I like those shawls. Imma steal that idea.I am jelly I didn't think of them.
I will attempt to avoid writing a long post on the potential forecast for development of related system going forward.
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Once I have stopped the bleeding, I will return! Such savagery deserves recompense…
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
QotD: If you could change any 1 thing about D&D 5e (the current edition, not the playtest stuff), what would it be and why?
Alright, I think I might have an answer.
Rework the fundamental framework of HP.
The fundamental challenge of a 1-20 campaign simply cannot be "stay alive." The recurring danger can't be "you might die." For so many reasons. So just change it! However, this change would necessarily ripple out into so many other changes that it feels like a deceptive answer to the question. So, how about:
Remove ability scores, leave ability bonuses.
Yes, it's very cute that the scores go from 1 to 20 like the dice, except they actually don't, and even if they did, it's like saying I should make sure all the components to my PC are the same color scheme even though my PC case is opaque and closed on all sides. Rejigger the math for feats and whatnot so the breakpoints are close to the same.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Question: Have any of y'all played pathfinder? If so, how is it different from Dnd? What's your opinion about it? What should a Dungeons and Dragons player know before going into a pathfinder game?
I haven’t played Pathfinder but I’ve heard it’s based on 3.5 edition D&D. Also, I heard they just scrubbed all the D&D lore out of their rulebooks because of a legal dispute with WotC. I never had any interest in playing Pathfinder because I heard 3.5e D&D is super complicated and rules heavy compared to 5e. Plus no one in my friend group plays it.
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Question: Have any of y'all played pathfinder? If so, how is it different from Dnd? What's your opinion about it? What should a Dungeons and Dragons player know before going into a pathfinder game?
I haven't played it but I have the Starter Set box. It seems to just be older D&D with the same monsters, more classes, and different skills and a proficiency system. I don't like it as much, but maybe just because I started with Dungeons and Dragons and it seems similar but there are some differences that seem weird because of that and Pathfinder done't seem to incredibly drastically change gameplay.
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He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explainHERE.
Question: Have any of y'all played pathfinder? If so, how is it different from Dnd? What's your opinion about it? What should a Dungeons and Dragons player know before going into a pathfinder game?
PF1 is a fork off of D&D 3.5 nder the older OGL stuff. It is much crunchier than 5e, with some slightly different rules from the original and a focus (in the early days) on making all the often conflicting information in 3.5e mesh together and stop being conflicting.
PF2 is an improvement of the original rule set and a clearing out of the material that was basically lifted from D&D 3.5 as they create theiir own versions of the classics stuff and build out the lore there.
I do not like PF. But, in fairness, I do not like 3.0/3.5.
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Reference is to the burn Sposta pulled a few posts back in reference to the D&D stamps coming out in the US for the 50th anniversary.
It was a magnificent burn, lol.
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Ok, Sposta, I got the flames out, and time for retribution is at hand!
BWAHAHAHAH *cough* *choke**gag*
So, while I am not fond of AI image generation, I am also not currently set up to play whack a mole with hiired artists nor do I have the capacity to do so myself, so since I had it suddenly appear in some of my tools, I figured, wth, I will give it a shot.
My initial, core, vision for Wyrlde is a planet of people who are Persons of Color. I don't mean like Drow. I mean folks like me and all that. So, I went out five years ago and started really digging into the google for images of people of color in a fantasy setting. It was not a very successful endeavor. I did get some, but a lot of it wasn't in "my style", so to speak.
When I tried to use AI, I discovered the same problem, magnified.
I should note that I use a lot of iPads, including really pricey ones. In just generating AI images to try and get what I wanted, I ended up using over 50 gigs in generated images. Just AI ones. All in the quest to get a few that I liked.
it is very, very hard. Misogyny, Racism, hyper sexualization, and the way they all intersect is more or less baked into the underlying basis for Ai image generation, and some keywords end up generating pornographic or worse images. Sadly, if I mention this in most places where the discourse is going on, folks will talk about it not being that bad -- and the problem is that because things are that bad normally, in the real world, that folks do not see the problems as problems.
Which s made even more hilarious by the problem that Fantasy Portraiture, historically, is often represented by folks such as Boris and Frazetta and olivia -- hell, even Easley, lol. The Pulp covers of the early SF&F mags, and more. Combien that with the eroticization of persons of color, and well, shit gets complicated.
In any case, I thought I would also share what I did a short bit ago here, in case any of you need a portrait of someone to use in your games. They aren't awesome, and the gallery is more or less hand picked, but it is the best I could get for my purposes, and since I have no "ownership" of it in the technical sense, have at it all:
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
So, I finally settled on a fixed date for when Wyrlde’s first people landed, lol.
see if you can identify the film I snagged it from.
The date is November 25th, 3978.
(Note this means the date people start playing is some 2500 years later, lol)
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
So, I finally settled on a fixed date for when Wyrlde’s first people landed, lol.
see if you can identify the film I snagged it from.
The date is November 25th, 3978.
(Note this means the date people start playing is some 2500 years later, lol)
Oh yeah, I remember that Simpson's episode.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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I like those shawls. Imma steal that idea.I am jelly I didn't think of them.
I will attempt to avoid writing a long post on the potential forecast for development of related system going forward.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Mail is suddenly going to get slower -- because Imma be writing actual letters and shipping figs through USPS...
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2023/1130-usps-reveals-additional-stamps-for-2024.htm
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
With how long your correspondences usually are, you might need several stamps per
envelopeparcel. 😂😂Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
The Tiamat stamp is fire.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.Once I have stopped the bleeding, I will return! Such savagery deserves recompense…
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Alright, I think I might have an answer.
Rework the fundamental framework of HP.
The fundamental challenge of a 1-20 campaign simply cannot be "stay alive." The recurring danger can't be "you might die." For so many reasons. So just change it! However, this change would necessarily ripple out into so many other changes that it feels like a deceptive answer to the question. So, how about:
Remove ability scores, leave ability bonuses.
Yes, it's very cute that the scores go from 1 to 20 like the dice, except they actually don't, and even if they did, it's like saying I should make sure all the components to my PC are the same color scheme even though my PC case is opaque and closed on all sides. Rejigger the math for feats and whatnot so the breakpoints are close to the same.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Honestly, an optional rule that gives druids a high level ability that lets them combine two beasts. It’d give people their owlbear fantasy, and more.
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
Question: If you were working on Baldurs Gate 4, what side quest would you make?
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
? I like it, but is it out of context?
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
Question: Have any of y'all played pathfinder? If so, how is it different from Dnd? What's your opinion about it? What should a Dungeons and Dragons player know before going into a pathfinder game?
I haven’t played Pathfinder but I’ve heard it’s based on 3.5 edition D&D. Also, I heard they just scrubbed all the D&D lore out of their rulebooks because of a legal dispute with WotC. I never had any interest in playing Pathfinder because I heard 3.5e D&D is super complicated and rules heavy compared to 5e. Plus no one in my friend group plays it.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
I haven't played it but I have the Starter Set box. It seems to just be older D&D with the same monsters, more classes, and different skills and a proficiency system. I don't like it as much, but maybe just because I started with Dungeons and Dragons and it seems similar but there are some differences that seem weird because of that and Pathfinder done't seem to incredibly drastically change gameplay.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.PF1 is a fork off of D&D 3.5 nder the older OGL stuff. It is much crunchier than 5e, with some slightly different rules from the original and a focus (in the early days) on making all the often conflicting information in 3.5e mesh together and stop being conflicting.
PF2 is an improvement of the original rule set and a clearing out of the material that was basically lifted from D&D 3.5 as they create theiir own versions of the classics stuff and build out the lore there.
I do not like PF. But, in fairness, I do not like 3.0/3.5.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Reference is to the burn Sposta pulled a few posts back in reference to the D&D stamps coming out in the US for the 50th anniversary.
It was a magnificent burn, lol.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Ok, Sposta, I got the flames out, and time for retribution is at hand!
BWAHAHAHAH *cough* *choke**gag*
So, while I am not fond of AI image generation, I am also not currently set up to play whack a mole with hiired artists nor do I have the capacity to do so myself, so since I had it suddenly appear in some of my tools, I figured, wth, I will give it a shot.
My initial, core, vision for Wyrlde is a planet of people who are Persons of Color. I don't mean like Drow. I mean folks like me and all that. So, I went out five years ago and started really digging into the google for images of people of color in a fantasy setting. It was not a very successful endeavor. I did get some, but a lot of it wasn't in "my style", so to speak.
When I tried to use AI, I discovered the same problem, magnified.
I should note that I use a lot of iPads, including really pricey ones. In just generating AI images to try and get what I wanted, I ended up using over 50 gigs in generated images. Just AI ones. All in the quest to get a few that I liked.
it is very, very hard. Misogyny, Racism, hyper sexualization, and the way they all intersect is more or less baked into the underlying basis for Ai image generation, and some keywords end up generating pornographic or worse images. Sadly, if I mention this in most places where the discourse is going on, folks will talk about it not being that bad -- and the problem is that because things are that bad normally, in the real world, that folks do not see the problems as problems.
Which s made even more hilarious by the problem that Fantasy Portraiture, historically, is often represented by folks such as Boris and Frazetta and olivia -- hell, even Easley, lol. The Pulp covers of the early SF&F mags, and more. Combien that with the eroticization of persons of color, and well, shit gets complicated.
In any case, I thought I would also share what I did a short bit ago here, in case any of you need a portrait of someone to use in your games. They aren't awesome, and the gallery is more or less hand picked, but it is the best I could get for my purposes, and since I have no "ownership" of it in the technical sense, have at it all:
https://www.wyrlde.com/devpost/a-gallery-of-ai-generated-images/
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
A quest to make the game less graphics intensive.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
So, I finally settled on a fixed date for when Wyrlde’s first people landed, lol.
see if you can identify the film I snagged it from.
The date is November 25th, 3978.
(Note this means the date people start playing is some 2500 years later, lol)
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Oh yeah, I remember that Simpson's episode.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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