Lianodel

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[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 2 points 8 hours ago

I also bounced off of the Reloaded version (and SW in general). Unfortunately, I can't really speak to the alternatives from personal experience.

However, I've been gearing up to try Call of Cthulhu, and found out it has a Western setting! Down Darker Trails. I had never heard about it, but what I could find was really positive. If and when I run a weird west game, that would probably be my first choice, and certainly a top contender.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He never actually apologized. He released a video saying he expressed himself poorly or whatever, then took it down anyway. He never said all the racist points he made were wrong.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 65 points 3 weeks ago

Fun fact: a full majority of Supreme Court justices were nominated by presidents who were inaugurated despite losing the popular vote!

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The only good cops are horses and dog.

EDIT: Guys, I know police dogs attack people. They are trained to do so from birth. I don't blame the dogs.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly what just happened to me with Tabletop Simulator. Every single fucking Magic card that I or anyone I played with was saved.

Even better, I couldn't delete the files to get rid of the low storage warning. Changing the directory TTS uses didn't work. Deleting the folder didn't work, no matter how much I tried, because clearly MS knows better and I must have done it by mistake. I had to log in and use their web interface just to fucking say "yes, delete it, yes, I fucking mean it."

Not that I'm upset about it or anything.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's extremely funny that she ruined her own career, including a likely spin-off starring her, because she wouldn't stop comparing the criticism of conservatives and their beliefs to the mass persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust.

It's also extremely funny that she went on to make a movie with The Daily Wire, no one saw it, it got called woke for being an action movie starring a woman.

To top that off, it's also extremely funny that The Daily Wire is FULL of people who couldn't cut it in Hollywood, so they kept self-financing their own shitty movies, and are now in financial trouble.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that moment hit hard. I expected someone to come in and sing his part, then... oh. Right. Of course. :(

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Soon after the "renaming," I saw some comment that just said "Finally!"

Like you, I've never heard anyone complain about the name "Gulf of Mexico," and I've heard Republicans complaining non-fucking-stop for decades, since I first began paying attention to politics as a teenager. How weak and submissive does a person have to be to take such a stupid and petty grievance, and rewrite their own mind as though they were always upset by it?

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And on the flip side, a Cardinal who specifically called him out in the past becomes Pope.

If Vance's faith were honest—which I doubt—he should be having a crisis of conscience right now.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 months ago

Not only did he not apologize, he doubled down with a string of extremely bad Nazi puns.

IIRC, even the ADL criticized it, which is hilarious, because it was RIGHT after they burned a ton of what credibility they had left to defend him.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 months ago

Old-School Essentials, particularly with some of the Advanced Fantasy options!

Though lately, I've been taking another look at The Fantasy Trip, wondering if it might turn out to be a hidden gem of a game for OSR sensibilities...

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm depressed at how often right-wingers try to win an argument by creating a fictional reality in which they're right. (If that, even. Sometimes the dreamscape exists purely to make their opponents look hypocritical, pathetic as that is.)

 

What makes it your favorite? Do you want to play it? If so, what's keeping you from doing it?

For me, it's Burning Wheel.

I bought it purely based on aesthetics back in 2008ish, then got the supplements, then Gold, then Gold Revised, with the Codex, and the anthology...

I blame it for my weakness for chunky, digest-sized, hardcover RPGs. :P I also like the graphic design, I like the prose (even if it's divisive), and it has both interesting lessons you can plug into other games (like "let it ride," letting success or failure stand instead of making lots of little rolls) and arcane systems that pique my interest (like the Artha cycle, which makes roleplay, metacurrency, skill rolls, and advancement all intersect). I genuinely like reading it for its own sake.

I haven't played it because... well, since it's not D&D, that immediately makes it harder to get people interested, sadly. It's also a bit daunting, given its reputation as a crunchy system. But I have a group of players interested in trying new things, and fewer other games calling for my attention, so hopefully I'll get a chance soon. :)

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