Imagine showing this picture to someone even 50 years ago and trying to explain why exactly this is funny beyond the “LOL so randum” humor that would mostly have been confined to Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In at that time.

This is your yearly reminder that at statistically if you are over 35 you are halfway through your lifespan, which makes you middle-aged if you like having words mean things.

I think the core of the problem is that back in the bad old days, things needed to be tuned up a bit before they would work right and there was a marked lack of standardization. Now, not only do our devices work right out of the box, bit they also have little quality of life stuff as well. I haven’t bought a battery-powered device in years that wasn’t partially charged when I got it, and most devices come preinstalled with all the basic utility apps.

Trouble with the last one is that most of them can, so you can have a full month of getting used to people obeying signage only to suddenly deal with a dozen different customers who will not only ignore a sign placed at eye level saying “We Are Closed” but will pry open the door (if possible) and scale a full barricade to get in, and when you track them down and tell them what the damn sign said they insist that you should have put the sign somewhere obvious and that it’s actually your fault that they didn’t know they were breaking and entering.

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I read it, no clue what you were referring to

No

Wugapodes

I do agree that the main problem is with current published adventures and that most campaigns (even homebrew ones) don’t usually have places to grind loot. But it’s even more frustrating when we do have a dungeon-crawling campaign and there is maybe 3 spell scrolls in the entire campaign because thats what the loot tables rolled.

I think the first 10 people who saw it read me as a grumpy DM griping about players not doing what I want.

Thanks for the non-adversarial read. And I do agree that class and roleplay are not closely coupled and should not be (although I do think breaking this design philosophy for Paladins would make me want to play one.) Tbh, the most fun I’ve had at the table was playing a Champion Fighter at adventurer’s league. I liked big stronk man, everyone else liked big stronk man, DM was mildly confused by big stronk man. We had fun. I think the difference was that I knew the DM was playing a module, so I didn’t ask for much other than some flavor stuff.

I feel like you read a different thing than I thought I wrote. Maybe I could have been clearer. This is about me not wanting to be a player in 5e because the game does not encourage the dm to do stuff. I could have dwelled more on moments where I asked a dm to do something that would help me play my class (spell scrolls in the loot, give me opportunities to interact with other druids in my circle, overland travel, let me make use of my knightly title) and then they just forgot to do that. As a DM, I get it, a lot of these requests were very small things that just get lost in the shuffle, and its not pleasant to tell a player “hey, we wont be doing overland travel, if travel is what makes ranger appeal to you maybe dont play a ranger this game”. It would be easier if they game empowered the players to be active in the world and make class-informed choices that the DM can react to.

Don’t remember. We did end up playing Traveller after this, but I know that wasn’t what we were talking about. This convo happened back in 2017

The person who described Stallman as “the personification of the Free Software Movement” in reference to this bullshit made my blood boil

Oh no

. . . Oh no.

Oh no. Oh no.

What’s the context? All I have heard of RMS is people worshipping the ground he walks on. As far as I know, he craps gold and pisses rainbows.

Never underestimate the ability of a small change to completely break a system

Where else would you post this?