ttrpgcrap.com
Semi-professional profile of a semi-professional company making semi-professional stuff. https://www.ttrpgcrap.com
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Beyond JUST Clinton, I am amazed at how often those on the right are shocked when I'm willing to criticize establishment Dems. They think because I vote Dem consistently, I must bow down to the party. They are projecting, I'd wager.
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In reality, we could do BOTH. I don't think anyone would mind the performative stuff if they were ALSO doing things of substance.
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I thought with the way she was acting, it'd be a minor right-wing celebrity. She proudly points to her Amazon listing. The most ratings any of her books has is ... 3. Doesn't look like any actual reviews, just a VERY few 5 star ratings.
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Without seeing them myself, I can't make a super educated statement. But from what you've said, I would disagree with criticizing people for how they dress, regardless. I think your first mistake was being on Twitter.
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I'm not sure what your point is here. The point is that we should be encouraging young people to find themselves at this age. Whether they wind up being trans or a drag queen or cishet. At the end of the day I don't really care WHY they are experimenting, but that they are allowed to do so in peace.
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The vast VAST majority of underage trans people do NOT go through any sort of life-changing surgery until they are older (if ever). At that age, it's mostly about being allowed to change their name, wear clothing that confirms to their gender, etc. For exactly the reasons you stated.
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What amazing proof that at least one person behind the scenes has a good finger on the pulse of the community. (And probably multiple people.)
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At a glance, both classes seem to have an obvious "favored" subclass. That said, both classes (with my favored subclass) seem rad and I'd play either one.
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I was worried that we'd get ancestry pages that are a low more boring/watered down like certain other RPGs. I am VERY happy with how many pages they take and what they left in. (CONCEPT ART still in the final book? SWOON!)
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That's fair. I hadn't realized I used those literal three words! I think I will leave the post to own my faux pas with wording. But definitely unintentional implications. Muscular women are beautiful.
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I was trying to agree with you and say that it's perfectly valid to have a preference either way, and that men who like muscular women are equally valid. Sorry if it read differently than that. Not sure if I'm going to delete, since it apparently doesn't read the way I meant it.
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Not all men like strong women. But that's okay. Not all men like femme women either. Not all men like women at all! Shock! Horror! Personal preference!
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If this publisher is NOT actively promoting your book, getting it in front of people who wouldn't give you the time of day, if you are doing ALL the promotion yourself... it's essentially a scam. You can get the physical book printed and fulfilled a million places without giving up anything.
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I know nothing of this particular company, only speaking generalities. What a publisher usually does is get you into doors you couldn't get into otherwise. Historically, that has meant on physical book seller shelves, though that's not AS important in the modern day.
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When I give them a section to build, I will ALWAYS give them a caveat. You can tell me about this person AS YOU KNOW IT. If they have a deep dark secret, your character wouldn't necessarily know, and that's always on the table for me to add to any NPC, player-created or not.
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Totally valid choice by you. But it's not binary. You can give your players cordoned off areas without impeding on your broad strokes much at all. Let them make their home town, name the blacksmith, etc.
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So much this. When people say things like "I don't know any <marginalized community>," what I usually hear is "the people in your life don't feel comfortable coming out to you."
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It can, yes. For instance, if Google has a lot of things marked spam from a certain company, it will start auto-marking it as spam in everyone's inbox. Use a mailing service, they will drop you as a client because they don't want to be auto-marked, etc.
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This one is tricky though. Especially in D&D (other systems vary, of course), adding another enemy into initiative can sometimes DRASTICALLY alter the balance. If you're already close and just trying to tweak, this might be deceptively too much.
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Yeah, certainly didn't mean to imply it was a universal. Just a thing I've noticed about me with some authors who take too long (IMO) to get to the scene. Not sure how universal it is or not, as I just really considered it fully because of your original question.
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Physically, basically never. Mentally, not usually that explicitly, except in the very BEST books, and I usually stop reading to ponder being in that situation rather than reading while simultaneously imagining being in that situation.
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I will expand a bit : sometimes I have a problem where the author will describe the character in the abstract for a long time before placing them in a place. I have a hard time imagining them WITHOUT scene. I wonder if authors do more insertion? Maybe they don't understand us readers NEED the scene.
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I almost never picture myself actually IN the story at all. Until now I never considered that others might habitually do so.