Well at least they’re interesting, definitely keep writing!

Huh, very neat. So all the stories are primarily tools to develop your conlang?

I like this. Is it part of a larger universe?

Honestly probably not that serious. Even in their myths/stories, the oracle would tell great doom and then no one would listen. I expect they got inspiration for that from somewhere.

Coke (the soda) is 90% water.

Your soup will still be a soup (or a thin broth, at least) at a far higher percentage of water than you think it will.

Only those three? That’s easy enough. I expected a few more

I know where to find zines, friend. 😅

I meant more like a list of the exact ones referenced in the court case.

It’s a more effective at building awareness if I can narrow it down to the specific materials being censored.

I can’t think of any better way to showcase the erosion of our so-called ‘freedoms’ than distributing banned zines. Anyone have copies I can print?

well you didn’t explicitly say you were checking this tile

Yep, that sucks. But tracking time is still good for gameplay

It might not seem more fun that way, but surprisingly it is.

See: BLeeM and how all his BBEGs are actually Capitalism

Take offense to my original comment if you like, but people responded and so I elaborated. No one’s forcing you to read the comment thread.

If someone is literally a danger to society, sure. But (especially in the US) the jails are absolutely crammed full with people that, by and large, only committed nonviolent crimes.

And even for things classified as “violent crimes” - a lot of it is overblown or committed by people who would otherwise not be violent but were pushed to the brink by a brutal, uncaring society.

Incarceration should really be an absolute last resort reserved only for the worst of the worst, but instead we fill beds like we’re meeting a quota because it funnels taxpayer dollars into rich people’s pockets. (And that’s not just the US, either, although we’re certainly one of the worst ones for it.)

Are there “evil people” though? What makes someone evil? And what purpose does violence serve - does jail do justice for victims, protect our communities, or reduce the chances of reoffending? It turns out that the answer is no, it doesn’t. A kinder approach also happens to be a more effective approach.

Hot take: jails are evil, so someone good would be more interested in rehabilitation

I prefer the BLeeM method: try to kill them and then be amazed at how they, like cockroaches, survive anyways

Of course, but it favors the RPer who just wants to be decent more than the minmaxer, since it encourages breadth not depth.

You could just give players multiple ASIs, but they can’t be applied to the same stat

Don’t knock it till you try it. Making MAD builds more viable is really great for the game. Obviously characters will still have a couple low scores, but it’s nice not to suck at everything except one thing.

it would require a pretty comprehensive rework, yes. You’d need to (as an example):

• give martials something really cool that they can do to compete with the “cool factor” spells offer (I think having a large variety of weapon options would help, especially if the weapons all feel different and have different mechanical effects)

• Let martials use their physical prowess to dynamically interact with the battle (They can already do things like shoving enemies, but a really robust list of tricks that characters can do with their athletics, acrobatics, stealth, medicine, etc. skills could really help level the playing field. After all, spells are mostly useful for their utility and not just raw damage.)

• Make spells less all-or-nothing using multiple saving throws or varying levels of success (this lets you nerf the “top end” of spells while keeping their overall power the same)

• give martials more ways to cheat the action economy, like more actions per turn on average than casters get

• make more enemies resist magic but weak to normal weapons, or make more enemies weak to certain kinds of physical damage (slashing, piercing, silver, etc.)

• give martial characters “backdoors” into magical skill (for example, maybe characters with a high arcana skill can do magic as long as they have time to prepare - like rituals instead of combat magic - or they could use arcana and a satchel full of scrolls/wands to cast magic even as a martial)

• give characters more access to ability score increases on their weaker ability scores so they don’t have to optimize as heavily around only one ability score

… just to name a few I’d have in mind

So just buff the martials! Easy peasy