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  • I see the Player vs Player more as a mindset than an actual fight between players.

    Tension and fighting between players are fun and can lead to interesting character development, if there’s a narrative reason for them to exist, and for as long as the players are okay with it.

    What I forbid is, the mindset. The players are a team and they need to stay together, act together, and rely on each other. No splitting the party if it’s not necessary, no fights over loot, no backstabbing, or anything of that sort. Everyone is entitled to have fun.


  • From experience, I’ve never been lucky with finding groups of randos willing to play consistently. Campaigns that began this way would always fall into scheduling hell, because people are only there to roleplay, not to spend time with friends.

    I’ve had more luck with convincing my friends to play. Since we are friends, we already spend time together, so scheduling a weekly game is much easier. We did have a few hiatuses because of work or family-related issues, but for the most part, we’ve played consistently for the past few years.











  • Aielman15@lemmy.worldtoSummit@lemmy.world1 year anniversary
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    4 months ago

    Thank you! After leaving Reddit, browsing Lemmy was a chore and Summit changed that. I wouldn’t have stayed here if not for your app. And you kept improving it day after day, and made it available to everyone for free. I can’t express with words the respect and appreciation that I have for you and your work!

    Thanks a lot for making Lemmy a better place :)


  • I once tried to read F.A.T.A.L.'s rulebook. Not because I wanted to play it, of course. I just thought it would be fun.

    I was wrong. It was fun for, like, ten seconds. When literally the first page of the book throws you into a scenario where you have three or four different reasons to have sex/sexually assault a woman, the book loses its charm pretty fast.

    It then quickly spirals into a gross, demeaning, disgusting pile of misogyny, gore and ignorance, all in the name of “historical accuracy”, hiding their distasteful opinions behind “prominent philosophers” and hand-picked statistics.

    I applaud anyone who is able to read more than ten pages of that abomination and survive long enough to write a review. Had I continued reading past that point, my brain would have liquefied.


  • It depends on how thorough the blacklist is, but I usually avoid using those, because I fear I may be losing interesting discussions that only tangentially mention the topic I’m blacklisting. Or maybe they are discussing that topic from a different perspective that I may find interesting.

    It’s not like Lemmy has so many discussions to choose from, anyway. Among the communities I’m subscribed to, the most active ones only have three or four discussions per day, at most. I don’t feel like a (albeit temporary) blacklist is useful when there’s so little content to parse through. If there were a hundred posts per day, and I was interested in hiding half of them to better highlight the ones I’m interested at - but with so few posts, I can ignore them just fine without the help of an automatic blacklist.