Wild and Crazy Adventures

Computer RPG where every possible pairing has an official portmanteau so that its current relationship value can easily be referred to in formulas and stat blocks.

There's a midgame best-in-slot helmet whose defence formula applies the player character's relationship value with one specific party member as a penalty because that party member thinks it looks silly on you.

im not the same person i was when I pulled that meat out of the freezer this morning. I've changed. i don't have that in me anymore. ive moved on

Every time I post an example of play involving a d66 table I get people in the notes being weird about, like, the concept of d66 tables, which is very irritating. However, I have to remind myself that having the temerity to look at a centuries-old piece of tabletop gaming technology that you've somehow never heard of before, deciding that you can improve upon it after a whole thirty seconds of thought, proposing an alternative that's both more awkward to carry out and less functional in use, and going away satisfied that you've solved a real problem purely because you find the existing solution's conventions of notation unaesthetic does in fact speak to having the proper mindset of a tabletop game designer.

For those taking issue with the "centuries old" part, here: have a US patent application for a tabletop American baseball simulator that uses a d66 lookup table for action resolution dated August of 1887. This almost certainly isn't the oldest, as the way it's used suggests familiarity to the target audience, but it's the oldest I can find off the jump.

That’s only one century!

1.4 centuries, if we're being pedantic, and employing the plural to discuss fractions greater than one but less than two is accepted usage, so technically

A conventional d66 roll does in fact consist of rolling a six-sided die twice, reading the first roll as the "tens" place and the second as the "ones" place, yielding 36 equally weighted results in the range from 11 to 66. The form shown in the patent is a common variant, though; many modern games use it both to take advantage of the "bumpy" distribution – it yields a table with 15 equally weighted "common" outcomes and 6 equally weighted "rare" outcomes, which is exactly what you want in some situations – and for the convenience that you can roll both dice simultaneously without needing them to be visually distinguishable.

santa claus but instead of naughty or nice i judge if uve been banal or avant garde 

there is a really stupid and embarrassing darkness inside of me

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.