02.02. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
Well, THAT was quite the reversal (43 vs 13)! @peterdrake needed one more turn to lay down a key route, but I triggered the end of the game before he got to it. His dismay was exceedingly gratifying.
Spoilers, both photo and alt text, can be found behind the Sensitive Content warning.
My representative, Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R), sent out a survey of constituent priorities. Climate change and wealth disparity didn't even make the list.
@phranck It appears related to this font that seems to only contain numbers:
@trinsec @freemo Did Tolkien's fantasy races represent contemporary peoples? It's complicated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_and_race
@the_moep You probably know more about it than me, but sometimes posts take a while to propagate.
@the_moep That would be too reasonable. See my reply to the original post.
Oh, you were guessing maybe "Canvas", "Event System", or "Immediate Mode GUI"? Very sensible, but wrong!
It takes you up a level, laterally, then down two levels to "Universal RP", because this page appears in (at least) two different places in the outline.
The standard #ttrpg dungeon crawl is problematically colonial: "We want these treasures, and if the natives try to stop us, we'll just have to kill them in self defense."
How can the story be tweaked to avoid this, while maintaining the action/adventure idea of solving problems through personal violence?
I guess the obvious answer is to ally the player characters with the oppressed rather than with the empire. Perhaps more interesting would be to have them *start* allied with the empire, then slowly turn up the wrongness until they switch sides.
@rosareven Huh. I see no reason why it HAS to be that way, although ttrpgs' roots in wargaming might make it the default. Either side could run away. Certainly it's common in movies for the fight to be interrupted and one side to learn things about the other before they meet again.
Of course, making peace is going to be difficult if you've been killing each others' loved ones...
@mrcompletely ... or, y'know, when they have actual, functioning divine magic.
The standard #ttrpg dungeon crawl is problematically colonial: "We want these treasures, and if the natives try to stop us, we'll just have to kill them in self defense."
How can the story be tweaked to avoid this, while maintaining the action/adventure idea of solving problems through personal violence?
I guess the obvious answer is to ally the player characters with the oppressed rather than with the empire. Perhaps more interesting would be to have them *start* allied with the empire, then slowly turn up the wrongness until they switch sides.
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