Very old/rare, and bonkers powerful.
The whole game is about what you do with mana (currency).
If all we are looking at is the mana, this lets you pay for other cards on your first turn that you normally wouldn’t be able to play until the 4th turn of the game. That’s a huge advantage.
My current group of players has only played Starfinder, Stars without Number, Cities without Number, Vampire the Masquerade (V5), and some one-shot games like Quiet Year.
I don’t want to run or play D&D, so I don’t. If needed, we could always hang out without playing a game.
Meta owns it, and meta is one of the large, evil tech corps.
They are probably the easiest one for most people from English-speaking countries to cut from their lives.
Yet, you only streamed because you needed to pay rent, or didn’t you?
It’s pretty fun to having guys go on and on about how big/suckable your dick is and how much they want you to fuck them. If I was single I’d probably do it again, even without being paid.
Also, I did not propose immediately anything that would threaten the activity in the way you practiced it
When you responded to @SlothMama@lemmy.world, you said that you were against all porn.
To be clear, I’m reading your response as against porn in all forms and for all audiences based on your wording, is that what you mean?
Yes.
I was showing one of the many examples of being in the sex industry, without any abuse and without it being “paid rape” as you put it. You didn’t say “some”, “a lot”, or even “most”. You simply generalized all sex work as harmful to the worker/performer.
My problem with pornography is the reality of it as well as the reality of prostitution in general. The porn industry is the home of abuse, in every sense. First in the rawest sense, the physical and mental abuse that actresses go through; second in the reproduction and propagation of the culture of abuse, considering that it is the most recurrent theme in porn films; third in the economic sense, pornography, like prostitution in general, is the sale of consent: the actress or prostitute receives money to have sex with someone she would not have sex with under other circumstances, in short: paid rape.
I paid rent using a webcam years ago, and I am not sure that your points really apply to all porn/sex-work. I am not denying that it doesn’t apply to some of it though.
Men paid me to chat with them, let them watch me jerk off, and sometimes watch them watch me jerk off. I was probably going to jerk off anyway, and knowing what I was so attractive that people would pay me to see me do it was a turn on.
I know a lot of people like actual plays, but because they are often full of GM/ST interpretation and house rules, I generally avoid them. I also don’t plan on using splat books, which based on the title alone, I assume that the actual play uses at least 1.
yes, everyone on earth.
Bing API is down, which has killed some things.
This mostly happens to me when it is very clear that the session is going to be about resolving something about player X’s backstory, and their work schedule changes.
The easiest way, is to use a generator, like https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/random/.
I might not fully use the suggestion of “A minor executive named Jasper Catlow needs a crew to frame a rival named Porter Gammon for corporate espionage. However, the client hires a team of assassins to eliminate them after the job.”, but it’s easy enough to change some nouns to make an interesting one-shot.
You could either say that I have taught them to ignore my opinion, or you could say that it shows other companies to act with their customers in mind if they want to retain them.
Aren’t we all done giving WotC money after the OGL issue?
With 9 players and one DM/GM/ST, you each get 6 minutes to talk/move per hour, assuming everyone gets the exact same amount of time.
So if you play monthly for 4 hours per session, you get 24 minutes.
This probably only works for combat-heavy railroads or mega-dungeons.
Not my cup of tea, but if it’s what you want, I hope you find a table that suits you.
Or in some editions:
I only did SR5, which wasn’t that brutal, but SR4 or SR3 might’ve been more deadly
Shadowrun is a “crunchy” game, this means it has a lot of rules, and those rules are not simple. If everyone actually learns the rules for their characters, and people don’t do things that are extremely odd, the game can run smoothly.
IIRC from when I ran it, if someone does a normal melee attack (without any magic, hacking, or vehicle shenanigans), it’s like 20 steps, and some people can attack 6+ times per round at level 1.
Compare this to a game where at attack is “roll one die, add one number to it. Is it higher than their armour? Then roll a different die and add one number to it. That’s the damage you deal”.
Edit: Even those of us that love Shadowrun kinda hate Shadowrun. There was also a time when the guy in charge stole a bunch of money from the company, and they didn’t have the fund to pay the people who actually worked on their games.
https://www.tgdmb.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=50989
https://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/search/label/Shadowrun
If a system’s rules are mostly for combat, and making a character mostly revolved around combat, then the reason people play it is probably for combat.
The idea of “the fruitful void” does exist, but I feel it exists more for systems that have fewer rules overall, or systems that are “loose” with all aspects, not games that have hundreds of rules in one area, and ignore the others. Games like Cities Without Number (which is am disappointed that the group Worlds Beyond Number isn’t using Worlds Without Number) have been great for getting players to think more about non-combat actions.
Choose a skill, choose an attribute, explain why those two, and roll if the GM agrees. Simple, leaves room for creativity, let’s players use their characters in interesting ways that still make sense.
Charisma and stealth because your character is “acting like they belong”? Go ahead, it makes sense. It also might have a different effect than another character trying Dexterity+Stealth.
I’m just so sick of heroic high fantasy
I don’t think I’ve played/run fantasy since before covid. Couldn’t be happier
This community is for “Pen & Paper” or “Tabletop” RPGs.
I have had problems with players saying that they were down for it, and they understand that they need to learn the rules, but then they play a technomancer and not really know what a sprite or the matrix is.
I liked the game, but I hated the broken promises.
If I am planning on doing a sandbox in a modern setting, I like:
Everyone was invited to NPC’s 40th birthday. This NPC is a bit of a social butterfly, and has invited friends from all of their social groups. I let the players know that they can either choose to already know each other or not, and they are likely to have at least heard a positive story or two about each other.
Then inciting indecent happens at the party, or the police come because they are investigating the mysterious death of the birthday NPC.
If I am planning on doing a sandbox in sci-fi or cyberpunk:
Players respond to a Craiglist-esque easy-money job listing; they can choose to have known each other beforehand or not. Things go wrong, and they are left in possession of a small spaceship and a grudge.
Earlier this year, one in perfect condition sold for 3 million USD.