We were playing blades in the dark, they were sneaking into the back of a warehouse to steal some blood while the rest of the party made a distraction out front, the dog was right there and he didn’t think he’d be able to sneak past it. He could have stabbed it but chose not to I guess. Maybe he thought that would be more cruel?

That was how it worked in the playtest. The sidebar saying “pick a race you really are and pretend to be half the other race” is gone from the 2024 PHB. Rules as written, you can only be fully one race, this of course doesn’t actually matter as the whole thing is imaginary bullshit but in organised play it’ll sometimes come up.

One time I was just trying to do my money laundering restocking in GTA:O (iirc it was money laundering, it was whatever business you got when the game went free on epic games) and a guy on the flying motorbike killed me for no reason and it wasted a ton of time, eventually I killed him back and he spawned in the desert in front of me so I spawn killed him until he apologized.

I’m not saying what I did was right, I did it in the heat of the moment. But man, that game is really good at making you mad at people.

Also be careful of the shield spike, the dwarf in the diagram would have just stabbed himself

Demiplane is dndbeyond for RPGs other than dnd*, currently pathfinder 2e, alien RPG, avatar legends, the 2 critical role RPGs, and some others.

*They’re also adding 5th edition soon, but it’s currently just the dnd 5e SRD and kobold presses Tales of the Valiant, not the full dnd 5e

Even worse, Roll20 development is not only slow, player made solutions to issues are locked behind a paywall.

Making your customers pay you a monthly subscription to fix your product for you and then charging other customers a monthly subscription to access the fixes you didn’t make is a grift so insane it’s bordering genius.

On the off chance that happens I’d probably give them one of the beast traits, probably one of the ones that’s less useful like keen smell or web sense

This is a really good idea, I might make their laws very simplistic. I might even steal the ones from Animal Farm.

In my mind the mongrelfolk definitely won’t be inherently evil. Paranoid or scared of outsiders, definitely. But they should have near-human intelligence, but slightly diminished.

Professor Moreau to me is the evil one but purely because he doesn’t hold much regard for the lives of the people he has experimented on, especially in a world with polymorph magic and Druidic wildshape. Though Moreau will be helpful to the players and give them no good reason to kill him, since they’re his chance to regain control of his lab.

I’ve been going back and forth on if Moreau will want the mongrelfolk dead, since they’d hold more scientific value to him kept alive.

I’ve not seen either of those but a quick search shows me that’s 51 episodes of one series, 64 of another and a movie. That might be a little bit too much for the amount of prep time I have

That’s almost 100 whole sessions. It’s honestly too long of you ask me.

The only actual play I’ve ever actually found myself enjoying is oxventure, they’re not the best example of a proper actual play though since they usually don’t follow the rules too closely and are more of a fantasy improv group vaguely using 5e rules, sometimes blades in the dark or SWADE Deadlands.

Although I’ve only started listening fairly recently and haven’t gotten up to the Deadlands stuff yet.

I’m using flee mortals for my current campaign wherever possible, I have a werewolf quest planned, which isn’t in FM. Though I might pivot to a basilisk hunt.

This has been happening for years. Shadow of war (2017) had orcs in loot boxes, every assassin’s creed since, and including, black flag (2013) has had microtransactions in some form, odyssey (the last one I’ve personally played) had a rotating cash shop in every city. I know it’s another Ubisoft game but farcry 5 had cosmetic microtransactions in a game that is permanently in first person. You could only see your outfit on the change outfit screen. This comment isn’t meant to come across as antagonistic but I do find it strange to be warning about a slippery slope when we’ve all been riding the toboggan for years.

They have their branding which will push people to use their platform. More people using their platform = more content coming from threads. Once they have enough posts from threads that people from other instances are used to seeing mostly threads content they’ll defederate. People will miss the volume of posts and then move to threads.

I don’t want to make a “lifetime commitment” to a game, I’ve already tried that with my ex-wife.

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