Eh, that’s like every super hero story, too. Like The Incredibles, and I still enjoy that movie.

As do fans of the Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow series.

Well, there’s a difference between settler colonialism (which replaces the indigenous population) and the sort of imperialist and classic colonialism in a lot of parts of this map, where people move in and resources are extracted, but you’re left with a traumatized population instead of a genocided one, like in North and South America as well as Australia, so we’d expect the results to probably be different.

Not that I think religion helps these matters, as the US which is slowly turning Christo-fascist and reversing LGBTQ rights, probably not coincidentally, shows. I just don’t agree with the Islamophobia part. Christianity looks pretty draconian on these issues too in some parts of Africa.

Idk about the others, but for Afghanistan, it’s probably because it was taken over by religious fundamentalists trained, supported, and armed by Pakistan, Iran, and the US in order to fight off Soviet Union influence, along with some other countries (China, UK, probably some others). They basically invaded because they were called in by the local government afraid of these terrorist groups, who also called problems in the Soviet Union (similar to the US invading after 9/11). (Interestingly enough, the Pakistan influence can also be said to be a result of colonialism since it’s existence is basically a result of English colonialism in India and the Middle-East.) After this, Afghanistan was basically a civil war zone between religious fundamentalist warlords fighting each other, the most extreme being the Taliban, but the other US allied ones weren’t great, either, and were all still fundamentalist Muslim.

The official anti-LGBT laws were vague when the Republic (the Soviet friendly government) was in charge, all of the terrible attitudes were probably still there but under religious rules and unofficial, and being invaded by the USSR for years never helps those kinds of things, either. It was more intense when the US friendly war lords were in charge and made Sharia more official, making LGBTQ laws worse as a sort of collateral. It then got even worse when the Taliban officially took over, now it’s even more explicit and the punishment even worse (death). I haven’t read the article yet so not sure if it talks about any of these things, or if I got anything super off, but I’ve just been listening and reading stuff about this lately and felt I could contribute lol.

Oh that’s cool. I’m happy that it exists and now kinda sad it’s only owned by one VTT. That would’ve been a good resource for other VTT’s out there.

I have no idea what Demiplane is but I do hate to see companies buy other companies.

I’ve been trying it out because I kind of skipped that edition, and tbh combat has been pretty amazing. Every battle is fun and tactically interesting. It’s really been scratching that itch I had for dynamic, teamwork set piece combat that I was afraid I was going to lose when some people wanted to play “DnD” and I really didn’t want to play 5e lol. It can take awhile because health is too big but once we instituted a common house rule and reduced enemy HP by 25-30%, it’s been perfect. We’ve just been doing a one-shots and tiny modules while the players humor me trying out this edition, though, so no idea how it will scale.

But now I do wish I had given it more of a chance before. Admittedly, now we have the benefit of hindsight, and some 10 years of common house rules recommended by the internet that didn’t exist when it first came out. I might even switch between it and PF2E from now on depending on how much I miss the cool critical rules and 3 action economy of PF2E vs dynamic forced movement rules and simple but abstract AEDU actions of D&D 4e. Although we’ll see if the sheen of newness fades at some point.

Is that the Kobold Press book?

Weird ways my parties have beaten tough enemies is usually by abusing magic items the DM has given us or trying to avoid it entirely with unreasonably high skill checks (a staple of min-maxed 3.5 and PF1e).

Soooo many. TTRPGs are a hobby I adore despite not playing much of lol.

Books I own that I haven’t played yet include most of the Chronicles of Darkness series (I’d love to try the new Vampire: the Requiem 2e, Werewolf: the Forsaken 2e, Promethean 2e, Changeling 2e, and Mage: the Awakening 2e especially), Dungeon World, Blades in the Dark, the Avatar rpg, and Shadowrun (don’t remember).

I’ve also been interested in a more crunchy D&D than my normal game 5e, so I’ve been looking into Pathfinder 2E and D&D 4E. I’ve been actively looking into running and playing in 4e lately and so far, reading into it, I don’t think I have it a fair shake the first time around. I also wouldn’t turn away Level Up 5e if someone offered to run it for me.

Other games I’d like to play: Vaesen, Mothership, Paranoia, and now Daggerheart.

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Ya I homebrew every game I play because I think it’s fun. I like designing things, I like game design, and it’s easier to do when you have an existing chassis. Plus I bet that numbers first, balanced games can actually make this easier.

I thought 5E was the easiest game to homebrew because classes have such few features and everything is so loosey goosey, but if you do it with a more well balanced game, you probably have an easier time finding the right numbers to use to plug into everything, because there are predictable formulas and such.

At least, that’s what I think, I’ve still done it with 5e more than anything else, but I’d like to try with Pathfinder 2E or DnD 4e.

I found a blog post comparing Daggerheart and the MCDM RPG by DM David posted by the blog bot.. In the course of comparing them, they bring up a lot of interesting rules about Daggerheart. I think it actually sounds pretty compelling in some places. I love the death rules.

I love the maps Matt Coville used in his Dusk campaign. I need to find those and will try to post it. If someone else knows, that would also be helpful.

So cute! But now you’re stuck there until they wake up lol

Is this true or a bit? Time for another rewatch!

Interesting. Sounds kind of FATE - like.

I love him!

That was one of the things that excited me most about the fediverse was seeing the possibility of things like a pathfinder instance, with a bunch of related communities in one place that can also interact with the rest of the fediverse. I wonder what happened. Too bad we can’t contact the admins.

Aawww I wonder what happened? No one can get ahold of their admins?