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Serf posted:Are there any RPG supplements or sections of books that go into eating monsters? Like cutting a few steaks off a griffin or frying up some owlbear wings? I imagine they would be used a food sources, but thinking back on it I can't remember reading anything in all those 3.0 books about eating the weird poo poo you kill. https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Corpse
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ProfessorCirno posted:Dungeon Meshi is legit good way beyond the D&D aspect. It's well drawn, the characters are fun, there's some pretty good eye to detail, etc. The D&D factor of it is fun, but also it's really not about D&D. That's just...kinda the setting, I guess. Which, of course, is why it's legit good - because there actually IS a "beyond the D&D aspect." It's a good comic.
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theironjef posted:I need to commission a few pieces of D&D character art and I have no idea where to go or how to start. I worry that whatever numbers I think might be correct for both time it will take and amount it will cost will just offend whatever artist I try to talk to. This is my friend. She's much faster than expected and has a pretty cool style. She tends to do lineart stuff, but if you tell her other Alex offered to do the colouring, she can reach out to me, since that's the one thing I do a decent job at:  
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Cinnamon Bear posted:L5R is one of those things I remember loving as a kid but is actively embarrassing looking at it now, specifically the depths of orientalism in the "this is what John Wick thinks of Asia" sense. Whether its hilariously inappropriate language/slurs being borrowed, "realism" that is anything but, or artwork that mostly looks like white people in cosplay, it just comes across as skeevy to me now in a way that wasn't apparent ~15+ years ago. I wish there was a historically accurate TRPG based on the Sengoku Era with a ruleset and stuff similar to L5R. I just wanna play as an aesthete samurai tea master.
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Plutonis posted:I wish there was a historically accurate TRPG based on the Sengoku Era with a ruleset and stuff similar to L5R. I just wanna play as an aesthete samurai tea master. There's always Sengoku.
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SunAndSpring posted:What systems are good for playing mech pilots? I'm currently running a ~monthly mecha game in Panic at the Dojo and it's been very well-received.
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theironjef posted:I need to commission a few pieces of D&D character art and I have no idea where to go or how to start. I worry that whatever numbers I think might be correct for both time it will take and amount it will cost will just offend whatever artist I try to talk to. Check deviantart. Any artist who takes commissions will have standardized rates with clear examples of what you're looking for.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:08
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Zoro posted:Check deviantart. Any artist who takes commissions will have standardized rates with clear examples of what you're looking for. Yeah, I've been poking around in there. It's mostly fat fetishists, anime tracers, and people that stopped posting in 2013, but I am looking.
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theironjef posted:Yeah, I've been poking around in there. It's mostly fat fetishists, anime tracers, and people that stopped posting in 2013, but I am looking. There are good artists. A good system is to check your favorite art in your favorite roleplaying book. Guaranteed that guy has a deviantart account. Found a few people that way.
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Everyone moved from DA to Tumblr/Pixiv a trillion years ago
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Twitter is also a great source of artists because they all follow each other there. Find one, find loads.
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Plutonis posted:Everyone moved from DA to Tumblr/Pixiv a trillion years ago Have I become the old?
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Serf posted:Are there any RPG supplements or sections of books that go into eating monsters? Like cutting a few steaks off a griffin or frying up some owlbear wings? I imagine they would be used a food sources, but thinking back on it I can't remember reading anything in all those 3.0 books about eating the weird poo poo you kill. Ed Greenwood wanted to do an article about this back in the day, but apparently they thought it was in poor taste or something.
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Ha! I get it.
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Is the Lancer RPG any good?
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Terrible Opinions posted:Is the Lancer RPG any good? You have to roll a die every session to not be psychically commanded to pierce your own heart
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How good would Lancer be for Battletech? It looks like it's mostly about fast, mobile mechs rather than lumbering monstrosities. Maybe Heavy Gear would be good
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Lightning Lord posted:How good would Lancer be for Battletech? It looks like it's mostly about fast, mobile mechs rather than lumbering monstrosities. Maybe Heavy Gear would be good I briefly considered a game about battle armor rather than mechs.
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Lightning Lord posted:How good would Lancer be for Battletech? It looks like it's mostly about fast, mobile mechs rather than lumbering monstrosities. Maybe Heavy Gear would be good I believe its been said that Lancer accommodates both types
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Probably a bit late, but any  goons going to be at PAXaus?
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Moving this to the chat thread since it's only loosely SotDL related:LGD posted:Incidentally, for those interested, the next version of the Lancer public beta is up here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2mQ7IPn-PsqNE9uYkp4Yjh6VUE Man, I really like this. It needs a few more options (a heavy gunner talent for MGs/cannons is conspicuously missing) but on the whole the more I read it, the more excited I get for it.
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speaking of betas! https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/legend-of-the-five-rings-roleplaying-game/ e: first thing that jumps out at me in the setting stuff is that they ditched eta and now call the lowest class burakumin Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Lemon-Lime posted:Moving this to the chat thread since it's only loosely SotDL related: You should email the creators if you've got feedback. Abaddon/Operant/the Kill 6 Billion Demons guy has an account here but he doesn't seem to use it all that much, and idk if he even reads this subforum, but he's been very polite and receptive to feedback so far.
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Blockhouse posted:speaking of betas! quote:There is a third class, called burakumin, or “hamlet people,” who are sometimes known as hinin, or non-people. Due to their proximity to death or dishonorable acts, these criminals, torturers, undertakers, butch- ers, and tanners are considered unfit as companions for samurai save in the direst of circumstances. Even a kindly lord’s speech might be discolored by the pejorative term eta, a slur meaning “abundance of filth.”
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It's steeped in historicity? Although I don't know if Burakumin were specially singled out for 'Tsujigiri'.
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Plutonis posted:It's steeped in historicity? Although I don't know if Burakumin were specially singled out for 'Tsujigiri'. Yeah but Call of Cthulhu is set in the 20s and doesn't have a huge section talking about "negros" or "Chinamen". And Dungeons and Dragons doesn't have Jewish ghettos.
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Plutonis posted:It's steeped in historicity? Although I don't know if Burakumin were specially singled out for 'Tsujigiri'. I'm too lazy to do anything but quote wikipedia here but it was a practice that arose out of the country being in chaos and was otherwise forbidden. quote:Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally crossroads killing) is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during nighttime. The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri. It basically just seems like, yeah it happened, but you're putting it front and center on one of the very first pages of the book, as a usual, accepted practice.
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neaden posted:Yeah but Call of Cthulhu is set in the 20s and doesn't have a huge section talking about "negros" or "Chinamen". And Dungeons and Dragons doesn't have Jewish ghettos. It's worth pointing out burakumin are not an ethnic minority so this comparison doesn't fully scan. Here's an article about it that's actually more concise than the wiki article which is a wall of citation needed remarks. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34615972 Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Blockhouse posted:It's worth pointing out burakumin are not an ethnic minority so this comparison doesn't fully scan. Sure, okay, but ethnic prejudice is not the only kind of unfair pseudo-genetic discrimination: ""The LA Times" posted:Ethnically identical to other Japanese, burakumin suffered for centuries at the bottom of the feudal hierarchy, digging graves, chopping meat and performing other jobs associated under Buddhism and the native Shinto religion with the impurities of death. EDIT: This article is from 2004.
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Japan had an extremely real and brutal caste system for the vast majority of it's history and arguably a lot of the cultural impact remains a problem in less overt ways. Having a line of 'hey samurai are actually kinda in a situation where they can just be overtly evil and 90% of the population can only go 'uh that sure sucked' when it's over' isn't bad for establishing tone if they actually stick with it.
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Kai Tave posted:You should email the creators if you've got feedback. Abaddon/Operant/the Kill 6 Billion Demons guy has an account here but he doesn't seem to use it all that much, and idk if he even reads this subforum, but he's been very polite and receptive to feedback so far. I think he does, but I'll ask him. He should respond to PMs either way. His DMs are also open on Twitter. There's also a subreddit now and a dedicated RPG room in the KSBD Discord, both of which I'm a mod in  If none of that works for you I'll be sure to pass along critiques or questions.
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Cinnamon Bear posted:I'm too lazy to do anything but quote wikipedia here but it was a practice that arose out of the country being in chaos and was otherwise forbidden. And it only took 12 years to admit eta is a vile slur! Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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For that matter even away from the 'yea that's how poo poo worked' component, a lot of the best samurai stories involve the heroes being points of light in an oppressive and harsh world for the common people. You kinda can't have a world with cruel lords over taxing their people and junk without also having samurai who find no problem in strong arming a farmer that's starving. Heroes obviously shouldn't be doing that poo poo but their heroics would mean a lot more in a world where yea there is a pretty oppressive status quo even even you are loyal to the emperor and all. It's like how Edge of the Empire works best when you are playing kinda dirtbag smuggler criminals too, but the whole point is you have more noble intent than most of your peers. If they go for that tone with L5R they could have a really good handling of it.
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Reene posted:I think he does, but I'll ask him. He should respond to PMs either way. His DMs are also open on Twitter. Thanks. I've been emailing him and he hasn't asked me to stop yet, but it's cool that Lancer seems to be getting so much attention. Re: Burakumin, I hazily recall that one of the earlier Vampire: the Requiem supplements had a Japanese vampiric bloodline they decided to name the "Burakumin" and they copped some backlash for it, but I think it was more due to the thoughtless appropriation angle than the slur side of things.
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sexpig by night posted:Japan had an extremely real and brutal caste system for the vast majority of it's history and arguably a lot of the cultural impact remains a problem in less overt ways. Having a line of 'hey samurai are actually kinda in a situation where they can just be overtly evil and 90% of the population can only go 'uh that sure sucked' when it's over' isn't bad for establishing tone if they actually stick with it. I don't think invoking this kind of myth* is a very good way of doing that. there's plenty of actual grounded stuff they could invoke without falling into GW-style grimdark garbage * yes, it's extremely loosely based on a real thing, but in a way that completely distorts reality. it would be like looking at the 30 years war and saying "in european society, getting together a group of men and burning a town to the ground unless they pay you off isn't uncommon"
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sexpig by night posted:Japan had an extremely real and brutal caste system for the vast majority of it's history and arguably a lot of the cultural impact remains a problem in less overt ways. Having a line of 'hey samurai are actually kinda in a situation where they can just be overtly evil and 90% of the population can only go 'uh that sure sucked' when it's over' isn't bad for establishing tone if they actually stick with it. America has an extremly real and brutal racial caste system for it's entire history and remains in some pretty overt ways. Still, if it turned out the Japanese version of Call of Cthulhu had a section about all the different racial slurs white Americans and it stressed at how a proper White person shouldn't be seen fraternizing with them etc it would come off as really weird. Like I could understand if this was an RPG written primarily by Japanese people/Japanese Americans but there is something that seems skeevy about mining the history of another culture for prejudice for an elfgame.
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neaden posted:Yeah but Call of Cthulhu is set in the 20s and doesn't have a huge section talking about "negros" or "Chinamen". And Dungeons and Dragons doesn't have Jewish ghettos. D&D just has magical, thieving Roma stereotypes. L5R is weird in that it has a system that could only exist in Japan in a world that's nothing like Japan. It also relies heavily on the myth of the Japanese nation state, that they are a homogenous people who have always existed on the Japanese home islands and had their culture as it's evolved today. It's possible for instance the Burakumin are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago and were given their role in society because they lost the wars of conquest against the bakufu but that's never addressed or suggested to my knowledge. It's lovely they have something like that in there but feudal Japan was a lovely, terrible place and there's a reason that system was so quickly abandoned in the face of foreign aggression. EDIT: Just play Ninja Crusade I think is the best response I can give for anyone who wants a game in the same vein as L5R but without the baggage. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Cinnamon Bear posted:I'm too lazy to do anything but quote wikipedia here but it was a practice that arose out of the country being in chaos and was otherwise forbidden. RocknRollaAyatollah posted:D&D just has magical, thieving Roma stereotypes. Yep, L5R is bad at Japanese history all right.
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I just wanna be a Sanjuro and cut some fool ronin.
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