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Well, for starters, don't use Skype, Skype is a piece of poo poo. Discord has voice and persistent text from session to session and isn't awful.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Well, for starters, don't use Skype, Skype is a piece of poo poo. Discord has voice and persistent text from session to session and isn't awful. Yeah Discord works wonders. Also like just look at recruiting threads and steal from them d00d
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Well, for starters, don't use Skype, Skype is a piece of poo poo. Discord has voice and persistent text from session to session and isn't awful. Discord's fine for text chatting but I'd rather slam my dick in a screen door than try to use its voice channels.
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May 29, 2017 22:26
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Yawgmoth posted:Every time I've tried to use discord's voice it has poo poo the bed on me about 5 times an hour. Skype has persistent text too and doesn't poo poo out on me so maybe your problems aren't skype's fault? I've never had the slightest problem with Discord voice, but more importantly, Skype has been riddled with security vulnerabilities since its launch up to the current day.
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May 29, 2017 22:35
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Lichtenstein posted:Spellbound Kingdoms or 7th Sea 2nd Edition? Both are cool and fun and different enough from each other and if we can have infinite fantasy heartbreakers there is room for two swashbuckling games in this hobby
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Covok posted:Good riddance to bad rubbish, if you ask me. Who's going to replace them on the low end of the used market? Amazon isn't great at the sub-$15 used market, and that's often where you've needed to pick up stuff before it becomes some overpriced $70 "rare classic" that still gets the people actually worth paying (the devs) a big $0.
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May 29, 2017 23:10
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eBay has always been terrible for middle to low end games.
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What do you mean by middle to low end? I've had good luck with ebay in the past, though my most recent experience was on the selling end and whoo boy what people will pay for old PSX and Saturn games, it's nuts.
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Lichtenstein posted:Spellbound Kingdoms or 7th Sea 2nd Edition? 7th Sea is one of my gaming loves, but 2e has some serious mechanical issues with Swordsmen being flatly exponentially better at fighting than entire parties of characters while still coming down solely.to who had the most raises for actions when fighting each other. Your options for dealing with a Swordsman are basically 'bring a faster swordsman' or two brace of pistols and just gun him down.
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occamsnailfile posted:What do you mean by middle to low end? I've had good luck with ebay in the past, though my most recent experience was on the selling end and whoo boy what people will pay for old PSX and Saturn games, it's nuts. Sub $15. It's a place where ebay sucks, since shipping add a huge markup to each game. Just going to the GameStop and leafing through the value bin can get you a few very interesting game in my experience. It;s how I got about two-thirds of my RPGs back in the PS2 era. I thought if I bought $50 worth of used games (usually 3-4) and at least one panned out I was on par, and two had you way ahead of buying new. Of course with digital gaming nothing has any permanence, meaning that there won't be as much of a retro movement for the current consoles in ten years, and the generation after this one will be completely dead. Which is fine if you only want to play the newest stuff, but it's sad to lose that history for no real reason.
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May 30, 2017 01:41
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Yeah anything in the under $20 market shipping is a stupid ratio of the final price. Above that's the like new games where you usually pay 40-50, games don't spend much time in between those price points. Then of course you've got your price gouging on things where eventually they go over original retail price.
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occamsnailfile posted:What do you mean by middle to low end? I've had good luck with ebay in the past, though my most recent experience was on the selling end and whoo boy what people will pay for old PSX and Saturn games, it's nuts. I just looked on Ebay and apparently the going price for Mario Sunshine and F-zero GX are $40, smash bros melee and Paper Mario TYD are $55... Time to sell all my old gamecube games! I'm gonna make a couple hundred bucks to spend on cardboard!
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Yeah, I saw Sunshine had jumped, not in a rush to sell my copy, tho. Glad I picked up Nier and Drakengard 3 when I did, prices are jumping for those thanks to Automata.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, I saw Sunshine had jumped, not in a rush to sell my copy, tho. Weird they actually are. I'm pretty sure I paid like $15 for Nier at GameStop years ago and they're usually pretty bad at jumping prices when they should. When Devil Summoner 1 was selling for $100+ on eBay I walked into my local GameStop and asked "hey there's a GameStop in Virginia with this game for $15 can you order it from there?" they placed a phonecall and I got the game, case and manual for $15.
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Yeah, when I bought it at Gamestop the teller was basically like "Wait, why the hell is Nier $25?!" and me going, "Yeah, that's the cheapest I could find right now." It was just such a $10 bargain binner for so long. The real problem with Gamestop's failures is just having the physical videogame shrink even more than it already has - given they swallowed up EB and other stores - meaning there'll be less and less competition when prices jump like that, and one fewer big resource when games become hard to find. Gamestop is an awful company but it's certainly not a net good for the consumer to have it implode, it means the market mostly shifts over to online marketplace sellers and physical specialty shops, which isn't great when seeking out games that don't exist digitally... or only exist digitally through piracy.
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Len posted:Weird they actually are. I'm pretty sure I paid like $15 for Nier at GameStop years ago and they're usually pretty bad at jumping prices when they should. When Devil Summoner 1 was selling for $100+ on eBay I walked into my local GameStop and asked "hey there's a GameStop in Virginia with this game for $15 can you order it from there?" they placed a phonecall and I got the game, case and manual for $15. Please do not remind me there is no Raidou Kuzunoha 3. Turns out I will play games that have questionable political views if I get to be an old timey detective.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, when I bought it at Gamestop the teller was basically like "Wait, why the hell is Nier $25?!" and me going, "Yeah, that's the cheapest I could find right now." It was just such a $10 bargain binner for so long. The real problem with Gamestop's failures is just having the physical videogame shrink even more than it already has - given they swallowed up EB and other stores - meaning there'll be less and less competition when prices jump like that, and one fewer big resource when games become hard to find. Yeah, I'm lucky enough to live in a city with multiple small used game trade-in stores and I still dislike Gamestop's primacy. Monopoly is the natural endpoint of unchecked capitalism and all and I guess there isn't much antitrust concern about vidyagames. I cast the same kind of worried gaze towards Barnes and Noble--for a long time they didn't have a lot of fiction I was interested in, and their non-new sections are still really hit-and-miss for the stuff I want. Basically if it didn't come out in the last six months I'm better off ordering online...which makes B&N less competitive...which eases them further down the death spiral. These days you can't even find a little book chain in a lot of malls...or even all that many malls. Not sure if losing those is for the best or not, versus those extended outdoor shopping plazas where people drive rather than walk from store to store. But that brings us back around to trying to sell boardgames and RPGs at a profit, and how nobody seems to be able to do it. 
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FFG seems to be doing swimmingly. Turns out nerds will gladly pay twice if you leave pieces out of the game box. The sad thing I just realized is, that's probably how they make ends meet.
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Siivola posted:FFG seems to be doing swimmingly. Turns out nerds will gladly pay twice if you leave pieces out of the game box. That's not fair. They put a lot of effort into making sure they don't pay a lot of their designers well, and over working a lot of their staff!
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https://twitter.com/SlyFlourish/status/866046641660461057 https://twitter.com/SlyFlourish/status/866046722539171840 https://twitter.com/dmdavidblog/status/866820444183285760 https://twitter.com/SlyFlourish/status/866820700333592576 https://twitter.com/SlyFlourish/status/869592232369823745 watching this slow evolution has been pretty gratifying gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 18:23 on May 30, 2017 |
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It's depressing to think that there are still GMs out there who'd make people roll for simple tasks where failure wouldn't have any immediate consequence.
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's depressing to think that there are still GMs out there who'd make people roll for simple tasks where failure wouldn't have any immediate consequence. Simulationists (and I know that term has been ridden down quite extensively since it was used, but I really feel it's valid) are RPG poison and most likely to do this in my experience.
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I still remember being in a Numenera one-shot a few Free RPG Days ago, where the GM made us make a bunch of rolls to climb up the side of a building when we weren't in any sort of hurry and there wasn't any more consequence of failure than having to roll again. It's the simulationists, sure, but it's also the people who think narrating their characters failing simple tasks in "wacky" ways is hilarious.
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I like when players lean into their failed dice rolls as another chance to roleplay. Of course the "wacky" dude at the table is a pain no matter what he's doing; he's "that guy".
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I know a lot of people here dislike AMP, but how do people think about Ninja Crusade, specifically 2nd edition? I feel the move to d10s, the use of compels and fate points, and a few other things make it seem interesting.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I still remember being in a Numenera one-shot a few Free RPG Days ago, where the GM made us make a bunch of rolls to climb up the side of a building when we weren't in any sort of hurry and there wasn't any more consequence of failure than having to roll again. Numenera in its own way incentivizes adversarial GMs to try to sneak in extra rolls to trigger "free" Intrusions, too
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Evil Mastermind posted:it's also the people who think narrating their characters failing simple tasks in "wacky" ways is hilarious. Those people should be playing Panty Explosion. They'd be happiest there. Or wait, whatever the guy relented and changed the name to.
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I've talked about that one-shot here before, and it really was the perfect storm of universally bad GMing. Like, even if it wasn't Numenera it still would have been poo poo because the GM didn't explain the setting at all, didn't notice that I was bored out of my mind because I was the fighty guy who did nothing good but fight and didn't have anything to fight for like two hours, had us roll for everything, and spent over half the game focusing scenes on her boyfriend instead of giving the rest of us a loving scene. e: These were the people who said that Numenera's character links were better than Fate's aspects because "they tell you how your characters know each other" and I think I've bitten my tongue that hard in a long, long time.
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theironjef posted:Those people should be playing Panty Explosion. They'd be happiest there. Or wait, whatever the guy relented and changed the name to. tokyo brain pop
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theironjef posted:Those people should be playing Panty Explosion. They'd be happiest there. Or wait, whatever the guy relented and changed the name to. To be fair, Panty Explosion sounds like a bad name for a squirting porno, not a tabletop roleplaying game. Evil Mastermind posted:I've talked about that one-shot here before, and it really was the perfect storm of universally bad GMing. Like, even if it wasn't Numenera it still would have been poo poo because the GM didn't explain the setting at all, didn't notice that I was bored out of my mind because I was the fighty guy who did nothing good but fight and didn't have anything to fight for like two hours, had us roll for everything, and spent over half the game focusing scenes on her boyfriend instead of giving the rest of us a loving scene. I somehow feel these guys also loved 3.5 because it allowed you to "write a story with your classes. Like, first I was fighter, but then I found religion and became a Paladin. But, then, I realized atheism was good after going to college and became a thief because nothing matters, right?"
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So this looks amazing But how does it play?
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's depressing to think that there are still GMs out there who'd make people roll for simple tasks where failure wouldn't have any immediate consequence. As someone who learned to play with 3rd edition D&D, it did not teach GMing very well at all. It took me over a decade to become competent.
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's depressing to think that there are still GMs out there who'd make people roll for simple tasks where failure wouldn't have any immediate consequence. Is that better or worse than players that insist on being allowed to roll for mundane tasks, even when the DM has told them that it just doesn't matter?
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Cassa posted:So this looks amazing they say they're using their Conan system for it, so I expect it to play as smooth as that, with a heavy focus on cinematic, active, moments and a pretty solid background gen system. I'm pretty eager to see it myself, I'd kill for a good Trek RPG.
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The Modiphius 2d20 system is fine. It's nothing amazing but it works well in Mutant Chronicles. I might get that box assuming it doesn't cost like 200 bucks, which it probably will.
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