This is awesome, and done by some really talented kids who are clearly smart motivated and willing to put in the work to get this project out the door.

Now imagine if the resources to do this kind of work as well as the background education and things like food security and economic stability were given to kids outside of an exclusive private boarding school? We’d empower some of the most imaginative of us to accomplish so many more amazing things.

I almost had an aneurysm trying to parse that title until I saw the picture + channel name.

I find there’s generally 3 major skills outside of general group facilitation you exercise as a DM, world building, character design, and game design.

World building is designing the setting conflict and story, character design is making interesting NPCs and role playing them, game design is making interesting combat and skill based encounters.

Most DMs are only good at one or two of these. If your DM is new, they likely are still figuring out what they are good at and enjoy doing and what they’re bad at.

Ideally combat is well narrated, but if your DM is not a strong character builder, maybe there’s not a great understanding of the motivation of the combatants. If they aren’t great at world design maybe they don’t fully understand all of the alternative ways an encounter can be resolved.

They also are probably just figuring out how the basic rules work in general in which case give them some time and maybe suggest things like, can I roll animal handling to try and ride the moth? Or are there any tribal or religious insignia on the Morlocks I can use to try and parlay with them?

This moves some of the heavy lifting off of the DM who may be swamped with bookkeeping. I find often times players also don’t realize they also need to be familiar with the rules and how their character works and just rely on the DM to know everything out which isn’t often the case when everyone is new.

They go after it mainly to appease external forces like other countries objecting to it, but people who are convicted often get very light sentences.

Why wait a year?

Probably people who just didn’t want it on their feed and didn’t know how to block the channel.

Fried green tomatoes are fairly common in the south, there’s even a movie called “Fried Green Tomatoes”

The Cowboy Bebop TTRPG seemed easier to setup, less involved character creation, and works nicely for one shots.

The rules are not very well written imo, not a lot of support for DMs, so I had to kind of lean on my past experience, and there wasn’t really any guidance on how to use the clocks so one session was great, the other just slogged because I think I messed up the pacing since it was a lot fewer players.

Its also somewhat predicated on most people being familiar with the aesthetic of the show cowboy bebop.

I like DnD more as a video game, in BG3. A while ago, I started exploring more narratively centered systems, like Fate, or even the new Cowboy Bebop TTRPG, for actual role playing.

I did prefer the adventure arc of Tress, but Yumi was more about characters and their relationships with each other.

It’s close. I enjoyed them both, but preferred Tress. Tress is more of an adventure, while Yumi sits in a setting and explores that one area more as well as relationships between characters.

There were definitely parts of Yumi I liked more than Tress, but as a whole story, Tress was closer to my preferred style.

Ah, I misread your comment. I read them in a wonky order. I read the Stormlight Archive first, then backfilled mistborn, and snuck in Elantris. I basically see references I don’t get, then try and read the book they came from, then hop back to the major books.

If you’re sensitive about spoilers, I would wait until after reading the first 3 mistborn books.

I read it after all tree books of the first Mistborn Trilogy, I think I preferred it that way, kept more of the mystery around the events of Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages.

Edit: Totally misread the second sentence, thought they hadn’t read everything.

I thought it was good, Sanderson was selling it as a good first cosmere book, but there’s a lot of conversations that just go over your head if you’re not familiar w/ how things work in the cosmere. I think Tress is still probably a better first read for him.

“Yumi and the Nightmare Painter” Brandon Sanderson, his new kickstarter book. Like most of his books, I often find them a bit slow to start, but get super invested (no pun intended) by about a third to halfway through.

I use ChatGPT for name generation, and you can start seeing the name table it has squirreled away after a certain point. I wonder if you ran several sessions with it, if you’d start seeing a lot of the same plot points and characters showing up?

I had a great roleplaying moment when I gave the party the chance to surrender when it looked like they might get TPK’d. This is a criminally underrated option that results in some really flavorful gameplay.

Not sure if there is a minimum userbase / age, but I just made a community for the new Cowboy Bebop TTRPG. It actually ran pretty well on our first session and I might do a proper campaign around it after a few more test runs.

https://lemmy.world/c/owboybeboprpg

Need more byzantine erotica