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The #Deepstate composes of various factions subfactions and subvertivfactions.
Need to know basis keeps all out of the loop.
Noone knows what to do.
If they dont offer up blood to the beasts below.
The frog king is not an idol or fiction.
Not everyone is against humans, #OnlyMost
Need to know basis keeps all out of the loop.
Noone knows what to do.
If they dont offer up blood to the beasts below.
The frog king is not an idol or fiction.
Not everyone is against humans, #OnlyMost
Not like I would have too large an understanding of what kinda shitshow they are running down there. I barely exist on paper, the hospital I was born in no longer exists, and they lost their records of my birth. So im just a nobody. Kept inside a small box, so I cant be heard.
Song "Concrete" earlier in this thread. Is a reminder/warning.
Fresh clones of, any of us, tossed in a grinder.
Used in almost everything.
Food
drink
Concrete
Plastic
#clones human body so cheap to produce
They even feed it to us
#TheEverythingMachine
Fresh clones of, any of us, tossed in a grinder.
Used in almost everything.
Food
drink
Concrete
Plastic
#clones human body so cheap to produce
They even feed it to us
#TheEverythingMachine
Well today's awful tabletop RPG discourse has turned to my ol' favorite, #DarkSun, so it behooves me to speak a little on this topic.
Someone out there decided to run a Kickstarter for a 5e game that's a knock-off of DARK SUN, but...
(cw later in thread for brutality)
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Someone out there decided to run a Kickstarter for a 5e game that's a knock-off of DARK SUN, but...
(cw later in thread for brutality)
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... they seem to think that it's a win to just lean right into everything terrible and unironically embrace outdated gaming conceits like bioessentialism and cultural ethical relativism. This is... a bad choice on many levels, so lemme break it down.
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For the broad swath of groups out there, RPGs are an entertainment activity. You play them for fun. They're also a social outlet. You play them with your friends.
DARK SUN and its relatives are RPGs like any other, and they fit into this mold. It's a social game.
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DARK SUN and its relatives are RPGs like any other, and they fit into this mold. It's a social game.
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After a comment on @monkeyking's post about D&D writin', I mentioned #DarkSun and #Planescape, and this seems as good a time as any to ruminate a bit on some thoughts for making interesting Planescape adventures.
A thread of... who knows what!
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A thread of... who knows what!
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Planescape's D&D with a side dish of philosophy. The core game drives you into conflicts via the Factions, each of which has some Thoughts about the nature of reality, the cosmos, and our relation to it.
This is important enough to affect your character!
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This is important enough to affect your character!
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Since you pick a Faction affiliation—or you don't, and that, too, has consequences—and it gives you a mechanical alteration to your character, the game tells ya right up front that this is supposed to be central to the kinds of things that you do in play.
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