Welcome to Critical Hitter Major Spoilers Podcast. Thank you for downloading and checking us out this week. This week we're going to do something a little different, not quite a mailbag, not quite a general discussion, but kind of a combo of each.

I think it's a time, there's something we haven't done in a long time, right? We haven't just done a show where we just talk about other stuff that is in the sphere of dungeon the dragons or the RPG games that we're currently playing here on the podcast.

So we're just going to kick back and we're going to let our hair down, we're going to talk, we're going to relax. I've got a little drink here. It is not what you think it is, but it is pretty tasty.

And so let us just talk about stuff. There was an interesting article that appeared a while ago that I wanted to get your guys's reactions to. I don't know if you had a chance to read through it, but it's called powered by the apocalypse versus dungeons and dragons.

How the mechanics compare.

And let me ask you guys this, is it a good idea to compare systems that are radically different from one another? I know that people always are like PS4 versus the Xbox Max versus PCs, you know, apples versus oranges.

Right. You'll notice they very rarely go Xbox versus the switch, right? Because they are like actually very different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So is that what this is when someone says let's compare powered by the apocalypse with dungeons and dragons and which one is the more crunchy system?

I feel like this article was mostly sort of addressing.

So online, there's always a lot of talk about games and especially about dungeons and dragons. And I think powered by the apocalypse, powered by the apocalypse is sort of what world of darkness was in the 90s and early 2000s.

Powered by the apocalypse is what the cool kids are playing while everybody else is playing dungeons and dragons. And I don't that's not actually a value judgment. I mean what the kids who think they're cooler playing.

Yeah, yeah.

So I'm playing fate accelerated. Yeah, exactly. That's that's basically where where the band kids.

Well, what are the theater kids playing or the theater kids are vampire of the mass grade playing. Probably still playing vampire the mask. Yeah, that's fair. All right.

So I think this is a it's really kind of a like, hey, if you want to get into the system, here's what you can expect through comparing them. That's what I thought I can be like, you know how there are orcs in D&D. You can have orcs here too.

You know how there's like a big old combat with like you hitting a guy then somebody else hits a guy then somebody else. It's a guy that's not that's not so much a thing empowered by the apocalypse. Yeah. And that's kind of what I took away from it too is not so much of.

Let's do a comparing contrast between the two systems, but more of a hey you guys who every one of the world is currently hooked on their dungeons and dragons right now.

Here are some alternatives that you may not have thought about because you're you're so into dungeons and dragons right now, which is not a you know is not a dig on dungeons and dragons.

So when I read this, I was like, well, it really does feel like instead of saying, well, which one is the better system or which one is the crunchier system? It's in this. Hey, here's an alternative you've probably not heard of yet or maybe you have heard of, but you really haven't given some consideration.

Yeah, I mean, when I saw the headline, I started thinking about things that are that are like gaming and the best one I could start coming up with was sports and so so there are people who you know they have they like it's like, oh, I live in Chicago. So when the bears are playing, I watch the bears and when the you know baseball team, but I probably have a preference between the baseball teams and then they're like, maybe I even watch like, you know, the soccer teams.

But like there are other people who are like, no, I'm really just into football and people aren't like, well, why aren't you into baseball? It's just like, I don't know, I like the way football is different than baseball. And I think because gaming is still so much more obscure and it's something that has been.

Video gaming has finally kind of moved away from this too because I especially for video gaming and I think this still exists to some degree in tabletop game is like, well, you're only a real gamer if you like this one type of.

Whereas like if you are playing, you know, hidden object games on your phone primarily, you're not a gamer if you're paying like a shooter on your Xbox, you're a gamer and obviously that's nonsense.

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