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Evil Mastermind posted:My squares don't got no numbers, just these here dots... Dots is good, just count them dots.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 18:13 |
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Traditional Games: Dots is good, just count them dots
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 18:22 |
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Ratpick posted:Funnily enough, the word dice (from Middle English "dyce" which came from Old French) was originally used as both singular and plural, although the plural form "dices" also existed in parallel. The word "die" is a later introduction and was originally used as a plural. It's only later through analogy that die became used as a singular and dice became accepted as the plural form. By analogy I mean that it just sort of makes sense that the form without a plural s sound at the end (die) became assumed to be the singular, while the one with the s sound at the end (dice) became assumed to be the plural. Singular dice is standard in British english, and is very common in modern American English as well.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 18:24 |
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13th Age's Fighter is really, really fuckin boring no matter how it might have come about or what its design may be in response to. "Oh I rolled even on this attack that didn't hit, I get +2 to my AC for a turn, that's so fascinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz."
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:17 |
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I think the best design for a simple fighter guy was the slayer from 4e essentials.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:27 |
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the slayer could have used just a couple more tricks imo. a full 4e class is too much and a lot of 4e progression is "replace this thing with thing+1". only bad guys also get +1 so it's necessary but pointless
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:12 |
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Bigger numbers are fun, hth
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:15 |
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Yeah there's definitely a joy in saying "drat I just did 185 damage with Blade Cascade, good poo poo" even if that's 25% of a monster's life bar and your dailies were still doing 25% of a life bar 10 levels ago.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:36 |
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I prefer systems with smaller numbers on account of being bad at math
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:39 |
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Elfgames posted:the slayer could have used just a couple more tricks imo. a full 4e class is too much and a lot of 4e progression is "replace this thing with thing+1". only bad guys also get +1 so it's necessary but pointless It's the Saitama build in that you only do melee basic attacks but each of them has +100 to hit and deals a hundred trillion damage
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:42 |
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Countblanc posted:Yeah there's definitely a joy in saying "drat I just did 185 damage with Blade Cascade, good poo poo" even if that's 25% of a monster's life bar and your dailies were still doing 25% of a life bar 10 levels ago. It's the same exhilarating feeling Ullillilia has when he plays JRPGs.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:45 |
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Also if you can now do 25% of a level 20 monster's health bar you can instantly do 100% of a level 5 or 10 or whatever monster's health bar and that matters a lot when level 10 monsters are things like "elite city guard".
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:47 |
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After playing a Ranger for the past 2 years I feel comfortable saying it's actually the easiest Fighter build
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:49 |
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Sorry, the best fighter build is the grab machine of 4e, because why wouldn't you want to suplex all your problems.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:28 |
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Ominous Jazz posted:Sorry, the best fighter build is the grab machine of 4e, because why wouldn't you want to suplex all your problems.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:33 |
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Ominous Jazz posted:Sorry, the best fighter build is the grab machine of 4e, because why wouldn't you want to suplex all your problems. One of the best 4e characters I ever played was a dragonborn luchadore. I actually managed to put a slime in a headlock.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:44 |
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Cross posting, but all you guys should spend a bit of time checking out Caves of Qud Made by goons Unormal and Hand of Luke. Amazing tiles by goon Megane. Music also by goons ---------- Welcome, to the Caves of Qud. Caves of Qud is a post apocalyptic roguelike set in a world like Fallout but much much weirder. If you are familiar with the old school mutants and wastlanders game rpg Gamma World, it is inspired by the creators' early experiences with that TSR game. What can you do? By Angry Diplomat: quote:Get killed by ANGRY MUTANT PLANTS. Get killed by ANGRY MUTANT ANIMALS. Get killed by ANGRY MUTANT BUGS. Kill a bear and EAT IT, just EAT AN ENTIRE BEAR. KILL EVERYTHING. Descend into the DEPTHS OF THE WORLD and retrieve ANCIENT TECHNOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS. KNIFE-FIGHT a GIANT DRILL ROBOT and WIN. Be a COOL WASTELAND KNIGHT. Be a TWO-FISTED COWBOY. Be a HOMICIDAL NINJA TURTLE with an AXE and a SHOTGUN. SPONTANEOUSLY BURST INTO FLAMES. Get into a GUNFIGHT with a HYENA-MONSTER and accidentally anger a HERD OF MAJESTIC HULKING DEMON HORSES with your crossfire. Fly into the air like a BEAUTIFUL EAGLE and then SWORD-FIGHT a GIANT DRAGONFLY. MIND CONTROL a TWO-HEADED BOAR and MAKE IT WEAR CHAIN MAIL and KILL YOUR ENEMIES. Encounter a LEGENDARY PLANT with an INTIMIDATING SKULL MASK and the ability to THROW FIERY DEATH FROM ITS HANDS. CONTRACT HORRIFYING DISEASES. Go to THE DEATHLANDS and discover that THE DEATHLANDS are called THE DEATHLANDS because they will KILL YOU DEAD. HACK OFF A ROBOT’S HEAD AND EAT IT. Get into a SLEDGEHAMMER DUEL with a ‘ROIDED-OUT SUPERCANNIBAL. Be SO TECHNOLOGICALLY ILLITERATE that you BREAK A BOX OF CRAYONS attempting to figure out what it is. Be SO TECHNOLOGICALLY GIFTED that you can make an ACID GRENADE out of a PLASTIC TREE and a FOLDING CHAIR. Build your own FLAMETHROWER. Build your own LASER GUN. Build your own HANDHELD NUCLEAR BOMB and BLOW YOURSELF UP WITH IT. Collect MAGMA in a CANTEEN. Pour MAGMA into a pool of ACID to see what happens. DRINK MAGMA. TELEPATHICALLY LOCATE an enemy and HATE IT TO DEATH with your TERRIFYING BRAIN SORCERY. Have your LEGS CUT OFF and then REGROW YOUR LEGS and pick up your previous legs and EAT YOUR OWN LEGS. Encounter your EVIL TWIN and then summon six of your own GOOD TWINS to fight your evil twin’s SIX EVIL TWIN TWINS in a FOURTEEN-WAY PSYCHIC LASER DEATH RAVE and then BURN TO DEATH when all of the combined PYROKINETIC MIND FIRE from all of the TIME CLONES causes the ENTIRE MAP TO COMBUST AND MELT. All of the above is literally true gameplay. In addition there was a patch that added fungal locations where you can get infected by fungal spores, grow your own crusty mushrooms on a random body part, and pop off said mushrooms and eat them when you get hungry. Or use them for bio-luminescence. Or the fungal outgrowth is so crusty it functions as extra armor, and you can beat enemies into a pulp with your now mushroom-club-hands. Yeah. It is a great time to get into Caves of Qud because of the following patch/expansion. Check this out. quote:The Sultans of Qud: Part 1 Yes that's right. Procedurally generated dungeons, world history, artifacts and factions you can interact with. Does this sound a tiny bit like Dwarf Fortress? Yes, yes it does. Caves of Qud is 10% off, $9 on Steam right now! http://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/ ----- Not sure? Check out Splattercat's youtube review and gameplay : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNP0RK-M_Y&spfreload=5 Popular Mechanics named Caves of Qud one of their top ten games for 2015 http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/gaming/g2339/best-rpgs-2015/ Want a guide to playing mutants or True Men? Look no further than bazomatic's post right here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3739217&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=79#post467855216 Come for the guides; stay for Qud chat. LIVE AND DRINK Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:One of the best 4e characters I ever played was a dragonborn luchadore. I actually managed to put a slime in a headlock. I'm betting you put a slime in a buttlock and didn't even realize it.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:47 |
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So anyone else started binge-watching Travelers yet on Netflix? I'm about halfway through, and besides really liking it have been thinking that the premise would work pretty well as a RPG setup. Both in the mission-oriented-but-also-flexible style, and given the presupposition that the team is likely to gently caress up, semi-regularly.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 22:14 |
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Kai Tave posted:13th Age's Fighter is really, really fuckin boring no matter how it might have come about or what its design may be in response to. "Oh I rolled even on this attack that didn't hit, I get +2 to my AC for a turn, that's so fascinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz." I really like the concept of how it works in theory (roll first, figure out what happens later) but because of the number of maneuvers actually in the system, the number you get at a time, and the fact that most of them are pretty un-flashy, you end up not having any choices as to what you can do when you roll whatever hit/miss odd/even combo so it ends up being a lot of that.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 22:28 |
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Caves of Qud is really well done, but I don't think I've ever had a character last more than 10 minutes in it.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 22:34 |
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Desiden posted:So anyone else started binge-watching Travelers yet on Netflix? I'm about halfway through, and besides really liking it have been thinking that the premise would work pretty well as a RPG setup. Both in the mission-oriented-but-also-flexible style, and given the presupposition that the team is likely to gently caress up, semi-regularly. Just finished it yesterday and I want to say the 3rd edition GURPS Time Travel talked about a similar method of arriving in the past, but I don't have that book handy. That said yeah, it's a fairly good set up for an episodic format with long-running personal arcs, so it works perfect as the basis for an RPG. The fact that the team receives their instructions from an entity that's mostly unable to control their actions makes it even better for certain players. The Leverage RPG would work with some slight modifications, in my opinion, if you were just going to play a Traveler group, or insert your favorite universal system of choice, of course.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 22:55 |
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My gaming group is about to explode because we lost our usual hall.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:28 |
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The Deleter posted:My gaming group is about to explode because we lost our usual hall. know any diners that wouldn't mind a group of people?
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:32 |
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Regarding wrestle-fighters, my old 3.x group had a ranger whose main thing was charging people, grabbing them and snapping their spines. Basically spears for everyone.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:30 |
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I forgot the D&D movie starts with the narrator straight up saying Mages rule the world and people who can't do magic are treated as peasant scum
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 02:28 |
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Plutonis posted:I forgot the D&D movie starts with the narrator straight up saying Mages rule the world and people who can't do magic are treated as peasant scum I mean when it's Jeremy Irons ruling things then yeah, we are all scum
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 02:51 |
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from what Monster Manual is this Ivan Ooze-looking motherfucker from
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 03:01 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:13th Age chat: So it's statistically unlikely to happen, but it can happen any time the trigger is met. Sounds like it creates a lot of niggling over not much benefit, which was my point. Huckabee Sting has pretty succinctly illustrated how inconvenient it is in play, I just also happen to think this specific example is bad design.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:18 |
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Plutonis posted:
Dude's looks like a Genasi of some description IMHO.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:28 |
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Plutonis posted:I forgot the D&D movie starts with the narrator straight up saying Mages rule the world and people who can't do magic are treated as peasant scum I didn't realize the D&D movie was set on Athas.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:38 |
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Mordiceius posted:I didn't realize the D&D movie was set on Athas. You joke but the D&D movie wasn't actually set in any official setting, which I thought was dumb as hell.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:49 |
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god the D&D movie ruled
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:50 |
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Serf posted:god the D&D movie ruled It's an incredibly entertaining movie and emulates well the feeling of playing it.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:52 |
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Kwyndig posted:the D&D movie... was dumb as hell. Exactly what I thought when I watched it as a teenager.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:54 |
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I saw that drat thing when it was in theaters.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 04:56 |
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The thing I found most comical about the D&D movie (which yes I saw in theaters) was that they expected you to feel sad that a Wayans had died, and like, not even the actually funny one, it was Marlon.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 05:07 |
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Marlon Wayans is a national treasure
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 05:18 |
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Scary Movie 1 and 2 were excellent movies
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 05:19 |
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Marlon Wayans is really good in Requiem For A Dream. I will give him that.
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