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gradenko_2000 posted:Quirks and Edges make me think Savage Worlds It's not; the stats aren't right and aren't die types. I'm not aware of any games that rate all five senses numerically, though.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'm not aware of any games that rate all five senses numerically, though. e: Yep 
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I'm a bit out of the loop and the old thread is archived but is there any news on what FFG is doing (if anything) with the L5R RPG? I know they were apparently going to do something with the card game that I didn't really care about and at the time they couldn't even be bothered to make a RPG subforum on their site. Any developments I've missed in the past 12 months?
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Len posted:But how much for extra dudes because that's where xwing pricey I'd look at Rune Wars for an idea on that. Will almost certainly be more expensive unless they're trying to keep it to 10-20 dudes per side, but even then, $$$expansion upgrade cards$$$
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AhahahHHAhahahaha https://twitter.com/ENnies/status/898724847777234945
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What? You mean the Ennies are worthless? Color me shocked!
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The raw concept of willy wonka dungeon must have carried pretty far
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Haystack posted:AhahahHHAhahahaha  Scuze me while I laugh myself hoarse.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm not saying it's a particularly good reason, but because Temporary HP is a stat that existed prior to Starfinder (as a 3.x concept), so they probably didn't want to change the name to retain compatibility. Okay so you have temp HP, then when you run out of that you lose SP, then when you run out of that you lose HP, then when you run out of that you lose resolve, then when you run out of that you still don't die until you lose one more. That's... really a lot of effort to try make sure PCs don't die. Surely it's just be easier to say that PCs just don't die from taking damage in combat at all? Put in some conditions under which a PC can die and when those conditions are in play it's not hard for the PC to die, but without those conditions it is impossible. So you'll never die because of random loving kobolds but you might die heroically against the great wyrm. The conditions could be purely GM-determined, purely mechanical, or a mix of both. Dying when you run out of HP (or double-extra-bonus HP or whatever) is the sacred cow that I was happiest to BBQ when I wrote Strike! and seeing D&D authors stack on multiple extra HPs in the hopes of basically fixing the problem without actually fixing it fills me with schadenfreude. Take the blinders off and the problem is easy to solve!
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Haystack posted:AhahahHHAhahahaha He posted an acceptance speech on his tumblr where he declared that getting nominated for this award means that gatekeeping in the hobby is dead
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Jimbozig posted:Okay so you have temp HP, then when you run out of that you lose SP, then when you run out of that you lose HP, then when you run out of that you lose resolve, then when you run out of that you still don't die until you lose one more. * temp HP is generally reserved for special effects and abilities, so it's not really something that shows up all the time * the dying once you run out of Resolve thing is "progress" insofar as it's no longer being dead at a certain value of negative HP, which tends to not scale well with increasing damage * also, Resolve is used for a bunch of other effects besides just Stabilizing and Staying in the Fight. Specifically, you can spend a Resolve and a 10 minute rest to restore your Stamina as a kinda sorta Healing Surge Short Rest deal if you squint. * I agree that if the design was supposed to give players more HP, they should have just been given more HP.
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So what is the deal with this Blood in the Chocolate adventure? A quick search told me it is a Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure, a game I've heard of but haven't taken a look at.
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Entoloma posted:So what is the deal with this Blood in the Chocolate adventure? A quick search told me it is a Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure, a game I've heard of but haven't taken a look at. It's super gross and super fetishistic.
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Entoloma posted:So what is the deal with this Blood in the Chocolate adventure? A quick search told me it is a Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure, a game I've heard of but haven't taken a look at. quote:And just to the south of the tree are 5 stone sacrificial slabs where a random person with Noxious Berry Curse is being "cut into by 2d6 pygmies and hosed". From hyphz's FATAL and Friends writeup.
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gradenko_2000 posted:* also, Resolve is used for a bunch of other effects besides just Stabilizing and Staying in the Fight. Specifically, you can spend a Resolve and a 10 minute rest to restore your Stamina as a kinda sorta Healing Surge Short Rest deal if you squint. As I typed that, I realize I'm still hanging on to a little bit of bitterness over how ungodly stupid some of those arguments were. Dudes saying "so the warlord is just going to shout your guts back in?" As though they play where HP loss means you are literally fighting with your guts dragging on the floor and your guts just get reabsorbed after a good night's rest in their edition and this is all perfectly sensible.
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Tales from the Loop got several nods including Product of the Year https://twitter.com/ENnies/status/898730230969401348 I'm counting 5 awards. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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Yeah... took a look at that. Sheer creepiness aside set out by that article, I don't understand why it would be getting an award given the derivative nature.
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Jimbozig posted:Oh yeah, by far the biggest reason to put in a SP/HP split in the first place is that the dummies who hated the idea of a PC being able to restore their own HP or a leader being able to inspire you to recover some HP will be totally ok with it now that it's called SP instead. The main argument for vitality/wounds is that people have a problem with shrugging off bullets in a way they don't have for shrugging off axe blows. Since Starfinder involves guns, there need to be rules for getting shot in the head and dying randomly. I don't know why this doesn't apply equally to swords, but then again I don't have a problem with shrugging off bullets until you run out of shrug-off-bullets-points.
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I got a feeling that judges don't read the drat products in front of them. I mean like duh obviously but. Lamentations of the Flame Princess and its official modules in general (BitC is one of them) have a long history of simply being marked as mature and then nobody really actually digs into them, they just see the brand name and the mature rating and shrug and don't question why it's rated mature. Someone has to legit just sit down and vet these drat things before they're even nominated to begin with, not that I trust the awards in the slightest.
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Entoloma posted:Yeah... took a look at that. Sheer creepiness aside set out by that article, I don't understand why it would be getting an award given the derivative nature. Grindhouse exploitation Wonka is an untapped market?
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I guess I need to finish my Santa/Christmas based adventure featuring drow raiding a mechanus toy factory. With some terrible fetish stuff thrown in too. ENNIE AWARD GUARANTEED. =P
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Entoloma posted:Yeah... took a look at that. Sheer creepiness aside set out by that article, I don't understand why it would be getting an award given the derivative nature. Because the ENnies are largely just a popularity contest and right now "ironic" shock designed to "trigger" people is in vogue, so it makes sense that a super gross adventure full of rape and fuckin and grossout gore would have folks turning out to vote for it.
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Cease to Hope posted:The main argument for vitality/wounds is that people have a problem with shrugging off bullets in a way they don't have for shrugging off axe blows. Since Starfinder involves guns, there need to be rules for getting shot in the head and dying randomly. Starfinder doesn't even really work like this, though: you still gain HP and SP every level, bullets still hit your SP first (but roll against Kinetic AC), and laser pistols still hit your SP first (but roll against Energy AC, which is 1 to 3 points lower than KAC). So it doesn't quite get that effect that, say, Star Wars d20 did, where HP is flat and guns bypass Stamina.
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LeSquide posted:Grindhouse exploitation Wonka is an untapped market? you can't mix cool grindhouse sexploitation with an inflation fetish. Probably. Foot stuff is about as weird as it can get
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rumble in the bunghole posted:you can't mix cool grindhouse sexploitation with an inflation fetish. Probably. Foot stuff is about as weird as it can get looking forward to Quentin Tarantino and Joss Whedon's Ennie-award winning OSR supplement next year
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Entoloma posted:Yeah... took a look at that. Sheer creepiness aside set out by that article, I don't understand why it would be getting an award given the derivative nature. Awards are bad generally and the Ennies are bad even for awards.
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rumble in the bunghole posted:you can't mix cool grindhouse sexploitation with an inflation fetish. Watch me.
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If Tarantino was able to bring his foot fetish into all kinds of cool exploitation, this isn't going to be the combo that breaks the concept.
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Please tell me that was a raid. If not, well, ugh. It's not just the fetishy stuff, it's that even ignoring it BitC is a terrible adventure. The plot and framing are weak, the integration of traps makes no sense, it rips off Willy Wonka but removes all the aspects that gave it even Carroll-style logic, has blatant player manipulation to encourage more nonsensical traps, and the final boss is a random encounter.
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hyphz posted:Please tell me that was a raid. what's baffling is that every review i can find on the internet besides yours is absolutely glowing
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I haven't read enough of Blood in the Chocolate to respond to all of that, but I am gonna note that Kiel Chenier wrote one loving hell of a cool acceptance speech for the award: https://dungeonsdonuts.tumblr.com/post/164328268714/ennies-victory-speech-my-message-to-aspiring-game Seriously read it, you'll feel a lot better about gaming today. Dude has his head in the right place, at least.
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Arivia posted:I haven't read enough of Blood in the Chocolate to respond to all of that, but I am gonna note that Kiel Chenier wrote one loving hell of a cool acceptance speech for the award: https://dungeonsdonuts.tumblr.com/post/164328268714/ennies-victory-speech-my-message-to-aspiring-game quote:RPL’s author Zak Sabbath wrote a similarly empowering post. pass
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Arivia posted:Sorry, I should have said heart. And I don't like Zak but that's still a good post. it's celebrating the fact that nobody gives a poo poo that he wrote a creepy fetish book. "there are no gatekeepers"
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Considering yet another trans creator has been driven off social media by S just this week that speech is actively offensive.
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if you believe in yourself, you can achieve your dreams, even if your dreams are of foisting your creepy paraphilia on dozens of RPG tables
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Mr. Maltose posted:Considering yet another trans creator has been driven off social media by S just this week that speech is actively offensive. Who? Also that's not a link to goddamn Zak.
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Cease to Hope posted:what's baffling is that every review i can find on the internet besides yours is absolutely glowing This also happens with Maze of the Blue Medusa, where no one ever seems to pick up on the thinly veiled allegories for groups of people that the author doesn't like.
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gradenko_2000 posted:This also happens with Maze of the Blue Medusa, where no one ever seems to pick up on the thinly veiled allegories for groups of people that the author doesn't like. that requires knowing about those grudges, most people don't Arivia posted:Who? Also that's not a link to goddamn Zak. https://twitter.com/machineiv/status/897989795347021825 Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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