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Plague of Hats posted:Well…huh. Does that mean it's going to be not rapey? I don't know anything about Cthulhutech other than it's Lovecraftian horror in a cyberpunk setting with lots of rape.
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Len posted:Does that mean it's going to be not rapey? I don't know anything about Cthulhutech other than it's Lovecraftian horror in a cyberpunk setting with lots of rape. I think there's a F&F writeup.
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Splicer posted:It was also weirdly nonfunctional. They had mech classes with no way to build a mech, for one.
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Helical Nightmares posted:I thought Retail Magic was your take on a tabletop Recettear. Or was that something else?
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Reene posted:IIRC in my playthrough Lolita was one of the things I got (we random rolled for it) and I just treated it like the Japanese fashion trend because that's probably what it's actually meant to be
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Yawgmoth posted:There is, and you're right. Another highlight I recall is that you can get a crit fail and a crit success on the same roll, because what determines a crit fail and a crit success are two totally different things.
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Splicer posted:Nah that's pretty cool, as long as a crit success and a crit fail have different, independent effects. "You nuked that guy superhard but also blew out your coolant tank" is a good game thing. I have no idea what the crit successes and fails did in that game though, but based on the rest of the game I assume they involve rape in some manner. Hastur's faction that took over Europe and Asia was literally called "The Rapine Storm". The other salient problem with CthulhuTech was that the adventure(s) written allowed no player agency at all. At least that is what I got from the F and F review. Here is a bunch of horrible and sick stuff you have to witness and you can do nothing about it. It was less of an adventure and more of a poorly written sick hentai fanfic.
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Splicer posted:Nah that's pretty cool, as long as a crit success and a crit fail have different, independent effects. "You nuked that guy superhard but also blew out your coolant tank" is a good game thing. I have no idea what the crit successes and fails did in that game though, but based on the rest of the game I assume they involve rape in some manner.
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Yawgmoth posted:Nope. It was presented in the nWoD "failed and also broke everything", "failed", "succeeded", "succeeded so hard it made something else easier" sort of style. I mean, you could probably figure out some sort of complicated success style thing but as written it just reeked of "we didn't playtest this at all."
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gradenko_2000 posted:Some nice nominees in there. Schoolgirl RPG, Base Raiders, Blueholme I'm all familiar with. Awesome! Random fun fact - on the Base Raiders website, I posted about super soldier drugs once during the Kickstarter. To this day, random people find the website, think I'm describing real drugs and volunteer to 'test them out' http://www.baseraiders.com/2012/11/04/compound-b13-and-other-super-soldier-drugs/
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clockworkjoe posted:Awesome! Random fun fact - on the Base Raiders website, I posted about super soldier drugs once during the Kickstarter. To this day, random people find the website, think I'm describing real drugs and volunteer to 'test them out' http://www.baseraiders.com/2012/11/04/compound-b13-and-other-super-soldier-drugs/ Unsure if trolling. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:The 2014 Indie RPG Awards nominees have been announced. It's a pretty eclectic mix, but there's some cool stuff in there. Read "The Few" earlier today. Very nice, if a bit too simple.
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Littlefinger posted:Will it eventually end up on dtrpg, though? That would be nice. Hey, I didn't reply to this because I was out of town and not keeping up. But yeah, I'm doing PoD through Drive thru and the PDF will be there too.
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Helical Nightmares posted:
I can't tell either but I love every single comment there. It reminds me of the time when I learned that Delta Green has been worked into conspiracy theories
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Jimbozig posted:Hey, I didn't reply to this because I was out of town and not keeping up. But yeah, I'm doing PoD through Drive thru and the PDF will be there too.
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clockworkjoe posted:I can't tell either but I love every single comment there. It reminds me of the time when I learned that Delta Green has been worked into conspiracy theories You can't just say this without a link. Adam Scott Glancy and the rest of the Pagan team must be so proud
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Helical Nightmares posted:And they wonder why anime fans are socially shunned. "I want it to be known that this character is named after the protagonist in the first hentai I've ever seen." "That's cute, in a creepy way."
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Evil Mastermind posted:The 2014 Indie RPG Awards nominees have been announced. It's a pretty eclectic mix, but there's some cool stuff in there. some interesting games on there, anyone have Cold Steel Wardens, cause that seems the most interesting one there to me also on the topic of Cthulhutech, it's one of those things where the basic idea is solid, and it had a lot of interesting ideas, but turned out to be a mess, supposedly they're going to be doing a reboot with a new system in the relatively near future, and hopefully they'll both trim out the stupid parts and have a system that's actually functional(might run something in a modified version of Cthulhutech's setting using Battle Century G for the rules though)
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Boy I sure hope Romney doesn't win the election! drrockso20 posted:some interesting games on there, anyone have Cold Steel Wardens, cause that seems the most interesting one there to me I liked that the servants of Shub Niggurath were literally sexy furries.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I liked that the servants of Shub Niggurath were literally sexy furries.
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# ? Aug 18, 2015 19:31 |
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My sister posted a craigslist link on my Facebook timeline:quote:D&D Dungeon Master
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# ? Aug 19, 2015 02:49 |
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$100 a session? poo poo, even I'd run D&D for that.
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Ewen Cluney posted:I had the idea to do a silly thing about the staff at a magic item shop years before Recettear existed (I ran it a couple times using Risus), and I revived the idea when I decided to try to do something non-pervy with the Maid RPG rules. I ended up playing Recettear and incorporating some ideas from it after I started on Retail Magic, and I still need to figure out how I'm going to implement the "Commerce Rules" that'll let you do a retail shop simulation in addition to the silliness. I certainly think there is a market for editing or refining ideas from other games. Sine Nomine did a great job reimagining Traveller in Stars Without Number and using that as a launch pad for exploring other genres. Ettin's Nyarlanthotech (sp?) was a hack of Cthulhutech with the aim to remove all the stupidity and I think that had merit. So as much as I detest anime and the fanbase of drooling amorphous manchildren, cleaning up the Maid RPG rules into something that doesn't involve rolling for lolita is also useful. I haven't seen a full magic shop simulator table top game, and I think the idea is very cool and has a lot of potential. Whether you design a full simulator of a fantasy economy or reduce supply and demand scarcity to a series of tables (or both!) I'm interested to see what you come up with. On the subject of modeling business, Caleb Stokes' Red Markets will have some very interesting negotiation mechanics. At this moment in the Red Market's beta they are one of the most gritty and bleak systems I've ever come across but I'm certain they could be adapted to any number of different genres. In a magic retail shop I could also imagine bidding wars for a rare object or perhaps stock at a wholesale marketplace. This brings to mind the Auction rules in Kenneth Hite's Bookhounds of London. And if you design a full system for a retail magic shop economy and rules for interacting with gear hunting adventurers why stop there? How about running a shop on a space station? Or applying the rules to a goodfella who is trying turn a profit running a Speakeasy in the 1930's and has to make border runs to Canada to keep his stock full?
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Galaga Galaxian posted:$100 a session? poo poo, even I'd run D&D for that. It's technically only $20/hr, but it was really tempting if the location in question wasn't a three hour round trip. Also, kids playing d&d
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Captain Walker posted:Also, kids playing d&d There are much better RPGs kids could be playing IMO. Personally, I'd see if the parent(s) were dedicated on D&D or if its just a case of "thats what they know". I'd probably do something like Ryuutama.
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Golden Sky Stories? I keep hearing that's a good game for kiddos.
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# ? Aug 19, 2015 03:19 |
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I keep hearing the same. Won an Indy award on the previous page too.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:$100 a session? poo poo, even I'd run D&D for that. Even if it was pathfinder?
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Galaga Galaxian posted:There are much better RPGs kids could be playing IMO. I totally agree, I meant more like, " kids getting into the hobby in general"
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Potsticker posted:Even if it was pathfinder?
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# ? Aug 19, 2015 03:43 |
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Exactly.
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dwarf74 posted:Excuse me, the ad said D&D. So not 4th edition then?
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It could just be D&D because thats the only thing that exists to the parents. The kids could also be teens and the parents just want them to shuttup.
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moths posted:Exactly. ftfy
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# ? Aug 19, 2015 05:23 |
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no please no
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Boy I sure hope Romney doesn't win the election! that'd be one of the things I'd be changing/throwing out
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Helical Nightmares posted:You can't just say this without a link. It was on Glancy's Facebook wall months ago. I can't find it via Google now.
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Reene posted:no please no
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Error 404 posted:_________________________/ This is the best picture.
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