That sounds great!

I ended up using a remix of the 5e Waterdeep: Dragonheist module because it really didn’t work for me. It would be a nice change to use a well-written module.

I’ve Cyberpunk RED’s Tales of the RED to be hit or miss. Some adventures are great, but many are meh.

Neat! Thanks for mentioning that.

thousands of enemies, most of which have solid gimmicks that tell you straight from the stat block how you can best run the creature

That’s exactly what I want. I spent so much time looking at https://www.themonstersknow.com/ when DMing 5e. I like encounter design, but I feel like I had to work hard to make it passable, rather than work hard to make it excellent.

Exactly! Play the system everyone wants to play.

I’d love to give Shadowrun a shot at my current table, but nobody else wants it so we settled on Cyberpunk RED. I’m GM, so I can port most of the stuff I like from SR to RED. Everybody wins!

• Encounter design and balancing is easy for the busy GM
• Teamwork is highly encouraged through class and ability design

ngl, you’re selling it.

Anything that improves combat is a win in my book. I’ve switched to Cyberpunk RED, and I’m discovering that good combat is hard to make in either system, but encouraging teamwork is a nice way to take a little load off the GM.

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My fave is a long variable name with an obvious spelling mistake near the end. It shows that we’re all using auto complete now.

Thanks for posting these. It’s always nice to see the whimsy.

The parental controls should work consistently and reliably.

I always enjoy these low-citation think pieces. It’s not that I think the author is wrong, it’s that they’re producing a philosophical argument about the real world. It should have citations and references to studies that support the thesis, but it’s a “just trust me bro”. The ideas are usually fun, but they tell you more about the author than the world.

Having said that: I don’t think the tribalism the author described ever went away. We have a two tiered society where the in-group is the main tribe, and everyone else gets battered about by its power.

Of course I’m talking about white rich dudes - if you’re part of the moneyed set, or look pretty close to them, then you’re probably going to get the easy version of justice. If you’re a bit different, then you’re part of the Other tribe, and you get harassed by the police, shat on by the media, and a weaker form of justice.

And no, I’m not gonna cite anything, because the original author didn’t either.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2906216/

As another Lemmite mentioned elsewhere.

It’s a fun movie. Maybe not a great movie, but fun to watch. My family doesn’t play TTRPGs, but they liked it too.

I like that. The weird mutants from the sewers are the heroes (oh wait, that’s TMNT) nuclear cooling lagoon are heroes (oh wait, that’s the Toxic Avenger). Fergeddabout subverting expectations, just throw in more anime tiddies.

The same style, but instead of cute ribbons of light and stars it’s sprays of blood and flying skulls. And the music isn’t upbeat, it’s screaming death metal.

Bottom right.

Preach. Thanks for the kind words.

They could all be the same numbers. Like the same, you know. Numbers