Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

"Your debit account has been overdrawn by $15! You will be subject to fees if you don't fix this before modif midnight"

Firstly, how do you expect me to pay a fee if I didn't have any money in the first place.

But secondly, how the heck am I supposed to get that money in before then???

The Ambassador's of Death is really a good example of why you shouldn't make a story that long – for example, there's a whole plotline where, after Liz is captured, she attempts an escape, only to be caught and re-captured just before she can get back to the Doctor.

And the story spends at least 5 minutes on these scenes, which do not progress the story at all – the situation at the end of the scenes is exactly the same as what it was at the start.

a 4 episode story is 1.5 hours total, which is a reasonable amount.

A 6 episode story is 2 hours and 24 minutes, so it's already longer than a feature film.

A 7 episode story is nearly 3 hours long.

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

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

merp!

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

meow!

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.

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

✨yay✨

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good morning~

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

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

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

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

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"