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Complexcalibur posted:I've never played Exalted, but I had heard a little about it. From what I had gathered it was a game to play if you wanted to be Son Goku (either of them), and all the ridiculous monsters in the Immortals Handbook were things you could reasonably be expected to square off with. Don't be silly. You can be Son Goku fighting the rape ghosts of dead vinyl nuns.
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I met one of the authors of that porn supplement at a con. (It didn't exist yet.) She was a very nice lady. Though she kept mentioning having an open marriage and I think she wanted to bang my friend who was completely oblivious to it. (He is a social butterfly type but naieve as hell.) Honestly WWolf stuff always seems to attract crazy people. Always. (I can never have a thing for French maid outfits. When one larper I saw apparently found a tent sized version...) Its mostly people rping high school politics but with kewl powers. poo poo. Rpgnet used to have annual Exalted porn contests. Dunno if they still do. Don't want to. (One of that crowd was behind the art for a tentacled rape card game. A hardcore one. She was insane.) But this is just getting out of hand. When Hol is looking restrained you gots to step the gently caress back. But no. RPGs all seem to be getting this horrible rape obsession.
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Complexcalibur posted:I've never played Exalted, but I had heard a little about it. From what I had gathered it was a game to play if you wanted to be Son Goku (either of them), and all the ridiculous monsters in the Immortals Handbook were things you could reasonably be expected to square off with. Here's the thing, and here's why so many people are white knighting for this game. Exalted is a hole that a good idea has almost crawled out of several times. The Kickstarter is a microcosm: "Look at this cool idea! We've taken non-Tolkien fantasy and mashed up Hyperborean pulp fiction with wuxia epics!" and you're all proud of them, and then they poo poo all over themselves with poorly playtested mechanics and a seething cauldron of rape devils and bikini witches. The game isn't grotesque, balls to bones, in the same vein as FATAL. There are good ideas in it. They're just wildly eclipsed by the creepy crap, a game so mechanically imbalanced it required a 200-page errata PDF to fix and the kind of creative echo tunnel that results in grown adults deciding a full page comic of a bloated child rape victim pleading for help was a great idea. Christ. I pointed this out to the administrator of an online Exalted RPG chat community. She defended the book, saying the demons were "venerating" the child by having who-can-rape-her-the-best contests.
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Snollygoster posted:Exalted is a hole that a good idea has almost crawled out of several times. Yeah pretty much this. I played in a reasonably long-running Exalted game that wasn't in the slightest bit rapey. I'd only heard rumours of the "adult" pdf, and never bothered to read Infernals, our game was more "bored scions of a declining dynasty go treasure hunting". Now I feel dirty by associaton. 
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Some Moron posted:I mean, I'm someone who thinks "goon" is a pejorative and "Something Awful" is an accurate descriptor. That any of those sites have anything positive to offer humanity is at the least highly suspect. Now I beg your pardon as I return to my domicile to pleasure myself to the horrific raping of a twelve year old. Oh, and congrats on the sick burn. It might shock someone of your considerable intelligence that we've never heard that one in the past fifteen years. "Something I love." Jesus gently caress. I guess the work 'indefensible' is just something I dreamed. neoboman fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jun 1, 2013 |
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Captain Rufus posted:But this is just getting out of hand. When Hol is looking restrained you gots to step the gently caress back. Maybe HOL is the gaming example of that; who knows? "HOL was so edgy! Why does nobody write games like that anymore?!" "Uhh, that was a satire of--" "AND WHAT ABOUT VIOLENCE: THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME OF EGREGIOUS AND REPULSIVE BLOODSHED? THAT HAD SOME AMAZING MECHANICS!" "...nooooooooooo"
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Quarex posted:
Just wonderin', had anyone ever sat down and tried to actually run a game of HoL? How did it work out?
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Gynovore posted:Just wonderin', had anyone ever sat down and tried to actually run a game of HoL? How did it work out? My older brother is the more experienced RPG dork between us, and as I recall he seemed to be familiar enough with HoL that he may have played it with his college buddies way back when. I may ask him to see how it functions.
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The Moon Monster posted:I was having a nice time until page 10. Uuuuugh. Same. I was laughing my rear end off (the ghost orgy commentary was hilarious), then I got to page 10 and now I'm just bummed out  The last few seconds of Lowtax's slenderman.exe video perfectly encapsulates my reaction to page 10. Fell fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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I thought I'd go ahead and send a report to kickstarter about Exalted since,Kickstarter posted:What is not allowed?
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Gynovore posted:Just wonderin', had anyone ever sat down and tried to actually run a game of HoL? How did it work out? We did! We even had a custom character for the ~girl~ in our group. She was playing Ripley, who had a Mostly it was just strange little vignettes. We went off in search of treasure at the behest of a man holding an electric cucumber (vibrator), paid Cap'n Highliner in the use of one of Brother Studbasket's altar boys ("Are any of you named Billy?") and then just kind of faded out because we'd prepared a big batch of Church 'N' Munch Orange (One packet orange Kool-Aid to one litre water, add sugar until saturated) and the sugar crash wiped us out. Younger friends, still in high school, apparently had rules arguments about HoL. Which... well, poo poo. The whole thing's a big, shouty joke at the expense of gaming as a pastime. Arguing about it in earnest just makes it funnier. HoL was silly. HoL was tasteless. HoL had Sodomy Bikers, a setting where there were no female PCs (because women were too drat smart to go anywhere near the Landfill), and a PC who was
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Fell posted:Same. I was laughing my rear end off (the ghost orgy commentary was hilarious), then I got to page 10 and now I'm just bummed out To at least try to be fair, that was the reaction of quite a sizable portion of the Exalted fanbase to the book that page 10 refers to. As I recall, there were more demands for money back regarding that book than the rest of the Exalted line combined and plenty of people went "Okay, I'm done with this game forever now" specifically because of the things Zack and Steve noted. Edit: To clarify, it's the consensus in my own segment of the Exalted fanbase that Infernals is utterly indefensible, and we pretty much agree entirely with the column.  Edit2: Fixed a stupid mistake. Also, the words 'reprehensible, vile, atrocious and contemptible' came to mind on further reflection. There really is no excuse for that book and the writers of chapters 1-3 and 7 should be very, very ashamed of themselves and leave it out of their CVs entirely. TLM3101 fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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Well, this whole incident's made me go from liking Exalted somewhat despite the creepy bits and the lovely rules to just hating the whole thing and not really wanting to be part of this hobby anymore. Damnit, I am freshly angry about Lillun again.
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TLM3101 posted:To at least try to be fair, that was the reaction of quite a sizable portion of the Exalted fanbase to the book that page 10 refers to. As I recall, there were more demands for money back regarding that book than the rest of the Exalted line combined and plenty of people went "Okay, I'm done with this game forever now" specifically because of the things Zack and Steve noted. I remember seeing someone in TG post pictures of himself tearing out all of the material from his copy of Infernals that wasn't specifically related to the mechanics of playing an Infernal, and then setting all of that on fire.
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Nucleic Acids posted:I remember seeing someone in TG post pictures of himself tearing out all of the material from his copy of Infernals that wasn't specifically related to the mechanics of playing an Infernal, and then setting all of that on fire. Yeah, that's a little tragedy in the midst of all the horrid bullshit. If you look purely at the mechanics of playing Infernals, it seemed pretty neat, and while it was still on top of the Exalted system's inherent clunkiness, it definitely looked like a step in the right direction. And then you read the rest of the book, and you never want to play Exalted again. It's a shame, because I really liked Exalted when it was just coming out with its second edition. The setting was interesting, there was a lot of freedom to do what you wanted in it, and it seemed like they had a clear vision and ran a tight ship. And then White Wolf ran into financial trouble, and they started putting together Exalted books by paying freelance authors by the chapter, then mashing them all together. There was less editorial oversight, and things kind of went off the rails, with the end result being Infernals. I still occasionally play Exalted, but yeah, the people I play with and I are definitely in the "Ignore Infernals, because holy poo poo dude" camp. Knowing that the game can be great if it's in the proper hands, it's super-disappointing to learn that the guys running the kickstarter for the new edition want to include poo poo like rape ghosts.
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The breakdowns of bizarre RPG systems are good, but can I request that a future update be Zack and Steve playing through another short scenario? The X-Men, Call of Cthulhu, and Conan stories were amazing, especially when a barbarian was investigating cosmic horror on a plantation. Have you considered taking a look at Delta Green? It's modern day Cthulhu investigation by a quasi-government conspiracy, that often sees postal inspectors confronting deep ones disrupting Saturday deliveries, or IRS agents auditing a Hastur cult.
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Was going to do one this week, but I didn't have time. I am going to run Star Wars D20 for Steve.
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elpintogrande posted:Was going to do one this week, but I didn't have time. I am going to run Star Wars D20 for Steve. Awesome! Looking forward to it!
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/star-wars-hutt.php Ponda Baba was an Aqualish and Obi Wan cut his hand off.  Guess I'm dorkier than Steve.
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Aesop Poprock posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/star-wars-hutt.php I got the impression this was deliberately wrong to needle the readers.
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This was an awesome update all around, but I loving lost it at "Hmong Mothma".
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It was a genuine mistake that I refused to take out. Also a mistake was that Steve's character was named Blug and we both called him Blurg throughout the game. Which is fine, I think, because Blurg is better.
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Another mistake was "Yadda" instead of "Beth" on the third page. Immersion ruined. *Burns my copy of Liminal States*
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Cry Havoc posted:Another mistake was "Yadda" instead of "Beth" on the third page. Immersion ruined. I'm sure Lowtax will let them edit the article once they go through the correct process. Which probably involves letting Lowtax's daughters hit them in the groin for a while. elpintogrande posted:It was a genuine mistake that I refused to take out. Please say you got wistful about Truth Media, because God knows I just did. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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As much as I enjoy the regular fashion swat style "make fun of some bad art" WTF DnD's, the ones where a campain is played through in the most rediculous way possible are my absolute favorites. I wish there were more of them and am looking foreward to part two, or however many more parts there might be.
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Luckily the DM seems to be protecting Steve because he'd already be dead at Jabba's. You have to let your players kill themselves if they want to, man.
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tripwood posted:Luckily the DM seems to be protecting Steve because he'd already be dead at Jabba's. You have to let your players kill themselves if they want to, man. Clearly Zack is a railroading filthy storygamer DM who should be strung up by his toenails so a REAL DM can step in and intantly kill Steve's character with his 50th level mary sue from his other campaign.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/star-wars-yadda.php I was dying laughing during most of this. The Yadda parts were awesome. Please tell me you're going to do more based around the Star Wars D20 stuff.
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Steve posted:Does it seem like Yadda might autograph a head shot for Beth if I climbed out of the vent? Zack posted:What's your intelligence score? Steve posted:6 Zack posted:Yes. It seems like he would be glad to autograph something for you right now. And thus the prophecy was fulfilled. (There is something seriously wrong with you two.)
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This thing was more exciting and interesting than a lot of the EU I've read.
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Aesop Poprock posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/star-wars-yadda.php
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This summer, the holocube comedy of the millenium: Weekend at Yadda's.
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That was amazing, the Yadda parts were the funniest stuff I've read in a while. My favorite line was "Blurg didn't fill out his own character sheet."
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Yeah you guys are seriously funny, I hope you're getting paid well for this. Please keep it up! Your stuff, the Roaming Dads and the Levi Johnstons are absolutely the funniest things I read on the internet.
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I laughed really hard at this installment, and kind of wished there was a podcast of this instead of a few short pages (even though I realize you guys probably just shot the poo poo over AIM or something until you had enough for the article)
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Trivia: Yadda being called a 'Yoda creature' is perfectly accurate. Yoda's species is the one species from the movies that George Lucas forbade EU authors from exploring.
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BiggerJ posted:Trivia: Yadda being called a 'Yoda creature' is perfectly accurate. Yoda's species is the one species from the movies that George Lucas forbade EU authors from exploring. Also: banned anything about the clone wars, prior to the prequels being released. Motherfucker def should have let zahn at that one.
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Aren't Wookies the only species not allowed to be force sensitive?
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I think Lowbacca would have a thing or two to say to you about that. I have no idea how canonical that character is and also I don't actually care if Wookiees can be Jedis. I do, however, remember that my first WEG Star Wars game involved my Jedi getting his arms ripped off by albino Wookiee gangsters and the rest of the party fighting over my lightsaber while I bled to death.
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Mojo Threepwood posted:Aren't Wookies the only species not allowed to be force sensitive? Literally droids have been force sensitive. Erry one get jedi in dis piece.
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