The first thing Angron did to the War Hounds was kill a few dozen officers when all they wanted to do was speak with him. He would also proceed to decimate the Legion several times over the course of his leadership for the shittiest reasons, like not being able to conquer a world in 36 hours. When Istvann III happened, only the War Hounds weren't surprised at the betrayal and actually sought out Angron to try and kill him because they hated him so much. In fact, he never gave his Legion the Nails, they reversed engineered the things and started sticking the damn things inside themselves on their own in an attempt to get closer to Angron. He mostly saw it as an insult to his slave siblings.
From a certain point of view you could all argue all of the primarchs are failures honestly
Tingle's probably more qualified than most people who would make the attempt, since he literally wrote a book titled Not Pounded At The Last Second Because Consent Can Be Given And Revoked At Any Moment And This Is A Wonderful Thing That's Important To Understand.
Obligatory: Chuck Tingle is the best ever.
Depends on the attribution. A director with a vision probably isn't pandering. A producer or executive looking to shareholder returns probably is. And so on.
Oh, it is.
Indeed, but their point is that the people who complain about "pandering" never apply it to the Grizzled White Guy Protagonist #447897, it's only ever used for any work that dares to have a character who belongs to some other demographic.
Indeed, but their point is that the people who complain about "pandering" never apply it to the Grizzled White Guy Protagonist #447897, it's only ever used for any work that dares to have a character who belongs to some other demographic.
Which is interesting
Pandering means "thing I don't like" and up until recently waifu fanservice was included in that. Like any possible kind. It's still done now but sparingly, as we live in the Twilight Zone now and freeing the anime titties is a way to own the libs.
You can do that even within D&D. At least in the older editions combat was a horribly inefficient way of gaining EXP for anyone except a Warrior. Priests and Paladins gained EXP for converting NPCs to their religion and for healing NPCs, Wizards gained exp for crafting magic items, learning new spells, and using magic to overcome obstacles outside of combat. Thieves gained for stealing, and bards for successfully influencing people. Everyone gained for finding or acquiring new magic items. The majority of your EXP came from spending money (however gained) on training. 1gp for 1xp. (Also peaceful resolution gives the same as combat does anyway)
The thing is, does Dungeon and Dragons have a sub-system to support and model such events, and if it does, do you think it had the same amount of effort put into it? It is something you can do, but is it something you are encouraged to? I suppose both answers are yes since you receive positive stimuli for doing such actions, so that's good, but at the same time, the main aim of Dungeon and Dragons is more combat-related than I would prefer.
It is rather unfortunate that social situations are represented through the prism of combat. I think that's mostly because tabletop games in general are rather focused on combat, so that might be bleeding into other areas.
Lo5r is a setting based loosely on feudal japan wherein you are members of noble clans competing for imperial favor. There are combat classes and you can run a samurai based game, but there are likewise social classes and they are where the real power is. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword. With a sword I kill you, but with the pen I ruin your entire family. In most games I've played in that setting, the martial classes were basically there only as yojimbo for the masters of the court.
