Fair enough! I’m not going back to initiative order in any game I play for similar pacing reasons.

It does, I think. It powers “lair actions”, gives powers like interrupting turn sequence, making multiple moves in sequence. When the GM has a pool of currency players can see, there’s an unsaid acknowledgement things are going wrong/badly, which helps fuel collaboration in the storytelling aspect. I can say that someone fails an attack, but on a fail with fear they miss the attack AND leave themselves open to a harsh counterattack, or perhaps lose their weapon. I can do all of this off the cuff in D&D because ‘GM said so’, but then the players can feel an adversarial relationship instead of collaborative, which is so much more encouraged in Daggerheart.

All entirely subjective, and at its core it’s still heroic fantasy same as hundreds of other systems and if you are put off by rolling two dice for metacurrency, it’s likely not for you.

Sure, it’s not solving anything, but IMO it’s fun giving the GM a tokenified response currency even though you pull off a success. I’ve seen a fair amount of backlash, but just feel portraying the dice mechanic as Star Wars is miles off base, when it adds a narrative prompt for success/failure (D&D does this with nat20/nat1).

I don’t think any designer has ever said it is from Star Wars, and it most definitely does not use them as Light Side/Dark Side or imposed morality. It’s inspired by the Genesys rpg system of degrees of success/failure and has narrative effects like “Yes, but” and “No, however”.

My Volt audio interface looks like the one often recommended for pro audio, I’m going to try and do a live boot drive this weekend!

Thanks for the solid explanation! I think next steps are to look up any potential trip ups with my hardware on just getting Linux running, nvidia cards, m.2 raid, external audio interface yadda yadda…

Is there a specific gaming distro this works best for? I’ve heard Bazzite thrown around, but then Mint would be the easier transition? Does Lutris run in the window manager like KDE plasma?

I think the problem for me is knowing just enough to know I don’t know shit about how to do this 😅

Thanks man, I’ll look into it! Last I looked there are a few broken bits but it might be ironed out by now.

I’m in a similar position with WoW, but it’s tied to my friends, my guild, and I genuinely like playing it. So far I’ve found no rock solid way to play WoW on linux or I’d be done with Windows entirely.

It’s gold, Jerry, GOOOLD!

Agreed, it is a shit cover by a shit band. Some sycophant producers could barely contain their glee at slapping it on the trailer for an edgy film, it’s just feckless shit.

It has been 6 hours since OP created the ravioli black hole that will eventually consume our planet. I think of all the wasted years I spent worrying as oblivion heads my way.

Firmly in the nu-metal side at that point.

Adeptus Mechanicus intensifies.

I kinda liked the strategy and progression side of it. Are they coming back as-is with #nochanges?

It’s hard, really truly hard. If you honestly believe it was before you were officially together, before he had feelings for you, before any ideas of choosing you were involved then you might be able to move past it. The fact he offered the information means he likely isn’t doing this regularly or planned to again, maybe something that needed closure. If one last time with the ex before all communication is cut, then maybe that’s why, but he still chose that over what he had in future. I hope you’re okay, it is a stomach churning uncomfortable feeling of loss, and if you can’t move past it, then what you have is broken and will be really difficult to heal. Good luck, I wish you the best outcome possible.

What precisely does any of my post history have to do with you not understanding even the simplest concept of how corruption works? Does everyone speak honestly, confess their sins and never look at porn in your idyllic world? You’re getting angry on the internet, maybe it’s time to let your carer take the computer back?

You’re bring an astounding level of naivety to the discussion, it should be a demonstration of how people that refuse to think can be led like sheep.

Letter, fax, pager, smoke signal, Morse code, tin cans with string, eye blinking code, using the first letter of each word in a New York times obituary, carrier pigeon, skywriting… hmm… wait couldn’t they just say it out loud to each other? In person?

Is it hard to conceive of agreeing to something behind closed doors and donating anonymously to hide the tracks?