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Haystack posted:I wonder what's with the weird paucity of Harry-Potter-esque academy-based RPGs. Most other nerd genres have at least one popular take on them, why not the biggest, most influential fantasy series in recent history? Only in the West. Japan has a ton of em. Course half of that is their obsession with high school as a setting.
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Getsuya posted:Speaking of Harry Potter, the creator of Magical Academy Harvest has agreed to let me make that my 2nd project. It’s something like 10x longer than LOST (especially thanks to 2 full supplements already being done) so at that point I might try to round up another translator or two to help. Sorry, I'm having trouble finding anything about Magical Academy Harvest. Any info out there?
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Halloween Jack posted:The Beast and The Smiler were meant to correspond to Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton, respectively. Plutonis posted:The Beast was Nixon, the Smiler was Hillary Warren Ellis has stated, even on these very forums I believe, that they were meant to represent Thatcher and Tony Blair, and how hatred of Thatcher and a desire for anything but her party's ogrish policies eventually led to people electing a two-faced neoliberal gently caress with no convictions. Although it's extremely likely Darick Robertson based their designs on Nixon and JFK, since he's American and all. I'm not sure anyone's directly asked him about it.
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I looked back over my sources and realized that the article that said the Smiler was based on Clinton was neither an interview nor authoritative in any way, just better-written than your typical omg u guyz trump is voldemort lol fml. Turns out it was actually Blair. No Hero is not one of his better works, but it's downright weird how it prediction Hillary Clinton's rise to power. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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S.J. posted:Sorry, I'm having trouble finding anything about Magical Academy Harvest. Any info out there? We talked about it for a bit on page 255. It’s a (currently Japanese only) TRPG that combines the setting of Harry Potter, the flashy magic of the Tales series, and the combat system of Megaman Battle Network.
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Did anyone else read yesterday's New Yorker article about D&D? (link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons). Read it, digest it, provide your thoughts. Mine are below in case you do not want to be negatively primed before reading the article. OK, I have a lot of issues with it.
2. It hits on another peeve, and that's trotting out the old '4e is like a video game hurr' trope that never seems to die. 3. It attributes elements of good design to 5e that have been in existence since OD&D - namely, Rule Zero. The author seems to think it's the bee's knees, even though it's standard for every RPG these days. 4. It is slobbering in its fellatio for 5e without any real desire to explore its weaknesses. 5. The author has no real concept of what good game design actually looks like, because then they might not be so quick to poo poo on 4e. Or if narrative is really the draw for the author (which it seems to be), then there are a boatload of games that do narrative way better that they clearly haven't played.
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Getsuya posted:We talked about it for a bit on page 255. It’s a (currently Japanese only) TRPG that combines the setting of Harry Potter, the flashy magic of the Tales series, and the combat system of Megaman Battle Network. Oh poo poo, that sounds rad AF. Rock on.
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My biggest issue was that the New Yorker style guide requires the game to be abbreviated as D. & D. complete with the periods. But yeah that other stuff too. Still, the more people playing FRPGs, the happier I am, even if it's 5e. It means a bigger potential player pool wherever you go.
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dwarf74 posted:My biggest issue was that the New Yorker style guide requires the game to be abbreviated as D. & D. complete with the periods. that's more adorable than annoying, i think like i'm sitting here giggling at the thought
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Oct 25, 2017 18:23
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Lurdiak posted:Warren Ellis has stated, even on these very forums I believe, that they were meant to represent Thatcher and Tony Blair Hold on, hold on - Warren Ellis posted on SomethingAwful? How did I miss this.
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Kestral posted:Hold on, hold on - Warren Ellis posted on SomethingAwful? How did I miss this. it was a long long time ago and it was more of an ama style thing than being a regular poster
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And it lasted about 6 hours before he left in disgust. It wasn't my fault, for the record.
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LuiCypher posted:Did anyone else read yesterday's New Yorker article about D&D? (link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons). Regular folks got more to worry about than edition wars. The thesis of the article is, "More folks are playing tradgames and it's a great development!" Not "5e is the best dungeons and dragons."
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Oct 25, 2017 18:49
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Not being concerned about the quality of the thing as long as it gets people into a hobby is how you end up with folks that are really into 50 Shades of Grey and then never pick up another book.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Not being concerned about the quality of the thing as long as it gets people into a hobby is how you end up with folks that are really into 50 Shades of Grey and then never pick up another book. This is a super dumb take.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Not being concerned about the quality of the thing as long as it gets people into a hobby is how you end up with folks that are really into 50 Shades of Grey and then never pick up another book. oh, you've been by the 5e thread too?
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tokenbrownguy posted:Regular folks got more to worry about than edition wars. The thesis of the article is, "More folks are playing tradgames and it's a great development!" Not "5e is the best dungeons and dragons." nah the article takes a pretty strong and extremely stupid position on the edition wars question quote:And yet the emphasis, even these days, is not on such forms but on moving beyond them. A decade ago, when developers attempted to bring Dungeons & Dragons into the twenty-first century by stuffing it with rules so that it might better resemble a video game, the glue of the game, the narrative aspect that drew so many in, melted away. Players hacked monsters to death, picked up treasure, collected experience points, and coolly moved through preset challenges. The plotters of the game’s fifth edition seemed to remember that D. & D.’s strength lay in creating indulgent spaces (get lost in your gnomish identity, quest or don’t, spend time flirting in the tavern) and opposing whatever modes of human industry prevailed among the broader public. D. & D. now has vastly simpler rules than those found in an iTunes terms-and-conditions agreement. The structures the designers made are also simpler and more subjective. If a player thinks of something clever, you don’t have to thumb through a handbook for a strictly defined bonus. The Dungeon Master can ponder the idea for a moment—could a dwarf with low charisma, with a few well-chosen compliments, really convince a city of elves to love him?—and then decide to reward the player with an extra chance to succeed.
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LMAO 4e stuffed the game full of rules as opposed to every other edition, which stuffs the game full of spells and magic items. That's a stupid-rear end article.
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The New Yorker should be writing about Rifts
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:LMAO 4e stuffed the game full of rules as opposed to every other edition, which stuffs the game full of spells and magic items. no game with 3rd/5th style multi classing gets to even remotely call its rules simple
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Lurdiak posted:And it lasted about 6 hours before he left in disgust.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Someone asked him what it felt like "to be named after where a rabbit lives" and I can't say for sure if that was the catalyst but it wasn't long from then to ejection. God I hope that was the reason because that's fuckin hilarious.
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To be fair, trying to pull in MMO players was a stated goal of 4e at Wizards (at least as handed down by management), so things like the focus on MMO-style roles was deliberate. That doesn't make it bad, of course, but the video game commonalities aren't coincidence. Mind, a lot of people who say it are saying it out of reactionary feels and probably don't know anything about the game's development. But it's not a totally baseless thing to bring up.
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Lurdiak posted:And it lasted about 6 hours before he left in disgust. At least it went a little bit better than the period Gail Simone was posting in BSS
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Nuns with Guns posted:At least it went a little bit better than the period Gail Simone was posting in BSS
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Josh Sawyer of Obsidian is a goon and still posts so we haven’t run everybody out.
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FMguru posted:Or Kate Beaton's brief (very brief) time posting in LF. Kate had to put out a psa on her Twitter a few years ago asking goons to stop apologizing for that every time they saw her in person.
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Andrast posted:Josh Sawyer of Obsidian is a goon and still posts so we haven’t run everybody out. he also posts on that crpg forum full of nazis so i’m guessing he kinda doesn’t care
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Cease to Hope posted:he also posts on that crpg forum full of nazis so i’m guessing he kinda doesn’t care There’s a crpg forum full of nazis?
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Andrast posted:There’s a crpg forum full of nazis?
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Alien Rope Burn posted:To be fair, trying to pull in MMO players was a stated goal of 4e at Wizards (at least as handed down by management), so things like the focus on MMO-style roles was deliberate. That doesn't make it bad, of course, but the video game commonalities aren't coincidence. the whole point of the "making it like a video game" line is to suggest that they dropped the things that make tabletop rpgs different from videogames (and the new yorker piece is pretty explicit about this), which is clearly bullshit
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dwarf74 posted:Guessing pundit's therpgsite? no, not that. i can’t remember the name offhand, but i remember they had a whole thing in pillars of eternity as a special ks reward
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RPGCodex is full of psychopaths that stalk Rope Kid's posts but that they are Nazis is a first.
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Andrast posted:Josh Sawyer of Obsidian is a goon and still posts so we haven’t run everybody out.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:To be fair, trying to pull in MMO players was a stated goal of 4e at Wizards (at least as handed down by management), so things like the focus on MMO-style roles was deliberate. That doesn't make it bad, of course, but the video game commonalities aren't coincidence. 4e is mostly like a board game when it comes to combat. It's a Classic RPG in every other way and I mean that as both a good and a bad: you and the DM argue about whether your character can do something or not, using an overly broad and kinda-worthless skill system.
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My favorite celebrity run-off on SA was the guy who does Until We Win. I don’t think he even lasted half a day.
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Lurdiak posted:And it lasted about 6 hours before he left in disgust. Good, gently caress him. That Netflix Castlevania series he did loving sucked. “Oi, mate, what this here game about whipping vampire needs is me Dick Dorkins athiest hot takes, is what. We needs a Konami code to fight the Pope, is what.”
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Simian_Prime posted:Good, gently caress him. That Netflix Castlevania series he did loving sucked. Also a 10 minute conversation about bestiality.
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Plutonis posted:RPGCodex is full of psychopaths that stalk Rope Kid's posts but that they are Nazis is a first. that’s it, rpgcodex. and it’s full of just straight up hateful garbage
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Lurdiak posted:And it lasted about 6 hours before he left in disgust. Simian_Prime posted:Good, gently caress him. That Netflix Castlevania series he did loving sucked. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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