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Gonna do a roundup of some of the cooler entries I saw FAERY QVEEN is definitely the best writing I've seen so far. quote:Some Gentle Knights were pricking on the plaine, PrankstersDillema.html] Prankster's Dilemma is really solid for a simple design quote:Who put a goat in the cafeteria?!?! The morning after Senior Prank Day, someone is taking the fall... quote:Five players, two decks of cards (no jokers.) There's a lot of games this year so if anyone else has seen something cool, share it slap me and kiss me posted:That's a very evocative prisoner's dilemma! Great job Thanks! I think it's completely unplayable, although that's true of like half the entries. I'm a little disappointed I had to cut back on the Glyph generation as well
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# ? May 28, 2024 16:33 |
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Dr Cheeto posted:God, why did they kill 4e I mean, games have a lifespan. It reached the end of its lifespan and they moved on, sane as original, 1st, 2nd, and third.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 01:03 |
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Actually they could have extended 4e for quite some time. But Mearls ruined that with his plans.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 01:09 |
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fool_of_sound posted:There is literally nothing you can do to stop a player who wants to make a useless character, except rely on the GM to either a) humor them by giving that character contrived challenges to overcome or b) ask them to not. (He had all the cool-but-useless gear, and the very specific skills the game required you to take to use them. So his skills were Drive: Hovercraft, Exotic Weapon: Gun Cane, Exotic Weapon: Oral Flamethrower, etc.)
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 01:25 |
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fool_of_sound posted:There is literally nothing you can do to stop a player who wants to make a useless character, except rely on the GM to either a) humor them by giving that character contrived challenges to overcome or b) ask them to not. Well, there are systems that make it harder, like Gamma World 7e, Strike, Apocalypse World and a number of its derivatives, or games that aren't built around conflict metagames like Golden Sky Stories or Hillfolk. You can always make a character that's conceptually useless, but some systems make it much harder to be mechanically useless, intentionally or accidentally.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 01:32 |
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Halloween Jack posted:I did once make the World's Worst Shadowrun Character as an exercise in "Why is this in the game???" and passed it around to my group. But I didn't play it. Oral Flamethrower was one of those pieces of cyberware that sounded cool on paper but was basically useless, like cyberlimb magnets, or eye guns.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 01:58 |
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Off the top of my head I can't even remember exactly which body parts could and couldn't have flamethrowers and/or laser beams and/or shotguns hidden in them. edit: or monofilament whips
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 02:06 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:You can always make a character that's conceptually useless, but some systems make it much harder to be mechanically useless, intentionally or accidentally. This reminds me of the favourite character I've ever seen played in a session of Wushu. I had a table of ten players, five of whom played thieves and five of whom were FBI agents trying to stop their heist, set in a mall that's about to undergo a simultaneous Pentex chemical "accident" that turns the majority of the shoppers into Romero-style zombies, while a werewolf pack is using that day to attack the secret Pentex lab hidden beneath the shopping mall. One player made a clutzy nerd hacker whose only in-narrative good skill (computer hacking) was only relevant in the opening scene. Everything else about the character was portrayed to be downright incompetent - if the game was a Stallone flick then he was the character being played by Rob Schneider. All the character's actions were narrated to be hilariously counter-productive, tripping over himself and surviving werewolf/zombie attacks through dumb luck that left him in ever-more-precarious positions. Mechanically, though, he was contributing to the group's success just as much as any other character.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 02:36 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Exotic Weapon: Oral Flamethrower Er, where exactly would an oral flamethrower draw it's oxygen supply from? Because it seems like such a device might suffocate the user very quickly.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 02:36 |
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DalaranJ posted:Er, where exactly would an oral flamethrower draw it's oxygen supply from? Because it seems like such a device might suffocate the user very quickly. The draconic gallbladder
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 02:58 |
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DalaranJ posted:Er, where exactly would an oral flamethrower draw it's oxygen supply from? Because it seems like such a device might suffocate the user very quickly. You could actually get a portion of your lungs replaced with a high pressure oxygen tank.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 03:00 |
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poo poo, can you go full Malatoran in Shadowrun and just be a cyberdragon-man? Now I want to make a sad nerd dude who cyberwared himself into his ~true dragon form~ but has to work high-stakes running just to keep up with his massive debt
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 03:01 |
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was it Cyberpunk 2020 with full body cyborgs as dragons or Rifts? Or both? e: I seem to remember their brains broke and they were basically psychotic (psychopathic?) after the procedure.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 03:10 |
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starkebn posted:was it Cyberpunk 2020 with full body cyborgs as dragons or Rifts? Or both? Rifts has cyborgs with dragon-shaped bodies in Rifts World Book 8: Japan. They can develop random insanities depending on how long they've been in that body and how far it differs from the human norm (so quadrupeds have a harder time than bipeds, generally speaking), but it generally takes years or a decade for that kind of thing to develop.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 03:26 |
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Plutonis posted:The draconic gallbladder They probably don't tell you this until after the first operation.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 03:32 |
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So as standard outpatient procedure I'm going to need you to sign here saying I gave you these educational pamphlets about common side effects of the procedure titled "You Don't Have to Horde" and "Damsels Aren't Dinner" and make you do a one month checkup with your physician to make sure you don't develop post-human depression.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 04:09 |
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One of the later Chromebooks for Cyberpunk had animal traits available for your full cyborg conversions, and of course going full cyborg could make you go totally crazytown. No dragons as far as I can remember though.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 13:56 |
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There's also how full 'borg conversions work in Shadowrun, which is basically "we kill you, jam as much gear as we can into your corpse, then we summon your soul and bind it to your body so you're sort of a zombie".
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 14:19 |
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You never go full cyborg.
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Evil Mastermind posted:There's also how full 'borg conversions work in Shadowrun, which is basically "we kill you, jam as much gear as we can into your corpse, then we summon your soul and bind it to your body so you're sort of a zombie". In, I want to say 4th edition they came up with yet another method, but as usual it was a not for PCs method. In it they just take the brain out, hook it into to a life support pod, and install it into a drone. It's not really a conversion since all that happens is you're a rigger "piloting" a drone body without an original body to jump back to, and all the examples were like tanks and stuff instead of humanoid drones. I chalk the whole thing up to some of the new SR writers not understanding how the setting was supposed to work. As a goofy aside though, with Alpha-grade cyberware you can just barely replace a person's body with cyberware (4 limbs, torso, skull, can't remember if eyes are included) although that's just Essence costs, you can't afford it in money in chargen.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:25 |
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Was it Shadowrun 3e that had the sample Street Samurai character who started with .01 Essence? I remember that happening in one of the books.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:33 |
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Nah, there are humanoid drones they can be put in, but they just didn't actually have any 'default' bodies for that. And to be fair the in-setting research' the cyborg drones were based on goes back to like, 1E and 2E books- The fiction in the decker book in 1E and the follow up to it in the threats book in 2E.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:33 |
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Cybermancy was also very much not for PCs. In fact, they made it so not-for-PCs that per the rules, there's no reason any megacorp should want to make a cyberzombie. If you don't just fall down and die because you got distracted by a bird outside the window and you forgot that you were alive and your soul remembered it's supposed to be somewhere else, you're probably going to die from cancer in a matter of months anyway.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:35 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Cybermancy was also very much not for PCs. In fact, they made it so not-for-PCs that per the rules, there's no reason any megacorp should want to make a cyberzombie. If you don't just fall down and die because you got distracted by a bird outside the window and you forgot that you were alive and your soul remembered it's supposed to be somewhere else, you're probably going to die from cancer in a matter of months anyway. Yeah it was way too expensive and complicated. I can see corps doing it as like a one off for research into combining certain 'ware or maybe to get intel out of a nearly corpse, but using one as a deniable operative when you could just hire a team of expendable Shadowrunners and then double cross them makes no sense.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:36 |
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I can see it being a case of "we can do this, but we won't know how practical it'd be to do it regularly until we do it a few times and field test it" from a corp standpoint.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:46 |
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I used a cyberzombie as the main antagonist for a campaign. Basically, he was a crazed R&D department head obsessed with 'evolving' meta-humanity who turned himself into a bioware-only cyberzombie as a product of that obsession. I kinda based him on one of the self-shaper factions from Geneforge.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:00 |
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Or the good old fashioned "this was some exec's pet project and now the project is running on pure sunk cost and momentum"
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:03 |
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Haystack posted:Or the good old fashioned "this was some exec's pet project and now the project is running on pure sunk cost and momentum" That's like half of how the Crash 2.0 happened!
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:06 |
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TG. How am I best to hook a 4 year old into board games? I'm thinking the junior carcassone which is sort of like matching up tiles. Which she understands as she can play snap and spot the difference.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:05 |
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Oodles posted:TG. How am I best to hook a 4 year old into board games? don't force your kids into your hobby
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:07 |
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Well that makes sense but I'm pretty sure Aztechnology does its cybermancy with the usual pack of creepy old rip-your-heart-out blood mages, and they hate getting out of bed for some senior veep's boondoggle project.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:14 |
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Would it trigger you less if I didn't use the word hook?
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:15 |
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Oodles posted:Would it trigger you less if I didn't use the word hook? The sooner everyone puts Plutonis on ignore the sooner we don't end up with stupid-rear end posts like this.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:17 |
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You don't even have to put him on ignore, you just have to learn when he's shitposting (most of the time) versus when he's being serious (almost never).
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:22 |
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Fuego Fish posted:The sooner everyone puts Plutonis on ignore the sooner we don't end up with stupid-rear end posts like this. It's my first time here. But looking at his post history I can see where you're coming from. Every forum has their challenging posters.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:23 |
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Oodles posted:It's my first time here. But looking at his post history I can see where you're coming from. Every forum has their challenging posters. You're not helping with you're terrible 'triggering' posting either.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:27 |
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Oodles posted:trigger Fuego Fish posted:The sooner everyone puts Plutonis on ignore the sooner we don't end up with stupid-rear end posts like this.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:37 |
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I mean "challenging" is a really generous read but for sure, dude who's making triggered jokes. The best way to get a child into board games is by playing them, but a four year old isn't about to be playing pathfinder with you any time soon. Pretty much anything they do until 8 is arbitrary and accidental.
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# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:38 |
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Oodles posted:Would it trigger you less if
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Halloween Jack posted:4chan is uh actually I don't even know which way it is. Down.
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