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Halloween Jack posted:In other words, since you're in the "lucky" position of having found a hardcopy dirt cheap, you should review it for F&F. If I'd managed to come into a cheap copy of Metabarons you betta belieb I'd be F&Fing that baby. Well, there was a time a few years back where they were literally just doing warehouse clearance on Amazon to clear it out of there. There are several hurdles with reviewing it as an F&F:
My "favorite" part so far is when wizards discover that the spirit realm has a place that has always existed where information can be stored. Why?  You see, Eoris doesn't have computers, so they use this information realm to, you guessed it, do everything the internet does. Even currency transfers! See, an early civilization invented coins that could be converted into energy and transmitted through this amazingly convenient information realm. How? So we have a fantasy society that also has a magic internet and magic paypal which you can use it to transmit your thought-mails to other people with some basic braining. Remember, nobody invented this! It just exists. Because you wouldn't want to have your magic fantasy world without the comfort of getting to send funny jokes to all your friends via the thought-realm. 
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literally anything can run in fate core, it's like answering fudge when someone asks what system to use
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Cease to Hope posted:literally anything can run in fate core, it's like answering fudge when someone asks what system to use Can't do horror.
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Covok posted:Can't do horror. this is a devastating review of breakfast cult
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Mar 26, 2017 02:39
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You can do horror in FATE, it just requires disempowering characters a decent amount and sharpening up those consequences. Of course, then a lot of FATE's feel is lost and it becomes more of a basic resolution system with funny dice. I think in retrospect Breakfast Cult needed to do some of that - even with the cosmic horrors' copious stunt bonuses, I find it's too easy for PCs to cobble up big dice results between stunts and fate chips unless a GM just says "no", and that's not very much fun.
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Mar 26, 2017 02:44
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Cease to Hope posted:this is a devastating review of breakfast cult 
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Mar 26, 2017 02:55
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I just looked at the preview of Eoris on DTRPG and wow, I'm totally pulling this out the next time somebody calls Nobilis incomprehensible metaphysical jibberish.
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Mar 26, 2017 04:06
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I remember years ago the guys at my FLGS put a single copy of Eoris in stock and they, a bunch of other shoppers, and I were just staring at this... thing, wondering just... why? One guy theorized that it was made by a nerd who ended up with a large inheritance and splurged it all on his dream RPG project. We were all amused by the fact that it had stat adjustments for Age categories up to and including "Infant". Was there some gamer out there who wanted to live his fantasy of role playing a newborn baby?
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Mar 26, 2017 08:18
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We're also getting an Evil Hat-produced Horror-FATE thing at some point (FATE of Cthulhu, which is in alpha playtest according to their project status page) which should presumably provide more options there.
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There's also the Fate Horror Toolkit, though that one's still in development IIRC. Looking at the author lineup I'm pretty pumped 
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Simian_Prime posted:One guy theorized that it was made by a nerd who ended up with a large inheritance and splurged it all on his dream RPG project.
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Mar 26, 2017 15:41
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There was that one guy who got a second mortgage on his house and cashed in all of his savings to pay for his D&D clone (but with digital tools!)
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Mar 26, 2017 15:50
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Midlife crisis sounds like another possibility. Cash out 401(k), print 1000 copies of REALMCORE FANTASY IMAGINARIUM that you've been working on since middle school, become a world-famous game designer. Easy as 1-2-3!
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Simian_Prime posted:We were all amused by the fact that it had stat adjustments for Age categories up to and including "Infant". Was there some gamer out there who wanted to live his fantasy of role playing a newborn baby?
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Simian_Prime posted:We were all amused by the fact that it had stat adjustments for Age categories up to and including "Infant". Was there some gamer out there who wanted to live his fantasy of role playing a newborn baby? You can play hypercompetent six-year-olds in Burning Wheel. Also, this is the only circumstance under which I'd play Burning Wheel again.
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potatocubed posted:You can play hypercompetent six-year-olds in Burning Wheel. I still sorta want to play Burning Wheel Babies one of these days.
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On the whole, I think it's a good thing that the Internet and places like DriveThruRPG have lowered the financial barrier to making RPGs. Sure, it means we're awash in a flood of badly written games, but it also means that fewer people ruin themselves financially on print runs of badly written games.
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Nuns with Guns posted:There was that one guy who got a second mortgage on his house and cashed in all of his savings to pay for his D&D clone (but with digital tools!) Noir is the only game I know for sure was produced by a trust fund baby with a pile of trust fund money. One of the writers had some tales to tell about the company owner throwing parties at GenCon for special guests, with cigars and tiger prawns and ice sculptures, while stiffing the people who actually made the game. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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Latest round of changes to The Next Project are now up on the blog. Mostly tweaks to character classes towards allowing more customization; some (mandatory) Subclasses were changed to (optional) Archetypes, and some classes with Archetypes have been adjusted to work smoother without having to pick one. Also, some Concentration abilities have been split off into their own keyword (Forms), just to allow some stuff to stack that otherwise wouldn't. Forms lean more toward in-combat types of customization, whereas Concentration powers tend to be more in the vein of class-defining abilities. Because of this (plus a few other considerations), the character customization section in the core rules has been expanded a bit.
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Rand Brittain posted:I just looked at the preview of Eoris on DTRPG and wow, I'm totally pulling this out the next time somebody calls Nobilis incomprehensible metaphysical jibberish. Nobilis 2e was 100% comprehensible if you read the book straight through. 3e maybe not so much considering the game includes neither a sample of play nor a sample of actual character generation (it has lifepath generation, but no actual stats, which seems insane). If you want actual nigh-incomprehensibility you can stick with Jenna Moran and pick up Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist & Weaver of Their Fates, also known as WTF, or sometimes by the full initials of WTF&WTF.
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potatocubed posted:You can play hypercompetent six-year-olds in Burning Wheel. Child Prodigy builds in Burning Wheel are surprisingly good (at one specific thing) and fun, not least because starting out essentially at zero other than your one trick, but having incredibly fast advancement, makes you engage hard with the advancement mechanics that are the core of Burning Wheel. Several of my players have become mildly obsessed with Prodigy builds, especially when combined with Gifted. All of which is to say, Burning Prodigy Orphanage / War Refugees would be a really good game.
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Why does wargaming terrain have to be so expensive? I'd be better off shopping for a 3d printer in the long run.
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ShitheadDeluxe posted:Why does wargaming terrain have to be so expensive? I'd be better off shopping for a 3d printer in the long run. Does it need to be 3d? 2D stuff isn't so bad.
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ShitheadDeluxe posted:Why does wargaming terrain have to be so expensive? I'd be better off shopping for a 3d printer in the long run. Depending on the scale you're going for you could probably get a lot of mileage out of Model Train terrain stuff
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drrockso20 posted:Depending on the scale you're going for you could probably get a lot of mileage out of Model Train terrain stuff What's 28mm in model train scale? O?
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ShitheadDeluxe posted:What's 28mm in model train scale? O? This conversation might be useful to you: http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=237077 I know nothing about it myself, though.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:This conversation might be useful to you: http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=237077 Thanks!
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Evil Mastermind posted:Saying that reminds me of the writers of Workaholics have a long list of "joke lines" they're not letting themselves use anymore. poo poo like "Wait for it..." or "too soon?"; things that "have the shape of jokes, but aren't actually jokes". Ooh...shots fired!
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Bad Seafood posted:Okay, I wanna know how far down this rabbit hole goes. This is a pretty good place to start: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/issues/issue_271/8109-Red-Box-Renaissance quote:"If you look at the Fighter and the way he works in D&D Essentials, we removed the Daily powers to get more of a sense that 'fighters and wizards should look really different,' because that's how D&D originally approached it," Mearls said. "I remember playing the Wizard way back in Basic D&D, where you had one spell and you had four hit points, if you were lucky, and you needed the Fighter to protect you. That's a much different playing experience than when you are playing the Fighter, where you're in the front line, you're taking all the risks, you're charging into combat. The game you played was different. The way I like to design things - especially in RPGs - is all about that feeling, that when you approach the game, you're approaching it the way your character would. You're thinking like a Fighter; you're thinking like a Wizard." quote:"If you are a disgruntled D&D fan, there's nothing I can say to you that undoes whatever happened two years ago or a year ago that made you disgruntled - but what I can do, what's within my power, is that going forward, I can make products, I can design game material, I can listen to what you're saying, and I can do what I can do with design to make you happy again; to get back to that core of what makes D&D, D&D; to what made people fall in love with it the first time, whether it was the Red Box in '83, the original three booklets back in '74 or '75 or even 3rd Edition in 2004, whenever that happened, to get back to what drew you into D&D in the first place and give that back to you. Mearls pretty much admits that the Essentials line was a "rollback" of the design ethos of 4th Edition in response to grognard criticisms of the game, and that he tried to make it more like 3rd Edition in order to satisfy them. The end result was that people who already liked 4E as it was thought that the move was poo poo, people who already disliked 4E (for irrational reasons or otherwise) did not make the jump either because they already had Pathfinder (or 3e) to play with, and all parties involved were soured on the idea of a "4.5" that tried to reboot 4E when they already experienced that kind of product-line-damaging move with 3.5e. And then The Escapist published this thing: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/writersroom/8115-Complete-Mike-Mearls-D-D-4th-Edition-Essentials-Interview wherein it's the full interview with Mearls because Macris got all defensive about how he supposedly tried to steer the interview to make Mearls look that bad or something.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I still wonder if Wizards paid off the Escapist to act as a mouthpiece for Mearls under the guise of independent journalism, or if they just found a news outlet where they could be sure writers would side with him. It's altogether likely that Mearls knew that Macris would let him have the kind of interview he wanted, because he certainly couldn't have someone fight for 4e's Core design when Mearls wanted to push Essentials as a "come back to us, Pathfinder people!" moment. I mean, Macris would later go on to do an OSR game, so birds of a feather and all that. Which makes it even more funny that they had to do that follow-up "full real interview" article when the reaction was completely the opposite of they hoped it would be. No, the Escapists weren't editorializing Mearls's response to drive an agenda, but posting the full transcript doesn't change how bad it sounds, because Mearls honestly believed in wanting to roll back 4E to "feel" more like "real" D&D!
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Halloween Jack posted:What I know of Eoris is that it consists of a set of expensive books that are hard to find, and even the PDFs will run you 20bux as a bundle. It's obscure, and most people who have heard of it were probably scared off by the character sheet which looks like Anima: Beyond Fantasy loving exploded.
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gradenko_2000 posted:This is a pretty good place to start: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/issues/issue_271/8109-Red-Box-Renaissance It really is a shame because the Essentials line has some of the best looking books that D&D has ever had(and the size format is much better than the one it usually uses)
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quote:" I almost think narrative games are a different hobby, where it really is group world building or literal group storytelling. In a more traditional roleplaying game like D&D, you build it as you go and it's almost like a game of football or some sport where the action arises as you go." This and statements like it have always been the ones that can manage to piss me off, because that poo poo doesn't actually mean anything. That's how every RPG already works. And it's not like you can't come up with a stronger point of distinction. He just doesn't. It's insultingly dumb.
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gradenko_2000 posted:It's altogether likely that Mearls knew that Macris would let him have the kind of interview he wanted, because he certainly couldn't have someone fight for 4e's Core design when Mearls wanted to push Essentials as a "come back to us, Pathfinder people!" moment. I mean, Macris would later go on to do an OSR game, so birds of a feather and all that. This is spot on. I mean, The Escapist has all the journalistic integrity of a supermarket tabloid being read by a compulsive liar, and Macris himself was found to be giving positive coverage to the OSR game he wrote without disclosing that fact. It didn't take payola for Mearls to find a sympathetic ear without a hint of objectivity there.
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Marcis is also alt-right leaning, if not explicitly identifying as such, and supportive of gamergate. He promotes and financially supports James Desborough, too.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Marcis is also alt-right leaning, if not explicitly identifying as such, and supportive of gamergate. He promotes and financially supports James Desborough, too. he runs (or ran?) a largely unsuccessful MRA-heavy men's advice and culture site alongside escapist, and straight up just hired gamergate people to write for that site and escapist
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Cease to Hope posted:he runs (or ran?) a largely unsuccessful MRA-heavy men's advice and culture site alongside escapist, and straight up just hired gamergate people to write for that site and escapist haha, yep. He also thinks social marxism is real, so I wouldn't be shocked if he bought into the conspiracy theory that 4e was an attempt by the minorities to undermine traditional gaming.
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Cease to Hope posted:he runs (or ran?) a largely unsuccessful MRA-heavy men's advice and culture site alongside escapist, and straight up just hired gamergate people to write for that site and escapist One of his hires was the RPGPundit, even. And Mearls has been friends with all of them the whole time.
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