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I know a lot of people didn't like it for understandable reasons but I really enjoyed 4th Ed dnds combat. Although this comes from a long time warhammer enjoyer. My current fave rpg is lancer which probabaly tells you about my proclivites
(BTW is tiny frog wizards compatible with like salamanders, newts and axolotl and other such small amphibians?)
From the perspective of pure design, Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition is probably the finest piece of work Wizards of the Coast has ever produced, and among the more accomplished examples of game design in the hobby as a whole. A certain subset of the hobby have made it a cornerstone of their personalities to performatively disapprove of what 4E does, but it does it very well.
(Also, the extent to which 4E was poorly regarded for its content is greatly exaggerated. I go into the timeline of events in some detail in this post here; the short version is that the greater part of the 4E "edition war" sprang from a marketing strategy by one of WotC's competitors, which ended up succeeding beyond their expectations due to a series of clownshoes blunders by Hasbro regarding 4E's rollout, promotion and licensing – a lot of people forget that the recent business with the OGL 1.1 isn't the first time Hasbro has attempted that particular brand of fuckery! The perception that 4E was disliked because it was badly designed is largely the product of a tiny but highly vocal core of edition-warring grognards taking advantage of the fact that most people don't remember the real reasons that 4E commercially underperformed to push a false narrative.)
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System Wars
So system warring in the hobby has taken a weird turn since the whole WotC debacle. I shared two different posts kind of touching on the subject, that I agree with in some manner or the other. Let me lay it out for you: No one should be shamed for their preferred system. This hobby is about fun & games and people should be allowed to enjoy what they enjoy. If you only wanna play 5e, fine. If you'd rather play anything else, also fine. If you're shaming people for their preferred system you're doing more harm than good.
A little homebrew here or there also does not mean someone needs to play something else instead. Everyone has house rules.
However, treating 5e like it's a universal system that can run any genre of game is insane. There are literally thousands of games out there that already do what your homebrew D&D 5e conversion would do and more, save yourself the energy and just play that. Additionally, Most systems you could play as an alternative to D&D are way cheaper, if not free in comparison to the massive tomes WotC puts out each year. Many of them are just as supported if not more so by their creators in the form of digital tools and add ons too. If you are affording new purchase of 5e books on the regular, you can absolutely afford to branch out into other cheaper systems. A dogmatic devotion to D&D is what contributes to WotC's stranglehold of the market share. This fear of learning new systems in the hobby is bad for players, bad for GMs, and bad for the hobby's health. If you've genuinely tried other systems and still prefer 5e, Great! Have fun! If you're a person who wants to play a genre conversion for D&D (think Pokemon D&D! One Piece D&D! Fallout D&D!) - I recommend you grab one of the numerous games specifically designed to capture that genre rather than putting a D&D square peg in a round fallout hole. If you're a player in this scenario, then shame on you for demanding your DM go through the hard work of converting an entire genre into 5e just so you don't have to learn a new system.
Some of my favorite mechanics and favorite sessions at the table have come from sessions of Pokemon Tabletop Adventures, Call of Cthulhu, City of Mist, Pathfinder 1e, etc. I've even carried minor game design back into my 5e games to make them better too. There is space for both. 5e Players and Other System Players are brothers and sisters in gaming, and we should be uplifting and challenging each other - not fighting and demeaning each other.
5e players aren't stupid, and you're not some leet gamer because you play Pathfinder or GURPS instead. 5e also isn't God's gift to gaming. Expand your horizons, but enjoy what you like. Catch flies with honey not vinegar. Telling people they have BRAIN DAMAGE FOR ENJOYING 5E is beyond the pale and insisting there's NO POSSIBLE WAY I COULD EEEEEEVER learn a new system is just laziness to the point of idiocy.
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I think part of the reason why edition wars with ttrpgs can get so fierce, particularly with dnd, but not just dnd, by the end of a popular edition there's always bloat and material that wasn't super well thought out or tested, and a million hours of thousands playing a game can reveal flaws in the best of rulesets, and we can all (well most of us) agree this is true, and at least a good portions will agree the best thing to do about it is start again, rewrite the rules from scratch, make a new edition (the other option is keep playing but complain occasionally, add house rules and limit which sourcebooks to use - and plenty do that)
now here's the problem (talking fans and players, including GMs, not the game designers and creators) none of us can agree which material was a bit bloaty, which material wasn't super well thought out, which foundational rules were flawed and none of us can agree how to fix it
how much needs changing, which bits need removing, what needs adding, what even was the problem with the old ruleset
so much in game design is about taste, there is very very rarely a right answer
and whatever comes out of the redesign process some readers are going to have the aghast realisation that the game designers (or worse your friends and fellow players) do not agree with them about the details, at least to one degree or another, for some that will be fine, and for others not so much
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As a veteran of the earliest edition wars, as someone who once passionately tried to convert people away from whatever their favorite game was to whichever "better" game I was into at the moment, I’m glad I outgrew that attitude a long time ago. I like a marketplace with options, but you need to sell me your game on its own merits, not merely as an alternative to something else you don’t like.
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When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.
So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".
So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.
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A video of Palestinian man burning to death while still connected to an IV went viral after Israel firebombed a hospital and set tents on fire. I won't post the video or the pictures but I'd like to commemorated the victim.
This is Shaaban Al-Dalu. He had two sisters and a little brother. He was studying software engineering in the tent he died in. Shaaban was his family's sole provider. His mother died with him. May they rest in peace
Edited to add family pic
#yemen#jerusalem#tel aviv#current events#palestine#free palestine#gaza#free gaza#news on gaza#palestine news#news update#war news#war on gaza#gaza genocide#genocide#edited
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"Perhaps a lesser-known gift of Kenobi's was his ability to listen."
(AU where post-banishment Ahsoka gets zapped back to TPM, strapped with a fundamental distrust of the Jedi, an apocalyptic vision of the future, and a mandate to help Anakin Skywalker. So, in all this, it's nice to have a confidant.)
edit: link to the fic
#found myself thinking about these two lately#star wars#i return briefly to star wars for May 4th#ahsoka tano#obi-wan kenobi#although he smiles stuff#illustration#art#artists on tumblr#fanart#shout out to those who've read the fic#I went back to edit it recently#cursed experience#trying to decipher my writing is like trying to read doctor's handwriting but i gave it a crack anyway
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MEAN TO HIM!!!
#they're called pumpkin toadlets and they're bad at everything because they're sososososooo teeny weeny tiny#they're so small that their inner ears don't work and they can't land their jumps properly! they are so little it makes them CLUMSY#and they can't hear each other's mating calls either!!!#WAAAUGGGHGH#animals#edit: i did not mean to post this to my star wars blog but whatever i'm keeping it
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Your anger betrays your thoughts.
THE ACOLYTE | 1.06: TEACH/CORRUPT
#the acolyte#star wars#starwarsedit#swedit#cinemapix#dixonscarol#filmtvcentral#televisiongifs#tusercora#tuserjyn#tuserlyn#tvedit#userbarrow#userdiana#userelio#usersugar#*edits#theacolyteedit#qimir#the stranger#osha aniseya#the acolyte spoilers#qimir just straight up flirting with osha lolz
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she really shut his annoying ass up lmaooo
the acolyte (1.08)
#*#the acolyte#the acolyte spoilers#star wars#star wars edit#swedit#amandla stenberg#manny jacinto#osha aniseya#qimir#osha x qimir#oshamir#thestarwarsdaily#tvedit#otpsource#usernik#userpegs#usershale#tuserhan#userhella#userconstance#userchristie#tusernicky#tuserpris#userisaiah#tusernath#useremi#usermaria#tusermira#enemies to lovers
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You can now get a print of any Dork Tower strip from https://shop.dorktower.com/category/prints
Lots of requests for yesterday’s DORK TOWER to be done as a poster, SO HERE IT IS!
(It’s at http://society6.com/JohnKovalic/EDITION-WARS_Print#1=45, in case the above link doesn’t work)
And do stop by DorkTower.com, if you get the chance! We’ll leave the light on.
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#GOING INSANE#FORGET ITS CANON CANON#TAG EDIT: ITS FROM#Venom war: Spider-man 1 2024#y talks#spiderman#symbiote spiderman#venom#symbrock
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EWAN MCGREGOR | Vanity Fair | 2024
#ewan mcgregor#hayden christensen#obi wan kenobi#kenobi series#star wars#star wars cast#sw cast#usermelanie#userjasmine#thetorontokid#vanity fair#interview#interviewedit#ewanmcgregoredit#emgregoredit#*my edits
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#star wars#clone troopers#tcw#the bad batch#sw rebels#prequel trilogy#the clone wars#star wars rebels#sw memes#star wars legends#attack of the clones#this fandom continues to amaze me#wisdom of gamelpar#my edits#my memes#1k#2k#3k#4k
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You're our kid, Omega.
#the bad batch#tbb#the bad batch spoilers#tbb spoilers#star wars#tbb season 3#omega#hunter#the cavalry has arrived#my edits
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THE CLONE WARS | 7.09 AHSOKA | 1.05
#ahsoka#ahsoka spoilers#tcwedit#star wars#ahsoka tano#anakin skywalker#swedit#thestarwarsdaily#swsource#userjen#thetorontokid#usersaoirse#tuserhan#userlumi#mel edits
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