Kichae

There is no reason why specialist wages need to be eviscerated

Yes, there is. We pay specialists fuck-you money, and enable a rigid social hierarchy within a profession that exists to help others.

It's already questionable that GPs are underpaid. Overworked, sure, but they already make signidicantly more than the median income, and well above a living wage, in a society where many work twice as long and just as hard for peanuts.

As a society, we don't need to be enabling the structural narcisim of medical specialists with kingly wages. It's a social sickness.

If specialists want to out-earn the rest of us by a factor of 5 or more, maybe they should work 5 or more jobs.

All that balance does in a pen and paper game is provide predictability for the GM. "If I hit them with X, it will take Y to overcome it using A,B, and C". That only leads to homogenization if the GM doesn't do anything meaningful with that knowledge.

Way, way too many people view this shit as "demands from the designer" rather than "tools to use for your convenience," and I super don't get it. If you want some of the players to outshine others, you can predictably boost their power level if the game is balanced.

But I guess just flexing on friends is what many people really want out of the game.

We like them less and less by the year. The politicians keep breaking them, and more and more people are convinced it's because they're just inherently not good, not because they've been sabotaged.

Yes. You're being bombarded by electromagnetic radiation caused by the interaction of solar ions and the Earth's magnetic field as well as the excitation and de-excitation of atoms in the atmosphere from collisions with said ions.

That radiation has wavelengths primarily in the infrared and visible spectrum, with some ultraviolet radiation also being emitted.

So, you know, nothing you wouldn't experience just from being outside after 7am

They spent money to make money off of someone else's needs.

They can cry a second Lake Ontario.

I don't know, this doesn't sound very reflective to me at all. The poster is just making a lot of general statements about games it's not clear they've even played.

Every one of these games is as simple or as complicated as we want to make them. They can be pared down or beefed up at will. How much investment you need to make at the table is dictated more by who's sitting around it with you than what's printed in the book. And most of these games have much, much smaller books than 5e.

And the one that I play that doesn't, doesn't require any more investment than 5e if you don't want it to.

With less popular games, though, you tend to get more fanatical player bases. It may be harder as a lone player to find a chill table. But if your already chill table is trying to convince you to try something else...

Like, no one needs to play apologetics for 5e. It's the biggest TTRPG of all time. A case for it does not need to be made. The fans of every other game are just trying to sell their own interests to the largest known market for the genre, because they want people to play with, too. D&D does not need people to justify it in response.

The issue is they pay specialists grossly unreasonable wages, so thats where all the 2nd+ generation med students who have the best chamce at leaping over all of the arbitrary hurdles to med achool acceptance set their sights.

They did! Like last year? Maybe two years ago now (what even is time anymore?).

They weren't good.

You haven't voiced any. You've just dismissed a synthesis of a large number of theories and observations with naked incredulity.

If the shareholders can't capture all of the value for themselves, it's not going to catch on.

Choosing to miss the forest for the trees here, I see. Being pedantic only brings something to the table if someine doesn't know the details you're being a pedant over.

Everybody here knows that legislative bodies pass laws.

They want the power fantasy of everyone having to listen to them while never having to listen to anybody else