They'll do anything except my beloved Medieval 3.
Still the most glorious piece of homebrew I've ever laid my eyes on.
Still haven't been able to play it because life is a bitch.
Maybe you're thinking of Xbox All-access, which allowed users to buy Xbox + Game Pass Ultimate and pay them all over one year (or three, can't remember).
I once tried to read F.A.T.A.L.'s rulebook. Not because I wanted to play it, of course. I just thought it would be fun.
I was wrong. It was fun for, like, ten seconds. When literally the first page of the book throws you into a scenario where you have three or four different reasons to have sex/sexually assault a woman, the book loses its charm pretty fast.
It then quickly spirals into a gross, demeaning, disgusting pile of misogyny, gore and ignorance, all in the name of "historical accuracy", hiding their distasteful opinions behind "prominent philosophers" and hand-picked statistics.
I applaud anyone who is able to read more than ten pages of that abomination and survive long enough to write a review. Had I continued reading past that point, my brain would have liquefied.
From the source:
Hulst is CEO of the newly named Studio Business Group, which includes all of PlayStation’s first-party teams, plus covers the development of PlayStation IP onto other mediums, such as TV and film. Hulst was already head of PlayStation Studios. He was previously the co-founder of Horizon and Killzone developer Guerrilla Games, which was acquired by Sony in 2005.
Hideaki Nishino will lead the Platform Business Group, which includes console hardware, technology, accessories, PlayStation Network and third-party relations (covering major publishers and indie studios). He was already SVP of Platform Experiences. He’s been part of the Sony business since 2006, holding numerous roles at Sony Network Entertainment, Sony Corporation and SIE.
Sequels are made when creators don't have faith in new ideas and want to attract customers using existing IPs. This is especially true for sequels to stories that are already complete: there was no need for a sequel, they are just making it because the IP is popular.
Exceptions to the rule exist (Toy Story 2) but I wouldn't hold my breath. Looking at the list of upcoming Disney/Pixar movies and seeing just a bunch of sequels (Inside Out 2, Zootopia 2, Frozen 3) just speaks of corporates choosing the "safe" route of betting on popular pre-existing IPs instead of new stories and original settings.
Non-european settings are always nice to see. Heck, I'm European and I'm tired of how little variation there is in fantasy. It's always a copy-paste of tired tropes and familiar landscapes. People should be allowed to go nuts with their fantasy setting.
Best of luck with your project!
SE releases have been all over the place recently. Sometimes it's PS exclusives, sometimes Nintendo exclusives, sometimes console exclusives, sometimes they release on PS and Nintendo but not Xbox...
I was an XOne user a few years back and it was exhausting. PC side it's a bit better, except that their flagship series is locked on PS for who knows how long, and then locked on Epic Store for one more year.
As a potential customer, I didn't feel exactly welcomed. I was interested in FFXVI, but didn't have a PS5 (I still don't). Now I don't have the time to play long-ass games anymore, which means that by the time it will finally be released on PC, I won't probably buy it.
I was someone who was willing to give them money, and they refused it time and time again. I'm sorry for their difficult situation, as Square has created some great games from my childhood that I will forever cherish (both as Square Soft and Square Enix), but let's be honest, this is their fault.
I hope they follow through with this decision, though. I doubt I'll be a customer, but maybe they'll make some kids as happy as I was when I was their age and playing those old FF titles. People deserve to play those games without being told to buy two different consoles and/or wait an eternity and a half for exclusive deals to expire.
I'm seeing a lot of former flash games coming to steam lately - I even grabbed a few, such as the Epic Battle Fantasy collection.
The Flashpoint Collection is great to relieve my childhood one flash game at a time, but it's nice seeing that some of those devs are still around, and having the option to support them for the fun times I had for free as a teenager.
Key points:
- SDR 5.2 will be made available under Creative Commons.
- It will release within weeks of the 2025 Monster Manual (which will release February 18th, 2025).
- It will contain information from all three core rulebooks (PHB, Monster Manual, DMG).
- It will be localized in all officially supported languages.
It's not the devs' fault, it's Sony.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were told one thing three days ago, and another one now.
The sphinx agreed to a pun battle.
The human took two pans, gave one to the sphinx, and said "Now fight!"
In just four months, they have lost Toys for Bob (developer of Spyro Reignited and Crash 4), Arkane Austin (Prey 2017), and Tango (Evil Within, Hi-Fi Rush). I wish I had the money to casually buy some great dev studios, including the makers of a GOTY contender, and casually kill them off a few years later.
I know they are in panic mode right now, but I honestly don't know what their plan is at this point. I doubt even they know. Watching the situation from the outside, it's almost comical how MS has mismanaged everything for years. I live in Europe and I've never seen Xbox marketed anywhere. GamePass is supposedly their priority, and barely anyone I know who is interested in gaming knows that it even exists. The whole deal with the service was delivering first party games day one, yet failed to deliver anything worth buying four years into the new generation, while most of what they actually released was already in the works prior the acquisition. They bought dozens of studios, and mismanaged every single one of them. Fuck, they couldn't even settle on the cover for their game cases for half a year after their new box released.
The only good thing out of this debacle is that people have finally realized how utterly incompetent Phil Spencer is. I remember the days when fanboys were parroting his lies and kept talking about how "Phil is a gamer just like us", just because he showed on the stage in a shitty t-shirt. Too bad it took xbox fucking dying for them to realize, but I guess it's better later than never.
It depends on how thorough the blacklist is, but I usually avoid using those, because I fear I may be losing interesting discussions that only tangentially mention the topic I'm blacklisting. Or maybe they are discussing that topic from a different perspective that I may find interesting.
It's not like Lemmy has so many discussions to choose from, anyway. Among the communities I'm subscribed to, the most active ones only have three or four discussions per day, at most. I don't feel like a (albeit temporary) blacklist is useful when there's so little content to parse through. If there were a hundred posts per day, and I was interested in hiding half of them to better highlight the ones I'm interested at - but with so few posts, I can ignore them just fine without the help of an automatic blacklist.
I've spent far more time than I'm willing to admit on this thing. It goes much deeper than I thought at first.
I don't get why this is a free browser game - I wouldn't mind buying it on Steam or GoG. It truly is a wonderful experience, it reminds me of the time when I used to play flash games, but done better.
It doesn't matter though whether Homer is a single person or many, real or fictional. What matters is that we've not lost the context of the story.
We literally did. We don't know how much - if anything - written in the Homeric poems is true. If it did happen, we don't know when, only rough estimates.
For hundreds of years those poems were thought to be an accurate retelling of history, to the point that political diatribes between ancient Greek cities could be settled by consulting the Iliad.
If our civilization falls, there's no guarantee that our common knowledge survives. It could very well be that people see a lightsaber and think that we had the technology to build one.
It's not just about losing history, but also mixing it with incorrect/wrong retellings of the story and fake news.
For example, you mentioned Homer, the writer of the Iliad and Odyssey who lived 3000 years ago. Homer's existence is hotly debated, and even if he did exist, "he" probably didn't write both poems. It's far more likely that the Iliad and Odyssey were created as part of an extensive oral tradition by multiple travelling bards, who independently added, changed or removed verses; the story we know today as the Iliad is just one of many who happened to survive for a variety of reasons.
We also know very little of the broader trojan cycle (Cypria, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy, etc...) of which only fragments have survived. It would be as if, 1000 years from now, only the original SW trilogy survived, and only pieces or fragments of the other movies/TV series in the expanded universe remained - And to be fair, even this example is wrong, because it compares the Iliad/Odyssey to the "original" trilogy, but there's no consensus about the relationship of the two Homeric epics with the broader epic cycle: as far as we know, they could have been created independently, and later edited to flow from one to the other seamlessly.
Ah, yes, my gamer instincts™, very similar to a soldier's.
You have posted cringe, Master.
There are two types of dnd players.
Those who want to live the fantasy of being able to afford rent.
And those who want to fuck monsters.
Seriously. Why do gamers spend thousands of hours on games they hate. Life's full of shit to do. Go play something else. Or, God forbid, touch some grass. Why waste the little time you have on earth doing something you don't like.
This is exciting news for every aspiring game developer! Brackeys, a popular YouTuber who used to make in-depth and very user-friendly tutorials about Unity, is returning after a long hiatus, and will now create tutorials on Godot (for those who don't know, it's a FOSS game engine, but I'm pretty sure that, if you have an account here, you already know it).
Brackeys' tutorials were (and still are) the best tutorials for Unity, and have helped many aspiring devs (some of whom I know personally, and who later made a career out of it). His return, and the fact that he's now chosen to specialize on Godot, is a game-changer (pun intended) for the accessibility of the FOSS engine. Considering the recent Unity debacle, I'm happy that Brackeys will help people jump the ship, and I'm sure it will be instrumental in its success in the future.
Some trailers have been shared here, but not all. This is a list of all 35 announcements from the Triple-i initiative showcase.
- Slay the Spire 2 (Mega Crit, early access 2025 - Steam)
- Risk of Rain 2 - Free content update (Gearbox Publishing, coming soon - Steam, Epic Games Store, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
- Kill Knight (PlaySide Studios, 2024 - Steam, XSX|S, PS5, Switch)
- Shadows of Doubt - Console announcement + Update (Fireshine Games & ColePowered Games, 2024 - Steam, XSX|S, PS5)
- My Time at Sandrock - Cross-platform multiplayer announcement (Pathea Games, Focus Entertainment & PM Studios, 2024 - Steam, Epic Games Store, XboxOne, PS5, Switch)
- Dinolords (Northplay & Ghost Ship Publishing, Early Access - Steam)
- Gestalt: Steam & Cinder (Fireshine Games & Metamorphosis Games, May 21st 2024 - Steam)
- Vampire Survivors - DLC + PS announcement (Poncle, May 9th 2024 - Steam, XBoxOne, PS4, Switch)
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (A44 & Kepler Interactive, Summer 2024 - Steam, Epic Games Store, XSX|S (GamePass), PS5)
- Never Alone 2 (Humble Games & E-Line Media, TBA - Steam (not clear if it's coming on console as well))
- Cataclismo (Digital Sun Games, July 16 2024 - Steam, GoG)
- Death Must Die - Act II (Realm Archive, April 20th 2024 - Steam)
- Endzone 2 (Gentlymad Studios & Assemble Entertainment, Summer 2024 - Steam, GoG)
- Dyson Sphere Program - Free update (Youthcat Studio & Gamera Games, Coming Soon - Steam)
- UnderMine 2 (Thorium, TBA - Steam)
- Norland (Hooded Horse, Early Access May 16th 2024 - Steam)
- WHAT THE CAR? (TRIBAND, September 5th 2024 - Steam)
- Darkest Dungeon II - Free update (Red Hook Studios, 2024 - Steam)
- RKGK (Wabisabi Design & Gearbox Publishing, Summer 2024 - Steam)
- Broken Roads (Drop Bear Bytes, Out Now - Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
- Ravenswatch - Early access update (Passtech Games, April 22nd 2024 - Steam)
- Cat Quest III (The Gentlebros & Kepler Interactive, 2024 - Steam, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
- Hyper Light Breaker (Heart Machine, Early Access Summer 2024 - Steam)
- The Last Spell - DLC Announcement (Ishtar Games & The Arcade Crew, April 24th 2024 - Steam)
- Laysara: Summit Kingdom (Quite OK Games & Future Friends Games & Quite OK Games, Out Now - Steam)
- Wizard of Legend 2 (Dead Mage & Humble Games, TBA - Steam)
- Let's School (Pathea & PM Studios, Summer 2024 - Steam, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
- Brotato - DLC + Local Co-op announcement (Blobfish Games, Summer 2024 - Steam, XboxOne, PS4, Switch, Android, Apple Store)
- Tchia - Switch announcement (Awaceb & Kepler Interactive, June 27th 2024 - Switch)
- Streets of Rogue 2 (tinyBuild, Early Access 2024 - Steam)
- Old World - DLC announcement (Mohawk Games & Hooded Horse, May 28th 2025 - Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store)
- Palworld - Arena update (Pocket Pair, 2024 - PS4, XboxOne)
- 33 Immortals (Thunder Lotus, May 24th, 2024 - Epic Games Store, XSX|S (GamePass))
- MOUSE (FUMI Games & PlaySide Publishing, 2025 - Steam)
- V-Rising - Update (Stunlock Studios, Early Access - Steam)
- The Rogue Prince of Persia (Evil Empire & Ubisoft, Early Access May 14th 2024 - Steam)
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If I sort a multicommunity by 'Hot', it will show all posts from community 1, then all posts by community 2, etc... kind of defying the purpose of a multicommunity at all. I solved it by sorting by 'New' instead, but I figured I'd mention it here because it took me a while to notice - I thought people were not making new posts at all, while in fact, it was just displaying all posts by a lowly populated community first.
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FIRST PIC TRANSCRIPTION:
Dear Pokémon fan game community,
It is with heavy heart that I announce that the Relic Castle website has been taken down following a DMCA takedown notice.
Relic Castle has always been a non-profit, ad-free, tight-knit community and we pride ourselves in what we have achieved. Members have felt at home, made friends, and even careers with us. It is with deep regret that I have to inform you that the forum part of this community, which was to turn 10 years old this year, has had to come to an end. With over 20.000 members and 65.000 posts, Relic Castle was a home to many of us.
The Discord server is not going anywhere, and the site is still visible as an archive using the Wayback Machine.
Thank you all for being with us this last decade, and thank you for making Relic Castle as awesome and life-changing as it has been for some of us.
Sincerely, Marin (Owner) & Andy (Manager)
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FAQ: (will update as we can/want to) 1- The website was backed up and sent to me (Cat) right before it was taken down, so nothing is truly lost. 2- TCPI should not be contacted as it was a third party who is authorized by TCPI to supply DMCAs and looks legitimate to us. 3- The DMCA was on the entire site for using "unauthorized copies of copyrighted material", so different from one game being taken down. 4- What will RC staff do next? Is there a new site or will the Discord be expanded? We don't know right now. 5- Put love into the world today
A post/comment that was published, say, ten days ago, but edited two days ago, is shown as being published two days ago. Would it be possible to display the date as "10d (2d)" or something similar, to distinguish between the two dates?
!Page 1 - Class features (1) !Page 2 - Class features (2) !Page 3 - Class features (3) !Page 4 - Class features (4) !Page 5 - Subclass: Blademaster !Page 6 - Subclass: Commander !Page 7 - Subclass: Green Knight !Page 8 - Subclass: Psyker !Page 9 - Subclass: War Veteran !BackCover and Credits
The Heroic Warrior is a revamped Fighter that shares some similarities with the One DnD version of the class, but replaces the weapon masteries (which I honestly find overly simplistic and boring) with battle maneuvers and additional fighting styles.
The goal is to create a martial class that's simple to use, fun to run over multiple sessions, and on a more equal power level with casters, while also trying not to dilute its "martial" nature with spells-like or arcane powers (such as giving it overly flashy maneuvers).
The four subclasses provided are heavily inspired or directly derived by existing subclasses: the Blademaster is a blend of Battle Master and Cavalier, the Commander is an improved Purple Dragon Knight/Banneret, the Green Knight combines the Eldritch Knight and the Arcane Archer and gives them Pact Magic with third caster progression, the Psyker is a middle ground between the Echo Knight and the Psi Warrior, and lastly, the War Veteran is a mix of Champion and Samurai.
Feel free to comment and share your thoughts; I'll be happy to improve the class following other people's opinions and suggestions.
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I've been working on this one for a while, and I'm happy I've finished it in time for the release of Dune 2! The Ashworm Dragoon was a prestige class in DnD 3.5, meant as a "mundane" (as in, non-magical) special mount for fighters. The two main hurdles when writing this class was finding a way to have the ashworm come back to the player in the event of death (most familiar subclasses in the game don't have this problem, as the character has spell slots to heal/resurrect their faithful friend) and balance the burrowing speed of the ashworm (I actually found that the rules are a bit more restrictive than I thought, and I've added a few more to prevent strategies that the players could employ to cheese encounters using their burrowing speed).
Ending theme from Xenogears, the most ambitious videogame ever created.
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!Cover !Page 1 !Page 2 - Barbarian: Path of the Magpie !Page 3 - Fighter: Ashworm Dragoon (1) !Page 4 - Fighter: Ashworm Dragoon (2) !Page 5 - Fighter: Purple Dragon Knight !Page 6 - Warlock: Undying !Page 7 - Wondrous items: Banner of the Valiant, Gloves of the Savage, Phylactery, Saddle of the Nomad !BackCover
Also, healing is definitively the strongest quality of the Peace Domain.
I love the banneret as a concept, but I absolutely loathe the execution. The main problem of the original class is that Rallying Cry is not good until you reach higher levels and you only have one use of it, Royal Envoy feels more like a ribbon feature, and Bulwark is so specific in its trigger requirements that you may play an entire high level campaign and never successfully use it once.
With my rework, I tried to make the features more useful and their use more frequent, while also maintaining as much of the original concept as possible and striving to keep the class simple (without adding unnecessary stuff like a banner mechanic, warlord-like maneuvers or anything like that).
Art credits: Purple Knight by BryanSyme
A friend of mine wanted to play an improvised weapon-wielding barbarian. He was using a homebrew subclass he found online, but frankly speaking, it was terrible, so I reworked it. This is the result of 2 hours of rushed brainstorming and development. I'm not a barb main, so I'm not really familiar with how they work, but I'm satisfied with the result.
While creating the subclass, I tried to satisfy the following demands:
- Allow the player to use unarmed strikes and improvised weapons, obviously.
- Try to make improvised weapons unique and not just "reflavoured martial weapons" (achieved with the random roll and additional effects to unarmed stirkes and attacks with improvised weapons, I hope).
- More choices during combat. The person who was going to play this doesn't like how shallow and same-y most martials in 5e play (hence the "Barbarian Exploits" feature at 6th level).
Any kind of feedback is very much appreciated!
Rumors sparked by a Chinese news report suggested that Hasbro may be eyeing a sale of its Dungeons & Dragons IP — but the game’s publisher has denied it.
"In a Thursday statement to multiple outlets, including Forbes, Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro division that publishes Dungeons & Dragons and games including Magic: the Gathering, denied the rumors, claiming while the company has multiple partnerships with Tencent, “we are not looking to sell our D&D [intellectual property],” and the company would not comment any further on “speculation or rumors about potential M&A or licensing deals.
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The Speed Daily report also claimed Larian Studios—the Belgian video game company behind the popular Dungeons & Dragons-based “Baldur’s Gate” games—was originally a possible purchaser of the IP but lacked the funding, and has since served as an intermediary between Hasbro and Tencent, which invests in Larian. But in a post on Thursday, Larian CEO Swen Vincke dismissed the rumors".
Hi, I just want to be sure because it seems like the rules have changed about this topic and I don't see anywhere where it's explained clearly.
One month ago I posted a meme uploaded on ImgBB just fine. Today I did the same thing and my account has been immediately banned. I contacted the mods via mail and one person was kind enough to reply almost immediately and unban me, which is cool and you guys running the instance are awesome.
That being said, I'd like such an incident not to occur again. So, can I have a recommendation about image hosting sites that won't get me banned? Is Imgur safe? Catbox? Are there other alternatives? I'd rather not upload pics directly on lemmy.world servers.
Thanks in advance.
