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Tulpa posted:While the kickstarter for Circle of Hands did basically present the game as such, Ron Edwards did back off of being this dumb and the end result was a game that was actually interesting in some ways and explicitly excluded 'pillage and rape' as a setting feature.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I stopped reading Cape trash from murricans since three years ago and it was the best decision I've ever had. Go read Franco-Belgian, Japanese or Southamerican comics yall 
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Helical Nightmares posted:Re: Pendragon http://esoteric-rp.blogspot.ie/ Here one that's gotten pretty far along
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Have you folks heard about Cthonian Highways? A company some friends for work just put out this: http://ironspine.com/wp/en/rpgs/chthonian-highways/ Free to download rpg based on Mad Max and Cthulhu and these guys have been making games for years now. Haven't had the time to test it myself but it looks promising.
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Oct 14, 2015 12:33
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*kisses fingertips* Oui, c'est magnifique!
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ProfessorCirno posted:As I understand the other big issue with going THE DARK AGES is that it was the "Dark Ages" in this one shitpile of a hole that Europe was, while plenty of the rest of the world was having one golden age or another.
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Late Antiquity (ps this is the preferred nomenclature) is actually one of my fav historical periods, Boethius alone makes the entire region/era worth studying.
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My favorite part of late antiquity is the Undersea Palace.
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FactsAreUseless posted:My favorite part of late antiquity is the Undersea Palace. Really? Mine was the City of Dreams.
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Mi casa es Enhasa.
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Now I want to play with the AD&D Historicals books.
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Traveller posted:Now I want to play with the AD&D Historicals books. The Rome one is not bad actually. The character class kits are bad but that's to be expected.
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Oct 14, 2015 15:50
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Maul: The Dark Age on the arcade and 64 was badass
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Maul: The Dark Age on the arcade and 64 was badass It certainly had the best Monster as PC rules. 
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Oct 14, 2015 19:02
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Personal opinion and this could be an anomaly in his work, but this guy might want to take a page from the school of comic writing that says your pictures should do 60% of the talking with the words doing the last 40%.
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Covok posted:Personal opinion and this could be an anomaly in his work, but this guy might want to take a page from the school of comic writing that says your pictures should do 60% of the talking with the words doing the last 40%. Agreed. If you're going to fill that much of the page with text, why even bother with illustration?
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I'd probably have more luck asking in the board game thread, but are there any Descent-like dungeon crawlers that a) have solo play and b) don't have a ton of bookkeeping or stuff to keep track of?
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'd probably have more luck asking in the board game thread, but are there any Descent-like dungeon crawlers that a) have solo play and b) don't have a ton of bookkeeping or stuff to keep track of? The game is bad and you shouldn't play it
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Terrible Opinions posted:Now see here son and let me tell you about Kingdom Death. It's good actually;
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:It's good actually; You sure changed my mind!
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Anniversary posted:You sure changed my mind! It seems to be a decent game, it just slaps cheesecake on everything.
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there's some really misogynistic elements to it beyond the cheesecake
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Anniversary posted:You sure changed my mind! That's fine, because it's a good game.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:That's fine, because it's a good game. But is it fun?
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Oct 15, 2015 04:04
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How boutique is it? Like, on a scale from one to Paris?
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Tollymain posted:there's some really misogynistic elements to it beyond the cheesecake Admittedly, I only looked through a copy of the base rules out of curiosity. 
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Setting aside anything to do with Kingdom Death's aesthetics or themes, pretty much every review I've read by people who've played it or seen it played say that it's got some neat ideas in the monster battles where each monster is represented by an "A.I. deck" that you remove cards from by damaging but that the rest of the game is full of "wacky" random save-or-die stuff shoved everywhere, and if I'm after "roll on the big table to see what happens, whoops you died" then I already have games that do that and don't need to buy someone's bespoke Kickstarter thing, tentacle titmonsters or no.
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Yeah, a lot of what I watched outside of the minifights was "flip a card, roll a die, find out what happens" Talisman sort of design, only without the excuse of being designed thirty years ago.
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Covok posted:Personal opinion and this could be an anomaly in his work, but this guy might want to take a page from the school of comic writing that says your pictures should do 60% of the talking with the words doing the last 40%. Jacobs was a collaborator of Tintin creator Hergé, and his Blake & Mortimer series, while always very wordy to the end, get a lot better pretty quickly. He said he chose the Tibetans to be the bad guys in the first story arc because that was a ridiculous idea that no one would believe, but there's a ton of racist Yellow Peril stuff in them.
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something something Facebook discussion of this article... What the gently caress does "advancing classic tabletop [gaming]" mean? Context: described as "what 4e didn't do that made it a bust (conceding that it succeeded at making money and bringing new players into the hobby.)" 
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P.d0t posted:What the gently caress does "advancing classic tabletop [gaming]" mean? Lovingly fellate AD&D
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Oct 15, 2015 08:43
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The trend of "don't engage in the game's mechanics, this is roleplaying, get outta here!" that I keep seeing is leading me dangerously close to using the phrase "magical tea party"
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gradenko_2000 posted:The trend of "don't engage in the game's mechanics, this is roleplaying, get outta here!" that I keep seeing is leading me dangerously close to using the phrase "magical tea party" That's what it is.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Lovingly fellate AD&D But I don't wanna!
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gradenko_2000 posted:The trend of "don't engage in the game's mechanics, this is roleplaying, get outta here!" that I keep seeing is leading me dangerously close to using the phrase "magical tea party" It's kinda fun how the Gaming Den started by recognizing one problem, and then immediately sprinting in the wrong direction to find a solution.
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ProfessorCirno posted:It's kinda fun how the Gaming Den started by recognizing one problem, and then immediately sprinting in the wrong direction to find a solution. Ceterum censeo Frank Trollman esse delendam.
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My real life tabletop group fell apart a while ago and I'm looking to start a pbp game. I've played and enjoyed burning wheel and dungeon world in the past, but they've been tough games to run on a forum. Does anyone have suggestions for a system that works well in this format?
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GEExCEE posted:My real life tabletop group fell apart a while ago and I'm looking to start a pbp game. I've played and enjoyed burning wheel and dungeon world in the past, but they've been tough games to run on a forum. Does anyone have suggestions for a system that works well in this format? Play on Skype/Roll20/IRC
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GEExCEE posted:My real life tabletop group fell apart a while ago and I'm looking to start a pbp game. I've played and enjoyed burning wheel and dungeon world in the past, but they've been tough games to run on a forum. Does anyone have suggestions for a system that works well in this format? Nothing works well purely PBP, because otherwise reliable people become enormous flakes the second they are asked to write a few sentences once a day.
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Dungeon World seems like a good candidate for something where you just hop on IRC and ask people if they want a game right now if you've got an hour or two to spare.
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