Catching up, this is a great one. Both characters that know when to fold and those that will die for their ideals or something else are super interesting. I just finished rewatching 0083: Stardust Memory and there are characters on all isles of this discussion, really good watch.
@ShadmehR_23Күн бұрын
Im totally not agree with your reasons.. but the subject im 100% on same page. as a male, i don't and i can't play as a female cuz i can't understand them their motivation, feelings, things they do.. and i should not have to understand.. cuz im a man.. I don't like teenager characters either.. mostly i go with broken protagonists, troubled ones. and in rpg specially, i want him to be exactly like myself, my friends say you never play a role how your favorite genre is role-playing then? and i always say im playing myself.. i want to see what happens to me if i were there, in that universe or are my motifs really pure?? im a good or bad person in eyes of ppl?? im a hero or a villain afterall?? and that really helped me become better version of myself and stay true, no matter the consequences..
@Squirrel-HermitКүн бұрын
Good stuff...even the stumble through character creation...
@reactionaryprinciplegamingКүн бұрын
Thank you. I'm excited to play the game, but I'll have to do something for those characters.
@EteraRPG4 күн бұрын
The one I miss has Joker Shonner? dang it
@FiLtheThriL4 күн бұрын
Joker has some wild ideas
@yasureyabetcha7 күн бұрын
I agree, it's weird that guys play girl characters. Creepy and predatory and says a lot about them tbh.
@FiLtheThriL10 күн бұрын
Great tool man. Was super unobtrusive in our game.
@JustinThorLPs11 күн бұрын
The episode doesn't get started until the 3:34:25 mark. LOL
@JustinThorLPs11 күн бұрын
Oh, that's hilarious. I have a Louis Rossman video open on another tab.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming10 күн бұрын
It's a weird thing that we went there. Fun game nonetheless.
@SuperDuperSigmaMale11 күн бұрын
132 likes, 182 comments, the degens have done what they do best, mob and echo chamber.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming10 күн бұрын
To be fair, nearly half those comments must be me replying to those criticals. Engagement is engagement!
@Tablerunner12 күн бұрын
I can imagine a lot of useful things this utility could do for online games. Thanks for sharing it Max.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming10 күн бұрын
I hope it will be useful to some. We used it in the game last night and it was convenient.
@DareToWonder15 күн бұрын
holy moly my dad also got into pokemon tcg when he saw me playing it, he did ratios for evolution cards and all that
@DareToWonder15 күн бұрын
cats are quite smart. also i think Basalt was a creator god in Egyptian mythology.
@DareToWonder15 күн бұрын
women soldiers isn't that weird honestly. they make better soldiers because they are good at following orders. which is 99% of what you do in the army. obviously they don't make for good infantry men (women?) due to obvious reasons.
@solmyr4217 күн бұрын
Great conversation. Would certainly like to watch you guys do an in-character / 4D cross-over game at some point. Would be very interesting to see how the styles combine at this point. And even wilder, if leaders of each community could play well together, then the rest of us might be inspired to try the same thing!
@reactionaryprinciplegaming10 күн бұрын
I hope this will happen. Maybe we'll find some time for it this winter.
@SHONNER18 күн бұрын
2:31:00 I write in Comic font all upper case.
@pedroribeiro792220 күн бұрын
I've learned that the best way to do horror is to treat the "unnatural" in the same way you describe everything else to the players; as soon as we start "amping" up the descriptions of something unsettling we end up warning the players that some degree of horror is coming up. As a species we rely a lot on pattern recognition and any violation of normal patterns sets us off. That kind of uncertainty is way more unsettling than any rattle of chains or ghostly moans. To give an example: it's 6am, and after the player describes his character entering a room, you the Gm say "It's a living room, it's dark and in the corner on the right there is a woman with dark hair staring at you." Soon as the player describes any action they take, "She turns to her right and walks through the wall." Same with unnaturally displaced objects, always do it casually.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming20 күн бұрын
Very good point. Pinned.
@pedroribeiro792219 күн бұрын
@@reactionaryprinciplegaming Thank you.
@xarisgames21 күн бұрын
even for the green cases its best to use the PC's name
@reactionaryprinciplegaming10 күн бұрын
100%, especially when playing online.
@xarisgames21 күн бұрын
you need to describe things in a sensual way (to have to do with the senses). instead of saying, "you smell the thrash, it stinks" say "flies circle the black bag, a glossy liquid pours from its corner".
@xarisgames21 күн бұрын
the worst use of you... "and remember the number one rule is for YOU to have fun" YIKEs,
@xarisgames21 күн бұрын
instead of "you would know" i like to do flashback scenes to moments in the characters experience where he encountered something similar or him reading about it. i told you that for one adventure the characters stumble upon the journal of an archaeologist and read it and when ever they encounter something related to it we flashback to the reading bit. works much better i find.
@xarisgames21 күн бұрын
when writting a screenplay and saying that the character moves or stands is called blocking and its a no-no
@Yekrep22 күн бұрын
Another way to think about this is to say that anything that is private to the character (their subjective experience) or under their volitional control should not be described by the GM.
@SHONNER22 күн бұрын
Basically, the GM doesn't talk in 2nd-person is all.
@Yekrep22 күн бұрын
@SHONNER you still need 2nd person, especially as an object. The goblin bonks you in the head. Your blood starts running down your face. You wake up in a hospital. Etc.
@SHONNER21 күн бұрын
@@Yekrep As an object, true. Is that 2nd-person though? You wake is. I'd skip using that one.
@Yekrep21 күн бұрын
@@SHONNER ya, "you" is always 2nd person
@SHONNER21 күн бұрын
@@Yekrep 99% of GMs say you. Because they are roleplaying the PCs. In those "games", players should be able to roleplay the NPCs as well.
@Yekrep22 күн бұрын
Great video. Green: - beginning of session - as an object Yellow: - time skips - sensations - knowledge Red: - actions - emotions - thoughts
@mercuriusaulicus22 күн бұрын
I'm colour-blind so what I assume are the yellow and green look the same to me.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming22 күн бұрын
Oh, sorry I didn't think of colour-blind people. The colours are in order, from top to bottom, green, yellow, red. They have a white frame around them.
@Tablerunner22 күн бұрын
Great explanation Max. I find that there is not much distance between the overuse of "you" and falling into taking near complete control of all PCs. This isn't easy, but I think it is worth training away from too much second person narration.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming22 күн бұрын
It is certainly a slippery slope.
@Jimalcoatl22 күн бұрын
This is good for both GMs and players to be aware of, especially new players who may not know how the game should be run and may not stand up for their agency as a player.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming22 күн бұрын
That's a very good point. Pinned.
@strawpiglet22 күн бұрын
What’s wrong with sexy?
@reactionaryprinciplegaming22 күн бұрын
You got it.
@xarisgames23 күн бұрын
yeah i need a better microphone
@FrankJapsonАй бұрын
Lot's of cool ideas, but too many of them really clutter the game beyond belief.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming29 күн бұрын
Yes, I have a companion video to this one called "the Roasted Wheel", where I give my critics of the game.
@xarisgamesАй бұрын
this remind me of the biblical Joseph, Bearer of the Dream.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming22 күн бұрын
I need to go back to this stream and clip some good parts.
@xarisgamesАй бұрын
when the scene culminates to the point of action i just describe the situation and ask the players what they want to do, after a while they take initiative on their own
@grimdarkAngelАй бұрын
I came looking for a video like this because I'm about to run a Transformers ttrpg and one of my players is a man and he wants to play a female cybertronian. Whenever I GM a ttrpg I always restrict players from making a character of the opposite gender.
@reactionaryprinciplegamingАй бұрын
I hope the video helped you in some sense.
@TwistedViewerАй бұрын
Lol imagine being insecure as hell and then making fun of people that are not insecure like you. Oh! You don't need to imagine because you're actually doing it!
@JimalcoatlАй бұрын
Love the intro. Gygax was pretty damned sexy.
@JimalcoatlАй бұрын
Marvel Universe, a primarily RNG free RPG, used bag draw on the rare occasion rng was needed. Old D&D bix sets also had bag draw dice emulators for people who couldn't get polyhedral dice.
@JimalcoatlАй бұрын
The clear answer is octagons 😜. Or just use abstract movement or use measuring sticks and lose the grid entirely.
@reactionaryprinciplegamingАй бұрын
I made a video about that as well.
@Sinekyre14Ай бұрын
Where can I watch your games?
@reactionaryprinciplegamingАй бұрын
They can be found on each of our channel (we usually multistream). If you look here for "Roleplaying in the 4th Dimension", you'll find them.
@lemonice7536Ай бұрын
Just bought this, and I annotated the first 75 pages. My main games have been Mörk/Cy_Borg and Cyberpunk Red and Burning Wheel was written in a combative ponderous way as if its creators were moonlighting their disdain for any readers of the work. I would enjoy a lot of the mechanics. I think they seem fun, but the terminology was so obtuse, and having reference charts slows that game so much. I like the game mechanics enough to see it through another session, but I feel the book needs both rule simplification and reformatting because having the middle of the book lists is just annoying.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming22 күн бұрын
There is a game called "Streets of Perils" that seems to take a lot of the good mechanics from Burning Wheel and cut the needless bloat. I have it here but I haven't looked too much into it. Eventually, I will make a video about it.
@FoxyGamerLxАй бұрын
When I play as a character in a videogame, personally, I am not trying to immerse in the character, so let's say i'm playing a mario game, I look at the screen and think "That's mario, the plumber", I don't feel like a plumber when playing mario. The same way, in games with female and male characters I play the character i find most fun, regardless if it's a man or woman
@reactionaryprinciplegamingАй бұрын
You should try to immerse in your character in RPGs.
@mcnaughty5387Ай бұрын
You're a waste of space.
@Sinekyre142 ай бұрын
Love that some more based people play TTRPGs
@reactionaryprinciplegamingАй бұрын
I try to do my part.
@JustinThorLPs2 ай бұрын
The only problem I have with Harmony Ginger is that she is not a ginger by definition, she is a redhead. Gingers are soulless creatures who are male with red hair. This one is for you Mr Max.
@arista_owo2 ай бұрын
Men play girls so much its weird to be a woman playing the game on a female character. Like i am playing my first mmo game and definitely didnt expect these interactions. To use my real name as my family name and still be address as a man because men use female names is just 🤨🤨
@batachyah115325 күн бұрын
I never understood why men do that, as a boy I always played as male character I thought was powerful and strong because that's that's I wanted to be and embodied as that mentally I think it's a problem honestly with most men that play as women
@arista_owo25 күн бұрын
@@batachyah1153 i think its a beta male mentality to play as a female main. Because from the female perspective the only females that main a male are either tomboys or broken entirely lesbian.
@reactionaryprinciplegaming22 күн бұрын
I wonder if there is a correlation between wanting to roleplay as a female character (while being a man) and being raised in a fatherless home. Someone should look into that.
@muwop05034 күн бұрын
@@arista_owopretty sure most men who play as female characters just dont wanna look at a man the whole time
@arista_owo4 күн бұрын
@@muwop0503 thats a weird reason.. who sits there staring at their character? You have things to do in the game.
@Tablerunner2 ай бұрын
I'm not terribly concerned if all the NPCs in the world have connections with each other. What is important to me is that NPCs have motivations, relationships (friends and enemies), and secrets. They don't have to all be in love triangles with each other.
@Derhone2 ай бұрын
Absolutely right When I was depressed, I always choose female characters in any videogames if I can, after when I stepped forward, moved from the depression I just realised how weird that was
@JustinThorLPs2 ай бұрын
I really like it, but I think it would be nice if there was a option to type a number in as well as select from the prefixes.
@JustinThorLPs2 ай бұрын
And if you could put the +/- displayed on the card as well, that might be useful. Maybe a toggle switch for that next to the button for +/-.
@JustinThorLPs2 ай бұрын
I mean, like there could be a marked difference between -3, 3, & + 3 for example
@reactionaryprinciplegaming2 ай бұрын
I thought about that, but I made the design decision not to, to keep the tool simple and unobtrusive. If I had more features, people will be tempted to use it for too much, and it will get in the way once again.
@JamesDBacon2 ай бұрын
Slick tool! I liked the visual, as an audience member. As a player, this would likely be extremely useful.