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ClearAirTurbulence posted: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. Now that I think about it I had a girlfriend that was into world of darkness, and like 3 or 4 members of her group were girls. Women and vampires 
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I was thinking of getting a giant eagle for my home but I hadn't heard that statistic you used until today and I should probably rethink my home-protection plans. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/christmas-elf-dnd.php
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Steve posted:Elves are like, that woman with the red hair that's basically a man, but at the same time she's sort of hot, but also scary. I can say without hyperbole that is by far the best description of Tilda Swinton I've ever read.
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neoboman posted:I can say without hyperbole that is by far the best description of Tilda Swinton I've ever read. For a moment I thought he was talking about the singer from La Roux.
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I can't believe this hasn't been posted here yet.WTF? Werewolf: the Apocalypse posted:Steve: Even wolf men need to hire CPAs to do their taxes.
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The Triumphant Return of RIFTS. Come join Zack and Steve on their magical journey through one of earth's most exotic and undocumented regions: Canada.
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If you ever run out of DnD books to make fun of then please do an update made up entirely of Steve telling Zack about his dreams and Zack's response to said dreams
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A whole Rifts book dedicated to Calgary? Really. There isn't a big enough  to express how I'm feeling at this moment.
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Not just a Sasquatch OCC, but a Worldly Sasquatch OCC. I must have this book.
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Johnny Walker posted:What the hell is a Glitter Boy? I only owned Rifts for about 3 days, I had a really cool game store owner who gave me my money back when I showed him how stupid mega damage was, but I can still remember this one. It's a guy in shiny powered armor with a really big gun (so big that the armor automatically fires stakes into the ground from the feet before firing because of recoil). Aside from their name, they were actually not terrible at all, which was very rare in Rifts. In a game full of insanely overpowered characters, a shiny man with a really big gun was not that weird of a character concept.
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:I only owned Rifts for about 3 days, I had a really cool game store owner who gave me my money back when I showed him how stupid mega damage was, but I can still remember this one. It's a guy in shiny powered armor with a really big gun (so big that the armor automatically fires stakes into the ground from the feet before firing because of recoil). Aside from their name, they were actually not terrible at all, which was very rare in Rifts. In a game full of insanely overpowered characters, a shiny man with a really big gun was not that weird of a character concept. Glitter Boys were also laser-reflective, which is where they got their names. I played briefly with some friends and I played a grackletooth, which is basically a giant hillbilly crocodile with a heart of gold, and yeah, MD was pretty doofy. With a team of a mystic and a cyber-knight, I was the only person capable of normally dealing and surviving mega-damage, which made things very hard to balance for our GM. It was either give me a challenging fight and let the others get reamed, or I rip up a tree and beat 15 guys to death with it in one or two swings. It was fun as hell but it sure as hell wasn't made to be a numbers game, I don't think. It's more of a vehicle for doofy poo poo.
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No love for the Space: 1889 post? I'm a big fan of the game- it's a great setting even if some of the rules are a little clunky. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/space-steampunk-mars.php
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Never even heard of this one. I love when Steve goes, "Noooooooo!" My favorite is when Zack said ninjas are still cool and Steve's like whew and then Zack's like "For an idiot who loves poo poo," and Steve's like "Nooooooo!"
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Maxwell Lord posted:No love for the Space: 1889 post? I'm a big fan of the game- it's a great setting even if some of the rules are a little clunky. Steampunk is poo poo and all but I suddenly got the urge to play as Sherlock Holmes: Steamship Star Detective.
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I also used to really like Space: 1889, although I liked the parts that were more straightforward homages to HG Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs rather than the more typically steampunkish stuff rightfully parodied here. I do remember one campaign setting that was based on a space liner going from Earth to Mars and had Martian nobles involved that was pretty fun.
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Schwarzwald posted:Man, not even Steve could stay enthused for this one. Yeah, this one was harder for the guys to carry, and it was harder for me to stay amused by. I'm pretty sure it's because steampunk isn't hilariously stupid, it's just stupid stupid. I guess you could say this article...didn't have enough STEAM  :pleasekillme:e.; the story about the bat did make me laugh though so even a weak WTF DnD is still pretty drat good
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I have no idea why people hate steampunk so much aside from perhaps the people who like steam punk. The hate for it seems really put upon and forced. I liked the the article, especially Steve's comeback "Sorry they can't all be WWII alternate history scenarios where goblins get elected Hitler. How's that for relevant? You know in case we have a Hitler problem or whatever with goblins."
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DamnGlitch posted:I have no idea why people hate steampunk so much aside from perhaps the people who like steam punk.
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Space 1899 wasn't really steampunk, it was an homage to the scientific romance genre and was written before steampunk was big. There's some similarities, but steampunk is modern authors writing cyberpunk-style books set in alternate Victorian times, while scientific romance was people in Victorian times speculating about going to other planets with the technology they had (and in the Space 1899 series the spaceship engines were electrical). See Edison's Conquest of Mars for an example that was obviously very influential to Space 1899.
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raezr posted:Yeah there's nothing at all intrinsically stupid about steam powered spaceships in the 1800s. ...and dragons and rolling dice and playing in a basement all day are intrinsically smart? It's the same poo poo, who cares, why get angry about it?
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:Space 1899 wasn't really steampunk, it was an homage to the scientific romance genre and was written before steampunk was big. There's some similarities, but steampunk is modern authors writing cyberpunk-style books set in alternate Victorian times, while scientific romance was people in Victorian times speculating about going to other planets with the technology they had (and in the Space 1899 series the spaceship engines were electrical). See Edison's Conquest of Mars for an example that was obviously very influential to Space 1899. Regardless of that the new release is definitely trying to ride the steampunk wave, which was the impetus for us doing the original.
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True, but assuming they don't change a lot it's more "Victorian space opera" than "Victorian cyberpunk".
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I don't know what's wrong with you guys, steampunk is always funny. I'd like to see another update on this, maybe one that involves playing out a scenario. The party could consist of, say, an emotionless true atheist, a nonsexual flapper girl, a hard-living gambler, and a tough-as-nails photojournalist.poor and weird posted:I guess you could say this article...didn't have enough STEAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-tRErs5UcI
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that awful man posted:I don't know what's wrong with you guys, steampunk is always funny. I'd like to see another update on this, maybe one that involves playing out a scenario. The party could consist of, say, an emotionless true atheist, a nonsexual flapper girl, a hard-living gambler, and a tough-as-nails photojournalist. I think there's a video game about that, I saw it at Gamestop once but didn't have the $1.99 they were charging.
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neoboman posted:I think there's a video game about that, I saw it at Gamestop once but didn't have the $1.99 they were charging. No you didn't.
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DamnGlitch posted:No you didn't. Woah, drat you sure schooled that guy. Unless he was making a joke of course.
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Maybe this isn't the right thread but, what exactly are we defining as steam punk? Because if you count steam technology and the questioning of social mores most of Joseph Conrad's novels are steampunk.
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Piedmon Sama posted:Maybe this isn't the right thread but, what exactly are we defining as steam punk? Because if you count steam technology and the questioning of social mores most of Joseph Conrad's novels are steampunk.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/kevin-siembieda-aspergers.php Sure am sad I missed that discussion about whether steampunk was dumb and fun or dumb and annoying, but I think we can all agree that superheroes are inherently awesome & that security guard uniforms have never been so affordable! Buy now!
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Hey if that illustration is of a security guard, then why is he investigating a murder scene?
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Dude, definitely do more Heroes Unlimited.
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SinetheGuy posted:Dude, definitely do more Heroes Unlimited. Bend Light is the best power.
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I think we are past due for a WTF, MtG. Magic: The Gathering is a game a lot of DnD nerds dabbled with in Middle School, it's the first collectible card game ever, it;s filled with confusing and unnecessary rules, and in it's earlier sets had some really, uh, interesting art. Observe:   The art did get better with time, but sometimes something questionable still makes it's way in. This card is from the newest set, which was released like a month ago (yes, this game does still exist!)  But bad art is not all it has to offer, check out this rockin' elf babe 
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