it’s so scary talking to fallout fans irl bc i’ve been playing in the “the East Coast Brotherhood are technofuedalist warmongers who are objectively bad for most of the people they subject” space for so long that i forget that the general consensus on the BoS for normal people falls between “flawed but well-meaning” and “haha cool armor” and everyone’s looking at me like
There’s an evil twin to “has only ever played Dungeons & Dragons and thinks all tabletop RPGs are as complicated as Dungeons & Dragons” that lives somewhere in the vicinity of “went straight from Dungeons & Dragons to rules-light storygames and thinks Dungeons & Dragons represents the high end of tabletop RPG complexity”. Like, buddy, you have no idea.
Every time I make a joke about some unreasonably baroque bit of tabletop RPG rules tech and some chucklefuck in the notes is like “OP, you can just say D&D”, they should be legally required to conduct a cover-to-cover reading of Shadowrun 3rd Edition. There will be a test.
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” – G.M. Gilbert
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