Dan Talks Games
@dantalksgames.bsky.social
There are 1,183 programs active on board this Blue Sky platform.
I'll never get this mentality. It reads to me like 'I want this mechanic to be awful at baseline and can only feel alive digging through 50 assorted splat books to solve it.'
And the classic 'figure it out at session 0' excuse that reminds me way too much of apologia for laissez faire capitalism.
And the classic 'figure it out at session 0' excuse that reminds me way too much of apologia for laissez faire capitalism.
January 28, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I'll never get this mentality. It reads to me like 'I want this mechanic to be awful at baseline and can only feel alive digging through 50 assorted splat books to solve it.'
And the classic 'figure it out at session 0' excuse that reminds me way too much of apologia for laissez faire capitalism.
And the classic 'figure it out at session 0' excuse that reminds me way too much of apologia for laissez faire capitalism.
Sometimes I think about releasing my personal list of house rule tweaks, then I see shit like this, think 'oh God, really?' and remember why I don't.
Is that mean? Is it mean I see a comprehensive revamp and just assume it's going to be bad? It probably is, but I think SOME scepticism is warranted.
Is that mean? Is it mean I see a comprehensive revamp and just assume it's going to be bad? It probably is, but I think SOME scepticism is warranted.
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sometimes I think about releasing my personal list of house rule tweaks, then I see shit like this, think 'oh God, really?' and remember why I don't.
Is that mean? Is it mean I see a comprehensive revamp and just assume it's going to be bad? It probably is, but I think SOME scepticism is warranted.
Is that mean? Is it mean I see a comprehensive revamp and just assume it's going to be bad? It probably is, but I think SOME scepticism is warranted.
Bulk and Skull will return in Avengers Doomsday
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Bulk and Skull will return in Avengers Doomsday
Goddamnit Microsoft Authenticator.
January 14, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Goddamnit Microsoft Authenticator.
Continues to amaze me how people act like standard Athletics actions most strength-based martials will have access to just don't fucking exist. #pathfinder2e
January 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Continues to amaze me how people act like standard Athletics actions most strength-based martials will have access to just don't fucking exist. #pathfinder2e
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
January 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
Same guy posting across different threads and this is the exact problem I have with the major critiques about PF2e.
It's gatekeeping. It's all gatekeeping from smug elitist fucks who think it's a babywheels system for incompetent GMs when really they just hate what they see as incompetence.
It's gatekeeping. It's all gatekeeping from smug elitist fucks who think it's a babywheels system for incompetent GMs when really they just hate what they see as incompetence.
January 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Same guy posting across different threads and this is the exact problem I have with the major critiques about PF2e.
It's gatekeeping. It's all gatekeeping from smug elitist fucks who think it's a babywheels system for incompetent GMs when really they just hate what they see as incompetence.
It's gatekeeping. It's all gatekeeping from smug elitist fucks who think it's a babywheels system for incompetent GMs when really they just hate what they see as incompetence.
So here's the proposed change I've been planning for Horizon Thunder Sphere.
This has been something I've been discussing with @tabletopobscura.bsky.social ala making 2-round spells worth the casting cost, while keeping them balanced. See detailed commentary below #ttrpg #pathfinder2e #fix-a-feat
This has been something I've been discussing with @tabletopobscura.bsky.social ala making 2-round spells worth the casting cost, while keeping them balanced. See detailed commentary below #ttrpg #pathfinder2e #fix-a-feat
January 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
So here's the proposed change I've been planning for Horizon Thunder Sphere.
This has been something I've been discussing with @tabletopobscura.bsky.social ala making 2-round spells worth the casting cost, while keeping them balanced. See detailed commentary below #ttrpg #pathfinder2e #fix-a-feat
This has been something I've been discussing with @tabletopobscura.bsky.social ala making 2-round spells worth the casting cost, while keeping them balanced. See detailed commentary below #ttrpg #pathfinder2e #fix-a-feat
This response was a real 'Eureka' moment for figuring out why I like the 3-action economy, but also why I'm becoming increasingly detached from TTRPGs:
It works better than traditional standard -> minor -> move economies when it's disrupted, but most players don't want that. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e 🧵
It works better than traditional standard -> minor -> move economies when it's disrupted, but most players don't want that. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e 🧵
January 5, 2026 at 1:44 AM
This response was a real 'Eureka' moment for figuring out why I like the 3-action economy, but also why I'm becoming increasingly detached from TTRPGs:
It works better than traditional standard -> minor -> move economies when it's disrupted, but most players don't want that. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e 🧵
It works better than traditional standard -> minor -> move economies when it's disrupted, but most players don't want that. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e 🧵
Comments like the responses in these screenshots (made by the same person) make me less inclined to defend PF2e for the system itself and more because it betrays the onerous, toxic attitudes that permeate the RPG scene and make me want to give up on the whole genre. #ttrpg 🧵
December 19, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Comments like the responses in these screenshots (made by the same person) make me less inclined to defend PF2e for the system itself and more because it betrays the onerous, toxic attitudes that permeate the RPG scene and make me want to give up on the whole genre. #ttrpg 🧵
Fuck JD Vance.
Don't bring your bullshit over here. I'd rather have relative safety with one abnormality every few decades than my child risking death from a lunatic with an assault rifle they *legally purchased*, just for *going to school*.
Don't bring your bullshit over here. I'd rather have relative safety with one abnormality every few decades than my child risking death from a lunatic with an assault rifle they *legally purchased*, just for *going to school*.
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Fuck JD Vance.
Don't bring your bullshit over here. I'd rather have relative safety with one abnormality every few decades than my child risking death from a lunatic with an assault rifle they *legally purchased*, just for *going to school*.
Don't bring your bullshit over here. I'd rather have relative safety with one abnormality every few decades than my child risking death from a lunatic with an assault rifle they *legally purchased*, just for *going to school*.
Got Lavos Prime so decided to reward myself with a new coat and go aura farming @warframe.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Got Lavos Prime so decided to reward myself with a new coat and go aura farming @warframe.com
...but the reality is *PF2e IS the middle ground.* You go slightly either way, you go back to either extreme of just letting the most potent abilities work and trivialising what should be a narrative threat, or you do this *points down*.
Every time I hear Incap is too strict, I have a conniption.
Every time I hear Incap is too strict, I have a conniption.
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
...but the reality is *PF2e IS the middle ground.* You go slightly either way, you go back to either extreme of just letting the most potent abilities work and trivialising what should be a narrative threat, or you do this *points down*.
Every time I hear Incap is too strict, I have a conniption.
Every time I hear Incap is too strict, I have a conniption.
This is basically the underlying issue at the heart of complaints about PF2e, but also why fans of the game like myself get extremely frustrated with it:
Because it's wrong, patronising AF, and assumes incompetence and/or hurt ego on the GM's part while giving no culpability on the player end.
Because it's wrong, patronising AF, and assumes incompetence and/or hurt ego on the GM's part while giving no culpability on the player end.
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is basically the underlying issue at the heart of complaints about PF2e, but also why fans of the game like myself get extremely frustrated with it:
Because it's wrong, patronising AF, and assumes incompetence and/or hurt ego on the GM's part while giving no culpability on the player end.
Because it's wrong, patronising AF, and assumes incompetence and/or hurt ego on the GM's part while giving no culpability on the player end.
Like here's a post one of the regular 'I'm just here to argue because I don't like PF2e or it's fans' dudes made today in a thread about AOE.
It's basically 'waaah waaah why don't I get to have all the HDYWTDT moments?'
Seriously. It's so transparently seeking self-aggrandisement.
It's basically 'waaah waaah why don't I get to have all the HDYWTDT moments?'
Seriously. It's so transparently seeking self-aggrandisement.
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Like here's a post one of the regular 'I'm just here to argue because I don't like PF2e or it's fans' dudes made today in a thread about AOE.
It's basically 'waaah waaah why don't I get to have all the HDYWTDT moments?'
Seriously. It's so transparently seeking self-aggrandisement.
It's basically 'waaah waaah why don't I get to have all the HDYWTDT moments?'
Seriously. It's so transparently seeking self-aggrandisement.
People would rather have Strikemax slop because it makes them 'feel powerful' instead of a game with interesting action options.
This is how we end up ruining games with accurate encounter building tools to appease no-effort gamers, and I'm tired of pretending I don't feel that way.
This is how we end up ruining games with accurate encounter building tools to appease no-effort gamers, and I'm tired of pretending I don't feel that way.
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
People would rather have Strikemax slop because it makes them 'feel powerful' instead of a game with interesting action options.
This is how we end up ruining games with accurate encounter building tools to appease no-effort gamers, and I'm tired of pretending I don't feel that way.
This is how we end up ruining games with accurate encounter building tools to appease no-effort gamers, and I'm tired of pretending I don't feel that way.
This whole conversation is just a thinly-veiled difficulty level discussion where players want what is their preference as the baseline, and I will die on that hill.
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This whole conversation is just a thinly-veiled difficulty level discussion where players want what is their preference as the baseline, and I will die on that hill.
Draft for the cryptic playtest is DONE.
Just needs to go through editing passes for grammar, rules, and preliminary tuning, and then we can start digital aid-ifying it.
I'm excited for this guys, I think some of you are really gonna like what we've got cooking here.
#pathfinder2e #ttrpg
Just needs to go through editing passes for grammar, rules, and preliminary tuning, and then we can start digital aid-ifying it.
I'm excited for this guys, I think some of you are really gonna like what we've got cooking here.
#pathfinder2e #ttrpg
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Draft for the cryptic playtest is DONE.
Just needs to go through editing passes for grammar, rules, and preliminary tuning, and then we can start digital aid-ifying it.
I'm excited for this guys, I think some of you are really gonna like what we've got cooking here.
#pathfinder2e #ttrpg
Just needs to go through editing passes for grammar, rules, and preliminary tuning, and then we can start digital aid-ifying it.
I'm excited for this guys, I think some of you are really gonna like what we've got cooking here.
#pathfinder2e #ttrpg
So on less salty, more productive news: looking at Draconic Codex and I LOVE what they've done for dragon pacts, treating them as invested magic items.
Not only do I think it's better design than what they did for Pactbinder and the like, it opens the door for so many ideas. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
Not only do I think it's better design than what they did for Pactbinder and the like, it opens the door for so many ideas. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
![PACT OF THE HERALD AND HOST
RARE CONTRACT INVESTED MAGICAL ITEM 6
You have exchanged your voice for the authority and breath of your bound dragon. Your voice echoes with the dragon’s idiosyncrasies. You can cast fear as an innate spell once per day, with the spell’s tradition matching that of your bound dragon. Once per day, from any distance, your bound dragon can choose to take control of your voice. They dictate everything you say (or don’t say) for up to 10 minutes. They can choose to speak in any language you or they know, though they can’t use your voice to cast spells or activate items.
Activate—Breath of the Dragon [one-action] (concentrate) Frequency once per day; Effect You exhale a torrent of energy in a 30-foot cone or a 60-foot line, dealing 1d6 damage per level. Each creature in the area must attempt a basic saving throw against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. You can’t use this ability again for 1d4 rounds. The area, damage type, and type of saving throw match those of your draconic benefactor (page 207). This ability has the trait associated with the type of damage it deals.
Oathbreaker’s Calamity Should either party break the oath, your throat and mouth become swollen and elongated, preventing you from speaking any language but Draconic and causing any use of the Dragon Breath ability granted by this pact to also damage you. The dragon becomes deafened, but call still hear your voice.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:huwaelud6cyetek6gve27owb/bafkreihmd6deeb5hydf7krzzdf5tznwhd3h25icizbqaxnhbyue7gcrrti@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
So on less salty, more productive news: looking at Draconic Codex and I LOVE what they've done for dragon pacts, treating them as invested magic items.
Not only do I think it's better design than what they did for Pactbinder and the like, it opens the door for so many ideas. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
Not only do I think it's better design than what they did for Pactbinder and the like, it opens the door for so many ideas. #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
Update *Shayne Topp voice* - turns out I am, in fact, the problem.
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Update *Shayne Topp voice* - turns out I am, in fact, the problem.
Online RPG commenters not seeing healthy emotional boundaries and behaviours as problematic challenge (impossible).
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Online RPG commenters not seeing healthy emotional boundaries and behaviours as problematic challenge (impossible).
Comments like this baffle me because I don't get how people legitimately don't go the entire range from 1 to 5 seeing *nothing* less than a success, *ever*
Are these people doing the math right? Are their GMs just overturning encounters? Do they just have the actual worst luck? #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
Are these people doing the math right? Are their GMs just overturning encounters? Do they just have the actual worst luck? #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
November 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Comments like this baffle me because I don't get how people legitimately don't go the entire range from 1 to 5 seeing *nothing* less than a success, *ever*
Are these people doing the math right? Are their GMs just overturning encounters? Do they just have the actual worst luck? #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
Are these people doing the math right? Are their GMs just overturning encounters? Do they just have the actual worst luck? #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #ttrpg #pathfinder2e
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #ttrpg #pathfinder2e