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All the culture war nonsense is just a distraction while Elon, Trump and their wealthy ilk pick our pockets.

Well said and correct.

The floor is lava! 😆

So, admitting to being sexist is nullified bc a feminist said something you don't like. We call this Trump logic.

That's sad and triggering with the books. - Brian

Man, I missed this video, but I have been having these exact thoughts about non-gaming “gamers.” They buy, read, review, and talk about gaming, but it’s evident they’re not gaming. It seems like half the RUclipsr TTRPG influencers fall into this category. Lately, I have been gaming more and also writing about it in longhand cursive in a composition book. I’ve been improving as a GM because of it. Writing about my gaming has helped with decision making, planning, pre-game reminders, gaining focus, and reflecting on areas to improve on (the post mortem). I have a feeling some gamers have this hobby as an identity, but they don’t game anymore. There are many reasons why: no longer find joy in it, moved away from a group, death of a group, hate solo play, hate online play, etc. Receipts: I run Castles & Crusades or play Cthulhu in an in person group twice a month. I run a Delta Green game once a month in person with most of that same group. I have been GMing Shadowrun 3e online biweekly for a few months now.

Man, I missed this video, but I have been having these exact thoughts about non-gaming “gamers.” They buy, read, review, and talk about gaming, but it’s evident they’re not gaming. It seems like half the RUclipsr TTRPG influencers fall into this category. Lately, I have been gaming more and also writing about it in longhand cursive in a composition book. I’ve been improving as a GM because of it. Writing about my gaming has helped with decision making, planning, pre-game reminders, gaining focus, and reflecting on areas to improve on (the post mortem). I have a feeling some gamers have this hobby as an identity, but they don’t game anymore. There are many reasons why: no longer find joy in it, moved away from a group, death of a group, hate solo play, hate online play, etc. Receipts: I run Castles & Crusades or play Cthulhu in an in person group twice a month. I run a Delta Green game once a month in person with most of that same group. I have been GMing Shadowrun 3e online biweekly for a few months now.

"I've seen many a good wargame and wargamer spoiled thanks to the fair sex. I'll detail that if anyone wishes." Feels pretty sexist man I dunno.

I think you mean the exploding die mechanic only works if you are rolling 1 die, because if you decided to roll more die which are smaller, not only is it easier to roll the maximum number due to having less total number per die, but you have more dice which means more opportunities to roll exploding dice.

Thanks for this expert analysis. I have been playing Shadowdark for a year now and, as a DM, I love it. Veteran players enjoy the BECMI feel and sense of danger (missing from 5E). And I just ran a session for 4 folks new to RPG's using Shadowdark, and we were up and playing in an hour after making characters. I like the simplicity of the writing-no extraneous fluff. This game is lean, tight, and full of fun tension and challenge. The art is killer. Thanks again for this great review.

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The Enlightenment was the true dark ages. And we’re still in it!

Looks interesting, I hand drew all my maps, wilderness, city and dungeon for my " The Beacon of Illumvale" module and it took a long time. This may work for me.

😂 huzzah! 😂

When you guys were talking about unexplainable events in your lives it reminded me of something that happened a few years ago. We had gone to visit family on the other side of the country, I took my passport with me as well as my sisters. I know I had brought them with me because my Dad didn’t want me to lose them & he as well as my sister had confirmed I still had them before we boarded the plane. When I was packing to return home I couldn’t find them, I knew I had placed them on the dresser in the room I was staying in so I they wouldn’t get misplaced. Eventually we had to leave without them. When I got home I checked the drawer where they are stored when not being held into, not there. This entire time I had been denying that I was responsible for losing the passports, but that night I prayed that they would be found & admitted that it was my fault. The very next morning I check the same drawer again, the passports were sitting on the very top of the other papers in the drawer.

As someone who was there for the "Old School", there wasn't a "way" that the game was played. It varied very widely.

I agree with your commentary on both modules. One advantage Lost Mines has is WotC came up with Dragon of Icespire Peak a few years later and that takes place in the same area and its childsplay to merge the two modules creating much more of a sandbox than either has themselves. I really wish TSR had created more adventures designed to use the Keep as the base of operations.

Bob is the only thing lamer then 5e.

BF & WB are my go to OSR systems. Thanks for the share!!

quick comment you mention biology from time to time, are you some hardcore biological essentialist , your born done your gonna be that way till you die. Your upbringing play none or little play into it ? Im just curious, and would magic just allow one to combat such limitations like augments in sci fi. how far should the essentialism have to go in games ? im just asking not trying to be a jerk

I wanted the adversary rules explained with an adversary example.

I don't think being philosophically materialistic plays the part proposed here at all. The issue is with people that cannot seperate fantasy from reality. They cannot and will not understand myths and will only interpret such things as literal or figurative truths. Inevitably, they interpret myths to be about them personally and therefore see any evils within mythology as direct attacks on their person. This isn't a quality of materialism, it's a consequence of stupidity.

Why do the same people who say the game rules are arbitrary also demand rational coherence in their fantasy worlds?

Orcs cannot represent Evil, the princess cannot embody Beauty, and the hero cannot be Good, because modernism has rejected objective truth. Truth leads to God, and they can't have that. There is no Evil, Beauty or Good for them. There are no objective ideals to strive for, since all of them are seen as social constructs. Therefore, orcs can only represent the victims of colonialism, the princess can only represent the oppression of the patriarchy, and the hero can only represent toxic masculinity. They have turned art into dialectic materialism.

It's been sad seeing the 5e content creators trying to hold on to their audiences and stay in WOTC's graces. Despite its flaws, the 5e era was a golden age of great content and WOTC has been stamping on it like a bug trying to reset the game.

Most Players dont read the DMG, because they are Forever Players😊

I think you took too long. You explained each point 3-4 times over, back to back. I also liked your video, some neat ideas here. Wargaming, and its fascination with exact measurements, timetables and rules also really affects the public perception of rpg's. Would be interested to see a video on Diagetic Advancement in RPG's.

I have two suspicions about weapon class in D&D: it doesn't mechanically interact with shields, and tracking NPC weapons would be a pain. As to the former, it seems kinda odd to me that a shield wouldn't impact this beyond adding +1 AC, especially since "parrying" is much more effective than parrying with a weapon. As to the latter, a random table could be made, but it honestly seems like a pain to track who has what weapon. Those are just my surface level criticisms. It does seem like a really cool system for cinematic duels or martial tournaments.

I haven't played 5e enough to comment on the rules being good or bad. What I do know is that the people currently running the brand have made it clear that they hate / disdain people like me. I have no interest in giving my money or business to people who hate me.

Really interested in your RPG! Is it out anywhere?

I think what you are describing is also somehow related to “canon” in comics, movies, TV series being seen as the same as “historical fact”. That somehow a particular Star Wars story or whatever can be dismissed *as a story* simply because it does not fit into the “facts” of a historical record. That somehow the sum total of all the stories adding up logically is more important than the individual story itself. I really think it’s all a symptom of the atrophy in suspension of disbelief. Which I think is tied directly to your point about materialism. Look at how people dismiss old movies because “the special effects are bad”. Or dismiss the experience of theater wholesale because of the artificiality of the environment. It’s sad.

We played 4e throughout its life cycle, anxiously waiting for the new edition once it was announced. We got the books the day it came out, read them all together and discussed what we thought about it and the general consensus was, "no thanks". We went back to 4e and never looked back lmao

I hate the woke crap but it's their game and they can do whatever they want with it. Will I be buying anything from WOTC again? No, but it is their right but leave Gary and the creators alone! What gives them the right to say that crap about him?

Wizards did not REMOTELY "take a dump" on old school gamers. WTF are you talking about? Are you talking about that shit that Elon made up? Oh shit, I just realized this is one of those Nazi Bar channels. I gotta block this channel man.

I have had lengthy arguments with people who kept making assertions about fantasy races and creatures regarding genetics and evolution, etc. I would say what makes you think genetics and evolution work the same or even exist? Fantasy worlds have imminent gods, who are very real, and who could have fashioned creatures in their current form, and they couldn't seem to get their heads around the idea.

You can erase somebody by slandering them. Paint them as a bad person so nobody will go back to them or talk about them anymore. Because it is uncouth and impolite to do so among the correct crowd.

Ah, yes, the internet atheist that plays 5e.... had one get on my video about alignment going on and on how his weird LG Druid was superior to Gygax's concept of LG because his character doesn't kill Orclings. Not killing orclings is intrinsically evil. You're allowing a plague to live. But these weirdos play furries dressed like elves, so I dunno what I expected. Atheists, like orcs, are better vanquished.

Finally viewing this. Tell Greg it's not about him, and Victor needs looser shirts. His guns popping out are getting too distracting.

Reading Rainbow was my JAM, back in the day. Take a look, son! It's in a book, boy!

I think you are definitely on to something with this theory. I've wondered about this staunch materialist world view getting in the way of fiction for a while now as it seems like people who can only see the world as a mechanistic framework can't properly suspend their disbelief should the world not fit into that box. I think this is why the Warhammer universe breaks their brains so badly - the idea that chaos/evil is an objective force which exists and manifests as demons etc. The creatures of chaos are the embodiment of what we conceptually think of as evil. I'm not philosopher either, but it appears to me that materialists can't understand how evil could be an objective fact in a world. Objectively, are dogs better than cats? Depends on who you ask? Is killing Objectively evil? Depends who you ask. That's the blind spot with materialism, you can't make objective statements about the morality (or any personal belief). Mythology and fiction (TTRPG's, Movies, Games, Books) helps us to examine evil as something more concrete by associating it to a creature with consciousness that has a morality completely at odds with our own presupposed ideas. This gives us the opportunity to view and study it as a thing that can be known (not necessarily understood though) at takes a stance on what is good or evil. But it requires us to identify a concrete morality to judge behavior by. I think the materialist needs to believe that evil is a choice people make and not a force that drives us in weak moments to behave in terrible ways (why there has to be good Orks or Drow). If not, it means reason can't answer every question about existence for them at that maybe good and evil are prescribed elements of the reality we inhabit. Either way, really enjoy your content, It's measured and grounded in you clearly having spent time thinking about the topics. Appreciate the content!

One thing I loved about Planescape was its willingness to embrace mindbending logical impossibility. Sigil is a torus atop an infinitely tall spire. "How?" You aren't capable of rationalizing how. If the understanding of all existence could be so easily reduced to the scientific method, it'd be a very dull place to be.

I think the Underworld as a concept for RPGs is perfect as I've incorporated it into my own RPG I'm writing. Every 'dungeon', 'subterranean ruin' and 'cave' touches The Underworld without necessarily BEING The Underworld (which I have as 1 of the 9 Worlds inspired by Norse Myth). That means its a malevolent force that will, over time, 'reset' dungeons after a fashion (even if it takes dozens to hundreds of years). And naturally, such locations are beacons for monsters, some more 'mundane' like Bandits, Orks and so forth. Others, well, they attract more exotic and terrifying monsters to their locations.