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gradenko_2000 posted:I wonder if Fall of Delta Green is going to have any "and we would have won in Vietnam if it weren't for the liberals holding us back" undertones. I wonder how many people read that letter at the start of the first Delta Green rulebook and thought it was a perfectly reasonable viewpoint.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Nobody in the WoD thread likes this either. Loomer posted:Who wants to see what else blood can give you?! No one? TOO BAD. We've got blood for every occasion and every minmax situation! Want to eat a baby? We have baby blood! Wanna know what the blood of a traumatized homeless woman tastes like? You're in luck!
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theironjef posted:I was at Guardian Games two months ago while visiting Portland. Got some hilarious nonsense for my show. Some Scottish transhuman thing called A State, and a lovely copy of whatever the hell Gear Krieg is. Like the others have said, A|State is good. Not as strong as Cold City/Hot War from the same studio, but fun if you can settle on an objective. It has the most embarrassing poser art book cover though.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Ettin64/status/876261475748241408 The second one though seems hilarious because I can't figure out what customer group they're trying to reach with it; edgelord teens don't play tabletop games any more.
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NorgLyle posted:The second one though seems hilarious because I can't figure out what customer group they're trying to reach with it; edgelord teens don't play tabletop games any more. Yeah, most edgelord teens just go crazy over Warhammer 40k but never actually play it. Or, if they do, they are usually asked to leave by their group for being awful. Edgelords rarely last in social environments for reasons that are so self-explanatory that I feel it' be insulting to explain.
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I really don't get the notion by the current White Wolf devs that the game has to be "topical". I'm sure outside of the garbage lip service paid to environmentalism in Werewolf, that's never actually been the case with the ole World of Darkness? I mean, there are nods here and there to the times, to be sure, but it's not like the games were ever grasping so desperately to try and be "relevant" as this adventure is. ED: BTW, I remember when somebody in a local game played a pedophilic vampire, it's one of the few times I've seen the rest of a play group team up to deliberately execute a PC.
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Jun 18, 2017 16:47
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Why would a vampire that feeds on middle eastern refugee children have influence with right wing anti immigration people
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Len posted:Pretty much the only shops in my area are MTG or Warham based. There used to be one with a good boardgame selection but he was cash only and recently changed his hours to "by appointment" the RPG scene is dead as far as I can tell. If it isn't Pathfinder or 3.5 you can't find it at Books A Million Same for me on the West Coast. Boardgames are doing well, but the only RPG material available is Pathfinder or 5ed in stores.
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Total left-field here, but does anyone got a suggestion for good fake languages to use for Fragged Empires? Corp --> it's basic so I'm just using English Vargatarian --> No one speaks it, but, since it's the ancient version of Corp (Basic/English), true old english should work Archon --> Latin might work, but don't know if its detail oriented or melodic for poems Kaltoran --> Since it's loud, expressive, and uses the hands a lot, I'm thinking Italian Ancient Kaltoran --> It's supposed to peaceful and more melodic but related so...spanish? Legion --> I know it's supposed to be similar to Archon, but Klingon fits too well High X'Ion --> gently caress if I know, this lanague requires multiple vocal chords and pheremones on top of a physical and auditory component Primal X'ion --> Might handle this with Black Speech (that sounds racist as gently caress, as an aside) from Lord of the Rings. You know, the language of mordor. Don't know if these was ever expanded to a full language, though.
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quote:3. Otto Karsten, 39: Austrian marathon runner, out for a jog  Hire an author who has actually run before, christ.
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I actually really love the idea of using the whole 'blood is the life essence of the person' thing to say different contexts of feeding give different bonuses and all. Boy howdy is that not what I want at all out of that, though! It could have been so easy. Feeding in a social situation like a club, free dice to your social pools, feeding in a physical setting like the gym or grabbing a rando jogger or even while fighting, same for the physical pools, that poo poo!
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sexpig by night posted:I actually really love the idea of using the whole 'blood is the life essence of the person' thing to say different contexts of feeding give different bonuses and all. It's a neat idea with wacko execution. Also a little video gamey but in a good way. Like I'd love to see it incorporated into a Bloodlines mod.
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Helical Nightmares posted:It's a neat idea with wacko execution. Also a little video gamey but in a good way. Like I'd love to see it incorporated into a Bloodlines mod. I'm just imagining the poor sods homebrewing a Vampire campaign and having to decide on the effect of blood from every single NPC.
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Darth Various posted:I'm just imagining the poor sods homebrewing a Vampire campaign and having to decide on the effect of blood from every single NPC. Random encounter tables! Roll to determine your hunting victim's stats and blood benefits.
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Jun 18, 2017 18:45
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Having specific blood benefits seems like something you either should have to specifically hunt for (which would fit with a vampire obsessing over a single person) or the like, having it come up nearly every time you're feeding seems like a bookkeeping headache.
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The only thing I see coming out of this is more stories of players locking mortals with useful blood buffs in a basement to harvest regularly
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Nuns with Guns posted:The only thing I see coming out of this is more stories of players locking mortals with useful blood buffs in a basement to harvest regularly
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I got the Outlaw Star blu-rays today, which is very dangerous, as it might end up inspiring me to try GMing another space game.
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I particularly "like" how one of the refugee children has to be a brainwashed ISIS militant, because that's super-tactful and definitely doesn't read like a right-wing author jacking off about the TRUTH OF HIS WORDS
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Waffleman_ posted:I got the Outlaw Star blu-rays today, which is very dangerous, as it might end up inspiring me to try GMing another space game. What kind of a system would you even run that in?
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Rockopolis posted:Man, I never got to finish watching it, but I loved that setting. Cyborg Taoist wizard space pirates! Like space opera Water Margin. You need something that can handle a wide variety of power sources and styles of combat. So either narrative like Fate or go the other direction and adapt something crunchy like TBZ or Savage Worlds.
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Jun 18, 2017 21:22
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Maybe something like a Cortex would work.
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I was about to post some silly defence of Ken Hite along the lines of "Ericsson apparently has more creative control than the lead writer" but then Ken Hite defended "triggered" on Twitter and damnit Hite you're better than this!
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Rockopolis posted:Man, I never got to finish watching it, but I loved that setting. Cyborg Taoist wizard space pirates! Like space opera Water Margin. 
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LatwPIAT posted:I was about to post some silly defence of Ken Hite along the lines of "Ericsson apparently has more creative control than the lead writer" but then Ken Hite defended "triggered" on Twitter and damnit Hite you're better than this! it's almost like there are no good conservatives/republicans
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Somewhere there's a favela missing it's idiot.
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Rockopolis posted:Man, I never got to finish watching it, but I loved that setting. Cyborg Taoist wizard space pirates! Like space opera Water Margin. Strike! Or Cortex+, my dude.
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Moriatti posted:Strike! Or Cortex+, my dude. There's a Firefly Cortex+ game, and with how much that series takes influence from Outlaw Star, I wonder if that could be a foundation point.
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I suspect you could cobble something out between that and the hacker's guide.
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Antivehicular posted:I won a copy of A State as a con door prize years ago, and I've never even heard of anyone else having a copy. It's good that I didn't hallucinate that game, although perhaps better that I remember very little about it and never played/ran it. a|state is cool but, just like SLA Industries, I wish that the copyright holders had actually published the planned sourcebook that tells you what the gently caress is going on with the universe, which is otherwise hidden from both the players and the GM. Kai Tave posted:Potatocubed has the right of it in that it's one of those games where the first thing you have to do is figure out what exactly it is you're going to do with it because it just kind of delivers the setting to you but I don't recall much in the way of immediately compelling hooks.
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Halloween Jack posted:a|state is cool but, just like SLA Industries, I wish that the copyright holders had actually published the planned sourcebook that tells you what the gently caress is going on with the universe, which is otherwise hidden from both the players and the GM. The SLA industries metaplot is really stupid btw. I learnt about it at one of the last UK gencons. Totally absurd.
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There's a copy of SLA at my local used bookstore. Worth it as a weird-thing read, or nah?
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Antivehicular posted:There's a copy of SLA at my local used bookstore. Worth it as a weird-thing read, or nah? Yeah, worth it as a thing to read and see where game and setting design was in the 90s. There's also a FATAL and friends writeup - http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/traveller/sla-industries/
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Waffleman_ posted:There's a Firefly Cortex+ game, and with how much that series takes influence from Outlaw Star, I wonder if that could be a foundation point. Moriatti posted:I suspect you could cobble something out between that and the hacker's guide. You guys know Cortex Prime is on the way, right? Of course, if you weren't in on the kickstarter, we're not supposed to share. (And the SRD we have right now seems to just be a summary of all the options from Firefly/Leverage/Smallville/Marvel HR anyway, so you might be better off with the Hacker's Guide at the moment.)
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The other day I made one of those dumb "1 Like = 1 X" Twitter memes, but about game design, and a bunch of people have done it since, putting a lot of really interesting commentary out there: https://storify.com/Genesisoflegend/wisdom-from-game-design
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Ewen Cluney posted:The other day I made one of those dumb "1 Like = 1 X" Twitter memes, but about game design, and a bunch of people have done it since, putting a lot of really interesting commentary out there: I did one too! Only to annoy the other guy that uses my shared twitter account since he was really busy, though.
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theironjef posted:I did one too! Only to annoy the other guy that uses my shared twitter account since he was really busy, though. Some of those you could pinpoint exactly which bad game caused the bitterness.
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