#rpg thoughts

[library-of-legion]

I always thought the paladin class was kind of bland, vanilla, and boring. Like many others on forums, I shared the opinion that they were just annoying goody two-shoes. That was until I took a moment to actually read their tenets, especially the Oath of the Ancients:

Kindle the Light: Through your acts of mercy, kindness, and forgiveness, kindle the light of hope in the world, beating back despair.

Shelter the Light: Where there is good, beauty, love, and laughter in the world, stand against the wickedness that would swallow it. Where life flourishes, stand against the forces that would render it barren.

Preserve Your Own Light: Delight in song and laughter, in beauty and art. If you allow the light to die in your own heart, you can't preserve it in the world.

Be the Light: Be a glorious beacon for all who live in despair. Let the light of your joy and courage shine forth in all your deeds.

How beautiful is that? I want to follow these tenets in real life.

The paladin class is about working toward an ideal so strong, so unwavering, that it manifests as magic. Maybe my interpretation isn’t perfect, but thinking about a paladin breaking their oath now feels much sadder. How I choose to see it, an oathbreaker is not a person who accidentally broke a tenant but a person that stop believing in the dream of a better future.

[sunbleachedflys]

What the fuck

[the-gamling-dog]

I love it when powerful NPCs from the early campaign are like "my brother in Christ, no-one else in this world has exceeded level 10, y'all are monstrous oddities."

The sudden isolation for the players, the realisation that there is no Gandalf to deal with the trolls for them... is there any better way to subconsciously process the jolt of ascension into adulthood?

[marithlizard]

Of course it depends what kind of story you want to tell. He's certainly got a point...but if you're going to take that kind of "realistic" approach, I think you also have to consider how brutally unfair cleric-type magic is in RPGs. The main characters/adventuring party has access to healing magic and almost always some kind of resurrection ability. But what about everyone else? Are all the NPCs perfectly healthy and amazingly long-lived? That would have some interesting implications for society and worldbuilding. Or are healing spells too expensive for the commonfolk to afford? In that case, surely people must be begging the party healer to help their children on a daily basis. And resenting the adventurers, even, for their casual privilege.

Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

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[gimmickblog-taxonomist]

How do you become a gimmick blog?

step 1: think of a gimmick

step 2: blog

[toaster-boi]

[emilostingender]

The duality of lancer players

[criticalamityz]

i'm sorry, i can't tell you

[mifithemuffin]

so clinical trial is like constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop until they finally throw the whole shoe factory your way and nothing is what you expected. fascinating.

[c-schroed]

If I had a nickel for every time an eldritch universe I love got an RPG announced on an August 1st,

I'd have two nickels.

[dukeofash]

Lancer pilots dressing up their mechs pt 2

[oldschoolfrp]

Albedo is the roleplaying game of furries in a crunchy '80s military sci-fi future setting, based on Steve Gallacci's story "Erma Felna: EDF" from his comic Albedo Anthropomorphics (Thoughts & Images, 1988). Gallacci was a technical illustrator for the US Air Force, so you get both "funny animal" comic art and detailed equipment diagrams:

[revvedandrunning]

[character-selecton]

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have fun. Role play. Make lore. Don’t let haters get you down. We may be “cringe”, but at least we know how to have fun

[spookydingus]

Rolling your own check without asking and announcing it is one thing, and disrupts the game for everyone, but I will never understand DMs that hate players asking for checks.

Like, what? Being proactive and playing the game and using their brains for creative solutions? You hate that? This isn't a video game, my brethren.

"Hey, can I do an insight check on this guy?" is a good idea, and something I might not think to call for every single time. Also, when a party needs help, it's my job to do that??? Like, what would you rather them do? "Yeah I'm just gonna stare at this guy and say that I examine him and use a whole bunch of keywords until you call for a check like it's chatgpt"?

Learn how to play with the party, not against them.

[toaster-boi]