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gruagach said:
My favorite mode of D&D play...of any edition...including 5E (when I still played it)...emulates my favorite Conan stories.

PCs break into rich asshole's domicile, for whatever reason. PCs encounter and deal with the invariably weird shit in rich asshole's domicile (c.f. rich people be crazy, yo). PCs confront rich asshole and deliver a well deserved comeuppance. PCs abscond with whatever treasure and/or mulligan rich asshole's weird shit was guarding. PCs go to the local tavern to engage in post mission debauchery and telling tall tales of their exploits.

In my experience, I can reliably get that kind of play out of any edition of D&D I've played. (Note, I've not played much D&D4e, so take that with a grain of salt, I guess).
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But Barbarians of Lemuria does that so much better than any edition of D&D

Edit to remove hawkeyefan hawkeyefan quote that didn’t belong
 
Endless Flight said:
I think anything that proves your identity should require a “wet” signature but anything else, not really.
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:gooselove: Require a "wet" signature with handwriting loops that reach the correct penmanship lines, you mean?
:madgoose: YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL SIGNATURE IF STRICT HANDWRITING LOOPS ARE NOT KEPT. (:gooseshades:See, I'm topical. :gooseshades:)

::honkhonk: Remember, goose loves you. It just hurts sometimes.
 
opaopajr said:
:gooselove: Require a "wet" signature with handwriting loops that reach the correct penmanship lines, you mean?
:madgoose: YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL SIGNATURE IF STRICT HANDWRITING LOOPS ARE NOT KEPT. (:gooseshades:See, I'm topical. :gooseshades:)

::honkhonk: Remember, goose loves you. It just hurts sometimes.
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No one can duplicate my latin writing wet drunk duck using Klingon characters signature!
 
When I was younger, I used to have pretty good cursive penmanship. But then I worked as a security guard at a large facility for a couple of years and had to keep radio logs, so I learned how to print really fast in block letters, and that became my default going forward.

But it’s been 25 years since those days, and now I rarely need to use a pen for anything other than greeting cards. I’m a communications lead for a large company so all my work is on a computer (writing speeches, press releases, strategy documents, etc.).

It helps that I can type at over 80 words per minute when I’m in a groove (very useful when writing novels, as I think much faster than I could write by hand).

My son wasn’t taught cursive in grade school, so my wife and I taught him. He still finds it useful, not to write things himself, but to be able to quickly read things other people have written in cursive (which he told us is something his classmates all struggled with). He said he was surprised how often cursive shows up in movies, tv shows, novels, etc. as excerpts from written letters and so forth.
 
In my early teens I developed my own personal font, and willingly took grade reductions on papers because I refused to write them in cursive or anything but this font (I was a very, shall we say "aesthetically stubborn" child). I still write in that font to this day.

I can write in cursive, but I won't (unless I'm like, preparing props for a game, like pages from some character's diary).
 
TristramEvans said:
In my early teens I developed my own personal font, and willingly took grade reductions on papers because I refused to write them in cursive or anything but this font (I was a very, shall we say "aesthetically stubborn" child). I still write in that font to this day.

I can write in cursive, but I won't (unless I'm like, preparing props for a game, like pages from some character's diary).
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I can write in cursive much faster than block print (all those damned Blue Book essays), but its legibility is declining through non-use.
 
I stopped using cursive in highschool when I got an 'F' on an important paper because my handwriting was illegible to the teacher; I got mad until I realized that I couldn't read it, either. I immediately jumped back to using block letters.

I use it all the time, since I'm both a gamer and dabble in writing. I constantly get compliments from others on my handwriting, now. That always makes my day.
 
TristramEvans said:
In my early teens I developed my own personal font, and willingly took grade reductions on papers because I refused to write them in cursive or anything but this font (I was a very, shall we say "aesthetically stubborn" child). I still write in that font to this day.

I can write in cursive, but I won't (unless I'm like, preparing props for a game, like pages from some character's diary).
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I wasn't stubborn about it like you but I also developed my own distinctive handwriting font when I was in middle school. I would write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" over and over each day during slow periods in class until I had perfected the technique.

Malckuss said:
I constantly get compliments from others on my handwriting, now. That always makes my day.
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Same.

I haven't written in cursive since fourth grade and just banged out a passable couple of paragraphs. Still not a fan of cursive though.
 
Bunch said:
One benefit of cursive is it turns words into a unit instead of individual letters and can help people with dyslexia spell correctly.
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Hmm, not convinced. This is certainly true of print but cursive is usually really hard to read. Everyone does it differently, letter shapes are hard to pick out, and a lot of dyslexics have a problem with legibility at the best of times. It's why I've largely taught myself out of cursive when I'm writing anything for anyone else.
 
Bunch said:
Dunno but I wondered the same thing about Chinese. My kids don't have dyslexia. Some have dysgraphia and other written expression issues.
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Someone with much more knowledge of language might be better able to answer this but I've noticed a number of early languages don't contain vowels and interpret the sounds and missing information on the fly by understanding the sentence. My son with reading and writing challenges does the same thing with words he doesn't already know how to spell. He sees the letters for the most part in the written word and pulls a likely word candidate from his internal list of words when reading aloud.
 
Bunch said:
Someone with much more knowledge of language might be better able to answer this but I've noticed a number of early languages don't contain vowels and interpret the sounds and missing information on the fly by understanding the sentence. My son with reading and writing challenges does the same thing with words he doesn't already know how to spell. He sees the letters for the most part in the written word and pulls a likely word candidate from his internal list of words when reading aloud.
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IIRC, they do contain the info on vowels, but it's added to another letter instead of being a letter itself?
 
Jetstream said:
Dyslexia in one writing system but not another sounds obnoxious as fuck.
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Why "obnoxious"? Also, what was said is that some people have dyslexia in one language, but not in another:thumbsup:.
 
I'm not competent to comment on that. Regardless, if the findings are true, that might mean that it's actually a spectrum of related conditions, right?
 
AsenRG said:
IIRC, they do contain the info on vowels, but it's added to another letter instead of being a letter itself?
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Most modern abjads (that's the word for that kind of writing system) do contain such markers but the earliest ones we know of didn't.
 
Jetstream said:
Dyslexia in one writing system but not another sounds obnoxious as fuck.
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I’d say it’s a better window into how the human mind works.

The key takeaway from the article for me is that the MRI studies showed that different written language types use different parts of the brain to process the symbols into something understandable.

That in turn gets us closer to understanding how, in a biochemical sense, dyslexia affects the brain and potentially even a treatment for it.

That’s fascinating to me.
 
Chris24601 said:
I’d say it’s a better window into how the human mind works.

The key takeaway from the article for me is that the MRI studies showed that different written language types use different parts of the brain to process the symbols into something understandable.

That in turn gets us closer to understanding how, in a biochemical sense, dyslexia affects the brain and potentially even a treatment for it.

That’s fascinating to me.
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I mean, interesting scientifically, sure. But imagine trying to figure out what’s going on. You start trying to learn a new language but you can’t get the writing. Who the hell is gonna think of dyslexia if you’ve never had any problems with your native language?
 
Jetstream said:
I mean, interesting scientifically, sure. But imagine trying to figure out what’s going on. You start trying to learn a new language but you can’t get the writing. Who the hell is gonna think of dyslexia if you’ve never had any problems with your native language?
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There's a thing called "stealth dyslexia" for very bright kids who memorize all the words and roughly the letters and understand context but can't break them down into individual sounds from the letters.
When you test them it's often very hard to find it because you either have to use nonsense words or words well outside their grade level to even realize they have a problem.
If you have kids or grandkids getting test results from schools definitely ask for raw scores and look for discrepancies like very high reading comprehension but low phonological awareness. The numbers might not be so low to be diagnosed as dyslexia. If it's 2 standard deviations away from the high score it's something to investigate more
 
Yeah, it doesn't seem to have anything remotely to do with One D&D anymore.
 
I'm now imagining a world where all Orks are dyslexic in Orkish, but can spell in Elven and Human just fine. Problem is, after failing to learn their own language, they seldom even try learning to read an "enemy language"...:grin:
 
AsenRG said:
I'm now imagining a world where all Orks are dyslexic in Orkish, but can spell in Elven and Human just fine. Problem is, after failing to learn their own language, they seldom even try learning to read an "enemy language"...:grin:
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Well, at least they still have their +2 Str bonus—oh, wait! They no longer have that! :shock:

Guess they're just illiterate dyslexic Orks without stat bonuses how. But at least they no longer have an Int penalty. :thumbsup:
 
Is talking about the VTT bringing the thread back on topic? If so, I apologise.



I thought this was interesting given Prof. DM's prior deep cynicism about the project and WotC. Overall, it seems to a pretty positive and fair take. tl;dw: The VTT is a pretty cool online model of playing at a table with something like Dwarven Forge terrain and minatures. WotC are very clear this isn't a videogame, and they have no intention of selling microtransactions that would limit options in the game (the example given was making players pay to have a magic item).
 
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