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Objectively The Worst map. gradenko_2000 posted:The topic of "super speed" came up in the TG Kickstarter thread, and I had a thought: There are a few things this runs into. The thread already pointed out the cognitive dissonance between faster = more damage, but it also runs into what I call 'the X-COM Problem'. The X-COM Problem is the following: You have two weapons. -One deals a little more damage, but is single shot only. -One deals standard damage, but has auto-fire. In almost every situation, the weapon with auto-fire will be stronger because more attacks = more chances to do damage. The single shot weapon which deals a little more damage is all-or-nothing - you either hit and get all the damage, or you don't and get none of it. The auto-fire weapon, meanwhile, gets many different damage states. You can hit with all of the attacks and deal even more damage than the single shot, hit with some of the attacks and still deal some damage, or hit with none and deal zero damage. Tuxedo Catfish posted:Action economy is the worst of it but multiplication in any form is dangerous in RPGs. Proof: Any RPG from the 1980s, including this - http://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/cyborg-gygax-1987/1/
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LuiCypher posted:The X-COM Problem is the following: I thought that the X-COM Problem is that both choices are invalidated by bringing a blaster bomb.
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I knew a guy once who was a Champions fan, and he'd always seek to play super-strong speedsters, since that was a way to maximize actions (by boosting Speed) and damage (by boosting Strength). Then he'd do this in other systems uncritically, because he presumed that was the One True Build and would be heartbroken when games like Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Edition didn't support that kind of malarkey.
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Mar 13, 2018 16:30
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Super speed multiplies your post-soak damage, while super strength multiplies your pre-soak damage. Easy.
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Mar 13, 2018 16:32
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slap me and kiss me posted:I thought that the X-COM Problem is that both choices are invalidated by bringing a blaster bomb. drat you, wizards! 
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Mar 13, 2018 16:55
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Alternatively, you could do it WH40K RPG-style. There's a threshold you have to beat to hit multiple times as part of any attack (in game terms, degrees of success), haste just lowers the threshold to make it more likely that you will hit more than once.
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Haste allows anyone to take a second action at the bottom of the initiative order so long as they complete their first turn in less than 60 seconds of real-life time.
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Mar 13, 2018 17:04
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slap me and kiss me posted:Haste allows anyone to take a second action at the bottom of the initiative order so long as they complete their first turn in less than 60 seconds of real-life time.
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The hastes person no longer has a turn and takes their actions during other people's turns. To take an action they must describe and roll their action before the other player describes and rolls their action while the non-hasted players talk rreeaall ssslllooowww.
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Hasted person can act on every enemy turn, but can’t repeat any words when describing their actions. If they repeat a word, the effect ends for the rest of the encounter.
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Subjunctive posted:Hasted person can act on every enemy turn, but can’t repeat any words when describing their actions. If they repeat a word, the effect ends for the rest of the encounter. Splicer posted:The hastes person no longer has a turn and takes their actions during other people's turns. To take an action they must describe and roll their action before the other player describes and rolls their action while the non-hasted players talk rreeaall ssslllooowww. Yawgmoth posted:And if they don't also finish the Hasted action in under 60 seconds it eats their normal turn. Yes to all of these!
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Mar 13, 2018 19:37
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Hasted person can act whenever they like, but the effect persists only while they run laps around the room.
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Mar 13, 2018 19:39
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potatocubed posted:Hasted person can act whenever they like, but the effect persists only while they run laps around the room. How'd you get ahold of my latest version of Deadlifts and Dragons?
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Mar 13, 2018 19:46
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slap me and kiss me posted:How'd you get ahold of my latest version of Deadlifts and Dragons? I lifted it.
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Mar 13, 2018 19:49
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potatocubed posted:I lifted it. Jerk.
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https://twitter.com/SICKOFWOLVES/status/973272746112069634
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Thought: is it actually okay to roleplay as a person of a different race or ethnicity?
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Bedlamdan posted:Thought: is it actually okay to roleplay as a person of a different race or ethnicity? Sure as long as you're not dumb about it.
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Bedlamdan posted:Thought: is it actually okay to roleplay as a person of a different race or ethnicity? Or gender, or age?
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Subjunctive posted:Or gender, or age? It's far harder to think of how a person might inadvertently reinforce negative stereotypes for those two.
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If you say so!
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Bedlamdan posted:Thought: is it actually okay to roleplay as a person of a different race or ethnicity? i sure hope so because there's a lot of fantasy settings without a not-Mexico (or at least a not lovely not-Mexico) and it'd suck if i couldn't play in those settings
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Bedlamdan posted:Thought: is it actually okay to roleplay as a person of a different race or ethnicity? If not, how is the GM supposed to do their thing?
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Bedlamdan posted:Thought: is it actually okay to roleplay as a person of a different race or ethnicity? It is not okay to roleplay
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Brother Entropy posted:i sure hope so because there's a lot of fantasy settings without a not-Mexico (or at least a not lovely not-Mexico) and it'd suck if i couldn't play in those settings Yeah, I almost never play Native American characters because most of my gaming to date has been in Urban Fantasy or Superheroes and the...cultural inertia of how they're portrayed in those genres is...it's the reason why a friend who's Roma never plays her own race either.
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 New blogpost is up, for The Next Project, delving more deeply into skill use and "skill challenges."This topic was requested by forums-goon and TNP Discord regular Generic Octopus, so be cool like him, and suggest stuff you would like me to write about, for this system. Today's post essentially expands on a previous post that was very well-received, so check that out, too.
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RIP Stephen Hawking ;o;7
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Bedlamdan posted:RIP Stephen Hawking ;o;7 Well poo poo
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https://twitter.com/Coelasquid/status/973832169293574144
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Bedlamdan posted:It's far harder to think of how a person might inadvertently reinforce negative stereotypes for those two.
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Brother Entropy posted:i sure hope so because there's a lot of fantasy settings without a not-Mexico (or at least a not lovely not-Mexico) and it'd suck if i couldn't play in those settings A lot of settings have Japan but, well...
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My Lovely Horse posted:I wiggle my teenage boobs at the guard and offer him a blowjob if he lets us into the city without a fuss. I remember that doujin.
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Where's the chart for people who call it coriander, like God intended?
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thefakenews posted:Where's the chart for people who call it coriander, like God intended? In hell, where god intended you to live
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Nuns with Guns posted:In hell, where god intended you to live But they call it cilantro in the United States?...
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The leaves and stems are cilantro, the seeds are coriander. It’s really quite simple.
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Reminder that the british call their fries "chips" while they dipping them in mayo, and call their chips "crisps" while eating ketchup-prawn flavored ones
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Nuns with Guns posted:In hell, where god intended you to live thefakenews posted:But they call it cilantro in the United States?... So this is the bad place!
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Nuns with Guns posted:Reminder that the british call their fries "chips" while they dipping them in mayo, and call their chips "crisps" while eating ketchup-prawn flavored ones As if the Savile, that guy from Lostprophets and their ilk weren't enough.
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