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Blockhouse posted:let's talk about Dragonlance b-but Dark Sun
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Dragonlance is funny because on the one hand, superficially speaking it's nice Christian ethics baked into a D&D setting, but on the other hand it's really a dualistic conflict between fantasy expies of two Babylonian god-beasts, thinly papered over as Jesus-Dragon and Satan-Dragon. Anyways it's all trash but Kaz is way cooler than Drizzt.
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Feb 21, 2018 20:55
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Drone posted:b-but Dark Sun I know like three things about Dark Sun it was the setting my step-dad who I hated liked while Dragonlance was my dad who I vaguely tolerated's so it never really had a chance
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Feb 21, 2018 20:56
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The Dragonlance novels were pretty cool until I read fantasy novels that were actually good.
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Feb 21, 2018 20:57
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I'm actually curious about how Greyhawk developed from Gary and Dave's Sandbox to something more defined. There's a sort-of legendary essay about what makes Greyhawk Greyhawk, but I don't really know.
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm actually curious about how Greyhawk developed from Gary and Dave's Sandbox to something more defined. There's a sort-of legendary essay about what makes Greyhawk Greyhawk, but I don't really know. it probably doesn't help that this was written by someone with a big ol axe to grind
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Feb 21, 2018 21:02
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It's incredibly axe-grindy against the Forgotten Realms, but making GBS threads on the Forgotten Realms is extremely my poo poo.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:04
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What's the Forgotten Realms equivalent of 9/11? I think my next character is going to be a Truther.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:04
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LongDarkNight posted:What's the Forgotten Realms equivalent of 9/11? I think my next character is going to be a Truther. Well the entire Forgotten Realms is just one huge ongoing disaster, so...
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Feb 21, 2018 21:05
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I"m reading the Canterbury Tales by my man Chaucer because I'm have stopped buying from the fantasy section after I graduated from high school
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Feb 21, 2018 21:10
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Hostile V posted:If your players end up thinking you're an rear end in a top hat, put a pause on the game for a few minutes and have a honest discussion with your players to listen to why they feel this way and address concerns. Work out why it isn't working by talking to them and clear up concerns and misconceptions caused by your ideas as a GM being different from how they're reading it as players. That's all you need to do. About other issues, I'd say this works fine. But it tends not to work with challenge. Basically, players (both mine and many others I've interacted with) always seem to assume that a GM will sell a game as more challenging and "gritty" than it actually is. They'll also blame the game system initially rather than the GM - which becomes a vote for more 5e, of course. (Don't worry, I'm not going to rant for 14 pages.)
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Feb 21, 2018 21:12
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LongDarkNight posted:What's the Forgotten Realms equivalent of 9/11? I think my next character is going to be a Truther. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Greenwood
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Feb 21, 2018 21:14
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Hyphz, there are no rules for how many rolls to success because that's just decided by the GM. That sounds like GM fiat to you. That's because it basically is. How successful players are in AW is basically determined by GM fiat. That's how the game works. If you want the players to succeed at a thing, require few rolls and use soft moves. If you want them to fail, require many rolls and make hard moves. Your intention is not guided by capricious whim, but by your agendas. The dice still get their say because the moves are often specific about the choices the players can make. So while your intention as GM will guide things generally, the randomizers will still give a range of results. I know GM fiat is a bad word to you and you worry that your players will blame you when they fail. The solution is not to play that game with players who think like that. Play with players who already know you are not an rear end in a top hat and who don't get whiny when things don't go their characters' way. I know just the type of players you mean and have played D&D with them. Don't play Apocalypse World with those players. Once they get the notion into their heads that they don't need to optimize every drat thing, then you can play with them. Until then, play games that define success and failure more strictly.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:14
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We just got out of the hole. Don't push us back in.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:15
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Nuke it from orbit Ettin, it's the only way to be safe.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:17
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Please stop talking about AW, my session last week was so bad my poor lil' heart can't bear to have it brought up repeatedly so soon. Too soon. 
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I've been workshopping my own dumb fantasy setting for years that's basically what if adventuring guilds were just Ghostbusters
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Feb 21, 2018 21:20
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Oh no, not RPG chat in the RPG chat thread! If you would rather derail onto something else, let's talk Orville vs Discovery. Which is the better Trek? Which is more woke? Which is more gameable if I want to play a Trek RPG?
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Feb 21, 2018 21:20
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Jimbozig posted:Oh no, not RPG chat in the RPG chat thread! Deep Space 9
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Feb 21, 2018 21:21
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LongDarkNight posted:What's the Forgotten Realms equivalent of 9/11? I think my next character is going to be a Truther.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:21
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Here's a question, where do we discuss Patreon? Like I understand that as a platform it probably goes in the industry thread, but where do we discuss individual Patreons for game aides and adventurers and new games and stuff. I'm just kind of wondering. Is the Kickstarter thread appropriate?
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Feb 21, 2018 22:45
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hyphz have you actually read AW?
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Lightning Lord posted:Companion level Basic D&D Is the original Companion Set presentation of the BECMI domain management rules less opaque than the one in the Rules Cyclopedia? Because I tried to get my head around that once and couldn't figure out basic information like how to actually make rolls for random events: the percentages on the tables add up to more than 100%, so when I decide an event is called for do I just go down the list and roll on each one individually until something happens, or...?
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Feb 21, 2018 23:17
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https://twitter.com/OneShotNetwork/status/966413951675371523 RPG podcast network One Shot finished investigating accusations of sexual harassment against one of it's contributors, and not only cleared his name but found an alt-right campaign to defame the network. It's some real weird poo poo.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:55
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Plutonis posted:Deep Space 9 The most true statement in this thread.
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Thuryl posted:Is the original Companion Set presentation of the BECMI domain management rules less opaque than the one in the Rules Cyclopedia? Because I tried to get my head around that once and couldn't figure out basic information like how to actually make rolls for random events: the percentages on the tables add up to more than 100%, so when I decide an event is called for do I just go down the list and roll on each one individually until something happens, or...? IIRC yes, just roll each event, and if one happens, stop.
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Star Trek Discovery is loving trashgarbobad.
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In other news, does anyone know what happened with the Spellbound Kingdoms: Arcana kickstarter? It sort of said it was about to be released and then it wasn't.
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Last update was a comment posted on January 9th saying that they weren't fully finished but still close and that they didn't want to rush things that weren't ready. So who knows.
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Sion posted:Star Trek Discovery is loving trashgarbobad. As far as being compared to the Orville goes, it does have the advantage of having nothing to do with Seth McFarlane.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:As far as being compared to the Orville goes, it does have the advantage of having nothing to do with Seth McFarlane. Yeah but you're swinging for a low ball there. There is some offensively awful poo poo in Discovery. From the idiot-plot (a plot that only works if everyone involved is an idiot), the loving warcrime committed in the second episode, the general loving visual ugliness of the entire production, the fact that we're told and never shown that the federation is apparently a lot of people doing good things, the Captain that straight up goes 'gently caress this seeking new life poo poo, I'm gonna explode this giant tardegrade to make my engine go faster,' to the total waste of the mirror universe plot line. Like- it is just offensively terrible, on an almost overwhelming degree. Sion fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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Jimbozig posted:Oh no, not RPG chat in the RPG chat thread! Extremely hot take: Orville is the better Star Trek series, but Discovery is more gameable because the set-up is literally that they have a license to be murderhobos in service of winning the war against the Klingons.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:As far as being compared to the Orville goes, it does have the advantage of having nothing to do with Seth McFarlane. Did you watch past the first episode
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LongDarkNight posted:What's the Forgotten Realms equivalent of 9/11? I think my next character is going to be a Truther. There’s a set of Ao-worshipping Time of Troubles truthers in Waterdeep in 2e and 3e.
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One series is an unfunny parody of Trek that gets tiresome to the eye and is disrespectful to all it stands for, as well as to the tv watcher's time and taste. The other is directed by Seth McFarlane
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hyphz posted:In other news, does anyone know what happened with the Spellbound Kingdoms: Arcana kickstarter? It sort of said it was about to be released and then it wasn't. He revealed the book cover on December 3rd, then like senrath said, he left a kickstarter comment on January 9th that he was "polishing" stuff.
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Sion posted:Star Trek Discovery is loving trashgarbobad. It is the only Trek series that has ever starred a woman, or a person of color. Sion posted:Yeah but you're swinging for a low ball there. These are the stories that must to be told, and in the Age of Trump idealism must be put aside for the greater good.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:56
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Bedlamdan posted:It is the only Trek series that has ever starred a woman, or a person of color. I hope this is just a joke going over my head
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Feb 22, 2018 02:58
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Insomuch as bad posting can be called a joke, yes.
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cheetah7071 posted:I hope this is just a joke going over my head Mr. Maltose posted:Insomuch as bad posting can be called a joke, yes. All I did was copy paste other people’s defenses of Discovery, so take it up with them! 
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