Trust me, you don’t need a stamina bar for people to do that. But those people are wrong and we should not humour them.

For me, at least, “like D&D” can mean a lot of things. There are some games where you can tell their starting design point was just D&D, and everything else is either a tweak, a replacement or an addition. It doesn’t matter what gets changed, so long as it’s obvious what it was changed from.

The Fantasy Age system does a lot of things differently, but you can still tell they were working with D&D as their base design. You roll 3d6, but you still add your ability (and a skill bonus if you have the skill) and compare it to a target number.

Okay, but if your cyperpunk RPG has “d20 plus modifier vs target number” action resolution, 4-8 ability scores, skill bonuses, feats, classes, races/ancestries/backgrounds… You’re going to need to explain how it’s NOT like D&D. And if you proceed to describe PbtA, I will laugh at you.

I won’t shame you for being like D&D. I will shame you for pretending you’re not.

Agreed. But they’re still indie. This whole genre is a niche.

TTRPG systems may be well-known and famous to us nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person has probably only heard of D&D and a few WoDs. And Pathfinder, of course.

Just to note, “indie company” and “2nd biggest game on the market” aren’t mutually exclusive. This isn’t a big market, and most of it is D&D.

Bubble butt

I feel like most people I actively block are the people who follow me, because there’s no way in hell they’re actual people.

What if you just carry a spiky umbrella on the day you’d be crushed?

Ewites: Wowt wowt wowt

Oh, no, they both have very different ideas of what to do to a dog.

I’m afraid fanart, no matter how cute, can only mark a couple as fanon, not canon. Trust me, I know your ache, but rules is rules.

First of all, we know for a fact Oldbag knows how to use her lips. Second, he hard confirms in SoJ that he doesn’t want to marry. Plus, you can see every sexy witness that instantly charms the courtroom, such as April May, have zero effect on him.

There’s more evidence to support her and Adrian, considering her and Maya only share one conversation and it’s about Miles. Besides, that’s just more evidence that you don’t need to like dudes to wear a cravat. (Unless she’s bisexual, which remains an option until proven otherwise)

I can’t say I recommend using google. With all the AI pushing, you can’t be sure the results you get are worth a damn.

You can like looking fabulous without liking dick. And the cravat is because of von Karma, as Franziska proves.

Putting the Ace into Ace Attorney. I mean, he could still be gay, but we know for a fact he’s not into women.

It’s incredibly telling to me that you use “woke” as an insult.

Given the cross-post to political memes, I’m guessing it’s a reference to the current mad king of America. It would have been more relevant if Trump got stabbed, but hey.

Why would they need to be compatible? You don’t need to put all your ideas into a single work. Ideas are easy, so if an idea doesn’t work, change it or drop it. In other words, be flexible.

Once, a manga editor saw a note one of his creators had written that said “Grudge vs Ring was a cool movie”, and he essentially said “go off on that”. That’s how we got DanDaDan.

A mangaka wanted to make a horror battle manga. Since there was already a lot of fighting manga, he decided to focus on competitive games instead. That’s how we got Yu-Gi-Oh.

A mangaka wanted to make a death game series, but there was a gap in the market for casual romcoms instead. He then merged the two ideas together and had two tsunderes in mind games for romantic affection. That’s how we got Kaguya-Sama.

There is no method to making good ideas. It’s blind luck, flexibility and creativity, coupled with skill in executing whatever slapdash ideas you have.