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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot of people playing D&D would be happier playing some other game. I don't think they'd all be happier playing the _same_ game, so there's not a D&D killer. (And for many, D&D _is_ the right game)

D&D might let you do anything, but it doesn't let you do everything well.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1d

If I may dril for a moment, you absolutely do not have to give Trump “credit” for anything, ever. The saying does not go “even a broken clock hires its own gestapo”

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

And that's no judgement on other games beyond "this doesn't seem to have what I want." So it's not a fight between Draw Steel and some other game, without Draw Steel I'm probably back to making D&D work like I want it to.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

Imagining a word where Samurai Swords (Shogun, Ikusa) had the enduring popularity of Axis & Allies. A revised edition with new units. Samurai Swords East and Samurai Swords West, that could be combined into a larger game. A miniatures line. Games on individual battles like Sekigahara.

Box art of Shogun, part of Milton Bradley's Gamemaster series, along with many of the pieces.

Ikusa, remake of Shogun/Samurai Swords, showing the box, the board with a map of Japan, the colored armies.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, yes. A mark against the great sword was rolling 2d6.

(other d12 uses- going back to AD&D, damage of a long sword against large creatures. And there's a remake of Samurai Swords crowdfunding which uses them)

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, it's certainly the most D&D like from the list, as I recall (this was a few years back). That only struck me as odd in "Don't play D&D, play this variant D&D!" while the others were "Do you like tactical combat slaying monsters? We don't have any of that!"
Not bad games, just not what I wanted.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

We got the d10, that's where we stop.

(Okay, I will entertain d4 alternatives because those damn caltrops just stop flat. But really, we're hardly using the D12 shape, mark that 1-4 three times and we're good )

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering a list of "play this instead of D&D." It had Pathfinder, then games that took place in a dungeon/were fantasy but otherwise didn't fill any of the space that D&D fills for me.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about it, while I'm the target for Draw Steel, other games coming out just don't appeal to me. If Draw Steel didn't exist, I wouldn't switch to one of the others.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 1d

defeating my enemy in battle: hard fought but my valiant opponent was no match for my mighty pikemen

defeated by enemy in battle: bullshit, cheap, my good pikemen were still traversing the mountain pass

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 1d

I was never a big X-Men reader, so I have maybe a dozen issues. That's one of them. I think I must have opened, saw the tentacles, "okay, I need to know what's going on"

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 2d

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

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ana street rat @uldahstreetrat.bsky.social · 2d

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, the Trump Organization, and his family.”

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3d

None of this is legal! People are choosing to break the law! Other people are choosing not to hold them accountable! What the fuck!!!

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

he wanted to provide us a helpful visual metaphor for what he's doing to the country, the least we can do is run on it

and unlike other Trump scandals this doesn't require you to memorize details, you can just show people a picture of the fucking half-demolished White House

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 3d

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 3d

I’m no highly paid DNC strategist, but the easiest layup in history is an ad showing a list of all the shit these racists and oligarchs and bigots and Nazis have destroyed and ending with the slogan REBUILD AMERICA. Anyway, that slogan is for sale for 1.5 million dollars

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3d

NYC Mayoral Debate

MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live

CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything

SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 3d

Just keep whatever house you had before the election. It's time for a WFH president.

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CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · 3d

If you have a big Nazi tattoo on your chest you’re actually not part of united front against authoritarianism

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 3d

I grew up reading Computer Gaming World, and as a lover of RPGs, Scorpia's reviews were a treat. While I never had the thought, reading that, yeah, it would fit.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

the panting over-enthusiasm for Platner is another example of how you should never be horny on Maine.

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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 4d

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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 4d

again this is just how the concept of linear time works

A very stupid headline from a valnet website that simply reads 'Game of Thrones' Didn't Just Spoil the Ending of 'House of the Dragon' - It Also Spoiled the Upcoming Prequel Spin-off'.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 5d

BARBARIAN: What did I miss?
GM: You’ve been abducted by ants. One goes up to each sleeping member of the party and puts what looks like a giant aphid on their forehead, then squeezes it so paralytic goo comes out and covers their face.
BARBARIAN’S PLAYER: Ursula, why are you like this?

Tango, the Wild Dream @tango.rebelsheart.net · 5d

#dnd while resting with the rats for the night, the party’s has been kidnapped by ants.

So that’s a thing.

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