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#StillWithHer? Check. Background pic from a movie based on a children's book? Check. Pinned tweet compares Trump to Hitler? Check. Shakesville contributor? Hahaha fuuuuck
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Halloween Jack posted:#StillWithHer? Check. The pinned tweet also has a variant on #resistance
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Halloween Jack posted:#StillWithHer? Check. oh God I'm dying https://twitter.com/Shaker_aphra/status/890262649040142336
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https://twitter.com/MeGminor/status/890631755199270912 Literally gunned down
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I love the cross-section of tabletop gamers in the Call of Cthulhu episodes. Matt is the newbie roleplayer who genuinely wants to learn the game and be good at it, but whose lack of system mastery eventually bites him in the rear end, ruining the whole thing. Will is the gamer who develops a complicated backstory for his character and gets really invested in the game's lore and constantly tries to bring it up and integrate it into the actual game's proceedings, then tries to sabotage and derail the game when he's ignored. And Felix, of course, is the chaos gamer. It speaks to Virgil's skill that he's able to run a good session with these guys. He's definitely run into similar personalities before, with Matt's situation being especially common.
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How does Virgil do the die scoring? The base score is 60, and your d20 roll adds to that? From listening to Nerd Poker I thought the system was that if your stat is an 11, you need to roll at least an 11 to pass whatever check? Also what does it mean when he said to write a check mark next to a stat?
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felix is the best at tabletop rpgs because he knows the secret is to have fun and not take anything too seriously also try and gently caress npcs and objects whenever possible
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red19fire posted:How does Virgil do the die scoring? The base score is 60, and your d20 roll adds to that? From listening to Nerd Poker I thought the system was that if your stat is an 11, you need to roll at least an 11 to pass whatever check? Also what does it mean when he said to write a check mark next to a stat? All skills are rated between 1 and 100. You roll two ten-sided dice, one for the tens place and one for the ones. If you roll your skill or below, you pass. If you roll above your skill, you fail. That means that your skill rating is an accurate probability of success for a given roll. For instance, on Will's last roll, he had a 20 in throwing, so he had to roll a twenty or below, meaning that he was lucky as poo poo. As for checking skills, that's an XP mechanic. At the end of an adventure, they add points to the skills they checked during the story.
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https://twitter.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/890512963123245057 as always.... https://twitter.com/eracmatt/status/890515857184612353  edit: the cavalcade of poo poo just keeps on moving! https://twitter.com/J_P_Pierre/status/890515430170820608 BornAPoorBlkChild fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Famethrowa posted:Virgil did a good job of helping Matt out and not being the typical DM who shits all over his players
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I'm a big nerdy rpg lover and I love these episodes
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Jul 28, 2017 02:36
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The RPG seshes are things of sublime beauty but I feel really bad for Matt's sadbrains  .
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I've never played Call of Chthulu but these episodes just take me back to my college D&D campaigns. Virgil has the same cadence as my housemate that DM'd too. It's the definitive nerd voice to me.
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TomViolence posted:The RPG seshes are things of sublime beauty but I feel really bad for Matt's sadbrains I hope someone explained to him after the fact that failing at poo poo is just as interesting to the narrative as succeeding. It was kind of funny to hear that poo poo just after listening to the episode of No Cartridge he's on where he talks about quitting video games because he gets too angry at them when he loses.
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ohrwurm posted:whoa same We should hang out
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Matt is genuinely my spirit animal and if he dies a part of me dies so if he actually goes ahead and chops off his own head that impacts me so I'm hugely invested in him finding reasons to hope again like he did when Jezza did well in our election.
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I was also cringing at matts breakdown/cry session. There was a million things he could do there but he decided he couldn't. Also, hello to all the weirdo leftists I never knew were weirdo leftists from TradGames.
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Lord Frisk posted:I was also cringing at matts breakdown/cry session. There was a million things he could do there but he decided he couldn't. hi
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Honestly not a big fan of these eps, but the payoff of "well next time you'll have the aid of a powerful magic artifact. What the jar of cum?" made it all worth it.
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The Evangelion theme playing at the end nearly killed me
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Lord Frisk posted:I was also cringing at matts breakdown/cry session. There was a million things he could do there but he decided he couldn't.
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Halloween Jack posted:I was about to post something about counterrevolutionary ideology in Warhammer but I didn't have time to finish it. WHFRP 2E is clearly in the mold of old-school british leftist humor. Very socialist. TomViolence posted:Matt is genuinely my spirit animal and if he dies a part of me dies so if he actually goes ahead and chops off his own head that impacts me so I'm hugely invested in him finding reasons to hope again like he did when Jezza did well in our election. Let's pour one out for the boy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7YHZVc7mM
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pospysyl posted:I love the cross-section of tabletop gamers in the Call of Cthulhu episodes. This post is right on the money. Matt doesn't truly trust in his GM to make all decisions interesting, because he feels like there's a correct way to play that he's screwing up. The "should have prepared" rant will trigger a lot of bad memories around building spellcasters as a newbie. Will was playing some parallel game that happened to line up with the narrative, and where his guy is the Main One (as Brendan put it. But, he kept the story going by paying attention to and caring about the plot elements in a way that sadbrains & crazybrains won't bother. Felix ruled, perfect balance of styles. Also, it did kind of feel like Virgil was railroading them in the Pizzagate adventure (especially at the end) but he certainly had a lot to juggle and never appeared indecisive. I feel like the negativity Matt projected this time is balanced by how fun it was hearing him get into the DC art gallery speakeasy.
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Personally my biggest laugh in the whole thing was when they decided to just murder the two Proud Lads
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Matt just doesn't understand that in ttrpgs, just like life, sometimes you gotta fail to succeed.
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Entitled MATT just wants free dice rolls like dice grow on dice trees or some poo poo get a job
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equality of opportunity not outcomes. you're free as any man to pick up the percentiles but you shouldn't rely on big gov't to fudge the rolls for you.
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"Can I give him some of my opium to sedate him before I trepan his skull?" 
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i really want them to do delta green because it's my favorite setting and because they could make a lot of hay out of the contemporary "deep state" vibe
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They should've reminded Matt that he did all of almost anything that mattered in the first half of the game even if his character sucks at combat. Also maybe the old man should buy a gun
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I'm pretty sure Virgil meant to say "viscous black slime" instead of "vicious..." 
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Matt's meltdown struck way too close to home for me.  I see that happen in my group a lot and it's pretty awkward every time.
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Halloween Jack posted:Call of Cthulhu is a groundbreaking game, but it accidentally normalized some bad habits that it and other games have tried to discourage since then--like investigation grinding to a halt because the players fail their research checks, and scenarios (especially combat) being almost impossibly deadly. Robin Laws go on Chapo
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prefect posted:I'm pretty sure Virgil meant to say "viscous black slime" instead of "vicious..." It's CoC, could go either way.
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prefect posted:"Can I give him some of my opium to sedate him before I trepan his skull?" Props to Virgil for keeping it together without saying "don't murder a child, Will"
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he would live and not only would he live but would thrive and acquire a new fascination in the art of human-animal hybrids
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Thanks for the podcast recs! Ugh, is the Dollop always this annoying? (whoo!)
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Halloween Jack posted:Thanks for the podcast recs! Pretty much, but at least give the jetpack episode a shot.
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