huh? perfect block and counterattacks are extremely powerful in wilds and most of them have essentially no windup. if you're relying on something like the insect glaive offset you're gonna have a hard time but most weapons are extremely reactive to the point where it's dumbed down combat in a bad way imo.
compare that to something like 4u charge blade guard points which were also extremely powerful but required you to plan ahead.
user must be psychic or memorize monster movements in order to anticipate next potential movement
if you hate this, monster hunter might not be for you. that's been the meat and potatoes of the game since ps2 and leads to its most impressive gameplay imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX0OF2Zzd0k
i don't see the issue, in theory. if players have chosen to live by the sword, the dm is meeting them on their level by allowing them to die by the sword.
and you never know, maybe it's an op party that could make it a close match. maybe the players had warnings and brought the god's wrath on their heads anyway.
as with all things, there are contexts where it is appropriate and contexts where it is a wild overreaction. but this is a meme comm, not a nuance factory.
this ain't it chief, blaming ellen pao for reddit's downfall is insanely clueless.
she got glass cliff'd on a confluence of issues on the platform, none of which were because of her. if you want to point the finger at anyone, point it at spez.
my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.
but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don't see hollywood showing up for that.
without digging into the numbers, i can pretty confidently say that schools are more than 30% more expensive than the global median in the US. staffing costs especially.
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