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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. I'm excited about your Gamma World lets play. Do you know about the goon made roguelike Caves of Qud which pays a lot of homage to Gamma World? http://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud/ https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3739217
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Helical Nightmares posted:I'm excited about your Gamma World lets play. I didn't but I will look into it!
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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. IT'S HAPPENING I'M GETTING IDEAS Anime is dangerous
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Looks like Pendragon is the new Bundle of Holding, along with The Great Pendragon Campaign in the bonus section. Does anyone know what the differences are between this "5.2 edition" and what the earlier originals were?
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So how many games out there are firmly situated in the technothriller or modern military genres? Spycraft, Millennium's End, Wilderness of Mirrors, Phoenix Command, Price of Freedom...I know Twilight 2000 and The Morrow Project are technically post-apoc, but I'd count them. Then you have a few that shade into horror/fantasy without allowing the "about secret agents" to just become window dressing. EABA Code:Black, Night's Black Agents, Conspiracy X...
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What is the most tasteless RPG book? Is it Charnel Houses of Europe or is there something even more tasteless?
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Len posted:What is the most tasteless RPG book? Is it Charnel Houses of Europe or is there something even more tasteless? FATAL, obviously. Almost any LOTFP book picked at random. WOD: Gypsies gets special credit for being named after a slur. BOVD can't be the worst but it's one of the highest profile.
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Len posted:What is the most tasteless RPG book? Is it Charnel Houses of Europe or is there something even more tasteless? as the official F&F archiver, I'd have to say Charnel Houses of Europe is about as tasteful as it's possible to make a World of Darkness book about the Holocaust. they've done far worse.
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yea Charnel Houses of Europe was a stupid idea to begin with but they at least handled it as tastefully as they could. Like, don't do that, but if for some reason you NEED to I guess kudos for being respectful? WoD Gypsies is literally the most racist thing I've read a major RPG publisher do.
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Cease to Hope posted:FATAL, obviously. Almost any LOTFP book picked at random. WOD: Gypsies gets special credit for being named after a slur. BOVD can't be the worst but it's one of the highest profile. Yeah, I can't imagine how this is even a question. FATAL posted:88% - Uterus, or womb, connects the vagina and the fallopian tubes. FATAL posted:35. Jewy Jewbacca, of: Whosoever dons this armor will acquire a nose twice the size and a manhood half the size. Further, the wearer will become extremely greedy and fight to the death for one silver piece. For the record, that second quote goes on for a while about body hair after that.
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I like that they werent confident that "Jewbacca" would land, so they had to really make sure you knew this was an explicitly Jewish in ethnicity and practice wookie named Jewbacca, and not one of those ethnically Jewish named wookies who practice post-reformation Jedi-ism.
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Shadowrun 4e had a plethora of legitimately AWFUL sourcebooks as part of their rebranding to be as non-punk as possible, but the most odious was probably War!, wherein they had a plot hook that involved going into Auschwitz to kill holocaust ghosts in order to retrieve a magical artifact which is literally an evil nazi doctor's scalpel.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Shadowrun 4e had a plethora of legitimately AWFUL sourcebooks as part of their rebranding to be as non-punk as possible, but the most odious was probably War!, wherein they had a plot hook that involved going into Auschwitz to kill holocaust ghosts in order to retrieve a magical artifact which is literally an evil nazi doctor's scalpel. I have very mixed feelings about Shadowrun 4e, one of the reasons I'm planning on selling my small Shadowrun collection to Noble Knight Games(along with some Star Wars SAGA & D20 stuff), well that and me needing money
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Len posted:What is the most tasteless RPG book? Is it Charnel Houses of Europe or is there something even more tasteless? The F&F review of Charnel Houses of Europe gave me the impression that the topic was handled tastefully and was about the best that could be done unless the basic concept of turning the Holocaust into a setting is beyond the pale. My submission would be Death Valley Free Prison, a sourcebook for Rolemaster-derivative Cyberspace RPG that engaged in a lot of racist tropes in its post-apocalyptic California/Arizona setting.
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Whatever it turns out to be I'm betting dollars to donuts it's a Chris Fields joint. Probably the one that has Roe v. Wade shatter America into Pagan Witch Land and RoboMiddle America.
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Chris Fields is almost as much of an Easy Mode answer as FATAL. I'm not sure that dude has ever written anything that isn't brutally tasteless.
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Halloween Jack posted:So how many games out there are firmly situated in the technothriller or modern military genres? Spycraft, Millennium's End, Wilderness of Mirrors, Phoenix Command, Price of Freedom...I know Twilight 2000 and The Morrow Project are technically post-apoc, but I'd count them. There's this game I've got in my library called BLACK SEVEN that's pretty much Alpha Protocol: The TRPG. There's also the Lasers & Feelings hack Tactical Waifu
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Mr. Maltose posted:Whatever it turns out to be I'm betting dollars to donuts it's a Chris Fields joint. Probably the one that has Roe v. Wade shatter America into Pagan Witch Land and RoboMiddle America. Uh WUT?!?!?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Looks like Pendragon is the new Bundle of Holding, along with The Great Pendragon Campaign in the bonus section. 5.2 is pretty much just errata and general cleaning up of the rules, with a new layout and new art. There's no real reason to get an older edition and if you have 5.1 you should have/be getting 5.2 for free.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Shadowrun 4e had a plethora of legitimately AWFUL sourcebooks as part of their rebranding to be as non-punk as possible what the gently caress
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Look it just turns out corporations are good ok
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drrockso20 posted:Uh WUT?!?!? Chris Fields is a somehow-still-prolific writer that likes using the 3e d20 rules to sell his fetish games and must make a living on that somehow. Otherverse America is the one where the abortion debate caused the second American civil war and there's a massive floating dick in space. It also offers full compatibility with his tentacle rape hentai setting, Black Tokyo. This includes his recent supplement adventure for Black Tokyo, A Tournament of Rapists. You can also throw in all of his Furry d20 rules for extra fun. e- speaking of the civil war and good taste, that upcoming supplement for Beast: the Primordial set during the reconstruction era will surely be handled tactfully 
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I hope it turns out the real monsters are the Southern aristocracy and you get to support the Freedman's Bureau or something. And if you dont, well do it anyway  I mean, if nothing else the success of the Wolfenstein revivals shows there's a market for that kind of thing.
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Y'all know they already published that supplement months ago as part of Dark Eras Companion and you can go ahead and read it, right? The thing that they're working on now is just the printed version you can buy separately from the big book.
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Rand Brittain posted:Y'all know they already published that supplement months ago as part of Dark Eras Companion and you can go ahead and read it, right? The thing that they're working on now is just the printed version you can buy separately from the big book. i feel like this would require knowing more about beast which is something i just can't do
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Rand Brittain posted:Y'all know they already published that supplement months ago as part of Dark Eras Companion and you can go ahead and read it, right? The thing that they're working on now is just the printed version you can buy separately from the big book. No I didn't realize it was part of that crossover book the put out back in March. I figured it'd be its own mini book or pdf like the Hunter tie in. How is it then?
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ChrisAsmadi posted:So did Wizards of the Coast stop publishing novels or something? I think they've slowed down and maybe stopped doing MtG novels completely but they're still publishing D&D stuff. I just started listening to Brimstone Angels on audible, it is not good, but I'm also trash so I'll probably stick with it. http://dnd.wizards.com/products/fiction/novels
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mango sentinel posted:I think they've slowed down and maybe stopped doing MtG novels completely but they're still publishing D&D stuff. That page is why I asked, given how they've not published anything in over half a year.
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inklesspen posted:Honestly they've mostly stopped publishing anything. April 2017: Tales from the Yawning Portal, a dungeon collection November 2016: Volo's guide to monsters, which looks like a Monster Manual with an even lower information density and Ed Greenwood characters. November 2016: Dungeonology, a mechanic-free guide to FR (???). September 2016: Storm King's Thunder, a 1-10 adventure. March 2016: Curse of Strahd, a 1-10 adventure. November 2015: Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. April 2015: Elemental Evil Player's Companion. Is 25 pages. April 2015: Princes of the Apocalypse, Elemental Evil but in FR. They're not even trying to publish books.
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Gobbeldygook posted:Here's what their website says for "recent" tabletop releases: Most successful D&D ever is a really nonsense claim when nothing is coming out the pipeline and the team is tiny. They're not even trying to pump out other material to capitalise on it.
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Gobbeldygook posted:Here's what their website says for "recent" tabletop releases: Goddamn. Does Magic alone really keep them afloat? It's like they are begging a third party (Pazio) to take over the D&D niche.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Goddamn. Does Magic alone really keep them afloat? It's like they are begging a third party (Pazio) to take over the D&D niche. Magic likely makes ten times the money D&D ever did, conservatively speaking.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Magic likely makes ten times the money D&D ever did, conservatively speaking. That's definitely a conservative estimate since what sales figures we have had in the past seemed to indicate Magic did a hell of a lot more than ten times the volume of sales and they have to make more per card box than they do per core book.
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