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I think how I feel about D&D is a bit like how I feel about hatsune miku. they're both fine for what they're built for, and I do enjoy both (miku more than D&D these days), but they're both overhyped to the exclusion of others of their kind as the Face Of The Thing. I understand the ignorance of individuals, but as a broader trend it makes me sad.

I talk about TTRPGs, people ask "oh, like D&D?" I talk about vocal synths/vocaloids, people ask "oh, like hatsune miku?"

there are other TTRPGs out there. there are other vocal synths out there. and they're good for other things! they're good! there's something out there that fits what you want even better than D&D/miku!

take my hand. it's okay. come with me and explore other TTRPG systems and vocal synths

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Child of divorce Bard whose vicious mockery insults are stuff they heard their parents screaming at each other downstairs

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Nobody and nothing has a backstory.

Everything in the setting came into existence right as the first session starts.

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Lolth and her lesser known siblings Lmaoth and Roflth

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roll dice to determine outcomes

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Most tabletop RPGs don't bother to have a rule like "characters can't walk through walls." It is either implicit or prescribed through having a special ability that specifically allows one to do. Now, an RPG that specifically had a character option that stated "this character cannot walk through walls" would instantly reframe every other character in the game. If only a specific type of character has some limitation that we humans would assume to be self-explanatory, what the hell is the baseline in this game?

Games have implicit or explicit assumptions about their characters. In D&D it is assumed that characters can see, hear, speak, walk unassisted, and so on. These capabilities can be taken away but only through very specific rules interactions. A character's ability to see isn't marked until a player says that they would like to play a blind character.

I don't even know where I was going with this. This started out with me thinking about how funny it would be to make like a supplement for a game that features these really strange and specific abilities that suddenly change the assumptions of the game. Like, a supplement that has a creature with an ability like "Floorwalker: this creature can walk on floors." Because none of the other creatures in the game have that ability, it's now implicit that they can't walk on floors.

Anyway if anyone would like to help me salvage this post by saying something insightful go right ahead, I'm gonna go make some pasta.

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also his clothes are constantly wet even with his glamour up and he has an impractically large sword

my motw character is so funny. he was a stressed out college student who was having such a bad time he just... walked into the ocean, got forever changed into a monster by it, and didn't come out for like two decades. he's got the sounds of the water in his brain at all times so he's extremely chill now and it freaks people out. he's seen some Shit so all the monster stuff is just normal to him. he has a giant sword. he's so cool

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also he's a messenger of the gods (specifically the ocean ones)

my motw character is so funny. he was a stressed out college student who was having such a bad time he just... walked into the ocean, got forever changed into a monster by it, and didn't come out for like two decades. he's got the sounds of the water in his brain at all times so he's extremely chill now and it freaks people out. he's seen some Shit so all the monster stuff is just normal to him. he has a giant sword. he's so cool

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my motw character is so funny. he was a stressed out college student who was having such a bad time he just... walked into the ocean, got forever changed into a monster by it, and didn't come out for like two decades. he's got the sounds of the water in his brain at all times so he's extremely chill now and it freaks people out. he's seen some Shit so all the monster stuff is just normal to him. he has a giant sword. he's so cool

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Inspired by recent discussions of an Actual Play.

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"Oh I'm, fucked. I'm so fucking fucked"

^ someone who just had a Really Cool scene in a ttrpg and has to sleep in the near future and also be productive the following day

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Randomly play the first few notes of the Among Us theme to keep your players on edge.

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inspired by the scariest words my dm has ever said to me and the subsequent coolest (AND SCARIEST) scene of my life

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a scar, and the person who calms it

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the funniest thing about ttrpgs is that you can create a guy and say "his name is blorbo bleebus. he sucks severely. i hope that many misfortunes befall blorbo bleebus. he does not deserve to be happy." and at least one of your friends will immediately jump in to say "noooo... don't bully blorbo bleebus... i love blorbo bleebus..."

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person who takes the majority of hits for their team, not because they're necessarily more durable than the rest of them, but because they think they deserve it more