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Ignite Memories: Feb 27, 2005

We are publishing this game to show how women are capable and powerful, but also, to reinforce the idea that men are physically stronger than women.

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# ? May 18, 2024 02:32

LatwPIAT: Jun 6, 2011

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Abby Soto... Abby Soto... I've heard that name before, right? I...

... oh. Right.

I have a copy of this game and I'm reading it and don't make the mistake of thinking that Abby Soto is just an innocent illustrator of WGA. Oh, no, Bellum Maga is full of indulgent transformation, shrinking, and smoking fetishism.

# ? Feb 14, 2016 19:18

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

LatwPIAT posted:

...smoking fetishism.

As in cigarettes, or is this slang for something I'm gonna regret knowing about?

# ? Feb 14, 2016 21:51

inklesspen: Oct 17, 2007; Here I am coming, with the good news of me, and you hate it. You can think only of the bell and how much I have it, and you are never the goose. I will run around with my bell as much as I want and you will make despair.; Buglord

Some people have a fetish for women who are smoking, be it cigarettes, marijuana, or something else. All told, it seems like one of the less objectionable fetishes in this RPG, but I still would object to paying money for someone else's fetish game.

# ? Feb 14, 2016 21:54

Kai Tave: Jul 2, 2012; Fallen Rib

inklesspen posted:

Some people have a fetish for women who are smoking, be it cigarettes, marijuana, or something else. All told, it seems like one of the less objectionable fetishes in this RPG, but I still would object to paying money for someone else's fetish game.

Well the artist likes to draw cartoons of people being magically turned into cigarettes which are then smoked, so there's that too.

# ? Feb 14, 2016 21:56

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

No, in this case it means turning people into cigarettes and smoking them.

I hate that I know that.

# ? Feb 14, 2016 21:56

Alien Rope Burn: Dec 5, 2004; _{I wanna be a saikyo HERO!}

The point is, no matter what sort of statement they're trying to make and no matter how subversive they're think they're being in doing so, it's just a puerile, ugly vehicle for their fetishes.

# ? Feb 14, 2016 22:19

LatwPIAT: Jun 6, 2011

Bruceski posted:

As in cigarettes, or is this slang for something I'm gonna regret knowing about?

Well, first, pretty much every woman in this game smokes. Circe the immortal goddess smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Minerva the self-insert smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Whenever Soto draws Princess Lucinda -the-12-year-old from Witch Girl Adventures, she's smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When I checked out Soto's profile on the Witch Girl wiki, there's like three photos of Soto herself smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When you start putting you love of cigarettes in the mouth of 12-year-olds, it gets rather noticeable.

Then we get into all the spells based on smoking, like the spell that lets you turn people into cigarettes so you can smoke them. There's also an elaborately described ritual for creating cigars (that taste like "rum and cocoa and rum") that let you kill someone by smoking it, summon them through the smoke, or make them shrink to half their current size with every puff because this game has elaborate mechanics for smoking. Why would you want to shrink someone down all that much? Well, going by art found on the author's DA account, because she gets off on the idea of shrinking men down to tiny sizes, putting them in her ashtray, and torturing them by raining the hot ashes from the cigarette on them.

# ? Feb 14, 2016 22:27

Countblanc: Apr 20, 2005; _{Help a hero out!}

LatwPIAT posted:

Well, first, pretty much every woman in this game smokes. Circe the immortal goddess smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Minerva the self-insert smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Whenever Soto draws Princess Lucinda -the-12-year-old from Witch Girl Adventures, she's smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When I checked out Soto's profile on the Witch Girl wiki, there's like three photos of Soto herself smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When you start putting you love of cigarettes in the mouth of 12-year-olds, it gets rather noticeable.

Then we get into all the spells based on smoking, like the spell that lets you turn people into cigarettes so you can smoke them. There's also an elaborately described ritual for creating cigars (that taste like "rum and cocoa and rum") that let you kill someone by smoking it, summon them through the smoke, or make them shrink to half their current size with every puff because this game has elaborate mechanics for smoking. Why would you want to shrink someone down all that much? Well, going by art found on the author's DA account, because she gets off on the idea of shrinking men down to tiny sizes, putting them in her ashtray, and torturing them by raining the hot ashes from the cigarette on them.

This insane person owns, holy poo poo

# ? Feb 14, 2016 23:16

Bar Crow: Oct 10, 2012

DalaranJ posted:

I can think of multiple ways you might do a VR or AR experience that fits into a Virtual Table Top.
So why is the one these guys came up with so amazingly stupid?

Good design involves abstraction. You want to separate the overall meaning from the specific complexies so you can bring it to forefront.

VR discourages this because in order to justify itself it need to cramp as much meaningless detail as your optic nerve can handle. This is further compounded by the fact that no one is going to paid the money to produce enough high definitive art assets to make this detail interesting to look at.

# ? Feb 14, 2016 23:31

DalaranJ: Apr 15, 2008; Yosuke will now die for you.

Bar Crow posted:

Good design involves abstraction. You want to separate the overall meaning from the specific complexies so you can bring it to forefront.

I didn't even think about this. It's such a basic tenet of design that I guess I assumed anyone capable of designing such a program would have already understood that.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 02:42

Luminous Obscurity: Jan 10, 2007; "The instrument you know as a piano was once called a pianoforte, because it can play both loud and quiet notes."

LatwPIAT posted:

Then we get into all the spells based on smoking, like the spell that lets you turn people into cigarettes so you can smoke them. There's also an elaborately described ritual for creating cigars (that taste like "rum and cocoa and rum") that let you kill someone by smoking it, summon them through the smoke, or make them shrink to half their current size with every puff because this game has elaborate mechanics for smoking. Why would you want to shrink someone down all that much? Well, going by art found on the author's DA account, because she gets off on the idea of shrinking men down to tiny sizes, putting them in her ashtray, and torturing them by raining the hot ashes from the cigarette on them.

One, that's bonkers. Two, I'm pretty sure "mysterious, shrinking cigars" was the plot of an episode of Wild, Wild, West back in the day.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 03:29

Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

LatwPIAT posted:

Well, first, pretty much every woman in this game smokes. Circe the immortal goddess smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Minerva the self-insert smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Whenever Soto draws Princess Lucinda -the-12-year-old from Witch Girl Adventures, she's smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When I checked out Soto's profile on the Witch Girl wiki, there's like three photos of Soto herself smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When you start putting you love of cigarettes in the mouth of 12-year-olds, it gets rather noticeable.

Then we get into all the spells based on smoking, like the spell that lets you turn people into cigarettes so you can smoke them. There's also an elaborately described ritual for creating cigars (that taste like "rum and cocoa and rum") that let you kill someone by smoking it, summon them through the smoke, or make them shrink to half their current size with every puff because this game has elaborate mechanics for smoking. Why would you want to shrink someone down all that much? Well, going by art found on the author's DA account, because she gets off on the idea of shrinking men down to tiny sizes, putting them in her ashtray, and torturing them by raining the hot ashes from the cigarette on them.

Yeah I'm gonna have to F&F this crazy goddamn book. I need something suitably worthy of scorn to level out the other book I'm doing

Witch Girls of Darkness is just :psyduck:

# ? Feb 15, 2016 03:50

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Honestly I'm just surprised and disappointed that no one's proposed "TERF Wars" as alternate title for this terrible mess of a game, come on.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 04:10

Plutonis: Mar 25, 2011

LatwPIAT posted:

Well, first, pretty much every woman in this game smokes. Circe the immortal goddess smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Minerva the self-insert smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Whenever Soto draws Princess Lucinda -the-12-year-old from Witch Girl Adventures, she's smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When I checked out Soto's profile on the Witch Girl wiki, there's like three photos of Soto herself smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When you start putting you love of cigarettes in the mouth of 12-year-olds, it gets rather noticeable.

Then we get into all the spells based on smoking, like the spell that lets you turn people into cigarettes so you can smoke them. There's also an elaborately described ritual for creating cigars (that taste like "rum and cocoa and rum") that let you kill someone by smoking it, summon them through the smoke, or make them shrink to half their current size with every puff because this game has elaborate mechanics for smoking. Why would you want to shrink someone down all that much? Well, going by art found on the author's DA account, because she gets off on the idea of shrinking men down to tiny sizes, putting them in her ashtray, and torturing them by raining the hot ashes from the cigarette on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbR5jrsu2mU

# ? Feb 15, 2016 04:12

Alien Rope Burn: Dec 5, 2004; _{I wanna be a saikyo HERO!}

Punch Witches were about the only decent thing to come out of that game line.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 05:13

inklesspen: Oct 17, 2007; Here I am coming, with the good news of me, and you hate it. You can think only of the bell and how much I have it, and you are never the goose. I will run around with my bell as much as I want and you will make despair.; Buglord

Kurieg posted:

Yeah I'm gonna have to F&F this crazy goddamn book. I need something suitably worthy of scorn to level out the other book I'm doing

Rulebook Heavily may be planning on doing this; might want to check.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 06:26

Lightning Lord: Feb 21, 2013; $200 a day, plus expenses

LatwPIAT posted:

Well, first, pretty much every woman in this game smokes. Circe the immortal goddess smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Minerva the self-insert smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Whenever Soto draws Princess Lucinda -the-12-year-old from Witch Girl Adventures, she's smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When I checked out Soto's profile on the Witch Girl wiki, there's like three photos of Soto herself smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When you start putting you love of cigarettes in the mouth of 12-year-olds, it gets rather noticeable.

Then we get into all the spells based on smoking, like the spell that lets you turn people into cigarettes so you can smoke them. There's also an elaborately described ritual for creating cigars (that taste like "rum and cocoa and rum") that let you kill someone by smoking it, summon them through the smoke, or make them shrink to half their current size with every puff because this game has elaborate mechanics for smoking. Why would you want to shrink someone down all that much? Well, going by art found on the author's DA account, because she gets off on the idea of shrinking men down to tiny sizes, putting them in her ashtray, and torturing them by raining the hot ashes from the cigarette on them.

Jesus loving christ. I knew she was a bad photoshop filter artist but I didn't know she was making RPGs that proclaim to be feminist but are really just wank material.

Someone needs to F&F this poo poo indeed.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 07:40

Kai Tave: Jul 2, 2012; Fallen Rib

Lightning Lord posted:

Jesus loving christ. I knew she was a bad photoshop filter artist but I didn't know she was making RPGs that proclaim to be feminist but are really just wank material.

Someone needs to F&F this poo poo indeed.

If I'm recalling my anecdotes correctly Abby Soto is kind of a huge weirdo that doesn't really seem to grasp concepts like "actions have consequences" or "why are you upset that I turned your character into a frog?" It's entirely possible that she doesn't see any disconnect at all.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 08:49

Bedlamdan: Apr 25, 2008

Alien Rope Burn posted:

The point is, no matter what sort of statement they're trying to make and no matter how subversive they're think they're being in doing so, it's just a puerile, ugly vehicle for their fetishes.

Well, what if my fetish is intersectionality, hm? :colbert:

# ? Feb 15, 2016 10:21

Asimo: Sep 23, 2007

LatwPIAT posted:

Well, first, pretty much every woman in this game smokes. Circe the immortal goddess smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Minerva the self-insert smokes cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. Whenever Soto draws Princess Lucinda -the-12-year-old from Witch Girl Adventures, she's smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When I checked out Soto's profile on the Witch Girl wiki, there's like three photos of Soto herself smoking cigarettes out of a cigarette holder. When you start putting you love of cigarettes in the mouth of 12-year-olds, it gets rather noticeable.

Then we get into all the spells based on smoking, like the spell that lets you turn people into cigarettes so you can smoke them. There's also an elaborately described ritual for creating cigars (that taste like "rum and cocoa and rum") that let you kill someone by smoking it, summon them through the smoke, or make them shrink to half their current size with every puff because this game has elaborate mechanics for smoking. Why would you want to shrink someone down all that much? Well, going by art found on the author's DA account, because she gets off on the idea of shrinking men down to tiny sizes, putting them in her ashtray, and torturing them by raining the hot ashes from the cigarette on them.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 10:33

Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

Bedlamdan posted:

Well, what if my fetish is intersectionality, hm?

Well, if you want to be prejudiced against you can be a fat green woman, otherwise you're SOL.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 16:00

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

http://support.dmsguild.com/hc/en-us/articles/216504408

quote:

Help us preserve classic D&D � and earn a bounty for it!

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If you�ve got some classic D&D titles in your collection and you have access to a scanner, you can help us re-master and preserve these titles. In return, you�ll get a $50 bounty per title (once we verify your scan meets our specifications below). We are looking for high-quality scans, but these days, most inexpensive home scanners can handle the specifications if set correctly.

They're asking people to cut up their own old game books, scan it, arrange the PDFs, host it themselves, let DTRPG download it and review it, and potentially rehost the file for resell back to the market, for 50 dollars store credit.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 23:40

Lightning Lord: Feb 21, 2013; $200 a day, plus expenses

What happened to the TSR library?

# ? Feb 15, 2016 23:41

potatocubed: Jul 26, 2012; *rathian noises*

gradenko_2000 posted:

They're asking people to cut up their own old game books, scan it, arrange the PDFs, host it themselves, let DTRPG download it and review it, and potentially rehost the file for resell back to the market, for 50 dollars store credit.

To be honest, $50 is more than I'd get for any of my old D&D books in any other market. If I had them handy I'd probably go for it. Hosting isn't even a big deal, thanks to Dropbox.

Man, looking through that list I could make a decent chunk of change by destroying the old books I'm never going to use again. I'll have to see what I can easily lay my hands on.

# ? Feb 15, 2016 23:48

Nuns with Guns: Jul 23, 2010; It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

gradenko_2000 posted:

http://support.dmsguild.com/hc/en-us/articles/216504408

They're asking people to cut up their own old game books, scan it, arrange the PDFs, host it themselves, let DTRPG download it and review it, and potentially rehost the file for resell back to the market, for 50 dollars store credit.

How do they somehow not have the 3.0 corebooks????

# ? Feb 15, 2016 23:51

Shrecknet: Jan 2, 2005

gradenko_2000 posted:

They're asking people to cut up their own old game books, scan it, arrange the PDFs, host it themselves, let DTRPG download it and review it, and potentially rehost the file for resell back to the market, for 50 dollars store credit.

Welcome to Late-Stage Capitalism, comrade :ussr:

# ? Feb 15, 2016 23:51

potatocubed: Jul 26, 2012; *rathian noises*

Nuns with Guns posted:

How do they somehow not have the 3.0 corebooks????

They're also looking for the Forgotten Forge, the adventure in the back of the Eberron core book. :iiam:

# ? Feb 15, 2016 23:51

Alien Rope Burn: Dec 5, 2004; _{I wanna be a saikyo HERO!}

$50 is absolutely a good price for those books, but not for the labor you'd put in destroying and scanning them. It's kind of hilarious between Wizards and DrivethruRPG that they don't have enough financial wherewithal to just buy some books and hire some person to do it. But then, nobody went broke in the TG industry squeezing fans for free labor.

I suppose if you're driven to preserve D&D as an act on its own merits, the money is kind of inconsequential, tho.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:08

ProfessorCirno: Feb 17, 2011; The strongest! The smartest!
The rightest!

I'm torn on what the best part is - is it that you have to host the file yourself, or is it that you get $50 store credit?

$50 would be a good price for the books. You aren't getting $50. You're getting a gift card.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:13

Alien Rope Burn: Dec 5, 2004; _{I wanna be a saikyo HERO!}

ProfessorCirno posted:

$50 would be a good price for the books. You aren't getting $50. You're getting a gift card.

Ooof. Ouch. Welp. That's pretty bad.

I guess you could market the credit but you're working at a loss on something that isn't paying what you or the book is worth, ultimately.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:15

ProfessorCirno: Feb 17, 2011; The strongest! The smartest!
The rightest!

Actually, I take it back, I misread it. It's store credit for DriveThruRPG or their own storefront, and can be transfered via Paypal to actual money. So there's that I guess.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:20

dwarf74: Sep 2, 2012; Buglord

I think it's kinda funny that all of those are already downloadable as :filez:

but they are requesting re-scans.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:27

Lightning Lord: Feb 21, 2013; $200 a day, plus expenses

dwarf74 posted:

I think it's kinda funny that all of those are already downloadable as but they are requesting re-scans.

To be fair a lot of them are very bad quality.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:29

Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

The kind of people who have access to a page fed scanner, not to mention a flatbed, have to be rather small.

e: Also, what are they going to do with multiple submissions? If 20 people dissect their DMG only one guy gets the money, that's going to be a lot of pissed off fans.

Kurieg fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Feb 16, 2016

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:32

Wrestlepig: Feb 25, 2011; my mum says im cool; Toilet Rascal

You can just get one of 50 osr retroclones that are functionally identical for cheaper. There's the nostalgia factor for the original but that's already in the clones to an absurd degree.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:42

Bieeanshee: Aug 21, 2000; Not keen on keening.; Grimey Drawer

Hm. I've got one of the 3.0 adventure game boxes, and a flatbed right beside me. Hm.

Edit: Oh, hey. The Geomorphs and Monster and treasure Assortments would be an easy go, if I could remember where they are.

Edit: gently caress it. Not even dealing with the old-school, loose-leaf crap is going to be worth the effort.

Bieeanshee fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 16, 2016

# ? Feb 16, 2016 00:59

NGDBSS: Dec 30, 2009

Lightning Lord posted:

To be fair a lot of them are very bad quality.

A bunch of the pirated PDFs in the 3.x line were actually really good. They had OCR and everything.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 01:35

Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

I won't lie, I've considered doing this with some old White Wolf books and just sending them the files out of the blue.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 01:39

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# ? May 18, 2024 02:32

Slimnoid: Sep 6, 2012; Does that mean I don't get the job?

gradenko_2000 posted:

http://support.dmsguild.com/hc/en-us/articles/216504408

They're asking people to cut up their own old game books, scan it, arrange the PDFs, host it themselves, let DTRPG download it and review it, and potentially rehost the file for resell back to the market, for 50 dollars store credit.

They don't have the 2e Player's Handbook?! gently caress me I got two of them for free, they're one of the easiest things to find.

I do have the BEC side of Basic, AND the combat shield. Tempting.

# ? Feb 16, 2016 01:51

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