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He apparently has a Empire of the Petal Throne fanzine thing going now, and used to contribute to "The Black Gate." Last post there was January of last year. https://www.blackgate.com/2015/01/13/the-shade-of-klarkash-ton/
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Covok posted:IIRC, there was some controversy about the ACKS people. The main thing I remember hearing about ACKS is that The Escapist ran articles about it without making it clear that ACKS' authors were also editors at The Escapist. Other than that? Well, they're editors at The Escapist and they were willingly associated with Zak S for a long time. I'm not sure you need any more reason than that to dislike them.
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quote:In recent years, a small town of about 1,000 residents has grown around the tower. Locals refer to their community as “the Base,” but outsiders call the town “the Beanstalk” and the people that live there “Beaners.” Most Beaners are farmers, growing wheat and, ironically, beans in the flat region around the tower. The people don’t know how to access the interior of the base, but they have built wooden structures and scaffolding around it, which support observation platforms and places for religious rites. There is no wall around the town, but dangerous beasts and other threats seem to avoid the area most of the time. Numenera, Page 186. Why did no one catch this?
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This line may have actually killed the entire campaign. GM is now 50/50 on continuing the campaign now.
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Covok posted:This line may have actually killed the entire campaign. GM is now 50/50 on continuing the campaign now. So, is it like rain... on your wedding day?
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Yep, campaign officially canceled now. Funniest thing, this happened mid-game.
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Covok posted:Numenera, Page 186. Oh, it was caught and complained about, but was just upstaged by the whole "Dude seriously" of Thunder Plains.
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Christ, it's such a wasted opportunity, too. To call them Stalkers instead, I mean.
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Leperflesh posted:Christ, it's such a wasted opportunity, too. Call them anything else, seriously.
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whydirt posted:Speaking of which, has the Grognardia dude ever shown his face since disappearing in the middle of writing his megadungeon thing? Maliszewski had a better explanation than most do for disappearing on his Kickstarter. His father died, which lead to basically a mental breakdown and his entire life going to poo poo for a year or longer. Definitely not ideal, but he wasn't just running away with the money like Nightfall or Far West. Dwimmermount (the dungeon) did make it out in the end. Maliszewski handed it over to Autarch (the ACKS guys) to finish and publish, and they did. So again, another strike better than GMS.
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Lurks With Wolves posted:The main thing I remember hearing about ACKS is that The Escapist ran articles about it without making it clear that ACKS' authors were also editors at The Escapist. Other than that? Well, they're editors at The Escapist and they were willingly associated with Zak S for a long time. I'm not sure you need any more reason than that to dislike them. ACKS author Alexander Macris was a GamerGate supporter too, helped inject the "Cultural Marxism" thing into said movement, and the Escapist forums were a huge gathering spot at the place before eventually moving on to Kotaku in Action and 8chan.
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No, there's already an official Stalker roleplaying game.
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If you have the capacity to write anything at all, literally anything beyond the realms of possibility, you'd think you'd do something more than soft mexican stereotypes.
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It also lead to the Escapists rolling exodus of video producers. Once they started asking people to accept less pay for the same content most of them were more than happy to have an excuse to gtfo.
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I'm looking forward to Monte Cook's next Numenera supplement where he goes into detail surrounding the society that's sprung up around ancient and sophisticated sub-aquatic settlements, known by others as "wetbacks."
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Libertad! posted:ACKS author Alexander Macris was a GamerGate supporter too, helped inject the "Cultural Marxism" thing into said movement, and the Escapist forums were a huge gathering spot at the place before eventually moving on to Kotaku in Action and 8chan. Oh. Good. So, uh, I guess I'll just play Godbound then
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To the best of my knowledge Kevin Crawford has yet to reveal himself to be a secret rear end in a top hat or ridiculous elfgame partisan, guy just likes making games based on old D&D.
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LatwPIAT posted:This year is the 30th anniversary for the release of Phoenix Command Combat System. I have a naive dream of getting my PCCS retroclone out before the end of the year. /shameless self advertisement I just wanted to say that you've been a huge help for me understanding that game and piquing my interest in it, and I wish you all the best in getting that project done. Swagger Dagger posted:Oh. Good. Crawford's An Echo Resounding is also a better domain management, mass combat, and realm management sourcebook than Macris' ACKS. gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Mors Rattus posted:In fairness, this exact thing happened to Apocalypse World, too. Okay, but AW was good, and the Black Hack was mediocre at best. Kai Tave posted:ridiculous elfgame partisan, Pretend I posted a polearm joke.
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Lurks With Wolves posted:The main thing I remember hearing about ACKS is that The Escapist ran articles about it without making it clear that ACKS' authors were also editors at The Escapist. Other than that? Well, they're editors at The Escapist and they were willingly associated with Zak S for a long time. I'm not sure you need any more reason than that to dislike them.
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MadScientistWorking posted:No the issue was that one of the ACKS guys actively associated with fedora man whose name I forget and in a Gamergate feature gave him an article where he directed people to harass others including Mikan. When presented with information that fedora man is an unmitigated rear end in a top hat he said he didn't know about that despite the fact that he actively followed him on social media. James Desborough. And that wasn't just the issue, everything else was too. Autarch turned out to be a real lovely group.
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Yeah, that was the "Game Devs" article—in contrast to the largely or completely anonymous for obvious reasons "Female Game Devs" article—which included Desborough calling out a number of regular targets by name, and also a "game dev" who had and still hasn't actually released any game (though he has taken money for one). Those two particular entries were removed after enough pressure came to bear, but by then it was clear the Escapist was rotten to the core.
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Didn't Tavis turn out to be OK? That's probably why he's no longer associated with them if so. Edit thought twice, not worth it, dudes had enough thrown his way Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Arivia posted:Maliszewski had a better explanation than most do for disappearing on his Kickstarter. His father died, which lead to basically a mental breakdown and his entire life going to poo poo for a year or longer. Definitely not ideal, but he wasn't just running away with the money like Nightfall or Far West. Speaking of Nightfall...Nocturne just got released to Backers. It's actually out and playable.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Speaking of Nightfall...Nocturne just got released to Backers. It's actually out and playable. Yeah, it looks pretty good! Makes me want to run 13th Age. But then Pathfinder's Horror Adventures is coming out Real Soon so I will probably just end up doing that instead.
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I know this is harkening back quite a bit here, but TG drama moves too fast for me to really keep up with. Can someone please give a quick summary as to why Contessa was "bad"? I'll be damned if I'm going to wade through a few hundred random twitter accounts and G+ posts to figure out what non-fedora wearing people's beef with it was.
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gradenko_2000 posted:One game I'd like to mention in this regard is Darkest Dungeons. Dark Dungeons and Darker Dungeons were retroclones of the Rules Cyclopedia, but the third game in the series married the 3rd Edition D&D skill system, with Rolemaster's combat chopped down into a d20 scale rather than a d100 and with a set initiative order rather than having to deal with percentages and turn segments. I've always felt that our tastes as far as old-school RPGs are concerned have matched up pretty well, and Rolemaster was the RPG I started with (well, actually it was MERP, but we quickly moved on to Rolemaster proper because as stupid kids we thought that more complexity=better) so I have a particular soft spot for that sort of thing. I'm going to have to check out Darkest Dungeon based on this blurb.
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ManMythLegend posted:I know this is harkening back quite a bit here, but TG drama moves too fast for me to really keep up with. Can someone please give a quick summary as to why Contessa was "bad"? I'll be damned if I'm going to wade through a few hundred random twitter accounts and G+ posts to figure out what non-fedora wearing people's beef with it was. My understanding is that the woman who organised it specifically wanted to make it 'non-political'. A couple of notable TG feminists pointed out that arranging a convention run exclusively by women was inherently political, blocks were exchanged, and that's all I know. Some of the women who write/wrote for and helped organise it got the cold shoulder afterwards from storygamers, too, which may be a contributing factor to the current garbage fire.
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Leperflesh posted:Christ, it's such a wasted opportunity, too. Stalkers are well known for spilling beans, after all.
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Kai Tave posted:To the best of my knowledge Kevin Crawford has yet to reveal himself to be a secret rear end in a top hat or ridiculous elfgame partisan, guy just likes making games based on old D&D. Yeah, I got mad respect for the guy with his Godbound kickstarter. The game shares some space with Exalted, and the deluxe even includes a section that is a pretty direct "here's how you would adapt the different big varieties of exalts to the Godbound rules". Despite all that, I never saw him poo poo talk exalted mechanics in general or the 3e KS drama in specific as a way to drive sales. Only comments I saw in threads he participated in were to the effect of "here's how exalts would perform a little different in my rules than the original ones" or "if you were going to port it, here's what I think would be easier or harder approaches to take".
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FMguru posted:Ampersand & Alliteration Fuego Fish posted:Stalkers are well known for spilling beans, after all.
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potatocubed posted:My understanding is that the woman who organised it specifically wanted to make it 'non-political'. A couple of notable TG feminists pointed out that arranging a convention run exclusively by women was inherently political, blocks were exchanged, and that's all I know. Honestly, I think Contessa is a fine thing, and the beefs surrounding it are dismaying. But I understand where they come from. I dont think such a charged term as "non-political" was necessary, however. Its good that she wants to welcome all women, regardless of political stance and focus on the playing of games instead of panel discussions about women in gaming, because plenty of other people have that down pat. I think just saying that would have resulted in a more positive reception among some. Because yes, sadly, these days women just playing and running RPGs is political. But in the end, it's not my place to say, really. Acting lovely towards the women involved is pretty sucky though. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Lightning Lord posted:Honestly, I think Contessa is a fine thing, and the beefs surrounding it are dismaying. But I understand where they come from. I dont think such a charged term as "non-political" was necessary, however. Its good that she wants to welcome all women, regardless of political stance and focus on the playing of games instead of panel discussions about women in gaming, because plenty of other people have that down pat. I think just saying that would have resulted in a more positive reception among some. Because yes, sadly, these days women just playing and running RPGs is political. But in the end, it's not my place to say, really. This is exactly where I'm at with the whole thing. I mean, I'm not a woman or an acomplished feminist scholar, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about I just think that women should be able to meet up and play games/have fun without having pass some sort of ideological purity test and feel obligated to host panels about representation in gaming.
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I think the point is that, as LL said, the act is implicitly and explicitly political in the current climate regardless of the person's intentions. If people outside were upset that the woman running the event didn't want to hold lectures and seminars on the state of the industry instead of simply trying to bring more of her cohort into the hobby or to provide a safe place for those in the hobby to play, that's awful and I hope those individuals rethink their stance, but the event itself is still political regardless of if people talk of feminist literature and gender solidarity while they're there.
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Countblanc posted:I think the point is that, as LL said, the act is implicitly and explicitly political in the current climate regardless of the person's intentions. If people outside were upset that the woman running the event didn't want to hold lectures and seminars on the state of the industry instead of simply trying to bring more of her cohort into the hobby or to provide a safe place for those in the hobby to play, that's awful and I hope those individuals rethink their stance, but the event itself is still political regardless of if people talk of feminist literature and gender solidarity while they're there. While I agree that it is implicitly political in today's climate, my feeling is that it can still not be explicitly political.
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I can't say for sure if it's happened before with other tabletop crowdfunded projects, but continued dissatisfaction and lack of communication with a Pathfinder adventure Throne of Night inspired a letter-writing campaign to KickStarter staff made up of dissatisfied backers. The last straw was when the author Gary McBride logged in July 30th and backed 2 other KickStarter projects without so much as a "hello, still working on things" to his backers. Here's a comprehensive blog post I wrote on Throne of Night a year ago for those unaware. Here's the post which kicked things off in the Paizo thread. Here's the latest in the comments section of the KickStarter as things unfold.
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