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NGDBSS posted:I'm familiar with FR dark elves, but what's the concern with Dragonlance's version of the concept? (Most of what I know about the setting is that kender exist, Raistlin could be insufferable at times, and that The Balance Between Alignments Must Be Upheld At All Costs.) "Drow" are not a separate subrace so much as just a term used for regular elves exiled from society for being evil. You do something heinous or get involved in something dark, they'll call you a Drow and exile you from their lands.
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I thought Dark Elves were an unsubtle metaphor for the great powers loving with people during the colonial age. They're decadent, unpleasant people, sucking blood and resources out of nations they consider inferior, brutally working slaves to death for money and power. They're almost as evil as their historical counterparts. Which is why you run them steam punk style.
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Plutonis posted:I don't want to sound callous or anything but as a citizen from a third world country that had a loving coup last year and whose economy, social order and welfare is disintegrating increasingly fast ever since, I'm playing a mollecular violin to US liberals who think they are in a lovely situation. I'm playing no violin because I and 99% don't give a poo poo about you or your problems. You're a horrible person and you deserve whatever you get.
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Jan 26, 2017 22:16
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In The Elder Scrolls, dark elves consider their ashen skin tone a gift from the Tribunal to further differentiate them from the High Elves and make it easier for them to live in a hot environment. Of course, it could also be a punishment from Azura because the Tribunal ignored her when she said not to use the Tools of Kagrenac to make themselves living gods. Both are probably true, considering how funky time works in TES.
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I don't remember if Dragonlance even has dark elves. The biggest problems with it are the alignment issues noted above, and the fact that the setting's history and plotlines all revolve around the gods of evil tricking the gods of good for the umpteenth time and then the gods of neutrality doing nothing about it despite The Balance Must Be Maintained BS.
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Jan 26, 2017 22:18
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Arivia posted:I'm playing no violin because I and 99% don't give a poo poo about you or your problems. You're a horrible person and you deserve whatever you get. Plutonis deserves to die because you think his posts are mean. Have you heard of this cool new rpg called Beast: the Primordial? Rockopolis posted:I thought Dark Elves were an unsubtle metaphor for the great powers loving with people during the colonial age. They're decadent, unpleasant people, sucking blood and resources out of nations they consider inferior, brutally working slaves to death for money and power. They're almost as evil as their historical counterparts. Dark elves with goggles and top hats with cogs on them? I know what I'm cosplaying as! *applies shoe polish*
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Bedlamdan posted:Plutonis deserves to die because you think his posts are mean. Glad we're in agreement.
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Speaking of Dunmer has anyone done a TES game? What kind of system would work for one?
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Jan 26, 2017 22:25
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It's pretty Runequest as is.
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Jan 26, 2017 22:29
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Uh, there's already a RPG counterpart to Vampire: The Eternal Struggle.
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Ominous Jazz posted:Glad we're in agreement. No one deserves to die over shitposts. Just skin color, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation! Zephirum posted:Speaking of Dunmer has anyone done a TES game? What kind of system would work for one? D&D, I suppose?
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Upon reflection on my previous criteria, Plutonis is probably first against the wall anyways, carry on Arivia.
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Jan 26, 2017 22:37
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Zephirum posted:Speaking of Dunmer has anyone done a TES game? What kind of system would work for one?
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Please stop, Bedlamdan.
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LongDarkNight posted:Best Dark Elves are the one in Burning Wheel. None of that pesky racial stuff, just a regular Elf gone bad. That's basically just goons Edit: made my post more concise. Jimbozig fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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Jan 26, 2017 22:39
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Plutonis posted:Please stop, Bedlamdan. Sure, sure.
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Bedlamdan posted:Plutonis deserves to die because you think his posts are mean. No, I have zero sympathy for Plutonis after he threatened to stalk and kill me and Ettin. You should be banned for your bad posting and general stupidity, but I'd save you from a burning building.
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Jan 26, 2017 23:13
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Bedlamdan posted:Dark elves with goggles and top hats with cogs on them?
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Zephirum posted:Speaking of Dunmer has anyone done a TES game? What kind of system would work for one? I remember seeing a project on /tg/ for making an Elder Scrolls RPG. From what I remember it was a system that worked sort of like Warhammer Fantasy; you got base stats like Strength, Endurance, and what not that have base stats per race and then you roll 2d10 seven times and assign them to whatever stats you wish, and then you get skills that aid your tests against your stats.
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SunAndSpring posted:I remember seeing a project on /tg/ for making an Elder Scrolls RPG. From what I remember it was a system that worked sort of like Warhammer Fantasy; you got base stats like Strength, Endurance, and what not that have base stats per race and then you roll 2d10 seven times and assign them to whatever stats you wish, and then you get skills that aid your tests against your stats. That system is tremendously over complex and awful.
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fool_of_sound posted:That system is tremendously over complex and awful. Well I didn't say it was good. Just saying I remembered it. What exactly is wrong with it? Anyways, I'd probably just run it in some d100 system if you want to be accurate to TES's routes in stuff like RuneQuest, or hack something together in a good dungeon crawler.
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ratpick posted:Donald Trump makes good on his promise from his inauguration speech to unlock the mysteries of space. Donald trump is going to push me down the stairs?
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rumble in the bunghole posted:Donald trump is going to push me down the stairs? Holy poo poo I didn't even realize I was making a reference to an old as hell thing from this very site.
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Arivia posted:No, I have zero sympathy for Plutonis after he threatened to stalk and kill me and Ettin. You should be banned for your bad posting and general stupidity, but I'd save you from a burning building. I was banned for both already, but fortunately we have an amazing system where the biggest idiots can buy their way back in for a small amount of money, while people with actual things to say are long gone. SunAndSpring posted:Anyways, I'd probably just run it in some d100 system if you want to be accurate to TES's routes in stuff like RuneQuest, or hack something together in a good dungeon crawler. Really, any generic fantasy rpg would do. There's a lot of bizarre metaphysical stuff deep inside Elder Scrolls, but none of it is really visible unless you use cheat codes or mods. Which I guess, if you want to make that element more visible, use Godbound or Exalted or something.
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Jan 26, 2017 23:55
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Haha, of course Bedlamdan comes slinking back to defend a poster who threatens to rape people.
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Serf posted:Haha, of course Bedlamdan comes slinking back to defend a poster who threatens to rape people. Not especially, I mostly came slinking back to read about Beast: the Primordial. If a poster did anything truly heinous, I'm sure our mods and/or admins would have permabanned them. They never make mistakes, or gently caress up royally.
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I always love when people drag their forum slap fights into threads, everyone thinks it's great
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Bedlamdan posted:Not especially, I mostly came slinking back to read about Beast: the Primordial. 
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SunAndSpring posted:Well I didn't say it was good. Just saying I remembered it. What exactly is wrong with it? It's one of those /tg systems that desperately wants to meticulously copy every aspect of the subject material without any regard for the difference in mediums. Basically, every system and subsystem is a bloated mess. See also Pokemon Freedom Unite or whatever they call it now.
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fool_of_sound posted:It's one of those /tg systems that desperately wants to meticulously copy every aspect of the subject material without any regard for the difference in mediums. Basically, every system and subsystem is a bloated mess. See also Pokemon Freedom Unite or whatever they call it now. For all of its flaws, it was worth it to play the Pokemon Tabletop RPG just once, if only to be Francis York Morgan but with a Totodile that was the only surviving witness to a horrific murder.
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remusclaw posted:It's pretty Runequest as is. It's pretty Gloranthan. The guy who designed it even got some inspiration from the old runequest stuff.
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fool_of_sound posted:It's one of those /tg systems that desperately wants to meticulously copy every aspect of the subject material without any regard for the difference in mediums. Basically, every system and subsystem is a bloated mess. See also Pokemon Freedom Unite or whatever they call it now. Pokemon Tabletop United is pretty good! I play a game of it every monday with some of the devs!
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Plutonis posted:Pokemon Tabletop United is pretty good! I play a game of it every monday with some of the devs! Am I crazy or didn't you help write it?
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Plutonis posted:Pokemon Tabletop United is pretty good! It's ok, but it's super dense and messy.
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Bedlamdan posted:Am I crazy or didn't you help write it? I made a homebrew on its predecessor, Pokemon Tabletop Adventures and some of it was reused on PTU's main game, just that.
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Plutonis posted:I made a homebrew on its predecessor, Pokemon Tabletop Adventures and some of it was reused on PTU's main game, just that. Ah. That was the version I played. Someone else found it online and decided to run it for our group, I genuinely had no idea it had anything to do with these forums.
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Bedlamdan posted:Not especially, I mostly came slinking back to read about Beast: the Primordial.
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Yawgmoth posted:That's even worse, really. The realization this post gave me is pretty depressing. What kind of idiot keeps fixating on a trainwreck, to the point where all the humor behind it is gone? Not here. I hosed up! (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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fool_of_sound posted:It's ok, but it's super dense and messy. Well, it's a work in progress. 1.06 (Sun/Moon update) is coming soon.
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