Would fit right in in a cyberpunk setting.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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I read a good post a while back about how even though your classic d&d world looks like mediaeval Europe, it behaves much more like the wild west. Rephrase this post to "imagine you're in the saloon and a group of armed cowboys roll in..." and suddenly it all makes sense again!
If I recall correctly, which I may not, isn't that a salsa commercial? Like pace chunky salsa?
(I looked it up: yes it was)
Pace, thick and chunky vomit.
i mean it's not great but it's not terrible either. it's a good entry into salsa for folk trying to venture out from bland white people cuisine. back in the early 90s when we couldn't make our own from homegrown tomatoes we couldn't really get better salsa where we lived.
dude you know how you have taste memories about really good meals and shit? you just gave me taste PTSD. So thanks and all.
I'd call the Sword Coast more "Western Europe following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire if that happened a thousand years later than it did and it happened all at once because of magic and also it's been 1800 years since then but for some reason no one's centralized power beyond the city state level or improved military or magical technology and THEN an actual real God got killed and everything got fucked until it was decided that was dumb and a mistake let's pretend it didn't happen"
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Okay maybe the Wild West metaphor is simpler.
In blade in the dark, you declare how much gear you plan to bring, so the GM knows whether it's normal guys with a backpack , or guys in tactical suit with bullet proof jacket and a rifle.
But in general, yes, the setting need to react to adventurer party. It's not ordinary
I think open carry of weapons is common in most D&D settings.
You got a permit for that crossbow?
It's the unfettered, solipsistic violence that's the core issue, not as much which instruments the used for such. 😅🤓
remember how Strider and the rangers are regarded with fear and suspicion by the Breelanders at the Prancing Pony, mostly just because they come and go irregularly, are armed, and don't openly discuss their business, which probably wouldn't be understood even if they did? or how many people in the Shire, Rohan, and Gondor are wary of Gandalf, because he usually shows up when there's trouble, not understanding the difference between causing trouble and trying to prevent it?
I've done once a one-shot where players were a group of militia that was investigating a rogue d&d party wreaking havoc due to a long series of misunderstandings.
That said, fighting the party without any strategy was downright suicide because of how much difference was there with their levels, gear and abilities.
However, players here just would get a new militia character or villager as soon as they died.
So You mean... Shadowrun
(Except its of course Stuffer Shack, and they might actually have some drones in the back)
It reads like an intro for a Food Fight indeed.
counterpoint: imagine you're in a pizza joint and someone walks in and leaves you a hundo and asks "hey, you know where i can get some tools to alter my consciousness?"
yeah i'm telling my manager you gave me 20 to hook you up with some drugs here's the 20 and please give you some drugs
Just sounds like an actual event from the US. The group is a bunch of MAGAs trying to kill the "libtard mayor"
Until the second part, I thought this was about ICE.
I read most of the original post thinking it was about ICE.
At least, in D&D the story's shopkeep can just cap the idjits where they stand. Sorry, table. Roll up new ones. 🤌🏼
This should be a part of the new employee training for D&D players.
That just sounds like a Waffle House in Florida or something, except instead of $500, it's drugs.
To be fair I know where my Mayor lives, he lives at East End Ave at 88th St :3