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Ettin posted:After your thing Zak got people to message me about "negotiating a truce" and started asking if RPGnet could make public statements about how right he is and have an RPG tournament with some of the cranks we banned. I know it's probably against some stupid policy of RPGNet's moderating staff, but can you instead post a really long public statement about how wrong he is? And then Elf Space Jam. edit: Hell I might post on big Purp again just for that.
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Best 2 out of 3, tournament. Barkley, Shut up and jam: Gaiden
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Jul 12, 2014 16:17
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I kinda want to run ELF JAM.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:39
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Ettin posted:After your thing Zak got people to message me about "negotiating a truce" and started asking if RPGnet could make public statements about how right he is and have an RPG tournament with some of the cranks we banned. So wait, the "truce" is that you do everything he wants and then do more things he wants? Demand that he review and agree upon the definition of the word "truce" before you continue negotiating with him.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:40
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Mr. Maltose posted:Anybody know of a good game for playing doctors in a hospital that isn't Fiasco? Hillfolk seems like a good choice; the drama is mostly interpersonal between doctors and nurses and what have you in the hospital.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:41
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Kwyndig posted:I know it's probably against some stupid policy of RPGNet's moderating staff, but can you instead post a really long public statement about how wrong he is? That happened when he got banned. Kai Tave posted:Hey Rulebookheavily, run a Darker Dungeons PbP, thanks.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:46
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Conveniently for ELF JAM, thanks to Delta Squid there's even a B-Baller playbook for Dungeon World.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:46
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Ettin posted:What did you do? Given how much Zak misunderstands the way Something Awful works, I assume he's worried his D&D videos will get retsupuraed.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:58
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I also want to run a game about dwarves, though. Hmm.
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Jul 12, 2014 17:06
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I mean, we have Blood Bowl and Dreadball, why isn't there a Fantasy Basketball game?
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Jul 12, 2014 17:10
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That is a drat good question. I'd play it!
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Jul 12, 2014 17:16
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You could probably get a good starting point by hacking Blood Bowl - change the move speeds to reflect the smaller pitch, increase the range of blocking results to compensate for the smaller teams, play it a few times and see how it goes.
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Jul 12, 2014 17:20
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Ettin posted:What did you do, Ironicus? I went to bed and woke up to another reply from Jams Desborough. I don't know. DalaranJ posted:Given how much Zak misunderstands the way Something Awful works, I assume he's worried his D&D videos will get retsupuraed. This could be arranged but we try to only upload the funny ones.
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Jul 12, 2014 17:23
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unseenlibrarian posted:Conveniently for ELF JAM, thanks to Delta Squid there's even a B-Baller playbook for Dungeon World. The finest class put to pen posted:When you challenge someone to a game of B-ball, roll +CHA. On a 10+,
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Jul 12, 2014 17:24
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General Ironicus posted:This could be arranged but we try to only upload the funny ones. I feel like it would be like a rifftrax of one of those movies that is so bad that no joke they can tell will ever make it watchable.
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Jul 12, 2014 17:36
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Old Dirty Cumburgs posted:I may be just super tired, but is his suggestion actually "Trial by elfgame Space Jam"? Apparently it's to build goodwill? The problem is RPGnet as an entity is enormous and has no reason not to ignore all of this forever. He's been asking me what I want but so far he wants me to ask RPGnet to do things for him and I don't even have to ask to know that's not happening. 
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Ettin posted:Apparently it's to build goodwill? The problem is RPGnet as an entity is enormous and has no reason not to ignore all of this forever. The only way this should play out is with you demanding increasingly bizarre items read from a bank-robbers demands. "I want a public acknowledgement that posting people's RL names was dumb as poo poo. Also I want a pizza, from dominoes. I want to know who I am speaking with. Also, a car to take me to the airport."
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Jul 12, 2014 17:49
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SunAndSpring posted:But I have obligations, man. I gotta return to my job back at college and make a bunch of drunk college kids some loving hot wings or else. No homo er or no hetero, whichever applies no h[x]o Plus the only really compelling thing I have to offer is that for those four glorious days I get to hang out with all the oldschool TSR people since the Auction is like 60% staffed by Ye Olde Lake Geneva crew. So if you are not into things that were exciting in 1984 I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO GIVE YOU, SUNANDSPRING Halloween Jack posted:It never occurred to me to ask my fiancee to parley with my Internet nemeses on my behalf. Probably because I'm not an utter lunatic.
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Jul 12, 2014 17:52
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Halloween Jack posted:That happened when he got banned. Run it on roll 20, i'll play.
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Jul 12, 2014 18:13
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Gravy Train Robber posted:I mean, we have Blood Bowl and Dreadball, why isn't there a Fantasy Basketball game? I think it would be difficult to simulate the speed of play of Basketball in a necessarily turn-based tabletop game. The volume of scoring alone represents a huge design challenge unless you want to abstract it to the point where you're just playing Dreadball but there's only one target to throw at and everyone's wearing basketball uniforms now. edit: if you turned it into a dexterity game it could be pretty sweet long-ass nips Diane fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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Jul 12, 2014 18:21
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Ettin posted:He's been asking me what I want but so far he wants me to ask RPGnet to do things for him and I don't even have to ask to know that's not happening. Tell him you want him to stop harassing people online and to publicly apologise for his behaviour up to and including the harassment.
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Jul 12, 2014 19:00
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Tell him you want him to stop harassing people online and to publicly apologise for his behaviour up to and including the harassment. You know drat well that that's not going to do anything though; he's just gonna want to argue about the definition of 'harassment' so that his behavior couldn't possibly be classified as such.
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Jul 12, 2014 19:06
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Asymmetrikon posted:You know drat well that that's not going to do anything though; he's just gonna want to argue about the definition of 'harassment' so that his behavior couldn't possibly be classified as such. But then, then you get to tell him No.
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Jul 12, 2014 19:09
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Yeah, there's literally no benefit to engaging with Zak S. RPGnet mods bent over backwards to try and explain to the guy why his behavior was obnoxious and could he please knock it off and all he did was feign confusion and change nothing until he eventually (finally) he got banned. More courtesy was extended to him than any three shitposters combined and he still refused to acknowledge that maybe the problem lay with him.
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Jul 12, 2014 19:11
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Asymmetrikon posted:You know drat well that that's not going to do anything though Yes. Although it'll show that he's not being honest about wanting a ~truce~.
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Jul 12, 2014 19:15
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Asymmetrikon posted:You know drat well that that's not going to do anything though; he's just gonna want to argue about the definition of 'harassment' so that his behavior couldn't possibly be classified as such. Yes I realize if someone is determined to break an agreement it is easy to do so, but hey, then you would have tried! Oh no, what if he FEEDS ON TRYING
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Jul 12, 2014 19:18
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what if we just found his real life address and beat him senseless with lengths of pipe
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Jul 12, 2014 19:22
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Don't be silly, Forums Terrorist. That's what you do when you want information out of someone.
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Jul 12, 2014 19:29
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Crosscontaminant posted:Don't be silly, Forums Terrorist. Yeah, I don't think Zak S has the information we would want out of him anyway (why is he so terrible and how to stop it and or him).
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Jul 12, 2014 19:33
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p sure there was a pbp about pipe fighters here years ago
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Jul 12, 2014 19:34
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Isn't that just Apocalypse World?
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Captain Foo posted:p sure there was a pbp about pipe fighters here years ago Wasn't that Marpo?
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Evil Mastermind posted:I would just like to go on record and say the Strands of Fate is the worst loving implementation of Fate out there, even with cash-in games taken into account, and way be one of the worst games I've ever had to make a character for. Ugh, yes. My usual crew's introduction to Fate was strands and it poisoned some of them against the system until core was released. Der Waffle Mous fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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Jul 12, 2014 20:01
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I'm doing a Fate hack for one of the genres I love (lighthearted cinematic low fantasy adventure) and it always intrigues me how Fate has a lot of rules where you think "nah, I don't need to touch that, it's fine as it is" until you actually try to do something different with it, at which point you sorta go "woah this is flexible as hell and works in so many ways". Plus for those players who are more at home with systems that have a more restrictive element to them (not that it's a bad thing to have, mind you) you can do a lot with simply taking stuff like stunts people have designed, and extras like armor/weapon rankings, and codify them into neat little packages to emulate classes or what have you. It's a lovely system to play around with.
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Jul 12, 2014 20:05
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The thing about Strands of Fate is that it came out around the same time as SotC, meaning it's working off an outdated version of the Fate rules, but it's also written with the core idea of "I want to make Fate more like 3.X".
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Jul 12, 2014 20:28
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Fuego Fish posted:Wasn't that Marpo? Actually I think the game that spawned the joke predates marpo
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Jul 12, 2014 21:12
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Pipefighting comes from an old Tairn game where everyone was on a spooky space station and got so bored they found pipes and fought with them. I think Winson and Comte de Saint Germaine made it happen. Hashtag Trad Games History
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Jul 12, 2014 21:31
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Captain Foo posted:Actually I think the game that spawned the joke predates marpo And it was called Pipemakers, right?
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Fuego Fish posted:I'm doing a Fate hack for one of the genres I love (lighthearted cinematic low fantasy adventure) and it always intrigues me how Fate has a lot of rules where you think "nah, I don't need to touch that, it's fine as it is" until you actually try to do something different with it, at which point you sorta go "woah this is flexible as hell and works in so many ways". Yeah, I never thought of Contests much until I saw how Jadepunk made them into a neat way to conduct duels (where you take consequences instead to stop your enemy from earning victory points). Now I've been thinking of ways to repurpose other Fate elements game I want to start soon.
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Swagger Dagger posted:Pipefighting comes from an old Tairn game where everyone was on a spooky space station and got so bored they found pipes and fought with them. I think Winson and Comte de Saint Germaine made it happen. That sounds about like the right era of people
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