WiserOdin032402 wrote:Doesn't /tg/ do thread cleanup to delete old threads? I would think that isn't conducive to homebrewing in the first place, considering the onus of archiving is on the user, rather than just some feature of the board.
Threads that fall off the board (either because they aren't bumped or because they reached autosage) get archived by the board. this Archive stores them for I think 7 days, after which they are permanently deleted.
There are also a lot of archive sites (desuarchive, fireden, 4plebs, warosu, etc.) which automatically save stuff
and the problem is less the cleanup and more the general atmosphere. Stuff that's nice is ignored. Stuff that's bad is endlessly made fun of. So people wanting criticism are ignored or ridiculed.
Plus the cringe culture, where everything that's remotely fun or unironic is "cringe".
Beyond that, the homebrew scene of 3.5 wasn't all that good outside of the TOMES, and the TOMES themselves aren't widely well-known, meaning that a lot of people who played 3.X and got exposed to homebrew got exposed to bad homebrew. That usually causes them to immediately stop thinking critically when you put homebrew in front of their face. So instead of thinking 'Ah yes this is a fighter engineered from the ground up to participate in 3.5 and contribute to a group, balanced around being rogue tier' they go 'B-buh it's g-good at something other than c-combat! It shouldn't do that!' while also turning around and going 'Yes, wizards and clerics are overpowered, you shouldn't play them at all.'
It's a very common affliction, because while people can have system mastery, it doesn't translate into actually making a new class or revising an old one, they just know how to play the wizard/cleric/etc good and make the enemies drop in one round. They don't know the full level of mechanical failing within the system and how to make a class to address that. It takes a lot of time that people generally don't have to get good at homebrewing for a TTRPG, which, may I remind everyone is a niche hobby.
From what I've seen a common position is "Casters manipulate the very fabric of reality. Of course they should be gods."
Mord, on Cosmic Horror wrote:Today if I say to the man on the street, "Did you know that the world you live in is a fragile veneer of normality over an uncaring universe, that we could all die at any moment at the whim of beings unknown to us for reasons having nothing to do with ourselves, and that as far as the rest of the universe is concerned, nothing anyone ever did with their life has ever mattered?" his response, if any, will be "Yes, of course; now if you'll excuse me, I need to retweet Sonic the Hedgehog." What do you even do with that?
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