pyre

when your players are wild but know how to make memorable stories

i just looked it up and holy fucking shit how are most comments here about its mechanics rather than how it's apparently Violent Misogyny: The Game

me when i table the top spot in every alphabetical list

sounds like you dodged several bullets. as a cis person i would expect all kinds of betrayal and bullshit from people if their apparent affection towards me depends on my gender identity.

smart of him to think of that

this graph is not to scale

make checks until you fail. take 40d8 damage from a mysterious source. no one's around you to help unfortunately because you were dumb enough to separate from the party.

now make a better character or go home, your choice.

sorry but it's either that she didn't "buy fully into 'IT'S SATANISM'" or this entire post is made up.

people who buy fully into it don't allow a test run. if it did g happen she was more likely concerned it might be some cultist shit but was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and she doesn't deserve to be described as "bought fully into it".

that's the emily axford approach

the j is a transliteration by modern scientists. it's not like they used the letter back then.

also the fact that they used DJ together seems to specifically disambiguate it as the soft G / J sound.

I house rule it to anything where dumb luck might help anyway. deciphering a language you know nothing about? nah. lockpicking a simple lock despite not really having much of a skill? woah, you don't know wtf you did but things clicked. you could probably force it open with a high enough strength check too but hey.