False prophet of tabletop gaming & main character of RPG twitter Christian, T1D, entomology enthusiast, Floridian. 🪲🐊☀️

Florida, USA
Joined September 2021
in retrospect it was silly of me to expect any form of twitter consensus on how this should work
Logistical question for a 4x game. Player A sends a settler to establish a settlement in Player B's territory. When this happens, Player B has the option to attack Player A's settler and prevent him from establishing a settlement. In the case that Player B attacks, which player does it make more sense for the game rules to consider the defense? I've had players argue that A is defending his settler and B is defending his land, but I would prefer the more intuitive option. It matters for some in-game effects.
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Logistical question for a 4x game. Player A sends a settler to establish a settlement in Player B's territory. When this happens, Player B has the option to attack Player A's settler and prevent him from establishing a settlement. In the case that Player B attacks, which player does it make more sense for the game rules to consider the defense? I've had players argue that A is defending his settler and B is defending his land, but I would prefer the more intuitive option. It matters for some in-game effects.
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More info: normally you use an action to attack, but when someone settles or even passes through your territory, you can do it for free. Also, I'm not looking for a moral argument, all I want is from a game rules perspective, which side would you assume to be using the rules for defense and which side offense.
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I'm normally very good at explaining game rules, but some reason I have problems explaining the rules for MY OWN GAME and it's not that it's particularly complicated, I just get stuck on small details. IDK how normal it is to struggle to explain rules that you yourself wrote
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Whenever I go to a new church, two things always seem to be true: - the pastor has covid - the sermon is about promiscuity Twice was weird but when I went to a new church last week and saw the sermon was on the 7th commandment, I already knew the pastor was going to be sick
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this is only KIND OF an exaggeration because the second time is was a mysterious cold and maybe not covid
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Only ever got these after AI got big I used to think that was because AI made artists increasingly desperate. But now I think that the ones creeping into your DMs are the ones trying to sell AI. No proper artist does this.
im tired of these annoying artists
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I tried something different this time and decided we wouldn't assign god alignments until later to maintain a fog of war over their intentions Despite this, we know everyone's alignments anyway based on how they are creating their god and followers. There's a lesson here.
Here are the final domain combinations my players are working with after the draft! I can see where several of these are going immediately, but others are harder
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Player: I'm thinking of basing my faction off a japanese yokai Me: Oh cool, which yokai?
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Here are the final domain combinations my players are working with after the draft! I can see where several of these are going immediately, but others are harder
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I'm beginning to think I hate fun because the narrator asked the audience to meow like poe's cat and there I was surrounded by meowing goth girls not meowing because my dad's with me and I can't disappoint him
Ok so turns out this is just an excuse for goth girls to get dressed up and drink watered down blue cocktails while actors sing songs about dying and they stop for an intermission every 2 songs
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Ok so turns out this is just an excuse for goth girls to get dressed up and drink watered down blue cocktails while actors sing songs about dying and they stop for an intermission every 2 songs
Poe night for the theater kids 🪦
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Poe night for the theater kids 🪦
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Draft isn't totally finished (a few players left to pick), but so far, a few interesting combinations and ideas are forming: - War/Revelry god of bloodlust with a kingdom of hobgoblins - Earth/Beasts god with rat kingdom - Victory/Hearth god with a Valkyrie-like race of all-female holy warriors - Beauty/Trickery god with a kingdom of notably attractive humans - Blood/Strife god with a kingdom of fanatical occultists These are early player ideas, but looks like we're off to an interesting start.
The domain draft for my final big playtest is happening this weekend. 15 players are put into a random order and they will go down the line and pick their first domain and then pick their second in reverse order. People are excited and already scheming. Full domain list:
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Harmony Ginger retweeted
Replying to @AlchemicRaker
"Nazgul are way too high a challenge rating for hobbits!"
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Harmony Ginger retweeted
Soon referees will be running sessions in your campaign with characters from their without your permission. And it will be the best thing that ever happened to the hobby.
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As a t1 diabetic, I am indescribably grateful to live in a first world country in the 21st century where my disease is inconvenient, but not a death sentence. 🙏
A hundred years ago, if your kid got diabetes, the doctor's plan was to starve them. 400 calories a day. Some weeks, nothing at all. It sounds insane but there was a grim logic behind it. Type 1 diabetes killed children within months back then, and less food meant less sugar in the blood, which slowed the dying. Kids on the diet stopped dying of diabetes and died of starvation instead, just slower. Parents signed up anyway because one extra year with their child was the best medicine could offer. Elizabeth Hughes was the daughter of the US Secretary of State, so she got the best care money could buy. That care took her from 75 pounds at diagnosis down to 45 pounds by age 14. When her mother brought her to Toronto in August 1922, she could barely walk. The treatment waiting there almost never got made. Frederick Banting was a small-town surgeon whose practice was failing so badly he was nearly broke. He talked a university into lending him a lab for one summer, and with a 21-year-old student assisting, isolated the pancreatic hormone researchers had chased for 30 years. Five weeks after her first shot, Elizabeth was eating 2,500 calories a day with a pint of cream poured on top. She gained 60 pounds in four and a half months. She went to Barnard, raised a family, lived to 73, and kept the diabetes secret from almost everyone she knew. Banting refused to put his name on the patent. He'd sworn the Hippocratic oath and believed a doctor had no business profiting from something like this. His co-discoverers sold it to the University of Toronto for a dollar. "Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world." 24 months from first injection to the Nobel Prize, and every diabetic kid on earth went from a death sentence to a normal life for the price of one dollar.
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"In the next game I'm going to sit in a corner and mind my own business and let everyone else fight it out" - the musings of a particularly antagonistic player doing his best to convince himself he isn't about to snag the war domain when it gets to him in the domain draft
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