Ziggurat

Every decade had it's pile of shit, and for the moment, the 2020's have been a walk in the Park compared to 2010's.

Sure covid was a wild-ride, where we had to mostly stay at home when no valid reason to go-out, and when out the city was quiet. and then proceeding to normal life with some accommodation is weird,

Remember the 2010's with the long-tail of the 2008 economic crisis, the terrorist attacks (and all the security measure impact on day to day life), The start of the Ukraine war, The Syrian civil-war, the politicians not listening to kids protesting climate change, the Brexit, and tons of other crazy problems ?

World of Darkness, a pretty popular family of games with Vampire the Mascarade as a figurehead, it reach peak popularity during the late 90's/early 00's, then almost vanished during the 2010's. But with the recent release of the 20 year aniiversary verion and the fifth edition it's raising again.

It's modern Urban fantasy, the setting is almost the real world, and the PC are monsters e.g. Vampire, Mage or Werewolf fighting each other to control the city. While the public part of the setting is known by everyone you play Chicago/New-Orlean/Paris/Rome by night (and can just look ~~gooogle~~ open street map to get a map) , the game has a lot of semi-secret lore, about the creation of the Vampire/Werewolf/the Magic world, and the secret of powerful and ancient being with each sourcebook adding extra lore.

A difficulty with that setting, is that there is always a player who is fan of the setting and going to argue that you'll never see this happening because [insert reference to obscure sourcebook] and that other player who actually went once to the city where you play so while WOD player don't have rule lawyer, they have lore lawyer which are a bit akin.

While I talk about rules, the system is IMO the good balance between rule light (It's still a traditional skill-based/dice-pool system with it's root in the 90's) and crunchy, the 2006 revision is my default system for modern games (I know-it, it runs fines and fit my need)

Interesting that there is a successor to KSP.

But, do I really want to spend another hundreds hours of life trying to recover a lost Kerbal on Duna?

What's the most common lie westerners believe about North Korea?

Are you allowed to read Marx, Proudhon and other communist philosophers?

How privileged are you to have access to the Internet and do an AMA?

What do you think of that North Korean girl doing videos on YouTube? (Not sure how she is called, just saw a documentary about her)

y'd sometimes be faffing around doing "funny" stuff, but I mostly was sticking to the "use your resources wisely or perish" mode of DND.

This is why, a letter of intent is important when recruiting for a new group. Explaining before session zero what's your GM style and all the other important points. Beer and bretzel games are a legit way to play, but not suited for everyone, the same applies to tactical mini or to intense Role-playing. The earlier the players the better

French has the bépo layout which applies the Dvorak methodology to French

This is why IMO class do not work well in rpg, in a more classic system, you could quickly create an archetype using

-Basic soldier skill

-Psychology, negotiations #

-Basic religious scholar skills (History, ancient languages, occultism)

At least that's the kind of skills I would take if playing a chaplain

Because many government left partics have converted to liberalism, and economic rigor with cut in government spending, and private corporations.

Which isn't exactly a left wing platform.

former East Germans spoke a noticeably different dialect to West Germans

With my limited German knowledge, They are pretty liberal regarding local dialect. People do not speak the same language in Cologne, Stuttgart, or Munich, and at least as a foreign-speaker, it's not because you understand the people in Stuttgart that you understand the one in Kȯln. Let alone Switzerland. So I am not surprised that German spoken in east-germany sounds different.

Indeed, while I block NSFW content, because well not what I want to see during my morning commute. This is pretty mild, so not necessarily fully blocked

I would like to see more rpg discussion, I like that the [email protected] doesn't end-up an D&D community like in the alien website, but I would love to see more than one discussion thread per week.

Actually, how does contested debts work with the US credit system ? People do genuine mistake which may be settled quickly sometimes even without needing to escalate far, but there is also bad faith companies/landlord which charge abusive fee, and would try to go to collections while your still contesting.