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Lucrécia Ludo. Trans. Ace but romantic slut. Writer @ Split/Party. Game designer. Literal mad scientist. Showrunner of @cgapod PfP by @melonkind Agender woman
Imperial Core (German/Finance)
Joined April 2009
Hi, Lucrécia or Ludo here. I say a lot of stupid shit in the hopes of insight. I don't do consultation but I will gladly collaborate. Scientist, writer, game designer, illustrator, podcaster. Links below. 🏳️⚧️🐱🐺🧏♂️.
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Lore is bad. Lore is the art killer. Lore is the for the wiki, for the database-narrative. Lore strangles narrative. There is no good lore. Anything good attributed to "lore", it is storytelling breaching through its smog.
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Spoilers:. Triangle Agency is heavy weight ttrpg hat nobody will realize the true strength of it because of the way it had to be marketed/nobody will spend enough time with it to really *get it*.
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I have been literally been saying this for over a year now and everyone is AI this ai that, my sister in Proserfina, it is not artificial or intelligence, it is just microwork
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As well deserved as it is, laying off mearls at this time really showcases the empire of cruelty and bullshit that hasbro is. The entire thing with wotc being on the green last quarter relied on the idea that they got a lot of money from Bg3. If you buy this (which investors.
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"You're a middle manager for the worst empire in human history, in an extremely privileged position. Your privilege allows you to do something about this. It will cost you dearly in ways you cannot imagine; you will not be comfortable doing it. But you can. Do you?".
a huge problem that a lot of RPGs have is that doing the right thing is 'free', or even explicitly rewards you. rogue trader does let you try to do right, at a cost. if incurring costs from doing the right thing stops you, you aren't actually as good a person as you thought.
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There is a dominant culture in TTRPG that is deeply avoidant of endings. Even games with natural end points, have developed an aversion to saying "this is where the game ends"; even when not doing so keeps a game going in a miserable tour, where all joy is drained.
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@Elamimaxima I been saying this for five years no. She takes every drug except the one that would help her, tragic.
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My guy killed the Trove and made sure no libraries of ttrpgs would ever emerge, works for people leading the Internet Archive lawsuit. Also, may be worth mention the author of 62 role-playing games is looking for a job.
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The most interesting thing about this change is that every single internal report, Hasbro says they want to reduce retail stock, retail presence and move to direct digital delivery of Flagship Brands like deedee. This is not done for profit reasons : it is done because they h.
Dungeons & Dragons increases price of printed books despite continuous financial success.
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Maybe they can bring it to one of the studios of the six DND games they cancelled since last year.
Dungeons & Dragons publisher plans to make Baldur’s Gate 4, once it finds the right developer for the job.
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I'm sorry what. "less million dollar ttrpg projects will happen". Good?!?!?. Not a single over million dollar ttrpg had been good, much less interesting, exciting or creative. And certainly nothing related to DND.
TTRPGs will become less interesting. Less exciting. Less creative. And despite all the new systems, it will also grow less diverse as it becomes even harder to make money in a TTRPG community broken into factions.
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So, you can be the architect of "making more money on DND video games than our entire entertainment division did in ten years", and they will still lay you off. Enable abusers and transphobes for years and they will not lift a finger.
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Also, what the hell. I really don't like how the last 10 years have reduced actual play to "TTRPGs are just improv". What happens in this art form is not people doing little plays at each other. We don't do little performances to our friends.
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"People don't want to play other TTRPGs, they want to play DnD 5e because they want to play the game their favourite AP does, do bits with friends and meme about critical hits and misses and that is okay". Okay, it is. But that is clearly not wanting to play DND 5e either.
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"Vicky 3 replicates reality and is called broken" strikes again
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Mostly did not), then there is nobody more responsible for this than Mearls, who was their man at Larian. So, the biggest success of wotc this year/DND their ownership and they lay him off.
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"Why people dislike solarpunk". Dunno, maybe because its practical implications are NEOM and its cultural relevancy is a yogurt ad,.
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I seen piracy discourse going on again. I will not say a worth of it but point to the following. - a 2017 paper showed no impact of piracy.- a 2020 paper found good quality piracy helps sales ._ a 2014 paper demonstrated anti-piracy measures hurt more than piracy.
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I cannot express how much the coward's rule sinks my confidence in a game's design
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Do not let Kissinger go as an evil genius architect of the American Empire, willing to do anything for it. He was a monstrous man, but he was not that: first of all, man was awful at his supposed jobs, an obtuse idiot that was completely sidelined by every single "crisis".
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It is not enough to say your game does something, it has to actually do it.
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I told y'all that after the dunk in November the layoffs were coming, but somehow dicebreaker had a different take.
Dungeons & Dragons owner lays off 1,100 staff two weeks before Christmas “to keep Hasbro healthy”.
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Joking aside, can anyone *afford* the risk of *buying* anything from WotC? The guy barely qualifies as a mtg YouTube. It was a guy that bought some cards and then received what he ordered. And he got the Pinkertons on him. So, what is to say the next time you buy a Secret Lair.
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May be appropriate to bring up the Session Zero Game Designer voicing that in Dimension 20 they consider a good system one that "they don't need to interact with the game system or rules to make a character".
brennan lee mulligan i owe u an apology i wasnt rlly familiar with ur game
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And of course, the role of the "police" is complicated over and over again with the history of the militia, and its origins as a remnant of the communist army, becoming a mutual aid focused on taking in orphans from the war, stepping into authority on the aftermath of a nuclear.
This is because “policeman” is a great frame for the question: will I help people, or stomp upon them.
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have a monopoly, so by doing this, then push those it captured into their desired behavior: get in their shitty subscription service.
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Tactical Breach Wizards is cozy gaming for people that hate cops.
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One needs not only to reject lore, to make art that is anti-lore, art that resists being cut into datapoints, to put in databases, to put on wikis, to be individualized into Marketable and Copyrighted parts, to be shuffled over.
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"The Entire TTRPG Industry" means WotC influencers? . Yeah. It would. Why you think they defend it so much?.
I don't think people realize if D&D and WotC stopped existing on Monday the entire TTRPG industry would actually collapse.
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This is so funny. Why are you doing this and not changing the name of monk, Hasbro? What's going on? So you know what you doing but going with half measures? Did some werewolf squid or other consulting grifter told you this was enough?
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Oh cool, extra survivability at the point that nobody plays the game, and definitely a point when it is soooo needed. Anyway, let me go see what the wizard is doing at level 18.
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Most games have you plays a figurative cop and many a literal one, but let you "do the thing" by having it somehow not related to that and/or obscuring it with good girl points and reward love showering.
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Some clarity because everyone is missing the point: game design is an artform. As an artform, it can confidently speak for itself, because art is communication. Adding caveats shows lack of confidence, which affects my apriori confidence in a game's design: which coming into it.
I cannot express how much the coward's rule sinks my confidence in a game's design
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This is the kind of thing when I meant that games can have specific, local-communication safety tools in their game systems and those will find more fertile ground than any general, universal safety tool just dropped casually.
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You saying the Manifest Destiny murderfantasy roleplaying game by and for white middle class midwest Americans is "normal" and looking it all the other games people made as result of their material conditions, identities and lives as "weird and niche" is quite something.
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It is amazing how the necromancy utopia is never to have spectral stranger kings, have a chat with the ancestors, share a meal with the once death, get the dead to live again. It is always how we can lose grandpa forever to have instead a corpse slave in the mines.
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"DnD is dying". Bruh, I wish. DnD, and probably WotC will survive even Hasbro.
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If friend, why stat-block shaped?.
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You can be literal space CIA or the fantasy inquisitor and keep being told you a good girl doing the good and getting rewarded. Games like RT or DE and so on, drop you in a structure, tie player character privilege to the structure, and let you do something actual meaningful.
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TTRPGs destroyed.
After showing a stream of “El Paso, Elsewhere”’s references ranging from Die Hard (PS1) to Constantine to Sum 41, @WritNelson drops this reminder that should come at the end of every creative direction meeting. #gdc24
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It is always depressing to me how uncurious people are about where the content they consume comes from. Everyone is kinda happy to eat up that cobbler sprites made it, or "the brand" or "company". The actual answer is always "some guy", and you should be suspicious whenever some.
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I still cannot get over the telephone game that ended up with planescape giving up its cosmological, down-upwards meaning of "multiverse" to replace it with a top-down, MCU era, database-narrative "multiverse". And how nobody noticed the drastic chances that this makes.
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The thing is, indies often do better at this than Hasbro. Lancer just like 5e is unplayable, but gives the tolls for you to play it. 5e has the pay wall of Beyond that they broke since April.
Something I don’t think indie TTRPG Twitter is prepared to hear. When people say D&D 5e is the easiest TTRPG to learn, they’re right. This has little to do with its design and everything to do with the amount of resources, reference material, and cultural touchstones it has.
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Look at their digital-print bundles. The price of those will not change. Wonder why.
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The Fallout show is great, because it is about something: it is about the fantasies about "clean slate" apocalypses and the horror of stumbling through the clean slate post-apocalypse fantasies of *other* people.
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It is wild how everything "changed" in DND 2024 suggests something fundamental needed to change in the design, but instead we have all 1000x minor things that make new options intrinsically better but the game continues with all the issues that need you to care for min maxing.
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Most games are good and fun, able to achieve what they set to do. While making a great TTRPG is elusive and rare, it is even rarer to find a truly bad one.
@TTRPGifs Heck yeah, I want a positive version. Like, “what’s your TTRPG opinion that will people carrying you in their shoulders, shouting your praises in the streets?”
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It is not a thing of personal choice or sacrifice. Do it and your betters get suspicious, your peers become enemies, and those below will jump on you. you ruining it for everyone.
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Fuck all these people, they have no interest in the art form. This is disgusting.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA.AHAHAHAHAHAHAH.AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA. I HAVE TOLD YOU ABOUT ENCLOSURES MAN.I TOLD YOU ABOUT ENCLOSURES. IT KEEPS HAPPENING.
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If I wrote this metaphor it would be called too forced and I would call myself a hack.
When I purchased Avatar Legends, I got the whole collector's edition thingy on Kickstarter with the beautiful obsidian dice and everything. One of my players yesterday made a roll (+passion!) and one of the dice fell on the ground and literally shattered 😭
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It is wild that it one week ago, a deedeefluencer and "one of the best storytellers in the world" really said "do not ever tell stories about slavery; instead tell this corporate owned loving tale of how some races are essentially evil, slavers are born like that, and also you.
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@Elamimaxima Weird relationship with masculinity and authority as an overcompensation mechanism which utterly drains and destroys her to maintain.
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Not a big fan of assuming stuff about people according to their birth, lmao.
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Perhaps a framework that measures the quality of a character creation system for a game by how it let's not ever interact with the game at all is not very useful for anyone outside the improv actual play scene.
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Finally someone saying it.
a novel that dares to ask the question: what if a Starbucks manifested in the world of “D&D” and every logistical problem were brushed away with “someone else does it off screen, ig”?. what if we wrote a Discworld novel but without any jokes, wit, or memorable characters?
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This is the indies fault somehown is a weird ending for the coverage of this
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I'm really sad at the lack of critical analysis and artistic development in this scene because everyone ignores the actual power of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and that it was the graal for a new era of pbta people always wanted and jumped on bitd thinking it was it.
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I often joke that the critic of this artform is at the level of "which polyhedrons are better" but come on!.
Call of Cthulhu’s d100 dice rolls offer far more roleplaying freedom than D&D’s d20.
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I love Tiberius, the binman of Ultramar, whose job is to clean bolter shells, never actually ever saw a xenos, and lives a comfortable life because he is getting a 20 Thrones stipend because he shares a name with a great uncle that served in the Guard and died in transit.
If Warhammer40k was real, 99.9% of Space Marine larpers would actually be that dude.
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Would you agree that if a mechanic in a ttrpg triggers less than 1% of the randomir, that mechanic does not exist in any meaningful way?.
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You hurting yourself by just accepting this worldview. Why would you do that to yourself?.
If you're in a ground hog day style time loop is it okay to do unethical things because you're not permanently hurting anyone?.
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Magneto is not the one setting the cost of the struggle in lives, nor what liberation demands. The UN did.
I owe Valerie an apology I wasn’t familiar with her game, the speech she gave to Magento got me so hyped. “Magneto was right” genuinely gave me chills this show is the best
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Let me fucking clear, and you know it costs me being this prescriptive. If whatever you are doing has you answer "Could I keep doing what I am doing if Hasbro vanished tomorrow" has any answer other than "No" what you are doing is wind and has no future.
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Skyler is hated by the public overwhelming due to misogyny, but also by the writers. She was set to be hated by being a character whose entire motivations were Stop The Premise Of The Show From Happening.
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What the fuck.
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I have a theory that editors have been the most affected part of the layoffs, since from LCI on every card with egregious rules text would be perfectly fine rewritten with 70% of the text, and every Ancient Grudge flavor text could be fine at 30% of words.
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So, jocat is an honorary trans woman, I see. After all, he got the Trans Woman Treatment Package from the internet.
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The most amusing thing is, because of its business practices benefitting from it, WotC really wants to believe that the appeal of DnD is Hasbro IP Glup Shittos.
The cast of the D&D cartoon grown up (from Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn adventure). Niko is a new character, "a Cleric from a different set of adventurers who recently tumbled into the D&D multiverse."
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@LilySimpson1312 I for once welcome the reduction of the sperm count in what we been eating.
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Here's my review: . It is a bad derivative game that is filled with Content to cover up the fact it is a barren copy of BitD that fails to understand what that game engine seeks to do and fails at either reproducing the show OR horror OR BitD.
DTRPG scrubbed all negative reviews of Candela Obscura from it's site? If DTRPG staff is willing to remove bad reviews from a game they like, then they are willing to remove good reviews from a game or adventure they don't. Namely "yours.".
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I get this man so hard. He's a sci fi freak, he has no fantasy bone in him, he did not want to do that shit, so when he did it it was just kitbashing some history and when he needed to do fantasy, he dropped references to sci fi media. An effort was made, but no love.
George R.R. Martin when asked if there’s one thing he’d change about his books . “If I could change one thing. I’d have them finished” . (Source:
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"Oh no, this is not Fallout canon". Kill the lore cop, slay the database-narrative. So they changed, who cares? It is not what makes it bad, just as rolling in the lore does not make it good. Bethesda has been for four games eating lore truffles and shitting turds.
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What 5e needed. More skills, a way to make the deedee more like the memes. Make the game even more resource starved and unfun mechanically lmao. Love to use my fighter one ability once every 8 hours.
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I just have to say, if your game is five years late and somehow has less material than the quickstart rules from five years ago, and you been working on the biggest projects of ttrpg and MTg and boardgames for the meantime, you probably deserve never getting another cent invested.
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There is nothing worthwhile to the artform in Daggerheart for me to even talk about.
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If your GM-required game has a GM but the only levers/things they can do is keep a ledger and read aloud text, this is just a game that requires a scapegoat for atrocious design.
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Nothing here is surprising if one looks at their apex of game design, the Radiant Citadel: Fantasy Israel that sends adventurer goons across the multiverse from behind the Diamond Dome to protect monarchs from uprisings or defending their borders from foreign incursions.
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It is hilarious that to make anyone not be communist, Vicky 3 had to nerf all dividends of government owned buildings to 25% and cut the productivity of anything public by half.
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Nothing makes me feel less interest in bringing a game to the table/finish reading it than flakeyness in *a ttrpg premise.* . You literally put it in the name, in the cover, in the marketing. Anyone that picked it, is impossible to not have buy in. And then. you go "or not".
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This is pretty on the nose, literal "Orcs are now allowed to do Queer Necropolitics" and join on the People's side of the camp-form.
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The OSR truly are the dumbpeople idea of being clever and they all drank their own cool aid and the dumber and more anti intelectual they are the most brilliant and erudite.
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A thing that fascinates me about "diceless" and others non randomizer games is something that very few people that design in that space are interested in is how the absence of randomizers means you can break down information into tiny algedonic signals, in real time.
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