Hm. Well, don’t feel obliged to hew to existing genre definitions.

Also, I’d still urge you to sit down and make a list of design goals, eg what you like about the experience of playing war games or ttrpgs, and then make rules to match, rather than starting with making the rules or choosing which ones to duplicate from existing games.

The bribe was the settlement payout. The censorship is just a bonus.

Your character doesn’t know that information.

I think it’s a false dichotomy. You want to decide what your design goals are, the kind of vibe you’re trying to generate, and then create systems that support that vibe.

A wizard did it.

No one actually plays dnd like that though…

Throw in the episode where they go back to 90s California too, call it Hella Voyager

You could stick it in the middle somewhere. A side story we didn’t see on screen. Or, they could remake Year of Hell or something.

Given what Mountain Dew has done to me, that tracks.

Jokes on you, we play every rpg!

Bards aren’t just “a talented musician” they literally use magic. They’re basically wizards that went the liberal arts path in college.

Yeah, in that case I think you did everything that could reasonably be expected of you.

A war could always just end by the bad guy (from your perspective) winning decisively.

I think as a teenager I played a lot of Bards because being likeable and everyone doing what you say is kind of nice when you’re an awkward disempowered kid, but nowadays I mix it up. Mostly just because playing the same character repeatedly would get kind of boring for me, and I want to explore different territory, even if it’s on the level of “original the hedgehog donut steal”

That’s kind of funny in a terrible way when you consider that a lot of security research is pentesting.

Therapist: “Also you’re fat”

Patient: [incoherent sobbing]

Therapist: “Ok so you’re insecure about that too, try to work on that…”

I only implement restrictions when there’s actually a problem. Haven’t needed to in a long time

Some people, especially kids (no shade, I’m mostly talking about myself when I was younger) have difficulties focusing on the game when the distraction machine is in front of them, leading to DMs restricting or banning their use.

I think that was the right action, but you could have explained better. Instead of just “Ok, you stay at the tavern” something like “Ok, you can stay at the tavern if you really want to, but you do understand that will mean you’re sitting here bored all afternoon while the rest of us play, right?”

Everybody’s gotta learn some time

Mac and cheese for dinner is lame and lazy too, but also fucking delicious. TTRPGS are something your friends put together for you out of love, not necessarily some clinically perfect professional product. And to extend the metaphor, if you go to a dinner party and start bitching about your friend not plating the food like a Michelin star place, you’re an asshole.