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Covok posted:I mean, doesn't the Japanese self-defense Force lack an air divison? That would kind of take the wind out of the sails of any plans like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Self-Defense_Force
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Also you're wildly mischaracterizing the other quote too, Miyazaki doesn't say "that looks like someone who has a disability and is an affront to god."
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I read Goblin Markets recently and I really want to play a game like Ars Magica, only your big bad wizards are shifty hob merchants. You throw bids for what kind of items they want to get into a GM pot that's used to construct the dungeon before dropping hedgedelvers into misadventure. I feel like high lethality and quick chargen should be a feature and not a bug. Also that advancement would rely on getting items back to your hob boss to sell for bennies you can spend on your delve team.
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Tasoth posted:I read Goblin Markets recently and I really want to play a game like Ars Magica, only your big bad wizards are shifty hob merchants. You throw bids for what kind of items they want to get into a GM pot that's used to construct the dungeon before dropping hedgedelvers into misadventure. I feel like high lethality and quick chargen should be a feature and not a bug. Also that advancement would rely on getting items back to your hob boss to sell for bennies you can spend on your delve team. That's literally the original D&D. EDIT: I'm not saying that to be sarcastic or snippy, just that you have, kinda hilariously, described how this entire hobby started.
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Nov 19, 2017 05:01
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 As much as Japanese reactionaries and Japan's neighbors like to carry on about the rebirth of the Japanese Empire, it could never happen. Article 9 will probably be gone in the near future though, or amended, because of Japan's neighbors, Trump, and Abe wanting to live in his war criminal grandpa's shadow.
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Nov 19, 2017 06:50
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Desiden posted:Wait, is manga better for this? Asking seriously; I just assumed it would be like western comics vs. movies where the comics tended to crawl up their own asses and have lots more bizarro poo poo while the movies tried to streamline everything into a coherent narrative. That's probably not especially helpful in terms of needing to sift through the crap to find the gems, but it's for different reasons than with anime.
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Nov 19, 2017 21:26
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Covok posted:I mean, doesn't the Japanese self-defense Force lack an air divison? That would kind of take the wind out of the sails of any plans like that. One wonders what they'd do with a guy who had a ring of immunity to normal missiles.
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Nov 19, 2017 22:26
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Drifters was cool because it was about people from a lot of differeny historical periods stranded on fantasy world so you had nobunaga teach the elves and dwarves to make gunpowder and kick the rear end of conventional armies with pike and shot strategy and an aircraft carrier commander teach carrier doctrine to some ships that had dragon riders
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Nov 19, 2017 22:30
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Plutonis posted:Drifters was cool because it was about people from a lot of differeny historical periods stranded on fantasy world so you had nobunaga teach the elves and dwarves to make gunpowder and kick the rear end of conventional armies with pike and shot strategy and an aircraft carrier commander teach carrier doctrine to some ships that had dragon riders
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Nov 19, 2017 22:36
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Honestly GATE would be cooler if the fantasy people slowly started to work on countermeasures to modern weaponry and started buying black market rifles to become elvish Taliban
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Nov 19, 2017 22:42
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Plutonis posted:Honestly GATE would be cooler if the fantasy people slowly started to work on countermeasures to modern weaponry and started buying black market rifles to become elvish Taliban That might get in the way of the military wank, though. You have to remember that the solely exists so the Japanese can pretend that they're awesome. I'm not pretending we don't do the same thing or that your country doesn't do the same thing, I'm simply pointing out how this works.
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Nov 20, 2017 00:22
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GATE is literally right wing propaganda by the most pathetic dude who was a former member of the JSDF, and it mostly follows his self insert as a lot of anime ladies fall in love with him.
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Nov 20, 2017 01:22
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ProfessorCirno posted:That's literally the original D&D. I thought in the 1st edition of D&D, you just played your character. Yeah, high lethality, so just roll 3d6 six times and assign, get back into the fight. Having a player associated patron that gives you bennies in game isn't something I knew it did? Never read anything before 3e for D&D, so not surprised it's been done.
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Nov 20, 2017 01:28
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Nessus posted:They got some choppers. Japan has a pretty good, modern air force relatively speaking. They're also in on the ponzi scheme that is the F-35. ProfessorCirno posted:GATE is literally right wing propaganda by the most pathetic dude who was a former member of the JSDF, and it mostly follows his self insert as a lot of anime ladies fall in love with him. I feel like every country has their own John Ringo.
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Tasoth posted:I thought in the 1st edition of D&D, you just played your character. Yeah, high lethality, so just roll 3d6 six times and assign, get back into the fight. Having a player associated patron that gives you bennies in game isn't something I knew it did? Never read anything before 3e for D&D, so not surprised it's been done. It was fairly common in older editions to get your marching orders from a patron of some sort. It wasn't required by any means but it was a natural outgrowth of wargames where your heroes worked for a lord or established nation anyway.
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While there was no patron mandated, you leveled up explicitly based on looting, not killing or exploring, which I think still fits.
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ProfessorCirno posted:GATE is literally right wing propaganda by the most pathetic dude who was a former member of the JSDF, and it mostly follows his self insert as a lot of anime ladies fall in love with him. Haha, it was written by the Japanese equivalent of alt-right, "anti-SJWMARVEL" youtuber, Diversity & Comics.
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Nessus posted:They got some choppers. I think part of the gimmick in that Gate show is that the JSDF, while not large, is a modern technological army going up against the Maelstrom and Twin Adders, only they don't have guys casting Protect and Medica II. So whenever the tech level disparity comes up, the JSDF wins hard. Teargas, or just big enough explosives to kill him by concussion rather than shrapnel. Shadowrun asked these questions in the 90's. 
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Ahh, the chunky salsa rule.
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Just checking in to say that my November fundraiser for charity is going pretty well. We've raised around $750 CAD as of now. I'm hoping to get over $1000 by the end of the month, so if you haven't already told your friends to check it out, there's still time. There are 10 more days to get in on it! In case this is the first you are hearing about it, the skinny is that my daughter has cancer and I'm raising money to help the hospital (SickKids) that is treating her - 100% of my RPG income in November will go to SickKids Foundation. All the details are at https://www.strikerpg.com
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:
This helicopter (a Cobra variant) should belong to the JGSDF, not the JASDF, which only operates transport and utility helos as far as I'm aware.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:This helicopter (a Cobra variant) should belong to the JGSDF, not the JASDF, which only operates transport and utility helos as far as I'm aware. I just thought the anime helicopter recruiting gimmick was funny. The whole, the otakus are the future of the military angle is hilarious.
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That's a halfway believable photoshop, if only because I know that Toyota products from the 90s/early 2000s have achieved another lease on life in Afghanistan/Iraq.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:I just thought the anime helicopter recruiting gimmick was funny. The whole, the otakus are the future of the military angle is hilarious.
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 New blogpost is up, for The Next Project, talking about some overhauls that are coming to the foundations of the game.In short, Expertise is being moved to expand design space, Advantage is going to figure more prominently going forward, and a bunch of terminology is getting cleaned up. All of this is intended to make the game as streamlined as possible, and to facilitate gameplay. Behind the scenes, I've been doing fun nerd poo poo like crunching out DPR, so expect to see some attack routines be both smoother and more impactful, going forward.
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Nov 21, 2017 23:10
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Nessus posted:They named their drone research facility after the psychic research lab in the original Gundam. The nerds are running the asylum.
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Yeah, any military research project is going to be staffed by nerds. When you give those nerds a chance to name something or design something purely cosmetic, you better bet you get nerd poo poo out of it.
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Yes go ahead and Google Order of the Sword. The Air Force gets really goddamn nerdy with those things.
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Kwyndig posted:Yes go ahead and Google Order of the Sword. The Air Force gets really goddamn nerdy with those things. I thought only the Marines were issued those for their dragon slaying ops.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Top secret projects in the US military have jacket patches as though they were sports clubs. A large number of the patches references Star Trek or the Insane Clown Posse.
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Nessus posted:Are you saying that the US armed forces are secretly controlled by Juggalos??
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The website they were hosted on appears to have been replaced with a far less interesting political blog, but several of them had hatchetman on there clear as day. The conspiracy guy who hosted the pictures had no idea what juggalos are and always marked down hatchetman as "unknown significance".
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Kwyndig posted:Yes go ahead and Google Order of the Sword. The Air Force gets really goddamn nerdy with those things. They made up the tradition, so there are no real guidelines for what kind of sword should be made for the award. So the order of the sword can look like this:  or like this  
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Imagine being the guy who got a boring regular sword that's as equally useless as the anime rear end buster swords there.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Imagine being the guy who got a boring regular sword that's as equally useless as the anime rear end buster swords there. I know if I ever got one of those I would specifically request a buster sword, because what's the point otherwise. I mean it's the Air Force, it's not like you've got a tradition of using swords to begin with.
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Like, that poo poo is never going to go off the wall you hang it on or hold an edge, get it 12 feet long with all the tasteless flair they can shove into it.
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So just found out about Genesys coming from FFG. Does anyone have much on it other than the blurb on the page? Has there been much sneak peek in terms of playtesting or anything? I'm assuming it's going to be a homogenized version of the same dice system from Star Wars and WHFRP2 but curious if there's any big changes or cool stuff added to it.
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Spiteski posted:So just found out about Genesys coming from FFG. Does anyone have much on it other than the blurb on the page? Has there been much sneak peek in terms of playtesting or anything? It's WFRP 3e that used it.
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