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Barudak posted:I smell an arbitrage moment. Sell him one from your "personal collection" for $200+ or whatever amount lets you make a tidy profit. I'm not selling my signed hardcover. I even bought an extra (softcover) copy so I wouldn't wear out my "good" copy. I am a turbonerd.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'm not selling my signed hardcover. I even bought an extra (softcover) copy so I wouldn't wear out my "good" copy. I see now why you two are acquainted. I meant make a hardcover and sell it to him. Some print shops can actually make cheap glue-bound hardcovers in a variety of sizes.
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Barudak posted:I see now why you two are acquainted. And let's be honest here...you know he's the type who would utterly balk at not getting an offical hardcover copy.
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CaptCommy posted:This is the opposite of what he should do if he's worried about creepy portrayals of women (or if he wants to watch interesting anime Listen to this guy. Gargantia reduces its female characters to motivation for male characters and looking pretty. Also they were designed by people who draw porn and the end cards will remind you of that at the end of every episode. The show's actual quality outside of that is a whole different issue but it is nothing at all like Brotherhood and I frankly have no idea where the comparison comes from.
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dwarf74 posted:Yeah, it was a weird feeling once I realized there was a whole season that Netflix didn't have, because... While I can't speak for the quality directly, I do know that the creator of Full Metal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa, started work on a fantasy series based on chinese mythology after FMA called Hero Tales. Like I said, never saw it myself, but it might be like FMA considering it shares an author. Evil Mastermind posted:And let's be honest here...you know he's the type who would utterly balk at not getting an offical hardcover copy. 
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Wow, Kingdom is hardcore. I did not expect it to contain the line "They're making another pass! Pile up the bodies, make a fort!" In the grim darkness of the distant past, there is only the warring states. Might make for an interesting meta kind of game, like a larp I heard about in a podcast. "You've just taken part in the battle of Changping; you've survived, albeit with wounds. You've also had to bury alive four hundred and fifty thousand people. How does that make you feel? Also, it's raining."
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Rockopolis posted:Wow, Kingdom is hardcore. I did not expect it to contain the line "They're making another pass! Pile up the bodies, make a fort!" Well the good news if you survived and buried people after the Battle of Changping is that you're Qin so you're at least victorious.
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Covok posted:And that's why you tell him it is an official hardcopy
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Evil Mastermind posted:Pricing it would be hard because he just revealed he feels $25 is too much for a non-hardcover. Work on your upsale; "Pressed from the heart of the last Dryad of the Sahara Forest, this hard cover and its pages are bound with the last magics of a dying forest so they are 100% water and stain resilient"
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Barudak posted:Work on your upsale; "Pressed from the heart of the last Dryad of the Sahara Forest, this hard cover and its pages are bound with the last magics of a dying forest so they are 100% water and stain resilient" Then I mail him a 3.0 PHB with the title crossed out and "DungeON WolrD" written on a piece of electrical tape on the cover. e: I think I just figured out what one of the prizes for this month's contest will be... 
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Barudak posted:Don't forget the setting highlight where in order to justify not wanting to draw naked men he made it so that every cyborg is exclusively homosexual. Not really, but yes, he does come out and say in the notes "I made Motoko a lesbian because I didn't wanna draw a dick". It's pretty gratuitous but it's like three out of four hundred pages, YMMV. It used to be cut out of the earlier English editions from Dark Horse for obvious reasons.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Not really, but yes, he does come out and say in the notes "I made Motoko a lesbian because I didn't wanna draw a dick". It's pretty gratuitous but it's like three out of four hundred pages, YMMV. It used to be cut out of the earlier English editions from Dark Horse for obvious reasons. I found it notable because it creates a bunch of interesting questions and societal implications that are completely unlike our world and rife for exploration but its ultimately just used to, as stated, avoid drawing cyborg wangs*. *Given that cyborgs basically LAN port link to have sex in this universe there is no reason to believe these exist unless Cyberpunk Trucknuts are a product I'm not aware of.
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Barudak posted:Cyberpunk Trucknuts Thank you for my future namechange.
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Barudak posted:I found it notable because it creates a bunch of interesting questions and societal implications that are completely unlike our world and rife for exploration but its ultimately just used to, as stated, avoid drawing cyborg wangs*. Looking back at the TPB I forgot she has a boyfriend later on. So bi, then. It doesn't work out, in any case. And his wang is never drawn.
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Barudak posted:I found it notable because it creates a bunch of interesting questions and societal implications that are completely unlike our world and rife for exploration but its ultimately just used to, as stated, avoid drawing cyborg wangs*. To swing this back around to game talk, they are in earlier editions of Cyberpunk (well, not Trucknuts, but cyberwangs). I don't know about the current edition because the current edition is too ridiculous looking for me to currently try reading it.
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The "Mr. Studd" and "Midnight Lady" implants have been with us since Cyberpunk 2020. Don't know if they were in 2013. Was there ever an edition of Cyberpunk that wasn't ridiculous looking, though?
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There's ridiculous looking and then there's "why am I looking at pictures of someone's action figure collection?" Also CPv3 isn't a very good game for non-art related reasons too, so there's that.
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ProfessorProf posted:On actual forum topic: I've basically never bought a published adventure module and run it straight. Is doing this ever a good, worthwhile idea? Are there any pre-packaged dungeons that work great right out of the box? http://www.onepagedungeon.info/ Pretty much anything from the previous years' contests will be better than almost any published module. Basically, modules that just try to save you the work of drawing a map and give you an interesting location/situation that you can do whatever with can be really good. Modules that try to tell a story just end up railroady and generic, most of the time. A bunch of the old AD&D modules aren't bad, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a 2/3/4e published module that didn't look terrible. I really like the one page dungeon contest because it basically forces the person making it to only include the interesting stuff. You can take one look at it and pretty well understand how to run it, which is pretty much exactly what a good module should be doing for you--saving you the effort of making content, not forcing you to study a book.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:The "Mr. Studd" and "Midnight Lady" implants have been with us since Cyberpunk 2020. Don't know if they were in 2013. They were not in the 2013 books, but as I recall there was a generic sexual implant entry in the Hardwired sourcebook that came out immediately after. I know this not because I was a creepy teenager at the time, but because I was good friends with one.
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Dear internet, help me pick what I want to run for my next PbP. Much like this thread, I am apparently full of Japanese cartoons, so the choices are: Tenra, but the catch is you don't give me a full character, just your elevator pitch, then we hash out the setting and the characters all together, or Neon Genesis FATEgelion, because I am covetous of Forums Terrorist's game but also jesus AdEva has a bunch of fiddly poo poo, or gently caress It, Let's Figure Out How to Play Ryuutama And Then Crash And Burn.
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grassy gnoll posted:Dear internet, help me pick what I want to run for my next PbP. Do good Japanese cartoons. One Piece FATE or Attack on Titan *World hack. 
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Mr. Prokosch posted:One Piece FTFY
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Despite OWNING Tenra I've never given it a full look but I've heard it is - frankly like many jttgs - geared somewhat against campaign play in favor of serial single shot play. Is that accurate?
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ProfessorCirno posted:Despite OWNING Tenra I've never given it a full look but I've heard it is - frankly like many jttgs - geared somewhat against campaign play in favor of serial single shot play. Is that accurate? It's designed to resolve a storyline in a single session. So pretty much yes.
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grassy gnoll posted:Dear internet, help me pick what I want to run for my next PbP. I've been wanting another Tenra game since the first one ran aground. Also would love to try out Ryuutama! And yeah, I think it's kind of hard to get excited about Eva itself, because the baggage associated with it isn't particularly interesting to me. But I could be proven wrong? I sure have come to hate apping FATE characters, though. FATE is tricky in that it looks simple but is crazy deep in putting together characters, and it takes so much effort for me... which is extra annoying when I don't get into a given game in the end.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I sure have come to hate apping FATE characters, though. FATE is tricky in that it looks simple but is crazy deep in putting together characters, and it takes so much effort for me... which is extra annoying when I don't get into a given game in the end. I'm currently on the theory that PBP Fate is a completely different beast compared to actually running it live, where stuff like +2 stunts and little to no paragraph explanations for each and every aspect is more welcome and appreciated on the table. That said, I'm kinda hitting the Fate burnout myself. Whatever I'm running next, it's probably going to be on PDQ#. It looks simple and fun enough, plus I'm a little enamored with its duel mechanics. grassy gnoll posted:Dear internet, help me pick what I want to run for my next PbP. Tenra sounds good.
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I think the problem for me with AdEva is that I'm never sure if I am supposed to be Shinji or, uh, Raiden.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Then I mail him a 3.0 PHB I'm pretty sure this would count as a human rights violation.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:I'm pretty sure this would count as a human rights violation. It's not FATAL so it's probably fine
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Evil Mastermind posted:I may have just seen the most mind-boggling reason for not wanting to buy an RPG that the person is really interested in: "It's not available in hardcover". Assuming that wasn't pure stdh.txt, I can't imagine what being in this guy's playgroup was like. Having to devour a new 300 page rulebook every two weeks, only to throw that knowledge away after two weeks so you can inhale another 300 page rulebook, over and over again sounded like being in a graduate seminar that never ended.
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grassy gnoll posted:Dear internet, help me pick what I want to run for my next PbP. Tenra, Tenra, Tenra!
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FMguru posted:There was an RPGnetter quoted in one of the grognard.txt threads who complained about RPGs costing too much. When it was pointed out to him that RPGs were one of the cheapest possible hobbies around as long as you play the games and don't just collect the books, he said that his purchasing style was to buy a game, play it for two weeks, and then buy another game, and play that for two weeks. When I asked him if that meant he had bought and played 25 different RPGs last year, he said "yes". One year I went through 4-5 systems (World of Darkness, Mouse Guard, Monsters and Other Childish Things, Monster of the Week, maybe one more I'm forgetting). Those are all fairly moderate crunch-wise, but I think people were getting a bit burned out on jumping between them. You'd have to dearly love learning new rules to do the two week thing, and it seems like you'd be switching over right when things were starting to click..
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Lemon Curdistan posted:I'm pretty sure this would count as a human rights violation. 
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Barudak posted:Look, if you want a show that discusses the philosphical concept of personhood and how that inter-relates to a kantian framework of good action due to prompting the question when money-shooting assassin droids are stalking a reclusive day-trader sometimes you just learn to accept absolutely atrocious clothing decisions. I know I'm coming in late on this, but you might be interested in Ergo Proxy. It's a dark, post-apocalyptic fantasy-ish show with robots, and might be the only series that is even more densely packed with intellectual meanderings and philosophy than GitS while still maintaining a - mostly - coherent plot. The animation style and visual design is distinctive too. I'd also recommend Dennou Coil, which is a very cute and interesting cyberpunk sort of story, and Azumanga Daioh, which is sort of the original goofy slice of life high school girl show, but has the advantage of actually being funny. And Black Lagoon answers the question "What if John Woo made an anime about pirates with an old PT Boat in the South China Sea?" in the best possible way, though it also has all the issues with a John Woo action flick too. On the plus side, the voice actress for the lead heroine is supposed to be from America but speaks incredibly bad English, even for an anime VA. It's really wonderful. For movies, anything by Miyazaki, anything by Makoto Shinkai, and Summer Wars.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:On the plus side, the voice actress for the lead heroine is supposed to be from America but speaks incredibly bad English, even for an anime VA. It's really wonderful. ...Gee, thanks. Now I want to play something like Black Lagoon. Aside from Hollowpoint, are there even any good games for that sort of John Woo shoot all the things Hong Kong action cinema stuff?
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Siivola posted:Megumi Toyoguchi is, as far as I can tell, completely Japanese. And oh God, does she speak awful English. Sorry, I said that poorly. I meant Revy is supposed to be American.
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