It’s a meta RPG. Basically, after you wrap your session of D&D, where the players raided a dungeon, killed all the kobolds and hauled up some loot, you start your session of Power Kill.
The players, as their new Power Kill identities, are gathered together in a group therapy session. There the DM, as the counsellor, walks them through the horrific series of crimes that resulted in their being institutionalized; how they - apparently in a delusional fugue state - entered an apartment building and moved from room to room slaughtering the occupants and looting any valuables they could find before leaving and attempting to sell most of their haul at a nearby pawn shop.
But don’t worry… We’re here to make you better.
Note: This also works with a tonne of other games; VtM, Cyberpunk Red, any superhero game, Call of Cthulhu, Unknown Armies… It’s completely system agnostic, but provides wildly different experiences depending on what you bolt it onto.
To be fair I know where my Mayor lives, he lives at East End Ave at 88th St :3
I read a good post a while back about how even though your classic d&d world looks like mediaeval Europe, it behaves much more like the wild west. Rephrase this post to “imagine you’re in the saloon and a group of armed cowboys roll in…” and suddenly it all makes sense again!
I’d call the Sword Coast more “Western Europe following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire if that happened a thousand years later than it did and it happened all at once because of magic and also it’s been 1800 years since then but for some reason no one’s centralized power beyond the city state level or improved military or magical technology and THEN an actual real God got killed and everything got fucked until it was decided that was dumb and a mistake let’s pretend it didn’t happen”
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Okay maybe the Wild West metaphor is simpler.
If I recall correctly, which I may not, isn’t that a salsa commercial? Like pace chunky salsa?
(I looked it up: yes it was)
Pace, thick and chunky vomit.
i mean it’s not great but it’s not terrible either. it’s a good entry into salsa for folk trying to venture out from bland white people cuisine. back in the early 90s when we couldn’t make our own from homegrown tomatoes we couldn’t really get better salsa where we lived.
dude you know how you have taste memories about really good meals and shit? you just gave me taste PTSD. So thanks and all.
remember how Strider and the rangers are regarded with fear and suspicion by the Breelanders at the Prancing Pony, mostly just because they come and go irregularly, are armed, and don’t openly discuss their business, which probably wouldn’t be understood even if they did? or how many people in the Shire, Rohan, and Gondor are wary of Gandalf, because he usually shows up when there’s trouble, not understanding the difference between causing trouble and trying to prevent it?
In blade in the dark, you declare how much gear you plan to bring, so the GM knows whether it’s normal guys with a backpack , or guys in tactical suit with bullet proof jacket and a rifle.
But in general, yes, the setting need to react to adventurer party. It’s not ordinary
I think open carry of weapons is common in most D&D settings.
I had the players go into one area where the bad guys had a magic mouth checking for weapons and foci. One clever bastard actually found all the material components inside that he needed to fuck everyone’s shit up.
I love that creative shit
You got a permit for that crossbow?
It’s the unfettered, solipsistic violence that’s the core issue, not as much which instruments the used for such. 😅🤓
I’ve done once a one-shot where players were a group of militia that was investigating a rogue d&d party wreaking havoc due to a long series of misunderstandings.
That said, fighting the party without any strategy was downright suicide because of how much difference was there with their levels, gear and abilities.
However, players here just would get a new militia character or villager as soon as they died.
counterpoint: imagine you’re in a pizza joint and someone walks in and leaves you a hundo and asks “hey, you know where i can get some tools to alter my consciousness?”
yeah i’m telling my manager you gave me 20 to hook you up with some drugs here’s the 20 and please give you some drugs
This should be a part of the new employee training for D&D players.
So You mean… Shadowrun
(Except its of course Stuffer Shack, and they might actually have some drones in the back)
I don’t get why people keep insisting on putting the D&D label on everything, even when it doesn’t apply at all. There’s so many other games out there
It’s a hypothetical scenario likening a ridiculous situation in the real world to player shenanigans in a fantasy game. Jacob is a d&d focused content creator, and d&d centered memes and skits are a huge part of his schtick and what his community is based around. He has videos encouraging people to check out other similar systems and how cool their different mechanics are, as well. He wasn’t saying to put drones and US dollar bills into your medieval fantasy game, lmao
So let’s use the keyword even if it is meaning less in order to get interest, focus, …
I get that DnD bashing is annoying. I’m tired too. But… could we start to try? Could his person with followers show then that DnD isn’t the Alpha and the Omega?
I mean, it is the alpha. D&d is the root of ttrpg. Didn’t have to be, there were other things that could have been. And it wasn’t the true first stage of that became ttrpg; it was built on other things.
But you gotta be realistic and admit that d&d as a “thing” is the single best known, most successful system out there. It is what it is.
It is the first commercial succes I would say.
Also DnD as a thing is the best known in the US. Check Das Schwarze Auge in Germany, or Cthulhu in Japan.
Finally, could we agree that even if we aren’t perfect and can improve… and agree quickly that “yeah, the DnD bit should have been TTRPG or <insert a nice game that people could be curious about>”? The person describes a Food Fight in a Stuffer Shack - a Shadowrun classi - and I have to argue that TTRPG would be a better fit than DnD?
His channel is in the screenshot. As I said in the comment you’re replying to, he has explored other TTRPGs on that channel, you can check it yourself. Personally I think he has a lot of great general GM advice and does a service by making this hobby seem fun and accessible.
Just because someone’s favorite TTRPG is d&d and they make content about it, does not mean they are wronging the broader TTRPG community. If your favorite system doesn’t get enough attention in your opinion, take the initiative to show others why it’s great rather than demanding someone else do it for you. No one is obligated to pander to you specifically.
Personally, I have a huge collection of RPGs and I enjoy a lot of indie titles more than the big names and I like to talk about them when the opportunity arises. Never had to bash anyone else or their favorite game to do it.
It reads like an intro for a Food Fight indeed.
Just sounds like an actual event from the US. The group is a bunch of MAGAs trying to kill the “libtard mayor”
Until the second part, I thought this was about ICE.
At least, in D&D the story’s shopkeep can just cap the idjits where they stand. Sorry, table. Roll up new ones. 🤌🏼
That just sounds like a Waffle House in Florida or something, except instead of $500, it’s drugs.
