Oh, yeah that’s true.

I’d also add Balatro and Terraria to that list.

Fluency in spanish doesn’t help with french in my experience. While both might be romance languages, french pronounciation makes it so that in conversation words are really, really hard to translate without prior knowledge on some words, at least for me. My first language is spanish, for reference. Portuguese and italian are a 50/50 depending on the accent.

And, although not as thoroughly fleshed out as Ready or Not, and not multiplayer, Black One : Blood Brothers looks interesting enough to follow. It’s basically the bones of the first Ghost Recon with modern assets. I’ve not played it yet but it’s in my library.

Prepping for a few shot in Savage Worlds I’ll be DMing, and porting my homebrew I did for 5e to Savage Worlds. Just a better system, really.

Apart from that, some CK3, Rimworld, Rogue Trader, and Squad.

Either Punk’s Dead by Soft Play or I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying by English Teacher

How modern? Because there’s lots of artist from the late XXth who had interesting and recognizable styles that are hard to replicate, both in style and vibe. Moebius (Jean Giraud) comes to mind. It is deceptively simple, but to replicate it you need to have a solid grasp on character design, stipple shading and crosshatching, color theory, and composition. It’s not traditional comic-book style, and you cannot approach it with that mindset and expect a good outcome.

Current artists, I suppose the artists behind Valorant’s art? There’s a lot of decision making when it comes to how much detail to include, since its very stylized. But I’d argue it’s not as hard a style to replicate as Moebius’. Bartosz Kosowski also comes to mind. He’s really, really good at depicting things in his style, and you’d need a solid grasp at anatomy and faces to replicate it.

5e tools, that’ll help you with mechanics and items. If you want the books, DM me and I’ll throw you a link to my drive where I got some of em stored, including the newest phb.

Though, you said she wanted something more modern. Maybe try CBR + PNK? The gist of it is, it’s the character’s last job. The character sheet fits on a pamphlet. If you want something a bit more detailed but still with ample room for mechanics, I’m reading through Savage Worlds and it looks superior to 5e in regards of speed of combat and roleplayability. Plus, there’s loads of third party content to make the system fit pretty much any setting, including weird west (Deadlands), cyberpunk (there’s a bunch of them), superheroes (i think it was called Capes, but I might be wrong), to fantasy (Paizo made a Pathfinder port to Savage Worlds).

As someone who just recently (1yr) started DM’ing, go for something simple. Don’t drown yourself in options. And try not to homebrew too much. Go for a one-shot, but feel free to stretch it out to two or three sessions. You need any help, my DM’s are open. 5e isn’t as simple as some people say due to mistakes done by WotC and you need some elbow grease to buff it out as a DM.

It might be a situation similar to that of diamonds irl. They’re not terribly uncommon, especially not uncommon enough to warrant the exhorbitant prices they supposedly cost (as in, a blood diamond, not a lab one), and new diamonds are added every day to the economy, but prices are kept high.

I’m imagining a bunch of superstores on a zoom meeting fixing prices across the region. hm, I might have a plot for a campaign.

Very disappointing, but expected. Can’t trust liberals not to fuck up.

Prepping, still, for a DnD campaign. Pulling all the stops, with music (ripped from Cyberpunk 2077 and looped), art (done by me), branching narratives when my players do something unexpected, custom homebrew mechanics (it’s cyberpunk red ported into 5e, so as best as it can be ported), etc. I really want to start it soon but I have to migrate all the stuff I had made on a foundry server to my computer, and that’ll take time since I’m cleaning it up as I go.

Apart from that, killing bugs and heretics on Space Marine 2, killing bugs and heretics on Rimworld, and killing imperialists and fascists on Squad.

Not even close enough if you have a mind for detail. I’m running a weird campaign rn (cyberpunk red ported to 5e) and I really want to nail the visual vibe of things, somewhere close to Jean Giraud. AI can’t do perspective for tokens to save its skin, and cannot keep a style consistent no matter how you try.

Ended up having my players do their characters on heroforge, sending me a screenshot, and then me tracing over it and putting my spin on it. More work for me, but I just can’t get what I want from AI.

Not much, honestly. One night this year, my friends and I planned on going to a bar to welcome back a buddy who we hadn’t seen in a long time. Something happened, can’t remember what, and we had to go to someone’s place instead to celebrate.

Later in the evening we saw on the news that the bar had been shot up, and plenty were dead. Bar was shut down soon after. It had a good crowd, wasn’t too noisy, the food wasn’t that bad, and prices were cheaper than other places in the city. My guess is that it was a money laundering scheme and someone would benefit from having it being shut down, because I didn’t hear anything about anyone important being there at the moment as if to imply it was a hit.

Lucky us.

Fallout : London, Rimworld, Crusader Kings 3, Squad, and I’m prepping a cyberpunk red homebrew in 5e (yes, I know it would be better to just play cyberpunk red).

Depends. I’m aware of the difference, but how much I care about it depends entirely on how much I like the hobby or tech. If it’s food, PCs, and clothes (as in, no cheap materials that won’t last a year) I care and will go beyond reasonable expectations to ensure that whatever I buy or cook is the best within reason. Anything else, as long as it works.

I don’t have the energy for more than that.

That, and most people don’t know how to disable the device from their device manager.

Isn’t San Pellegrino Nestle?

Ig the worldbuilding for my custom 5e setting counts? It’s sort of a continuation of the forgotten realms, with a heavy dose of Warhammer 40K and Doom thrown in. The world of Toril was shattered, and the fragments frozen in place by a divine sacrifice, leaving each landmass cluster within reach of one another (within Voidships).

The government in question was the Dwarf Assembly. It’s a loose confederation of citadels within these clusters. Each one dedicated itself to one trade (for example, mining clusters, smithing clusters, etc.), with each trade being led by the oldest dwarf. Assembly-wide decisions are made with the agreement of all clusters.

Tensions rise within each cluster whenever a problem cannot be solved by tradition, with older dwarves being quite proud and reticent to veer away from it. Tensions rise within the Assembly whenever a younger elder is introduced, being seen as inexperienced.

It’s not meant to be perfect, I wanted it to be a source of dramatic tension whenever the party ever stepped foot on dwarven soil. I also really like the mental image of dwarves with ushankas.

Not untrue, but it helps to look for niche stuff, and learn to look past graphics.

Hm, have studies been made on this cipher related to dyslexia? I’m not dyslexic but I’ve been reading into it lately (looking to get into UI/UX) and this seems like maybe it could be useful.