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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 7h

who would win in a fight 1000 mildly attractive monsters or one steel pipe

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 8h

(it might sound better than it is 😂🤣😭)

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 13h

It's a part of the reason why I made Fury's Vigil is because it's already quite difficult to find Ishgardian roleplayers.

The hardest part in rp was always finding people to write with, sincerely and in good faith. That dark theocracy is still there-it's a big setting and we can share

Ruckus Fiddlesticks @rfiddlesticks.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, I hard disagree-
I think there’s plenty of fascinating conflict and storytelling to be had in the difficult unraveling of those concepts in radically restructured peacetime.

You can still play people clinging to the old guard or distrustful/paranoid of openly embracing the new too quickly.

Gu Da @koboldlygoing.bsky.social · 5d

I might be in the minority here, but I enjoyed Ishgard more when it was a crushing, oppressive Theocracy where one misstep could be interpreted as heresy.

While Aymeric's Ishgard is undoubtedly BETTER for it's people, it's worse for the setting as a whole in my opinion. . .

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 13h

Obviously people can enjoy what they want-there are thoughts about the terror Ishgardians lived in when the Dravanian Horde was lead by Nidhogg to kill, and how that formed the repressed society of the Holy See.

But personally, I think Ishgard is so flat as "do what papa Church tells you or else"

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Ruckus Fiddlesticks @rfiddlesticks.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, I hard disagree-
I think there’s plenty of fascinating conflict and storytelling to be had in the difficult unraveling of those concepts in radically restructured peacetime.

You can still play people clinging to the old guard or distrustful/paranoid of openly embracing the new too quickly.

Gu Da @koboldlygoing.bsky.social · 5d

I might be in the minority here, but I enjoyed Ishgard more when it was a crushing, oppressive Theocracy where one misstep could be interpreted as heresy.

While Aymeric's Ishgard is undoubtedly BETTER for it's people, it's worse for the setting as a whole in my opinion. . .

a man in a white robe is holding a cane and has the number 10 on his hat

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely have no memory of this sequence and it's breaking my brain

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 1d

🙄🙄🙄

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT IS THIS SCREENSHOT?!

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing has ruined my life quite the same way as Katy Perry's "Firework" because whenever I am deeply deeply depressed but I am desperately looking for a way to not burden others I hit them with the

"do you ever feel..."

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Once Upon a Dungeon || Preorders Closed! @storyindungeon.bsky.social · 2d

🧵Our first production featurette! Take a gander at our intricate woven button badges of the dungeon lords ⭐

woven button badges of the dungeon lords - thistle, marcille, mithrun, laios based on the tarot suits

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 4d

"Those who seek to please everybody please nobody", Aesop said.

He then continued, "least of all yourself, because you're going to put in a lot of time and effort that will go to waste, and they're going to come up with this term 'virtue signaling', as if the acknowledgement of virtue somehow dim-"

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 4d

Listen whenever Gamesmasters get to play in campaigns the lowest effort to entry is just to play a villain because you've had to get inside their minds to gm them effectively

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 4d

the amount my girlfriend's mom side eyed me when I squealed with joy about everything Julien was doing 👌👌

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 4d

Oh hell yeah! Did this come from a white dwarf or something to that effect?

DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 5d

That's interesting! I did know about Tau, but it was my understanding that the Eldar were super protective of their Craftworlds and so had a sort of scorched earth policy. (writ large, obviously individuals gonna individual)

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DeMaiste @demaiste.bsky.social · 5d

The amount of I have physically recoiled in this game XD

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