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Cards Against Humanity never claimed to be "the most difficult, detailed, realistic and historically/mythically accurate role-playing game available" or require you to roll a d1million. FATAL is so funny because absolutely everything about it is awful. Everything. It is the platonic ideal of bad RPGs.
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Does anyone use legos or building sets when they're playing games like DnD? I've been looking for a good building block set, (or even like magformers,) for building dungeons, node maps, stuff like that but I'm having issues picking one. Would definitely love some recommendations.
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Mar 24, 2015 01:15
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Ratpick posted:
You should check out MonkeyDome, it's pretty much made for psychotronic arthouse post-apocalypse stuff.
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Mar 24, 2015 01:16
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Splicer posted:Cards Against Humanity never claimed to be "the most difficult, detailed, realistic and historically/mythically accurate role-playing game available" or require you to roll a d1million. Cards does try hard to be edgy and noticed though. A refusal to sell in retail stores, raising the price on black Friday, literally selling a box of bullshit. The cards are the most lolrandom and every time I've played it the joke is "IT'S HILARIOUSLY OFFENSIVE."
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Mar 24, 2015 01:22
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I think I only just realized the name is probably a riff on Crimes Against Humanity. I've never played it, but it seems blindingly obvious in hindsight.
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Mar 24, 2015 01:33
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Turtlicious posted:Does anyone use legos or building sets when they're playing games like DnD? I've been looking for a good building block set, (or even like magformers,) for building dungeons, node maps, stuff like that but I'm having issues picking one. Would definitely love some recommendations. Have you heard of Lego Heroica? It's basically a fantasy adventure board game built from Lego. It's out of production now, but you can probably find some on the secondary market (e.g. for the microfigures) or just use it as construction inspiration. If you have a burning desire for instructions, they're probably online somewhere. Lego is, in my opinion, by far the best construction toy out there, but it can certainly get expensive, in which case I sympathize. There is a Lego thread that might be able to help you find deals. OpenlyEvilJello fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Mar 24, 2015 01:40
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Len posted:Cards does try hard to be edgy and noticed though. A refusal to sell in retail stores, raising the price on black Friday, literally selling a box of bullshit. The cards are the most lolrandom and every time I've played it the joke is "IT'S HILARIOUSLY OFFENSIVE." "Capitalism gets pwned in the nutsack when you sell poop on the black friday!" - Millenials, the worst generation on Earth since yuppies.
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Mar 24, 2015 01:43
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Len posted:Cards does try hard to be edgy and noticed though. A refusal to sell in retail stores, raising the price on black Friday, literally selling a box of bullshit. The cards are the most lolrandom and every time I've played it the joke is "IT'S HILARIOUSLY OFFENSIVE."
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Mar 24, 2015 02:02
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Splicer posted:Yes, but mechanically it's just mad libs with swearing. If you took out the edgey you'd just have a rather banal apples to apples clone. Take the edgy out of FATAL and you're still dealing with a game with about the same amount of ability scores as 3.x had skills. It's been a while since I dumpster dove into FATAL, but I seem to recall that it had a hell of a lot more stats than six. Everything about that motherfucker was stupidly baroque.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:05
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Plague of Hats posted:It's been a while since I dumpster dove into FATAL, but I seem to recall that it had a hell of a lot more stats than six. Everything about that motherfucker was stupidly baroque. He said skills so try like 40.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:06
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Len posted:I would get a ticket for a FATAL game at Gencon if I saw one being run. I'm unsure if I would want to go solo or buy tickets for all my friends going with me. Probably the second option though. Gen Con isn't going to let a game that breaks their anti-harassment policies in its own loving rules be an official game. Also, if you doubt that FATAL can be funny, there was a 13 page or so long play by post game of it on SA that was hilarious - spell mishaps that caused 125 decibel farts for example.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:07
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clockworkjoe posted:Gen Con isn't going to let a game that breaks their anti-harassment policies in its own loving rules be an official game.
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I always suspected that Cards Against Humanity was a metajoke, like the play-within-a-play in Hamlet. "Let's make the most offensive game and see who laughs!"
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clockworkjoe posted:Gen Con isn't going to let a game that breaks their anti-harassment policies in its own loving rules be an official game. I would hope not. But Gencon lets people sell Nazi stuff and anime porn so it feels like it would be iffy on whether or not they would let it.
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Zurui posted:I always suspected that Cards Against Humanity was a metajoke, like the play-within-a-play in Hamlet. "Let's make the most offensive game and see who laughs!" I feel like I've told this story before but maybe I haven't and it's worth telling to any who may doubt the value of CAH. I was playing the game with a non profit, egalitarian warm fuzzy leadership committee and one of the executive staff said "pass me another friend of the family card." That is the value of Cards Against Humanity. A poo poo beacon to illuminate poo poo souls.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:16
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Yeah, far and away the game's best use is identifying the bigots in your group.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:19
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gnome7 posted:Yeah, far and away the game's best use is identifying the bigots in your group. It used to be popular at my local gaming club. I'm proud to say we never ran into a single bigot as a result of the game. It sure is less popular now. Probably because our president made, literally, 200 custom cards. Edit: By proud, I mean we didn't have bigots in our group.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:42
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Turtlicious posted:Does anyone use legos or building sets when they're playing games like DnD? I've been looking for a good building block set, (or even like magformers,) for building dungeons, node maps, stuff like that but I'm having issues picking one. Would definitely love some recommendations. I've been well-served by gluing some of my old D&D minis to the back of my rulebooks. It makes them a little hard to position on the map, but they're always around when I need them.
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Turtlicious posted:Does anyone use legos or building sets when they're playing games like DnD? I've been looking for a good building block set, (or even like magformers,) for building dungeons, node maps, stuff like that but I'm having issues picking one. Would definitely love some recommendations. First game I ever played in did this for all combat and it was a lot of fun, actually.
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I have been on a dry spell lately with games, either not found one that peaks my interest or just not had the time when one does. I do however have the time now to at least read some of the amazing PBP that are on this forum and others. Does anyone have some favorites they could link me to? I really like dungeon crawling/traps/monsters, god game, weird/techy/scifi stuff. Second question, are there any RPG's that dont really have a central GM but work cooperatively somehow or something? I have a group of 3 including myself, none of us have GM'd but we are looking for a system that would be good with 3 players. Maybe it has some sort of rotating GM or a randomized/ai thing?
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goodness posted:Second question, are there any RPG's that dont really have a central GM but work cooperatively somehow or something? I have a group of 3 including myself, none of us have GM'd but we are looking for a system that would be good with 3 players. Maybe it has some sort of rotating GM or a randomized/ai thing? Fiasco is heavily inspired by Coen Brothers movies and is a GMless game that works with 3-5 players. It's a single session game, and you make characters and the situation as part of set-up when you start playing. The book comes with Playsets, which are sort of like settings and the website has a whole bunch of additional ones for free.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:00
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Covok posted:You know, as a guy on skype is reminding me, I really should have saw that coming.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Have you heard of Lego Heroica? It's basically a fantasy adventure board game built from Lego. It's out of production now, but you can probably find some on the secondary market (e.g. for the microfigures) or just use it as construction inspiration. If you have a burning desire for instructions, they're probably online somewhere. Lego is, in my opinion, by far the best construction toy out there, but it can certainly get expensive, in which case I sympathize. There is a Lego thread that might be able to help you find deals.
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Zurui posted:I always suspected that Cards Against Humanity was a metajoke, like the play-within-a-play in Hamlet. "Let's make the most offensive game and see who laughs!" Nope. 
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If you play CAH online you'll notice all the custom decks are just full of very specific in-jokes, rather than trying to be edgy and offensive. I think most players just like to play Apples to Apples with longer cards.
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Mar 24, 2015 12:43
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cah is funny when it punches up. unfortunately, there are actually more cards that punch down in the box. 
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goodness posted:I have been on a dry spell lately with games, either not found one that peaks my interest or just not had the time when one does. I do however have the time now to at least read some of the amazing PBP that are on this forum and others. I'm the obligatory Apocalypse World shill, might fit your need for weird/techy/scifi if you use it in that setting or just like psychic maelstroms
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Mar 24, 2015 14:16
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It's spelled shill.
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Mar 24, 2015 14:23
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Tollymain posted:cah is funny when it punches up. CAH shittiness aside, is "punch down comedy" like a new en vogue sjw topic? Legit question, I think I began seeing the phrase a lot recently.
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Lichtenstein posted:is "punch down comedy" like a new en vogue sjw topic? Legit question, I think I began seeing the phrase a lot recently. "Punch up, not down" has been a phrase for years (if not decades). Also lol at anyone who uses the term "SJW" unironically. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Mar 24, 2015 14:32
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Lichtenstein posted:CAH shittiness aside, is "punch down comedy" like a new en vogue sjw topic? Legit question, I think I began seeing the phrase a lot recently. The idea has been around for a while AFAIK, but the name for it has been popularized recently. Turns out a lot of comedy hinges on making GBS threads on marginalized people and people are starting to come around to the idea that it isn't very cool and actually not at all funny.
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Mar 24, 2015 14:33
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I first heard of CaH in a podcast interview with the creators. They were insufferable upper-class shits (as they were quick to point out) and I stopped listening when they were explaining the "joke" behind "the hard working Mexican" card. (The joke is that there's only one, get it?) 
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Not making GBS threads on marginalized people: the new en vogue sjw topic, apparently.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Not making GBS threads on marginalized people New topic, same as the old topic.
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Mar 24, 2015 14:36
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The weak should not be coddled lol
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Mar 24, 2015 14:39
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It's pretty disappointing that Will Wheaton showed that one off on Tabletop. Apparently it was a Patreon goal, which does not speak highly of their audience.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Not making GBS threads on marginalized people: the new en vogue sjw topic, apparently. Seems like there's a CAH card in there somewhere, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Mar 24, 2015 14:41
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:The weak should not be coddled lol So we should stop coddling you?
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject. It all makes sense now; Plutonis is one of the Boys from Brazil.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Not making GBS threads on marginalized people: the new en vogue sjw topic, apparently. If I've learned anything from this whole mess around The Strange, it's that to a lot of people, there's such a thing as an "acceptable" level of racism or marginalization. Also "seriously, gently caress this hobby" but we all know I already knew that.
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