TG February Chat Thread: Dank Rollman's Halal Hotbox

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moths: Aug 25, 2004; I would also still appreciate some danger.

It's more like the movie Maximum Overdrive with 50' bricks of SPAM instead of trucks.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 05:51

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 11:27

Terrible Opinions: Oct 18, 2013

Error 404 posted:

You mean like Slaves went "haywire" when they were emancipated?

Well closer to the slaves learning to talk and read/write. They were stills slaves during the second rebellion.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 06:11

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

The Shoggoths did nothing wrong. Also they are adorable and friendly.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 06:11

Terrible Opinions: Oct 18, 2013

It's really easy to have Shoggoth lords as the real bad guys with tragic/sympathetic normal shoggoth or proto-shoggoth underlings. Specifically one could have the lords' human shapes be the gift of some dark god they struck a deal with. Humans with their concrete form and distinct tissues are monstrous in the extreme to shoggoth culture, but such is the price of power.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 06:26

DalaranJ: Apr 15, 2008; Yosuke will now die for you.

Sion posted:

Some friends of mine would like to play a roleplaying game but they stalwartly refuse to tell me what kind of game they are interested in.

Should I just run DnD and go from there or..?

I don't know if you've already decided but I think this idea is a pretty good one:
https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/one-hour-roleplaying/

# ? Feb 9, 2015 08:15

Effectronica: May 31, 2011; Fallen Rib

Tollymain posted:

i thought shoggoths are ancient biological machines gone haywire. are they a metaphor for some grotesque bigotry as well?

Reading between the lines, the shoggothim are capable of intelligence and eventually decided to throw off their chains, leading to the final destruction of the Elder Thing civilization underneath Antarctica. Unfortunately, the posthypnotic control signals they implanted remain, which is probably why the Deep Ones have one in Innsmouth and how it's possible to summon and control one. It's also possible to construct an exegesis of Danforth's closing rant to figure out why the Elder Things proceeded to have everything go wrong for them, but I don't think it's really necessary.

Elfgames posted:

Or how about the fish people are just captureing and mutating people(or maybe it is willing who wouldn't grow some gills for enough money and power?)

Horror should be, in my mind, willing to break out of the conservatism it's generally associated with.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:16

Yawgmoth: Sep 10, 2003; This post is cursed!

Evil Mastermind posted:

My dream was always to get multiple recursive games going with the old Shahrazad card from Arabian Nights.

4x Shahrazad
4x Spellweaver Helix
Nx Sorcery with buyback

Have fun being the biggest bastard this side of a tuned Stasis deck.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:29

Hyper Crab Tank: Feb 10, 2014; The 16-bit retro-future of crustacean-based transportation

Yawgmoth posted:

4x Shahrazad
4x Spellweaver Helix
Nx Sorcery with buyback

Have fun being the biggest bastard this side of a tuned Stasis deck.

Include 4x Burning Wish and/or Research/Development to increase your chance of successfully creating recursive subgames within subgames. The comprehensive rules even specifically say you can fetch cards from the main game in subgames, including cards on the stack (like the currently resolving Shahrazad). This method also enables you to create recursive subgames in Commander. If you can resolve a Hive Mind before casting Shahrazad in Commander you pretty much just win your playgroup forever, by which I mean they will never want to play with you ever again.

E: Cast Through Time helps too.

Hyper Crab Tank fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Feb 9, 2015

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:42

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

So guess who the only person who came into the office today is? :v:

Guess who had to drive an hour to get here?

Guess who decided to print gaming PDFs only to find out that the printer's not working?

:suicide:

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:42

MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Evil Mastermind posted:

So guess who the only person who came into the office today is?

Guess who had to drive an hour to get here?

Guess who decided to print gaming PDFs only to find out that the printer's not working?

Muahahahahaha......... Muahahahhahahahahha....... Actually, in all seriousness if its anything like Boston and its three feet of snow on the ground what were you thinking?

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:45

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

MadScientistWorking posted:

Muahahahahaha......... Muahahahhahahahahha....... Actually, in all seriousness if its anything like Boston and its three feet of snow on the ground what were you thinking?

I live in Rhode Island and work in Connecticut. The snow stopped here before I even woke up this morning, and we got maybe three inches.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:50

MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Evil Mastermind posted:

I live in Rhode Island and work in Connecticut. The snow stopped here before I even woke up this morning, and we got maybe three inches.

Well aren't you special with your lack of snow and your perfectly clean streets.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:52

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

MadScientistWorking posted:

Well aren't you special with your lack of snow and your perfectly clean streets.

I didn't say they were clean. I'm just glad we didn't get more real snow because we have no place else to put it.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 15:59

Mors Rattus: Oct 25, 2007; FATAL & Friends
Walls of Text
#1 Builder
2014-2018

Yeah, Connecticut's still getting snow. It hasn't stopped yet.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:00

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Mors Rattus posted:

Yeah, Connecticut's still getting snow. It hasn't stopped yet.

Really? I'm in New London and there's none here.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:12

Mors Rattus: Oct 25, 2007; FATAL & Friends
Walls of Text
#1 Builder
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I'm closer to Hartford and at least when I last checked it was still coming down over here.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:15

Davin Valkri: Apr 8, 2011; Maybe you're weighing the moral pros and cons but let me assure you that OH MY GOD
SHOOT ME IN THE GODDAMNED FACE
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

Is this the part where I feel bad for living in Southern California? :smith:

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:18

Mors Rattus: Oct 25, 2007; FATAL & Friends
Walls of Text
#1 Builder
2014-2018

Yes. You are a fucker that should feel bad.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:18

Error 404: Jul 17, 2009; MAGE CURES PLOT

Davin Valkri posted:

Is this the part where I feel bad for living in Southern California?

Something something Tool lyrics
Something something Arizona Bay

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:23

Dr. Lunchables: Dec 27, 2012; IRL DEBUFFED KOBOLD

Mors Rattus posted:

Yes. You are a fucker that should feel bad.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:32

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Evil Mastermind posted:

I didn't say they were clean. I'm just glad we didn't get more real snow because we have no place else to put it.

There's always Rhode Island. I mean it's not like anybody actually uses it.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:40

potatocubed: Jul 26, 2012; *rathian noises*

Only tangentially related to the snow: did anyone ever convert Eclipse Phase to a system which isn't terrible?

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:52

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

There's always Rhode Island. I mean it's not like anybody actually uses it.

I live in Rhode Island, and I'm still using it. :mad:

# ? Feb 9, 2015 16:53

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Are you like, the custodian?

# ? Feb 9, 2015 17:21

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

Are you like, the custodian?

I prefer the term "Keeper of the Keys", thank you very much.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 17:22

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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Evil Mastermind posted:

So guess who the only person who came into the office today is?

Guess who had to drive an hour to get here?

Guess who decided to print gaming PDFs only to find out that the printer's not working?

I have heard several delightful "commuting an hour to find all the people with shorter commutes are not actually here" stories today.

And my wife is supposed to be interviewing a state away today (Vermont -> Massachusetts), and was going to go in on Saturday to make sure the storm did not stop her from arriving in a timely fashion ... but they called her on Saturday to be like "hold on, maybe we will cancel the interview" ... Sunday ... "oh, hold on, maybe we will cancel" ... Monday morning 6:30, "O.K. head on down here!"

# ? Feb 9, 2015 17:25

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Quarex posted:

I have heard several delightful "commuting an hour to find all the people with shorter commutes are not actually here" stories today.

I honestly wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't a ~50-mile drive one way. Unfortunately (jokes aside) the tech job market in RI is pretty bad.

quote:

And my wife is supposed to be interviewing a state away today (Vermont -> Massachusetts), and was going to go in on Saturday to make sure the storm did not stop her from arriving in a timely fashion ... but they called her on Saturday to be like "hold on, maybe we will cancel the interview" ... Sunday ... "oh, hold on, maybe we will cancel" ... Monday morning 6:30, "O.K. head on down here!"

Hopefully she's going somewhere that isn't getting any snow.

In actual gaming discussion:

potatocubed posted:

Only tangentially related to the snow: did anyone ever convert Eclipse Phase to a system which isn't terrible?

Yes, there's a Fate version in playtest right now.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 17:31

NGDBSS: Dec 30, 2009

I live in Delaware, and the thing about snow here is that by and large we don't get it. Or at least not much of it, if it ever sticks.

That doesn't stop the loving locals from panicking every time a snowflake appears, as if the things had fangs and could suck blood. (Those who've moved here generally don't panic - it's just the locals, who should be used to it by now.

My sympathies on having to deal with actual snow, however.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 17:39

Talkc: Aug 2, 2010; Mizuki! Mizuki! Mizuki!
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Error 404 posted:

Something something Tool lyrics
Something something Arizona Bay

"Goodbye you lizard scum!" - Bill Hicks

# ? Feb 9, 2015 17:55

Rockopolis: Dec 21, 2012; I MAKE FUN OF QUEER STORYGAMES BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY LIFE THAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE CRY

I can't understand these kinds of games, and not getting it bugs me almost as much as me being weird

I think I'm going snowblind. How can everything be so bright white while it's still snowing.
I'm pretty sure the frost giants are using it as cover to march on Albany and seize the state government.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 18:32

Error 404: Jul 17, 2009; MAGE CURES PLOT

NGDBSS posted:

I live in Delaware, and the thing about snow here is that by and large we don't get it. Or at least not much of it, if it ever sticks.

That doesn't stop the loving locals from panicking every time a snowflake appears, as if the things had fangs and could suck blood. (Those who've moved here generally don't panic - it's just the locals, who should be used to it by now.

My sympathies on having to deal with actual snow, however.

So Delaware is the east coast version of oregon/Washington?

# ? Feb 9, 2015 18:33

Terrible Opinions: Oct 18, 2013

Honestly as a regular sufferer of snow I prefer it to the weird freezing rain/snow mix we tend to get through most of December. With snow the big plows and the early commuters clear it out by 7 am or so, but freezing slush rain will stick around for a full day or two causing car crashes.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 18:44

NGDBSS: Dec 30, 2009

Error 404 posted:

So Delaware is the east coast version of oregon/Washington?

Sort of? I mean, we do actually get snow according to NOAA, and it's somewhat colder than the Pacific Northwest in winter, but even New Castle County (which is northernmost, and farthest inland) doesn't really have the same snow problems that Maryland/Pennsylvania/New Jersey get. Somehow we're in the northern end of the humid subtropical band that extends from the American Southeast.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 19:06

Echophonic: Sep 16, 2005; ha;lp; Gun Saliva

NGDBSS posted:

Sort of? I mean, we do actually get snow according to NOAA, and it's somewhat colder than the Pacific Northwest in winter, but even New Castle County (which is northernmost, and farthest inland) doesn't really have the same snow problems that Maryland/Pennsylvania/New Jersey get. Somehow we're in the northern end of the humid subtropical band that extends from the American Southeast.

Yeah, I mean, we get a foot or so every few years, but on average we don't get a whole lot. That blizzard put maybe an inch of snow in my driveway.

Delware goons :whatup:

# ? Feb 9, 2015 19:31

LongDarkNight: Oct 25, 2010; It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.; Oven Wrangler

Rockopolis posted:

I think I'm going snowblind. How can everything be so bright white while it's still snowing.
I'm pretty sure the frost giants are using it as cover to march on Albany and seize the state government.

It would be a positive change for the state.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 19:49

Dr. Lunchables: Dec 27, 2012; IRL DEBUFFED KOBOLD

You guys would probably poo poo bricks if it ever snowed on the 4th of July.

Just another day in paradise.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 19:51

100 degrees Calcium: Jan 23, 2011

Lord Frisk posted:

You guys would probably poo poo bricks if it ever snowed on the 4th of July.

Just another day in paradise.

Where do you live that it snows on 4th of July? Because yes, there is a decent chunk of America that would poo poo bricks if it snowed in the middle of Summer.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 21:14

Davin Valkri: Apr 8, 2011; Maybe you're weighing the moral pros and cons but let me assure you that OH MY GOD
SHOOT ME IN THE GODDAMNED FACE
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

Evil Sagan posted:

Where do you live that it snows on 4th of July? Because yes, there is a decent chunk of America that would poo poo bricks if it snowed in the middle of Summer.

Don't Northern Hemisphere-shame, silly man! :cheeky:

# ? Feb 9, 2015 21:16

Ningyou: Aug 14, 2005; we aaaaare
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you seem kind of pho~ny
everything's a liiiiie

we aaaare
not your kind of pearls
something in your make~up
don't see eye to e~y~e

Evil Sagan posted:

Where do you live that it snows on 4th of July? Because yes, there is a decent chunk of America that would poo poo bricks if it snowed in the middle of Summer.

i think its proper name is "chill penguin's stage"

# ? Feb 9, 2015 21:18

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 11:27

Dr. Lunchables: Dec 27, 2012; IRL DEBUFFED KOBOLD

Evil Sagan posted:

Where do you live that it snows on 4th of July? Because yes, there is a decent chunk of America that would poo poo bricks if it snowed in the middle of Summer.

In America's high five. It doesn't often, but it has before. We had snow in June this year, so I dunno what to tell you.

# ? Feb 9, 2015 21:19

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