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POCGamer aka PanzerLion!

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CRIT Award Nominated Freelance #TTRPG writer and critic, Black and 🇨🇦. For all my content, contacts, & support: https://linktr.ee/pocgamer Cool things I've worked on: - Blue Planet Recontact - Night City 2045 - Hard Wired Island ⚠️ Harsh Language

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I love this but I also desperately need more browser based apps to be fully compatible with Firefox. Looking at you @worldanvil.com and @inkarnate.com.

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Maps: Hitting the Road! In the past, I’ve talked a lot about maps and their utility as more than just an image of the ground the players will be traversing. Maps can tell stories, pass on world-building information, and more. But what does a map like that look like for a contemporary or sci-fi…

pocgamer.comMaps: Hitting the Road!In the past, I’ve talked a lot about maps and their utility as more than just an image of the ground the players will be traversing. Maps can tell stories, pass on world-building information, and more. But what does a map like that look like for a contemporary or sci-fi game? Let’s dive in!
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Within #TTRPG that use alignments, good can do evil, and evil can do good. It's the circumstances and motivations that differ. Good can do evil out of good intentions, zealous dedication, or ignorance. They either don't understand the situation or ignore the ramifications of their actions. 1/3

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2/3 Evil can do good out of self interest, when it matches their plans, or just because they feel like it. Maybe it's amusing to them. It's entirely possible for an evil adventurer to do good, or even go for ages without their evil nature being detected. But does this mean alignments are moot? No.

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3/3 Alignments can still be useful as behavioural guidelines. In systems with absolute alignments and enforcement of them, they can be used to explore the narrative edge of personal belief vs objective truth. They can still have purpose. They just need to be applied to the stories and situations.

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Normal videogames: Welcome to the game! Let's go over the controls and get you going! Gundam Versus: Oh, you booted me up? First time? DIRECT INTO COMBAT! FIGURE OUT THE CONTROLS! GO! GO! GO!

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Me, this morning: Victory! Another rotation around the sun complete! Also me, this morning: rolls over in bed, hear and feel a weird popping in my shoulder and then I somehow strain a neck muscle. Good Times!

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My first five #TTRPG in the order I played them: 1. AD&D (single session) 2. TMNT & Other Strangeness 3. Ninjas & Superspies 4. Heroes Unlimited Revised 5. AD&D 2nd Edition At least this is what I think it was? It was a ways back. 😅

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My first five TTRPGs in the order I played them: 1. Everyone is John 2. D&D 5e 3. D&D 4e 4. Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf 5. Slayers

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Things literally exploded after AD&D 2nd Edition though. - Vampire: The Masquerade - Rifts - Robotech - Macross II - Heavy Gear - Mage: The Ascension - Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Traveller: The New Era - Cyberpunk 2020 - GURPS 3rd Edition - Shadowrun 1st & 2nd Edition It was awesome!

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Impossible Magic was so good I went back for a second read after the review because @paizo.com was on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 creatively. I was happy with the Magus class getting their remaster reboot, but damn... Their Necromancer concept is amazing. The broke the pattern and it's so, SO, good! #Pathfinder #TTRPG

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It's time for a review! This week is #Pathfinder's Impossible Magic! #TTRPG

pocgamer.comPathfinder Review: Impossible Magic!It’s a known fact that I have a mixed relationship with magic user classes in a lot of games. The weird mechanical “balances”, spell slots, and bizarre restrictions have always made them harder to get into. But there’s been a few flashes of hope. One was the Magus class back in Pathfinder 1st Edition, which had me approaching Impossible Magic with cautious optimism.
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On damn. OH DAMN! #TTRPG

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the FIST × TRIANGLE AGENCY CROSSOVER has gone LIVE!! this might be the biggest, baddest FIST project ever produced cuz the folks at Haunted Table are all wild geniuses... so get in there and back it operatives 🫡

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Cypher—Advanced QUINTUPLED its funding goal 🎉🎉 and now Late Pledges are open! 🐉 New genres, character options, and advanced rules for Cypher ⚙️ A whole new bestiary 🦑 4 collectable stickers 🚀 Advanced Character Portfolios 🧝‍♀️ And two more decks! mymcg.info/cypher-ad...

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Surprising absolutely nobody. God damn it.

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social

Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election.

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A @paizo.com built horror #TTRPG? Yes. YES.

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The Avatar series is one of the sci-fi universes I bounced off of, hard. Like, didn't even want to see, and still have not seen any of them. Just a complete and total "nope" at every level. Like, I have given some *heinous* movies a chance, and these ones? Nope.

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The James Cameron Avatar films answer the question: what if a nature documentary that had no plot or characters somehow managed to be very racist?

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Fans of horror stories and TTRPGs unite THIS TUESDAY in our new rules-lite game 13 Omens! The campaign launches on Kickstarter in three days, so RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW to get first access to exclusive campaign only benefits and PDFs! Join our Launch Oracle: https://bit.ly/4bTX5nf

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One of the worst things I've heard at the deli counter came after the attendant cut 212g of Lyoner after I asked for 200g. Her eyes got huge and it was obvious that she was preparing for something, then her coworker touched her arm and said: "Don't worry, he's a good one." And I hated that...1/2

Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know)@badposter.lol

more business owners need to be like this

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2/2...because it indicated that people blew up so regularly about a few grams of fucking DELI MEAT that the staff recognized and remembered customers who didn't. People need to chill the fuck out and remember how to be decent human beings. Because shit like that shouldn't be normalized.

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This is fantastic!

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This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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This was part of why the HP series gained a lot of surprise traction with Boomers, especially in the white parts of the Commonwealth. It cheerily dredged up the old boarding school adventure formats and tropes they were raised with and sprinkled some magic on them.

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Like, this is a whole subgenre of UK based literature. And it was oddly impactful in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where those kinds of schools were rarer, presenting a kind of idealized imperial state.

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I've seen a lot of #WH40k animations lately, official and fan made, and a lot of the official ones haven't grabbed me. Except one. Kill Lupercal isn't just a good mini series (3 episodes), it's just good. A lot of WH40k stuff fails, utterly, to grasp the military aspects (ironic, right?), but...1/2

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2/2...Kill Lupercal is an amazing military drama. Princeps Orla Gemnon is amazing as a character, and her interactions with the other characters in and out of battle are *chef's kiss*. Plus you get to watch titan on titan battles and it's goddamn epic.

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People (read: chuds and racists) are freaking out because John Stewart made his own oath in the Lanterns show. There have been multiple "oaths" used by members of the Green Lantern Corps for literally DECADES. And, canonically, Hal Jordan invented the classic oath from nothing.

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The slow death of bowling alleys through the '90s and into the '10s because the Silent Generation and Boomers wanted to restrict where teens could exist was legitimately damaging.

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bowling is such a genius social event. the exact balance between like 10% activity to provide purpose to the 90% hanging out and drinking. bowling was the original friendslop

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People: I wonder what #TTRPG creatives are up to on a Saturday? Probably writing or planning some epic art. TTRPG Creatives: *folding the giant laundry pile and wondering how much creative time they can get in before it's time to make dinner*

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"How did you get into ttrpgs?" A bizarre series of events involving Final Fantasy on the NES, a friend whose dad owned AD&D and Traveller, and a buddy's dad's friend who had pretty much all the best of Palladium's mid to late '80s books, and a profound lack of supervision or guidance by anyone.

Ghoula RPGs@gilarpgs.bsky.social

"How did you get into ttrpgs?" This isn't even a joke: professional starcraft

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I'm not even kidding about the lack of guidance. We were literally learning how to play from the terrible "examples of play" written in the books. Our learning curve was warpy and styles were highly experimental. At one point we had Heroes Unlimited, VtM, and Traveller: TNE all running all at once!