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I still want to hear about this Irish Deer. Did that survive past the early editions?
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My favorite exchange:quote:Zack: I don't know about fangs, but you can bet if I had the power to imbue life to piles of objects I would be figuring out ways to hump it.
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Jul 8, 2011 06:16
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This is the second time Koyaanisqatsi has come up in a feature this week.
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Just a reminder for folks who don't look at the front page or GBS much: This year's D&D art contest has been announced! Check out the thread for everyone's submissions, or to submit one of your own.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Just a reminder for folks who don't look at the front page or GBS much: But do look at a GBS subforum about the front page? 
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Jul 9, 2011 20:05
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Well some people bookmark or favorite threads, and I usually just click the small 'SA Front Page Discussion' link under GBS before I actually go to GBS itself.
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Jul 9, 2011 20:43
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New one! And about one of the most underrated WoD games in the line. I remember playing Mummy four years ago with a my group because the DM lent his other books and literally had only that one. The only detail i remember was my character being called Robert U. Tankamen.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-top-module.php?page=1 Congrats to all the winners, placers and so forth in this year's contest! And as for the article discussing it- this just further supports my theory that Steve is not real, but rather a creation of Zack for the purpose of making fun of stereotypes about D&D players. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Aug 12, 2011 |
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Aug 12, 2011 10:18
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/steve-top-module.php?page=1 If Steve "Malak" Sumner did not exist, it would be necessary to create him. -Oscar Wilde
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Aug 13, 2011 03:02
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Buddy Jones' favourite game found: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/24/dragon-commander-preview/
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Aug 25, 2011 08:53
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quote:Steve: Mostly I had to finish old video games I never got around to beating in real life. Like the Shadowrun game for Genesis and Crimson Skies and Crescent Hawks Revenge.
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Will the contest campaign and playthrough ever be made? Or have they been forgotten?
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Sorry to double-post, but I'm a little worried about the content campaign/playthrough. Have you guys given up on it?
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I am also curious about the fate of that event. Is there anything we can do to help? I'd gladly log a few hours balancing statblocks and skillchecks for the cause.
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I apologize and I apologize especially to the authors, but we are not going to be doing a playthrough of the rooms. The rules aspect wasn't the problem - we don't really pay much attention to the rules - the problem was more conceptual. Almost every entry was trying to be funny in some way, which works great as entries in a contest, but does not make for the best in a satirical play-through. From our end the contest was pretty heavily flawed all around and we'll be doing something much different and simpler next year. To reiterate, the entries we received were awesome, this is not the fault in any way of all the great contributors, we just didn't think this whole thing through very well.
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elpintogrande posted:I apologize and I apologize especially to the authors, but we are not going to be doing a playthrough of the rooms. The rules aspect wasn't the problem - we don't really pay much attention to the rules - the problem was more conceptual. Almost every entry was trying to be funny in some way, which works great as entries in a contest, but does not make for the best in a satirical play-through. From our end the contest was pretty heavily flawed all around and we'll be doing something much different and simpler next year. Will the module still be released?
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BiggerJ posted:Will the module still be released? No. Sorry.
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That's too bad! Here's the one me and Chorocojo and TyrsHTML submitted that didn't get shown. Through a tall oaken door, one enters a dimly lit, large 80' long by 20’ wide by 15’ high rectangular chamber. Its walls are covered from the ground to the ceiling by the stuffed and otherwise taxidermically prepared heads of dead creatures and peoples, their faces contorted in fright and anger. Its floor is a fine, solid wood, with a central red carpet leading to the distant end of the chamber. At the far wall, perpendicular to another large oaken door leading out, an ornate fireplace is alit. Before it is a large, high-backed leather chair; upon this chair sits a Lich, dressed in hunter's refinement. By its side lays a massive, shaggy-haired Dire Bear, pulsating with dark power. The hunter cannot be seen from the entrance (as he is facing the fireplace), but as soon as the party enters the room, the door closes behind them, locked by magical power, and the chair turns. The Lich and its companion attack, seeking the heads of those that enter. The Lich is dressed in classical, Victorian-style hunting gear, with a mighty grey mustache on its sunken, decayed face. It wears a sola topi on its head, and a monocle on its right eye. It carries in its hands an enchanted musket, its primary method of attack. It is the only one that can use this musket, and it melts away upon the Lich’s true death. Its temperament is murderous and condescending; it desires only to add to its already expansive collection of heads, nothing more. It has prolonged its life in order to prove itself the Greatest of Hunters, and so it sees all that it encounters (except its faithful hunting companion) as a soon-to-be addition to his collection. The Dire Bear is covered in shaggy black hair, nasty looking bone spikes, and is especially dire. It is quite possibly the direst bear anyone has ever seen. It pulsates with dark power. Its heart is actually an artificial, magical construction created by the lich, with the Lich’s phlactery as part of the load-bearing construction. Killing the bear will not destroy the phlactery in and of itself; the bear's heart needs to be destroyed to terminate the lich. The walls are covered in the very dead heads of the Lich's previous prey, consisting of a variety of very dangerous beasts, as well as quite a few less intimidating ones. The heads are mildly enchanted, such that if one comes into contact with the heads, they will receive 2D3 damage due to their bites. This is true for the Lich and Dire Bear as well! There were some stats as well but whoooo caaaares.
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Thanks for the nostalgia bomb on page 9 of the Cyborg Commando update. I love you guys.
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So according to the unhelpful diagram on page 9, cyborg commandos are mouth-breathers who eat and drink through their noses?
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Arschlochkind posted:So according to the unhelpful diagram on page 9, cyborg commandos are mouth-breathers who eat and drink through their noses? That is what I got from this as well, and it is disturbing. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/cyborg-gygax-1987.php?page=9 Cyborgs gasping for breath, snorting root beer, shoving hamburgers up their noses.
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Arschlochkind posted:So according to the unhelpful diagram on page 9, cyborg commandos are mouth-breathers who eat and drink through their noses? There nose is labeled "in/out," so evidently they do more than eat and drink through their nose.
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I don't get it. Why is Osama bin Laden looking at a cutaway cyborg head?
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It's from this ridiculous map of "Bin Laden's Mountain Fortress", a concept that had no basis in reality, published in Time or some other lovely magazine: It's a running gag in the series, I've seen him on a few images that similarly look like they've been drawn by a child.
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I saw that picture and thought "it's Bin Laden's mountain fortress!" before I ecen noticed the Al Qaedo in the corner. I think Cyborg Commando was one of the funniest recent wtfdnds, so nice job.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:It's from this ridiculous map of "Bin Laden's Mountain Fortress", a concept that had no basis in reality, published in Time or some other lovely magazine: This man clearly shotgunned all the Bond movies.
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we've used that gag before in the article about the old Rogue Trader book:
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MasterSlowPoke posted:It's from this ridiculous map of "Bin Laden's Mountain Fortress", a concept that had no basis in reality, published in Time or some other lovely magazine: It's a joke from the first ever photoshop phriday http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/bin-ladens-mountain.php
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Happy Halloween, everyone! Read along as Steve and Zack delve into the scariest monsters D&D has to offer.
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Nice update as always, and I was pleasantly surprised to see you pulled most of the art out of Hackmaster this time around. Then I was unpleasantly surprised by my ability to instantly recognize where D&D monster art comes from.
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When they repeat themselves on the Beholder one... is that a mistake or a joke that I don't get?
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CaptBushido posted:When they repeat themselves on the Beholder one... is that a mistake or a joke that I don't get? formatting error thanks for pointing it out
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Chainsawdomy posted:Nice update as always, and I was pleasantly surprised to see you pulled most of the art out of Hackmaster this time around. Truth. That part where the troll's own severed leg kicks the guy the troll's strangling in the butt brought back some aged memories of laughing at it when Hackmaster did it. Also, I think a Zack wasn't coloured yellow on the last page. Another formatting error?
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Oh boy, new WTF, DND?! I couldn't help but read "Upon donning the Neutral Control Helmet, the six laser, jet balls jump to life..." with Gary Owens's voice.
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A new WTF, D&D? It's a Christmas miracle! I think the arrows on Constitution's costume may be pointing to his diaper. That costume goes all the way from his forehead to his ankles, it would be a pain in the rear end to get half undressed every time he needs to take a leak. I admire his foresight.
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This is one of the best things on the SA Front Page. I love them to death, even when they make fun of the games I love. EDIT: I should be clear I am NOT a fan of Symbalata products. Well, minus Systems Failure. But that's neither here nor there.
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The latest article is about Super Hero team ups. Personally, I think the funniest line was from the book itself, and not from the commentary: "Occupation: Conqueror"
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I really love the name "Poundcakes." However, my favorite has to the the Supremecists. I want to read that so bad. But seeing all these brings me back to how comic characters used to all look and how cool I thought they were back then. Looking at them now it's just hilarious.
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The guy with the melty head and the half-gorilla dude actually WERE created in the 1950's. Though Chondu's whole story sort of unravels sort of like a bad dream, as well:quote:Doctor Strange later mystically placed Chondu's consciousness within the body of a fawn. The Headmen then gave Chondu a monstrous, demonic-looking form with eight lampreys for arms, bat-wings, a horn from his skull, a forked tongue, and eagle’s feet. In this form, he had superhuman strength, could fly, and could constrict objects with his tentacle-like arms. This drove Chondu insane. Also: Schwarzwald posted:Personally, I think the funniest line was from the book itself, and not from the commentary: "Marital Status: Single" John Dyne fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 6, 2012 |
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