Ok, why aren’t the papers already full of those stories then? Old people die all the time. If the stories are guaranteed regardless of the governments actions, why are you bothered about the optics at all? They’re going to be the same no matter what.
Are you honestly proposing that an increase in cold related deaths beyond expected levels during a cold snap is more likely to be explained by thousands of OAP’s just happening to forget to turn the heating on, rather than them not being able to afford it?
I think it’s more of a “I don’t know, but I am racist” vote
If you add a “kairi” in there and keep going for 2 minutes you get the intro to the Riku fight in hollow bastion. Not that it’s been engraved in my memories or anything.
people just don’t forgive or forget easily (especially if there is a cold snap and the papers fill with stories of pensioners dying because they can’t afford to turn the heating on).
This is a really sketchy phrasing of “if Labour cuts kill pensioners”. People remember when government policies kill their family members, it’s not just a matter of optics.
They don’t. One of the many, many things that sucks about D&D is that it’s the most recognised, so people think it’s a good place to start with TTRPGs.
It’s not. It has most of the complexity of a crunchy game like PF2e, but no mechanical unification, so every action has its own rule, rather than similar actions just being small variants on the same. Rules are often specific, applying only to certain situations, but still vague, forcing the DM to decide how they’re actually meant to be applied. Similarly, it’s very crunchy and combat focused but combat is pretty barebones, just being a case of standing in front of an enemy and hitting it until one of you falls over. Could be either you or the enemy, the balance is skewed at best.
As if there weren’t enough mechanical problems, the lore stagnated after 3.x, and wasn’t that deep even then; The Forgotten Realms setting in particular is extremely barebones once you’re off the Sword Coast, and regularly leans all the way over to downright offensive. Like ye olde minstral show racism in stuff printed in the last 5 years. And they charge you a fucking arm and a leg for everything, so, like you say, you need to pay like $150 just to play in a homebrew setting.
You don’t want to play D&D. If you do, you want to play Pathfinder 2e, Savage Worlds, or Shadow of the Demon Lord/Weird Wizard instead. Pathfinder in particular has great fey lore, even if you pick a different system it’d be worth looking at Kingmaker for fey storyline ideas.
What you probably want is something like Fate or Monster of the Week, a more storytelling focused system that isn’t so balanced around parties. FitD games would also be worth looking at.
What do you think makes it not a moba? High TTK, lanes, creeps, creep denial, towers, the shop, levelling, it’s basically DOTA with third person and guns.
neurodivergent
I’d say only Spy and Heavy have particularly strong cases for not being ND.
First person shooty, but mostly moba. Too much moba imo.
Couple of small issues with that idea: can’t hide from the big fiery sauron eye, and nazguls on pteradactyls.
I just want to be absolutely clear here, to make sure that you fully understand the question, because your answer suggests you don’t: It’s not couple of weeks a year, it’s just a couple of weeks, right at the start, and it’s not a holiday, you have to look after the baby at its most helpless during those extra weeks of leave. Are you sure that you consider a few extra weeks of looking after a child to be worth 18 years of looking after the child? Like I’m not doing a silly hypothetical where I ask if you consider yourself more or less likely to consider having a child in future, I am asking you, personally, if you will be having a child and raising it should men recieve more paternal leave.
Would you honestly take on at least 18 years of responsibility for another human being in exchange for a couple of weeks off work? Do you seriously consider that an incentive?
My understanding of 5e’s adventures is them being almost exclusively rehashes of 2e and 3.x adventures, so it really won’t be that different.
who apparently plays D&D with “30 or 40 people regularly”
This man has never once played a ttrpg in his life.
There’s a handful of abilities that can turn a specific build up to 11, but it’s as much a way to replace an ability you don’t like with something you will use as anything else. I don’t think I have any in my level 300+ builds - the one I use most is the ability that autosolves the next lock you encounter to speed up spy missions even more, and that comes from the helminth itself instead of a frame.
The Lore’s always been kinda murky, but I understand the original frames were made by infecting people with the helminth strain of the technocyte virus (e.g excal umbra, some of the primes), which are what the tenno connected with, but then they were used as blueprints to mass produce frames without the person. The ones you build in your foundry are copies, so you’re just returning a lump of infestation to the original mass for it to reabsorb and learn from.
There haven’t been many major updates since the new war, so you’re not actually all that far behind. Lots of hot fixes, QoL, and updates to bring the content islands closer together. Nothing earth shattering, but some improvements.
Seeing as you’re coming back, might as well start with the veilbreaker content that follows on from the new war - archon hunts are the new sorties and Kahl’s missions are mini new war sections with various challenges, both weeklies. Zariman kinda sucks as a hub, but the missions are trying something new. Albrecht’s lab is similar, but better executed, and has an extreme difficulty weekly if you’re into that kind of challenge. Duviri offers a new version of open world without dailies, but the cool stuff from steel path does require a daily rep grind from the Zariman.
This is completely standard, Paizo have always given the rules for free and made you pay for the stories and lore.
It’s not even a starter set, it’s the playtest, so you already need to be familiar with Pathfinder 2e in order to use the rules. Definitely not a place for a group to test the waters, they’re looking for serious dweebs to obsess over the maths and mechanics so they can refine it - the playtest adventure(s) are just playgrounds for them to do that it.
Just try and prove me wrong
Dungeons & Dragons
D&D isn’t even a good TTRPG for it’s niche, nevermind actually good.
Israel has been in open breach of the 3rd Geneva convention since 1948. Nothing they’ve done has been legal under international law.
Yeah, it’s named after the luminiferous aether, the invisible medium light waves were theorised to move in. Turns out photons just do that instead.