Tarcion

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[–] Tarcion 9 points 1 year ago

You can just copy and paste the MLP actual image into the Pokémon slot.

[–] Tarcion 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got that right, Buddy.

[–] Tarcion 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's because Florida has sprawling Metropolitan areas which require commuting but largely employ service workers who couldn't afford a truck if they wanted to.

[–] Tarcion 63 points 1 year ago

Tassi's a pretty well-respected and reliable journalist. I would trust his info. And Destiny is one of the games he consistently covers. We know from prior stories he has sources inside Bungie. Using present tense in the hope they weren't all laid off.

[–] Tarcion 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What was the prompt for this? Love the style even though I'd probably want a little more covering.

[–] Tarcion 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think that's possible and can certainly be your head canon or what you run at your table.

That said, I believe the connections between the two are entirely due to the githyanki's enslavement by the illithids. Learning the wrong lessons from their oppressors is a sad, but not unbelievable, outcome. The note about aboleths is interesting but I'm not familiar enough with their lore to effectively speculate why they would not know about illithids - perhaps they just didn't come into contact with them until the height of the illithid empire.

This kind of lore stuff is why I stick to homebrew tbh

[–] Tarcion 51 points 1 year ago

19 total? I sleep. 19 on the d20? Real shit?!

[–] Tarcion 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that is an excellent article. I've been wanting to try and host an In-person game for a bit but the whole "8 laptops" thing is a bit cumbersome. I think there is definitely a viable solution there to let people play from the couch and just hot seat with a laptop while the game is up on the TV.

[–] Tarcion 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I use foundry and love it. I've switched to PF2E but ran 5e on there for about 2 years. It works great for doing a lot of automation for you and you can still throw up a background image for TotM scenes. Definitely my favorite method I've tried for our virtual group. Though when we have In-person sessions we still use foundry with eneryone on laptops because it's so much easier.

[–] Tarcion 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This was my first thought. Maybe if you've only seen either movie as a child, I guess...

[–] Tarcion 7 points 1 year ago

It is a real shame. My idealized version of the cleric is actually the robed divine spellcaster priest style, not the armored frontline support.

Fortunately, cloistered cleric is still a thing in PF2e and is differentiated pretty well to emphasize it's spellcasting specialization. So that's been nice.

[–] Tarcion 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think he's wrong. AAA game prices have been basically the same for 20+ years, while the cost of making games has only gone up. I think this is why a lot of publishers push for progressively more aggressive microtransactions, which can often hide the actual price of the game's content. And greed but that's kind of their job.

The idea that BG3 and Overwatch 2 released at the same price point is actually ludicrous. With AAA games, the price is standard and if you don't like the game, oh well fuck you. And I would absolutely pay extra for games from developers which invested more, and had a higher standard of quality. Larian could charge $100 for their next CRPG and I'd be all in. Similarly, I don't think minimally viable cash grab titles or smaller, maybe more experimental titles should release for more than like $30.

I think the indie scene does this pretty well but it's a challenge for AAA, and consumers are somewhat to blame. I think people would balk more at an $80 standard price than a $60 half-complete game with $4k of microtransactions. So of course, studios are going to go with the latter strategy, even though plenty of people hate it.

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