Mike the DM

Looks like the plan is to open up player options (again) with subclasses, etc.
We're going to get more anthologies (particularly 3PP) as the DnDB cash cow pushes harder in the direction of subscriptions... particularly because they couldn't close up the open licensing and get more $ with the OGL2.0

Rewarding milestones in the arbitrary and haphazard way it seems to happen these days just shows a lack of experience and understanding of WHY the characters are leveling up in the first place.

In that case, stick to xp. It's easy - there's no guesswork.

I should do YouTube videos on this stuff. 😂

Truth be told... I recommend new Dungeon Masters reward new levels to their player characters by using xp - it takes that "storytelling" guesswork out of the game and lets the players simply "explore".

If you're going to reward character levels by "milestone", you need to learn (or to have a solid feel for) how to storyboard and how to script the ebbs and flows of story arcs.
You reward the level when it MEANS something, not just "every 3 games because the book says so".

D&D with Uncle Mike:

Anyone else find it vaguely unsettling how much faster people are expecting to level up?
We went from counting xp to "milestone" leveling... and those milestones seem to be becoming less and less poignant as characters seem to be leveling up for completely innocuous reasons.

How I arrived on BlueSky...

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

People! PEOPLE!

I humbly request your attention!

Feast your eyes on Chicago!

... and "Abolish ICE" !!!

www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

Ah but OSR is a bit different, as it's a blanket-group of 3PP ttrpgs that are all literally just derivative clones of (various editions of) D&D with fancy homebrew rules tacked on.
OSRs aren't mocked because they play OSR, they're mocked because they play "D&D-but-not-D&D"! LOL

Signal Boost!

How different is it from the original (1e)?

Yes, this is all interesting, but tell us about the hot dog eating contest! 😜

Of relevance to @crimsbacon.bsky.social

They're honestly not smart enough to get the message.
They're SO obsessed with finding ANY way to NOT pin it on cis-het-white-dudes that they stop listening to anything else once ANY deviation from the norm is confirmed.

Even IF there WAS some kind of "upward trend" of trans shooters (what... five? six? in the last 10 years?)... white, cishetero males are STILL by FAR the largest demographic of shooters by a WIDE margin.
Like "several orders of magnitude" larger.

Oscar-worthy.
Perhaps the greatest news segment ever filmed.

AI is just the bitcoin of image creation.
It's not really going to go away, but the more attention we give it, the more importantly it sees itself.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

I hated using a pencil, because the cassette teeth always dented and chewed up the pencil a bit because of the misfit. LOL

Kat! KAT!

Get people to go vote for their favorite snowplow name!

www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

FINALLY!

The ONLY person thus far that I have seen make this reference ACCURATELY.
You can always tell the posers because they say they used a pencil... the Bic pen was the superior tool for the job!

BOOST THIS SIGNAL!

Time to vote for your favourite name!

(I might or might not be partially responsible for the first one on the list... LOL)

www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

What's going on with Discord now?

If he wants anything other than justice for the victims and for the sleaze in the videos to be buried under the jail they go to... then he wants the wrong thing.

4 frame comic. First frame shows a set of keys, second shows the store Gummi with a banner reading, in German : Stamm und Bassermann / früher Gummi Weil. Third frame shows passersby looking at smashed storefront windows. Fourth shows a tweet by US homeland security that reads : Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE. If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.gov/cbphome . text reads : according to the Berlin Jewish museum, the nazi term "aryanization" referred to "the process of expropriation or confiscating Jewish people's property [businesses, stores, homes, land, etc] and handing it over to non-jewish ("aryan," in Nazi usage) individuals or companies, or to the state." in his book "Holocaust justice," Shoah historian michael bazyler estimates that between $230 and $320 billions (in 2005 u.s. dollars) in properties were stolen from Jews across Europe in the different waves of aryanization. the first wave, starting in 1933, involved heavy pressure on Jewish people to sell their properties to non-jewish people at a fraction of the price. after the pogroms of November 1938 ("Kristallnacht"), jewish owners were outright evicted and dispossessed. thinking about this today for no particular reason.

No particular reason.

Honestly, I don't give a tinker's piss how bad her optics are.
If she's the Democratic candidate in the next election, THAT is the person any decent human being will vote for.
People can "demand better" after we get out of "worst".

I don't honestly think anyone expects anything better out of Florida...

Having been playing D&D for longer than most players have been alive, I can say that I have run published adventures both "as-is", heavily modified and my own homebrew encounters and adventures.
The trick is knowing WHAT to edit and WHEN to make it an adventure scaled and aimed towards your players.

Props to @theq.fm for playing @brucespringsteen.net's "Streets of Minneapolis" despite being a property of Pattison Media.

I, as one of your loyal 9 listeners, hear you.

#abolishice #theq

I have no doubt I can assemble you a team - do you have a date/time in mind?