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Dectilon posted:Man, if bards actually played like this no one would ever play a mage ever again. 4e bards get a move called 'Vicious Mockery' that does damage by making fun of the enemy, and it also gives -2 to attack. So yeah it's not exactly 'rock so hard their face flies off' but they're getting there and are no longer the crummy little rogue-wanna-bes that can also buff the party.
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John Dyne posted:4e bards get a move called 'Vicious Mockery' that does damage by making fun of the enemy, and it also gives -2 to attack. Well at that point you just have to change the name of the move for the same effects. There's no reason your couldn't associate the various buffs and songs a bard gets with a vicious, shreadable guitar solo. Role Play that poo poo out, more fun that way!
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Oct 14, 2010 16:35
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Dollar bills and MacDonald's coupons instead of candy sounds like a pretty sweet deal me I gotta say. Also my Swedish heart weeps from beauty over the name of that bard.
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Oct 14, 2010 21:53
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Dectilon posted:Man, if bards actually played like this no one would ever play a mage ever again. I love the fact that Steve admitted he had no clue how a bard worked and that it didn't matter anyway. 
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Oct 15, 2010 01:08
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I like how the interplay between Zack and Steve has been evolving over time. Zack started out railroading like Thomas the frigging Tank Engine, then Steve figured out how to metagame, and now Zack is at least partly willing to put up with Steve's poo poo (if only because he didn't know how bards work and undoubtedly didn't like the possibility of them being loving useless).
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Oct 15, 2010 07:00
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"I'm going to allow it." Yes it's from Part 1, but I loved the whole thing. Also nice of the Martian Manhunter to make a cameo on the back cover like that.
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Oct 15, 2010 17:17
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/fiend-folio-3e.php WTF, D&D moves to 3rd edition. How many lamprey mouths are too many lamprey mouths? Also the Xerfilstyx is the dumbest looking monster.
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Oct 21, 2010 22:19
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That horned-eel-tentacle-fish monster is trying way too hard.
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Oct 21, 2010 22:37
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I'm talking when drow meat-rock onion booty drop the red tube, you feel me?
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Oct 22, 2010 00:19
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D&D always prided itself on given an original Dungeon experience.It wasn't as repetitive as most video games,with the same endless mobs. I am just curious has anyone in this thread actually played D&D because I always assumed the Game-master probably never used most of the monsters in the Monster manuals either?
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Oct 26, 2010 11:16
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As someone who has just recently been introduced to the game, may I say that all of the WTF D&D articles are great for newcomers as well as (from what I can tell) veterans. There's a certain giddiness to reading through them again now that I know what the gently caress the actual game is like: they were funny before, but god drat.
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e: here's a giant post about dungeons and dragons!Rapier posted:D&D always prided itself on given an original Dungeon experience.It wasn't as repetitive as most video games,with the same endless mobs. Speaking for myself personally, I used to be a huge sucker for buying whatever crap Wizards of the Coast pumped out. The first Monster Manual for 3rd edition was pretty heavily used, to the point where pretty much every enemy was a "not one of these guys again" experience for the players, except some of the more obscure demons/devils (there were a million of these). So I bought Monster Manual 2 and it pretty much instantly became a huge in-joke how ridiculous some of these monsters were. "It's got how many eyes? Is this a Monster Manual 2 monster or something?!" I mean for god's sake when do you ever need your players to fight an Ixitxachitl badly enough to try and pronounce that poo poo? It was almost worth it though for the one time a giant blob of random as gently caress abilities turned one of the players into a giant bee and we found out the "treasure" entry for giant bees only allows them to own honey. They are completely unique in this insane leap of logic that some goddamn game dev saw fit to sneak in, bucking the entire loving system of treasure management. Oh, and dire elephants have a climb speed of 10', which make them only half as good at scaling vertical surfaces as your average giant spider, which I can only presume is some kind of insane interpretation of Hannibal's charge across the alps. Shanty fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Nov 1, 2010 |
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Nov 1, 2010 23:31
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Thanks for finally getting to Spelljammer. It's patently ridiculous and over the top, but that's what makes it the best setting, dammnit! Also glad to see that my SJ game wasn't the only one rife with Star Trek jokes. "Uhh, captain, the Illithids have us in their ship's tentacles. Should I continue casting magic missile captain? As you wish captain, as you wish." *Takei laugh*
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Nov 11, 2010 12:58
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Don't forget to include a link! Also: crap, why the hell do I only notice my favorite front page updates like five minutes before I have to leave to somewhere.
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Nov 11, 2010 13:55
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I only owned the core Spelljammer rules and an expansion for ship-to-ship combat, and I recognize about half the art in that article from my old books. They really re-used a lot of art back then.
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I never got much into Spelljammer and I'm immediately regretting it. It just seems to out there and open, not to mention ridiculous. Maybe we can get another Spelljammer epic quest?
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Nov 12, 2010 07:38
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Could somebody explain the riddle to me? Why does a mirror have "Fire within"?
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Nov 12, 2010 10:59
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Steve is a goddamn genius. The idea of a beholder thief and then Scotty 8 kobolds nearly had me in tears.Daniel Thorburn posted:Could somebody explain the riddle to me? Why does a mirror have "Fire within"? When it's reflecting a fire, the fire is 'within' the mirror without affecting its temperature ('burning cold').
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Nov 12, 2010 21:23
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reflir posted:When it's reflecting a fire, the fire is 'within' the mirror without affecting its temperature ('burning cold'). Also, fireplaces were probably a lot more common whenever the hell that riddle was written.
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Nov 13, 2010 05:30
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Happy Thanksgiving! http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/thanksgiving-thankful-vampirella.php You really know all the old touchstones of the nerd world. I, too, am glad my little toy soliders are made from safer pewter or plastic now, and "intent to retard" is a new and fascinating crime to consider. Also, is that picture from the second page an actual game? Because "Call me fatherfinder, PI" is up there for bad dialogue. Deus Ex levels of bad dialogue.
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Elmo Oxygen posted:I'm talking when drow meat-rock onion booty drop the red tube, you feel me? I still read the Maulgoth entry every few days and I still crack up for like 10 solid minutes afterwards.
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Nov 26, 2010 08:10
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Dolash posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/thanksgiving-thankful-vampirella.php Whoomp! (There it is) is by Tag Team 
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Dolash posted:Also, is that picture from the second page an actual game? Because "Call me fatherfinder, PI" is up there for bad dialogue. Deus Ex levels of bad dialogue. Looks like it's from Star Trek Online, assuming the picture's taken from this blog entry: https://mmogamerchick.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/
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Nov 27, 2010 08:52
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New article is up, more V:tM http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/vampire-artwork-montreal.php What possible context could there ever be for that image? You'll know the one when you read the article. Jesus christ.
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As someone who never reads this article (though thanks to this one I'm thinking I should), something about terrible art in Vampire drew me into this edition. It was all good until I came across that last picture. No commentary alive can soften the blow on that one, not even commentary as good as yours. Holy hell.
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Souldark posted:New article is up, more V:tM I am sure some abortion/menses fetishist is whacking it to that right now.
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gently caress you, Vampire: The Masquerade.
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What image are you guys talking about? I remember nothing beyond page 11, other than a pain in my head and the taste of linoleum.
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Seriously, why the gently caress does that picture exist. What could the context possibly be.
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Bedevere posted:I am sure some abortion/menses fetishist is whacking it to that right now. Knowing White Wolf, that has something to do with it. Serious storytelling people, not like D&D!
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quote:Well, now, the Sabbat Boys had gone rabbit in the General Lee, headin' for the county line with Prince of Hazzard County Hogg's stolen recipe for Miss Ida's barbecue sauce. All they had to do was get over that old bridge at Camarilla Holler and they'd be free and clear to the Enoch Barbecue Festival. When we left 'em the boys had just realized the bridge was out and Chief Justiciar Roscoe P. Coltrane was in hot pursuit. ^^^ best part
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Souldark posted:New article is up, more V:tM They're vampires they kill people and drink blood.
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Steve's a nicer person than I for assuming it was crotch blood.
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"Hey guys, you know the scene in Andy Warhol's Dracula where Joe Dallesandro rapes a virgin, and then Udo Kier comes along afterward and licks the blood off the floor? I know how to make it even better."
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Joke's on you, Zack, I just finished running a Vampire game this past Tuesday and we had a black player  Deal with it.Also jesus christ that last image, it is literally frightening.
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Karl Rove posted:Also jesus christ that last image, it is literally frightening. It's a lot sexier if you imagine the girl chained to the urinal just has a bad nosebleed.
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:It's a lot sexier if you imagine the girl chained to the urinal just has a bad nosebleed. It's pretty hosed up. I'll defend art on a lot of levels, but jesus, in your Role Playing Game? That's the sort of visual you want players going in with? Good god.
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DamnGlitch posted:It's pretty hosed up. I'll defend art on a lot of levels, but jesus, in your Role Playing Game? That's the sort of visual you want players going in with? Good god. I agree the picture is all kinds of messed up, though it may fit the mood of most World of Darkness RPGs (every time I played people either wanted to just talk snobby to each other in accents or engage in violent perversion, so I went back to D&D). I wasn't completely serious, just making a joke about violence against women being sexier than menstruation.
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:I agree the picture is all kinds of messed up, though it may fit the mood of most World of Darkness RPGs (every time I played people either wanted to just talk snobby to each other in accents or engage in violent perversion, so I went back to D&D). I wasn't completely serious, just making a joke about violence against women being sexier than menstruation. I guess what I mean is that being part of someone's role playing adventure. Which is generally a group of dudes. Which is weird.
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DamnGlitch posted:I guess what I mean is that being part of someone's role playing adventure. Which is generally a group of dudes. Which is weird. The two times I played Vampire: The Masquerade, the group was mostly female. That may have been the problem. Obese attention whores trying to out-evil each other are not as funny as you would think.
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