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Torment purposely went against a lot of D&D and fantasy RPG isms, so maybe that will happen here too.
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A number of the D&D CRPGs are memorable for their writing and presentation, but the you almost never hear anybody wax nostalgic about the gameplay.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:A number of the D&D CRPGs are memorable for their writing and presentation, but the you almost never hear anybody wax nostalgic about the gameplay. Tower of Doom, Shadow of Mystara 
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ProfessorCirno posted:Tower of Doom, Shadow of Mystara Those are actually arcade beat em ups. Don't gently caress with me!
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Feb 17, 2016 14:34
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ProfessorCirno posted:Tower of Doom, Shadow of Mystara Fantasy Empires
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Kai Tave posted:To be fair, Planescape Torment's gameplay was also kinda lovely to "just there" but that's not why it's fondly remembered anyway, so. P:T is a perfect example of "great writing, abysmal gameplay." It's one of the best games for an LP because someone ELSE has to deal with the slow, plodding, boring-rear end gameplay and you get to enjoy the good writing.
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BTW, there may be some enjoyable grog at RPGnet's thread about paradox purcheasing WW, page 107+ or so (or possibly ealier).
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ProfessorCirno posted:Tower of Doom, Shadow of Mystara And much like their source material, better games that are actually worth your time have come along since.
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grassy gnoll posted:And much like their source material, better games that are actually worth your time have come along since. Name names.
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This is the TG cat thread right?  I think I'm being lured in for the kill. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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ProfessorCirno posted:I cannot wait for that game to be loving awful. The beta's out, and by all accounts, you don't have to wait.
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01011001 posted:The beta's out, and by all accounts, you don't have to wait. It seems okay as far as the tutorial area and the first zone after that went, but I've yet to play beyond that because work.
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dwarf74 posted:This is the TG cat thread right? Would spring that trap.
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I highly recommend this short film. Great inspiration for scifi or mystery games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7b5UZHOpY It's best to go in blind. A non spoiler summary below. Check out this intriguing science fiction short film directed by the talented Arthur Choupin and produced by ARI Pictures! David's life, ambitious young trader takes a new turn when he moves into an apartment self-regulated by an artificial intelligence named ARI. Originally designed for indoor comfort and household management, ARI surreptitiously intrudes into the professional life and privacy of David, under the suspicious gaze of Gump, his endearing pet robot.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:12
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Kwyndig posted:Would spring that trap.
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Feb 17, 2016 22:21
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C7 released Horselords of Rohan for TOR today and I bought the pdf. Looks pretty good: it's got new horse rules (both for travel and combat), info about Rohan, Fangorn, Isengard and Dunland, two new cultures (Rohan and Dunland) and such. As usual, the art is pretty great and the maps are pretty. And since no one in Rohan knew about hobbits before the War of the Ring, one recommendation is that player hobbits might want to disguise themselves as dorfs in Rohan.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Name names. Dragon's Crown? Kwyndig posted:Would spring that trap. Agreed. Except my cat kind of enjoys it, so the odds of it becoming a trap are around 10 percent or so. gradenko_2000 posted:But but but my kickstarter pledge I backed it because I didn't have the funds to back Wasteland 2 the first time around but I did when Torment: Numenera came around. I pledged enough so that I'd get Wasteland 2 and a chance to see how my money burned. LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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LuiCypher posted:I backed it because I didn't have the funds to back Wasteland 2 the first time around but I did when Torment: Numenera came around. I pledged enough so that I'd get Wasteland 2 and a chance to see how my money burned. Other way around for me. I was already in for Wasteland 2 and adding a backing for Torment Numenera was at a discount, so why not, right? Why not indeed.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:A number of the D&D CRPGs are memorable for their writing and presentation, but the you almost never hear anybody wax nostalgic about the gameplay. This is why no one talks about Icewind Dale. It was a combat slog with barely any story that I can recall. Also, I backed Numenera instead of Pillars of Eternity and I've been kicking myself for it ever since. At least Wasteland 2 was pretty rad.
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Serf posted:This is why no one talks about Icewind Dale. It was a combat slog with barely any story that I can recall. I liked Icewind Dale  I always considered it better than the BG series because "story? who gives a poo poo? where them goblins at?" was my mindset. Knowing nothing about the tabletop version, I had this impression that combat was the important part and you should be doing it 100% of the time.I don't know where I got that idea. It's also why I didn't have any patience for the Gold Box Series of games.
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LuiCypher posted:Dragon's Crown? Dragon's Crown is excellent but honestly other than Vanillaware games and maybe Castle Crashers the 2D Arcade Beat Em Up scene after the 00s is a drat wasteland 
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As I understand it, Dungeon Fighter Online is basically a multiplayer knockoff of a bootleg Shadows of Mystara knockoff game or something but I can't speak as to how it plays because the last time I looked the rootkit anti-cheating thing made me nope right out.
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unseenlibrarian posted:As I understand it, Dungeon Fighter Online is basically a multiplayer knockoff of a bootleg Shadows of Mystara knockoff game or something but I can't speak as to how it plays because the last time I looked the rootkit anti-cheating thing made me nope right out. It plays a lot like a beat em up. I wouldn't try it for the challenge atm though; they haven't introduced difficulty settings for story mode in the English release yet, so you're not going to see a real difficulty curve until you hit endgame (which is only like a week of play but still).
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Anyone have an online tabletop to recommend that's suitable for wargaming? I've been using R20 comfortable for roleplaying games, but I want to play flames and infinity with online buds and R20's really lovely about zooming out for that so it's real hard to see a proper board.
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spectralent posted:Anyone have an online tabletop to recommend that's suitable for wargaming? I've been using R20 comfortable for roleplaying games, but I want to play flames and infinity with online buds and R20's really lovely about zooming out for that so it's real hard to see a proper board. Try Vassal
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Bedlamdan posted:Try Vassal Vassal is built for wargames and boardgames so yeah, try that.
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Kwyndig posted:Vassal is built for wargames and boardgames so yeah, try that. Checked it but it looks like you need to download a mod per game?
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spectralent posted:Checked it but it looks like you need to download a mod per game?
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spectralent posted:Checked it but it looks like you need to download a mod per game? A mod in the sense that you need to download the digitized boardgame and its chits, for each different boardgame that you want to play, but yes.
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Modiphius has been busy. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/robert-e-howards-conan-roleplaying-game quote:ROBERT E. HOWARD’S CONAN: ADVENTURES IN AN AGE UNDREAMED OF is a brand new roleplaying game based on the incredible character of Conan and of the Hyborian age. http://www.modiphius.com/conan-rpg-product-line.html Free 50 page quickstarter manual: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/174829/Robert-E-Howards-CONAN-Roleplaying-Game-Quickstart
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Lightning Lord posted:Anyone have any opinions on Hollow Earth Expedition? Thinking about buying it. From page 2 but I played 5 or 6 sessions of it years ago and recall enjoying it. Setting is good and pulpy with the right amount of dinosaurs and Nazi punching. I don't remember much about how the Ubiquity dice system. Sadly my friend took our set when he moved out of state. I've been thinking about writing it for F&F.
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The Conan game doesn't seem very exciting. Every talent the sample characters have is "You can reroll one of your dice in circumstance X, keeping the result."
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Serf posted:This is why no one talks about Icewind Dale. It was a combat slog with barely any story that I can recall. Yeah, I got through the first act of that before concluding it was too boring to go on. Obviously they were trying to make a game where you could customize a whole party, but that locked them out of giving them any story or pesonality, which was the big draw for Baldur's Gate. It also exemplified the 10-minute adventuring day, and even with that savescumming was the rule. Music was lovely, tho. On a different note, I'm at MAGfest and I realize I mentioned it on the absentee thread but not here. Figured I'd see if there are any TG goons looking to meet up, since the TG scene here is a little more robust that I expected.
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Icewind Dale is fun if and only if you can get multiplayer to work.
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i'll just leave this here as a thing that exists: http://www.messagefromtheinternet.com/nordiclarp/ it has generated beauties like: INSIDE:HEAD AN AMERICAN IMPERIALIST ''PROGRESSIVE LARP'' DESIGNED TO STIMULATE TRIGGER WARNINGS I'M SO TIRED OF YOUR COMMUNIST RHETORIC. and CATVILLE A SHARED HALLUCINATION THEMATIZING FATHERS AND THAT'S WHY WE GET THE POST-LARP DEPRESSION. Or the unforgettable OUTSIDE MACBETH A CHEERFUL ONE-EVENING LARP OPTIMIZED FOR FRACKING I HEAR THE MAGIC SYSTEM IS BASED DIRECTLY ON CROWLEY.
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Saw Pathfinder's Arcane Anthology Now I want a game that is a cross between Bookhounds of London and Reccetear the Item Shop Tale. Preferably with Conan as a Thief climbing up minarets with a grappling hook with a bag full of stolen/rescued tomes. Conan the Librarian.
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Magnusth posted:i'll just leave this here as a thing that exists: A VERY TRAGIC DINNER A TEN-DAY INDRAMA EVENT BY JONAS TRIER-KNUDSEN ABOUT ETHICS IN GAMES JOURNALISM THAT'S A BIT MUCH
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NICE JOB A TRANCE-STATE PORTRAYING THE MOST ENDEARING ASPECTS OF NERDS WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT.
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INCLUSION STRATEGIES PUA-TECHNIQUES REVEALING US ALL TO BE SATAN BIFROST IS A FRONT ORGANIZATION. I'd play this
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