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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

@danielpemberton.bsky.social my brother, you make magic. the score on project hail mary is transcendent. im sitting here listening to it and i can't help but smile. thank you.

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

does this matter? no not really. if you have 20 levels, or even 36, that’s probably gonna fill out and let you do anything regardless. but i think it’s good to remember that stuff isn’t entirely necessary for the progression

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

strangely, some of the games with the most longevity end up being ones like Traveller that just don’t have levels. when a lot of the progression ends up being stuff like equipment, retainers, and in-world power, the sky really is the limit

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Pato @patopq.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

just finished calamity. im OBSESSED #criticalrole #exucalamity

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I WANT THE PORN!! ITS AN ARTIST GONE FROM TWITTWR I CANT EBEN GOON ANYMORE

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

i hate when i get an idea and nobody has had similar ideas. like can i get a hand

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

i loveeee the feeling of having a part of the game finally come together

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

found a funny new type of person: “guy who is super insistent that the hobbit had no impact on dragons in modern fantasy”

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

when you think about it the superhero genre is basically just sword and sorcery

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

im addicted to downloading sourcebooks and supplements

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

is there any way to do spells that isn’t -4e-style powers -spell dice -roll to cast -vancian -spell points

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I gotta play Traveller one of these days.

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

if I’m bothering to adapt a system that much before playing it I’d rather just hack a different system, to be honest. even the full regular polyhedral set is a bit annoying for me tbh

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

my ranking will probably always be d6 > d20 > d10 > d12 > d8 > d4 because those top 3 are usable in so many cases and cover pretty much anything I could want. the d12 is great and the d8 is useful in a bunch of niche cases, while the d4 is barely shaped well enough to roll

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

my ideal system uses like 3 dice. the full polyhedral set just ain’t for me! it can and usually does work, but just as a matter of taste I don’t think it’s worth using more than a couple different types

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Dungeon Crawl Classics would be such a good system for me if not for the abundance of those weird fuckass dice

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I think something similar is used for Shadow of the Demon Lord! they use it for dis/advantage iirc, it’s very elegant and I think could be applied to more systems

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

unsure whether or not i should have armour and weapon restrictions. it mainly comes down to the fact i already have something to curb the use of heavier armours -- weight. heavy armour and a shield might take up half your inventory, so it's wise to pack a bit less. im just not sure if thats enough!

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

6 dice under this resolution method is a 91.22% chance of success. you could put the cutoff at 4-5 dice for an 80-86% chance but that’s really up to you

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’m becoming more and more of a fan of very limited skill lists — my current musings have 12 skills that everyone can use, plus a handful of others specific to Burglars, Jesters and Alchemists. it’s useful to have something to cover cases that a player can’t really roleplay!!

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

one thing I’m a bit surprised about is that nobody has suggested a resolution system like BitD for skill subsystems in OSR games. tweak the probabilities so you succeed on 5-6 and cap checks at 6 dice and I feel like that’s really robust? guess people aren’t looking at newer games as much perhaps!

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

for some reason I’ve been getting really drawn to the idea of dwarves as a eusocial species. like that just feels like it really fits them

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

only to exacerbate the problem the moment someone decides to loot the million gold value they hold 😭😭

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

why do the good dragons hoard wealth too. feels a bit shit

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

hey ttrpg people is two playable species out of a tentative 6 being connected directly to dragons too much or is that chill. they’re connected in very different ways and look different but it might still be too much

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

i think the law/chaos divide is leagues more interesting than the good/evil divide because either extreme can be really bad! extreme law results in totalitarian regimes and stagnancy, while extreme chaos is endless change and destruction. only trouble is saying it like that makes you seem a centrist

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

none of these are better or worse than any other in a blanket sense, they just serve different purposes, so you choose which is best for your game. neat!

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I think the thing that exemplifies this most is skill checks. OSR games range between not having them at all, or putting them on X-in-6, 2d6, turn undead table, d%, treating them like a save, or d20 roll under.

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

especially if they have slow mode just to stop it going that fast lol

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

contrasting this with something like 5e, the class structure and unified rolling mechanic make it significantly harder to do anything novel or unique well, ime. dark sun in 2e thrived in no small part because it was able to replace like all of the classes, something 5e just can’t do

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

the big draw points of the OSR as a whole for me are definitely its modularity and the sheer amount of stuff people have made for it over the years. if I need to do a particular thing, chances are someone else has made rules for it already, or it’s not gonna be hard to make something up.

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

my cutoff point is like, 300-400. beyond that you can’t actually make friends with anyone unless the whole thing is super inactive

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🌿sasha🌿 @sashthesloth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Nova and Avy Lavellan for blue-gold-silver on tumblr 🌟🌟 #commission

A half body fully shaded commissioned piece of two elven people who are back to back.

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

idk if i will ever understand why youd wanna be levelling beyond like, 10. 15 max. there's just no time to get beyond that at all!!!

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

by far my least favourite part of 5e culture is people trying to outgame the game and exploit rules

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

working in a grocery store is like this except seemingly every other department hates my department even though it’s really important

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

one of my favourite things about indie ttrpgs is that you can ask a question about a system and the creator will answer you personally, even if it’s about reasons people don’t like the system or some shit

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

cleared the final boss while using the new weapon and focusing on cast/attack. that shit is fucking insane actually

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

the bosses are a big step up from the first game, which already has some pretty good encounters. particularly the new boss and the boss of the 3rd region are some of my favourites in any game and I love that

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

after playing hades 2 for about 30 hours I really believe that it’s already almost as good as the first game. its biggest divergence is that it forces you to make use of your WHOLE toolkit to truly excel, and I think that’s good!

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

love that one person who tried to argue that modern and contemporary were the same thing when they are very much so not

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#crying before #work because i made the dumb mistake of listening to big thief and it got me right in the heart

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crab 𓅃 @bigcrab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

fey are a big example of this. i like a lot of parts of them but it feels like it comes with *so* much baggage that i don't really want to be calling anything "fey" in my world even if they share a lot of traits

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