Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It would be like MNDoT tearing them out on a county road. 000 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 14/10/2026And GMs did complain that their prep had gone to waste. So for the sake of social contract, the pressure grew to play along with what was planned. As APs grew in popularity, you weren’t just respecting the GM’s effort, you were respecting their financial investment. 010 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This was usually silly shenanigans rather than serious character plots, but they very often did create memorable stories. That heist adventure was never supposed to happen, the party just decided the quest giver NPC was a jerk and chose to rob him. 110 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This feels like a player culture swing that has out swung its original context. I remember back in the day the problem (which was common though I suspect perception outpaced reality) was players actively avoiding the plot. Now they were actively doing things, just not what the GM planned. 110 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Frankly the article tried to do too much. It touches on a bunch of reasons and misses several more. The one I was waiting to see but never did was the architectural changes in our homes over the past 50 years. We don’t build or design our homes with reception space in mind. 0100 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Don’t forget the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by renowned author :checks notes: Lewis Crarnins. 050 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026On average, our boy cats have been more outgoing than our girl cats. Around new people the boys tend to be friendlier while the girls tend to be more skittish. The bigger trait is the brown tabbies who regardless of gender love their chosen humans very deeply. Maybe too deeply. It’s worrying. 100 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Which overlaps with birth rate obsession. If you actually expect to put in labor and time on a per child basis, it makes sense to not want more kids than you can manage. If you don’t expect to do any managing, that is never a factor. 041 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Even then it serves as a galvanizing GOTV ad 110 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Inclined to agree but I’m curious what the cutoff size was. 000 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And in case you look at the total numbers and still want to freak out, I would remind you that the population of NYC is roughly equivalent to the entire state of Virginia, which (riding the same downward trend) finished last year at 378. 000 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Another element that comes up more often with small maps: if you make a ranged attack through an ally’s space, does the enemy gain cover? 010 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026All the ones that were thin and flat enough to resemble actual cookies got marked down. 030 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Still can’t do it. The chop is so bad. Happy to root for the winner of MIL/SD 110 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Any one of those you could reasonably believe was a good idea but a poorly written bill with a bunch of unintended consequences, but that many in a week and the only reasonable alternative to Newsom vetoed because he wanted to is the CA leg is uniquely bad at their jobs. 170 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty sure the freedoms of Philadelphia c1776 weren’t that great. IIRC we fought a whole war over it. 040 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The bell curve also pushes more rolls into the “close enough I have to do the whole math” zone. 000 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Reckoning my childhood memories of Bandana Square when the Children’s Museum was there with every other experience has been a lifelong challenge. 111 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Right, though that still means either a 1d3 cantrip or a weapon attack at half the BAB of a fighter while also presumably having worse stats for it, so there is still work to do to bring it up to par. 000 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It also prevents local chains from getting a foothold. The little muffin shop is bad because they’re also in Walnut Grove and San Mateo? 100 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This gives low-level players the freedom to choose situational or flavorful options rather than horde their precious resource on something generically useful. 100 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is the intent to retain bonus spells/day for high ability scores? If so, then my suggestion is less important: front load the spells harder (my gut says 4 at lvl 1) and then slow the additional progression accordingly so you end up at the same number at high levels. 110 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I believe you don’t lose them, you would just be casting them out of a 2nd level slot. 010 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The second is to make sure the available actions for a character who isn’t using their spell slots still feels like contributing. This can be magical like cantrips or thumping people with a quarter staff. It shouldn’t compete with a barbarian’s greataxe, but it shouldn’t feel like a wasted round. 110 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I prefer non-slot systems as well, but if you are going to do it, there are ways to address its shortcomings. The first is to curb the growth in slots so you don’t end up with 3 very different play experiences as you level: way too few slots, about right, and way too many. 100 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? 010 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Alright, here’s how I remember it. In the immediate aftermath there really was a broadly held desire for unity in the face of tragedy. But within a day, that desire was actively being subverted by those in power and turned toward jingoistic nationalism. 132 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Conversely the player base finds core options safer because those are the options they’ve spent the most time figuring out how to work with or around. 130 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 10/09/2026And yet those are usually the source of most janky power imbalances, since the designers have the least experience with how the player base will actually use it. 130 0
Reposted by Tapper Foul (he/him)Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026[in the loudest Portuguese accent possible]: We are so bacalhau. 616310 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It’s been tough but seeing even the incomplete sections a few blocks north you can tell how much better it’s going to be. And south of Front had so much pedestrian traffic already. 140 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If anything it’s a perfect setup for “double would put us right at capacity so we’d be looking to expand. That means the 10% increase we are actually talking about is well within current parameters.” 011 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Had to actually check a map when I heard this. 120 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It has been so successful that tourists are advised to avoid it because it’s too crowded. 000 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It would really need to be a cross view. The shots down the drag always look crowded regardless 010 0
Reposted by Tapper Foul (he/him)Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Minnesotans love our third spaces, we love our special events, we love our little treats, we love Doing Our Civic Duty, and we love anything we can claim is *distinctly Minnesotan* whether it is or not, and the MN State Fair is like the center of allllllllllll those Venn Diagram circles at once. 835759 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I feel that. So many of the actions you take are generic or shared and a lot of class abilities are just sticking them together more efficiently. I’d be happy with another 50% more generic actions if that’s the format. Dirty Trick should be a fully fleshed action and not just a skill fest 030 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I see the tension between how many cards you get per challenge and how much damage you deal as key. Also I like that every card is worth something. Even the 5 of diamonds that doesn’t match anything else in your hand is a tappable ability. 120 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A lot of people get real defensive when confronted with the truth that their personal tastes are not universal baseline. 080 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Specifically that it saw and addressed a bunch of the problems with 3.5 before enough of the fanbase was ready to admit there were problems with 3.5. 010 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 19/08/2026100%. If it was as easy to make 3pp as it had been under the OGL they would have switched and made content for the new, active edition. 110 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Waffles lose points for requiring unique appliances. I think that means poffertjes have to fall to #6. 020 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 16/08/2026After two decades in retail, there are few phrases that instill less confidence than “I know exactly what I want.” 011 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The GOP also had 3 competitive candidates in each of the two top races. That’s way more opportunity for people to find at least something to get hyped for. 010 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Then you have classes whose fantasy has shifted to reflect new sources and those whose design led to or was in response to unintended archetypes. Is a cleric a healbot, or CoDziilla? 000 0
Tapper Foul (he/him) @tapperfoul.bsky.social · 14/08/2026And that they have all shifted for a variety of reasons, like mechanical distinctions that cease to exist. When the sorcerer came out, 90% of what made it different from a wizard was spontaneous vs prepared casting, a distinction that meant nothing after that point. 110 0
