^(marshall)

…that’s pretty much ICE’s recruitment demographic…

feet.

…it’s a tarantino thing…

…yeah, i think that’s an essential cultural distinction between tabletop and videogame backgrounds; i started seeing the transition in campaign styles in parallel with the advent of structured narratives around the mid-eighties leading into the nineties…

…by contrast, our groups routinely swap DM roles across multiple tables which all share the same more-or-less persistent world, although individual character and DM experiences can vary within the boundaries of narrative coherence…that sustained investment is the fundamental point of of our tabletop campaigns; it distinguishes freeform from prescribed gameplay and is why we chose open-ended campaigns over closed-form boardgames…

…are you familiar with the old RPGA living campaigns?..ignoring the structured campaign setting, that style of pickup game used to be how most folks played…

…if player characters aren’t at liberty to move between campaigns, then ultimately no, they don’t have agency: they’re just ephemeral labor playing-out the DM’s narrative with nothing to show for it afterward…

…mind, i’m not damning that arrangement - some folks enjoy the transient experience - but i have no interest in investing my own creative energy toward anything that i don’t keep…

^{(i already deal with that sixty-five hours every week and remuneration barely suffices to stay my contempt)}

…fair enough; i don’t invest my time in campaigns where players don’t retain agency over their own characters…

…west marches vs. one-shot campaigns, plenty of tables for both styles…

…nah, i have plenty of characters from other campaigns available when the opportunity arises…

…i’m not big on contrived replacements; i may rejoin organically at some point in the indeterminate future but if i’m out i’m out…

…now that’s a name i’ve not heard in - two months…

temporary autonomous zone

…it’s been the frontier of human condition for as long as we’ve wrought civilisation from the wild; always ephemeral; always pollinating, seeding anew, and burgeoning along the fresh meadowlands of social intercourse…

…there’s one clear victor and it’s not even close…

…not in fifth-edition dungeons + dragons: knowledge checks are intelligence, judgement is wisdom…

…disappointed to see alarums + excursions end so close to the gold mark but by that same measure its run is nothing short of a triumph by modern standards; lee gold’s shadow looms large and well-earned…

…my cat loved to do this with the styrofoam inserts from my original transformers boxes…

…oh, that’s pretty!..reminds me of when i redecorated my bedroom the summer of `83…

…maybe he’ll do the world a favor and step into an industrial shredder…

(shame about his genetic legacy, but hopefully all their mothers are mostly good people who give them a fighting chance at turning out well)

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East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

…hey kid, wanna buy a t-shirt?…

…i was going to say 16 ⅔ feet based on 1 ½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close…