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Cake day: July 27th, 2023
  • Sandra@idiomdrottning.orgtoD&D Next - 5e Discussion@ttrpg.network•D&D Beyond is garbage post 2024 update lol
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    3 months ago

    So while I’m always happy when people are criticizing D&D Beyond in particular or proprietary platforms in general, in this particular case it’s actually against the rules-as-intended to play a 2014 Oath of the Ancient in a 2024 paladin shell.

    (All house ruling aside, of course, and heaven knows I love house ruling and how house ruling is an argument against D&D Beyond.)

    2014 oaths that do not have a 2024 version are still legal in the 2024 shell, but for oaths that do have a 2024 version, you’ve got to play the 2024 version if your group is playing D&D 5.24.

    The reason for this is that some of the updated subclasses have nerfs or that features from them have been moved to the shell or otherwise taxed. Or, even the ones that have been buffed have the same issue in some sorta bid for table balance.

    I cannot pick the 2014 version of things I own if they’re in 2024 content I don’t own

    The intent is that it should work like this:

    I cannot pick the 2014 version of things regardless of ownership if they’re in 2024 content regardless of ownership.

    If Beyond platform ownership enters the equation, the Beyond team has messed up.

    (Again, the word “legal” is a little silly in a game like D&D which works best when groups can change any rule, mash up editions freely etc. So please don’t shoot the messenger here. I don’t agree with WotC’s decision here. I just remember them announcing that this was how it was going to work, even at the table with all physical books and no Beyond.)

    @JackbyDev@programming.dev @dndnext@ttrpg.network

  • Sandra@idiomdrottning.orgOPtoEmacs@lemmy.ml•Emacs RFC 2646 email flowing
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    10 months ago

    As I noted in my patch message and in the previous post, behavior gets a li’l weird when someone leaves mml-enable-flowed on (the default!) but forgets to turn on use-hard-newlines (not the default! And since it’s buffer local, it needs to be turned on every single time, for example with a hook).

    So with these two settings kept at their defaults, separate paragraphs will get flowed together with my patch! So I sent a new version of the patch to the same #71017 thread that’ll auto-harden according to markdown semantics as a dwimmy fallback.

    @emacs@lemmy.ml

  • Sandra@idiomdrottning.orgtorpg@ttrpg.network•What Do People Think of Daggerheart So Far?
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    1 year ago

    I think this is spot on and I overall dislike the game. One thing that I am a li’l bit interested in is the hitpoints system which seems like a good mix of Fate stressboxes with D&D damage.

    The amount of incoming damage can go to certain thresholds and that has different consequences (both symbol-layer mechanical and diegetic). I think that’s neat and I’m glad to see that experiment carried further.

    How much gold is in that hoard?

    Wow, I had missed that. That’s not good. I mean, CR gets criticized for their “shopping episodes” (even though my own group is even more extreme in that regard) so maybe that’s to address that? Diaspora, for example, just has a “recourses” roll instead of detailed accounting of space credits, and it seems to work well in the context of that game.

    How far does that bandit run?

    I don’t think that’s a fair characterization; range bands is trued and tested tech. Cartesian spatialization is overkill for most game groups.

    @Aielman15@lemmy.world @Shyfer@ttrpg.network

  • Sandra@idiomdrottning.orgtoboardgames@feddit.de•Has anyone here ordered Daybreak (the new game from the person who made Pandemic)? My copy is coming in the mail today, and I can't wait to try it out.
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    1 year ago

    I guess I see pandemics as still an unsolved and dangerous issue, although of course not as bad and important as climate change is, so I still have a hard time seeing the difference.

    I didn’t mean to rain on your parade and I hope you end up enjoying the game.👍🏻

    For me, buying new board games is something that’s riddled with climate guilt. It’s one of my own biggest footprint leaks. And this theme, I feel, would remind me everytime I’m playing the game about that. Which I guess is a good thing.

    I already have nine co-op games so I’m set for a while*. If peeps in my part of the world need to fill up seats for Daybreak I’d be willing to give it a spin on someone else’s copy. 🫡
    Leacock has made some great games.

    *: Actually I kind of needed this thread because I’ve been eyeing Unfathomable today but I guess I don’t need a tenth coop game right now. This is the irony of Daybreak’s theme—it’s meant to inspire the fight against climate change and as such it reminds me to not buy games much more than a plastic pile like Unfathomable can.

    @boardgames