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Alien Rope Burn posted:Nah, that's fine. I'd probably aim for a Pomodoro / Tomato Timer or the like first, an hour is probably going to feel like a longer time than you'd expect if you've gotten out of practice with it. Exactly this.
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Grey Hunter posted:Rolemaster healers were the most unfortunate souls. They get to the end of the fight, look at the damage done to the warrior and go, "welp, " They did alright in the MUD, mostly because they could sit around in the social hubs and roleplay as long as they didn't give themselves catastrophic brain damage or something. But yeah, they put in an herb-based system as a costly alternative, because mandating someone park in a social hub is kind of stretching it.
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Pomodoro Techniquie best technique. For reading, I've shifted to using books-on-tape when I'm in the car or working out. Libraries have tons of them, and modern smartphone apps make it incredibly convenient to bring them with you wherever you go (or you can subscribe to Audible). But the best feature is that they can be sped up smartly, eliminating gaps and shifting the pitch so it doesn't sound like a chipmunk is reading them to you. I just finished Richard Evans' giant Third Reich trilogy, and am currently a third of the way through Mary Beard's SPQR (and I'm listening to it at 1.9x speed). Obviously, that's not a solution for RPG books, but it's a great way to whittle down your To-Be-Read pile in what would otherwise be dead time.
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Anyone have the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Datafile Template from this post? I think it will look good for some customs I want to do. The site owner is no longer doing the email deal.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Nah, that's fine. I'd probably aim for a Pomodoro / Tomato Timer or the like first, an hour is probably going to feel like a longer time than you'd expect if you've gotten out of practice with it. Echoing this. I do the same thing for actually focusing on reading rather than just goofing off on the internet. It makes a big difference.
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FMguru posted:Pomodoro Techniquie best technique. I used to lean heavily on Audible and read stuff like Tom Holland's Rubicon, Margaret MacMillan, Barbara Tuchman, James McPherson, Rick Perlstein, back when I still had a two hour commute to work, but I've since changed to a much closer office and the 20 min drive barely enough to get me through getting a news update via podcast. Thanks for the pomodoro suggestion, folks.
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I'm glad it's free, because I wouldn't pay for a single page, no matter how cluttered with writing it is.
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If I roll a 7 and a 9 does that mean I'm wearing one pair on top of the other or am I balancing a single impractically narrow strip of plastic on my ears and nose?
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Does anyone have any experience with Expedition: The roleplaying card game? I saw the kickstarter for its expansion as an ad on Facebook and it seems like it might actually be interesting to play with my friends who I am trying to introduce to tabletops.
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Splicer posted:If I roll a 7 and a 9 does that mean I'm wearing one pair on top of the other or am I balancing a single impractically narrow strip of plastic on my ears and nose?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Would it be weird to break out the timer app on my phone, set it to an hour, and sit my rear end down and just read a book until it goes off? You are overthinking it. This is a way to get things done and not weird at all.
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Evil Mastermind posted:One pushed up on your forehead, one worn normally. Duh. No way, the tiny ones go in front like Jeweller's magnifying glasses.
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LuiCypher posted:I've always maintained that you can make most RPGs better by having at least one player be a pro-wrestler and play it straight The last Pathfinder game I was conned into playing I rolled up Sandy Ravage, half Orc brawler/bard who was questing for a magic belt. It worked out to be hilarious, and too disruptive for play because the GM had no idea what to do with the best impression of coked-out 1980's Randy Savage I could muster at all times, and the hand to hand rules are nightmarishly bad. I will never willingly play PF again, because the rules are terrible, but if I'm lucky I provided a That Guy story for someone.
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Its barely TG related but I'm so loving hype for the animated cartoon version of "Goblins" the Webcomic
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Plutonis posted:Its barely TG related but I'm so loving hype for the animated cartoon version of "Goblins" the Webcomic waht the fukc
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fool_of_sound posted:waht the fukc Samurai Jack/Hermes Conrad from Futurama and the dude who voiced Illidan on Warcraft 3 are writing and will probably voice act it. I'm being loving serious.
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Plutonis posted:Its barely TG related but I'm so loving hype for the animated cartoon version of "Goblins" the Webcomic 
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Plutonis posted:Its barely TG related but I'm so loving hype for the animated cartoon version of "Goblins" the Webcomic Wasn't Goblins the webcomic ran by a man-child and rarely updated?
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Exmond posted:Wasn't Goblins the webcomic ran by a man-child and rarely updated? it's a webcomic, so obviously yes
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That Old Tree posted:Gangster Vampire Hunters ($1.99, 30 pages): I was only going to do the top ten, but I couldn't let this title pass by. It appears to be by someone whose first language isn't English, but they still write very well. It's a Cthulhu-y pulp detective mystery set in Chicago, and the PCs are humans investigating a bunch of vampire goings-on. If that were just the lead-in to get the PCs turned into vampires themselves, that would be nice, but this appears to want to just be a scenario for mortals, at least up-front, so I'm a little disappointed in that. Overall it appears to be an okay premise with fair writing and editing, and the use of filtered photos is far better than any of the rest of the ones above. Also there's a sketch of Liza Minnelli from Cabaret which I hope he got permission for (someone please tell me it's actually from the Storytellers Vault art packs because if so But now I have a new game pitch for my next one-shot.
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). Provisional B-, interesting premise, good writing, presentable formatting, but I'm generally not a fan of an entire adventure of not being a vampire when playing the game Vampire
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Liquid Communism posted:The last Pathfinder game I was conned into playing I rolled up Sandy Ravage, half Orc brawler/bard who was questing for a magic belt. It worked out to be hilarious, and too disruptive for play because the GM had no idea what to do with the best impression of coked-out 1980's Randy Savage I could muster at all times, and the hand to hand rules are nightmarishly bad. Yeah, D&D and its derivatives tend to have god-awful hand-to-hand (aka, grappling/wrestling) rules. The closest they came was for the Reaping Mauler prestige class in Complete Warrior, and even then it isn't very good. Obviously Savage Worlds isn't as granular as World Wide Wrestling when it comes to being a pro-wrestler, but the GM at least allows me some narrative freedom in describing what I do. We had a situation where we were on top of a building and a guard stepped outside to look, and I moonsaulted him. The GM asked if I was going to go non-lethal (because if you're trained in Unarmed Combat in SW, you can decide if your damage is lethal or non-lethal), but I politely reminded him that since I was moonsaulting onto him from two stories up with no mat, there was no way I could execute the move as anything but lethal. A few exploding damage dice later and in full view of a camera, I moonsaulted onto a rentacop and they promptly exploded like a blood sausage. I wiped what was left of him off of me and admonished the crowd (really just the PCs and the camera) that Wrestling is Real and nothing can stop Macho Madness. LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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I would definitely say the Brawler Fighter in 4e was better than the Reaping Mauler, at least in terms of playability
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I made an insanely good grappler in Exalted 3E and I killed SunAndSpring's boss npc Solar with the first lethal throw I did with her.
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I've never seen the webcomic goblins and I can't tell if this is a real comic or someone making fun of it. My expectations for an RPG based webcomic are that low.
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In the first session I ever ran, the grappler fighter was grabbed by a giant scorpion, and he proceeded to grab the scorpion in return. I didn't know if you could do that or not, but I wasn't about to look up a rule in the middle of an action scene which led me to one of the more useful phrases I use as a GM: "I don't see why not."
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It's a 95% accurate summary of the first few years of the comic. The other 5% is the words "even weirder than usual Oedipus complex"
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Cease to Hope posted:attack the block is a good-rear end movie
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8one6 posted:I've never seen the webcomic goblins and I can't tell if this is a real comic or someone making fun of it. It's someone making fun of it and the real comic is much, much worse.
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8one6 posted:I've never seen the webcomic goblins and I can't tell if this is a real comic or someone making fun of it. it's a parody and the original is not good 
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Tarol Hunt is earnest and positive even if he's incompetent and bless him for that
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Yeah the big thing the parody gets wrong is that everyone in Goblins looks like a melting candle.
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A melting candle filled with red paint.
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AW2e is good. Masks is good. Night Witches is supposed to be pretty good. Epyllion is MyLittlePony except with dragons and they use the pronouns 'dre/dris'. No opinion on the others.
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Spirit of '77 is woefully underappreciated. Which you wouldn't think it would be, but it is.
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