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I was pleased that they didn't try to make the X-babies "sexy".  Then I realized that I'm setting the bar pretty low these days.
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"These bars are no match for my gypsy strength!" Never stop running modules, Zach and Steve.
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ChickenHeart posted:"These bars are no match for my gypsy strength!" Yeah, I was giggling pretty much non-stop through the latest article. If I ever play D&D again I'll be sure to make a wizard and take ventriloquism.
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quote:Steve: I am going to listen more carefully. This seems like the start of something big. I love how the NPC wizards are medieval frat boys.
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My favorite part was Steve pronouncing 'Nikkar' as 'Nikka,' Steve is so racially sensitive.
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These guys are the best wizards ever. RIP Shobaffum.
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Page 9; "Hey, what me to get you out, fatty?" Should be a "want" there? On the topic of fatties I think I loved this running joke more than I should, the You can hear it asking if you missed because your fat got in your eyes drop was simply divine.
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motherfish posted:Page 9; "Hey, what me to get you out, fatty?" This is the point where I completely lost it. The module runs are my favorite articles on SA.
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I love how utterly pointless each encounter is. A dining room with one black window spider, non-magical and non-giant. A quadret of gnomes that are slain for no reason. And the dumb selection of spells that nonetheless got used at every opportunity. I also liked how Trebbelos got younger and younger at the game went on.
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Last page had me laughing out loud. I really like these ones where you play the games.
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"Their bloodlust cannot be stopped. As neutral characters every good deed they do must be counterbalanced by a senseless act of evil." I completely lost it here.
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I really liked this one! Have you ever considered playing a high-level campaign just to showcase the ridiculusness of the higher levels?
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Benjamin Black posted:"Their bloodlust cannot be stopped. As neutral characters every good deed they do must be counterbalanced by a senseless act of evil." Well, that does seem to have been the mindset of a few of the more terrible players I've played with over the years. Add me to the chorus of people who love the module play-throughs.
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Who actually voiced The Barbarian's Dojo is the real question.
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Just posting to say the 'casual encounters' line from part 1 made me giggle for far longer than it should have. Well done.
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I was gasping for air, laughing so hard at this part:quote:Zack: The wizard who isn't Nikka or the baby and whose name I have totally forgotten is slain by the skeletons.
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The DMT and salvia potion was great.
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Nucular Carmul posted:The DMT and salvia potion was great. This is where I lost it. Poor Steve doesn't know what the gently caress.
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I've always wanted to D&D, but I think maybe what I've actually always wanted to do, was to do a fake self-aware campaign not taken seriously like this was. I really enjoyed it.
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Krinkle posted:I've always wanted to D&D, but I think maybe what I've actually always wanted to do, was to do a fake self-aware campaign not taken seriously like this was. I really enjoyed it. Sometimes reading the classic adventures is way more fun than actually playing them. The amount of dissonance between player and DM knowledge in a given encounter can be astounding. "Of course there'd be an ogre with a mace waiting to pulp anyone who was dumb enough to stick their head into that hole. Time to roll a new character at level one, rear end."
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Krinkle posted:I've always wanted to D&D, but I think maybe what I've actually always wanted to do, was to do a fake self-aware campaign not taken seriously like this was. I really enjoyed it. You want to play Paranoia or maybe Gamma World.
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So Palladium went to the trouble of making up Space History and naming the Gleep Glops and Jerkians but they got to the alien race that looks like humanoid, bipedal axolotls and decided to call them... Axolotl. 
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"It's ball sacks all the way down." I will never forget that.
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I think what really says it all is the fact they have standardized armor. Literally all alien bodies are 99% the same as humans from the neck down. Yeop.
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Awesome fantasy adventure abounds in the latest WTF, DnD? http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/conan-nestor-gunt.php?page=1 Thank you for choosing the Gunderman, Gunderland is my favourite province of proud Aquilonia and Conan's early battles with them were a formative part of his life (and by extension, influential to the history of the Hyborean age). I also enjoyed Greg the horseman.
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Now when Zach says "best barbarian accent," he actually means "worst Austrian accent," right? Even when you're not playing Schwarzenegger's character in the first place it's pretty much a prerequisite for barbarians in a Conan setting to speak like the Terminator at all times.
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At the very end seeing the larger picture and discovering our heroic Gunt's rockin' popped collar was the manly cherry atop a perfectly coiffed dessert Glorious.
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Disappointed that you did not play Conan and by you I mean Steve.
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I came across this recently ... I saw the cover artwork and I immediately thought of Steve. http://www.rangergamespublishing.com/catalog.html
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Let me just say that this guy was always the Walter Matthau wizard to me. Now though, I can't help but see Carl Sagan, and a small part of my childhood has been forever lost.
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Affi posted:Have you ever considered playing a high-level campaign just to showcase the ridiculusness of the higher levels? This! I would really like a play through of a very high level game of the sort that involves all the characters flying, using extremely powerful magical weapons, or maybe battles with deities and extreme high level spells, done in this kind of deadpan humor. What happens when characters set out earnestly on a night's adventure armed with +2 flaming swords and boots of water breathing, teleportation abilities, wish spells, hurling lightning bolts or casting flesh to stone on whole armies. Or stone to flesh on whole mountainsides. I think that done well it could be really fun as the dm attempts desperately to throw actual obstacles in their way and would show how incredibly silly spending several years on a d&d campaign is Zack style. naem fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jul 15, 2012 |
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Cecil Talbot must be a real hard-rear end after killing monstrosities that horrify even jaded aviators and
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I love it when you twos run campaigns. Does the end imply that you're going to run another with the same characters?
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Yeah, we're going to try to play through all five scenarios in Mansions of Madness, replacing dead characters as needed.
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This was the second-best Lovecraftian tale I've ever seen (the first being Ghostbusters); the best part definitely had to be the insanity-plant taste test. I'm placing my bets on the Mexican outlasting the entire party.
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I like how the silly backstories of several of the characters imply their reasons for being interested in the occult: a couple of bored old spinsters who hold seances for fun, a pilot who had his career ended by his insistence that weird poo poo is real, and a woman who discovered that she has no recollection of being in the filthiest film ever made. And there's also Chang, who may be pretending (or at least continuing to pretend after an initial misunderstanding) to be a mysterious Chinaman just so he can hang around interesting wealthy people and find excitement. That's good writing, right there.
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Am I wrong, in my mind's eye, to envision Cecil Talbot as Percy Dovetonsils with firearms?
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gleebster posted:Am I wrong, in my mind's eye, to envision Cecil Talbot as Percy Dovetonsils with firearms? I'll just look up who that is and oh my god.
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This update seemed somewhat less "wtf?" and verging on to genuine and unironic enjoyment of the subject matter. Not a criticism, just sort of interesting to note the slight change in tone - the series has always been written with a hint of affectionate parody.
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