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.

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..

Good stuff...even the stumble through character creation...

The one I miss has Joker Shonner? dang it

I agree, it's weird that guys play girl characters. Creepy and predatory and says a lot about them tbh.

Great tool man. Was super unobtrusive in our game.

The episode doesn't get started until the 3:34:25 mark. LOL

Oh, that's hilarious. I have a Louis Rossman video open on another tab.

132 likes, 182 comments, the degens have done what they do best, mob and echo chamber.

I can imagine a lot of useful things this utility could do for online games. Thanks for sharing it Max.

holy moly my dad also got into pokemon tcg when he saw me playing it, he did ratios for evolution cards and all that

cats are quite smart. also i think Basalt was a creator god in Egyptian mythology.

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.

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!

2:31:00 I write in Comic font all upper case.

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.

even for the green cases its best to use the PC's name

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".

the worst use of you... "and remember the number one rule is for YOU to have fun" YIKEs,

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.

when writting a screenplay and saying that the character moves or stands is called blocking and its a no-no

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.

Great video. Green: - beginning of session - as an object Yellow: - time skips - sensations - knowledge Red: - actions - emotions - thoughts

I'm colour-blind so what I assume are the yellow and green look the same to me.

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.

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.

What’s wrong with sexy?

yeah i need a better microphone

Lot's of cool ideas, but too many of them really clutter the game beyond belief.

this remind me of the biblical Joseph, Bearer of the Dream.

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

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.

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!

Love the intro. Gygax was pretty damned sexy.

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.

The clear answer is octagons 😜. Or just use abstract movement or use measuring sticks and lose the grid entirely.

Where can I watch your games?

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.

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

You're a waste of space.

Love that some more based people play TTRPGs

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.

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 🤨🤨

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.

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

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.

Slick tool! I liked the visual, as an audience member. As a player, this would likely be extremely useful.