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Andrast posted:There’s also nothing about forgotten realms that prevents you from making good stories that take place there.
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Okay, I'll say this much, Mask of the Betrayer immediately got a thousand times more interesting and engaging by virtue of handling the more metaphysical aspects of the setting instead of casting you as another shitfarmer who travels the Sword Coast.
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Andrast posted:There’s also nothing about forgotten realms that prevents you from making good stories that take place there. You can still do more with better settings. Or at least, there's a lot of stories out there that can't be told well in Forgotten Realms.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Eh, it would have been Forgotten Realms poo poo. No I mean doing a WoW tabletop game just this time in 4e instead of d20 That way unlike the 3e version the classes could have had their actual abilities instead of having mages cast tenzer's floating disc or some poo poo
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Ettin posted:It's World of Warcraft
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Looks like Atomic Overmind is partnering with Stolze to put out a 2-book new edition of Reign. It's gonna be on Kickstarter in February apparently.
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Jan 22, 2018 15:32
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https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/955153201434525696 Wise words from our friend Mike Mearls
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Bedlamdan posted:https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/955153201434525696
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dwarf74 posted:The sentence is real weird but it looks like he's saying "Grognards Go Home"? the irony comes from his association with the sort of subhuman garbage that he claims to be against
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dwarf74 posted:The sentence is real weird but it looks like he's saying "Grognards Go Home"? Funny how many of the same "designers" who insist on gatekeeping via exposing accusers to their abuser also have an LGBT flag on their twitter icon as if it's some get out of jail free card.
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This seems like the best place to ask - i'm looking to get a folding gaming table for Necromunda / Bloodbowl / Hobbit and 40k. I found this: https://www.urbanmatz.com/p/237/6-x4-folding-table Has anyone got any experience with this or know of a better place to get a table? I'm in the UK.
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Andrast posted:There’s also nothing about forgotten realms that prevents you from making good stories that take place there. Like a lot of D&D stuff, Forgotten Realms is fine if you ignore the vast majority of it in favour of focusing on the specific stuff you like. But that is of course damning with faint praise. In my experience, anything good about the Forgotten Realms can be cut out and dropped into another setting with little or no friction.
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MrFlibble posted:This seems like the best place to ask - i'm looking to get a folding gaming table for Necromunda / Bloodbowl / Hobbit and 40k. I found this: I have no experience with any of that, sorry. 
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MrFlibble posted:This seems like the best place to ask - i'm looking to get a folding gaming table for Necromunda / Bloodbowl / Hobbit and 40k. I found this:
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So how long until we find out Mearls is a sex pest
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gradenko_2000 posted:So how long until we find out Mearls is a sex pest I mean, having seen how he looks like, I would not at all be surprised if he sexually harassed women. Not accusing nor, especially not, defending, just saying that he definitely looks like the type of guy who would pull that kind of atrocious stuff. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Covok posted:I mean, having seen how he looks like, I would not at all be surprised if he sexually harassed women. Not accusing nor, especially not, defending, just saying that he definitely looks like the type of guy who would pull that kind of atrocious stuff.
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Mearls courting the worst elements of the hobby is bad enough, I don't need to make up conspiracy theories about him. Mearls can't rape anyone anyway because he's still trapped in a giant wet paper bag after a tragic game design accident.
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Serf posted:i'll take a lovely setting if it has a good system I also like Mario + Rabbids.
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Halloween Jack posted:Like a lot of D&D stuff, Forgotten Realms is fine if you ignore the vast majority of it in favour of focusing on the specific stuff you like. But that is of course damning with faint praise. In my experience, anything good about the Forgotten Realms can be cut out and dropped into another setting with little or no friction. Given that at least some of the Forgotten Realms backstory was literally cut out of another fantasy game that TSR acquired the rights to in the eighties and pasted into FR it's only fair that the same happen to it, really.
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Sion posted:Funny how many of the same "designers" who insist on gatekeeping via exposing accusers to their abuser also have an LGBT flag on their twitter icon as if it's some get out of jail free card. I wonder what the over/under is on whether their company "politely asked" them to make these statements so that the company continues to look good via performative justice, or if they actually made these kinds of statements of their own accord.
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LuiCypher posted:I wonder what the over/under is on whether their company "politely asked" them to make these statements so that the company continues to look good via performative justice, or if they actually made these kinds of statements of their own accord. there is no doubt in my mind that mearls believes he is a good person and an ally or some poo poo because that's what people like him tell themselves. guaranteed no one asked him to make the tweet, he did it because its something that a good person would totally do, and how could he ever be anything other than that?
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Didn't Mearls at one point make a tweet about how a bunch of people being honored with awards at some convention or another weren't real game designers or something? Among them being Mike Pondsmith?
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Kai Tave posted:Didn't Mearls at one point make a tweet about how a bunch of people being honored with awards at some convention or another weren't real game designers or something? Among them being Mike Pondsmith? iirc he said something about how it was a list of names that no one knew and yeah pondsmith was on there
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Personally, I'm fine with a better environment for women in tabletop gaming, and am glad that Mike Mearls and Wizards of the Coast have taken a stand to support it. I don't know why that's so controversial.
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Bedlamdan posted:Personally, I'm fine with a better environment for women in tabletop gaming, and am glad that Mike Mearls and Wizards of the Coast have taken a stand to support it. I don't know why that's so controversial. I can't imagine being so desperate to post dumb poo poo like this that you'd repeatedly spend ten bucks to do so even after being told to gently caress off and go somewhere else.
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It was a response to the gender parity on the Industry Insider panels for GenCon 2016. Pretty sure it was Tarnowski, tho, not Mearls.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:It was a response to the gender parity on the Industry Insider panels for GenCon 2016. Pretty sure it was Tarnowski, tho, not Mearls. Nah, Mearls may not have made it (I don't think it was Tarnowski who did but heck, maybe it was) but I very clearly remember him agreeing with it because it was so very blatantly a Dumb Mike Mearls thing to do.
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Kai Tave posted:I can't imagine being so desperate to post dumb poo poo like this that you'd repeatedly spend ten bucks to do so even after being told to gently caress off and go somewhere else. It’s not dumb at all. Gatekeeping is a problem with a lot of media nerds enjoy.
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unseenlibrarian posted:Given that at least some of the Forgotten Realms backstory was literally cut out of another fantasy game that TSR acquired the rights to in the eighties and pasted into FR it's only fair that the same happen to it, really. It would be fun as hell if TSR had gone around buying out all the D&D heartbreakers that failed to compete with it. Some of them had ideas worth folding into the big weird D&D multiverse. If I run another more-or-less conventional D&D game, I'll probably take a lot of inspiration from Pool of Radiance. Which is a good FR thing because it happens in an unimportant backwater region, and is just basically about rebuilding a beleaguered city-state and destroying a monster empire.
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Kai Tave posted:Nah, Mearls may not have made it (I don't think it was Tarnowski who did but heck, maybe it was) but I very clearly remember him agreeing with it because it was so very blatantly a Dumb Mike Mearls thing to do. https://twitter.com/KasimirUrbanski/status/730780490697998336
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Mearls also tweeted about it in a very dogwhistle bullshit way about how it was full of "Industry Unknowns".
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Mr. Maltose posted:Mearls also tweeted about it in a very dogwhistle bullshit way about how it was full of "Industry Unknowns". Here's the tweet in question: 
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Flavivirus posted:Here's the tweet in question:
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Isn't Diplomacy basically designed to make you horrible?
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Halloween Jack posted:Isn't Diplomacy basically designed to make you horrible?
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Halloween Jack posted:Isn't Diplomacy basically designed to make you horrible? We played it once, I think, about 20 years ago. I don't remember how far we got, and I realized it was really not my thing.  I think we always had a lot more fun playing D&D, Earthdawn, and - horror of horrors - Mythus, before we knew any better.
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Flavivirus posted:Here's the tweet in question: FMguru posted:Note the @lewpuls he's responding to is Lew Pulsipher, an ancient grognard who got his start running Diplomacy play-by-mail 'zines in the 1960s and whose last published game design was in 1986, who was wondering why he'd never heard of any of the panelists. Yeah there we go, I knew it was someone else Mearls was replying to instead of Tarnowski though I'm not at all surprised he had to weigh in too (lol at calling Maximum Mike a "douchebag with delusions of grandeur"). While I suppose you could squint your eyes and claim that Mearls' casual dismissiveness of the these panelists isn't really "gatekeeping" since he isn't actively attempting to keep them away from the convention, merely denigrating them and their accomplishments in a very passive-aggressive sort of fashion along with a bunch of grognard shitheads, I'm gonna say it's close enough for the judges.
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dwarf74 posted:One of my best friends from high school - Doug - is the reigning world Diplomacy champion. They were so angry, and couldn't understand why we were refusing to push for the win. But we had already won.
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