@ThanosM5 @Seanaci when i say i feel down a rabbit hole, i mean it: i was fascinated enough that i skimmed 3 years of the guy's tweets. he's over-the-top & has gotten progressively more so, but i fully believe that the core of the sentiment is genuine & misguided
@Seanaci the problem arises, as with this guy, when that appeal is taken as THE WAY TO PLAY and others' experiences & enjoyment is belittled in discourse or trampled in-game to facilitate the endorphin rush of being big and strong and right
@Seanaci heck, I don't even dislike powergaming or powergamers! It's not my preferred way as player or DM, but I completely understand the appeal of building a character like an open-ended puzzle or an efficient machine & watching them succeed & prevail through skill & luck
@Seanaci (plus he's clearly a big ol tox-masc misogynist who was apparently frozen in the early 80s & thawed out by scientists in late 2016 so there's that too)
@Seanaci but despite all that, I feel fairly confident in saying that this guy wouldn't approve AT ALL of our game because it's just not a type of play he would enjoy - and therefore it's *wrong* somehow, which defeats his own core argument about players driving play together
Anyone who says an all-bard party isn't sustainable is fooling themselves
At level *10* these bards beat a DC ***30*** check to delight the inscrutable fey monarch with the power of their music TWICE. IN. A. ROW.
@mermaid_seph and the arc where the gang gets stuck in a haunted house for like a full year but one of the plastic skeletons is alive & super chill
@mermaid_seph can't wait for the arc where the gothy nerd kid runs away from school so they team up with a cyborg delinquent & end up declaring war on... the government of japan 😬💦💦
@Maclanahan@PretendWizards! My fave by a landslide: fantastic DM, delightful characters (both PCs & NPCs), comedy & mystery & magic & just a teensy lil smidgen of absolute horror