Gods, I'm so tired. My supplemental health insurance is about to run out, so my physiotherapist has given me a gym routine focused on rehabbing my slipped disc, and so I've gone from going to the gym 2x per week with the PT to 6x per week with my wife, and...
I'm so tired. Everything is stiff and achy. And I'm finding myself doing less toe walking, which is also making me feel kind of off balance.
Oh yeah, it's real bad out there right now. RTO mandates and a tech sector that's shedding workers like dandruff is making things feel really scary. Plus, I get to watch the half of the company that didn't get laid off all announce their promotions on LinkedIn, because that's also where the small handful of jobs that I qualify for are posted.
It's been a month since I was laid off. The first few weeks, I was too busy updating my resume and looking for new jobs to apply for to really feel the emotional impact of it all. But now the resume's looks good, and the number of jobs out there in my field have dried up. Especially the remote ones, which are kind of necessary for me, since there are exceptionally few businesses in my city that deal with my field.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
Yeah, the ideas that "I'm not interested in receiving a message, therefore the things I consume have no message" or "this product was inexpensive, therefore the creator has no message" are pretty wild.
Sometimes the politics being presented are invisible to the author, and sometimes they're not. In either case, they're communicating real messages about the world, what the creator believes is acceptable, and what they believe is not. Not seeing those messages really just means that you thoughtlessly agree with them.
Which says more about the consumer than it does the producer.
empathicvagrant@lemmy.world Backstory is probably the wrong concept for a low-level character. They, instead, have a background. Backstories are prequel fodder, while backgrounds are used to figure out character motivation, and how a character reacts to future events.
Generally speaking, you don't want to fill in blanks you don't need filled i, because it's creatively limiting your future self. If the events that got you to Session 1 are too interesting, you've probably written too much.
ensignwashout@startrek.website
I don't know, zero-to-hero is one of the best story tropes out there. Totally nullifying it seems kind of wild to me. But you have to know who you're playing, and if you're playing a highly skilled veteran with a rich history of great deeds, you need to understand that that is not a Level 1 character.
I've become increasingly convinced that people don't want to play low level characters. Level 1 characters are neophyte adventurers. Their backstory shouldn't include significant a mounts of adventure, combat, or heroics, because it introduces a significant amount of ludo-narrative dissonance into the campaign.
Heating on reentry is actually due to compressing the air in front of you, not friction. Falling from orbitall height will absolutely cause you to heat up the air in front of you, even as the air paassing you by is doing you no harm.
Though, if you smash into the atmosphere at orbital speeds, it's probably going to do you some harm as it tries to force you back down to TV.
TTRPGs are games where you create stories, and sometimes those stories are "we did something we shouldn'ta, and someone got ganked". What you're describing is someone reading you a story book.
Well, not every game has Heroic Inspiration, but it still has people that gripe about secret rolls. And of those games that have metacurrencies for rerolls and the like, they're not intended to be used in those situations.
One of my favourite parts about Pathfinder 2e is that items -- magic or otherwise -- are leveled. I can hand out Level 6 weapons to Level 2 characters, and they will feel absolutely legendary.
Until about Level 5, where they start to feel really good.
Until Level 8, where they just feel OK.
This means, yes, I can take the effort to rebalance fights to account for the party's toys, or I can just let them feel like fucking bosses for a few levels, and the challenges they take on catch up to them.
themoken@startrek.website Some want to play XCOM without dice, and get really pissy when the dice say "no".