I’m sending this to my DM, who is Mexican and currently running an Asian folklore inspired game.

When the DM does it we usually notice because he’s normally quite talkative, as DMs tend to be. When a player does it we might not notice for five minutes…

More levels does not, by itself, mean more of anything else. In one system you can get fifty different skills, features, traits, abilities, etc at each level and in another you get one attribute point increased by one at each level up. It’s one of those things that is absolutely meaningless without the context of a lot of other information.

That said, for the joke, Asian games tend to use a greater number of levels, either with smaller increases in power or they just don’t cap anything and let the numbers get bigger and bigger with little or no functional difference as long as you’re fighting things scaled to your level. A little stat boost every level then a special power after ten can be the same as one level where you get all that without the other nine congratulatory dings that don’t really mean much.

The reason many still associate D&D and anything else remotely related to it with fat, basement dwelling, socially inept virgin incels is because those people actually made up a significant percentage of the original following of the hobby. Because it’s founders were only a half step away from most of those descriptions in many cases. And anybody that insists otherwise is either willfully ignorant or, more likely, angry at being called out by association because they’re the same.

So either get over it or go join the people that still insist that the confederate flag is anything but the war banner of a rebellion raised as an attempt at preserving slavery as a legal institution. You have the same mindset and validity as they do on this matter.

Awesome as usual, and bonus points for the bad guy’s sucker punch attack actually hitting a main weak point in plate mail.

I also like that Angela throws a hand axe. I’ve seen a lot of people with melee focused martial characters hauling around multiple javelins as a backup ranged weapon because they do slightly more damage. When they announce in the middle of a fight that they’re throwing one or even several in a single turn I always think, “Just where were you carrying those multiple long hafted spears while fighting with both hands this whole time?” Mechanically a high strength character can handle the weight but those things aren’t exactly throwing knives you can conveniently slip a half dozen of into your belt or strap to your thighs or arms. A nice tomahawk or two, on the other hand, you can have tucked until your belt.

At that point she didn’t have any sleeves.

I’m amazed that none of these comments are mentioning the subject line of the post is a reference to “Stop! Hammer time!”

Would she get advantage on the roll if she pointed out that practice under stressful but safe circumstances is both responsible and good preparation for unforseen stressful and potentially dangerous situations? So, really, playing strip poker is the mature and responsible course of action here.

You know you’re in the fun religion when your ecclesiastic superiors tell you to up your card shark skills.

Not at all, Konsi. Your skin is a very healthy shade of green.

PF2e actually exists because of D&D 5e. 5e is a streamlined and (most people believe) improved version of 3.5, which is exactly what PF1e is under a different label. But to appeal to their rebellious hipster demographic the new PF had to be different and innovative. So you get a bunch of overly complex rules for options and the sake of just being like D&D but still totally not D&D. The result is a decent game that definitely isn’t 5e because it intentionally trades off most of the streamlining that makes 5e more approachable for the sake of complexity and options.

Basically it’s a bunch of pretentious hipster BS.

“Homebrew” is usually code for “rules are boring I wanna do crazy super cool shit, no I don’t give a damn about game balance.”

There’s also nothing saying the dog is going to be any good at it, but I’ve seen a few humans do worse than I’d expect from a Chihuahua so I guess it would be better than nothing.

Lots of communities associated with (roughly analogous to subreddits but with 110% les u/spez), check them all out!

This is the memes community. You’d probably get better results posting in https://ttrpg.network/c/dndnext or https://ttrpg.network/c/askgamemasters (You might want to subscribe to those communities as well)

I just play D&D mostly because it’s popular, I know it, and I like the way the mechanics work. That being said I’m not strictly opposed to other systems (though I’m not really interested in PF2E as I’ve looked at it and think it’s mostly just a clunkier and jankier modification to the core mechanics of 5e that many people no doubt think is better just because it’s needlessly complex for the sake of “more options”). A while ago I bought a hardcopy of the core VtM v5 book and want to, at some point, try joining a game for that to explore the significantly different playing style it’s designed for.

OBLIGATORY PLUG: This community has it’s own LFG section. Nobody’s posted any game ads there yet, but it’s very new. If you’re looking to start up or join a game yourself, I might recommend starting there. And while you’re there please consider clicking “subscribe” because new folks checking it out are more likely to post games there if they see a bigger number in the sidebar.

I haven’t played an in person game of D&D in over fifteen years. The last time I played any sort of TTRPG in person with people gathered around a table was a Werewolf: Dark Ages one shot at a Fourth of July party in (I think) 2010. I had signed up on an interest sheet left at my LGS where I played MTG weekly for a game someone was looking to start up, but this was in March of 2020 and our scheduled first meeting and Session 0 was set for two days after the COVID lockdowns went into effect, closing the LGS and pre-emptively ending that game.

I do play D&D online via VTTs (mostly Roll20 but I’ve also used Foundry) and have done so regularly for several years now. I found my longest running game, which has been going for about two years now, on a D&D centered Discord server with a LFG channel. Lots of such servers exist and I recommend checking some out (just do a search for “Discord dungeons and dragons” (or a different game if that’s what you’re looking for). The other long running game I’m in actually spun off of that first one and includes mostly the same people just playing a different campaign on a different day. I also joined a third game that I found on r/lfg but I’m avoiding that right now because of the API bullshit. Did I mention this community has it’s own LFG section that works pretty much just like r/lfg but with 100% less u/spez related bullshit? I have also in the past found games, mostly for one shots, on the D&D Beyond and Roll20 forums, both of which have LFG sections that are fairly high traffic.