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I liked the grognards.txt posts where someone on RPG.net or something would post an anecdote that makes them sound insane and get unconditional support from the other grogs. "Sounds like they don't understand D&D if they got upset you (insert something that would get you banned for life from any place of business or higher learning)! That's the problem with these kids raised on video games, no respect for tradition."
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Halloween Jack posted:The overlooked thing about grognards.txt was that it quickly went from "Get a load of this silly person who takes gaming too seriously" to "Get a load of this misogynist racist lunatic" because it turns out that there's so much of the latter in the hobby. Yeah, I remember during the last part of grogs.txt going "I miss gameprinter." It was at lot more fun when it was posting more weird/dumb stories and not the more hateful things. Since those were alot more fun to laugh at, like the concept of "non-coercive mind control".
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Apr 4, 2018 16:26
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I liked the ones where someone decided D&D needed to properly represent dozens of historical currencies with applicable exchange rates or have exhaustive lists of medieval cheeses. You'd always learn something interesting from that
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Apr 4, 2018 16:33
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The tapping out of wells of grog was the big problem for g.txt, as it became a mixture of 1) minute-by-minute coverage of what industry chuds were up to and 2) yet another person being quoted making a point that had been already made in the thread a zillion times before. When what passes for new material became yet another nine year old amazon review of the 4E PHB calling it not actually D&D but tabletop WoW, it's probably time to bring the curtain down on the whole project. I do kind of miss having a place where we can clown on terrible people and web boards and companies, but the various chat/industry threads seem to have that covered pretty well when the need arises.
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Apr 4, 2018 16:36
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grogs.txt owned and it should live again
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Apr 4, 2018 16:38
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Nuns with Guns posted:I liked the ones where someone decided D&D needed to properly represent dozens of historical currencies with applicable exchange rates or have exhaustive lists of medieval cheeses. You'd always learn something interesting from that I did enjoy someone writing an article where they calculated how many decanters of endless water you need to irrigate a desert or something. Sorta pointless and educational at the same time
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Apr 4, 2018 16:42
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Nuns with Guns posted:I liked the ones where someone decided D&D needed to properly represent dozens of historical currencies with applicable exchange rates or have exhaustive lists of medieval cheeses. You'd always learn something interesting from that I appreciate those, without irony, because these are mostly the labor of love and I greatly support people who want to explore what they love. Serf posted:grogs.txt owned and it should live again it shouldnt you dumb gently caress
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Apr 4, 2018 16:50
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Robotic Folksinger posted:Yeah, I remember during the last part of grogs.txt going "I miss gameprinter." It was at lot more fun when it was posting more weird/dumb stories and not the more hateful things. Since those were alot more fun to laugh at, like the concept of "non-coercive mind control". Nuns with Guns posted:I liked the ones where someone decided D&D needed to properly represent dozens of historical currencies with applicable exchange rates or have exhaustive lists of medieval cheeses. You'd always learn something interesting from that
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Apr 4, 2018 16:51
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joke: grogs.txt woke: @hotgrognardtakes
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Apr 4, 2018 16:54
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Plutonis posted:it shouldnt you dumb gently caress
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Apr 4, 2018 16:59
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Robotic Folksinger posted:the concept of "non-coercive mind control". 
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Apr 4, 2018 17:49
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Serf posted:grogs.txt owned and it should live again
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I re-read Fellowship and now I'm really itching to play it, but I know none of my friends here would want to run it--they all strongly prefer systems with systematized, board game combat. They'd quite happily play Fellowship if I ran it myself--I introduced most of them to roleplaying with Dungeon World and they also really liked Blades in the Dark--but if given a choice of system the ones who've shown interest in GMing would much prefer to run something with grid combat. I just want to play the Dragon 
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Apr 4, 2018 18:03
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Splicer posted:Please don't make me emptyquote plutonis. stand in your truth lol
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Apr 4, 2018 18:05
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I've hit the point where I aggressively do not care about bad game takes unless they're some racist/sexist/transphobic/what have you bullshit and those get dunked on plenty on active threads that talk about many other topics "someone on the internet is having fun in a way I don't find fun" doesn't even make a blip on my radar in tyol 2018
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I liked Mustardgrog.
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Apr 4, 2018 18:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:joke: grogs.txt Don’t at Mearls.
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Apr 4, 2018 18:58
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Nuns with Guns posted:I liked the ones where someone decided D&D needed to properly represent dozens of historical currencies with applicable exchange rates or have exhaustive lists of medieval cheeses. You'd always learn something interesting from that I would love it if someone made a thread to catalog these kinds of things(?) This is the kind of thing I could read all day long. The previous volume of Pyramid magazine did something like this too.
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Apr 4, 2018 19:22
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I would love a version of grognards.txt that was less about gawking at racism, misogyny, and other forms of bigotry, and less about people having Wrong D&D Brain Damage Fun, and more about the crazy lengths some specific kinds of nerds will go to with their hobbies. Like D&D needing to represent dozens of historical currencies, or someone getting way too into figuring out all the in-setting ramifications of D&D wizard magic, that kind of thing.
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Apr 4, 2018 19:35
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Plutonis posted:I appreciate those, without irony, because these are mostly the labor of love and I greatly support people who want to explore what they love. I'd totally play Cheesemonger: The RPG. Especially if you got to eat cheese irl during play. Harrow posted:I would love a version of grognards.txt that was less about gawking at racism, misogyny, and other forms of bigotry, and less about people having Wrong D&D Brain Damage Fun, and more about the crazy lengths some specific kinds of nerds will go to with their hobbies. Like D&D needing to represent dozens of historical currencies, or someone getting way too into figuring out all the in-setting ramifications of D&D wizard magic, that kind of thing. A thread for goodrightfun? That'd be neat. Or at least it will up until someone finds the "Realistic Simulation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" rules somewhere
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To a certain degree I guess it might overlap with Murphy's Rules a bit, but I think a focus on things that people created for their Very Special Homebrew Setting or really amusing and specific house rules and stuff like that would keep it distinct.
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Apr 4, 2018 20:13
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Even in published products, it's always weird when you see, for example, a table of sailing rules in a game where there's a <1% chance that anyone who ever plays the game will ever have PCs doing that.
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Nuns with Guns posted:I'd totally play Cheesemonger: The RPG. Especially if you got to eat cheese irl during play. I’ve never stopped watching you, Drizzt. And I revel in this moment. Harpers. “Magic Missile”. “Tenser's Disk”. “Acid Arrow”. Is this what you wanted? Ensconcing yourself in wizardry for years, honing a style, leading a movement, only to emerge for.. Harpers? You pal up with Mystra and decide that’s reason enough to cast off your ambition? That you’ve “made it”? Beard man? Don’t you remember your origins? How ridiculous you’d find this article not more than 9 months ago? Lady Silverhand, the visage and mascot of Waterdeep, knows not the magic he plays with. Hamming it up for an organization like this is expected from him. He promotes himself reflexively. But you? Shame on me for expecting better. While you parade around for paragon-tier Harpers, I live life authentically on a dairy in Thay as an apprentice cheesemonger. I make the cheese. Do you know the discipline and precision required to make the cheese? Maybe. Once. When you understood what it meant to be discerning, what it meant to sweat. What it meant to be proud of what you do. To crave achievement. Now, though. “Spell Components”. “Levels of Conjuration”. “Metamagic”. What happened?
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Harrow posted:I would love a version of grognards.txt that was less about gawking at racism, misogyny, and other forms of bigotry, and less about people having Wrong D&D Brain Damage Fun, and more about the crazy lengths some specific kinds of nerds will go to with their hobbies. Like D&D needing to represent dozens of historical currencies, or someone getting way too into figuring out all the in-setting ramifications of D&D wizard magic, that kind of thing.
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Serf posted:grogs.txt owned and it should live again if you don't take the grog
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Really, the hard left turn for grogs.txt was Red Mage et. al debating dice expressions with Zackess and it devolving into an argument about whether or not sex workers can do basic arithmetic.
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Nuns with Guns posted:I'd totally play Cheesemonger: The RPG. Especially if you got to eat cheese irl during play. The Plundering Time The Plundering Time posted:It will depend on the class you choose. It takes place in the English colony of Maryland during the English Civil War. European choices would be as noble servant slave craftsman or Jesuit priest. Native choices are by tribe affiliation, a Susquehannock outcast or a member of the Powhatan confederacy (Pochahontas’s tribe)
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Ettin posted:That happened to one of the grognards.txt threads but not the last one. IIRC someone posted a link to the criminal record of some game dev dipshit and Winson disappeared the thread from the public forum. Oh right. The thread disappeared and then a new one popped up with stringent posting rules.
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Harrow posted:I would love a version of grognards.txt that was less about gawking at racism, misogyny, and other forms of bigotry, and less about people having Wrong D&D Brain Damage Fun, and more about the crazy lengths some specific kinds of nerds will go to with their hobbies. Like D&D needing to represent dozens of historical currencies, or someone getting way too into figuring out all the in-setting ramifications of D&D wizard magic, that kind of thing. If this were posted, what would you folks want in the OP? Any good blogs to recommend, for example?
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How much overlap would there be with the murphy thread? Any threads talking about the Knight Models DC games?
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I always have a bit of respect for RPGs that deliberately have a specific focus on what the PCs are and what they're supposed to do, with how many games we get where the system can't answer the question of 'So what do the players... y'know... do with all this?' Especially the ridiculously specialised ones. Cheese Shops & Food Critics I'd be down for. Also, now I'm hungry.
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Cassa posted:How much overlap would there be with the murphy thread? I think what I'm envisioning has less to do with a game's actual rules or funny rule interactions and more things that people insist on for "verisimilitude" or just go into way too much detail about. Or even more generally just funny or dumb house rules, even if they're not incredibly elaborate. Basically it's more interested in what extremely nerdy players impose on a game than what the game itself involves, if that makes sense. Inescapable Duck posted:I always have a bit of respect for RPGs that deliberately have a specific focus on what the PCs are and what they're supposed to do, with how many games we get where the system can't answer the question of 'So what do the players... y'know... do with all this?' Especially the ridiculously specialised ones. Cheese Shops & Food Critics I'd be down for. Yeah, specialized RPG systems rule. The more I roleplay the less I'm interested in "generic" systems where I can use them for anything. Give me Blades in the Dark, Fellowship, or even Fragged Empire (a bit more wide in scope but still made specifically to play a crew of people on a space ship having action-heavy adventures) any day. Or Cheesemongers & Food Critics. I would like to play a cheese maker please. Harrow fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Apr 5, 2018 |
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This seems a good enough place to ask as I can’t find the ‘recommend a system’ thread. My SO and I love us some tabletop but our wonky schedules make it hard to join regular weekly games. We’ve tried FATE with just the two of us but I got exhausted trying to be both GM and a character. Anyone have any ideas for 2 person RPGs? I mostly run into the fact that most recent systems focus on teamwork and it’s hard to do unless we play multiple characters:
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M.c.P posted:This seems a good enough place to ask as I can’t find the ‘recommend a system’ thread. Scarlet Heroes was designed for exactly this purpose, but if I understand your post correctly, you are looking for something where both of you can be PC's and not do the one person GM/one person character thing, right? Stars Without Number also natively supports this style of gaming (called "Heroic" style play). Otherwise a good amount of systems can work well for 2-person RPGs, provided you have a third person to GM for you.
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M.c.P posted:This seems a good enough place to ask as I can’t find the ‘recommend a system’ thread.
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Scarlet Heroes was specifically designed to be played as either a one-GM-one-player game, or even as a no-GM game, using the game's random generation tables to drive the story forward to reasonable outcomes. Stars Without Number can also do the one-GM-one-player set-up with a free supplement: Mandate Archive - Stellar Heroes.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Stars Without Number can also do the one-GM-one-player set-up with a free supplement: Mandate Archive - Stellar Heroes. The Revised Edition has this integrated into (the paid version of) the core book now. But that Mandate Archive is still a useful read. Drone fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Apr 5, 2018 |
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I happen to be in the UK/London these days and I see Salute is on next weekend. Worth a visit just to have a wander? A bit broke and not really in the position to start any new systems at the moment.
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M.c.P posted:Anyone have any ideas for 2 person RPGs? I mostly run into the fact that most recent systems focus on teamwork and it’s hard to do unless we play multiple characters: Mystic Empyrean has a system where you'd basically be alternating the GM role during encounters. It works with three players, but I don't know if it'll scale down to two. I'm pretty sure you can do Lovecraftesque with two players as well, although that's more of a one-shot thing. Have you considered using the Mythic GM Emulator and both playing characters in some other system? It's not the traditional RPG experience but it might scratch the right itch. potatocubed fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Apr 5, 2018 |
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