I don’t understand the difference–

maybe, but for tryhard games you’d make a tryhard character anyway

That’s the thing though

I have no idea how.

Since PF2 came out I got by just fine on making unique and fun but entirely unoptimised characters. So I never bothered learning what synergises with what to make a tryhard character.

I wouldn’t know

I make all my choices based on sheer Rule of Cool-ness – I start with a vibe and build for that.

BUT. None of my GMs are tryhards, so maybe if I brought my characters to a tryhard session they’d get wiped.

I got a buddy that rolls randomly for all of those, only rerolling if they gets a combination they already used

Those are all just

Like

Your opinion

Man

(Whereas wotc being a terrible company that mistreats its players is straight up fact)

Okay but as long as we are complaining about shit we see on RPG forums

“I wish I could do $thing in DnD”

“$otherSystem has a very cool subsystem for $thing”

“Omg how dare you”

Had this conversation enough times to make it a pet peeve of mine

Anyway the only thing about 5e that does suck is Wizards of the Coast. Otherwise it’s fine. It’s just fine. You can have fun with it.

I’m more of a Pathfinder 2e guy tho.

(And pf2 is basically a more advanced take on what 5e was doing so…)

Would²

You need to give us the source for those tiefling arts.

A true bard would get his wiwi chopped off and immediately learn how to give the most mind-blowing oral you’ve ever felt, and continue seducing people for the love of the game.

Yeah…

What’s fun is getting two or more forever DMs to be players.

Because then the game becomes gloriously collaborative.

Ever since I switched from text to voice I feel like my characters lost some of their… Verbosity.

But last night I bon-mot-ed a minotaur (as my ascended animal swash-bard unicorn) by saying “Oooh, a fellow hooved creature! … Sorry about your appearance, fella.”

And rolled a crit.

And it felt awesome. Playing Swashbard is awesome.

My most iconic character (in the shared imaginations of my friends) is my sorceress pirate gal from a Final-Fantasy style campaign.

Our party included:

• A tragic Samurai looking to avenge his father who got war-crimed.
• A rogue who had their name stolen and is basically a blob of pure self-hatred.
• A warrior monk looking to develop her strengths so she can protect the weak
• A former slave who spent hundreds of years in slavery and wants to punish the slavers.
• A knight who lost all his memories except the traumatic memory that resulted in all the other lost memories.

… And then there was my gal. A magic college professor who decided “**** it, I’m tired of being boring. I’m gonna go and be a sky pirate, and I want to die an epic death”. She is the team mom.

It makes sense, I’d just never seen it. My brain sees ‘zoom’ and thinks ‘business, work’.

Me and my role-playing mates are also on that VTT+VoIP-Call life because we live kilometers away from one another.

whow, RPG over Zoom. Didn’t know people did that. It was always Discord for us. (WELL, Skype in the way back when times when my back didn’t hurt but y’know)

In another universe, Remus killed Romulus

And they had the Remen Empire

We as a society have evolved beyond the need for dungeons and dragons /hj

Haha cute

Japanese is such a difficult language

Thanks, tho. I learned something :P

The punchline is that, while a warlock, he is built like a twink and useless in meelee combat. Very much not a hexblade type. So the dead-goddess sword does him no good at all.

Blorbos from my friend group’s shared imagination