I just feel like playing a character that’s fully immersed in the long history of intrigue between 2 rival houses is really annoying when you as the player don’t even know the names of the lords ruling them at present.
And I’m not talking about playing a time traveler or a self-insert. I’m thinking of a wizard fresh out of the academy who’s been buried in books for all their life and is now facing the real world. Or a cleric from a strict sect whose black-and-white morals clash with the realities of the murder-hobo life. Admittedly, not the most innovative concepts, but as a new player, you have limited options of what you can portray believingly.

Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, US, EU and China are already involved as well.

Please mark as NSFW if you’re gonna post pics from your Onlyfans.

Shadowrun does this right.
The hacker sees a virtual representation of what the group faces, can interact with it in real time, and is in actual mortal danger along with everyone else, even while sitting at home.

There’s a huge chunk of rock floating in the sky above us, and we look at it and just go “hm”.

When joining an experienced group in a setting I don’t know yet, I like to play a newbie character.
I don’t play dumb of course, but playing an outsider reduces the discrepancy between player knowledge and character knowledge. I can stay in character while doing stuff that makes the other players shake their heads and groan. And as I learn the setting, so does my character learn how the world works.

The Democrats still don’t get it.
“We’re not Trump” isn’t enough, no matter how bad Trump is.

There are no people on the fence between voting Biden or voting Trump anymore. The distance between the camps is too great, every voter is already entrenched in one of the 2 camps.

Dems need to target the people on the fence between voting Dem and not voting at all. The people who are frustrated by the lack of progress, the lack of a real choice that will change the status quo, and the slow decline of their standard of living while the rich get richer. If they ran with a more radical leftist candidate and program, they might even convince a few Trump voters who just want things to change, no matter what direction, cause the current status quo sucks.

They won’t lose any core voters or centrists by moving to the left, cause those people know that the alternative is right-wing fascism. But there’s a huge voting pool of people who won’t stand in line for hours to vote for a candidate who has done nothing and will continue to do nothing for them, while their standard of life slowly deteriorates.

And using Bing is binging.

Can I restart my life at 6 with $10 million in Google stocks?

For this reason (and others) I like to house-rule that leveling up takes a set (long) amount of in game time.

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“Oh. Umm. OK.”

The dommarine is winning.

A blind monk

Once in a while I just roll some dice behind the DM screen and smile at a player.

Not on all of them

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Now you get it, right?

OK

what a joke

In the past, you had to buy the book. Or go to the library to read it.
Both of which you can still do. And with a library membership you can access the web version as well.

How else do you expect the authors of the dictionary to pay their rent?

Lot’s of people saying that missing fonts can be an issue if you don’t specifically embed them into the PDF.