I must....ponder.

cool. another black child died in a hate crime

im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.

since i am a trans woman who plays sports i will never find your joke about trans women in sports funny. sorry.

been said before but. allies also often throw in a “well actually when transwomen are included in sports with regular women they come nowhere near being the best so it’s fine to let them compete together.” bc like, well, i would like to think i could one day become the best. am i only allowed to play in sports because I’m not actually trying? it shows that there is actually a threshold in ability that, when reached, will cause certain groups of people who seem to support trans women in sports to reevaluate and find out they have been bioessentialists the whole time

Every time I compete I am scared I will win. Nobody should ever have to be in that situation. I got second at a competition and I saw the look on the face of the woman who got third, and I left that competition as quickly as I could because I didn't know if she would try to do something about it.

women love me for my unrepentant sincerity and my huge and illustriously estrogenated cock send post

can confirm. I did follow for one of those 2 things

photomatt the people cry out, yearning to be set free. release them from this prison and allow me to offer succor (post cock on main)

they seriously expected us to worship cops & soldiers when street cleaners and sanitation workers exist? fuck off i know who my heroes are

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

draw more fat trans women do it today do it now

make sure her belly sticks out further than her boobs btw

to be abundantly clear: this is not a fetish thing this is a representation thing I’m so exhausted seeing only depictions of skinny white trans women

Well I got hrt so I guess it’s works

8 years out of the closet as trans, 7 years of HRT. No regret here. I would never go back and undo it. The only negative feelings I have toward my transition aren't actually about me, my body, or my health. Only resentment toward the politicization of my existence and the fact we have to keep saying this.

patricia taxxon should be allowed to kill people

there are many people who like to walk into a ttrpg having invented a blorbo in their mind and have the ttrpg to give them the tools to realize that blorbo and all the best to them i am so thoroughly not one of those people. give me a playbook that prescribes a very specific narrative role. give me a pregen character i have to play as. give me a dozen big stupid tables to roll up a guy on. give me some god damn lifepaths !

cast me as though in a play and then allow me the tools to make the role my own!

Okay, but then, why did you sit down at the table? Why are you playing a TTRPG? You don't want to use the mechanics of the game to express a narrative for your character, why are you bothering to play the game at all? You could just go do improv. Or play a video game. Or look into local theater. If you aren't going to create the character, why did you bother showing up at the table?

Picture a campaign where your GM makes everyone play identical clones of the same orc mercenary in Shadowrun. From that base, each character can blossom as normal making relationships, getting cool scars, taking different equipment or whatever as part of campaign play. It wouldn't let a player personally live out their character idea, but it's a compelling space to play the rest of the game from. How would each character see each other? Would they backstab or view each other as the only people worth saving? Even immediately after starting identically, would clones not explore differentiating in-universe with like different bandana placements, or cutting different parts of their jackets?

This would be a really fun experience to do once, maybe twice. But there was no character creation here. I would not be satisifed that I played a TTRPG, under my definition of a TTRPG. *Shadowrun* is a TTRPG, but what you've described is a board game with improv elements. No character creation, no TTRPG. I might be crazy about this, but I'm consistent. I really do think that character creation is a nessecary part of a TTRPG, that it's very much the lynchpin of a TTRPG (TTRPGs with bad character creation cannot be good, TTRPGs with good character creation make up for a lot of their other flaws), and that if you remove it, you've changed it into something else. You can play a TTRPG any way you want; remove character creation, remove the setting, change rules, don't use the dice. These books are not binding contracts with The Demiurge, you do whatever makes your socks roll up and down. However, I am going to reject any TTRPG that does not have my previously established definition of a TTRPG (character creation, settign that is not our own, group of players collaborating on the same narrative). You don't have to accept it, but I'm not going to be persuaded by TTRPGs that lack things like that just because they are marketed that way. Statless TTRPGs are just board games with improv elements. Your character's name has nothing to do with resolving things with ludo-narrative elements (usually). You can make any kind of game you want and have fun with it, but if we are *specifically* talking about TTRPGs, that's a nessecry element.

there are many people who like to walk into a ttrpg having invented a blorbo in their mind and have the ttrpg to give them the tools to realize that blorbo and all the best to them i am so thoroughly not one of those people. give me a playbook that prescribes a very specific narrative role. give me a pregen character i have to play as. give me a dozen big stupid tables to roll up a guy on. give me some god damn lifepaths !

cast me as though in a play and then allow me the tools to make the role my own!

Okay, but then, why did you sit down at the table? Why are you playing a TTRPG? You don't want to use the mechanics of the game to express a narrative for your character, why are you bothering to play the game at all? You could just go do improv. Or play a video game. Or look into local theater. If you aren't going to create the character, why did you bother showing up at the table?

Yup. Precisely. I'm not exaggerating when I say, if your game does not have character creation, *you do not have a TTRPG*. It's what *makes* it a TTRPG, that's the nessecary component. Furthermore AD&D has character creation. It's in the DMG. AD&D 2nd edition has it in the PHB; I own it in hard copy. Traveller has character creation. it's simple. but it exists. Cyberpunk 2020 has character creation. It just looks weird. 5e isn't a TTRPG, it's a way of making money for a corporation. And has character creation. And that last one? That doesn't work. At a con, you are *sampling* a TTRPG, the way you listen to 30 seconds of a song or take a bite of food to see if you want to buy the whole thing. I could go down the whole list, and debunk them all, but you already see my point. TTRPGs have character creation. If you do not make a character in the game, you are playing a board game or an improv game. You can play anything in anyway, sure, these books aren't a binding contract with the Devil, and if you want pre-mades, nobody can stop you. But character creation is the nessecary part of a TTRPG, and without it, you don't have a TTRPG, you have something else. Now, if you *prefer* that, sure. go for it. But then, why did you go to the trouble of getting a TTRPG? You could have just, played a video game. Watched a movie. And Apocalypse World has character creation. It's quite literally in the pdf you can get for free to play it.

Character creation isn't the *defining* feature of a TTRPG, it's a *nessecary component*. There's a lot in a TTRPG that can be removed, but if you remove *that*, you end up with something else. A board game, an improv game, some kind of really weird storytelling game. It is *nessecary* but not *sufficient*. The other thing I would say that defines the TTRPG is that you are playing a role that is not you, in a setting that is not the one you live in (i.e., the real world), with other people who are all either doing the same thing or coordinating the game and setting (i.e. running the game). So, a TTRPG, then, would be a game where multiple people sit down to create a character that then is role-played in a setting not their own (Middle-earth, the World of Darkness, Faerun, Seattle 2077, etc). As for what counts, it's pretty broad. A player is creating character when they are making ludo-narrative decisons to create the role they are going to play. If the game has selecting a class, doing 3d6 in order, and then starting the game, you have character creation. You rolled stats, you picked a class, and now you are playing Gandalgrag Ironfist the dwarven warrior. If the game has a set of options you pick from a list, like Apocalypse World or the A:TLA TTRPG, then you have character creation. And if you have character creation, you are on your way to a TTRPG (next part is a setting and a group, but those are the easy parts). So, if you (for example) get togethet with your friends to play Kobolds Ate My Baby, you are rolling four stats, picking a couple traits, and then using those stats and traits, interacting with a setting with your friends, who are all doing the same thing (or running the game). KAMB is a TTRPG. Talisman is not, it is a board game. You create the role you want to play, then you and your friends play the role. Oddly, the table-top part of the TTRPG *is* removable, and it *doesn't* make it not a TTRPG, but that's sort of "well, we all live at home on the internet now, thanks assholes in power" thing.

That would be propaganda about the Vietnam War in the form of a TTRPG where you can get points for torturing Vietnamese villagers. For instance, the play example has a character shooing a villager in the leg, because the villagers are not giving them information about "communist activity". Communist activity being one of those things that is definitely a neutral thing to be interrogating Vietnamese villagers about. There is also the oath all USamerican enlisted military members are required to swear to the United States in it, as a part of making that character (page 24, to be precise). It has character creation, though, and since this is so very, very clearly a fictionalized version of the Vietnam War where there were equal sides and the war just "fucking sucks", then yeah, this is a TTRPG. Kind of like how the Dresden Files TTRPG is, it's urban fantasy, or Vampire: the Masquerade, it's modern horror. This is also a fictionalized version of our world, where U.S. military in Vietnam are not objective monsters.