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The Crotch posted:She's apparently an important enough character in the Pathfinder universe that she's been drawn by other, more competent artists.
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The Crotch posted:She's apparently an important enough character in the Pathfinder universe that she's been drawn by other, more competent artists. Todd McFarlane's Pathfinder.
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Jan 19, 2016 16:31
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LongDarkNight posted:Todd McFarlane's Pathfinder.
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Jan 19, 2016 16:33
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You know the one on the right is badass and evil because she's licking her blade!
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Jan 19, 2016 16:48
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Evil Mastermind posted:You know the one on the right is badass and evil because she's licking her blade! And twisting her spine so we can see her butt and breasts at the same time!
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Jan 19, 2016 17:09
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Evil Mastermind posted:You know the one on the right is badass and evil because she's licking her blade! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTn1QxCZ2s
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Jan 19, 2016 17:15
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Is that picture some kind of ironic-but-not-really celebration of the dumbest concepts in fantasy art ever? They're all wielding dumb spiky chain weapons, the guy looks like a parody of a Warhammer character and both women are wearing sex armour, and only the Vampire Sex Elf looks like she's having a good time. It's hard for me to believe that someone drew this in the 2010s with an earnest lack of self-awareness.
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Jan 19, 2016 17:17
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The Crotch posted:She's apparently an important enough character in the Pathfinder universe that she's been drawn by other, more competent artists. I hate almost everything about this picture.
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Jan 19, 2016 17:20
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Halloween Jack posted:an earnest lack of self-awareness. Nerds.txt
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Jan 19, 2016 17:21
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How did she even put it on with all those spikes
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Jan 19, 2016 17:21
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This made my morning, thank you. "It was a cool move, though!  "
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Jan 19, 2016 17:23
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dwarf74 posted:Did you say more competent?
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Jan 19, 2016 17:46
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I guess that lady never... sits down? Or squats. Or leans up against anything. The blurry leaves in the foreground. The weird scratches in the sky, like this was going to be one of those stylized drawings, but that's the only place that shows it. The incongruous distant cliffs in the left background. Where is the goddamn light source? The skulltower is lit from the foreground but there's a huge bright blurb in the dead center background, and the characters are somehow not silhouetted against it, they're lit vaguely from the foreground. What are they doing? There's nobody to fight, but spikelady is twirling her chain thingy like someone's watching. Who is she smiling at? What is grimguy doing, just standing there pondering? Why is he holding up his chain, like, is there an audience behind us and this is an impromptu spiked chain auction? I suppose... ok, the human proportions aren't bad. The faces are OK, they're well executed with good detail and they convey expressions. The use of color is OK, it's a good limited color palette. I uh... I think that's it as far as positive comments I can come up with about it. It's incredibly bad.
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Jan 19, 2016 22:43
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Halloween Jack posted:Is that picture some kind of ironic-but-not-really celebration of the dumbest concepts in fantasy art ever? They're all wielding dumb spiky chain weapons, the guy looks like a parody of a Warhammer character and both women are wearing sex armour, and only the Vampire Sex Elf looks like she's having a good time. It's hard for me to believe that someone drew this in the 2010s with an earnest lack of self-awareness. The dude's really understated compared to most Warhammer characters, though. The ladies aren't, however.
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Jan 19, 2016 22:57
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The woman in black has just completed her floor routine at a spiked-chain gymnastics competition. The redhead is up next, licking her blades for a little extra sparkle on them - the judges were impressed and she's going to need to bring her a-game. The dude has just realized he's at the women's competition. He's hopeful that his flowing locks and robe will fool the infernal officials (who are often confused by mortals' anatomy.)
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Jan 19, 2016 23:52
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moths posted:The woman in black has just completed her floor routine at a spiked-chain gymnastics competition. The redhead is up next, licking her blades for a little extra sparkle on them - the judges were impressed and she's going to need to bring her a-game. The dude has just realized he's at the women's competition. He's hopeful that his flowing locks and robe will fool the infernal officials (who are often confused by mortals' anatomy.) He's even showing a little leg for them.
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Jan 19, 2016 23:55
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She's actually a Velcro elemental.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:58
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And people wonder why I can't take talk of Paizo being progressive too seriously.
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Jan 20, 2016 02:14
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Kurieg posted:He's even showing a little leg for them. I cant tell if its a left or right leg though? 
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Jan 20, 2016 04:08
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Alien Rope Burn posted:And people wonder why I can't take talk of Paizo being progressive too seriously.
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Jan 20, 2016 05:01
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Leperflesh posted:What are they doing? Posing for their album cover, duh.
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Jan 20, 2016 05:34
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Yeah, to be fair: those pictures are from 2008 and 2011, respectively. I don't know who did the first picture but the guy who did the second one has some legit stuff (also PF):  EDIT: The spike chain group are all followers of Zon-Kuthon, god of bad fashion.  "Okay so the party is a half-orc barbarian, a drow paladin, an elf druid, a human bard, and, uh... a steampunk gimp cleric." The Crotch fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 05:43
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I'm not sure why spiked chain usage always seems to be ascribed to psuedo-evil cultists rather than the more likely batshit insane wire-fu martial artists that looked at the nunchaku and said, "That's nice, but you didn't go far enough"
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Jan 20, 2016 06:01
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Well, in this case part of worshiping Zon-Kuthon involves self-mutilation and the spiked chain would probably cause just as much damage to you as anyone you were trying to hit.
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Jan 20, 2016 07:49
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senrath posted:Well, in this case part of worshiping Zon-Kuthon involves self-mutilation and the spiked chain would probably cause just as much damage to you as anyone you were trying to hit. Which just makes the mechanical superiority of spiked chain hard to wrap you head around. Spiked chains are one of the best, if not the best, weapon for doing difficult and fancy maneuvers in D&D 3.5.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:16
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Y'know, I'm actually okay with spiked chains and dire flails. Yes, they'd be dumb as all heck in real life, but impractical weapons are a staple of fantasy. Hell, give fighters more cool-dumb weapons. Giant swords and hammers. Knife-whips. Mother-lovin' swordchucks. And give them cool mechanical benefits. I'm all about giving fighters more cool stuff to do besides "I swing my weapon. I hit. I do some damage." The problem isn't that you can use a spiked chain effectively, it's that the same can't be said of a longsword or a mace.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:32
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Cynic Jester posted:Which just makes the mechanical superiority of spiked chain hard to wrap you head around. Spiked chains are one of the best, if not the best, weapon for doing difficult and fancy maneuvers in D&D 3.5. One of my favorite (but little-played  ) characters from 4e was a half-orc spiked-chain-wielding Thief.JackMann posted:Y'know, I'm actually okay with spiked chains and dire flails. Yes, they'd be dumb as all heck in real life, but impractical weapons are a staple of fantasy. Hell, give fighters more cool-dumb weapons. Giant swords and hammers. Knife-whips. Mother-lovin' swordchucks. And give them cool mechanical benefits. I'm all about giving fighters more cool stuff to do besides "I swing my weapon. I hit. I do some damage."
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JackMann posted:Y'know, I'm actually okay with spiked chains and dire flails. Yes, they'd be dumb as all heck in real life, but impractical weapons are a staple of fantasy.  fantasy crap.quote:The problem isn't that you can use a spiked chain effectively, it's that the same can't be said of a longsword or a mace. Edit: VVV I just assume spiked chains are actually kusari-gama and built a ranger and rogue character using them in 4e. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 17:36
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Kusari-gama are really cool and I wish that they were more viable in DND Games.
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Evil Mastermind posted:This made my morning, thank you. Hero Yoshihiko is fantastic and I recommend it to all fantasy-gaming fans.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'm assuming you mean the Dungeon World Guide. Scrape printed out a bunch on his own and distributed to stores in the Boston area to sell. I know Modern Myths in Northampton had a few pretty recently. GOING NOW BUYING ALL COPIES Evil Mastermind posted:fake edit: HOLY poo poo THE HAVE A BUNCH OF TORG STUFF Though maybe the price of old TORG stuff will go up again once TORG ETERNITY comes out this summer??? I will never forget when I talked to the guy who briefly owned TORG at Gen-Con 2007? and he complained about there being a single book (Sourcebook: Tokyo) that he had zero copies of, even owning all of West End Games' former stock. So I tracked down a copy and bought it for him. He said "thanks" and put it behind his counter and ignored me. Cool guy Payndz posted:It's not so much high adventure as Hobbiton before Gandalf turns up. DalaranJ posted:I'm not sure why spiked chain usage always seems to be ascribed to psuedo-evil cultists rather than the more likely batshit insane wire-fu martial artists that looked at the nunchaku and said, "That's nice, but you didn't go far enough" Also I feel like the existence of Cheerful Spiked Latex Lady is enough to make me not want to play Pathfinder. Not that I needed many reasons. And I already played it so there is no going back now
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I just saw an ad for Dead Reign from Palladium in a bad comic (bad enough that you've never heard of the publisher) from earlier this year It looks exactly like their 90s ads but with different art That's not a good thing!
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Jan 22, 2016 20:29
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Dr. Quarex posted:omg I currently live in Northampton, and now I know it has RARE GOODZ Still, you should go there anyway because it's a good store.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:32
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Dr. Quarex posted:I will never forget when I talked to the guy who briefly owned TORG at Gen-Con 2007? and he complained about there being a single book (Sourcebook: Tokyo) that he had zero copies of, even owning all of West End Games' former stock. So I tracked down a copy and bought it for him. He said "thanks" and put it behind his counter and ignored me. Cool guy Edit: It also doesn't surprise me that he apparently didn't know how to order a cheap used copy from Abebooks. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Literally The Worst posted:I just saw an ad for Dead Reign from Palladium in a bad comic (bad enough that you've never heard of the publisher) from earlier this year At least it stands out? ...from professional ads, anyway...
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Alien Rope Burn posted:At least it stands out? ...from professional ads, anyway... and by being in a bad book nobody reads from a publisher you've never heard of who has exactly one name working there that im familiar with and its not a good one as opposed to attracting an audience, i mean
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Halloween Jack posted:Eric Gibson, I presume? Your story sounds consistent with...how that whole situation shook out, yeah. Any chance you could expand on this story? TORG just kinda vanished one day from my point of view. It would be nice to know where it went.
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Jan 23, 2016 03:00
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Speaking of crazy 90's style advertising gambits. It it kosher to talk about Mark Rein*Hagen's latest marketing scheme here? The heavily abridged version is he "admitted" to plagiarizing his latest game from a copy of some other game he found in a wisconsin warehouse abandoned since 1975 and was seeking funding help to publish the "original" version. After a bunch of people called him out on his bullshit he started obliquely making fun of people for not "getting the joke" and playing along because "that's how he rolls".
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Jan 23, 2016 05:35
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Honestly it just makes me angrier that I didn't act sooner on my fake blog that was going to expose Gygax and Arneson as hacks who stole D&D from an unknown designer. I just wanted to piss off the OSR, and had no idea it would be proven true.
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Loxbourne posted:Any chance you could expand on this story? TORG just kinda vanished one day from my point of view. It would be nice to know where it went. Eric Gibson sold off the rights to Torg after WEG folded like a paper boat and he had a pretty big RPGNet meltdown. The rights are currently with a German company called Ulisses Spiele, and they're selling PDFs of the original books on DriveThru. There is a new edition planned for this year called "Torg Eternity", but we don't know anything about it yet.
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