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i don't struggle with anhedonia, i'm actually quite good at it. dot t-shirt dot com. slash order? this one's kind of gotten away from me i think.

anyway i feel like it's not really an accurate term (so like most if not all labels already) but i don't know what else to call it when i think about it? very little attachment to what they call dopamine but not in a way that prevents regularly doing neat and fun things. somehow.

i don't struggle with anhedonia, i'm actually quite good at it. dot t-shirt dot com. slash order? this one's kind of gotten away from me i think.

it seems it's time to start our yearly "this year, for sure, we can let this hair grow out past the shoulders" gambit. tune in next March to see if it works this time!!

honestly thinking about the "ok so how do we get a group to be into this" portion of tabletop does help me understand part of why i like 7pp so much. it may look complicated as hell and play very longly, but the structure is there. no modules or campaigns to write, nothing stopping you from just

jumping right in and figuring out the weird stuff as you go. and i don't think it's a coincidence that one of my favorite games is betrayal at the house on the hill, though it's very hard to explain that better as i am very tired right now. regardless, as someone who is trying to both make a ttrpg

I guess another big thing that gets me about CoC over other systems is how straightforward it feels to build a campaign. Completely disconnected from any original literature, horror stuff is like. Part of life, to an extreme degree. It's very easy to find a line between "something I/my friends found

spooky or unsettling this one time irl/ingame" and the shape of a campaign that uses those elements somehow. It's often a lot harder to get a foothold in a less common system (I've been struggling to make a primer for my usual group to introduce 10kSwords) because a lot of fantasy and even sci-fi

I think the thing I enjoy the most out of CoC is how much the combination of setting and roll-under system allows for varying levels of outcomes. Sometimes (often) an extreme or critical success is good! Sometimes, doing the thing you want too damn well is actually really fucking bc of The Horrors!

This probably comes from some bleed-over from "you get what you want, in the worst way" type of ttrpg systems, but it also helps add more room to move with fumbles and failed push rolls. And those aren't necessarily any new ideas, but having the different success and failure benchmarks in the rolls+

I think the thing I enjoy the most out of CoC is how much the combination of setting and roll-under system allows for varying levels of outcomes. Sometimes (often) an extreme or critical success is good! Sometimes, doing the thing you want too damn well is actually really fucking bc of The Horrors!