I finally bought it this summer when it went on sale, and I already am on my 7th playthrough. I think I’m somewhere around 750 hrs of playtime already.

Edit: oof, that’s a lot for 3 1/2 months

I can't even make a character without consulting three different rule books to optimize for role play.

God, it might just be the autism, but before my first ever session I learned so much about the rules I was helping the gm remember them in the session. I can't imagine going in to it, much less continuing to play, without having a firm grasp of at least the basic rules of encounters and skill checks

you don't skim the book before your first session!?

I hate the 21st century.

This is really how it feels
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Man that hurt to read

I used to teach programming to young kids (like 8-12) as a summer job and never had a single kid complain about the difficulty or fail to learn. This was about a decade ago.

I recently tried teaching my cousin (9) using the same curriculum and it was nearly impossible. He didn't know how to turn his computer on or off and he didn't know what a file was or what "text" means. I basically had to root his Chromebook to install a competent text editor on it. Then every time the "computer" booted it said something like "press G to revert" in huge text for like a minute straight and I told him never to press it. Took like 2 hours to put the computer in a state where you could code on it, and next session after that it was reset. I was like "what happened to the computer?" and he said "it said to press G so I did"

Kids are fucked bro. I blame Google, Apple, and Microsoft for intentionally designing their software to prevent you from learning how computers work or how to use them. They don't want you developing any transferrable skills whatsoever. You used to learn all about computers just by using them and it was impossible not to...

I mean, people have different paths of entry into programming, lots of them started by making mods for their favorite game. And Lua is a great lightning-fast language with minimal footprint, excellent for interactive use-cases, that folks keep dismissing for no good reason.

There's a whole game studio here that just makes games and mods for Roblox. It really is kind of the example in the OP.

I started with https://scratch.mit.edu/ as a kid and moved onto C after that

✨ brand awareness ✨

Im pretty sure that's the reason why. My group started on d&d because it's the default and so has a lot of resources available starting out for players and gms alike. We don't do d&d anymore and migrated to other systems after ending the campaign.

I like Risus, its GM guide is 4 pages long and it's played with plain ol' d6's

He's a strategy: get a copy of Microscope by Ben Robbins, and tell them you're going to use it to create the world/setting for your next campaign (this is something many people do). Once they've played, ask them to do a stars and wishes, see what they say (I would be extremely surprised if they don't love it).

Then point out that Microscope is a ttrpg, just a wildly different one to D&D, and that there are thousands of other games that do weird and interesting things with mechanics that most trad games can't even dream of doing (e.g. some examples: Everyone is John, Ten Candles, Fiasco, Wanderhome, We Are But Worms).

Viditya Voleti's A Land Once Magic is another good option that you can do this with, and it's a bit quicker and easier than Microscope.

I've been actively trying to get a group together in person for some World of Darkness for at least 5 years.

I’m convinced!

Only War had the party's imperial guard regiment as a full on 'character' that they made together, complete with stats and traits. Really cool system.

All rts are Dune.

But yeah. Or how anything hack and slash is now “Souls like”

That would legitimately slap. Sadly, I feel like any company big enough to do the concept justice would be too risk-averse unless a big IP is attached.

DC or marvel would ruin it, but smaller properties could pull it off. I'd play the fuck out of a BG3 style game set in Worm.

Maybe a little https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Force_%282002_video_game%29

If you've beaten the game odds are your characters effectively were super heroes.

Check out the video game Freedom Force. It was such a great BG3 but superheros type game

Thats rough. Pathfinder is my go to for dnd.

I played so much VtM and werewolf in high school and college. It was way better than 3.5. I even liked playing a human mortal vs vampires. Tricky to do it right, but I could hold my own

It’s not your fault. It’s an incredibly bad metaphor.

U wot m8?

palladium for the win!

ooh, or gurps!

Well, you can always GM, too. :)

Whenever I want to play, I reintroduce my friends/family to Savage Worlds hahaha. They enjoy that I can set them up with pregens and just tell them what to roll for cinematic fun stuff pretty quick.

But also very few of them were particularly dedicated to DnD.

TennisForTwo-Likes

Shadowrun player spotted. :D

Slides in with an Eclipse Phase recommendation...

fallout 4 my beloved ❤️ whos your favorite companion? mine is piper 😍

Is this something like a nuclear Kenshi?

Lol toons... Seemed like a great idea right after Who Framed Rodger Rabbit came out. Tried a few games, not my bag but interesting, fun character design.

Though, thinking of Steve Jackson games, Car Wars was a ton of fun, but I have not tried the remake.

What they are on is that for some unknown reason people seem to rather try and shoehorn the D&D ruleset, regardless of how frustrating and hopeless the endeavor is, in order to run a campaign that would be better off just learning a new ruleset that isn't D&D.