party set on doing bad.

You could have a position of "We should provide food to all children so they can learn without being distracted by hunger" and people would be like "that's communism i'd rather those kids starve"

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

I'm outside so I'm not sure how to evaluate "the room". My phone is the most immediate at hand (pun intended) useful thing right now though.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 day ago

There was a (fiction) book I was called "all the birds in the sky". I really liked it. Highly recommend.

One of the plot threads is a rich tech bro character that's like "the world is doomed we need to abandon it for somewhere else. Better pour tons of resources into this sci-fi sounding project". And I'm just screaming at the book "use that money for housing and transport and clean energy you absolute donkey".

There are a lot of well understood things we could be doing to make the world better, but they're difficult for idiotic political reasons. Racism, nimbyism, emotional immaturity, etc.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

I also really liked pillars 2, and am sad they're not making a third one.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 day ago

This pains me.

One time in a tabletop DND game, the party wiped over bad rolls. It was partly my fault for over tuning the fight, but also bad luck. The party had a potion that was like "you can make an extra full attack this turn, all your hits do an extra 1d10, and you're hasted. Afterwards, you are paralyzed for 1d4+1 turns".

Fighter drinks it and proceeded to miss like 6 attacks in a row. I think he needed to roll above like 13 and just couldn't do it.

This is also why I prefer games that give players more tools to tell the dice to fuck off, like fate points in Fate or willpower in CofD.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 day ago

I think of my cat as a lovable, kind of stupid, little brother. He usually wants to be involved in whatever I'm doing , follows me around the apartment, and so on. But also sometimes he just decides to do something ridiculous like climb into the dresser and get stuck.

I'm not sure how he thinks of me exactly. Seems affectionate!

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 61 points 1 day ago

"do not naturally possess" implies that trans folks possess the ability to double jump, but through unnatural means.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 125 points 1 day ago

I have a somewhat bad memory of playing DND as like a 13 year old. We were a mess. There was a cliff, a waterfall, and rope. Someone tied rope around himself and wanted to go down. There was a lot of cross talk and the guy with the rope around said he was going down.

The DM was like "no one is holding the other end of the rope"

"What?"

One by one they went through what everyone else had said they were doing. Searching the cave rocks for secrets. Keeping watch at entrance. Fighting over who got the magic stick. Etc.

Player went over the cliff.

It was decided that the character would wash up downstream with 0 HP and would live, so long as we could get to him in a reasonable time. Lessons were learned, sort of.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 day ago

Oh gosh I looked at the hand and think I lost 2d4 sanity points.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 47 points 1 day ago

Targeted ads should be illegal.

Contextual ads are a compromise I would accept. That is, you can buy ads based on the page content, but not the viewer details. So if I'm looking at a website about bikes, you can have bike ads on there. You don't need to know I'm a xx year old living in zip code 10001. That's how ads worked for like decades (centuries?). It's fine.

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submitted 1 month ago by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/dcss@lemmy.world

Not sure if this community is dead, but here we are!

I kind of stopped playing new versions around .28 because I really disliked the opportunity attacks mechanism, but I thought I'd give .32 a try. The new shapeshifter things look cool, but in fussing with it a bit it's harder than I expected.

But now the tournament is live! Who's playing?

https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/

I currently have one win with ye olde MiBe. Got lucky with good armor early on, and then cruised to a 3 rune (shoals + snake + vaults) win.

There was one dicey moment in the lungs where I went around the corner to reveal 4 orbs of fire, some draconians, and a lightning golem all waiting for me. Hasted + Fog'd my way the hell out there.

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I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

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submitted 2 months ago by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/Polyamory@kbin.run

Currently, I'm polite to friendly with all of them. No outstanding conflicts. It's sometimes literal kitchen table poly with one, and the others I only see at like parties and such.

Some years ago I had two partners that absolutely did not get along with each other, and that was rough. Recently I was able to do a dinner with 3 partners and everyone had a good time.

I try not to make a big deal about folks meeting. I try to model after meeting your friend's friends.

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submitted 2 months ago by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/Polyamory@kbin.run

For me there's a bit of a network effect where the polycule sprawls out into the distance. Partners have partners who have partners.

But for disconnected folks, it's mostly been tinder (yuck), and a local meetup.

(Also this might be the first post? That or nothing federated yet)

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I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

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Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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