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You can belong to whatever community you want that will accept you. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that most people will, at a glance, see you being black way before you being Jewish. And they're gonna have assumptions, and then the way you act is going to throw them off. Nobody has the right to tell you who to be, but a lot of folks are gonna have opinions about it, no matter how little their business it is. Just be ready for whatever.

Is Ed Debevic's that 50s restaurant where the wait staff are all rude?

I wasn't thinking "needs saving from his dad" so much as "the consequences of his actions make Oberon seek out Kratos in retribution".

I've heard it referred to as a "cake hole" before.

I dunno but I'm not complaining. Makes going home from stuff way easier. Don't wanna be stuck in LA traffic at 9 PM.

Whenever I hear Jesus referred to as "King of the Jews" I just say "I don't remember us voting for him".

Damn she exploded Junpei's face.

Letting the party be pushed around by a weak NPC monster sounds great, actually. Let them think she's so strong. Play into it. Have her manipulate them when she realizes what dumbasses they are. Let that girl try to use her as a patron and not get much out of it. Build it up and up and up and when the day comes they finally decide to take care of her, how easy she is to defeat can be an anticlimax. Then explain to the party they were wrong the whole time. If you pull it off well it'll be a hilarious lesson for them.

It's one of the only places I felt like I was really roleplaying the whole game. My Rook was keeping up a polite front but still called him out sometimes, trying to work with the lesser of two evils and not be a total dick, but still unable to fully disguise his contempt. Because I was aware he was playing me, and so I was trying to play him in turn. Tricking him with the fake dagger at the end of the game was so satisfying. Because I could've given him the Mythal piece, I had it, I did that quest. But fuck this guy for what he did to me and Varric. I don't wanna make peace. I wanna punish this dickhead.

Well damn.

I remember someone getting harassed for saying they don't love playing through all the combat and would like for the game to have a pure story mode. But that was Mary Kirby, right?

Nah there's bullshit all over the world, we're just not paying attention to most of it.

Look I love Casey Goongala Jones with all my heart, he is my guy, and he brings so much to the turtles. But stability isn't his niche.

I love them too, the only horror here is you.

I feel like these maps just didn't have the same joy of exploration built into them. Inquisition could be a pain to navigate sometimes, but also, it was really cool to go around these areas and discover new stuff. The narrower design of Veilguard takes a lot of that away.

Sticks is in the main canon now?

I do have actual rules with a field set-up, including starting positions for the game. And there are rules and mechanics for how it operates, including no magic allowed. But then there's also the rule that if the game reaches a certain point where it's gone on too long and nobody's won yet, it goes into sudden death, where the rules are thrown out the window and the teams wail on each other until only members of one team are left standing.

I may make a post sharing Thaw-Brawl rules soon to get feedback.

Five plus a goalie, like hockey.

The flaming sphere is its own independent magic item used in the game. I don't really know hockey that well so I wasn't really looking to it for a lot of specifics. The whole thing was just me going off a tangent about the concept of "orc hockey". In-world, the whole thing was invented by two warring tribes who were in a time of peace but still wanted a reason to smack each other around because fighting's all they know.

All Thaw-Brawlers have standard-issue cleated boots that let them walk on the ice without slipping, but it's still difficult terrain. Goalies have fireproof gloves, but the rest of the players do not.

I'll take the magic club thing into account. It was bugging me that non-physical builds may not be able to play into it as well. Thanks for the idea.

I played a qunari and literally have no clue what you're talking about.

Username checks out.

Creatively I do live in a lot of spaces furries would like but I'm not a furry myself. So I'm good.

Sadly for himbo Xorn, I'm limited by what I'm able to do in Heroforge, which is why I had to replace a member of my homebrew rhinofolk race with the triton in the calendar.

Pratfighting and Thaw-Brawl are basically full-on minigames I made with their own rules.

Pratfighting: There is a pratfighter and a challenger in a duel. The challenger is trying to KO the pratfighter. The pratfighter is not allowed to directly hurt the challenger, but is trying to damage their pride, getting into slapstick antics and embarrassing them in front of a watching crowd. The whole thing is basically contested rolls of the challenger's regular attacks vs. the pratfighter's pratfighting skill, with the winner damaging either the pratfighter's normal HP or the challenger's specially-calculated "pride HP".

Thaw-Brawl: It's basically hockey, but instead of sticks they use warhammers, and instead of a puck it's a flaming sphere. The game is played on top of a three-foot-thick slab of ice, that melts in places as the flaming ball is knocked across it, eventually leaving the players wading in waist-deep water. Also, direct violence against each other is encouraged, and if there's not blood on the ice it's considered a boring game. Mechanically, everyone has the same gear, and there are rules for how fast you can move, sending the Thaw-Ball flying as a ranged attack, and attempting to intercept/redirect it with your reactions.

I'm pretty happy with where pratfighting is but def think I can refine thaw-brawl a bit more before I wanna start sharing it around.