Over at TPB they're debating the ethics of using "golems" and "zombies" in games.  The zombie thread is currently 15 pages long:

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/so-what-do-we-do-about-zombie.919261/

Such terms are "harmful," don't you know.

Reddit is 95% bots anyway, so posting there is futile in the extreme.

Imagine if Critical Role switched to streaming on Kick! My favorite lolcow also streams there!

Quote from: 1stLevelWizard on April 29, 2024, 11:18:18 PMFor a lot of the advice channels, I appreciate the sentiment but I feel like a lot of it comes from people who themselves are pretty new. I mean a lot of RPG advice videos I see give a lot of generalized information that you could just gain from playing the game and accruing actual experience.

Like if I'm going to look for advice, it's gonna be from guys that have been playing for 10+ years who have played a lot and tried a lot of different ideas, and have sifted the good from the bad. Not from someone who's got the same amount of experience.

The only guy I really follow for rpg content is Esper the Bard. He's been working on a dnd supplement called Monsterous Heroes that allows you to play monsters as classes, like dragons, werewolves, vampires, minotaurs, and more! Now that is something that really changes the whole game!

Quote from: NotFromAroundHere on Today at 03:59:50 AMYeah, brigading is a real problem on reddit. It's even more evident on small subs like r/rpg (yes, r/rpg is a small sub; despite the apparently massive number of subscribers, the active user base rarely reaches two thousand people at a time and usually hovers around 800), where a significant minority can effectively dictate what topics can be discussed through strategic downvotes (try to post something along the lines of "Blades in the dark is a shit game" and see what happens).

And that is why I don't have a Reddit account...

Quote from: Cipher on April 30, 2024, 08:36:49 PM

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Quote from: Cipher on April 30, 2024, 06:30:20 PMStraight up point buy does.

Are you 12 years old?

How does straight up point buy requires the GM to "grow a spine"?

It's right there in the post you originally quoted.

Quote from: Socratic-DM on April 26, 2024, 05:42:40 PMOne of the ideas I discussed and which my players thought was kind of cool was, what if every mundane skill worked like Attainment in Invisible College? mainly what if skills had a range of 0-100, the bonus for skill checks being 1/10th the skill score.

The system in Bushido (Daredevil and Aftermath!) by Robert N. Charrette and Paul R. Hume (FGU) basically is this, except that the 100 (skill value) is divided by 5 (now called BCS or Base Chance of Success) and you roll under for success (ie the Blackjack roll system).

The skill value starts with a base value based on Characteristics (a bit like Runequest, CoC, Mythras etal). The skill value is improved by one week training which gives you around 1 to 7 points depending on if you have access to a school, and dedicate your full time and have one on one etc. After your skill gets above 60 this is halved, not having a teacher/school etc all halve the amount you can get etc.

My ridiculous ineptitude with technology strikes again. Thanks for posting the new address for the actual livestream, which turned out very good in the end.

Yeah, brigading is a real problem on reddit. It's even more evident on small subs like r/rpg (yes, r/rpg is a small sub; despite the apparently massive number of subscribers, the active user base rarely reaches two thousand people at a time and usually hovers around 800), where a significant minority can effectively dictate what topics can be discussed through strategic downvotes (try to post something along the lines of "Blades in the dark is a shit game" and see what happens).

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Quote from: Opaopajr on April 29, 2024, 09:54:50 PMYes, it is a glorious self-own from one's blinding hypocrisy. And yes, reddit mostly had people bat this attention-seeking away as the piffle it is. But... it's still fucking reddit in its manner, sound and fury signaling nothing but now in soporific NPR drone. So I return to shit on reddit for a second time.

The problem is that every little subreddit is its own little domain really and several of the RPG related ones have some pretty nasty moderators.

This came to light recently
https://www.dndunleashed.com/home/why-we-no-longer-post-content-on-reddit

Yeah, I never liked the platform. It always had that groupthink darlings and Greek chorus harpies feel to it, like RPG.net, Tumblr, and Twitter after Tumblr was purged. That and it has an atrocious interface, like a purposeful leap backwards, worse than Unix to DOS, to capture market and keep people separated.

All hobbies self-separate into little groups anyway, but the format and "good-righteous-thinking" rubbed me raw immediately and I saw no future in it as an RPG communication tool. Good doesn't have to parade its virtues. And RPGs need way more lasting substantiality and reference ability along with diverse disagreement about Imagination Land to be useful to GMs and players alike over the ages.

So I come to shit on Reddit thrice!