Y'know. The usual deeply-held, deeply-harmful shit White Man:tm: has installed in his sons to keep them perpetuating his bullshit.

Not something I thought consciously, just now realizing that it does run that deep, pulling out the jackhammer to dig this shit out lmao

Like when I learn something new, my understanding of that is not 'this is information that existed, and I have now become aware of it.' It's 'this information now exists in the world.' Which implies that my awareness or lack thereof determines a thing's existence.

Basically, I'm struggling with understanding how to tell people about my health journey without being a dick about it. Are there phrases I should avoid? Is explaining the purpose of my therapy or helpful techniques for interacting with me the problem? Genuine question for the world here, Idk shit

I kinda don't know how to fix or change that? Multiple people at this point have told me what I say about mental stuff comes off as patronizing but why would I assume other people know what's going on in my head? How I think? Hell, how anyone *but them* thinks? Nobody's a mind-reader.

The Silver Knight Bow Shots sound effect from Dark Souls. I had nightmares about falling from those interconnecting beams for 2 weeks 😭

Better they think it's cursed than say "unfortunately, that tracks."

@interpidnil.bsky.social

Hence Sentai & Sensibility as my example here. A story about being a Power Ranger saving the city and also a noble embroiled in early-America social dramatics would be hard to improv using PBTA, FATE, or many other narrative-focused systems. It needs mechanics as unique as its setting.

I think a mistake a lot of TTRPGs make is trying to be unique in their mechanics purely for the sake of standing out. If you're gonna make a whole-ass mechanical system from scratch, it should be because no existing base suits your needs.

Oh crap you probably meant something without a base uhh

Yeah the second answer is my real one then. Base systems exist to help people streamline the beginning process of game design and focus on keeping their game ... Well, focused. Set in its niche and so-forth.

I'm a basic bitch, so if it's PBTA I'm probably gonna go for it.

Otherwise, it has to be filling a void I didn't know existed before. Sentai & Sensibility comes to mind.

Where the endless array of incredible creations somehow fails to enable genius, remember that FATE does technically do whatever you need.

Or you could play an Awakened Lion in Starfinder if you have a really cool GM, I prolly shoulda led with that huh