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HitTheTargets posted:What's Fantasy Flight's track record like? I heard they bought L5R and I'm wondering if that means a new edition with a bunch of new fiddle little rules. They make good card games, Netrunner is probably their best.
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HitTheTargets posted:What's Fantasy Flight's track record like? I heard they bought L5R and I'm wondering if that means a new edition with a bunch of new fiddle little rules. Their core mechanics tend to be good, but I've yet to see any of their games without at least two or three glaring mechanical flaws that scream for house rules. e: Oh card game wise no idea. Thinking about the RPG.
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Their card games tend to be pretty decent but few of them actually have scenes. I guess for L5R its safe to assume many of the players from the CCG will carry over, but I don't think i"ve ever met someone outside of a convention who plays the game.
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Sep 15, 2015 03:12
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HitTheTargets posted:What's Fantasy Flight's track record like? I heard they bought L5R and I'm wondering if that means a new edition with a bunch of new fiddle little rules. FFG is very good at card and board games. They're pretty good at RPGs, though not super great. While their Warhammer 40k mechanics stuff is 80's/90's as gently caress, it's worth pointing out that it started as a legacy product from another, shittier company, and when they tested meaningfully different mechanics in preparation for a second edition their forums exploded in rage. I think L5R fans are probably cooler than that, but they may still end up doing what they did with their 40k RPGs and largely housecleaning a creaky traditionalist system instead of doing something new and exciting. It's frankly too early to tell, on that front.
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Countblanc posted:Their card games tend to be pretty decent but few of them actually have scenes. I was under the impression that Netrunner at least was fairly robust in that regard.
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Len posted:What would be the best system for running a horror themed King of the Hill game? I had a vision yesterday of Hank Hill and pals squaring off against Lovecraftian horrors and I haven't been able to shake it. Probably Trails of Cthulhu or Hillfolk because it would be mostly story driven and episodic. EDIT: I think L5R is in good hands because he SW RPGs are pretty solid. I think the current games are some of the best iterations of Star Wars yet and they've done an excellent job of fleshing out the universe without just stating out the Expanded Universe. Their handling of 40K has been pretty good as well. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 03:19
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Len posted:What would be the best system for running a horror themed King of the Hill game? I had a vision yesterday of Hank Hill and pals squaring off against Lovecraftian horrors and I haven't been able to shake it. Maybe World of Darkness Hunter.
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Sep 15, 2015 03:26
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Make a hack of Octane, call it Propane.
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"As soon as I find the rear end on that blob I'm going to kick it's rear end." But in true King of the Hill fashion he and the shoggoth next door will bond over propane and propane accessories.
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Sep 15, 2015 03:37
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Realms of Cthulhu is another good choice. There's practically a Cthulhu game for every system so take your pick.
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Fuego Fish posted:Make a hack of Octane, call it Propane. Sounds like a real propane nightmare.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Realms of Cthulhu is another good choice. There's practically a Cthulhu game for every system so take your pick. What is Realms of Cthulhu?
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Plague of Hats posted:FFG is very good at card and board games. They're pretty good at RPGs, though not super great. While their Warhammer 40k mechanics stuff is 80's/90's as gently caress, it's worth pointing out that it started as a legacy product from another, shittier company, and when they tested meaningfully different mechanics in preparation for a second edition their forums exploded in rage. I think L5R fans are probably cooler than that, but they may still end up doing what they did with their 40k RPGs and largely housecleaning a creaky traditionalist system instead of doing something new and exciting. It's frankly too early to tell, on that front. I want to play a version of L5R that uses FFG's craziest dice system. In addition to counting masks and katana on the varied dice, I want to roll a 12 sided "void die" with every roll. It's a symbolic die with all blank sides.
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Baron Snow posted:I want to play a version of L5R that uses FFG's craziest dice system. In addition to counting masks and katana on the varied dice, I want to roll a 12 sided "void die" with every roll. It's a symbolic die with all blank sides. Nah, the Void die needs to be a mostly blank d12. On one face there's the Shadow Dragon or whatever, and if you roll it you cast an evil spell; if you roll the only other marked face, the Crab, you Hulk out and beat the ever-living poo poo out of whatever you were fighting/diplomacying/crocheting.
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I legit hope that FFG does use their crazy bullshit dice system for some hypothetical L5R game. One of the interesting things about the WFRP3E game they made that didn't transfer over to Star Wars was the idea of "stances" where you could adopt a more aggressive or cautious stance that would influence your rolls both by substituting more Reckless and Cautious dice for regular ones which had their own unique layout of results as well as unlocking different actions for you to attempt the further along you were along one or the other. It seems like something you could get some mileage out of in a game about dueling and politicking samurai.
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L5R dice? One set for each clan.
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Serf posted:E-even Portable Ops? Ghost Babel? Ac!d? Have mercy! am i like Defective or something if i genuinely kinda liked Ghost Babel and the Ac!d games portable ops was trash tho
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Marionette Owl is my problematic fave.
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after looking marionette owl up on the wiki 'cos it's been like a decade since i actually played ghost babel i am kind of torn between wanting to just be like 'wellllllllllllllll sploosh' and uh 'what the poo poo metal gear wiki' 'why do you keep saying feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemales instead of women' 'what is THE GAME BOY DEMOGRAPHIC and why would this androgyne dollperson who is also an owlperson who is also an anime-haired blue space goth or w/e who kills feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemales they like a bunch to strip 'em for parts like an old beater and make POSTHUMOUS PUPPET PALS appeal to ~~~~THE GAME BOY DEMOGRAPHIC~~~~~'
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Ningyou posted:am i like Defective or something if i genuinely kinda liked Ghost Babel and the Ac!d games No way Ac!d 2 was the bomb, even with venus's kinda silly design, such a good game. and yeah portable ops is aggresively mediocre at best. I perfer Plus which strips out the story and lets you recruit a bunch of new soldier types like the Tengus from mgs2 and the Genome Soldiers, which i think says a lot about the story of PO.
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Ningyou posted:'what is THE GAME BOY DEMOGRAPHIC and why would this androgyne dollperson who is also an owlperson who is also an anime-haired blue space goth or w/e who kills feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemales they like a bunch to strip 'em for parts like an old beater and make POSTHUMOUS PUPPET PALS appeal to ~~~~THE GAME BOY DEMOGRAPHIC~~~~~' They meant me, the one who looks for QTs in GBs. Not for the frankenstein doll thing, though. :| I dunno, can one really condense The Metal Gear Experience into something their friends can easily digest for a campaign? It seems like a lot would be lost in translation.
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giiiiiiiiiiiiirl if u lookin for qts u best look in the mirror  or in a game boy screen in bright light that's kind of like a mirror iguess also THE METAL GEAR EXPERIENCE can be condensed into 'david hayter has rambling homoerotic robot adventures then wants to kill himself the end'
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So I downloaded the CTech beta to take a gander, and here's this at the front:quote:Yes, when this is finally released, it will be under the Creative Commons license.  EDIT: Woof, no bookmarks? 
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TurninTrix posted:They meant me, the one who looks for QTs in GBs. Not for the frankenstein doll thing, though. :| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRHT3hgsgpE
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Ningyou posted:am i like Defective or something if i genuinely kinda liked Ghost Babel and the Ac!d games Nah, I'm mostly joking. Portable Ops sucked, and I never finished Ghost Babel because some jerk stole my Gameboy. Acid was pretty cool, but I've never met anyone who actually liked it. Ningyou posted:also THE METAL GEAR EXPERIENCE can be condensed into 'david hayter has rambling homoerotic robot adventures then wants to kill himself the end' Accurate.
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TurninTrix posted:They meant me, the one who looks for QTs in GBs. Not for the frankenstein doll thing, though. :| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9XOSzVb0O0 the Metal Gear Experience™.
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To be fair, "Second Floor Basement" sounds like nonsense. If it's the second floor of the basement, wouldn't that just be the first floor? And it it's the basement to the second floor wouldn't it be the... first floor? For once I feel like I can identify with Snake.
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Serf posted:To be fair, "Second Floor Basement" sounds like nonsense. If it's the second floor of the basement, wouldn't that just be the first floor? And it it's the basement to the second floor wouldn't it be the... first floor? For once I feel like I can identify with Snake.
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gnome7 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9XOSzVb0O0 the Metal Gear Experience™. This is…[gravelly, nasally voice] correct?
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MadScientistWorking posted:Basements are just floors that are underground hence the reason why you can have multiple basements. Understand that where I come from a basement is something you see on TV. Might as well be something off of Star Trek. So when I first played Metal Gear Solid as a kid, the concept of a "Second Floor Basement" was mystifying to me. Snake says a lot of dumb things in that game, but in that case I was with him.
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Baron Snow posted:I want to play a version of L5R that uses FFG's craziest dice system. In addition to counting masks and katana on the varied dice, I want to roll a 12 sided "void die" with every roll. It's a symbolic die with all blank sides. poo poo like this is why I asked. I'm only familiar with their Star Wars system, and even then I worried that crit failing a roll would cause it to automatically be a Scorpion trick.
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It's always a Scorpion trick. Always.
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Serf posted:To be fair, "Second Floor Basement" sounds like nonsense. If it's the second floor of the basement, wouldn't that just be the first floor? And it it's the basement to the second floor wouldn't it be the... first floor? For once I feel like I can identify with Snake. As somebody who has been places with basements, nah, that's totally normal phrasing.
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Esser-Z posted:As somebody who has been places with basements, nah, that's totally normal phrasing. So the Second Floor Basement is lower than the regular basement? Might as well call it the Super Basement or Basement Level 2.
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Really, it should be called Floor -2 (and the ground floor should be Floor 0, not Floor 1).
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Serf posted:So the Second Floor Basement is lower than the regular basement? Might as well call it the Super Basement or Basement Level 2. Or sub-basement.
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Error 404 posted:Or sub-basement. I mean one basement is bad enough but once you start digging lower than that you've basically hit Hell or that place where balrogs come from.
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Serf posted:So the Second Floor Basement is lower than the regular basement? Might as well call it the Super Basement or Basement Level 2. And this... is to go even further below!!! 
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Fun fact: the very first dungeon started with some dragon commenting that it would be great to add a sub-basement to Ye Olde Lair, maybe set up a terrarium down there? And then a century passes and whoops! Things got a little out of hand. And of course everybody thought it was super cool and a host of imitators ripped the idea off and now here we are...
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