spacerelated.bsky.social
#TTRPG Designer | Writer | Space Enthusiast | He/Him
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It's sorta like reverse spice in that it lets you see the past instead of the future and also statistically shortens your life span due to increased risk of dying in ancient wars
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They treat it like wizard cocaine, which tbh it kinda is, but I like to remind them occasionally that they're literally eating sand. Bad mouthfeel.
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Also if you fail the saving throw it becomes a full dive experience. Considering most historical events worth discussing in a high fantasy game are super dangerous, this adds a fun element of risk every time its used.
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Milcheck for sure
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I think this makes me your evil twin lol, I've gotten up at 5 to get in some words before work. (Do not recommend)
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Oh shoot what a coincidence, I went to a wedding afterparty here. It's a great little spot. We were all facinated by the vending machine.
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For me, yes and kinda. Kerbal Space Program is very accurate, but sometimes that makes it frustrating and slow. But gosh does it make you feel smart when you get it right.
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Playlist that makes you go: "Tina Weymouth played drums on 19-2000???"
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Silo feels more grounded. The mystery is very logical, every layer peeled back sheds more light. If there's a truly malicious villain, they're long dead.
Severance feels like there's sinister madness at it's heart. It makes sense, but perversely. Peeling back layers only reveals inky darkness.
2/2
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Just to caveat this before anybody gets mad at me, it's the turn based menu style combat. I just can't gel with it. But some JRPGs win me over despite that, with writing and art.
I'm a firm believer that being unable to find something you like in a genre (of any medium) is a personal failing.
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Crocanzee
Crocodile + Chimpanzee
You gotta keep the big lizard tail. The way crocodiles can use it to leap out of the water. The way a chimp can Get You. Also the combination of the ancient instinctual violence of the lizard and the cruel intellectual violence of the chimp...
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I was suprised how on board I was, considering how often it dips into references and memes.
It really feels like it was made by people who understand and love trek.
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Oh yeah sorry I did not express myself clearly I just thought it was wild that two quotes up somebody had 1 same movie and 1 same director. Tokyo Godfathers = #1 Christmas movie.
I'm so pumped to watch Beyond the Black Rainbow based just on this post.
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Four of the factions in the original game were standing armies, and one was just monsters.
So I feel like in the average american city you'd have to go Coffee Shop, Grocery Store, Investment Firm, Factory, and RATS
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Oh 100%. Good advice overexaggerated into bad advice is common.
I do feel like there's room for open ended puzzles. Mechanisms with clear rules for how they function, and ways to discover it. More... problems that puzzles I suppose. But that's even harder than the normal kind. Puzzles 201, I think.
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Some advice I see genuinely baffles me. I can't conceive of a person who finds "Whatever the player does, make that the solution!" fun.
If I could have one wish, but it couldn't be good, it would be to replace that advice internet wide with: "If your players don't like puzzles, don't do puzzles"
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Two of these are on my list of all time favorites (My 4 had EEAAO and Paprika)
The other two I've never heard of but I'll be watching now
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Pacific Rim perfected the action blockbuster, imho. Love that movie.
And obviously Ghost in the Shell is a classic for a reason.
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I've been experimenting with locking it down to the same number of turns per side, no matter the numbers. (Not in 5e)
One of my big gripes (With 5e and other tactical games) is how much you have to torture game mechanics to make Team vs Big Bad and Team vs Horde work. Those are huge trope spaces!
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There are so many others I wanted to list. I really, really like movies. I wanted to choose ones that were foundational to my taste in media (You can tell EEAAO was good because even though it came out super recently, it takes up as much brain space as movies I fell in love with at 10 years old)
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I'm very nostalgic for the original Ninja Gaiden Black, at least in part because it was a present from the college exchange student my family hosted when I was a kid. We all got along so well he lived with us for two years!
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I feel like everybody's posting about Ninja Gaiden today. I only ever played Black, I should really go play 2 and 3...