Your comment had me hopeful that I had missed news about David Duke’s death.

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I get where you’re coming from, but I disagree on a couple points:

Game design relies heavily on finding uses for the player character’s abilities. Imagine a metroidvania where you pick up a cool new grappling hook, only to realize there’s no terrain that can be grappled, and most enemies aren’t affected. What’s the point?

In terms of good/bad game design in TTRPGs, my philosophy is pretty simple; If everyone at the table is having a good time, it’s good game design. For my players, getting to use the abilities that they picked or earned throughout the game is super rewarding. For me as a GM, I can scale encounters a little higher knowing that they have a built-in edge.

In fact, my number one resource for game prep is my players’ character sheets. Did someone pick an obscure language as part of their backstory? You’d better believe it’s going to show up in the game! Dragonchess proficiency? Guess what the game of choice is at the local tavern?

Conversely, if an ability becomes the only thing a PC relies on, it can be interesting to add a foil to that ability. For example, one of my players built a Kensei Monk with a specialization in firearms. It was a fun character for him, but the sheer damage output he could do kind of overshadowed everyone else. My solution was to introduce a combat encounter where he could use the weapon, but doing so had a chance to attract more hostile creatures.

Anyway, all this to say that in my opinion, playing to your player characters’ strengths is not only rewarding for them, it can help a GM create some really cool moments.

Also grid based combat! If you want to be D&D purists, have fun but I’m glad my group isn’t!

The logical conclusion is that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The charitable conclusion is that he protects pedophiles.

They shot themselves through the chest in the hope that the bullet would hit a trans person behind them.

Fucking James Gunn filled the new Superman with so much woke crap it broke the space-time continuum!

If your company platforms racists, it’s a racist company.

Everyone’s vote having the same weight, and our elections not being a competition to win a handful of battleground states while ignoring the rest of the country? Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Obviously I’d prefer us to have a better voting system, but that’s unfortunately not on the table. Right now, there’s a candidate who advocates dismantling our democracy all together and has tried to overturn the results of the last election. I’ll be voting for his opponent for the sake of our nation.

He’s a fucking NAZI who wants to bring back slavery. What the fuck is wrong with your brain?

I wanna know what rock you’re living under. It sounds peaceful.

The Graham thing is pretty obvious, and would make me feel bad for him having to constantly hide his sexuality if he didn’t choose to tie himself to a political ideology where being openly gay is political suicide.

Or for a more contemporary example, see Mike Pence.

Awesome. I can’t wait to hear you explain why Bernie syphoning away Dem votes and handing Trump a second term would have been great for our country.

I’m not afraid of shit. Jill Stein has proven she’s anti-science with her stances on GMOs and vaccines. She’s proven she’s politically illiterate and unfit for office by not being able to answer simple questions about our government. And she’s proven she’s a Russian asset by meeting with Putin officials and encouraging people to vote for Donald Trump.

Exactly. He’s still the same person who thinks Trump is “America’s Hitler”, he just realized he has a lot to gain from being Hitler’s #2.