A screenshot showing a messed up drawing of a white male with red eyes turning their head to the back seat of a cat with their mouth wide open and the text "R: 58/1: 6 STOP ASKING ME FOR SKILL CHECKS: Tell me what your character DOES, and I will ask (YOU) to roll a skill check IF a check needs to be made. The next guy who asks for a skill check to search a room or wipe their ass, I guarantee you will fail it, no matter what you roll."

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Today's one is simple, what's that small Thing that bugs the shit out of you when playing a ttrpg, be it as a gm or player, that seems all to ubiquitous in the play space?

a woman wearing sunglasses and a black coat is holding a book and a laptop . Alt: a woman wearing sunglasses and a black coat is holding a book as the elevator doors open she takes off the sunglasses dramatically

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This one is for the worldbuilders out there. What does your worlds clothes/fashion say about the regions they exist in?

Does it speak to its wealth/affluence, to its style of government or maybe the ethos of a region?

a man wearing glasses and a bow tie says straight into the history books Alt: a white man man wearing glasses and a bow tie says "straight into the history books"

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"History is written by the victors" is a common turn of phrase. How Might this be a factor In your own world either benignly or maliciously. What facts have been lost to time or even attempted to have been scraped clean off the record to manipulate the world?

I'm going to say that personally unless it's information we were able To get from another source and it's being recounted to us in the form of a vinnete I'm not keen as it is information I the player am getting that my pc can't act upon or engage with

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

AI tools? Installing Spyware? Whoever could have expected this!

(Shocked Pikachu Face)

www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Gotta have an excuse why you HAVE to get everything iantead of wanting to

Why make it good when you cna make it mandatory

Me off comics. Everything is retconned, time turnered, multiversed etc. Nothing stays dead

Its a clear "fans like him let's bring him back" and I'm just not interested in supporting that or this clear cash grab rerelease

Ngl I have no love for marvel or DC. I was going because my partner loves Thor and is a comic guy but I was struggling to get through all of their crap (don't get me started in the shows) and the decision to bring him back to be doom was such a bullshit idea imo

Doing the same shit that turns

This screams "we got beat out by other films and want to punch up thr numbers"

Add in that telling your casual viewer that your new film will likely be too obtuse for them & the apathy folks have for your company after all the bullshit you've pulled in recent years (gen ai, lay offs etc.) bad call

They really are capturing the “buy these ten issues of titles you don’t follow if you want the whole story” vibe that helped wean me off superhero comics when I was a kid.

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In your world does the sex trade or similar activities exist and if so how safe is it for the providers of the service and the clientele?

Are there laws for or against it? Has it been relegated to back alleys or perhaps there are set places to ply the trade?

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

Through sections of shows. I've never seen one I liked one hundred percent (or even 80)

Even as someone that enjoys participating in them/running them I don't often enjoy watching them

Its just not the type of entertainment I find fun to watch

Be it due to comedy, pacing or who knows my weird autistic proclivities it is hard to do and even with the best I still end up having to push

A three panel meme (using the Spiderman format of Peter and Harry talking) In the first panel petersyas "I hate ai and I refuse to use it" Harry responds saying "Peter, if you don't use Ai a bunch of super rich men will lose alot of money" Finally Peter responds "I already said I hated ai Harry, you don't need to sell it to me"

Whenever I hear people say I g I need to adapt or die I think I'll take the third option and kill it off

That bubble is gonna burst someday and I'm gonna have my integrity & morals intact

HIDARI (Pilot Film) - The Stop-Motion Samurai Film YouTube video by HIDARI

As someone that loves stop motion how did I not know about this film sooner! Seems it should be done in 2029 and I'm eager as hell to see it

Add in the "why weren't you healing me" like bro, you are barely hurt and there were more pressing matters at hand

gumball from the amazing world of gumball is sitting at a desk . Alt: gumball (a child that looks like a blue cat in a suit) from the amazing world of gumball is sitting at a desk in America's oval office he says "my fellow Americans I think we all know where this is going so let's just skip to the end" and then presses a button on the desk and a massive nuclear blast happens in the background seen via the window

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Global destruction been on my mind lately, in your ttrpg experience what has been the biggest world Changing use of magic/technology?

Was it something that happened long ago or was it recent? How did it change the world & what affect did it have on the people?

a cartoon of a classroom with a bulletin board that says " eat healthy " on it Alt: a cartoon of a classroom (recess) where all the students stand up and toss their paperwork in the air in excitement

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Have you ever participated in a campaign that was based around being in a school (be it as a student or teacher) and what did you end up getting up to during that game?

What about the school setting lent itself to the game and it's trials/story?

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How might creatures adapted to handle your world in ways that different from conventional understandings?

Stronger muscles/bones to handle a stronger gravity, pouches for storing rocks/other items for weight, bioluminescence, or perhaps something else entirely

I believe that particular ability also has a use for non combat making the target regard you as friendly for a minute but not the same as what folks would want. Dnd is very lackluster when it comes to social beyond affects that "make them friendly" or improve a skills bonus

Nothing makes me NOT want to go to someone's event (be it a game, a show or a party) like seeing they made the fucking invite with Gen ai

Like Fuck man it's so prevelant now & not only is it ugly as sin morally it's also just a piss poor way of conveying information

Far too busy and obscures info

Ngl this is a thing I've mentioned for alot of ttrpgs where giving players a reason to use their money is super valid "look, sure we cna fight, and you MIGHT win. Or you cna take these credits and fuck off with no hassle and maybe buy a magazine and learn who we are huh?"

If that existed (refering to dnd) it would have been an older mechanic (not 5e or 5.5)

I know that there is a penache thing in one of the rogue archetypes (swashbuckers) but I think that's the only thing that fills that particular niche

Oh no I'm right there with you. The joke never stands the test of time

And to everyone that says "oh my character was a joke character and it grew with the campaign"

Yeah that means it was no longer a joke character and you just let it become an actual functioning person

Technically it would be Team Gear though that's more becuase certain members are pushing the average.

If you removed roughly 2 handfuls it would instead fall to the pokemon rangers. They aren't quite dangerous as their goal is rescue and conservation but they can kick ass if the need requires

a man wearing glasses and a bow tie says straight into the history books Alt: a white man man wearing glasses and a bow tie says "straight into the history books"

#TTRPGQuestion #ttrpg #worldbuilding

"History is written by the victors" is a common turn of phrase. How Might this be a factor In your own world either benignly or maliciously. What facts have been lost to time or even attempted to have been scraped clean off the record to manipulate the world?

Also this isn't limited to just nudity and sex. A lot of these porn bans consider depictions of queer relationships, trans people, and gender nonconformity as "pornographic."

By trying to protect only yourself, you are harming so many others

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.