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Plutonis posted:Tbh I do like how simple it is and how it avoids the whole skill stacking chore (like rolling 2d6+3+2+4+whatever). I'd actually say a table of sample stuff for difficulty checks would help with that. Yeah I mean if the players and GM are on the same page it’s great and opens up some really creative RP opportunities. I’m just worried about how easy it would be for a GM to be a dick about it. Then again I guess a dick GM will be a dick regardless of the system.
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drrockso20 posted:Yeah I've been fiddling with an alternate Marvel Universe that is heavily different from real world history after a certain point(the first big divergence is "What If Atlantis, Latveria, and Wakanda all entered WW2 as part of The Allies" for example) Superpowers actually changing the world sounds like an excellent premise for an RPG campaign. My favorite example of a superhero universe not changing was the Batman line in the late 1990s, where an over-abundance of Major Crossover Events led to the typical resident of Gotham City having been subjected, over the course of about two years, to: - The usual number of weird villain crimes and serial killers and terrorist events that Batman has to deal with on a month-by-month basis - Two separate massive outbreaks of Ebola (Contagion, Legacy) - A live nuke nearly being detonated in the city - Time portals opening up and scrambling things and erasing buildings and people from the timeline (Zero Hour) - Being completely overrun by demons and the walking dead (Underworld Unleashed, Day of Judgement) - Having the sun disappear and the planet almost entirely freeze solid (Final Night) - A major earthquake that turned the city into an isolated, abandoned, gang-run ruin called No Man's Land ... and then the city was rebuilt and everybody went on with life as it was before (and not, you know, completely paralyzed from PTSD)
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Getsuya posted:The Saikoro Fiction rolling mechanic is really nice but I can just picture some rear end in a top hat GM ruining it. The main concept is that every action skill is on a grid, and roll difficulty is determined by the number of slots between the target action and an action your character is trained in. If you have that skill the difficulty is 5 on a 2D6. Then for each slot between your skill and the target skill you add 1 to the difficulty. Arivia posted:Can we call this like devsplaining or something? Ewen was the translator on GSS, I'm pretty sure. And one of my too-many projects is a system that's a weird hybrid of GSS and PbtA that I'm calling "Powered by Dreams," which is what I'd probably use for the friendly superheroes game if I ever get around to it. (I even bought a bunch of little wooden lightning bolt tokens on the off-chance that I might use them for that.)
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Arivia posted:Can we call this like devsplaining or something? Ewen was the translator on GSS, I'm pretty sure.
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Ewen Cluney posted:During the Secret Empire garbage she and her friends were saving the Savage Land, which had partially become a dinosaur theme park, complete with a gift shop. The way they were geeking out about dinosaurs was the best. You might be looking for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. I don't own it, but you play a Pilgrim who can fly from the, wait for it, Flying Temple. And you fly out into the world to do good things for people! But you're also a bit inept and a klutz, but you mean well!
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Comics!? Boy, oh boy!Zoro posted:Edit: also, Thor respects women and is not a dude bro so you shouldn't view him as a symbol of that. As far as he is concerned, everyone matters, everyone who treat others fairly is worthy of respect, and he believes in many kinds of strengths, like how he was amazed at Jane Foster's ability to accept cancer but still fight it. There is a reason he is worthy of the hammer and the big reason is that he is a good person. I'm talking about how jerks view him based on superficial notions, not my personal views. Simonson's run is crazy progressive for its time in parts of how the Thor / Sif interactions go (and less so with Lorelei, but you can't have everything, I suppose). occamsnailfile posted:I'd also suggest that one reason people don't mind Laura so much is that the Logan movie made her cool, much in the way that the Iron Man movies made Iron Man cool. Also she's just been a long series of frankly, shockingly good comics compared to where the character started from. The X-23 mini was good, the second X-23 mini was good, the X-23 ongoing was good, and... well, she was one of the brighter points of New X-Men or X-Force, at least. She got to get built up for a long time before taking the role and a lot of the backlash over her being a teen girl wolverine got burnt out years ago. I mean, it was there, a lot of people complained up and down about her... much like a lot of the 70s-era backlash about Wolverine being some mean jerk that gives Cyclops a lot of poo poo for no good reason and is a jerk to everybody, why is he on the X-Men again? (Seriously, reading early Uncanny X-Men letter columns is hilarious in retrospect.) Evil Mastermind posted:In the post-"Ultimate Marvel" Ultimates (the team run by Carol Davners), Galactus actually stops being the big purple planet-eater and becomes an avatar of life...who then has to fight some of the other cosmic entities who want him to turn back into the Devourer of Worlds because that's who he's always been. Yeah, the recent Ultimates series are a treasure (at least, when they're weren't being derailed by crossover events...). I don't think Galactus has changed back - in fact, Al Ewing commented that the original plan was to change Galactus back all along but decided the new take was too interesting to just discard. I expect Galactus the Lifebringer to get undone at some point, but I'd be happy if they kick that can back as far as they can. In general just about everything Al Ewing has been going on the line has been real good or at least real interesting. Ultimately I think why you don't have world-changing stuff in comics is just because that's not what those stories are about, and I think trying to go into gyrations to explain superhero universes logically is a mistake unless you're real, real clever. Mind, if you want superhumans-as-speculative-sci-fi, that's perfectly cool, that's something different. And not to say the two things can't touch, but it's the kind of thing you want for a compelling story, not to just to try and prove how you're more clever than Jack Kirby or Jerry Robinson or whoever. Of course, the TVtropes attitude is at its worst with the modern genre-aware protagonist who exists just to act as an author insert of "Gosh if I was in X I would be wayyy smarter and do things right all the time because everybody in genre fiction are a bunch of big dumb idiots." Japanese genre fiction is pretty much become ridden with a lot of this it's just... astonishingly lazy writing. Which is weird to think about, because I love stuff that pokes at the fourth wall but... you know, out of love, not just to be smugly faux-deconstructionist. Man, comics. I need to write a good superhero system. Not the biggest fan of any right now except for Masks, and Masks is pretty limited.
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I am reminded I really should dig out my notes for an LOSH hack for Masks and figure out what else is needs since it doesn't entirely handle it well out of the box and that's like...one of the quintessential "Teen Team" books that are theoretically it's wheelhouse.
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quote:Japanese genre fiction is pretty much become ridden with a lot of this it's just... astonishingly lazy writing. Which is weird to think about, because I love stuff that pokes at the fourth wall but... you know, out of love, not just to be smugly faux-deconstructionist. Do tell. quote:Man, comics. I need to write a good superhero system. Not the biggest fan of any right now except for Masks, and Masks is pretty limited. Do it.
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Light Novels are 99% absolute trash but you really really really shouldn't use them as your norm for their fiction, ARB.
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Plutonis posted:Light Novels are 99% absolute trash but you really really really shouldn't use them as your norm for their fiction, ARB. Just read Hunter x Hunter, Boku no hero Academia, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. You'll be happier that way.
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Zoro posted:Do tell. There's an entire genre that has a trillion books that were adapted to anime and manga about dying and resurrecting on a fantasy world or videogame and in several of them the protagonist knows all about the meta of the game or is aware of the RPG-ish rules that the world follows and even if he's a slime or a goblin or weakling he becomes an OP fuckhead megagod by exploiting the setting rules. Those are all bad (except for Konosuba and Overlord)
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Zoro posted:Just read Hunter x Hunter, Boku no hero Academia, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. You'll be happier that way. how did you leave One Piece off of the list of good shounen
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Countblanc posted:how did you leave One Piece off of the list of good shounen One piece is good, but it's a lot to ask someone to get into.
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Plutonis posted:There's an entire genre that has a trillion books that were adapted to anime and manga about dying and resurrecting on a fantasy world or videogame and in several of them the protagonist knows all about the meta of the game or is aware of the RPG-ish rules that the world follows and even if he's a slime or a goblin or weakling he becomes an OP fuckhead megagod by exploiting the setting rules. Those are all bad (except for Konosuba and Overlord) I read some manga like that. They were all terrible.
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drrockso20 posted:Also I want to like Squirrel Girl's book, but the art in it is pretty much the worst of any ongoing book they publish that doesn't involve Greg Land It's bright and colorful and cartoony. I really like it, but I find most modern cape comics ugly.
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Plutonis posted:Light Novels are 99% absolute trash but you really really really shouldn't use them as your norm for their fiction, ARB. They aren't the norm, true. Not yet, anyway. 
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This is America. Light novels don't exist here. Doki doki horror club!
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Pope Guilty posted:It's bright and colorful and cartoony. I really like it, but I find most modern cape comics ugly. The problem is that Erica Henderson sucks at drawing faces
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Today I finally finished a massive chunk of the LOST TRPG translation, which covers all of the character creation stuff. Included are all the items as well as character classes and abilities. Take a look if you're interested. I think with this I may be almost halfway done. It was seriously a huge portion of the rules. https://ancientscars.wordpress.com/project-1-lost-trpg/
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Plutonis posted:There's an entire genre that has a trillion books that were adapted to anime and manga about dying and resurrecting on a fantasy world or videogame and in several of them the protagonist knows all about the meta of the game or is aware of the RPG-ish rules that the world follows and even if he's a slime or a goblin or weakling he becomes an OP fuckhead megagod by exploiting the setting rules. Those are all bad (except for Konosuba and Overlord) Praise the Orc! has a different take on that and is also pretty dang good for the first half.
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Squirrel Girl is great and the art is great; I am sorry that the vagaries of human taste prevent some people from fully experiencing the joy it brings me.
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Rand Brittain posted:Squirrel Girl is great and the art is great; I am sorry that the vagaries of human taste prevent some people from fully experiencing the joy it brings me. I should check out the novel. Have you read it?
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Superman changed the world! https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
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Getsuya posted:I should check out the novel. Have you read it? I didn't even know there was one.
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Rand Brittain posted:I didn't even know there was one. https://www.amazon.com/Unbeatable-Squirrel-Girl-Meets-World/dp/1484781546
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starkebn posted:Superman changed the world! Someone with better grasp on the history of it can tell it better, but he literally did; there was a period of time where the KKK was on a downswing in the US literally because Superman fought them, or so I've heard.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Someone with better grasp on the history of it can tell it better, but he literally did; there was a period of time where the KKK was on a downswing in the US literally because Superman fought them, or so I've heard. https://youtu.be/LUOODp8PQac
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drrockso20 posted:The problem is that Erica Henderson sucks at drawing faces An industry in which Steve Dillon is fondly remembered is one in which this complaint is bizarre.
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P.d0t posted:
I didn't want this to get lost in the churn, and I wanted to shout out that I'm still keeping tabs on this project. Your dedication is exemplary, p.d0t.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Someone with better grasp on the history of it can tell it better, but he literally did; there was a period of time where the KKK was on a downswing in the US literally because Superman fought them, or so I've heard. http://mentalfloss.com/article/23157/how-superman-defeated-ku-klux-klan
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Hey, many of you know that my daughter has cancer. She's been getting treatment at SickKids hospital here in Toronto. For the month of November, all of the money I get from Strike! and its expansions will go to SickKids Foundation to help the hospital and the children there. If you haven't checked out Strike! yet, go take a look. If you do decide to buy, you not only get a cool game, but all of the money goes to a good cause. Details here. And please share the link around so it reaches more people.
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Done jimbozig, hope it helps
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Actually the brightest spot of New X-Men was Rockslide, the best character
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Blockhouse posted:Actually the brightest spot of New X-Men was Rockslide, the best character I said "one of".
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I said "one of". Oh I misread. And also really just like Rockslide.
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Plutonis posted:There's an entire genre that has a trillion books that were adapted to anime and manga about dying and resurrecting on a fantasy world or videogame and in several of them the protagonist knows all about the meta of the game or is aware of the RPG-ish rules that the world follows and even if he's a slime or a goblin or weakling he becomes an OP fuckhead megagod by exploiting the setting rules. Those are all bad (except for Konosuba and Overlord)
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Pope Guilty posted:An industry in which Steve Dillon is fondly remembered is one in which this complaint is bizarre. e: Steve Dillon was the Fighter of the comics art world: he did one thing and it wasn't very effective but by God he could do it all day. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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Terrible Opinions posted:Konosuba may be good in Japanese (I wouldn't know), but the English subtitles are really bad. Terrible!!! Opinions!!! e: I sent the Strike Link to some people I was reccing the system, hope that helps. Jimbo.
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