...guillotines are antiquated and obsolescent; we have industrial shredders...
rhyme works in meter:
no rush for bush
now shush your tush
and pass the kush
...stateside police have been doing that for decades: if an officer or bystander are injured or killed due to police negligence during an operation, it's routine practice to charge the suspect, rationalisation being that it wouldn't have happened if law enforcement hadn't mobilised on account of whatever the suspect did to arouse their negligance...
...what many anti-fifth-edition positions miss is that it's not about learning a new system, it's about compatibility across a vast ecosystem of disparate settings and campaigns...
...fifth edition is by far the most-popular roleplaying game of all time, and if you want your starship to land in exandria, then hop through a planar gate over to quickstone before catching a lightning rail to innsmouth, where you join fantasy forest creatures and anime dragons fighting an armada of steam-mechs and undead pirates, fifth edition is ready to run that out-of-the-box today, tomorrow, or even repurposing last decade's campaign material, whether or not you realised at the time that you might want to do so...
...it's not about being the best system for any one genre or even mashing-up all genres, it's about unparalleled network effects, which includes breadth of material available, long-term development and support, and immediate accessibility...like it or not, fifth edition is the lingua franca of modern roleplaying and other contenders don't come anywhere close...
...if you love other game systems (and i certainly do), by all means play them!..but to disparage the unquestionable triumph fifth edition has wrought through organic community support i think misses the point...
...leader of a resistance cell fighting fascist occupation...
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myrrh
joined 2 years ago
...i realise it's a work of science fiction, but it lost me at eighth ward: that summary reeks of outsiders writing about communities they don't understand in vicarious performative sympathy...