• OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 hour ago

    Yeah, but they’re abducting and murdering people just to get their chrome, while you are only…

    Wait, did you only kill that guy just because he had expensive chrome? Never mind. How do you feel about learning Russian?

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      15 minutes ago

      learning Russian

      No learning. Install or upgrade translation matrix, either hardware or software.

  • Azathoth@fedia.io
    3·
    57 minutes ago

    Don’t forget to factor in the cost of therapy when you start scavving people for their chrome. Humanity loss is expensive to recover.

    • tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      11·
      2 hours ago

      please try to convince your group to try it out. you should know that the core rulebook is kinda rushed and has sloppy editing in places, but nothing too major

        • Azathoth@fedia.io
          2·
          58 minutes ago

          There are a lot of rules only fully explained in sidebars and inconsistent placement of related things - some gear is on page 100, some gear is on page 350. That sort of thing. Fun game fun system but there are definitely editorial and mechanical flaws.

    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      2 hours ago

      Good luck, I’ve been trying to get my group to switch as well, but they barely understand 5e. Getting players to learn new rules has always been hard but lately it’s felt impossible.

      • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
        4·
        1 hour ago

        I know you didn’t ask, so feel free to ignore me completely, but I’ve had a bit of luck by starting with a completely different genre that forces a need for different rules. If you’re playing basic 5e and can switch to something where you’re running a ship then a rules change makes sense since a ship is expected to have different mechanics than a PC. Once they see that other systems have rules that make sense for and support the genre, they may be more invested in understanding them.

      • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        14 minutes ago

        I don’t need to make anyone switch. Just wondering if I should add myself to a LFG group recruiting for Cyberpunk Red. Always fun meeting new people and making new friends over a shared love of TTRPG.

        I’ll never give up D&D and i have no desire to wander from 5e. It’s basically perfect.

        But I would like to see how good the storytelling can be. I like the flavour potential, just never tried. I’d also love to be a player for once and not just DM.

        • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          55 minutes ago

          I’ll never give up D&D and i have no desire to wander from 5e. It’s basically perfect.

          I genuinely love this for you. My very molecules are vibrating with the raw power of my disagreement, but when someone finds the thing they love, it’s a beautiful thing.

            • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              2 minutes ago

              I enjoy playing D&D with friends but I hate the system and its strict focus on combat mechanics and hand waving of other ways to interact with the world. I vastly prefer the setting and perspective of Exalted (to be fair the setting isn’t anything that couldn’t be done in D&D), but the mechanics are super crunchy and reward min-maxing, and adjudicating combat rounds is really slow.

              I prefer systems where social skills are first class mechanics, I don’t love offloading part of progression onto loot, and I don’t particularly enjoy the gold economy. Like I don’t enjoy tracking wealth and rations and such. I also prefer systems that attempt to recreate the narrative arcs of stories, so things that affect pacing, drama, contacting the flow of the story to character flaws, etc.

              So ultimately I enjoy things like Fate/Dresden Files, World of Darkness, and Dungeon World. I think I might enjoy Thirsty Sword Lesbians as well but I’ve only played it once so I’m not sure.

              D&D is… fine. I’ve played every version going back to the red box. Fifth is my favorite version of it so far. But I definitely don’t love it.