Emily F Allen.
Indie RPGs. Horror & Whimsy. Owner of one Ennie Award. She/Her. Sapphic trans girl, Quaker, hard left, spider-lover.
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So if your source for how a game works is streaming, or youtube videos, or other secondary media, you're going to get things wrong.
To know how to play a game, you have to read the book!
I've played with people who think they can skip that step and it's always fucking infuriating.
Like no disrespect to people doing AP streams. It's an interesting artform. I've dabbled in it, and it takes skill!
The pressures of making a good stream push you away frm always getting things right. The cardinal rule is to keep play moving, so looking up a rule/setting detail gets glossed over.
I do enjoy how the posts from "USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST" are like over half US politics, with the remainder being a roughly even split between fandom discourse, AI arguments, and pure unashamed thirstposting
The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values.
@EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️
Side note: I hate the *word* "lore." Not like... for it's original meaning. But there's something about using it for shit you read on wookieepedia that makes me Real Mad. I used to be even madder about it ~a decade ago
i started really playing rpgs as a teenager in about 2005.
it didn't used to be like this.
she's right and she should say it
You cannot trust some video or stream to be your source for how a game works. Sometimes, often, they will be wrong! What works in a video or stream and what's in the book are often different things! You cannot absorb a game's content by osmosis, you have to read it.
the D&D 5e fandom and lifestyle brand is a separate hobby to the ttrpg scene, with much less overlap between the two demographics than most people expect.
