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ASMR Yodeling posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/classic-dungeons-dragons.php That pop up book sounds like a psychedelic version of the Pop Up Book of Phobias, meaning a must have for any coffee table collection. What I love about Q1 is that it was either awesome or goofy. Awesome:  Goofy:  Awesome:  Goofy (but a really rad trip): 
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That elf is pretty pissed off. I would be too. Smiley faces are annoying.
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Improbable Lobster posted:That elf is pretty pissed off. God that elf would suck so hard to party with
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After the smash hit that was the Random Encounter Generator, we now have the NPC Generator! http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/random-npc-tool.php
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We have three of those toolkit things planned. We're also considering a new summer art contest to create a monster manual. We would award fabulous prizes and I have been talking to an exciting guest to do the cover art.
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elpintogrande posted:We have three of those toolkit things planned. That is so excellent.
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elpintogrande posted:We have three of those toolkit things planned. This is exciting. Probably a stupid question, but news and updates for the art contest will be posted in this thread right?
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Vivoviparous posted:This is exciting. It will be announced in here, sure, but it will get its own thread in GBS for the contest.
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New Article: Epic Level monsters. This wole thing was pretty amazing. 260,000+ HD monsters, you say? I think my favorite was that space dragon at the end that was so infused with inter-dimensional cosmic powers that it didn't even really look like anything.
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I think being randomly plane-shifted into the Elephant Man's stomach dimension should be added to wild magic rolls.
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How do you even begin to roll 260,000 hit dice without a computer? I mean I guess you could just take the average of the dice and then multiply it by 260,000 but that kinda seems like cheating.
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Out of everything ridiculous and overdone in that book, the one that stuck out for me was the table on hiding by size range. At Mega-Fine size, or between 48 and 96 miles tall, the creature gets a -64 modifier to its hide skill. Now part of this might just be that I don't know the mechanics of the game (maybe that -64 is on some type of exponential scale?), but it might just be easier to say that once something gets to 75 miles tall, or even 10 miles tall, that it is not going to be hiding at all. But the chart follows the mathematical progression even when it stops making any sense.
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glowing-fish posted:Now part of this might just be that I don't know the mechanics of the game (maybe that -64 is on some type of exponential scale?), but it might just be easier to say that once something gets to 75 miles tall, or even 10 miles tall, that it is not going to be hiding at all. But the chart follows the mathematical progression even when it stops making any sense. I can only assume that at this scale, creatures get powers like "Summon: Small Moon" to cover their giant asses. And then it becomes a game of what's behind that moon. A space dragon? A Mega-Ant? Perhaps 10^37 gold pieces? (even the honeypots scale exponentially). This book would've blown my mind when I was 10. Not so much with the idea of rolling 10,000 D8's for hit points, as it would be getting together with fellow nerdlings and pointing out how many hit dice these things have. That's what we did with the demon princes anyway.
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For some size comparisons, Mt. Everest's peak is a little under 5.5 miles above sea level, and the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is 6.85 miles below sea level. Earth's atmosphere extends about 75 miles from the surface. Also, I know it was discussed at some length in the article, but I just can't get over how utterly horrible and unreadable that title font is. Especially those capitals that contain their lowercase versions. What the hell is that font and who made it? 
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Alpha3KV posted:New Article: Epic Level monsters. This isn't anything new, really. Anyone remember Deities and Demigods, back in the '80s? They basically turned entire pantheons of gods into high level monsters.
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glowing-fish posted:Out of everything ridiculous and overdone in that book, the one that stuck out for me was the table on hiding by size range. It's an extension of the way they meticulously list every stat for each monster, yes it doesn't make sense, but it's there because spergs and rules lawyers need it to be expressly put out there to settle stupid arguments.
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Gynovore posted:This isn't anything new, really. Anyone remember Deities and Demigods, back in the '80s? They basically turned entire pantheons of gods into high level monsters. That was actually covered in a very early edition of WTF D&D.
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What I'm wondering is how any possible world could survive more than a single bullshit tornado-man attack.
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Improbable Lobster posted:What I'm wondering is how any possible world could survive more than a single bullshit tornado-man attack. Just get a bunch of electricity resist gear and buffs and make sure your tank has a few thousand hit points. Get your Cleric to snag the Planar Turning feat to get rid of the elemental swarm crap and just kill it in three rounds so you don't get the thunder worm. Easy poo poo.
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Heaven help me, I'm actually considering a short-run campaign that starts with the first level characters being eaten by something similar to the Gibborim and working their way through the creature ahead of facing the final boss, its heart.
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thurdl01 posted:Heaven help me, I'm actually considering a short-run campaign that starts with the first level characters being eaten by something similar to the Gibborim and working their way through the creature ahead of facing the final boss, its heart. If it dies the demiplane collapses and its contents are forever lost. "Good work, you destroyed the heart! As you high-five the ground starts to shake, the walls fall in, and the demiplane collapses around you. You are nothing. Whoops, guess you should have just waited for rescue."
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Angela Christine posted:If it dies the demiplane collapses and its contents are forever lost.
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thurdl01 posted:Heaven help me, I'm actually considering a short-run campaign that starts with the first level characters being eaten by something similar to the Gibborim and working their way through the creature ahead of facing the final boss, its heart. Find the old Tom Wham game Snits Revenge, Steve Jackson republished it a few years ago. It's pretty much this in board game form.
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What's this about a font made out of ninjas?
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God, the one game with the ELH that I played in back in college was bullshit enough, I can't imagine what it would be like to try using that.
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I was taken aback by how each cover was sweeter than the previous one in the latest article until i got to the loving Mecha Sphinx. The Far Cry Blood Dragon comparison was right, this is what a true awesome RPG should be like, not an universe-sized dragon with a hundred zillion hitpoints, but being balls out awesome.
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You guys need to play this poo poo for us.
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Every other RPG made me say, "drat, that's ridiculous." But with TORG, it's like "WHY AM I NOT PLAYING THIS RIGHT NOW?!?"
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poo poo yes son. This is what RPGs are about. Love the update!
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As someone who is at least passingly familiar with most major RPGs, I think its odd that I've never seen TORG before. I would think that I would have seen at least a volume of it on he shelves of a Goodwill somewhere. Was this a regional thing? One of the few problems with WTF, DnD (which is pretty much my favorite feature on SA) is that since its already successfully plumbed the craziest depths of the RPG world, anything else is going to be a let-down. Sure, this TORG stuff is full of 80s RPG tropes, but after we've seen Synnibar, its anticlimactic.
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glowing-fish posted:As someone who is at least passingly familiar with most major RPGs, I think its odd that I've never seen TORG before. I would think that I would have seen at least a volume of it on he shelves of a Goodwill somewhere. Was this a regional thing? No, it was nationwide. West End chose to focus on promoting Star Wars and Paranoia to the exclusion of anything else they ever did. In the Fatal And Friends 2 thread in Traditional Games someone is going through the TORG books, come by and check it out: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3541453
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I'm disappointed that there wasn't a review of the Nile Empire cover, because, man, look at that poo poo... A Pharaoh supervillain with mummy loving shocktroopers! Or the Terminator vs. Hellraiser antics in Tharkold...  Also, there was a Japanese localized edition that someone has kindly put the covers up on Flickr. It looks a bit animu (not surprising since they were done by a Japanese manga artist), but check this poo poo out...    
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"Cyberpapacy" is right now my favorite compound word of all time. It's just so perfect.
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First I learn about the Cyberpapacy, and then I learn that it somehow looks even better anime-fied. Cyberpapacy.
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quote:Steve: Are furries still a thing? Do people still do that? You don't want to know...
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glowing-fish posted:As someone who is at least passingly familiar with most major RPGs, I think its odd that I've never seen TORG before. I would think that I would have seen at least a volume of it on he shelves of a Goodwill somewhere. Was this a regional thing? It was not a regional thing per se, but it surely thrived in various regions--West End Games fans seemed sort of related to Game Designers' Workshop fans, and since the latter was based in my hometown, there were second-tier-RPG books everywhere. (Also at Gen-Con 1997 West End Games was selling every book for either $1 or $2 on the last day of the convention, and my friend bought 2-3 of every single book they had at the show) (and now I talk seriously about the game for a minute) The system's greatest fault is linking to-hit and damage in a single number; if you are the hardest thing in the world to hit, once something does hit you, it is basically guaranteed to kill you. But that is easily house ruled to just doing the damage represented in the difference between the number rolled and the number needed. Oh, and if you try to use something not "supported" by the local "cosm," you make a Reality check--if you fail it, you "disconnect" and stand there staring at the thing you are working with, suddenly trying to figure out what it even is and why you are trying to use it--and if you fail a second time, you get absorbed into the local reality, instantly going from a sentient primitive gopher-man to a Cyber-Priest (personal example). But other than those two rules (the latter only being bad because your character is supposed to become unplayable if you get "absorbed" twice), TORG is an amazing system, and holds up as well as any other random retro system. One of my Goon-friends made a homebrew D20 TORG variant by cherry-picking a dozen random D20 systems and having each of them (from D20 Resident Evil to D20 EverQuest and D20 Grimm's Fairy Tales) take over part of the planet. By all rights it was the best thing that ever happened in a D20 campaign.
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Quarex posted:and if you fail a second time, you get absorbed into the local reality, instantly going from a sentient primitive gopher-man to a Cyber-Priest (personal example). Wait, what do all the other cyber-priests think of a new cyber-priest suddenly existing? A gopher-man obviously doesn't belong, but a new thing-what-makes-sense-in-this-reality but has no connection to the reality doesn't belong either. "Who is this guy? I didn't go to cyber-seminary with him."
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Young Freud posted:Also, there was a Japanese localized edition that someone has kindly put the covers up on Flickr. It looks a bit animu (not surprising since they were done by a Japanese manga artist), but check this poo poo out... Those actually look like 80's anime as heck, which is fitting. Too bad i couldn't find their version of the Mecha Sphinx.
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Young Freud posted:Also, there was a Japanese localized edition that someone has kindly put the covers up on Flickr. It looks a bit animu (not surprising since they were done by a Japanese manga artist), but check this poo poo out... Oh my god.
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Young Freud posted:Or the Terminator vs. Hellraiser antics in Tharkold...
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