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gradenko_2000 posted:GURPS is now on DrivethruRPG as PDFs Now that SJG and Palladium are on DTRPG, what other holdouts are left? Paizo, Atlas Games... anyone else of note not on DTRPG?
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Plutonis posted:Barely TG related: Christopher Tolkien resigned his position as president of Tolkien estate in september and Amazon immediately paid a quarter billion dollars to make a LoTR tv series that'll make Battle of the Five Armies look great in comparison Middle-Earth Role Playing reprint when
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gtrmp posted:Now that SJG and Palladium are on DTRPG, what other holdouts are left? Paizo, Atlas Games... anyone else of note not on DTRPG? Atlas is on DTRG? Or at least, Unknown armies 3rd and Feng Shui 2nd are, and a bunch of their d20 stuff and some past-edition Ars Magica stuff. unseenlibrarian fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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Plutonis posted:Barely TG related: Christopher Tolkien resigned his position as president of Tolkien estate in september and Amazon immediately paid a quarter billion dollars to make a LoTR tv series that'll make Battle of the Five Armies look great in comparison March 14th, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar, 14th 2026-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon today announced the latest upcoming series in our Lords of the Rings saga, MINAS-MORGUL: ORC STRIFE WARS soon to debut in its lineup of original dramatic series—all episodes will debut exclusively on Prime Video in the U.S., as well as in select markets globally In association with Shadows of Mordor 4, and with tie in AR features, this sure-to-be-a-hit series joins 'Dunedain police action', 'Elrond: Hands of the healer' and 'Blue Wizard investigates' bringing you epic brutal action, orc politics that will blow you away, and the secret love affair between Ugnuth, an orc warrior with untapped power, and Celebrían, wife of Elrond, only here do you see the true origins of THE WARS OF THE RING. Coming Fall, 2027
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13 years ago I used to do in EVE Online (and got a little bit semi-famous in that particular dark hole of EVE Online). Even then there was loads of conflict between people just doing chat RP (what was derisively called "Pony") and people that actually did real poo poo/affected the game itself.
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quote:In the Introduction, Fate/Zero is listed under "Manga", which isn't accurate. Fate/Zero was originally a Light Novel series that was then adapted into an anime. While it does have a manga adaptation as well, the novels or anime should really be regarded as the primary sources for the work, so it should be listed under "Anime", or under "Fiction" with the other novels. Man, this really makes me want to get back into Exalted.
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Any of y'all know of any artists who can do art in the style of D&D/Pathfinder/Fantasy novels and is currently taking commissions?
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That Old Tree posted:Man, this really makes me want to get back into Exalted. Fate/Etc is a black hole of lore from which no common sense can escape. Granted, I've always kind of wanted to do a modern take on that sort of thing... well, okay, a modern take with a functional system, unlike Shards of an Exalted Dream.
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That Old Tree posted:Man, this really makes me want to get back into Exalted. Why?
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Fate/Etc is a black hole of lore from which no common sense can escape. It's sweet that Japan finally got its own cape comics equivalent.
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Haystack posted:It's sweet that Japan finally got its own cape comics equivalent. That would be the Gundam franchise.
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That Old Tree posted:Man, this really makes me want to get back into Exalted. My man may I introduce you to the rest of the Fate series and the rest of the TYPE-MOON universe?
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Don't. He must not make our mistakes.
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Fate has Charless Babbage as a giant robot, so it owns. He transformed into a train for the summer race event.
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Giant Robot Elizabeth Bathory
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Plutonis posted:My man may I introduce you to the rest of the Fate series and the rest of the TYPE-MOON universe? That series has a tendency to white-wash historical/mythological heroes to make the more likeable, and has a tendency towards waifu-ism. Though such blatant pandering has its advantages. It is often difficult to get people to admit their favorites are unbalanced or underpowered. But the Fate/Grand Order player-base is usually willing to admit their favorites have balance issues, and just say they want to use their waifus/husbandos despite being bad.
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golden bubble posted:That series has a tendency to white-wash historical/mythological heroes to make the more likeable, and has a tendency towards waifu-ism. Tendency? It's become a point of outright self-parody now.
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Seriously, why would liking Fate/Zero make you want to play exalted again? I don't get the connection.
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Some dude in a golden chariot dropping out of the sky to demand the two people fighting with blantantly obviously magical weapons join him in conquering the world as his allies seems like it could be at least some sort of exalted inspiration. (This is literally the only Fate/Zero scene I've seen)
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Meanwhile FGO Columbus is less whitewashed than 90% of media featuring him.
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Covok posted:Seriously, why would liking Fate/Zero make you want to play exalted again? I don't get the connection. I mean, they both have superpowered people inspired by real-life mythology with unique special attacks and weapons and all of that. They share a lot of DNA in terms of inspiration, genre, and themes, even if they're not directly connected in any sense.
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Covok posted:Seriously, why would liking Fate/Zero make you want to play exalted again? I don't get the connection. "I must point out that this thing listed as inspiration is, in fact, a novel, not a manga. Except, yes, it was also a manga, and yes they listed particular adaptations of other stuff that weren't the original." Dude was super pedantic about being wrong, unless he's pretty sure the authors were thinking of the novels, but accidentally said "manga." It was a joke, or at least I thought so. 
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Covok posted:Seriously, why would liking Fate/Zero make you want to play exalted again? I don't get the connection. Do you often hear a faint whooshing noise when you read posts?
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I mean, they both have superpowered people inspired by real-life mythology with unique special attacks and weapons and all of that. I feel like there could be a better system for it, but for certain that's the one that sticks out that's feature-complete in terms of modeling the mechanics of the show. When trying to think of how to implement Fate/Stay Any in an RPG system, the biggest sticking points are: - The Master/Servant divide: In terms of relative power, Masters are usually weak/not cool compared to Servants. It makes the choice to consciously play a Master seem dumb when the alternative is playing Alexander the Great and rolling over chumps in a massive gently caress-off chariot while sucking foes into another dimension to contend with your massive army - Making Noble Phantasms feel meaningfully different. A rules-light system might not be able to make the differences between Gae Bolg and Excalibur feel right to fans of the show/universe. Any system that models custom powers without too much cruft would probably be good regarding Noble Phantasms. As for Masters/Servants, instead of that being a conscious choice for PCs (one decides to play a Master, the other a Servant) each player would be 'both'. - The player creates their Master from scratch, while the player and the GM create the Servant together. - During play when the Master is the primary actor (i.e., anything not involving fighting) the player takes the role of the Master with the GM playing the Servant. This allows the two different characters to interact each other without relying completely on the player to do both. - When combat between Servants begins, the player takes the role of the Servant/both. This represents the Servant acting in the Master's best interests and is willing to listen to them to win. Unless the Master is a combat monster though, they'll take a supporting role during the battle. More active support will put the Master at risk of being attacked by the enemy, though. Command Seals become Fate Tokens of sorts. Players can spend them to make Servants do whatever they want, though typically they'll be used to activate the most devastating Noble Phantasms without inflicting stress/damage to the Servant. Other uses could include allowing the Servant to enter a scene and become active where they otherwise wouldn't (think entering an area where a barrier would otherwise prevent their entry). Command Seals would also have a give-and-take mechanic between the GM and the player - while the GM will have their own pool of Command Seals for opposing Servants, he can use ones the player has already spent to make Bad Things happen regarding the story, or force a bad outcome in combat.
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Hello. I would like everyone to know that there is only about one day left to sign up for the main round of this year's trad games secret santa! If you would like to send a gift to a TG goon and also get a gift from a different TG goon, please come by and sign up. The rules are long but they're easy to follow and it is a lot of fun. Of course, don't sign up if you're going to fail to send the gift. But if you would actually send the gift, then please come try it out! Here is a convenient link directly to the thread for your convenience, although the thread is also stickied in this very subforum: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3840013
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Tendency? It's become a point of outright self-parody now.
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LuiCypher posted:I feel like there could be a better system for it, but for certain that's the one that sticks out that's feature-complete in terms of modeling the mechanics of the show. Well, I don't think I'd do a straight conversion of the show for a number of reasons. The whole servant / master relationship would be a headache and is problematic; I'm not saying a game couldn't make it interesting, but it also dovetails into some of the franchise's more problematic elements. In general, there's enough bad anime garbage in the series is that I'd largely just cull the fun aspects from it (exaggerated mythical and historical figures having ridiculous anime fights in the modern day) and trash most of the rest. Certainly, the lore is enough of a headache that it's probably not worth its weight in effort, I think, even if it didn't have severe problems in terms of taste. I'd probably want to keep that anime "puzzle fight" feel to it, where characters have distinct and odd strengths, and some of the sense of humor, but I'd lean towards just doing something that plays towards the needs of an RPG instead of just simulating the franchise's endless word salad of a setting. Terrible Opinions posted:They made Alexandre Dumas white. Which would be bad even for Hollywood. Yeah. The issues Fate has are myriad and certainly beyond my ability to even catalogue entirely.
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An article that's a sloppy blowjob to 5e D&D, this time from the New Yorker. The only new twist is that they seem to suggest that 5e was a good enough game to lead to the rise of the RP podcasting surge, rather than coincidentally benefitting from it solely based on lucky timing. They still manage to bag on 4e with the old tropes, though.
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EverettLO posted:An article that's a sloppy blowjob to 5e D&D, this time from the New Yorker. The only new twist is that they seem to suggest that 5e was a good enough game to lead to the rise of the RP podcasting surge, rather than coincidentally benefitting from it solely based on lucky timing. end my suffering
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EverettLO posted:An article that's a sloppy blowjob to 5e D&D, this time from the New Yorker. The only new twist is that they seem to suggest that 5e was a good enough game to lead to the rise of the RP podcasting surge, rather than coincidentally benefitting from it solely based on lucky timing. Christ, what an rear end in a top hat!
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dwarf74 posted:Is that the same one as before? 'Tis indeed. Alien Rope Burn posted:Well, I don't think I'd do a straight conversion of the show for a number of reasons. The whole servant / master relationship would be a headache and is problematic; I'm not saying a game couldn't make it interesting, but it also dovetails into some of the franchise's more problematic elements. In general, there's enough bad anime garbage in the series is that I'd largely just cull the fun aspects from it (exaggerated mythical and historical figures having ridiculous anime fights in the modern day) and trash most of the rest. Certainly, the lore is enough of a headache that it's probably not worth its weight in effort, I think, even if it didn't have severe problems in terms of taste. I'd probably want to keep that anime "puzzle fight" feel to it, where characters have distinct and odd strengths, and some of the sense of humor, but I'd lean towards just doing something that plays towards the needs of an RPG instead of just simulating the franchise's endless word salad of a setting. Yeah, I agree with you on pretty much everything. I wanted to work with the basic conceit of the setting and I agree Master/Servant is insanely problematic. If I had to keep everything (by forcefully mashing in the theme rather than making something that works mechanically first) I might call it something like Mage/Avatar. It's nothing more than a language change, but one that still captures the thematic divide and removes a lot of the problems baked into Master/
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I don't get how the words Master and Servant are particularly a sticking point for being problematic. Like if you want to bag on stuff in Fate for being hosed up how does that even rate?
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Some Japanese TRPG fan is making an Undertale TRPG... except from what I can tell the concept is each character works based off the rules of a different TRPG system. Toriel is Golden Sky Stories Flowey is Paranoia Chara is CoC The rest are random Japanese ones. No I don’t know how the game actually works.
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Getsuya posted:Some Japanese TRPG fan is making an Undertale TRPG... except from what I can tell the concept is each character works based off the rules of a different TRPG system. My guess: poorly That said TRPG Smash Bros. sounds pretty great as a pure goofy concept
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