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@thefastcabbage
i hate how pervasive the r-word has become again
its like the 2000s to early 2010s again where talking to anyone theres a good chance they'll casually say a slur without any thought
and whats even more annoying now is people who'll try to weasel out of being called out on it
'oh its fine because i'm legally mentally disabled so i can say it' NOT HOW RECLAMATION WORKS
AND SAME WITH DEGENERATE
STOP TALKING LIKE A FUCKING NAZI
this reads like it was submitted to a local newspaper in the early 1900s
ppl complain abt everyone being so boring/inauthentic/detached these days but the second u have interests they deem unusual theyll be like "waitttt thats giving neurodivergent..." like damn its so awesome that were pathologising giving a fuck about anything they dont sell at a tj maxx
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auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"
"But doesn't having a notion of 'balanced' combat inherently imply that all combat encounters are expected to be fair and winnable" well, no – it implies only that the GM has the ability to know whether a given combat encounter is fair and winnable.
There's a story that's been going around for decades about a Dungeons & Dragons party who encountered a large room full of treasure while exploring a dungeon. Immediately suspicious, they asked their GM a series of detailed questions about the room, but no obvious dangers were identified. Satisfied, they moved into the room – and were immediately set upon and eaten by the dragon that had been sitting atop the pile of treasure the whole time, which the GM hadn't mentioned because the players never specifically asked about the presence of living creatures within the room.
While this is obviously an extreme and ridiculous case, it illustrates an important point: as GM, you're the group's eyes and ears. If you don't describe something, the player characters literally can't see it – that dragon was effectively invisible from their perspective. The trick is that active malice isn't the only way to invisible-dragon your players; a group can also find themselves invisible-dragoned because the GM simply failed to provide sufficient information for the risk in question to be identified. This can happen through neglect, but it can also happen because the GM themself was unaware that the risk was present.
Now, hold on, you might be saying: the GM "plays" the entire world. How is it possible for the GM not to know that a risk is present? Well, that brings us back around to the subject of combat balance.
A game in which "balanced" combat is a meaningful thing to discuss is typically going to be one in which both the players and the GM are actually making strategic, tactical, and/or logistical decisions, rather than merely producing a description of their characters making such decisions. Without a good handle on the interplay of these decisions, it's completely possible for the GM to be wrong about the level of risk the scenario they've constructed entails.
That's actually pretty critical, because even if you don't care about the game being fair and winnable (and that's a perfectly valid stance), your players are still depending on you to be their eyes and ears, and to give them enough information to make good decisions about whether the fight in front of them is one they can win. A game where not every fight is expected to be winnable needs to be a game where the players have the opportunity to walk away.
No matter how objective you try to be, your own sense of the answer to that question is inevitably going to colour how you communicate about it. You being wrong about the level of risk at hand inherently increases the chance that your players will make bad choices. The party eating a TPK because they made a stupid decision is one thing; the party eating a TPK because they made a decision that looked reasonable from their perspective based on your unwitting miscommunication of the level of risk involved is quite another!
Sure, once the dice hit the table I'm probably going to realise that I fucked up, and I can adjust things on the fly to bring the level of risk that's actually present in line with the level of risk I communicated – but that's extra work I don't need with everything else that's on my plate. And that's a best-case scenario; if I'm running the game for a hardcore let-the-dice-fall-where-they-may group (and such groups tend to have a pretty significant overlap with groups that are cool with not every fight being winnable), I may not be able to adjust the fight's parameters on the fly without violating the social contract of the table.
Basically, whenever I see an OSR game with tactically crunchy combat brag about how its author never even thinks about "balance", what that's telling me is that running this game is going to create a whole lot of extra work for me as a GM. This is not a selling point.
I played in a campaign of Vampire: the Dark Ages in university and it was extremely well run right up to the final session, when my friend realized that the climactic battle with the Tzimisce elder was hampered by the fact that we absolutely 100% could not hurt it. Very memorable look of GM panic on his face for that one.
(we pulled a satisfying resolution out of our asses before he had to figure something out but I'm sure that he would have)
Oh that's a tumbler or roller pigeon! They're bred to do this! It's believed that the original inclination to tumble in the air was a tactic to avoid being caught by flying predators, then this inclination was bred in favor of doing it more. Some breeds can also fly normally for hours as well, and the most sound breeds are those that can make safe landings still. There's whole shows and competitions around tumbler pigeons!
There's more unsound breeds of course as well, but this one clearly has good control of its flight and landing. Well done pigeon!
if you unfollow me can you let me know what the last straw was I won't improve I just wanna know
i think the fact that "transandrophobia" was coined by a detrans nazi twerf should have been the end of the conversation right there. the fact that some people are still using it is actually insane. there's no hope for you.
Most people on this website are literally this image
I find it pretty fascinating that thousands of trans women on hrt for years have attested they have monthly symptoms like those caused by periods, but tme people will argue it's all made up and impossible. Like. Thousands. People that don't know each other, that come from completely different parts of the world, will say the same thing happens to them. To deny the reality of it is to be in denial.
There's even cis women who have the exact same biology as trans women who report the exact same thing to back this up, and they still act as if we're making this up.
A cis woman whose had a complete hysterectomy, including the removal of the ovaries, is biologically identical to a trans woman. She even takes the exact same HRT. And millions upon millions of cis women in this situation report having identical periods as trans women.
It's not a mystery either! They're driven by hormones, not something encoded in your chromosomes, and we have the same hormones! Other parts of your body don't check if you have a uterus or not before responding to your cycle!
People just really want 'gender' and 'biological sex' to be two different things so they have somewhere to stand when they want to be transphobic, but they really aren't (unless you're not physically transitioning) - taking HRT changes your biology, trans women are not "biologically male" they are women who MAY OR MAY NOT have a penis. No one argues women who have hysterectomies aren't "biologically female". There are even (an estimated) tens to hundreds of thousands cis women with XY chromosomes because some bodies just don't respond to androgens during their development and are indistinguishable from XX cis women unless you do chromosome tests.
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