Running gag in my group: player “are there any traps?” - dm “looks clear”
player: rolls stealth check
DM: you think you’re hiding
The DM tells you what you perceive, not what actually is.
I get that, but at a certain level of roll it needs to be a definitive answer. Even if you don’t beat the DC, a roll like 25 should at least get something back like, “You don’t know why but you’re getting bad vibes.”
Otherwise players just feel lost and like the character’s expertise means nothing.
This is one reason I love Pathfinder 2e’s degrees of success.
Respond to the player with a question, “Are you searching for traps?”
“None that you can see” is a fun response. Especially on a high roll, if you’re rolling knowledge and perception checks in the open. Gets 'em good and weirded out.
That should always be the response. It keeps it consistent. It should never be “there are no traps” because it’s a comment on their characters knowledge, which is just that they can’t see any. There’s never a guarantee.
For the curious, the image is from the movie Automata starring Antonio Banderas, which is more or less an extrapolation of I, Robot’s premises in a PK Dick style post-apocalyptic setting. Worth watching IMO.wait nvm i looked again and it’s K2SO lol im highIs… is it still worth watching?
yes.
Well, this isn’t a Linux sub, so no.
I’m sure you mean well, but that’s not a word you should refer to people with
That’s an awfully kind response to someone who decided hate was on the menu today…
The world needs more people like you :)
Explain this
I’m not saying that Linux communities aren’t full of queer people (they absolutely are), I’m saying that “trap” is used as a transphobic slur and shouldn’t be used to refer to people unless they explicitly want you to
I’m pretty sure it’s just a subgenre of “it’s not gay if” fetish pornography for bi curious cis males who want to be “trapped” by the cute girl next door.
sure, but it’s also a derogatory term used as an actual insult against real trans women implying they’re a) not real women and b) trying to deceive men
The op in the thread I linked is definitely trying to attract male attention with that image. They know what they’re doing, either guys won’t read and up vote or it attracts guys with a fetish. Either way they’re looking for validation for having feminine features and being trans. I guess I could be more inclusive and call them an attention whore like I would anybody else who posts stuff like that.
trying to attract attention, feeling confident in their looks or simply cute, there are many reasons they might’ve posted that. Even if it was only meant for attention (which it likely wasn’t, posting on a niche community on a small instance on an obscure platform. posts on unixsocks are mostly by queer people for other queer people), that’d be no different from the millions of other posts in communities like Roast Me or Gone Wild.
Why do you say guys can only like this content if they’re ignorant or have a fetish? There is nothing strange about liking feminity, and for that it doesn’t matter if the OP is cis or trans. This is exactly the sort of harmful stereotype I was talking about earlier. Trans people are not trying to trick anybody, but just live their lives.
