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Doctor Who | Season 7 

Also: I don't understand why the stories are 7 episodes instead of 6.

A 6 episode format would aleviate at least some of the pacing problems

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Doctor Who | Season 7 

I'm 3 stories in to season 7, and while I really like Petwee's Doctor, and the Brigadier, and liz shaw, and the concepts behind the stories...

they're really way too long and slow paced.

Spearhead from Space was great, but both The Silurians and The Ambassadors of Death are 7 episode stories that really should only be 4 episodes.

It took until Season 12 for them to realise that 4 episode stories worked much better

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doctor who, partner mention 

Lottie and i are watching doctor who and she keeps naming famous actors that I don't recognise

php is great because it's a statically-typed language with types less expressive than pre-generics java and that lets invalid code run because it doesn't actually do static type checking at all

Deadlands Classic character sheet 

So the official Deadlands Classic character sheet is a complete mess.

So I'm redesigning it. Here's my work in progress!

First 2 images are the official character sheet, the second 2 are mine.

financial problems, req for help 

quickly approaching 2 months no income (aside from donations which have helped me stay afloat so far)

I'm quickly approaching the point where I'll need to fundraise for being able to continue driving (necessary for finding jobs among other things) for another month if I cannot find a job by sometime next month.

So... i actually don't know what else to say, but please help if you can.

paypal.me/azushark

I'm also considering a paypal pool instead of this...

and we're back, after 24 hours of having no internet connection

✨yay✨

💫 Classic Doctor Who 💫
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Check out my guide!

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Now with recommendations for all the first and second doctor stories!

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discord, warning about misinformation 

Some disclaimers I wanted in my original toot but ran out of characters:

‣ I'm not a lawyer. Don't take my advice assuming I'm an expert (but likewise don't do the same for the other advice floating around!)
‣ I'm not in the US, so the US legal system is not something I'm familiar with in any intimate way
‣ Read the Terms carefully. Come to your own conclusion. Or better: find someone who does actually know what they're talking about for legal advice

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Deadlands, sexism 

so now* I choose:

‣ The newer version of the game with better rules
‣ The older version of the game which doesn't constantly feel like it's trying to exclude women

*where "now" is "sometime between now and when I decide to play it

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"So, um," the knight said, "aren't you going to invite me in to see your hoard?"
"Ah..." the dragon said. "I don't think it... is for you."
"Nonsense, I love seeing hoards. What are you hoarding?"
The dragon cleared its throat. "Knights."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Deadlands, sexism 

hang on.... I'm looking through the Deadlands classic rulebook, and in that one they use she half of the time.

What the heck??

Why did they remove feminine pronouns from the second version of the game???

Especially since a lot of the actual fluff text is exactly the same as it was before

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Deadlands, sexism 

also the example that I just read was like:

"if you take this Edge at character creation, you have a deformaty and get a -2 to your charisma. We know it's unfair, but a female with this edge can choose if their deformity is unsettling (-2 charisma) or exotic (+2 charisma)"

Which is just.... so gross

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Deadlands, sexism 

Every time I read bits of the Deadlands: Reloaded rulebook, I get really inspired and I really want to run a game of it.

And then I get frustrated at the fact that the rule book assumes that every player, and also every CHARACTER is a man.

There's no gender neutral language. It's "when your character does X, he gets Y" all throughout the 290 pages.

The only exception is when a rule depends on gender, and then usually it says "a female gets Y"

discord, warning about misinformation 

There's a warning going around about Discord removing your right to sue, and recommends you opt out of their new thing

But the short version of the new thing is: You can still sue, but you have to tell Discord first so that they can try to resolve it before actually involving the legal system, and if it DOES end up in arbitration, Discord will actually pay the fee.

If you're considering opting out, please read the "Dispute Resolution" section very carefully

anxious, story games 

I think the worst part of this is that so much advice online is not only advice for D&D GMs (which doesn't apply to the games I'm going to be running at all), but is also just not good advice outside of a very specific context

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