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pretty state machine @palecur.bsky.social

i try not to kinkshame on here but i just saw someone call Dragonlance a "beloved setting" and i am frowning real hard rn

sep 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 11 0

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Doctor Memory @blank.org

I mean I loved it at the time, but the time was when I was 13 years old and I preserve that warm glow by never, ever, ever re-reading it.

sep 1, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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pretty state machine @palecur.bsky.social

there's a reason i refuse to rewatch Weekend at Bernie's and "because I am no longer 14 and it cannot possibly hold up to my memory of it" is that reason

sep 1, 2025, 9:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Doctor Memory @blank.org

Yeah. Some things you _suspect_ might have been visited by the Suck Fairy. Other things... you know in your goddamn bones.

sep 1, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
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arachnocapitalist @arachno.capital

I read the first two books, never played the setting, pretty happy to leave it at that also s/halflings/kender/g was kinda brilliant

sep 1, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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pretty state machine @palecur.bsky.social

in theory yes but making them playable was a giant mistake, their entire Thing is being a disruptive-ass GM nightmare

sep 1, 2025, 10:03 pm • 2 0 • view
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arachnocapitalist @arachno.capital

honestly I never learned anything about their mechanics, I just enjoyed the "not store-brand hobbits" part (also my benchmark for disruptive GM nightmare is everyone who wanted to play a two-swords drow ranger after a certain other book came out)

sep 1, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social

the amount of GM railroading in them is like "If the party does not pretend correctly, kill them"

sep 1, 2025, 10:52 pm • 3 0 • view
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mdaviswilson.bsky.social @mdaviswilson.bsky.social

It sure as heck is a setting

sep 2, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view