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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

1 year

Portfolio: Behind The Scenes: Blog: Newsletter: Print Games: PDF Games: Ko-Fi: Wishlist:

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

I really need neurotypical people to understand that one interruption, even if it's 'only' a 30 second interruption, is enough to derail the entire day of a person with ADHD if you do it when we've finally managed to get focused on a task.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

No video game has ever been better as a result of the inclusion of weapon durability

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

In D&D 5e, RAW, you can lift 30x your strength score in lbs. Eddie Hall's world record deadlift is 500kg or around 1,102lbs. That's a strength score of 36 or 37. An adult red dragon has a strength of 27. Just think about that.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

When I write 5e I'm frustrated by having to write defensively to account for players looking for loopholes in order to Win, and I think "who actually plays like this?" Then I see the responses to One D&D and I'm like...oh. It's all of you. This is why we have to write like this.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

There is a reason my phone hasn't made a single sound for more than a decade

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

In the board game Monopoly, there's a moment towards the end of the game where the winning player owns maybe 95% of the board. They have multiple hotels, they've maybe bankrupted an opponent already, and it's only a matter of time before they have everything and the game is over.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

1 year

My actual favourite thing in D&D is in the 2e book I, Tyrant where it advises GMs that the best way to play the megalomaniacal hyper intelligence of an ancient Beholder who is always 5 steps ahead of the PCs is to literally just cheat

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

e.g. I just had to go let Lucky into the front room because the door had closed and he couldn't get to his tray and now that work schedule I was doing so well at keeping to today is ruined

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

6 years

I'm watching a guy play noughts and crosses with himself in the fog on the bus window. He's played two games so far and both times he's cheated so that he can win. Wow.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Hi, as someone with severe untreated ADHD that is a massive, massive detriment to the quality of my life, let me just say that I absolutely hate this. I'd rather have zero representation for neurodivergency in games that whatever this is.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

5 years

DnD hot take: giving a monster cool abilities because you want your monster to be able to do cool shit is 100% valid and don't let anybody tell you it needs "lore justification" to be right.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Step 1: Don't you fucking dare.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

I've been listening to Critical Role S1 while I work recently and noticed something. Sometimes someone (esp. Sam) will try to fast talk guards etc. and Mercer doesn't know what to do so says, "make a Deception/Persuasion check" Thesis: social checks are the reaction rolls of 5e

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Anyway all my focus has disappeared so I'm just going to watch The Stone Tape and try again tomorrow

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

5 years

TTRPG Twitter swings wildly between THIS PERSON WRONGED SOMEBODY THEY ARE A MONSTER BURN THEIR LIFE DOWN SALT THE EARTH THEY MUST NEVER BE HAPPY AGAIN RAGE RAGE RAGE & Be nice to yourself and others, mental health is important, forgive people, let's all get along yeah?

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

My favourite thing about the Crit Role discourse is seeing all the other streamers who aren't connected to RPGs at all going "wait what the fuck is Critical Role?"

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Had a lot of people tell me it's "to encourage you to try new weapons" and all I'm saying is that I don't need to run out of petrol or have my engine break down to make me try a wide variety of cars in Forza

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

This is EXACTLY why we talk about playing other games and talking about other games and removing the idea that TTRPGs = D&D, because this game is *nothing at all* like D&D and is certainly not a clone of it. This is exhausting.

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@Polygon

3 years

Pixar’s Onward spawned a surprisingly good D&D clone. That’s right ... Quests of Yore is real.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Sitting down with the D&D 4e Player's Handbook to read it for the first time. This will be a very long thread that will last a few hours.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

I don't know who needs to hear this but when someone asks an RPG question and specifies "not D&D"? Pathfinder is still D&D.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

I know a lot of people are super interested and so I thought I'd put together a quick guide about how to take your TTRPG books and mint them as NFTs! It's very easy and in this thread I'll show you how👇

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Maybe if you're scouring Long Rest rules looking for ways to sneak in an extra spell or two without it costing you anything you're actually part of the problem and ruining the game for the rest of your group. Maybe.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Metagaming is always bad which is why I don't let players look at their character sheets. If they knew what numbers to add to their attack rolls that would break immersion and we simply can't have that.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

#dnd tip: There are games that aren't D&D, and you should play them. And this isn't me jumping on the "fuck D&D and everyone who has anything to do with it" bandwagon. I love that game, I've played it in every edition except 4th since 1994. It's my comfort game.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Frankly I don't understand why you'd play other wargames when you could just houserule Chess

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

My new game doesn't use magic it uses *looks around the room* Power drawn from intricate webs of spider silk that cross the globe, the leavings of the arachnid god that spun the world into existence.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

I've been watching the discourse around WoTC and monopolies, with people saying "oh but other companies exist so they don't have an actual monopoly so your arguments are invalid" and it reminds me of this part of the board game.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

1 year

The really encouraging thing about this is that people are, in fact, playing other RPGs.

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#GenCon Aftermath

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

Nobody is forcing you to use safety tools in your game. That said - when you laugh at them and denigrate the people who choose to use them, then say "just have a conversation with me", you're sending a very clear sign that any such conversation would be met with mockery.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Remember when the BBC said staff couldn't join Pride marches for fear of breaching "no bias" rules?

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

1 year

@zedecksiew This is why lots of the "D&D-style games only have mechanics for combat therefore incentivise violence" conversations annoy me. Our long-running OD&D game regularly wrestles with the moral/ethical side of using force as a tool and it's consistently the best game I've been part of

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

1 year

People in the replies to this saying "lettuce is cheap" so let's play that game. A head of iceberg lettuce costs about £0.70, contains about 32 calories, 2g of protein, and 6g of carbohydrates. A McDonalds hamburger costs £1.29, has 251 calories, 30g carbs, and 13g protein

Nicole Trauma Llama APRN, CNS

@TraumaSoapBoxes

1 year

If you judge a patient for their diet I need you to know that fresh produce is basically a luxury item How do I know?? Because I grew up thinking only rich people eat salad

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Hasbro's third quarter revenues in 2021 were $1.97 billion. In one quarter. Their nearest biggest competitor, Paizo, is estimated to make $34.5M per year. The two are not the same.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

7 months

Wrote a little blog post about why you should be using surprise/reactions/distance with your encounter tables. It contains the best encounter table I've ever written.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Everyone else is miserable. They own maybe one or two properties. Rolling dice is hoping to land on the cheapest space, or on one of your own spaces. Nobody is having fun. Everybody wants it to end.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

oh my what is this

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

1 year

"The strike was illegal!" What if I told you that people have the right to simply not go to work, regardless of whether it's part of strike action or not? Ideas of what is or isn't a "legal" strike are inherently, explicitly anti-worker.

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@CharlesHThyme

1 year

@MarinaPurkiss Given that the strike was illegal (now a statement of fact, not an opinion) I’m curious as to what exactly you are criticising here.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Here are those numbers as a bar chart, for reference

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Just handed in my notice, I officially work full time in games.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

During this phase, the winning player will sometimes land on someone else's property. They'll have to pay some rent. It will be a tiny, meaningless amount of money compared to the wealth they've accrued.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

A thread of games that A) will do dungeon crawling and overland exploration and give you that D&D experience B) Don't involve reading 500 pages of rules (or even 50 pages in most cases) C) are free

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Would anybody describe those other players as "thriving" in that situation, even though they're hanging on and largely managing to maintain their position (assuming the luck of the dice favours them)? Thought not.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Weird how Elden Ring doesn't have weapon degradation and yet people are still trying out loads of different weapons instead of just finding one and sticking with it for the whole game. I was led to believe that never happens 🤔

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

I don't know who needs to hear this but not every book WotC releases is going to be something you're interested in and rather than whinging about it you could instead just shut the fuck up and let other people enjoy things.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Like, what is the purpose of this? Cool, I guess you've sort of modelled an inattentive disorder using 5e mechanisms. Congratulations. Now ask: to what end? Who does this serve? Is this *fun* for anyone? What's the intention here?

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Saw a thread a few days ago talking about 5 strengths of Pathfinder 2e that took me from "not at all interested" to... Well...

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Everyone laughs and cheers, knowing this is meaningless but happy to see money flow downhill for once.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Saying "not every licensed IP has to be 5e and actually the fact that they tend to be harms the industry at large" isn't attacking anybody. It isn't tearing anybody down. It doesn't harm an individual putting work on the DMs Guild.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Very risky pair of tweets, this. I wonder how many blocks I'll pick up off the first one on its own 🤣

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

"When a player wants his/her character to do something, he/she describes his/her intention and how he/she wants to..." It is 2021. I am begging you. Please, please stop this. This reads poorly and it's not as inclusive as you think it is. Just. Use. They.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Realising that some people think the word "dungeon" when used in fantasy roleplaying games means "a literal castle dungeon, a prison" and not "the mythic underworld" and suddenly so many weird claims make absolute sense.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

That player can move around the board effectively unhindered. They land on their own properties, they scoop up Community Chest cards, they maybe go to jail.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Companies like GW and WoTC know that people dream of working for them and they use that leverage to exploit people with shit pay, shit hours, and massive pressure to perform - because they know others will line up to be treated like shit just to get in the door. Don't let them.

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@BWHolland

3 years

The fuck did I just read? Source: FAQ from one of the biggest tabletop games companies in the world.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

In the same way you can play Monopoly, cheer when the winning player has to hand over money, root for them to have awful luck that brings them down *and still be friends*, people can be annoyed about WoTC's market dominance without thinking individuals writing D&D books are Bad.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

The people upset about Thor being built like this have never watched Strongman and it shows

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Again, this is ONE QUARTER vs an entire year. So if you're about to tell me "we don't know what percentage of that is WoTC and what percentage of *that* is D&D" maybe just... Don't? This conversation isn't about pure numbers. It's about relationship to capital, and market access

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Today's entry in, "Things you didn't know are in the 5e DMG that will make your game feel like AD&D": System Shock.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Oh hey I just want to quickly say, because I've seen this around a bit, that if you think the Paizo freelancers refusing to hand in work until the union is recognised is "unprofessional" or reflects badly on them, you can kindly block me and then jump into the sea.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Let's not even get started on tying this inherently to Intelligence and Wisdom.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

I promise you that when WoTC fucks over marginalised freelancers or staff time and time again, you absolutely do not need to A) say I told you so, or B) use the pain and upset of the wronged people to advance your own brand or make yourself look morally superior

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

A short list of games with open licenses that I've enjoyed making stuff for over the past couple of years. 🧵

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

@acid_lich YEP I am juggling a very delicate balance of ADHD and autism. It's a complete fucking nightmare, frankly

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Personally I think the D&D team should bring back named levels and make druids defeat each other in combat to rise above 12th level because there can only be limited numbers of them. A) because it's cool and B) because the response would be fucking hilarious

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

In 36 years of my life, no American media has adequately expressed to me how monstrously fucking huge Lake Michigan is. How dare you use a wholly inadequate word like "lake" to describe that ocean?

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Here's where I stand on the pricing and payment in indie RPGs discourse currently spooling up. Replies are off. You can RT if you want but know that this is very personal for me and I will block liberally if you're a prick. Long thread incoming.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Just gonna go on record and say that my escapist fantasy elf games don't need to model mental illness, at all. YMMV but I get enough of my brain every day, I don't need my dungeon character to deal with it too.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

This speaks for itself really. If you find yourself worrying about people being offended by a very plainly stated "Nazi punks fuck off" statement, maybe spend some time with that.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

Since D&D in a Castle is prohibitively expensive for most of us, I'm proposing a cheaper, probably more fun alternative: D&D in a B&B. We go to Blackpool, play D&D in the morning, go round the Pleasure Beach in the afternoon, eat too much rock, then wind up in Funny Girls at 3am

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

I keep getting shown "How well do you know D&D?" videos on tiktok and nobody ever makes it explicit they're talking about 5e when of course they are, so I'm going to start making my own with questions like "What's the save Vs Stone for a 3rd level Fighting-Man?"

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

11 months

DCC knows what's up

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

An actual exchange I have just seen, that I won't link to because frankly I don't want to: Person 1: D&D can do anything if you hack it enough Person 2: It can't do this thing Person 1: If you're coming to D&D expecting it to do everything then that's not the game's fault

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

It's simply people trying to carve out an existence in the shadow of the monolith asking to maybe be allowed a glimpse of sunlight for once. That's it.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

LRT: The shit the Motherlands RPG team are having to deal with from people "voicing concerns" about the mechanics of their game can be traced directly back to one person showing his whole ass and the only reason it's continued is because this is a team of POC creators. Do better

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

"If market conditions changed dramatically overnight, this point would be wrong." I mean... Yes. It would. You're right. Because I'm talking about WoTC's relationship to the market as it currently stands. Turns out that when situations change, they change.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Also since I've dared to write about WoTC and their market conditions I'm positive there will be an influx of dickheads in my replies and this is fair warning that I won't entertain idiots or people telling me that I "just hate D&D" (I don't). Have block button, will use.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

Without any snark whatsoever, my genuine advice is to play games that aren't D&D if you're able to. It *will* make you a better DM.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

I will shout this until my throat tears itself apart. The fact that you were treated poorly at the start of your career - whatever industry you're in - is not an excuse to turn around and inflict that same treatment on the next generation.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Gonna write an erotic d20 game called Sex Dungeons & Dragons

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

First time I've ever seen one of my games in a bricks and mortar store 🙌🏻

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Watching a man be asked to name a piece of apolitical art and holding up A Christmas Carol without a hint of irony is truly the best thing I've ever seen on twitter dot com

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

5 years

Can we talk about the British accent thing for a second though. What even is that, and why is it so ubiquitous? I once had someone message me after a stream to tell me I should "drop the accent" because it "isn't very convincing". Except, yknow, I'm English. It's my accent.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

Okay. We need to have a word. The past few months I've been asked to be on panels at a few different online cons. And that's great. I'm grateful, I like talking games and design and etc, and I appreciate being asked. However.

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@pangalactic

3 years

I wasn't going to mention this bit because I don't want to get into cruel dunking territory but I can't actually let it go. If you try to put blinkers on me to make me focus better I will rip off your lower jaw.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

4 years

Nobody makes the cleric channel divinity at the table Nobody makes the fighter deadlift an ox Nobody makes the rogue actually pick a lock Stop making bards sing and nerfing their characters when the player refuses

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@SomeRogueBish

4 years

Reminder to the d&d world that sadly not everyone who wants to play a bard is as wonderfully talented as @samriegel . Please don't tell someone who plays a bard that you "expect them to sing at the table" it sucks and makes them not want to participate at all. #dnd @Wizards_DnD

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@pangalactic

3 years

Opinion: Landlords don't "provide" housing, they hoard it and ransom it off to people who have literally no other choice

Columbus Dispatch

@DispatchAlerts

3 years

Opinion: 'Landlord' feudal, outdated term that help paint housing providers as villians

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@pangalactic

1 year

My second favourite thing in all of D&D is the bipedal beholder armour from that same book.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Guess I won't be getting an answer, then.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

6 years

I'm currently being mocked in the office for using the word 'apocryphal'. I'll never understand the urge to belittle someone for using their vocabulary.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

The Hunted is a folk horror storytelling game unlike anything you've ever played and if you don't own it you're a bad person.

The Hunted by Chris Bissette

Folk horror roleplaying, forged in the dark

loottheroom.itch.io

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

OLDBOY (2003) is unmatched

Cy💥

@Cybrid101

2 years

Name a fight scene that had you like this:

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

If you do want to model ADHD in games you should check out @/adamebell's My Brain Is A Stick Of Butter as an example of how to make that a central part of a game rather than a gimmick. It's so effective that I had to stop playing because it was too real.

My Brain Is A Stick Of Butter by adamebell

An Introspective Solo Game about Life with ADHD

adamebell.itch.io

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

We found out today that we need to put a new roof on our house, which is going to cost about £8,000. We don't have £8k. So I've bundled up all of my releases on itch to try and raise money. Everything is 50% off, or you can grab the lot for £50. This is SO MUCH STUFF.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

1 year

Today in "things from AD&D that I'd forgotten exist in 5e": weapon speed initiative modifiers.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

DM tip: lol I don't fucking know I'm just making this shit up

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

@SandyofCthulhu If this were 'obvious' and true, trans athletes would be dominating every sport they take part in. They aren't, and they never have. This is an ignorant, harmful take.

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

3 years

Wild that the biggest TTRPG Kickstarter in history released the digital version of the game to backers a little over a week ago and I've seen literally nobody talk about it

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Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky

@pangalactic

2 years

Forget One D&D. Have you heard about...