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I bit the bullet and backed out of my 3.5 game I was in. I want to know where the story goes but I just don't enjoy any of the mechanics of 3.5. I feel bad since I am the healbot but it just isn't enjoyable.
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Len posted:I bit the bullet and backed out of my 3.5 game I was in. I want to know where the story goes but I just don't enjoy any of the mechanics of 3.5. I feel bad since I am the healbot but it just isn't enjoyable. Good call, if you're not having fun what's even the point of playing games.
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Jul 5, 2017 02:57
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Kwyndig posted:Good call, if you're not having fun what's even the point of playing games. Yeah. I assured the DM it isn't him. He's grown to be a really fun DM since we started playing back in 01/02 the rules are more guidelines than fact but I just don't enjoy it. There's too much crunch with it. I've realized at this point I just like rules light games more. Now I just have to actually be able to play them. If I can't get a Trail of Cthulhu game going this weekend I'm going to try a play online one. How's the FFG Star Wars game? Crunchy as hell I assume?
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Jul 5, 2017 03:07
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I've been looking into All Flesh Must Be Eaten and the expansions through the F&F and uh okay so the core book seems pretty normal, basically what you'd expect for a zombie game around that time but Enter the Zombie is one of the most utterly batshit loving bonkers supplements I have ever seen written for a game please, please tell me they're all as insane and gonzo as that one is, I need to inject this entire game line directly into my veins
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Jul 5, 2017 03:14
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Len posted:Yeah. I assured the DM it isn't him. He's grown to be a really fun DM since we started playing back in 01/02 the rules are more guidelines than fact but I just don't enjoy it. There's too much crunch with it. I've realized at this point I just like rules light games more. It's like a million times less crunchy than any version if D&D. Wouldn't call it rules light, but definitely not crunch heavy.
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Jul 5, 2017 03:16
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I've been looking into All Flesh Must Be Eaten and the expansions through the F&F and uh I only read bits and pieces but they took what could have been just a generic zombie thing and gone straight Grimdark with it but instead they ran with it and went fun. I'm pretty sure there's a zombies in spaaaaaaaaaace supplement
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Jul 5, 2017 03:20
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JackMann posted:Hell, I've been nominated. Ennies ain't no thing. I won one (as a part of a larger team), got to be on the stage. It's just a small industry.
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Jul 5, 2017 03:27
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Len posted:I only read bits and pieces but they took what could have been just a generic zombie thing and gone straight Grimdark with it but instead they ran with it and went fun. I'm pretty sure there's a zombies in spaaaaaaaaaace supplement it's not so much the fun tone as the utterly loving out-there ideas they come up with these are actual zombie characteristics featured in Enter the Zombie: quote:Bloody Mass (4): the zombie is capable of just collapsing into a puddle of goo, flesh and bones on a whim. It moves at half speed and is completely immune to all damage outside of fire, acid or explosives. It can slip through cracks and even remains cohesive in water. Bloody Mass can be used as a reflexive defensive action but requires two turns to reform. seriously, I want to know what kind of drugs the writers of this were on, because I would like to try them
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Jul 5, 2017 03:30
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like how many pieces of zombie media, exactly, have them melting into sentient pools of goo at will and/or combining into 5-man superzombies and/or rocketing their loving heads four goddamn yards away and swinging them around at people like a flail
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Jul 5, 2017 03:32
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:like how many pieces of zombie media, exactly, have them melting into sentient pools of goo at will and/or combining into 5-man superzombies and/or rocketing their loving heads four goddamn yards away and swinging them around at people like a flail P-Parasite Eve?
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Jul 5, 2017 03:40
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Waffleman_ posted:P-Parasite Eve? Parasite Eve went pretty bonkers but I don't even think that went as bonkers as AFMBE does I really want to introduce my D&D group to the game and run a oneshot of Escape from Argos with them... except I surreptitiously swap the default zombies for the scenario with custom ones, and make the custom ones as completely insane as possible (this is a group that thought me playing a kobold cleric of Tempus in our current Curse of Strahd run was loving amazing, and they also desperately want to play World Wide Wrestling after I told them about it, so I have a feeling this'll go over pretty well  )
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Jul 5, 2017 03:49
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I mean, at least the first part was Parasite Eve because a sentient pile of goo was kind of the antagonist.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:it's not so much the fun tone as the utterly loving out-there ideas they come up with When I was high school and went to the forums a lot of the userbase talked about Burning Man so probably all of the drugs.
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Jul 5, 2017 04:01
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I don't recall the other sourcebooks for AFMBE being quite as wild as the kung fu one which really seemed to lean hard on the possibilities provided by undead anatomy when it comes to martial arts, but I do remember that there was an AFMBE supplement that was all about pro wrestling so it's possible they recreated some of the magic there.
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Jul 5, 2017 04:29
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If you think that's wild, go read Infinite Kung Fu.
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Jul 5, 2017 04:45
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gradenko_2000 posted:Goon Project? Win an Ennie? I didn't win, but I got nominated. But even that's pretty nuts. It was just this dumb little adventure I wrote for a friend's blog, which she ended up tossing over to a publisher. I'm not exactly a force to be reckoned with in the game industry, is what I'm saying.
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Jul 5, 2017 04:48
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AFMBE goes gonzo but it never tops Enter The Zombie. That was peak AFMBE. The space one gets pretty buck wild, though
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AFMBE has always been a consistent seller for Eden so they put out a lot of supplements. Fortunately they've gotten pretty creative with it.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Your periodic reminder that the Ennies are sketch as gently caress. The Ennies are bad and winning one means nothing.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:like how many pieces of zombie media, exactly, have them melting into sentient pools of goo at will and/or combining into 5-man superzombies and/or rocketing their loving heads four goddamn yards away and swinging them around at people like a flail Randomly reminds me that when I was young there was a Dracula computer game where Dracula could kill you by picking you up by the leg, whirling you around his head and fastballing you into a wall. The hilarious thing was that it was a text adventure and the author actually tried to write that in gothic horror style.
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Jul 5, 2017 12:46
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I was nominated for an Ennie and I haven't even written anything.
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Jul 5, 2017 13:15
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Evil Mastermind posted:Yup. Every nominee has to send the judges physical products if they exist, regardless of where the judge lives or how much shipping costs. If the judge drops out, they get to keep the books. FWIW, to my knowledge this was changed a few years ago and now physical copies are optional.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:it's not so much the fun tone as the utterly loving out-there ideas they come up with
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Ettin posted:FWIW, to my knowledge this was changed a few years ago and now physical copies are optional.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Goon Project? Win an Ennie?  ... that I got when I visited the potter who used to make them, and he had a silver-painted spare... It's a pretty sweet oversized ceramic d20. I think the new ones are fancier; this was a looong time ago.
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hyphz posted:Yep. And where the entire adventure is rigged to force the players into those fetishes. Not "his", but honestly it's because it was a single post with no images or tables and thus easy to overlook when skimming the thread (I don't read every post). I'm willing to add it if you want that dubious honor. inklesspen fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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Jul 5, 2017 19:21
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Sorry for the incorrect pronoun! I'd add it on the slender chance that someone might see what crap they're putting in the Ennies.. On that topic. Has anyone actually played OLD?
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There you go: https://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/hyphz/blood-in-the-chocolate/
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So my friends and I just had an argument over whether pineapples have square grids or hexagonal. It turns out that they have both! When they are green and underripe youngsters, they have square grids, but then they age into beautiful golden fruits with hexagons briefly before turning into rotting garbage. It's nature's perfect metaphor for becoming a grognard. Here's a picture illustrating the change: http://img2.21food.com/simg/product/2015/9/3/stdenissa-07230570.jpg Note that each segment on the golden one in the center of the shot has six adjacent segments, while on the dark green one next to it, each segment has 4 adjacent along an edge and 4 adjacent through corners. I knew you folks would appreciate this.
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hyphz posted:Randomly reminds me that when I was young there was a Dracula computer game where Dracula could kill you by picking you up by the leg, whirling you around his head and fastballing you into a wall.
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Halloween Jack posted:I really need to know which Dracula game this was. (There is a surprising plenitude of Dracula adventure games.) Um.. "Dracula". By CRL in 1986 for C64 and other 8-bits. Edit. Here we go: Rod Pike, Dracula 1986 posted:His eyes are read, like burning coals! His features are twisted with fury.... he moves towards me.... his thin red lips retract to reveal the most viscious (sic) rat like teeth! I breath in shallow gasps... there doesn't seem to be any air! AND I CANNOT MOVE! This is by no means all there is. quote:THE MANIACAL FACE OF RENFIELD IS ABOVE ME! "Hello Doctor" His voice is quite but full of menace. "I want you to see where I have been hiding. But I know you would not come willingly, and I could not carry you far. I am going to take... just your eyes with me... HA HA HA!" He holds a knife at my throat!... Then.. then he produces... A SPOON!!!! When I was a child I was genuinely frightened of this game hyphz fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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Okay, I'll admit the Renfield thing is a little creepy, but holy loving  the mental image of Dracula swinging a human around like a flail while gloating about their brain seeing the light of day
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Jul 5, 2017 23:26
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Final Fantasy IX confirmed best Final Fantasy Game by the creator.
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I prefer the Dracula computer game that was basically a primitive rendition of a D&D campaign. You bought equipment, controlled each of 5 (or maybe 6?) characters in turn order, wandered around creepy buildings in London while occasionally he would invade your base and attack Mina, and you had to find him by midnight of October 31st or the game ended.
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Wish he did real games instead of Mobage these days!!! Someone save him and Yasumi Matsuno for god's sake!!!
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So he picked his favorite child, big deal. I'd be more impressed (and confused) if he said something like Final Fantasy XI is the best Final Fantasy Game. Or if it wasn't a joke video.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I've been looking into All Flesh Must Be Eaten and the expansions through the F&F and uh I should get back on the undead horse and take some chunks out of the series again, maybe when I'm done with the core book of Abandon All Hope and before I do the premade campaigns.
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Kwyndig posted:So he picked his favorite child, big deal. I'd be more impressed (and confused) if he said something like Final Fantasy XI is the best Final Fantasy Game. Or if it wasn't a joke video. It's the easiest hundo he's ever made
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He's right
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Len posted:How's the FFG Star Wars game? Crunchy as hell I assume? Compared to D&D3.5? No way. Its explicitly a narrative system of 'interpret the dice to create cool and exciting scenes all the time' kind of game. There is still crunch because ffg love their gear porn but the main part of the system is very much 'be creative and come up with something exciting for every dice check' so its generally a pretty fast paced and loose kind of game. EDIT: It even does a really good job and mixing force users and non-force users together without either outshining the other which is usually a gigantic problem hole for star wars rpgs. kingcom fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jul 6, 2017 |
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