I was slower moving but don't miss it.

Move Bluesky has forced me to confront what I want from this kind of service. I've mostly moved off the tech, AI and philosophy strands and have a hard block / unfollow regular politics posters policy now. Better for my mental health.

5E and the culture around it really doesn't support different rates of advancement. Even though spellcasters outshine martial classes a great deal after the first couple of levels.

More pics from round 3

Final round - A Chance Encounter. Current placings and top tables.

Round 2 - Encirclement

More cool armies on display! 2/2

bottled in Stockport <shots fired>

Breaking Bad's ending felt satisfying too

The Academy Über alles

I've quit every other platform except Bluesky, Discord and WhatsApp (Signal is used but doesn't feel like social media yet).

I'd quit WhatsApp if not for social groups that use it.

Discord has the most reach. Bluesky is more cliquey than Twitter was but small price to pay to avoid the fash

Sometimes the best design is just getting out of the way of people having fun.

The assumption that (aesthetic) value judgements ("it is not good") are opinions might betray a belief that there's nothing objective about them. I'm not sure that's true.

I so wanted to love Numera. I bought so many books of it! But everytime I played it... it felt empty as a game. The character options didn't seem to really matter.

I think Cypher is objectively a bad system. When the mechanics are vaccuous window dressing... that's just bad design.

Imagine going to a gaming con and not getting to play a game you fancy playing because of on the spot sign ups. What kind of hell is that?

The really interesting story is the ones that got away. The PCs that refused to die. That haunt him. Those elusive TPKs...