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rumble in the bunghole posted:In the Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville he goes to France during WW2, hangs out with the surrealist community and is inspired to create a surrealist bomb. So you're saying he...was the bomb?
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rumble in the bunghole posted:In the Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville he goes to France during WW2, hangs out with the surrealist community and is inspired to create a surrealist bomb. You could say he had an EXPLOSIVE personality...
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Waffleman_ posted:The butler is obviously Wadsworth from Clue/do. He can't afford Tim Curry.
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Mr.Misfit posted:So you're saying he...was the bomb? A bomb.
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BrainParasite posted:A bomb. 
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Blasphemeral posted:Hey, yeah, here's the video of the auction. It was $3000. I was in the room when that went down and Quarex told me the rumor that he was going to do it. Your dude locked his elbow and never wavered once. Pretty crazy. Is there footage of him giving them to Frank? ...also you have a loving butler?
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Is it a court ordered thing? Did he got your car while driving without insurance?
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So the butler likes RPGs and stuff too. Does he GM for you, like as part of his butler duties? Did you hire that weird wanabee professional GM with the masks as a butler? Or did you just happen to get a nerdy butler? Is he worried to kill off your character since you could fire him? I really need more details here.
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So I am a bit worried about the future of the forums revenue considering the latest forum announcements. Has there been an initiative to archive Game Room games before the servers get the plug pulled three months after Lowtax stops paying the fees? I know F&Fs are safe at least.
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Maybe blasphemeral should buy the forums
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is SA in actual serious trouble?
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Lowtax really looks like he's on finanacial distress from recent announcements, man.
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Carteret posted:I was in the room when that went down and Quarex told me the rumor that he was going to do it. Your dude locked his elbow and never wavered once. Pretty crazy. Is there footage of him giving them to Frank? I don't know if that part was recorded. I can ask him about it tonight. He was genuinely astonished and amused that he's getting mildly internet famous over this. He was just doing something nice for one of his idols: a guy that's provided enjoyment to him and his friends over so many years. Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Is it a court ordered thing? Did he got your car while driving without insurance? Yes, Jerry, how did you guess? Exmond posted:You have a butler? Carteret posted:...also you have a loving butler? It's more an honorary/silly title than anything. He's actually an anesthesiologist who travels the country for work and prefers to crash with friends when possible instead of getting extended-stay hotels. He tidies up and brings in deliveries/mail while he's around, so we call him the Butler. The first time he stayed with me, all I had to offer him was my couch and I never once asked him for anything in return. The day before he left town he bought me a battle-ready sword that was very my style as a thank-you. He's like the polar opposite of that witch in Beauty and the Beast--instead of traveling around punishing the wicked, he goes around rewarding kindness and giving surprise gifts. He's genuinely one of the nicest guys I've ever met, and is always super generous with gifts like that, so I'd never consider asking him for rent or anything, ever. neaden posted:So the butler likes RPGs and stuff too. Does he GM for you, like as part of his butler duties? Did you hire that weird wanabee professional GM with the masks as a butler? Or did you just happen to get a nerdy butler? Is he worried to kill off your character since you could fire him? I really need more details here. Nah, I'm the GM in the household. We actually don't RP together because he travels so much. Maybe I arrange to run a one-shot or something for him before he leaves the next time. Elfgames posted:Maybe blasphemeral should buy the forums Ha! While I do have a rack server running in the basement, it's actually not mine. It belongs to another friend, and I doubt it has the capacity to run all of S-A. And I'm sure I don't have the internet throughput. I feel that, at this point, I should point out that I'm not actually money-rich. Friendship-rich, perhaps, and lucky for it, but not that doesn't quite have the liquidity of other currencies. Blasphemeral fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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new blogpost for The Next Project is up; trying to clarify/streamline the various forms of character customization Currently there are Archetypes, Roles, Subclasses, and Paths -- I would kinda like to reduce that down to 2 or 3 things, and use a more intuitive naming structure.
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Blasphemeral posted:It's more an honorary/silly title than anything. He's actually an anesthesiologist who travels the country for work and prefers to crash with friends when possible instead of getting extended-stay hotels. He tidies up and brings in deliveries/mail while he's around, so we call him the Butler. 
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Oh of course, one of those itinerant anaesthesiologists. Riding the rails, helping transient dentists perform root canals.
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Just to throw this in here, because I think someone should also Fatal&Friends this...but did you guys know that James Desborough made a Tales of Gor RPG and released it in April? Link is NSFW! Seen here Mr.Misfit fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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What are the best games if you just want to play a fighter who isn't insta-overshadowed by the wizard in the party?
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Zoro posted:What are the best games if you just want to play a fighter who isn't insta-overshadowed by the wizard in the party? World of Warcraft
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Mr.Misfit posted:Just to throw this in here, because I think someone should also Fatal&Friends this...but did you guys know that James Desborough made a Tales of Gor RPG and released it in April? Uh, is this about bondage porn? Also, might want to mention there is a bare-chested big titted women in a collar and Chasity belt on that page or at least warn it's NSFW. Zoro fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Zoro posted:What are the best games if you just want to play a fighter who isn't insta-overshadowed by the wizard in the party? Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition
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Zoro posted:Uh, is this about bondage porn? Also, might want to mention there is a big titted women in a collar and Chasity belt on that page or at least warn it's NSFW. Oh, right, apologies. Edit: Done. Edit 2: Also yes. Yes itīs the one about quasi-Conan stories from the 60s where men brutalize women who like it.
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Serf posted:Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition I kind of find tactical postioning really boring. It's just not my thing.
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Zoro posted:What are the best games if you just want to play a fighter who isn't insta-overshadowed by the wizard in the party? Things that aren't modern D&D (apart from 4th ed) - D&Ds before 3rd had pretty good fighters (and weaker wizards), or TBH most non-D&Ds aren't too bad about all that.
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5th edition fighters do the best damage of any class in the game, they're just boring out of combat. Also it's a bad game. Try Dungeon World or something.
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Reene posted:Try Dungeon World or something. Or don't.
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Zoro posted:What are the best games if you just want to play a fighter who isn't insta-overshadowed by the wizard in the party? DCC Warrior has narrative/mechanical options in combat called Mighty Deeds that are really fun
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Serf posted:There's always Fellowship if you want PBTA fantasy. That one won an Ennie, right? I don't put much stock in those, especially since Blood in the Chocolate (or how to literally rape your player characters with the author's inflation fetish) won, but Fellowship did look cool when I looked into it. I also like Avatar The Last Airbender and Fellowship listed it as an inspiration.
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Zoro posted:What are the best games if you just want to play a fighter who isn't insta-overshadowed by the wizard in the party? Games without wizards. Realtalk - there have been some good recommendations already. But from a design perspective, I think wizards are inherently problematic for a whole shitload of reasons - it's best to do without them, if possible.
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LuiCypher posted:Games without wizards. Nah. The only inherent problem to wizards is there's no immediately obvious or universal limit to what magic can do, which is both not actually a problem in a game designed to accomodate it, or something you should firmly establish when you do class and/or setting design.
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I think divination as a player option can be an issue too, or at least put too great a burden on the GM for what you get out of it, but I certainly think there are plenty of ways to make magic users work mechanically without having balance or narrative problems.
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Zoro posted:That one won an Ennie, right? I don't put much stock in those, especially since Blood in the Chocolate (or how to literally rape your player characters with the author's inflation fetish) won, but Fellowship did look cool when I looked into it. I also like Avatar The Last Airbender and Fellowship listed it as an inspiration. Fellowship did not win an Ennie, it was not even nominated for the Ennies. It did win an Indie Groundbreaker Award, which is a separate award handled by the Indie Games Developer Network, who are very cool people. If you are looking for a game where fighter types are not overshadowed by wizards, Fellowship is a good candidate, as most of the playbooks are physically-oriented. The one playbook that goes hard on being a wizard is very wizard-y, but can only do a big encounter-ending spell once per session and it costs half their HP, so it takes them out for a bit when they use it while still letting them get that cool wizardry moment. They're much more Gandalf than Elminster that way.
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Zoro posted:What are the best games if you just want to play a fighter who isn't insta-overshadowed by the wizard in the party? By reading but not playing, Reign.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Nah. The only inherent problem to wizards is there's no immediately obvious or universal limit to what magic can do, which is both not actually a problem in a game designed to accomodate it, or something you should firmly establish when you do class and/or setting design. Of course, the issue is that most games aren't designed around this problem - I'm sure Ars Magica is, because that's what it's supposed to be about. It's more precise to say what you did - they're not necessarily problematic, but the system/setting that they're in has to be designed around those no immediately obvious or universal limits. The issue is that most games with wizards are not properly designed to take those limits into account, D&D being the chief offender, and it quickly becomes most people's (mine included) understanding of what wizards in games look like. LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Now if you want to talk about flavor ideas that are closely tied to dangerous mechanics -- I'm still not going to say "inherently," because that's ridiculous -- then forget wizards in general, and consider Chronomancers. They're basically a giant glowing sign that says "my two favorite things are breaking the action economy and making the GM do five times as much work."
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