You'd think it was a meme, but apparently people here viscerally hate it even though I never said it should be back in the game.
The trouble with this is actually getting people who understand game design well enough to put something together that isn't just someone else's 400th take on an OSR clone as their fantasy heartbreaker they've had rolling around in their head for 20 years that people actually would play, or isn't some stupid meme itself like a fatal or rahowa equivalent.
I cannot find the source now, but due to THAC0 being a descending value there is some statistics edge case fuckery due to how ties are resolved when bonuses/penalties are applied.
So you very much liked Radiant Citadel then?
Essentially this.
This right here.
What a strange non sequitur.
You said it was a shitshow because of consensus rule development like keeping the traditional ability scores. The rules were a major part of why it was so successful, they managed to strike a reasonable balance between the familiarity of tradition and modern design, and radical proposed changes were walked back after they proved unpopular with players.
Woke players expect the universe to revolve around their characters. They can't emotionally handle a cold, capricious, arbitrary universe. Sometimes, your character dies because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time for an unlucky roll.
I wouldn't have people questioning that at my table, but as a business it's mindnumbing how stupid the "we need to remove slavery from our game" shit is. Slavery was(except in very rare circumstances) a thing that the obvious moustache twirling villains were doing. As a result these companies have hilariously removed something for these woke idiots(who rarely buy shit in the first place) to go crusading against in-game in the first place.
They don't buy it. They post tweets about how they are doing a good job, then grognards conplain about it and buy buy buy. Like 40k fans these days now I think about it.
Doesn't just filter woke though.
I assumed it was a quirk of some people I knew. I didn't know it was a big thing.
Why not? Being employed by a AAA corp in shadowrun can be absurd pretty quickly, but a A or even AA(there's dozens of them) rated megacorp looking to do some espionage to get a leg up on another company or even try to prop themselves up into being AAA? Sure. And of course some lower level manager hiring the shadowrun team to do some bullshit work or even potentially acting as a group of fall guys to distract from another more important operation can give players a reason to have a grudge against a specific company or the players manage to do well enough even though they were intended to be the patsy group, that they leave enough of an impression for more work and access to resources later. Could even be as simple as worker drone #432,671,239 has caught the eye of some manager who wants them to do some internal dirty work of his own within the company against another department or something. Just imagine any corporate workplace infighting and replace snide comments and leaving people out of meetings with hiring hitmen/mercenaries/spies.
Cowgirls and Minotaurgirls are farm equipment, not people.
Tasha's had a lot of subclasses that are just asking for trouble. Twilight and whatever the pacifist cleric was, I think?
Now I'm just imagining a fresh-out-of-college management trainee suddenly getting shoved into the position of Mr. Johnson on their first day. Poor thing.
lol, sure why not "here's your cubicle, and for your first project you'll be managing a team of people to complete a milk run" "a milk what?"
That's before you get into the brain-breaking achievementmaxxing, caffeine-chugging business school undergraduate culture probably put on overdrive by hypercompetitive megacorp hiring programs.
There were tons of problems. The biggest problem was changes to the core rules. The way Tasha's is worded, these aren't optional. Deracializing ability scores, languages, and skills followed a bunch of woke struggle sessions in DA COMMUNITY (and probably in the office as well) and ruined the flavor of your game. No, your mountain dwarf wizard can't move his +2 CON to INT, fuck off.
This is a problem with many long running games. PF1 and DnD5e are particularly bad due to their popularity and the large amount of stuff. Even when it is optional, there's an expectation it's legal unless explicitly stated. This is a criticism I have with Savage Worlds and other setting neutral games to a degree. There's no convenient way to filter out things you don't want.
For shadowrun, if you're actually playing within the shadowrun universe then the answer is no. Why? Because the character would be dead before character creation in setting as a significant number of the dragons who basically rule the planet would tolerate it. Even draconic looking mutations would run into severe issues ever accomplishing anything in society not to mention standing out like a sore thumb to be readily identified later. The only one that might defend such a creature is already dead in the setting(Dunkelzahn), and Lofwyr has already killed another(Nachtmeister), may have been responsible for Dunkelzahn, and possibly also took out 2 others. There's also the fact that the bug spirits are going to be continually bothering this person who shouldn't be powerful enough to stop them.
I knew I liked that guy for a reason.
That is the current state of existence for RPGs and why people need to be reminded of it.
The close you get are the Drakes, they're Weredragons and cost a ton of Karma and put every dragon after you because you suppose to be a slave. Its full.
