BY OUR MALICE COMBINED

(If your first thought upon reading this was "okay, you're just doing a bit, right? Surely you didn't actually have a playtest group who assumed that everything with a labelled slot on the character sheet was fair game and was letting players tag their pronouns for bonuses?": welcome to the world of technical writing.)

I don't think you actually have a playtest group who assumed that. I think, considering who you are and the kind of people you and your game attract, you have a playtest group who argued they could tag their pronouns for bonuses for the love of the game.

No comment.

I legitimately did think that was part of the rules, and was the point of having Names and Creed be as detailed as they were. Especially since having more d12 dice to roll wasn't necessarily a good thing with the calamity system. I thought we were encouraged to gamble with our dice total, with the understanding of potential rolls leading even closer to failure, in exchange for "more click clack of my math rocks make brain go buuuur" to put it bluntly.

That might be an interesting dynamic in some other game, but you need to understand that in a game like Eat God, the overwhelming majority of players are not going to be doing that mental calculation – they're simply going to max out their dice pools on every single roll, then wonder why they're constantly drowning in Calamity Points and nobody has any Obstinacy. Indeed, this is exactly what a couple of groups who made this mistake ended up discovering!

Found the source of the infographic that explains how the results were obtained!

we did it, we created furry gerrymandering

will the owner of the goalpost out in the bailey please move it down the slippery slope towards the middle ground where a strawman is currently begging the question. we have a bandwagon waiting to help you, unless youre too much of an uneducated dipshit to handle any of that, in which case we can circle back to a true scotsman who will be able to appeal to our authority.

"I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me" is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat

Reading the dev notes for Mina the Hollower has been a pretty stark reminder to consider the practical reasons for creative decisions. I was all "okay, but what are we really saying by making the protagonist a mouse", and then the devs are like "yeah, the main reason she's a mouse is because GBC-style sprites are tiny and her bigass ears make it easy for the player to tell which direction she's facing".

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my grand theory of the final DS9 seasons is that the Prophets are a metaphor for self-obsessed upper managers

Look, I know somebody in this room is experiencing cosmic wonder. I can literally hear the tremolo strings accompanied by a solo guitar gently picking out an arrhythmic harmony.

I'm not asking for names, I'm just saying it would be swell if whoever's doing it would be kind enough to step outside before the sun bursts through the clouds and transfixes you in a single perfect shaft of light – some of us are photosensitive.

True, but actor milk always produces substandard cheese.

You’ve clearly never tasted Crottin de Shatner. Or perhaps some Nicolas Cageliata?

apparently my whole "your inevitable death was decided the very moment you first drew breath" sword technique isn't very "kid friendly" and they're adding more content warnings to my promotional materials again