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Look what you've done, General Ironicus. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/save-synnibarr-mccracken.php I have never seen a picture of McCracken so now that I see him actually talking and moving, I can't help but think he looks like a Steve Martin character.
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Come on, people, we need to make this happen. His goal on his new kickstarter is not even really crazy. Help fund a new Synnibarr!
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Dec 20, 2012 23:25
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Suggestion: Go back to red/yellow color scheme for your names instead of orange/peach
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Yeah, I agree it works better, that's just what the orange/red has turned into. I'll mention it to Lowtax.
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Kickstarter Update posted:What started out as a simple change in cybernetics has grown vastly complex...the problem is the range of size of the receipents. The damage an arm mod, blaster inflicts -or amblades- varies drastically, the flymen's implants inflict a different damage than say a...giant. This is such a variable...I may have to implement a complex table for adjustments based on biomass replaced... And really, who doesn't want a complex table for adjustments based on biomass replaced.
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Dec 21, 2012 01:36
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I remember being told that Synibarr was a piece of poo poo and the worst tabletop ever conceived. I believed those rumors until i saw that motherfucking Ninja Guitarist. Who can hate that?
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Dec 22, 2012 03:47
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As of right now there is one $350 backer that gets an "all day event" hosted by Synibarr creator Raven McCracken where he hosts a game for them and two guests to play. It would be amazing if that backer's two guests are Steve and Zack and we get a front page article about it.
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Dec 22, 2012 22:52
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Fully funded with more than 3 weeks to go! It's a Christmas miracle!
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Plutonis posted:I remember being told that Synibarr was a piece of poo poo and the worst tabletop ever conceived. I believed those rumors until i saw that motherfucking Ninja Guitarist. Who can hate that? There was a great quote from the most well-known F.A.T.A.L. review about how Synibarr may be bad, but at least it came from a place of "misguided enthusiasm rather than bitter misogyny." Raven always seemed like a decent guy, and honestly, I do hope this works for him. Nucleic Acids fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Dec 26, 2012 |
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Dec 25, 2012 08:29
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Today's installment made me feel dirty just from reading it. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/maid-gross-lolita.php It reminds me of the Awful Anime reviews SA used to do. I can't fathom what it would be like to stumble upon a basement of Cheetoed men playing this. I can barely imagine them trying to talk like 9 year old maids with cat ears to a GM 'Master' to gain his favor. Ugh. Is there soap for the soul?
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Dec 27, 2012 14:37
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The worst part of today's installment is knowing that someone is going to send an email defending it. At least one person.
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Dec 27, 2012 17:12
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A great scenario by Zack and some great roleplaying by Steve. I'll have to print this and hand it to people at bus stops.
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Dec 27, 2012 19:35
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I love how Steve just indignantly threw himself into a weird Chinese whispers version of an anime porn maid, and Zack just tossed up a sterile post-apocalyptic background. Then you get to the end and you realize why. There's something especially weird and hosed up about this sort of thing because it necessitates that the perverted shameful pedo it's aimed at, socializes with other pervert pedos in enjoyment of their pedolity. Jesus. what kind of state must your life be in when that seems okay?
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Dec 27, 2012 19:48
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I suppose if you have no other choice but to play a bizarre, fetishistic anime D&D game, that scenario is about the best way you can do it. Also I love the "character sheet" in page 2; you guys really ought to show off your portrait-drawing skills more often.
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IntelligentCalcium posted:The worst part of today's installment is knowing that someone is going to send an email defending it. At least one person. I figure its only possible if you fall back on "It's a satire!" and assume all the underage lesbian rape is there for verisimilitude. It's too upfront with all that stuff to try to say its an unintentional or optional part of the game.
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Ehhh, it actually really depends on how you play it to be honest. It has a shitload of creepy potential due to  , but it's one of the best tabletops to play while obscenely drunk with friends as how things devolve into bizarre comedy. Of course, that's sort of a personal shame of mine, since it was literally one of the first RPGs i have ever played online...
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I actually unironically like the stupid maid hijinks and random tables everywhere for everything parts of Maid, but the work necessary to remove the thin layer of creepy sleaze from it was way more than it would be to, say, write my own stupid maid hijinks game from scratch.
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No one would actually buy this right? Okay well maybe like a couple of weirdos but they wouldn't find other people to play it with would they?Plutonis posted:Ehhh, it actually really depends on how you play it to be honest. It has a shitload of creepy potential due to Well gently caress. e: poo poo did a second person just admit to playing this thing while I was typing that? Thank you for being man enough to admit that you role played a dude trying to gently caress a nine year old you guys.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Thank you for being man enough to admit that you role played a dude trying to gently caress a nine year old you guys. Thank you for reading my post. Edit: To elaborate: Maid has an appealing core- Randomly generated non-sequitur humor based around a anime-as-gently caress maids trying to appease a master while getting one-up on everyone else. Stupid beer-and-pretzels gaming at it's finest. Unfortunately, it also has elements like 'loli' being a character type , 'transparent' being a uniform color, seduction rules in the back of the book, extremely thinly-disguised vibrators and other sex paraphenalia in the hundreds-of-random-item tables, and so forth. When I said it was a 'thin layer of sleaze', that's because it's well-distributed across the book, a little bit in pretty much everything. Ratoslov fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Dec 27, 2012 |
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a pipe smoking dog posted:e: poo poo did a second person just admit to playing this thing while I was typing that? Thank you for being man enough to admit that you role played a dude trying to gently caress a nine year old you guys. 
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davidspackage posted:There's something especially weird and hosed up about this sort of thing because it necessitates that the perverted shameful pedo it's aimed at, socializes with other pervert pedos in enjoyment of their pedolity. Jesus. what kind of state must your life be in when that seems okay? I doubt anyone actually plays it. People just read the book and roll up characters to jack off over. Plutonis posted:Ehhh, it actually really depends on how you play it to be honest. It has a shitload of creepy potential due to Ahh! Ratoslov posted:I actually unironically like the stupid maid hijinks and random tables everywhere for everything parts of Maid, but the work necessary to remove the thin layer of creepy sleaze from it was way more than it would be to, say, write my own stupid maid hijinks game from scratch. Aaaaahhhhh! 
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Ratoslov posted:I actually unironically like the stupid maid hijinks and random tables everywhere for everything parts of Maid, but the work necessary to remove the thin layer of creepy sleaze from it was way more than it would be to, say, write my own stupid maid hijinks game from scratch.
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Several years ago, a bunch of traditional games goons tried to play a session of maid over TeamSpeak. Alcohol was a mandatory compliment and it quickly became a drinking game. The result is that I can't remember anymore if I actually played or just spectated. There was a lot of whiskey involved. The random tables are really the whole fun of the game. Random character creation can result in pretty much exactly what Steve's character was. I'm pretty sure there was a random value for like 'totally hot boobs' or something to that effect.
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Trad Games hit Maid in the Obscure and Mockable thread several months ago, nice to see it get front page treatment by another bunch of guys. Trad Games ultimately arrived at a similar conclusion.
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NorgLyle posted:Why on earth would it benefit from being 'maid hijinks'? I can understand the appeal of the giant wacky tables full of ridiculous plot complications and goofball character traits but it seems like the game doesn't really gain any benefit from being about maids. Maybe it's the people I'm friends with but I don't think most of us have really the level of familiarity with whatever weird-rear end anime and manga that this is supposed to be... referencing? parodying? simulating? The book itself openly states you don't have to be maids and it can be reflavored to anything else. Also it's parodying harem anime crap. Be glad you know nothing of it.
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The game is definitely a big joke and it does not take itself seriously, but there is no excusing seducing nine year olds. It is not self-aware enough as parody to include something like that and get away with it.
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elpintogrande posted:The game is definitely a big joke and it does not take itself seriously, but there is no excusing seducing nine year olds. It is not self-aware enough as parody to include something like that and get away with it. Not in anyway saying it does, just saying what it's parodying or simulating or whatever NorgLyle was asking. Also, I feel like I should add this comment since while I don't own the game, I've read reviews elsewhere and flipped through a copy once before quickly getting rid of/putting it down because of the following (at GenCon when it was first released.) While it isn't literally half the game, and it can not only be missed but removed entirely which is what the previous posters are saying thankfully, elpintogrande isn't lying when he says a lot of this game is bad child sex jokes. Special items, modifers, ect add to the creepy 'gently caress a prepubescent child jokes'. It isn't just one extremely in poor taste joke. It's a series of them. Undead Unicorn fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Dec 28, 2012 |
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I don't think I can excuse anybody playing this game at all. Would you say this is worse than F.A.T.A.L., which you guys refuse to review?
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Y-Hat posted:I don't think I can excuse anybody playing this game at all. FATAL is the absolute bottom of the barrel, though you can check out a pretty decent review of it here.
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Midjack posted:FATAL is the absolute bottom of the barrel, though you can check out a pretty decent review of it here. And for added yuks, check out the rebuttal from the FATAL authors!
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Y-Hat posted:Would you say this is worse than F.A.T.A.L., which you guys refuse to review? In this game seducing a nine year old is 'played for laughs' and given the rules as written seduction doesn't have to be sex or even flirtation. The option is there for it and there is more than one to be sure, it's FULLY functioning and fleshed out optional aspect of the game placed on the side for those (read: pedophiles) who want it but it isn't explicit. The game is also filled with similar optional creepy sexual humor roleplaying action outside of this through out the book. Utterly terrible. FATAL's mandatory random table generation can force you to be a infant rapist (I mean a PC who is an infant, though a PC can certainly do that) who has a psychological compulsion to rape, murder, and then rape again. Also there are rules for a woman becoming addicted to rape, having her anus and vagina collapse into one office, and after being raped or having sex so many times gaining a compulsion to be shat on (there are rules for making GBS threads all over someone, by the way) This is explored at length throughout the majority of the book. It's the meat of the game. Worse.
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quote:Steve: Will fake crying protect me from radiation? Also, I can't believe the author explicitly added pedo material to the core book. It seems like the sort of thing you'd just nudge and wink at to avoid controversy. EDIT: Wait, I guess controversy is a good thing when you're a small-press game already catering to weirdos. Any word of mouth is useful publicity at that point. I'm sure a new version that pushed the creepy poo poo further could ignite Tumblr for a few days. Danzou fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Dec 29, 2012 |
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NorgLyle posted:Why on earth would it benefit from being 'maid hijinks'? I can understand the appeal of the giant wacky tables full of ridiculous plot complications and goofball character traits but it seems like the game doesn't really gain any benefit from being about maids. Maybe it's the people I'm friends with but I don't think most of us have really the level of familiarity with whatever weird-rear end anime and manga that this is supposed to be... referencing? parodying? simulating? And honestly, if you want giant wacky tables of character traits without the ever-present pedophilia, just play HoL. At least there you can play a grizzled space pirate with an artificial heart carved from a pinochio who cries himself to sleep every night because dad missed his little league games.
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(Picture of the 9 year old's character description) Steve: Oh. 
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The fact that there have already been a few people socially maladjusted enough to admit to playing this poo poo kind of indicates its core demographic already.
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You've never played maid until you've played it with your surly redneck GM who's a parole officer.
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BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:The fact that there have already been a few people socially maladjusted enough to admit to playing this poo poo kind of indicates its core demographic already. I'd like to think there's a difference in these guys playing it once in a 'ha ha this game looks WEIRD let's try it' kinda way versus having an on-going campaign.
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Well, yeah but when you're talking about unironic maid hijinks you're already dead
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John Dyne posted:I'd like to think there's a difference in these guys playing it once in a 'ha ha this game looks WEIRD let's try it' kinda way versus having an on-going campaign. This is a RPG no-fun zone. Only SERIOUS roleplaying with dragons and swords and Dwarves allowed. Role playing games are an art, a way of life, how dare you soil that with your maid game you played one time for laughs and
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John Dyne posted:I'd like to think there's a difference in these guys playing it once in a 'ha ha this game looks WEIRD let's try it' kinda way versus having an on-going campaign. Or LARPing. <  >
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