I have no idea what this vibe is, but I would like to subscribe.

Fair enough! I’m not going back to initiative order in any game I play for similar pacing reasons.

It does, I think. It powers “lair actions”, gives powers like interrupting turn sequence, making multiple moves in sequence. When the GM has a pool of currency players can see, there’s an unsaid acknowledgement things are going wrong/badly, which helps fuel collaboration in the storytelling aspect. I can say that someone fails an attack, but on a fail with fear they miss the attack AND leave themselves open to a harsh counterattack, or perhaps lose their weapon. I can do all of this off the cuff in D&D because ‘GM said so’, but then the players can feel an adversarial relationship instead of collaborative, which is so much more encouraged in Daggerheart.

All entirely subjective, and at its core it’s still heroic fantasy same as hundreds of other systems and if you are put off by rolling two dice for metacurrency, it’s likely not for you.

Sure, it’s not solving anything, but IMO it’s fun giving the GM a tokenified response currency even though you pull off a success. I’ve seen a fair amount of backlash, but just feel portraying the dice mechanic as Star Wars is miles off base, when it adds a narrative prompt for success/failure (D&D does this with nat20/nat1).

I don’t think any designer has ever said it is from Star Wars, and it most definitely does not use them as Light Side/Dark Side or imposed morality. It’s inspired by the Genesys rpg system of degrees of success/failure and has narrative effects like “Yes, but” and “No, however”.

Only if I can spill some salt grains first 😅

Do you also have an urn of dirt from your homeland so you can get a restful sleep in your coffin?

I just don’t know why every one of these idiots looks so damn punchable.

This is an absolute testament that you can back-of-napkin a better story than 99% of the dirge slop swill that studios pump out because they’re all money obsessed banker finance fuckheads with a fetish for being seen as creative. There is a DESERT of dry dead writing rooms crushed in spirit by “what if they’re sisters??” meddling corpos who can’t be told to fuck off because of reprisals. We really are in the scumsuck bullies-in-control-of-the-school timeline where everything has an implicit fate to suck because of the ego and complacency of corporate media.

I simply don’t understand how “vote to fund thing A” gets conflated with “also pass ultra-evil rule B”. How hard is it to vote on each issue separately and keep shit like this isolated from unrelated legislation?

My Volt audio interface looks like the one often recommended for pro audio, I’m going to try and do a live boot drive this weekend!

Thanks for the solid explanation! I think next steps are to look up any potential trip ups with my hardware on just getting Linux running, nvidia cards, m.2 raid, external audio interface yadda yadda…

Is there a specific gaming distro this works best for? I’ve heard Bazzite thrown around, but then Mint would be the easier transition? Does Lutris run in the window manager like KDE plasma?

I think the problem for me is knowing just enough to know I don’t know shit about how to do this 😅

Thanks man, I’ll look into it! Last I looked there are a few broken bits but it might be ironed out by now.

I’m in a similar position with WoW, but it’s tied to my friends, my guild, and I genuinely like playing it. So far I’ve found no rock solid way to play WoW on linux or I’d be done with Windows entirely.

It’s gold, Jerry, GOOOLD!

Keep my distro’s name out of your damn mouth!

Please update this if you fun into the usual brick wall of hand modifying config files or self-compiling some obscure git pull just to make basic things like audio and network work.

Yeah, I’ll see if I can help make that happen. Decent enough movies to come out.

Yeah I agree, hopefully it’s a rare non-evil entity that just wants to make a revenue off convenience and quality rather than some batshit shareholder nightmare monetization garbage.