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quote:Is there any relief charity operation for Nepal on Drivethrurpg?
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Apr 26, 2015 13:47
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Not sure that's grog? In the past Drivethru has done charity bundles with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders for natural disasters in the past, the Haiti earthquake being the most prominent example.
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Apr 26, 2015 14:27
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It struck me as "I cannot view charity except through the lens of this hobby"
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Apr 26, 2015 14:36
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Saguaro PI posted:Not sure that's grog? In the past Drivethru has done charity bundles with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders for natural disasters in the past, the Haiti earthquake being the most prominent example. "Thousands dead overseas? Sweet! Should be some good charity deals coming along."
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Apr 26, 2015 14:42
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Remember when goons only donated to hurricane victims to permaban one poster? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Apr 26, 2015 18:13
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In retrospect, that kind of made him a sorta jesus-like figure. He was vanquished from this world so others might live. Shitposter Christ- Superstar (stage wires replaced with heavy gauge line)
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Apr 26, 2015 18:32
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So when that dude wrote "bear world", do you think he used speech-to-text or laboriously typed it out one-handed while furiously stroking to his own satiric brilliance? Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.
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Apr 30, 2015 07:55
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Can we include video game RPG grog, pretty please?quote:There should be a toggle option to remove gay content from the game, except girl on girl, but only if the females are attractive. Leave it on by default, then allow players to turn it off if they want. Nothing should be forced. I'd rather not see those dialogue options in game. There is enough gay content on TV and in games, it's getting annoying. I'm not politically correct, I know this.
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May 1, 2015 03:16
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Libertad! posted:Can we include video game RPG grog, pretty please? No, take it to Games, have a thread that exists for 5 pages before turning completely to poo poo, watch as it all burns down around you, and realize that video game-based grog.txt style threads are doomed to failure on a fundamental level.
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May 1, 2015 03:21
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:No, take it to Games, have a thread that exists for 5 pages before turning completely to poo poo, watch as it all burns down around you, and realize that video game-based grog.txt style threads are doomed to failure on a fundamental level. I have started my first forays into the non-LPs parts of Games and I think I understand what you mean, but I'd like to hear it anyways: why is that?
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May 1, 2015 03:23
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More traffic.
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May 1, 2015 03:39
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Kai Tave posted:The fact that Kevin Sembieda's definition of "rules lawyer" probably includes "anyone who tries to hold him, the guy who plasters his name on every single Rifts book, to the rules he copy/pastes without playtesting and charges people money for and then can't even be bothered to use." Every single anecdote and story that anyone who's ever met and/or worked with Sembieda paints a picture of a massively passive-aggressive (and plain ol' aggressive), scummy, insufferable rear end in a top hat, so I'm hugely skeptical that the person being discussed actually deserved to be shat upon. When I met someone who'd worked for Palladium they were plenty mad, but then I asked around and discovered that scuttlebutt is that he is absolutely above board with the terms of how he'll do business with you. The thing is, if you're choosing to do business with anyone under those terms maybe freelancing Is Not The Field For You. Some of the better known names didn't. Some of the lesser known names did, and have had remorse tantrums about it. I'll tell you one thing: They pay for reprint rights. I can't think of a single other work for hire outfit that does that.
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May 1, 2015 03:50
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Sorry, I don't think "he's an rear end in a top hat but he's up-front about it" (which isn't even true if the story of the freelancer who wrote that Palladium zombie apocalypse game is to be believed) actually excuses such behavior or makes it any better.
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May 1, 2015 03:54
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paradoxGentleman posted:I have started my first forays into the non-LPs parts of Games and I think I understand what you mean, but I'd like to hear it anyways: why is that? Well grognards.txt is about tradgames, since it's in tradgames. Games is about video games. If you mean about the thread crashing and burning, that's what's happened every other time that sort of thread started in Games. At least, I can't remember one that didn't melt on itself.
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May 1, 2015 04:02
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Kai Tave posted:Sorry, I don't think "he's an rear end in a top hat but he's up-front about it" (which isn't even true if the story of the freelancer who wrote that Palladium zombie apocalypse game is to be believed) actually excuses such behavior or makes it any better. It's obviously better when you're told in clear terms what the contract you're signing means. If the terms are lousy you can in fact not sign the contract. I would never submit to the Rifter because it works out to maybe a penny or two a word and the payment formula and rights are wonky and subjective. As for Dead Reign, I wouldn't make any definitive statements about what went down with that, but I will say that I've seen heavy emergency rewrites and have never known them to happen out of envy. There's no money to be saved, either--time spent writing is time away from other business. So it reads like a couple of guys signed a poo poo contract knowing what it was, and the publisher didn't like the draft and exercised his expansive rights redoing it. This isn't an injustice. It's multiple people making bad decisions together.
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May 1, 2015 04:59
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MalcolmSheppard posted:This isn't an injustice. It's multiple people making bad decisions together. Somethingawful.com
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May 1, 2015 05:06
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MalcolmSheppard posted:It's multiple people making bad decisions together. New thread title please, Ettin.
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May 1, 2015 05:17
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Saguaro PI posted:New thread title please, Ettin.
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May 1, 2015 06:16
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FMguru posted:He's hoping for one of DT's "$400 worth of RPGs for a $20 charity donation" bundles instead of just sending $20 to the Red Cross or MSF. He sees the Nepal quake as an opportunity to score a bunch of RPGs on the cheap and not an enormous upwelling of human misery that he has a social obligation to help alleviate. I think that's a little much to assume from someone going "hey, thing that usually happens isn't happening right now, what's the deal."
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May 1, 2015 06:19
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MalcolmSheppard posted:It's obviously better when you're told in clear terms what the contract you're signing means. If the terms are lousy you can in fact not sign the contract. I would never submit to the Rifter because it works out to maybe a penny or two a word and the payment formula and rights are wonky and subjective. As for Dead Reign, I wouldn't make any definitive statements about what went down with that, but I will say that I've seen heavy emergency rewrites and have never known them to happen out of envy. There's no money to be saved, either--time spent writing is time away from other business. So it reads like a couple of guys signed a poo poo contract knowing what it was, and the publisher didn't like the draft and exercised his expansive rights redoing it. This isn't an injustice. It's multiple people making bad decisions together. Except according to the freelancer writing it Sembieda was full of nothing but gushing praise for what he was turning in riiiiiiiight up to the part where he did an abrupt about-face and suddenly it was unmitigated poo poo and now I'll have to rewrite this ugh, but out of the goodness of my heart I'll still pay you, oh, 70% of what I said I would. And then when the book went to print the "emergency rewrites" were more along the lines of "Kevin Sembieda shoehorns some broken, dodgy rules poo poo where it didn't need to go and mysteriously leaves much of the writing he claimed was unacceptable alone, only with him now taking lead writing credit for it." Sorry, I know you like to present yourself as the knowledgeable voice of reason with stuff like this but I stand by my assessment of Kevin Sembieda as a scummy, manipulative rear end in a top hat. Even beyond his business practices every anecdote I've heard from people encountering him at conventions or in games portrays him as hugely insufferable, as does Bill Coffin's recounting of his experiences working with the man, and while taken in isolation any of these things could be dismissed as one person's sour grapes or lopsided portrayal, taken together I'm not especially inclined to extend Sembieda the benefit of the doubt.
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May 1, 2015 07:34
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Well grognards.txt is about tradgames, since it's in tradgames. Games is about video games. As opposed to grognards.txt and its unbroken, meltdown-free history, of course.
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May 1, 2015 09:26
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Requiem for a DM
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May 1, 2015 11:38
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Someone points out a DTRPG product with a Heavy Metal-style lady with tits out and apparently visible pubic hair, and that it's not tagged "Adult."quote:They are breasts, not boobies, and breasts are not adult material. Breasts are a perfectly natural part of women's bodies that have been needlessly sexualized until even saying the word seems to have become a taboo in many parts. quote:Meh, it shouldn't be a big deal. quote:It's French, nothing to see here. Move along. Insert some likely shitthatiddnthappen.txt about political correctness gone mad. quote:Of course you can say boobies, it just seems juvenile to the extreme. Instead of living by some taboo that you try to get around by using slang terms why not use the proper English word, breast? Referring to breasts as boobies is to me to partake in the kind of sexual fetishism of the natural that produce such unforgettable terms as FATAL's 'fuckstick' for penis, the vulgar 'oval office' for vagina etc. quote:Boobies is a slang word, and a synonym with a distinctly vulgar streak. I prefer accepted English terms over vulgarities. And finding humor in this kind of vulgarity is, to me, something associated with the juvenile. Security in maturity means readiness to use proper terms over disarmingly vulgar/humorous expressions designed to cope with an inability to handle the subject matter seriously. quote:Why does it need to be tagged? I understand that to some cultures the open display of breasts is vulgar/rude, but if you disregard that then why? quote:
Beep boop I am an adult. BTW what if the titty witch riding the dick dragon is actually empowering? What then? It really makes you think *puts hand on chin, purses lips*
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May 1, 2015 17:30
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Unrelated, but I used to really like Humon when I was a teenager, before I sort of forgot about her. Now that I think about it, her comics were sort of racists, weren't there? I always assumed it wasn't that big of a deal because she is herself Scandinavian, but that's not really a justification.
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May 1, 2015 18:08
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quote:[Giant Sweden Against the World comic where lovely racist author Humon makes perhaps the most bland, least offensive point she's ever made about how American culture is hosed up about breasts.] Is this a Hathor the Cow Goddess thing?
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May 1, 2015 19:40
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Ronwayne posted:Is this a Hathor the Cow Goddess thing? No it's just a lady from an extremely culturally homogeneous country who likes to use her lovely comic to make sweeping and racist judgments against lots of other nations because they just can't be as cool as her rich, white, socialist enclave. Like half of her comics are just "Lol why is Finland/Wales/etc such a backwards crapsack country? Can't they just do what Sweden did and not gently caress sheep or something?" Basically combine the whole "a hundred miles is a long way in Europe, a hundred years is a long time in America." lack of cross cultural knowledge and historical perspective that is common among ignorant people everywhere who think their country is the bestest country with the comedic style of a bad newspaper comic like BC or Ziggy.
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May 1, 2015 20:56
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paradoxGentleman posted:Unrelated, but I used to really like Humon when I was a teenager, before I sort of forgot about her. Now that I think about it, her comics were sort of racists, weren't there? I always assumed it wasn't that big of a deal because she is herself Scandinavian, but that's not really a justification. The stereotypes of the Scandinavian nations (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), is an extension of a kind of friendly barbs between the three nations that's common in humour in Scandinavia. It's no more serious than when Australians and New Zealanders call each other sheepfuckers - possibly even less mean-spirited. From a perspective of race relations, the Scandinavian nations are effectively the same (however, both Norway and Sweden have indigenous minorities in the Sami and Kven people, as well as other local ethno/linguistic minorities like the Sweden Finns), and from a Scandinavian perspective, it is absurd to call the friendly stereotypes "racism", since there's no element of race involved. Even from a linguistic and religious perspective, there is no animosity on the basis of language or religion, so even the wider concept of "racial" discrimination doesn't really exist between the Scandinavian countries. (As opposed to in the Scandinavian countries, where there's still that ugly legacy of the Sami cultural genocide to deal with, and the prejudice and xenophobia towards immigrant populations...) That's not to say that Humon doesn't portray some really racist things (a quick Google search reveals a lot of complaints about her sexualization of black people and slavery), and she draws Japan in SatW in the most stereotypical manner possible, complete with perpetually squinting eyes, but the interactions between the Scandinavian countries are not it.
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May 2, 2015 12:33
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LatwPIAT posted:The stereotypes of the Scandinavian nations (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), is an extension of a kind of friendly barbs between the three nations that's common in humour in Scandinavia. It's no more serious than when Australians and New Zealanders call each other sheepfuckers - possibly even less mean-spirited. From a perspective of race relations, the Scandinavian nations are effectively the same (however, both Norway and Sweden have indigenous minorities in the Sami and Kven people, as well as other local ethno/linguistic minorities like the Sweden Finns), and from a Scandinavian perspective, it is absurd to call the friendly stereotypes "racism", since there's no element of race involved. Even from a linguistic and religious perspective, there is no animosity on the basis of language or religion, so even the wider concept of "racial" discrimination doesn't really exist between the Scandinavian countries. (As opposed to in the Scandinavian countries, where there's still that ugly legacy of the Sami cultural genocide to deal with, and the prejudice and xenophobia towards immigrant populations...) Humon is Danish and makes fun of Danes a lot for being racist, and the artist kind of is too. Who knew how accurate it was? 
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May 2, 2015 15:27
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Not the groggiest grog, but..Groggy With A Chance Of Rain posted:I was looking through a couple of RPG books last night and several of them recommended the "failing forward" technique - where failing a task doesn't actually mean the task fails, just that an extra complication comes to light. I know it's possible to not get it harder, but it's definitely very "I'm mad at (thing)! Here's an example of (other thing)!"
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May 3, 2015 20:04
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He's talking about the firefly RPG and the examples they use in particular there, so it's an entirely justified thread.
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May 4, 2015 03:08
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http://rpg.stackexchange.com/a/51701quote:How can an aristocracy be perpetuated between creatures that can't interbreed? quote:Step 1: Get in good with the Green Hags.
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May 4, 2015 08:42
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Dwarves are in the list of neighbours. Muls are a thing. Problem solved.
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May 4, 2015 09:15
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quote:I read all about the game once I heard of this tragedy. yes it is a tragedy. The company is the iconic greek hero who falls to their own hubris. Their pride on being exclusively feminist has taken too much from them to make a game that can include everyone. It seemed like a cool role playing game but I cannot fund a corporation that goes against my ideals as a gamer. I will not impugn my honor to support a company that goes against it. Every where there is backlash if you take the fight against feminism. I try not to even bother starting a fight on a forum since you lose by default cause they will ban you. I tend to just fade out of the picture. quote:You know what this mean, people? Let's pirate the poo poo out of those books!
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May 4, 2015 09:40
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What game system was that about? Was it Eclipse Phase? Because that'd be great, it is literally impossible to pirate Eclipse Phase.
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May 4, 2015 09:48
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Mors Rattus posted:What game system was that about? Was it Eclipse Phase? Because that'd be great, it is literally impossible to pirate Eclipse Phase.
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May 4, 2015 09:51
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How did they manage that? It is unspeakably hard to protect one's products from piracy in this day and age.
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May 4, 2015 10:06
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Wikipedia posted:The Eclipse Phase roleplaying game was released under a Creative Commons license; the text found on the Eclipse Phase website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.[6] As stated on their website, the publishers encourage players and gamemasters to recreate, alter, and "remix" the material for non-commercial purposes. Further, copying and sharing the game's electronic versions is legal. It's CC-by-NC-SA licensed, so you can freely distribute and share its electronic versions. Unless they're somehow stealing the actual physical books, you can't pirate the game.
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May 4, 2015 10:08
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Yeah. It's not that you can't download it for free - you can. It's just that, uh, the guys who run the torrents of it, for example, are the guys who produce it. You can't pirate Eclipse Phase because they give it away.
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May 4, 2015 10:29
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MalcolmSheppard posted:When I met someone who'd worked for Palladium they were plenty mad, but then I asked around and discovered that scuttlebutt is that he is absolutely above board with the terms of how he'll do business with you. The thing is, if you're choosing to do business with anyone under those terms maybe freelancing Is Not The Field For You. Some of the better known names didn't. Some of the lesser known names did, and have had remorse tantrums about it. Well, it's like the story of the scorpion and the frog, only in the end the scorpion stings the frog and says, "Well, you see, I was never contractually obligated not to sting you." He's indeed up front about his contracts but he often plays football Lucy Van Pelt-style with freelancers, which goes partway to explaining why he often has trouble hanging on to writers.
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quote:Just wanted to share a bit of a revelation I had last night -- while reading Rites of the Blood (a fabulous book, so far, BTW), I was making a lot of connections to the Sabbat and the Islamic State. The nature of the two organizations seems to converge quite a bit -- and this is a good thing for me. I've always lamented the loss of the mystery and ruthlesness that was the Sabbat in 1e. Once they were defined, they lost some of their menace. However, if I can channel some of the horrors and mentality of the Islamic State into my version of the Sabbat, I think some of the alienness and nastiness returns. This is a thread that will go places.
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