|
Ghost Leviathan posted:I like making big random charts to roll on, but actually doing the numbers is a pain, especially if you want to go back to add in new things or adjust the odds. Are there any tools or programs that can make this easier? Download it or whatever.
|
#
?
Apr 29, 2018 21:32
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 12:50 |
|
|
it's actually not a good point, is the thing
|
|
#
?
Apr 29, 2018 21:41
|
|
|
Under capitalism there's an incentive to teach people to take up the harmful practice of conflating their identity with their hobbies, which should be counteracted not by teaching people to shun the hobbies most afflicted with this, but by teaching people healthy ways of enjoying things. Edit: I mean in addition to getting rid of the capitalism, of course Bongo Bill fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Apr 29, 2018 |
|
#
?
Apr 29, 2018 22:24
|
|
|
paradoxGentleman posted:What's better: representation only existing because it sells, or no representation? *breathes up so much air that I turn into a massive air balloon before I let out a hurricane-powered sigh* Well, I guess you can do that.
|
|
#
?
Apr 29, 2018 23:52
|
|
|
Splicer posted:A hastily assembled gift! Yay! Thanks!
|
|
#
?
Apr 30, 2018 00:54
|
|
|
Lotta bad posts the last couple pages, none of them from plutonis weirdly
|
|
#
?
Apr 30, 2018 03:09
|
|
|
 New blogpost is up for Let Thrones BewareToday's topic: Core Mechanic - The Challenge - Community Questions We continue our look at the core mechanic that powers the system - the challenge. This week, we'll run through community questions about the universal challenge mechanic (and Let Thrones Beware more generally). Core Mechanic - The Challenge - Community Questions
|
|
#
?
Apr 30, 2018 14:35
|
|
|
WELP I just bought a small stack of used Kindle Fires for practically nothing so now I can run basically anything on DriveThruRPG in real life around a table with copies for everyone. Feels good.
|
|
#
?
Apr 30, 2018 21:50
|
|
|
Do your players each buy copies, or do you gift copies to them somehow?
|
|
#
?
Apr 30, 2018 23:03
|
|
|
Subjunctive posted:Do your players each buy copies, or do you gift copies to them somehow? You just log into your file sharing account with all the tablets and pull the pdf down to acrobat. I have a more expensive tablet that I run from so I just email shares out to player's phones.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 01:30
|
|
|
Oh, I see. That’s not what I thought you meant.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 01:31
|
|
|
food court bailiff posted:As profoundly stupid as Ready Player One is and as horribly offputting as Ernest Cline is as a person I had fun at the RPO movie. I went into it expecting to loathe it and the premise is still balls-out stupid but it cuts out like 95% of the endless fellating of the mid-80s and replaces it with goofy action sequences. The movie has a single, intense point of fascination for me: The first few minutes are very smart. The protagonist lays out how, if the virtual world is a real economy that's replaced the real world for many people, the same injustices would reproduce themselves. If you can make money gaming, then those who already have money for fancy gear have the advantage. If gaming is a career, it will become wage slavery for some people. If you can win a corporation by finding an Easter Egg, some corporation will just make a think tank of media studies majors and basically brute-force it. The entire plot of the movie is then a soothing fantasy that defies this logic. A group of plucky teenagers will beat Walmart because they're spiritually pure. (Spirituality, in Ernest Cline's moral universe, means identifying completely with pop culture--or, gently caress, just the act of referencing it.) paradoxGentleman posted:What's better: representation only existing because it sells, or no representation?
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 03:35
|
|
|
Halloween Jack posted:The entire plot of the movie is then a soothing fantasy that defies this logic. A group of plucky teenagers will beat Walmart because they're spiritually pure. (Spirituality, in Ernest Cline's moral universe, means identifying completely with pop culture--or, gently caress, just the act of referencing it.) Mainstream religion has pretty much already become irrelevant (and arguably almost entirely its own fault) as far as spirituality is concerned, pop culture already takes up much of the same space religion once did in popular imagination, community and shared symbology.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 13:32
|
|
|
Ghost Leviathan posted:Mainstream religion has pretty much already become irrelevant (and arguably almost entirely its own fault) as far as spirituality is concerned, pop culture already takes up much of the same space religion once did in popular imagination, community and shared symbology. https://twitter.com/simonlauchlan/status/990650118826348546?s=09
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 13:40
|
|
|
are there any good podcasts focused on tabletop / rpg game design / theory
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 14:50
|
|
|
Ghost Leviathan posted:Mainstream religion has pretty much already become irrelevant (and arguably almost entirely its own fault) as far as spirituality is concerned, pop culture already takes up much of the same space religion once did in popular imagination, community and shared symbology. This really fucks with the way we've been taught to see capitalism as God and markets as a means of communion with God.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 15:04
|
|
|
HAIL SOCIALIST SATAN!
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 15:22
|
|
|
Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:are there any good podcasts focused on tabletop / rpg game design / theory I believe the Gauntlet does at least one in that vein, but they do so many I couldn't tell you which one it might be.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 18:01
|
|
|
Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:are there any good podcasts focused on tabletop / rpg game design / theory There's always Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 18:17
|
|
|
Haystack posted:There's always Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff. I was going to recommend this as well.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 19:44
|
|
|
K&RTAS have a lot of great stuff to say about game design. They do talk about other stuff, and occasionally Ken says something that makes me so mad I don't listen to any episodes for awhile. Consequently, despite my habit of mainlining podcasts while doing housework, I'm literally years behind on it.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 19:47
|
|
|
Halloween Jack posted:K&RTAS have a lot of great stuff to say about game design. They do talk about other stuff, and occasionally Ken says something that makes me so mad I don't listen to any episodes for awhile. Consequently, despite my habit of mainlining podcasts while doing housework, I'm literally years behind on it. It’s weird how Ken is from an alternate universe where Woodrow Wilson was our worst president because Johnson was succeeded directly by Carter and The Clinton Foundation was revealed as a money-laundering front via FBI sting operation in early 2016 and Donald Trump ran as an independent.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 20:14
|
|
|
That sounds miserable lol
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 20:27
|
|
|
Don't worry, we can still fix all of the 20th century's problems by going back in time and killing...Lenin.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 20:29
|
|
|
sweet thanks, ken and robin with my finger on the fast forward button sounds like what i'm looking for
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 20:31
|
|
|
Oh wow this guy sounds unpleasant, leave your weird AU politics out of elfgames probably? Anyhow let's talk about Eberron and how cool Eberron is. Does anyone else fill Eberron full of guns though because I do.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 20:34
|
|
|
drunkencarp posted:It’s weird how Ken is from an alternate universe where Woodrow Wilson was our worst president because Johnson was succeeded directly by Carter and The Clinton Foundation was revealed as a money-laundering front via FBI sting operation in early 2016 and Donald Trump ran as an independent.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 20:40
|
|
|
Ghost Leviathan posted:
Halloween Jack posted:No argument here. We are then left to cope with the fact that someone literally owns what we think of as our culture and our spirituality. paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 21:22 on May 1, 2018 |
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 21:12
|
|
|
Halloween Jack posted:Calling the Clinton Foundation a money-laundering front is overselling it; Hillary Clinton had an outrageously pay-to-play career as Secretary of State and it's all completely aboveboard and legal. Indeed, it seems that these Haitains have the misguided impression that philantropy is supposed to be 'for free' and positive.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 21:15
|
|
|
Moriatti posted:Anyhow let's talk about Eberron and how cool Eberron is. Does anyone else fill Eberron full of guns though because I do.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 21:26
|
|
|
Sharn, City of Towers is one of the more underrated campaign setting books out there. https://www.amazon.com/Sharn-City-Towers-Eberron-Supplement/dp/0786934344 Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:sweet thanks, ken and robin with my finger on the fast forward button sounds like what i'm looking for I do this anyway because I can't stand the repetitive commercials inside the podcast. When Ken (?) starts talking about blueberries do stop to take a listen. He loves his superfood 
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 21:31
|
|
|
Helical Nightmares posted:Sharn, City of Towers is one of the more underrated campaign setting books out there. Oh poo poo this looks very good! Yeah, I think one of the things I love about Eberron is that it's mostly suggestions and plot hooks without being pre-written lore. Lots of cool places to go and do (especially in and around Breland) and it seems pretty futureproof as far as character types go with it's uncharted territories and cities of monsters type stuff.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 22:14
|
|
|
I guess my only complaint about Eberron is that most of the religion stuff seems pretty unengaging. Then again, the most interesting stuff in D&D religion is generally either evil cults, or the Factions in Planescape if they count. (My other complaint would be that the conditions of the contest required a more kitchen sink approach than was needed, but that's not hard to deal with.)
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 22:17
|
|
|
lmao GMS is changing the engine for Far West
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 23:16
|
|
Halloween Jack posted:I guess my only complaint about Eberron is that most of the religion stuff seems pretty unengaging. Then again, the most interesting stuff in D&D religion is generally either evil cults, or the Factions in Planescape if they count. Eberron's got enough other poo poo going on that you can ignore the religious stuff and the endless cults and still run a pretty colorful campaign.
|
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 23:25
|
|
|
It took him 7 years to realize that the D20 engine might not be the best fit for a gonzo wild-west kung fu game. My goodness, just imagine how long would it have taken if he wasn't such a grizzled, seasoned, veteran game design professional.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 23:30
|
|
|
Rewriting the whole game at this late stage? Sure why not, that sounds like a great idea.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 23:32
|
|
|
I'm all in for the Far West 2nd edition Kickstarter.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2018 23:59
|
|
|
Hopefully it means it's out soon.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2018 00:01
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 12:50 |
|
|
Moriatti posted:Oh poo poo this looks very good!
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2018 00:30
|
|