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Making my way through DS9 and Voyager now, I’ll put that on the docket next. Can’t wait for season three lol

Well now I have to see it, what’s Spock’s Brain? Is that the name of an OT episode? Haven’t made my way through the OT yet.

I had to skip all episodes with her

So like, some of the most important episodes to the Bajoran story lines? What? I hate her too but, what? lol

And it was this comment that got me to realize it’s the same actress. Amazing I never saw that before. Albeit I haven’t seen Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in like over ten years but still lol

Lol arguably, you can actually walk around the interior of your ship in SC. The FPS portions are pretty good. But last time I played (like two years ago) I fell through a staircase.

I should give it another go soon.

It’s still moving towards completion. At a snail’s pace but it’s moving. To their defense they’ve done some really cool tech with the game engine and stuff but idk if that justifies the timeline imo.

My money is spent regardless though, so I’ll zoom around in my leather interior ship whenever it does release.

Star Citizen might take the cake, I say as an original Kickstarter backer of Star Citizen.

bags of holding.

It’s true. The character in my current campaign has two bags of holding and a bag of devouring.

It’s from Babylon 5, for anybody coming to the comments and wasn’t familiar with what show this is from.

I like how many options they have. Wasn’t expecting the Maquis ship to be represented.

Nice, some of my material is also ttrpg related so that’s especially helpful haha Thanks!

No doubt, this is the best mushroom book imo. It’s on my shelf as I type this.

It’s a terrible platform for minor authors.

Mind if I ask what a better option would be? Looking to release some work myself in the next year and was going to start looking at which options would be best.

With games these days I just feel it’s a better deal. There’s stability patches, generally more content that’s added post-launch, and a sale price making it cheaper. I don’t understand buying games at launch when it’s not a primarily multiplayer game. Multiplayer makes sense since there’s the server population you have to consider. But Souls? Armored Core? Most RPGs? The multiplayer/coop is generally an afterthought, so I can wait until the deal ripens haha

Yeah, I was playing armored core back before From Soft got their recognition with the Souls series and so I’m really excited we’re getting this series back. But now, with all the lessons learned from the Souls series! I’m sure it will be great, it’s just I’m a patient gamer so will still likely wait until a sale 😂

I actually don’t think he had a role in TNG.

As a long time GM and player of 5e, PF2 is much more intuitive. It just gives you more character options and people get intimidated, that doesn’t mean it’s more complicated though. It’s still as easy as multiple choice, you just have more choices.

Combat is even easier and was a way smoother experience to teach to my players with PF2’s three action economy, instead of explaining the esoteric action, move action, reaction, etc. of 5e. I’ll die on the hill that PF2 is not more complicated than 5e simply because it presents more options at level 1 (and every level thereafter making ACTUALLY unique PCs). One of my pet peeves with criticisms against PF2, and it’s normally by people who haven’t actually played it.

If you try PF2, my advice is to drop your preconceptions. The biggest complaints from players was when they kept comparing to how they did things in 5e. It’s not 5e, it does things differently and has a different game design philosophy. It’s much more balanced so you’re not going to be doing as much damage as a single player and you have to use team work. Don’t even get me started on encounter design with 5e’s garbage CR rating, I was flabbergasted when I saw how amazingly easy and balanced it was to pick monsters for an encounter in PF2. It’s just a simple math equation for an exp pool, and then you “buy” monsters from the pool of exp. Once you use the entire exp pool, it will be balanced to the average party, the math is that tight.

I loved 5e for the years I played and ran it, but you’re really missing out if you don’t dive deeper into PF2. I’m frustrated I didn’t switch sooner quite frankly, it would’ve made my job as a GM much, much easier and my players would’ve been making cooler characters way earlier. My partner just made a 4ft tall stuffed clown PC that has the juggler feat and can go limp to pretend to be an inanimate object Toy Story style, no home brewing, that’s just options you have.

TL;DR: It’s really not that complicated, you and/or anybody reading this should really give it a try. If you don’t want to try PF2 that’s fine but I implore you to at least move to another system because WotC is not a great company anymore (as much as it pains this nerd heart). Tales of the Valiant by Kobold Press is basically 5e with the serial numbers filed off if you’re really in love with the actual mechanics of 5e. Shadowdark is another good, newer system that’s really rules light and hearkens back to OSR DnD days.

/rant

Oh, random based Pathfinder take! I love seeing it get love over DnD because yes, it’s so much more inclusive and interesting. From a lore perspective and a mechanic perspective.

That’s not even getting into the issues with WotC as a company.

Advocacy and nonprofit groups that support different minority groups need to come together to fight, Newman said.

“We have a chance of winning this war that’s been thrust upon us. It’s been building for years but now it’s climactic where there’s hundreds of laws, state and federal, and bills coming up every week, attacking us, and we need support,” she said.

Anybody want to drop their favorite advocacy and nonprofit groups so we can support them? Seems about all we can do until the next election as normal citizens.

I really like Rainbow Railroad but they’re not the only one.

But sure why this 1 year old post is in my “Hot” feed but it’s kinda neat news I didn’t know about before.