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P.d0t posted:Tagging forums-poster Error 404 with "True Steake"  I picture it summoning the platonic form of steak. You don't even eat it, you just bask in its perfectly seared magnificence.
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I wish someone could cast Moss Healing Word upon my Dengue/Chikungunya/Zika plagued self
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May 11, 2017 12:57
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Splicer posted:I picture it summoning the platonic form of steak. You don't even eat it, you just bask in its perfectly seared magnificence.
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May 11, 2017 13:06
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This discussion of 'litrpg' is an amazing rabbithole of madness https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3554972&pagenumber=539&perpage=40#post472097584 Check out the previes of this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LYJOII6?pldnSite=1
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May 11, 2017 22:40
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xiw posted:This discussion of 'litrpg' is an amazing rabbithole of madness It's just Americans stealing from the worst trend on Japanese lit https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3793167&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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May 11, 2017 22:49
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these rpgs don't sound very lit to me
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i actually like the idea of books that talk about games as games, rather than just being in-universe lore retold/made up. a FFXIV novel just got announced which is taking the former approach, it's about the people who play the game and their experience playing it rather than like, telling the story of their characters as if they and the game world was real. but the responses I've read to that announcement (in the west, and the book is japanese only so far) is basically people being upset that it isn't the in-universe lore perspective. i dunno i think it's a novel idea even if it's obviously ripe for ulillillia comparisons
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May 11, 2017 23:02
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Uli's book was legit the only book that gave me the reading version of ASMR
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May 11, 2017 23:12
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Plutonis posted:It's just Americans stealing from the worst trend on Japanese lit actually it's americans reclaiming the plot to their legendary classic, the 80s d&d cartoon
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Plutonis posted:Uli's book was legit the only book that gave me the reading version of ASMR every now and then ill just read random pages from it. its so soothing
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I really need to get a copy of that. If nothing else, it can live next to my copy of Felsic Current I've never gotten more than 10 pages into. ... I also really need to do a Let's Read of Felsic Current to make me get through that loving thing. Possibly with a toxx attached for extra motivation.
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EverettLO posted:Perhaps, but who in their right mind wouldn't have Fomend’s Beating Sphere prepped? Because it's impressively flashy but really just conjures a regular mace, and even then the shipping takes 1d2 weeks*. Fomend was a bit of a dick. * Yeah, you can use 25gp as a component for an expedited portal and it says next day arrival but those things are always full of poo poo unless you live right in central Waterdeep or something. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 00:38 on May 12, 2017 |
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May 12, 2017 00:35
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Plutonis posted:It's just Americans stealing from the worst trend on Japanese lit A trend that is now banned in most literary contests in Japan because it's become so pervasive due to trash tier, entry level anime.
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May 12, 2017 00:36
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Ready Player One is a masterpiece and I can't wait for the movie adaptation. Don't quote me.
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Ettin posted:Ready Player One is a masterpiece and I can't wait for the movie adaptation. Don't quote me. Have they finished principal photography on that yet?
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Kwyndig posted:Have they finished principal photography on that yet? Not yet to my knowledge. Only some set photos have popped up so far too.
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Ettin posted:Ready Player One is a masterpiece and I can't wait for the movie adaptation. Don't quote me. 
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some of spielberg's best movies were based off of lovely books, he might make something watchable out of rp1
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Brother Entropy posted:some of spielberg's best movies were based off of lovely books, he might make something watchable out of rp1 The doctor shakes his head, Im sorry maam, hes not going to pull through. The stupidity is terminal.
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Someone who's better at math than me help me figure out how to make a 4e randomised powers game work with quick and dirty math. I'm thinking a set number of "bodies" with a different balance of Init, HP and [W], then all primary stats are +5 and all secondaries +3?
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Moriatti posted:Where are you located and what do you want for this? Skype is doctormoriatti and I'm US based Sorry for taking so long to respond, while we can hash out the details further on Skype like you suggested, would a price of $25 plus shipping be okay with you, or do you want to haggle a little?
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I did a more extensive write-up on my blog about experiences with specific mechanical tricks to get people to avoid the whole "15 minute working day" problem in dungeons. https://songoftheblade.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/thoughts-on-risk-and-reward-mechanics-in-dungeon-crawlers/
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drrockso20 posted:Sorry for taking so long to respond, while we can hash out the details further on Skype like you suggested, would a price of $25 plus shipping be okay with you, or do you want to haggle a little? Going by eBay last sold listings, I'd like to haggle a small amount, but you're pretty close to the mark there.
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Moriatti posted:Going by eBay last sold listings, I'd like to haggle a small amount, but you're pretty close to the mark there. Yeah I based that figure off the price on the back of the book plus a couple more bucks, I figured that would be a good high mark for an out of print but common book without being an exploitative dick like many people on ebay are when it comes to auctioning RPG stuff(seriously unless it's mint and/or a first printing I really can't see any justification behind selling any individual TSR D&D core book for more than 20 bucks except perhaps the Rules Cyclopedia, and even that shouldn't be more than 40-50 bucks), anyways I'll probably contact you on Skype later today to finalize the details(right now I need sleep) drrockso20 fucked around with this message at 11:51 on May 12, 2017 |
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Brother Entropy posted:some of spielberg's best movies were based off of lovely books, he might make something watchable out of rp1 It won't be Indiana Jones 5 either.
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drrockso20 posted:Yeah I based that figure off the price on the back of the book plus a couple more bucks, I figured that would be a good high mark for an out of print but common book without being an exploitative dick like many people on ebay are when it comes to auctioning RPG stuff(seriously unless it's mint and/or a first printing I really can't see any justification behind selling any individual TSR D&D core book for more than 20 bucks except perhaps the Rules Cyclopedia, and even that shouldn't be more than 40-50 bucks), anyways I'll probably contact you on Skype later today to finalize the details(right now I need sleep) Totally fair, and I can see how you got that number.
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I'm going to post these books to SA Mart this weekend but if anyone here would like first dibs on some of these titles, PM me a reasonable offer and we'll chat about it.Books up for sale posted:Star Wars Saga Edition Core Rulebook – Like New condition (Includes Map)
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May 12, 2017 19:21
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I am in the USA. Is there an affordable way to ship books internationally? It seems like it's going to be ridiculously expensive regardless of weight and size.
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So, back in the 80's, there were two licensed games that everyone knows about. Star Wars d6 by West End Games, and Middle-Earth Role Playing (MERP) by ICE. The stuff that Slavicek, Gorden, and the rest made for the Star Wars rpg frequently became canon for the Star Wars universe, with much of it even surviving the recent purge. Their species names, in particular, have survived. Even weird stuff - like, the Interdictor cruiser is being reintroduced in Rebels after being invented in the late 80's. It's left a permanent mark. On the other hand, the MERP materials had little to no impact on Middle Earth canon. The closest I can find is people using their invented Nazgul names in stuff like the CCG. (Oh, and the fabulous maps have fans.) Its expansion of the setting is, however, largely derided and ignored. Why do you think this was the case? I have my own ideas of why this disparity happened, but I thought it might be an interesting discussion.
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dwarf74 posted:Why do you think this was the case? I have my own ideas of why this disparity happened, but I thought it might be an interesting discussion. Because Star Wars in the 80s was still a property that was being produced. The Tolkien universe in the 80s was something that had been dead for just as long as Tolkien had, being written 40 years earlier. And (thankfully) unlike the whole fiasco around the Dune universe, the canon itself did not continue to be added onto or revised after the author's death.
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Has there ever been a situation where a property has survived its creator gracefully? It seems like whenever somebody adds to a dead canon it just ends up being terrible.
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I don't know about "derided", but I think the distinctly ICE-y, vaguely Shadow World-y material for the stuff covering geography outside the main canon made it feel more like fanfiction than legitimate expansion.Drone posted:Because Star Wars in the 80s was still a property that was being produced. The Tolkien universe in the 80s was something that had been dead for just as long as Tolkien had, being written 40 years earlier. And (thankfully) unlike the whole fiasco around the Dune universe, the canon itself did not continue to be added onto or revised after the author's death. That's not really true. The extensive curation and publication of Tolkien's notes built out a lot of the world.
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Lovecraft springs to mind.
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dwarf74 posted:So, back in the 80's, there were two licensed games that everyone knows about. Star Wars d6 by West End Games, and Middle-Earth Role Playing (MERP) by ICE. kind of the other way around from what Drone said. star wars was kind of dead by time the WEG SW game game out. however, WEG kept plugging along, and lasted long enough to catch the next wave of Star Wars licensed stuff, and the beginning of the "expanded universe," at the beginning of the 90s. WEG Star Wars was around when Bantam Spectra started publishing Star Wars novels again (particularly those written by Timothy Zahn and Kevin J. Anderson) and when Dark Horse Comics began publishing Star Wars comics. there's a lot of interplay here, it's not one causing the other: WEG embroidered on the Bantam and Dark Horse Star Wars ideas, and some of the Bantam books (especially the Tales from... collections) were written by authors who'd consulted the WEG guides.
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Kwyndig posted:Has there ever been a situation where a property has survived its creator gracefully? It seems like whenever somebody adds to a dead canon it just ends up being terrible. The Holy Bible
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Maybe on a deep level it comes down to how "serious" each property feels. There's a more freewheeling attitude to Star Wars.
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Barnes and Noble had an interesting series of articles on the publishing history of the Star Wars EU.
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Plutonis posted:The Holy Bible Plutonis did not say this, but the ideas contained in it are close to his own.
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