BimboChristmas [she/her]

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Cake day: November 1st, 2025

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  • Everything is free and the pathbuilder app makes character creation and maintenance easy.

    There are lots of interesting actions your characters can take, and a ton of flexibility in build options.

    In my current game, I play a fighter who is also the team’s primary healer. I just took a lot of medicine feats and can stitch people up real fast. I also specialize in debuffs, using fighter feats like Disarming Strike and Snagging Strike and the Intimidate skill to set things up for our primary strikers - an inventor-alchemist who is also a mobile vending machine, and a detective with a mean right hook.

    I like the combat. It’s fun being like “I roar at the enemy to scare them, then grab them with my free hand to get them off-guard, and rip the weapon out of their hand.” And have this all mechanically represented.

    The downside maybe is that players used to more freeform systems might want to try cool tricks that RAW are gated behind character options. You want to intimidate someone who doesn’t speak your language? That’s a feat. Combine a basic strike with another maneuver? Probably requires a feat.

    And the action economy can be pretty strict with things like drawing/sheathing weapons and items, and needing free hands to do certain actions.

    Pretty crunchy system, but it’s my favorite dnd-like to run and play right now.









  • New mayor came in promising to “end unsheltered homelessness”. Immediately makes huge cuts to 24-hour shelters in favor of sprawling overnight-only congregate shelters out in the outskirts of town. So if you wanted a shelter, you could take a bus an hour or two away and hope that it wasn’t full up, then have just enough time to get not enough sleep before they kick you out again.

    Anyways, now the city is shutting some of those down too. Just huge cuts all around. I was going to get laid off in June, but it looks like that might have just been moved up to May since they’ll be closing my entire workplace down - news broke over the weekend and my clients are panicking.

    One of the most progressive cities in the country, and boy do we fucking hate poor people here.