Ele is definitely cool looking, too. I just don’t vibe with ele in general as much as ranger I think. I’ve always been more into doing one element in games so the GW2 ele was never quite my jam with all the switching.

I know a lot of people were panning warrior, but I’m waiting to see what it feels like. I don’t think it’s wrong to have some simpler designs too, and for me at least I prefer that a lot of the time.

Same with Rev, I know people felt like it was a little weaker than others but I think it might be pretty fun. The only thing I was thinking about that one was the spammable main skill should be on 2 or 3, not 5.

Ranger is probably my top pick out of the whole thing.

Engie was the weakest for me. I just don’t get how it fits the class fantasy at all. The visuals almost look more like warrior to me, and there’s almost no gadget theme at all.

How much is a human bite?

This seems like a completely baseless and hyperbolic take gleaned from a single screenshot of a YouTube comment. While I’m sure there are people who only watch critical takes on things (I’ve done it before myself), it’s a crazy extrapolation to say that “movie fans have regressed to this”. Maybe some people are kind of attached to a given franchise but don’t like the current direction, so they keep tabs on it but don’t watch themselves right now. Maybe others don’t watch critics at all. This just feels like fishing for doom where none exists. /rant

Yeah, these tools would be a lot better if they could say “I don’t know” more.

I think it’s hard to want to watch something really emotionally intense when real life already is really emotionally intense.

Torgaydo

I definitely agree that the beauty of ttrpgs is how many different things they can be to different people. We’ve got very different styles, but I think it’s great you’ve found a way to play that works for you and your table!

I definitely dislike the idea of stopping the action and suggesting a direction. For my games I always try to aim for immersion, and this would really take me out of it.

I think you might have gotten the wrong idea about how I approach it, though. Part of keeping things surprising and impartial is avoiding changing things all the time secretly. That being said, I don’t believe in a hard and fast rule of never fudging anything.

Here’s an example where I would consider it. The players have been trying really hard to overcome an obstacle, and have had many setbacks already. They come up with an exciting and novel solution, but a bad roll happens on my end that would end this great idea in another failure. Because they’ve earned it by this point, and it will make for a more exciting game, I would likely fudge that roll and give it to them. I would do this in secret, because calling attention to it deflates the experience for the players.

I see the GM as a storyteller and entertainer, whose primary goal is to immerse the players into a story, and to create an exciting and unpredictable experience. Not everyone will view things like I do, and that’s fine, but I wanted to clarify what I mean anyway. Hopefully that makes more sense now.

I agree with this. I’ve always seen the rules as a framework to assist in collaborative story telling and keep things impartial and surprising. At any point where they begin to do more harm than good, we can change them.

Oddly specific 🤔

I’m a designer and there’s some truth to this. Sometimes it’s a great new partnership, but sometimes it’s too many cooks in the kitchen if there’s no clear vision holder.

You’ve actually just said everything I felt about it, so agreed wholeheartedly!

I watched a few of this guy’s videos for a while after my friend passed one along once. I actually agree with parts of this take. He does have some good points about writing and direction, but always goes so far off the rails into his obsession with “the agenda”, or straight up misogyny. I just couldn’t watch them anymore after a few cause of that. Felt too toxic.

Hedgehogs actually are quite fast!

Mobile games make more money than the entire rest of the gaming sector combined.

I’ve seen so many of these I don’t remember what the original “flag” was anymore.

Ain’t that the truth

I would imagine putting it on glass also made it possible to remove the paint easier if a mistake was made, wouldn’t it?

I’ve known about matte paintings but I had no idea about the glass part! I just assumed it was composited together somehow. Very cool.