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h_double posted:I once tried putting a comically sexist NPC in a game (basically, a military base commander modeled after Borat), and that really didn't go over well with the woman in our group (her comment was something like "I have to put up with that kind of poo poo every day, RPGs are supposed to be escapism dammit") I did a similar thing with an annoying Elven ambassador in one of my D&D games. Having an incompetent nemesis type can be a fun little distraction sometimes.
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Pieces of Peace posted:I think Amish Ninja isn't trying to draw an equivalency, but to point out that Footwork Lure is in fact incredibly easy to explain flavor-wise. I mean it's stepping back a whole five feet and tricking your foe into following you. Not like that's ever been used in, oh, every swashbuckling movie ever?
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Nope. Look at it this way. Your friends are claiming the sky is green. You know it isn't green. You've seen green, and the sky is clearly blue. But your friends are convinced you'll see the sky is green, if you imagine there is some yellow in there with it. You try, but however much you might be able to imagine the sky is green, you know that you're seeing something that isn't there. It's the same way with our orc friend and his power shots. Whatever spin I might apply to how his power works, I know that isn't what's actually happening. And that disconnect is what makes 4e combat not fun for me.
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Salve, citizens! Welcome to Roma, a create your own adventure role playing game. This is the first in the series of Roma games that I have been hatching. However, do not be confused; the sequels and prequels may have absolutely nothing to do with our main characters in our stories and my not link up chronologically. Do not be upset if the next game is actually a few hundred years earlier than this one! This thread will operate like most adventure threads, although in this particular chapter, the main character and starting stats and temperaments will be fixed. We'll start with character info, then an introduction and then we will be rolling like a severed head down the Capitoline. ***DISCLAIMER! BY JUPITER'S STONE, YOU MUST READ THIS*** Some of the events that take place in this game are going to be extremely visceral, grotesque and debauched. I am going to take great pains in being almost over descriptive to capture the reality of life in this place and time. If you are disgusted by the description of a high born noble loving his male slave by his own right, please leave and do not ruin the thread. If you are put off by someone getting strung upside down by a street gang, gelded with a rusty sickle, decapitated and thrown into the Tiber, please leave without complaint. This isn't meant to be an Utopian vision of a mythical past. This will get dirty. Also, part of my over descriptions come from not being an artist. I would love to have some art in this thread, but from myself it will mostly be in the form of mosaics, frescoes, sculptures and potsherds. This is because I want to keep an antiquated feel and because I am no artist. If anyone wants to contribute visually, please do!! Now, with that out of the way, let us begin! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3111817
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clockworkjoe posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3111817 You are Nineteen. You came of age a bit late, partially due to your mother's coddling, but you came of age with a vengeance. Your appetite for sex is only matched by a satyr and exceeded only by Bacchus himself! You are tall, lean and a bit waify for a man. In fact, sometimes men seem to be more attracted to you than women because of your slight figure and baby face. At nineteen, you fit your cognomen (Pavo, "peacock") well. You usually wear a white tunic with green labyrinth patterning and a bright saffron toga that makes you unmistakable in public. ... 74 pages, christ. Is all of it like that? Holy poo poo, just clicked on a random page: quote:DRAMATIS PERSONAE I don't think this is at all realistic why do I not want to gently caress Bubo at all? 
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Jun 6, 2009 05:29
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I am really surprised to see an on-topic post in this thread come from GBS. I mean, yeah, I know it's GBS, but still.
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Jun 6, 2009 05:47
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TG Discussion: BY JUPITER'S STONE, YOU MUST READ THIS
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[REDACTED], During the last session, the group expressed their feelings on your style of play and missing several of the sessions. Baring Emergencies, Major Holidays, and Important Events (Weddings, Funerals and the like), they wold like to see you every Sunday for the rest of the year. As for your style of play, it seems to be too incompatible with the majority of the other players. the group as a whole seems to think it slows down the game and makes it harder for the others to accomplish thier goals. If this was a Story Teller style game (Like White Wolf) I think your concept would be more accepted. The group would like to see the following changes: Attend the game for the remaining Sundays of the year starting 07/01/07 (Baring the example listed eariler). Brush up on the Rules in the Player's Handbook and your chracters class abilities. Play your characters as a more straight laced, useful member of the party. If you honestly belive you can make thoses changes we will be happy to see you again on 07/01/07. Also, [REDACTED] has also been given a similar message and I am waiting for his reply. [REDACTED]
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Eggplant Ronin posted:[REDACTED], Ahh good I'm giving my players their midyear reviews on Sunday and I needed a template...
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Jun 6, 2009 06:46
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What happened to just saying 'thanks for coming out, but our play styles don't mesh. Sorry dude.'? It happens, it's not a big deal. And what's up with that 'every Sunday save emergencies' thing? Do they have some series issues with flakey players?
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Jun 6, 2009 07:32
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"1001 'Barbaric' Customs: Superstitions, Taboos, Rituals, etc."quote:326 - Every time your humanoid enemy is near death and your enemy is a female humanoid, you rape her.
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Jun 6, 2009 11:43
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Lugubrious posted:"1001 'Barbaric' Customs: Superstitions, Taboos, Rituals, etc." Mutilation, rape and eye exams. Sounds very conductive to a community!
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Jun 6, 2009 12:52
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Lugubrious posted:"1001 'Barbaric' Customs: Superstitions, Taboos, Rituals, etc." Why is barbaric in quotes
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Jun 6, 2009 16:37
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RagnarokAngel posted:Why is barbaric in quotes Its not really that bad :P I mean a mature group can handle it
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Jun 6, 2009 16:57
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RagnarokAngel posted:Why is barbaric in quotes why is there self-censorship in another rape-glorifying post? who knows?
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Jun 6, 2009 17:55
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Drox posted:why is there self-censorship in another rape-glorifying post? who knows? Cause some poo poo is just wrong you depraved loony
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Jun 6, 2009 17:56
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Seftir posted:Cause some poo poo is just wrong you depraved loony Look, you should always chop off a dude's ******* for being caught stealing another man's woman, but god help you if you say *******!
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Jun 6, 2009 20:45
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I was reading a gay-themed thread over on the General Discussion board, and I got the impression that a lot of gamers (especially the gaymers) exclusively play characters who share their own sexual orientation. It got me wondering how else the characters we play are influenced by who we are. I find it particularly interesting in Exalted where sexuality is very present in the setting that even bestiality is not that big of a deal (if it has the purpose of breeding beastmen anyway). Is there anything that you have never played and that you would never really consider playing? Is it because you feel you cannot identify with the character? Or because you feel it would be inappropiate to deal with a certain topic? I am a heterosexual white male, but I have played everything from gay to straight to bi as well as several different ethnicities and both genders as well as cross-dressers. Some of my characters have been children, some have been extremely old. Some have been athletes and some have been handicapped. I have played the hero, but I have also portrayed racists, homophobes, rapists, murderers, drug addicts, the clinically insane, and an array of other things that I am not. I have never played a pedophile as such, but I did portray a female Abyssal at one point who had an unhealthy relation to children because of her own flawed childhood. It was never obviously sexual in nature, but it was motherly in a disturbingly childish kind of way so it had undertones of sexuality. It was a narrow line to walk. I think one of the great things about roleplaying is the opportunity to explore situations that you would not experience in real life and playing someone different from yourself really helps that along.
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quote:I DM a regular game and I figured out that instant death effects are not the way to go. This seems pretty reasonable until you get to the bit where he says if you're not smart enough to know when his fight is designed to be unwinnable it's "see you next campaign." I presume this sort of smugness is as equally grognardy as plain wrongness.
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The General posted:What happened to just saying 'thanks for coming out, but our play styles don't mesh. Sorry dude.'? Are you serious? Anyone with a life is a flakey player. It's not realistic at all to say "every X" when talking about most DnD groups, because hundreds of other things can come up. You just check with everyone about when they're free next.
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Lurdiak posted:Are you serious? Anyone with a life is a flakey player. It's not realistic at all to say "every X" when talking about most DnD groups, because hundreds of other things can come up. You just check with everyone about when they're free next. look motherfucker we're trying to craft an epic tale of here so if you can't be bothered to commit then I guess we know who is next on the character rape train...
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I had missed one sunday because I went out drinking and had a nasty hangover, and the next sunday I missed because it was father's day and I guess I was the only person with a dad. When I finally did show back up, they didn't feel like they should address me directly during the session and instead sent me an email after the game.
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See now there is the problem started by LW and the Blumes, and continued with WotC to bastardize what it is for a quick buck. I don't play franchise. I cannot go and play McDonald's can I? No because it is not a game. Likewise D&D is not longer a game nor has any meaning. It is Jello and Bandaids now. Only one company is allowed to use the name and logo for a product, but that name is used as a generic term by others and the name has no meaning. Every time I ask for a bandaid I don't need a product made by Johnson & Johnson. Every time I eat jello it doesn't have the logo on it. Wherein Jello doesn't have such a following to where eating it means something other than eating generic gelatin, and only the company has anything to really get upset about, likewise bandaid is the same way. When you have a product that is user configurable and the name carries weight to really identify what the product is, like D&D, when you turn it into something other than it is then the users like the product no longer have a purpose to using that name. When they tried to turn D&D into a brand, a label just to stick on things, they diluted any weight that name carried. Like Jello is a product line, as well Bandaid, now so is D&D. I didn't play D&D for many years because it was D&D. I played D&D for many years because everything else out there to me sucked. It didn't offer what I wanted form a game. Other games had some interesting things, but as a whole they were not something worthy of my playing. Now with 4th edition D&D has become something not worthy of me playing because it is so far from anything I would play. No longer can you casually discuss D&D, especially after 3rd; and have decent talks about it, because the way the name/brand has been diluted to just mean (and many people use it this way) a generic term for fantasy RPGs. Any other company that makes a product that its buying public doesn't acknowledge as worthy of carrying the name quickly hides that product and terminates its production in hopes that the buying public will forget it and forgive them. This buying public is often the supporters of that company and fans of its products, rather than random people that did not buy its products before if it carries a name well know to be a specific thing. How many ET video games do you see today, and what happened to those made for the Atari? "4th edition D&D" is the "Atari 2600 ET" of the RPG world. Kemper Boyd fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jun 7, 2009 |
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Kemper Boyd posted:How many ET video games do you see today, and what happened to those made for the Atari? Let's check some numbers, shall we? Of the 20 best selling books in the Puzzles and Gaming >> Role-Playing Games category on Amazon, 4e books hold 14 spots (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #11, #13, #15, #16, #17, #18, and #19). Five of those, including #1, haven't even been released yet; the preorders along are enough to put them in the top 20. Other edition books hold three other slots. The only other RPG in the top #20 is Star Wars RPG. In Entertainment >> Puzzles and Games, 4th edition has 5 spots (#4, #5, #7, #14, and #18). The only things higher are the Sims 3 guide and two GRE prep courses. The unreleased Eberron holds slot #455 in sales out of every book on Amazon. Out of the top 100 role-playing and fantasy products, D&D books and minis from all editions have over half the slots(55). I don't think WotC is in too bad of shape. And if that's not a grognards.txt worthy post, then I'll be damned
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TG Discussion: I cannot go and play McDonald's can I? No because it is not a game.
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HKR posted:TG Discussion: I cannot go and play McDonald's can I? No because it is not a game. In Unknown Armies, you can play McDonalds.
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I really want to know how people can use "it's not selling IT'S A FAILURE" as an argument when there's gobs of information that basically says it's selling like hotcakes. Wasn't MM2 on the NYT bestsellers list the week it came out? And that's a book that is mostly just for DMs.
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Lugubrious posted:I really want to know how people can use "it's not selling IT'S A FAILURE" as an argument when there's gobs of information that basically says it's selling like hotcakes. Wasn't MM2 on the NYT bestsellers list the week it came out? And that's a book that is mostly just for DMs. This is the danger of living off anecdotal evidence. Grognards travel in grognard circles and see nobody buying the game. They just assume that everyone is like them.
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I always knew it was selling well and doing good because no one wanted to join in my grognard games
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Lugubrious posted:I really want to know how people can use "it's not selling IT'S A FAILURE" as an argument when there's gobs of information that basically says it's selling like hotcakes. Wasn't MM2 on the NYT bestsellers list the week it came out? And that's a book that is mostly just for DMs. It was PHB2.
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Lugubrious posted:I really want to know how people can use "it's not selling IT'S A FAILURE" as an argument when there's gobs of information that basically says it's selling like hotcakes. Wasn't MM2 on the NYT bestsellers list the week it came out? And that's a book that is mostly just for DMs. If you'll forgive me for posting Games poo poo in TGD, these are the same people who think Nintendo is failing because they're selling casual games to casual gamers hand over fist.
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IMJack posted:If you'll forgive me for posting Games poo poo in TGD, these are the same people who think Nintendo is failing because they're selling casual games to casual gamers hand over fist. Yes and no. No rational gamer thinks Nintendo is failing financially, it doesn't mean in their opinion they're succeeding in quality however. Some believe the same thing in 4e, but there are people who don't think 4e is doing either.
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Kemper Boyd posted:See now there is the problem started by LW and the Blumes, and continued with WotC to bastardize what it is for a quick buck. What the hell IS this? At first I thought it was your standard, "WotC cares about making money, ergo 4e sucks", but actually it looks like his argument is, "A word can't refer to two different things -- thus, now that 'D&D' refers to a franchise, it can no longer refer to a game." Is he really claiming you can't discuss D&D anymore? What?
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opaopa13 posted:What the hell IS this? At first I thought it was your standard, "WotC cares about making money, ergo 4e sucks", but actually it looks like his argument is, "A word can't refer to two different things -- thus, now that 'D&D' refers to a franchise, it can no longer refer to a game." Is he really claiming you can't discuss D&D anymore? What? No, I'm pretty sure he's 'just' saying that, because 4e is so bad, it has retroactively tainted everything that was brilliant and inspired in the other editions. Not that that makes any more sense, but, you know, grognard
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opaopa13 posted:What the hell IS this? At first I thought it was your standard, "WotC cares about making money, ergo 4e sucks", but actually it looks like his argument is, "A word can't refer to two different things -- thus, now that 'D&D' refers to a franchise, it can no longer refer to a game." Is he really claiming you can't discuss D&D anymore? What? To be honest, I have no loving idea.
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Kemper Boyd posted:To be honest, I have no loving idea. I like how it became a generic name to slap on different systems when 4e came along. A, 2 and 3? All completely fine (nevermind that d20 tried to be the most generic thing ever). But 4e, a system built specifically to simulate tactical fantasy roleplay? Generic and has ruined the D&D name.
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The general mental health of D&D player can pretty much be judged through what's their favorite edition though. Anyone who prefers the older versions for any other reason than nostalgia or an occasional thing to do is pretty much batshit insane. Or that guy in rpg.net who's posts consist of ORIGINAL D&D IS THE BEST I PLAYED WITH GYGAX LISTEN TO ME.
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Kemper Boyd posted:Anyone who prefers the older versions for any other reason than nostalgia or an occasional thing to do is pretty much batshit insane. Gad damnit, I never thought of myself as batshit insane
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The General posted:Gad damnit, I never thought of myself as batshit insane says the guy who seriousposts in "grognards.txt"
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