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Well there's squeen, obviously, and EOTB lately. I think either TerribleSorcery or Two Orcs historically dislikes me too (one of the two does, I forget which, that's how little it affects me). I suppose any one of them could become a hateful type from behind the curtain of an Anon account, who...

Which of you snakes-of-the-den is in the blog comments calling me a moron while hiding behind an Anonymous account? Show yourself, you coward!

Yes, the users. Dyson I blame for lowering the barrier to entry for unskilled amateurs, but his actual work is a great boon to the sphere. He's from Ottawa? That's cool - didn't know that.

There are a lot of systems out there - the laws of probability would dictate that many of them are actually good. In fact I'd wager that there's likely a slight skew towards better system products than worse ones, based on the premise that barrier-to-entry for system design is slightly higher...

Your pick is... *drumroll noises* Dusk City Outlaws

There are a lot of TTRPGs out there. No wonder nobody can agree on what the OSR is or isn't. My running count is presently at 607; someone pick a number between 1 and 607, and I'll tell you what to play!

Ah right, the whole VTC thing. Yeah, that's pretty declarative. Don't get me wrong - I actually like the idea of dropping little connections or signature moves that players can deduce and leverage to their advantage. I'm just not optimistic they'll actually catch on to them very often.

What do you mean by "counts as two creatures"? As in XP value? CR balance? One goblin sitting on the other's shoulders? Or are you just talking about statblock size? XD I agree consistency is important - maybe the most important part of being an unbiased adjudicator. Players definitely pick...

No no, I get it. I still think it's not worth the effort though. Like, let's say the task is making an encounter with a bunch of goblins led by a goblin vampire. You could say "apply vampire template to goblin" or "apply goblin template to vampire", or you could write down "goblin vampire - 40'...

I vastly prefer individual entries from scratch rather than modifying existing monsters - I find there's little to be gained by keeping a bunch of residual statistics from a weaker thing, when you can just stat-out a whole new monster using basically the same amount of effort. My personal rule...

No, you're right. They scaled back the whole Templating thing after 3e went a bit nuts with it. Everything was becoming "X monster with Y template" - Ogres with the Abyssal Outsider Template, trolls with the Feytouched template, kobolds with the Aspirant Lich template, etc. It seemed like...

Gotta love Boomers: "I've been around, you can't fool me! What's that? My computer has a virus and I need to fix it or I'll go to jail if I don't? Why yes, I'll gladly pay for this unsolicited computer repair session with Google Play gift cards. Thank you, heavily-accented IT hero!"

I've learned three things about you in this time squeen: 1) No amount of evidence will convince you of anything, unless it comes from certain sources (that you refuse to question) and reinforces what you already believe. 2) You do not understand the difference between good sources and bad...

So you've found three things to not be "horrified" about on a list with dozens of other entries... it follows that you DO actually find the rest of the list to be egregious (otherwise you'd have listed them as "not horrifying"), you've just chosen to deliberately ignore them because three things...

"Show me proof that I am wrong" "Here is proof" "Fake news! Show me proof that I am in an echo chamber" "Here is proof" "Ad hominem! Show me proof that my sources are biased" "Here is proof" "Censorship! I am not going to listen to you" You don't argue in good faith, squeen.

Yet you support that party that is doing it live, in front of your face. If you like internet reading so much, why don't you check out Project 2025, and let us all know how you feel about that one? I found a good Reddit list of Trump's activity in his first 100 days of his second term (it's not...

Dammit squeen, this is your problem. If you had any sane sense of how things work, you'd not have taken anything Bernier says seriously. The PPC is a fringe party of ultra-right-wingers and verifiable bigots; they're the Proud Boys of Canadian politics. The fact the you even considered them a...

Can't... fight... impulse... to... explain... 1) We call ourselves a part of the Commonwealth because we started out, after all, as a colony; a child-nation of sorts. Being part of the Commonwealth means being part of a family, or at least in the loosest sense, an ancestor. Unlike America...

I have to quote this, for posterity. Ladies and gentlemen - "Exhibit A".

In fairness, I said he was *being* a piece of shit, not that he *is* a piece of shit. I made the distinction deliberately.