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Can someone post Nerd Porn Auteur? The full version ideally.
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Apr 20, 2018 04:30
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kingcom posted:And transphobic and in general loving creepy as hell. Those are very 80s things. Maybe he is just nostalgically transphobic! Somehow all the 90s kids I know have managed not to be nostalgic over Limp Bizkit and Ace Ventura and are rightly embarrassed for having liked those things. Why can't the gen xers have the decency to admit how lovely their media was?
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Apr 20, 2018 04:34
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As a bit of change, I've been feeling down lately as I lost my job. They claim it was "always a temporary position for one busy season." I frankly feel a bit used since my offer letter never mentions that. But I've been feeling better. I have a great family who is there for me and support me and, honestly, I feel like a really lucky guy despite losing my job. To relate this back to TRPGs, I got a confidence boost today because fans of Friendship, Effort, Victory found me on the internet and invited me to sit in on their online game and chatted with me about how much they like the game and just general bullshit. It was very nice to see people having fun with something I created.
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Apr 20, 2018 04:50
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Covok posted:
Why don't uh, Why don't you just say "we're doing super heroes, pick your favourite from Marvel/DC/Anime? If you want to do some fun stuff, Galactus ate Krypton, Or have Frieza Employ some Kree or something, just really let your players go hog-wild.
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Apr 20, 2018 05:58
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I can't believe I made Ready Player One for TTRPG.
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Covok posted:
Honestly, that'w where a lot of online superhero roleplay MUSHs started to gravitate towards. As the online playerbase shrank, it's become harder and harder to be a MUSH just based on one fandom, so they just let people go totally self-indulgent. It's usually best done in a lighthearted way, I feel, it's pretty easy to tone-clash if you're not careful. But then, that's true even within just Marvel or DC themselves.
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Apr 20, 2018 06:05
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Covok posted:I wanted to play a licensed setting, but couldn't decide on which one so I just farted out a setting where you can play in all of them at once. I'm reminded of my old idea where Digimon, Medabots, Mega Man Battle Network, Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh! all share a setting and compete for the same demographics. A collection of neglected monster pets (and an outdated sentient antivirus program) all competing for their disinterested owner's attention or otherwise trying to kill time.
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Apr 20, 2018 06:16
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Here's the thing about Ready Player One: How many protons does he think a hydrogen atom has?
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Apr 20, 2018 08:18
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm reminded of my old idea where Digimon, Medabots, Mega Man Battle Network, Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh! all share a setting and compete for the same demographics. A collection of neglected monster pets (and an outdated sentient antivirus program) all competing for their disinterested owner's attention or otherwise trying to kill time. so uh real life? but the toys are alive?
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Apr 20, 2018 08:27
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For next session, let's do some worldbuilding, I want you to come up with the name of the gang that's feuding with your own and their leader *weeks pass* listen, it's okay that the only name you can come up with is Bloodhound Gang, just be aware that their leader will be a serial arsonist
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Apr 20, 2018 11:18
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Elfgames posted:so uh real life? but the toys are alive?
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Apr 20, 2018 11:48
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So Monte Cook is selling DM assistance materials that are customized to some unknown degree, but only for Invisible Sun."The Directed Campaign posted:Imagine this: You’ve decided to run an Invisible Sun campaign. You’ve got the rules and setting down, and some great introductory material. But wouldn’t it be cool if Monte himself provided you with a bunch of unique ideas? And those ideas came with new artwork, maps, and handouts for your players, and even a few new clues to mysteries in the game besides? And what if, month after month, he kept sending them to you, tailoring the content to your campaign, and even occasionally sending you physical packages with even more deluxe props and cool stuff for your game? $200 for the year.
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Apr 20, 2018 12:48
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Subjunctive posted:So Monte Cook is selling DM assistance materials that are customized to some unknown degree, but only for Invisible Sun. It's like Blue Apron for nerds.
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Apr 20, 2018 12:51
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I feel like the optimal use of that would be to run the stupidest campaign possible, to see how much Monte Cook was willing to customize around bad PC ideas, but I presume the answer is "he isn't."
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Apr 20, 2018 13:15
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The most damning thing about Ready Player One is that it got Wil Wheaton to voice the audiobook.
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Apr 20, 2018 13:25
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Antivehicular posted:I feel like the optimal use of that would be to run the stupidest campaign possible, to see how much Monte Cook was willing to customize around bad PC ideas, but I presume the answer is "he isn't." quote:Your Directed Campaign will not be specifically customized to you, but the content you receive will be specific to the information you report to us, and it’s entirely possible that no two Directed Campaigns will be exactly the same. So basically it's a pre-set campaign that's going to deal with rail-jumping very, very badly. I mean, I can understand why you'd do it that way -- you could run a thing like that with heavy customisation, but it would cost way more than $200 just in cost of materials, let alone time. I'm mostly just green with envy at Monte's ability to monetise his fanbase.
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Apr 20, 2018 13:36
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It's going to be like that Simpsons episode where Lisa gets a personal caricature down by an artist at a festival. Artist: [making small talk] So girly, you like roller skate'n? Lisa: No. Artist: Yeahhhhh, everybody loves roller skate'n! And hands Lisa a picture of her on roller skates.
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Apr 20, 2018 13:48
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Ferrinus posted:Here's the thing about Ready Player One: 
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Apr 20, 2018 14:32
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Why would you pay $200 to admit that you can't GM for poo poo, when you already bought Invisible Sun?
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Apr 20, 2018 14:45
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Halloween Jack posted:Why would you pay $200 to admit that you can't GM for poo poo, when you already bought Invisible Sun? clearly your players will buy it for you just like they bought you invisible sun
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Apr 20, 2018 14:51
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Monte must've had a super bad and dumb spin on his Wheel of Original Tabletop Ideas to actually decide "you know what my fundamentally d20 nightmare surrealist horror game needs? METAPLOT! Just like the good ol' days".
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Apr 20, 2018 15:08
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GimpInBlack posted:It's like Blue Apron for nerds. what's the MeUndies in this analogy
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Apr 20, 2018 15:12
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If any one of us could get away with charging people $200/year for "custom" RPG advice that's identical across the board, I suspect we'd jump on it in a heartbeat.
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Apr 20, 2018 15:12
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gradenko_2000 posted:what's the MeUndies in this analogy hmm, same as something you can get for much cheaper elsewhere and is full of poo poo? D&D beyond
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Apr 20, 2018 15:14
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Hostile V posted:Monte must've had a super bad and dumb spin on his Wheel of Original Tabletop Ideas to actually decide "you know what my fundamentally d20 nightmare surrealist horror game needs? METAPLOT! Just like the good ol' days". Meta plot makes a lot of sense from an I want to keep making money off of this property standpoint.
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Apr 20, 2018 15:17
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Elfgames posted:so uh real life? but the toys are alive? Splicer posted:Toy Story but even darker More like Toy Story but the kid is aware of the toys' sentience and has to tell them to get a life of their own, in this case. A bit like Ted. I honestly feel there's some probably comedic potential to it, with Digimon having rivalries with Net-Navis and Medabots, something like wild vs domestic animals. (Pokemon seems an obvious omission, but that's on purpose, as Pokemon already has a setting with some thought about how humanity coexists with magical semi-sentient animals with superpowers, the franchises used for ideas revolve around an otherwise familiar world where children's games are magic)
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Apr 20, 2018 15:29
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ProfessorCirno posted:There's not much to tell, his constant masturbatory nerd fantasies just never quite seem to involve people of color or any of the things they make - except for two Japanese people who are samurai and comment on how honorable and distinguished the main character is. It's not just "a nerd who can't get over their nerd vision of the 80's," it's that this vision is literally just white dudes and the things they personally made, and nothing else. Also I liked how the evil corporate badguy blew up a trailer to target the protagonist, killing hundreds of people, and when he shows up in the neighborhood and is confronted with the people there whose family members and friends he murdered, the people don't tear him apart. Never mind that he's the CEO of a massive corporation in a cyberpunk dystopia, let's hope the cops take him in. A couple of the guys from RiffTrax did a podcast appropriately titled 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back where they read, discuss, and mock RPO and then Cline's newer book Armada, which answers the question, "What if The Last Starfighter was a huge wad of nerd references and really sucked?" Along with all the other stuff, Cline is just kind of bad at putting words together.
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Apr 20, 2018 15:32
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slap me and kiss me posted:If any one of us could get away with charging people $200/year for "custom" RPG advice that's identical across the board, I suspect we'd jump on it in a heartbeat. As the game master, there is a level of separation between yourself and the player characters. You are not quite one of them. You are everyone else in the game world. This does not mean you are their adversary in the flow of game play. Rather you are the gate keeper of possibilities while they (the players) are the seekers. You provide the consequences of the party's decisions, for better or for worse. As long as you are sensible and do not give unduly favor or punishment to one player over the others and vice versa, you can maintain a good mood among the group. The game master's screen is a common tool that helps to emphasize the roles of the game master and the players. This difference can be a good thing if you are running the session as a show rather than an exchange between friends. You can take it further. For my sessions, I planned to wear a mask to hide my face. I chose a mask similar to the one used by the phantom of the opera, except that it covered both sides. White and expressionless to erase my appearance of humanity and partially detach the players from the notion that I am anything but the concept of the storyteller. It also creates an air of mystique, drawing the players' attention further into the story you tell. It is important that you accompany this mask with a more subtle mask. The "true game master's mask". You must act more confident and add that to your voice when you narrate. Act like you know something that the players don't, especially because you do. You can go so far as to change the accent with which you speak, as if putting on the physical mask also changed your persona into that of "the game master".
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Apr 20, 2018 15:32
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gradenko_2000 posted:what's the MeUndies in this analogy Pathfinder Online.
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Apr 20, 2018 15:38
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Halloween Jack posted:As the game master, there is a level of separation between yourself and the player characters. You are not quite one of them. You are everyone else in the game world. This does not mean you are their adversary in the flow of game play. Rather you are the gate keeper of possibilities while they (the players) are the seekers. You provide the consequences of the party's decisions, for better or for worse. As long as you are sensible and do not give unduly favor or punishment to one player over the others and vice versa, you can maintain a good mood among the group. Where do I paypal you $50?
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Apr 20, 2018 15:38
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YuGiOh! decks might even be interesting as PC concepts given they're implicitly little piles of ancient interdimensional heroes, monsters and soldiers from long-forgotten wars brought into existence at the bidding of kings and wizards for their own petty conflicts, and now toys for children. Is there a thread for wackadoodle drunk RPG ideas?
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Apr 20, 2018 15:39
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I've been told I could probably make some money condensing my random endless ridiculous ideas into random charts in PDFs and selling them on DriveThruRPG, wondering if there's some merit to that.
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Apr 20, 2018 15:40
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Halloween Jack posted:As the game master, there is a level of separation between yourself and the player characters. You are not quite one of them. You are everyone else in the game world. This does not mean you are their adversary in the flow of game play. Rather you are the gate keeper of possibilities while they (the players) are the seekers. You provide the consequences of the party's decisions, for better or for worse. As long as you are sensible and do not give unduly favor or punishment to one player over the others and vice versa, you can maintain a good mood among the group. Is that from the OP of grogs.txt?
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Apr 20, 2018 16:00
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Xiahou Dun posted:Is that from the OP of grogs.txt? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3098558
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Apr 20, 2018 16:24
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've been told I could probably make some money condensing my random endless ridiculous ideas into random charts in PDFs and selling them on DriveThruRPG, wondering if there's some merit to that. If someone can sell a random Horse Generator' why not? I appreciate whoever this person is cranking out all these random tables with their ugly pastel covers.
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Apr 20, 2018 17:30
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It's probably not worth it - dtrpg put out stats yesterday which reveal the top 30% of publishers make 99% of the money.
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Apr 20, 2018 17:33
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I know at least one person on the forums has made some bucks for lists. The most disappointing table compilation I've ever seen was a book of gems, which really was really just a bunch of random tables for rolling the exact characteristics of gems. Nothing about settings or decoration or anything, just precious stones.
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Apr 20, 2018 17:35
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slap me and kiss me posted:It's probably not worth it - dtrpg put out stats yesterday which reveal the top 30% of publishers make 99% of the money. that sounds familiar
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Apr 20, 2018 17:37
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while you should always feel comfortable demanding money for work, is it worth it from a fiscal standpoint to do any TTRPG work whatsoever? posted:It's That said, if it's mostly for the love of the thing and you'll probably do it anyway, why not try to get a cheap sandwich or maybe some dollar menu fries out of it?
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Apr 20, 2018 17:58
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Halloween Jack posted:I know at least one person on the forums has made some bucks for lists. Its me! (and everyone that actually writes the lists which is like a third of the posters here). Looking at my taxes, I made just shy of $800 last year. I can't get to the numbers right now, but I haven't put up a new list in like 2 years, and the money is still trickling in. Its nowhere near anything like a real income, but it supports my other hobbies well enough and has gotten me lunch quite a few times and out of plenty of tight spots. Gem generator sounds like one of ours. Horse generator, I wish I had thought of.
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Apr 20, 2018 18:01
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That Old Tree posted:That said, if it's mostly for the love of the thing and you'll probably do it anyway, why not try to get a cheap sandwich or maybe some dollar menu fries out of it? Sure, if it's mostly for love. If one's trying to come up with new ways to make actual dollars, almost anything else is going to be a surer bet.
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Apr 20, 2018 18:07
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