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Halloween Jack posted:and even voice-acted And this is why full VA in CRPGs is a terrible idea. 
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Halloween Jack posted:So here's the thing: every possible branch in a video game has to be scripted and even voice-acted and poo poo. Video games also have a set of expectations among the player base where the player sees every eventuality as their fault--if you take a course of action that results in bad things happening anywhere, the reaction is to get mad, then replay the game so that All of the Good Things happen and None of the Bad Things happen. It seems prescient that I've been watching an LP of "The Walking Dead" recently Telltale apparently tries pretty hard to make it so each decision point will get picked about 50/50, which makes sense if you think about it as "well only 10% of the people went with Option B; I guess putting together all those assets for Option B was a loving waste."
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Feb 28, 2017 11:03
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Lemon-Lime posted:And this is why full VA in CRPGs is a terrible idea. actually, full VA is always good
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Feb 28, 2017 13:07
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Alaois posted:actually, full VA is always good ~parfume de zigitaris~
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Feb 28, 2017 13:10
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Alaois posted:actually, full VA is always good the human voice is shrill and painful to my sensitive rodent ears
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Feb 28, 2017 13:15
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Alaois posted:actually, full VA is always good On JRPGs, as long as it's Japanese Audio.
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Feb 28, 2017 13:19
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Plutonis posted:On JRPGs, as long as it's Japanese Audio. n-nane!?
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Feb 28, 2017 13:20
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Alaois posted:actually, full VA is always good This is why I got Ironicus to make a Breakfast Cult audio book
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Feb 28, 2017 14:56
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If y'all want a voice actor I know a guy. We used him in a game I used to work on and he is very cool and good. It's a weird story about how we had a voice actor do something professionally and his work was pish so we turned around and in two days had this guy I knew come in and turn out some great stuff super fast. Would recommend.
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Feb 28, 2017 15:04
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Evil Mastermind posted:The new Bundle of Holding is up: get all four volumes of Designers & Dragons and a few other books for ~$20. How are these? Seems like it'd be something interesting to read about.
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Feb 28, 2017 15:45
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Designers & Dragons is the actual only good D&D.
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Feb 28, 2017 15:56
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They're well researched from what I understand, haven't had time to read them myself.
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Feb 28, 2017 15:58
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Ettin posted:This is why I got Ironicus to make a Breakfast Cult audio book Also Kagegami High is out in PDF and I am very tired. It's anime schoolgirl Welcome to Night Vale by way of a Maid RPG variant with lots and lots of tables.
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Feb 28, 2017 16:03
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Ewen Cluney posted:He offered to do an audiobook of Kagegami High for the same price he charged for BC, and I don't know if I can justify subjecting him to that, but it would be amazing to have someone spend an hour and a half reading a table of 216 morning announcements. Do it! I would love to hear him do the morning announcements. Although as a game aid I would prefer each one as a separate file.
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Feb 28, 2017 16:07
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Drone posted:How are these? Seems like it'd be something interesting to read about. I picked them up cheap in a similar bundle a while ago, thinking that. I found them very boring and stopped part way through the first one. But they are certainly well-researched and in-depth. They are good for what they are and if you have a strong interest in the history of the RPG industry, you will like them. Just don't go in expecting them to make RPG publishing interesting in the same way that, for instance, Jon Krakauer makes mountain climbing interesting even to someone who otherwise doesn't care about mountain climbing.
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Feb 28, 2017 16:20
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Powers & Perils is the only good RPG.
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Feb 28, 2017 16:22
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Goons, please help. I am looking for the rpg.net (or was it here?) threads that aggressively deconstructed 3rd edition, and I can't find them because they've been quoted around so much. (1) The long breakdown of why 3.x saving throw math gets so crazy, so fast, (2) The source of the "aggresively hegemonizing ursine swarm" quote.
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Feb 28, 2017 16:57
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Was it this one? It seems to be the source of the "ursine" thing.
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Feb 28, 2017 16:59
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YES! Thank you! Bookmarked so I don't lose it again.
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Feb 28, 2017 17:13
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The key to the whole "ursine swarm" thing is that the druid player in this situation isn't even a min-maxer, just a guy who takes all bear-related options because being the Bear Priest is awesome.
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Feb 28, 2017 17:14
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dwarf74 posted:YES! Thank you! Bookmarked so I don't lose it again. Welcome! I only found it because someone in one RPGNet thread that quoted the bears thing linked to the original thread a few posts down.
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Feb 28, 2017 17:15
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Halloween Jack posted:The key to the whole "ursine swarm" thing is that the druid player in this situation isn't even a min-maxer, just a guy who takes all bear-related options because being the Bear Priest is awesome.
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Feb 28, 2017 17:34
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Kwyndig posted:Do it! I would love to hear him do the morning announcements. Although as a game aid I would prefer each one as a separate file. The big risk there is that I accidentally upload the file to the wrong place and people who listen to one of my podcasts get very confused. The Sex Archie folks are probably used to confusion, though.
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Feb 28, 2017 17:49
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Yawgmoth posted:I'll bet that playing such a character would just be unbearable. I assume he met a grizzly end at some point, but until then the other PCs just had to grin and bear it. The most annoying thing about him is that he kept calling everyone "honey."
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Feb 28, 2017 18:06
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Feb 28, 2017 18:13
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The D&D version of Chicken Boo is always amusing.
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Feb 28, 2017 18:22
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Ewen Cluney posted:He offered to do an audiobook of Kagegami High for the same price he charged for BC, and I don't know if I can justify subjecting him to that, but it would be amazing to have someone spend an hour and a half reading a table of 216 morning announcements. Double posting to say this book is delightful and I will be running a game of it on the forums soon.
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I'm going to point out, since Cluney didn't, that The World of Millennium Blades art book also just came out to backers. I mention this because it includes Duel Questers, a short RPG written by Cluney set in the Millennium Blades universe. (You still need a copy of Millennium Blades itself to play it, of course.)
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Feb 28, 2017 23:52
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Yawgmoth posted:I'll bet that playing such a character would just be unbearable. I assume he met a grizzly end at some point, but until then the other PCs just had to grin and bear it. 
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Peeps are talking about the Microscope game, any games that do a similar thing but more specifically cover the march of time? I kinda think I'm thinking of A Quiet Year, but might be wrong.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I'm going to point out, since Cluney didn't, that The World of Millennium Blades art book also just came out to backers. I mention this because it includes Duel Questers, a short RPG written by Cluney set in the Millennium Blades universe. (You still need a copy of Millennium Blades itself to play it, of course.)
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Can someone sell me on the Battletech bundle in Bundle of Holding? My main exposure to the Battletech universe has been the MechCommander games, which I loved, and as I understand it's something like a bunch of feudal houses with lots of intrigue and backstabbing except the Battle of Hastings is carried out by massive walking tanks, and also the "Clan" is basically a Mongol Horde loving everyone's poo poo up.
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The Clans loving wish they were the Mongol Horde they're more like fat Mongol Horde cosplayers who are also furries, and were grown in a vat
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Also, mechanically speaking is it one of those games where you need hexgrids and miniatures and foam terrain and you have to track heatsinks and line-of-sight and poo poo? Because that's probably not my thing.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Also, mechanically speaking is it one of those games where you need hexgrids and miniatures and foam terrain and you have to track heatsinks and line-of-sight and poo poo? Because that's probably not my thing. It is all of those things you just said.
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Kai Tave posted:It is all of those things you just said. drat, really? I thought it was like this d6-driven system. Oh well.
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gradenko_2000 posted:drat, really? I thought it was like this d6-driven system. Oh well. Battletech is wonderful and magnificent and is unfortunately crunchy as gently caress with a lot of terrifically unmodern game design. But I love it. Both the setting AND the rules are straight out of the '80s. Yeah, you have to track literally all of the things you mentioned, along with locational damage (for vanilla tabletop Battletech anyway, no idea about the older RPGs). The core of Battletech (and the most recent version of the RPG, called A Time of War -- not sure about the older Mechwarrior versions) is a "simple" 2d6 mechanic versus a TN (with modifiers applied either to the roll result or to the TN depending on which game you're playing). So in that respect, it is "simple". However, the sheer amount of modifiers and rules makes it seem stupidly daunting. A Time of War encourages GM's to only use those rules that they really feel like using (since the system as a whole encompasses rules for literally loving everything), but at that point you'd probably be just fine running a game in the Battletech setting using FATE or something and would probably have an easier time of it. Unless you're a true Battletech grog who loves ridiculous levels of simulationist crunch. The Bundle of Holding is just some older versions of the RPG part of the game (not the tabletop Battletech game itself), and a bunch of setting sourcebooks and fluff. If you're at all interested in the setting, read PoptartsNinja's LP, or play the upcoming PC game from HBS (the Shadowrun people). Drone fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:drat, really? I thought it was like this d6-driven system. Oh well. Well wait, are you talking about Battletech which is the tabletop minis game or Mechwarrior which is the tabletop RPG? Because the minis game is everything you said, but idk about Mechwarrior as I've never actually played it.
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Compared to the minis game Mechwarrior is simple, but I've never actually run a pure game of it. We always broke out the Battletech any time combat happened.
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Kai Tave posted:Well wait, are you talking about Battletech which is the tabletop minis game or Mechwarrior which is the tabletop RPG? Because the minis game is everything you said, but idk about Mechwarrior as I've never actually played it. I'm talking about whatever this is: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/BattleTechClassic 
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