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I wonder what it's like to feel that your hobby - which involves a private activity at home that nobody can impinge upon, where you can dial the clock back to any period of that hobby you and your friends like - can somehow be legitimately threatened by outsiders. That must be a scary world.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I wonder what it's like to feel that your hobby - which involves a private activity at home that nobody can impinge upon, where you can dial the clock back to any period of that hobby you and your friends like - can somehow be legitimately threatened by outsiders.
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Jun 20, 2018 14:31
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I sure hate that they keep deleting my old books from the bookshelves, it's the worst.
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Jun 20, 2018 14:46
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I remember when the WotC Death Squads showed up to my door and demanded that I burn all my 3e books and then forced me to play 4e.
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Jun 20, 2018 14:49
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Yeah, we all know that's not what's happening, but it's what these people believe and are very vocal about. We've all seen this in action before and that's why you can reference it now.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I wonder what it's like to feel that your hobby - which involves a private activity at home that nobody can impinge upon, where you can dial the clock back to any period of that hobby you and your friends like - can somehow be legitimately threatened by outsiders. frankenfreak posted:You bring the books in from the outside into that bubble, though. If the "wrong" people write "wrong" things into these books, that's threatening.
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Jun 20, 2018 15:07
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It's not just about playing the game you want, but also about getting validation from a larger crowd for it. If the crowd predominantly plays a different game, that makes these people wrong, but it's the crowd's fault for playing the incorrect game. The whole reason D&D 5 is what it is is that people wanted to shift the official definition of D&D back to their own, because after all, Everyone Plays D&D.
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Jun 20, 2018 15:08
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Halloween Jack posted:Gaming is religion for people like this. That's what happens when religion gets taken away from people ha ha. But seriously, consider catholicism or shia islam, everyone.
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Jun 20, 2018 15:09
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Yawgmoth posted:I remember when the WotC Death Squads showed up to my door and demanded that I burn all my 3e books and then forced me to play 4e. Lawful Good and Order: Siberys Victims Unit
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I wonder what it's like to feel that your hobby - which involves a private activity at home that nobody can impinge upon, where you can dial the clock back to any period of that hobby you and your friends like - can somehow be legitimately threatened by outsiders. To add I think a big aspect of it is them feeling they are the authority and gatekeeper on the hobby. Every one of these guys is that guy at the game store who starts telling you about their character or campaign and wonders where you're going after the first 5 minutes. There's also always been that sense of gamers dictating that you're having fun in the wrong way. That intersects with their regressive beliefs regarding everything or their own sense of being the authority on everything. Social media also plays into this because there's now a whole cottage industry on just being the authority on how to consume something. Every hobby and thing has been touched by this trend and gaming has become a very lucrative one due to barriers of entry and the customer base having a large amount of disposable income. If more people are playing RPG's, you're cutting into their profit margin and making their mediocre to bad offering even worse. gently caress all these guys.
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Jun 20, 2018 15:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:Lawful Good and Order: Siberys Victims Unit
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Jun 20, 2018 15:14
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Foglet posted:Hm, I wonder what of the "books are overpriced" and "writers are underpaid" is more true. I said nothing about how writers should be paid
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drrockso20 posted:I said nothing about how writers should be paid You said that most games sold in digital format should cost less than they already do. Exactly how do you square that with the idea that the creators who made those games therefore shouldn't be paid less for their work than they already are? Do you really think that by slashing their already low costs that they'll somehow magically make more money?
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Jun 20, 2018 17:57
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Where does the new thread title come from?
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Josef bugman posted:Where does the new thread title come from? I assume it's a reference to Pundit's most recent peddling of his "you wouldn't believe what the lefties are doing to our soil" conspiracist insanity. That people have been taught D&D wrong to infest the hobby with SJWs or whatever.
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Kai Tave posted:You said that most games sold in digital format should cost less than they already do. Exactly how do you square that with the idea that the creators who made those games therefore shouldn't be paid less for their work than they already are? Do you really think that by slashing their already low costs that they'll somehow magically make more money? That's a problem I leave for someone else to figure out
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gently caress you got mine is less syllables, friend.
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drrockso20 posted:That's a problem I leave for someone else to figure out This is easily one of the most broke-brained responses I've seen today, and this includes Corey Lewandowski going 'womp womp' in response to hearing a news story about a child with Down's syndrome being separated from their mother at the border. I'm guessing you think paying artists in terms of 'exposure' rather than compensating them in cash is OK, too?
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Jun 20, 2018 21:48
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LuiCypher posted:Corey Lewandowski going 'womp womp' in response to hearing a news story about a child with Down's syndrome being separated from their mother at the border.
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Jun 20, 2018 22:23
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Splicer posted:I don't... what? US politics are off the rails.
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Jun 20, 2018 22:40
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Splicer posted:I don't... what? Just back away. Anger is super bad for you.
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Jun 20, 2018 22:41
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Sion posted:Just back away. Anger is super bad for you.
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Jun 20, 2018 22:51
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drrockso20 posted:That's a problem I leave for someone else to figure out Okay, so you aren't saying that creators should be paid less, you're just strongly implying it, gotcha.
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Jun 20, 2018 22:56
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Yawgmoth posted:Unless you're a red lantern. Considering projectile vomiting a blood like substance is a common symptom of Red Lanternhood, I'd say anger is bad for them too.
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LuiCypher posted:This is easily one of the most broke-brained responses I've seen today, and this includes Corey Lewandowski going 'womp womp' in response to hearing a news story about a child with Down's syndrome being separated from their mother at the border. Not really I just meant that's a problem I have no solution for
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Saguaro PI posted:Hey folks, I'm looking to get some art done for the characters in my D&D group as a surprise. I was wondering if folks here had any good recommendations for folks taking (paid) commissions? An artist friend of mine is taking commissions lately! https://tyrantisterrorart.tumblr.com/search/commissions Here's a character of mine he drew recently, from that Capers! game that TDN ran some time ago: 
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Kwyndig posted:Considering projectile vomiting a blood like substance is a common symptom of Red Lanternhood, I'd say anger is bad for them too. 
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Sion posted:Just back away. Anger is super bad for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTz80Ur2XeQ&t=80
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paradoxGentleman posted:Here's a character of mine he drew recently, from that Capers! game that TDN ran some time ago: This rules. Zapper rules.
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paradoxGentleman posted:An artist friend of mine is taking commissions lately! Yeah he's good
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I want to run a game involving exploration of unknown islands/lands that focuses mostly on finding new, wondrous things and surviving in hostile environments. Also probably meeting new creatures and cultures. Is there a game system that supports this?
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Zurui posted:I want to run a game involving exploration of unknown islands/lands that focuses mostly on finding new, wondrous things and surviving in hostile environments. Also probably meeting new creatures and cultures. Is there a game system that supports this?
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Zurui posted:I want to run a game involving exploration of unknown islands/lands that focuses mostly on finding new, wondrous things and surviving in hostile environments. Also probably meeting new creatures and cultures. Is there a game system that supports this? I mean what you just said could be interpreted as "I want to run a hexcrawl with detailed support for naval combat and tracking of rations and exposure" or it could be interpreted as above as "I want a storygame about traveling, meeting people, and being nice to them." You gotta tell us something about what you want from it as a system. e: Fragged Seas might work if you want something medium-crunchy. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Zurui posted:I want to run a game involving exploration of unknown islands/lands that focuses mostly on finding new, wondrous things and surviving in hostile environments. Also probably meeting new creatures and cultures. Is there a game system that supports this? Dawn Treader was my favorite Narnia as a kid so a sort of Odyssey style campaign has always been one of my dream games.
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Zurui posted:I want to run a game involving exploration of unknown islands/lands that focuses mostly on finding new, wondrous things and surviving in hostile environments. Also probably meeting new creatures and cultures. Is there a game system that supports this? Rules Compendium would work well for this
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Zurui posted:I want to run a game involving exploration of unknown islands/lands that focuses mostly on finding new, wondrous things and surviving in hostile environments. Also probably meeting new creatures and cultures. Is there a game system that supports this? dumgeom worl
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Yeah, what I'm going for is basically Voyage of the Dawn Treader meets Five Weeks in a Balloon. I don't want a grim hexcrawl, I want my players to undertake dangerous journeys to discover places and peoples previously unknown to them.
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Inverse World.
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So, I've got a mad notion to jam Exalted and Dark Sun together. Whipping their respective backstories all together in a big bucket. Psionics combined conceptually with the idea of essence manipulation and martial arts. Sorcery combining conceptually with arcane magic: a powerful force fueled by life energy and invented by the Solars of the Green Age. Solars as chosen of the Sun, created to rule over humans in the name of the Unconquered Sun, as normal humans are not worthy to worship him. Eventually the Solars rebel and go to war against the Sun, killing it (leading to the modern condition of the world). The Great Curse is still around, the dying curse of the Unconquered Sun rather than the Primordials. The Dragon Kings are the creation of Solars back in the Green Age, used as weapons and servants in their war against the Sun. After the Sun's defeat the Dragon Kings turned on their Solar creators while they were still weakened by the battle and eventually killed them. The fallout from these great battles and the extreme use of Sorcerery on all sides as well as the death of the Sun, lead to the current state of desert wasteland. The dragon kings bind the immortal souls of their Solar masters in order to prevent them from being reborn. Obviously this eventually goes wrong. The 'Dragon-Blooded' are actually the Templar servants of the Dragon Kings, who help keep order while the dragon kings spend centuries refining their essence. Essentially the dragon-kings would be 'super DBs', with each on par with the Scarlet Empress while the Templars serve as rank-and-file superhuman opponents. Lunars and Siderals get crammed together into a single concept, created by the Twin Moons as advisors, oracles and companions to the original Solars, as well as the high priests of the Lunar Cults, as they were the religion 'permitted' to normal humans. With the rise of the Dragon Kings they surpressed the Lunar Cults, forcing them underground into the modern-day Veiled Alliance. Most alliance members are just normal humans, but they're led by the Lunars/Pyreen, powerful shapechangers and essence-users who pass along their power and ancestral memories in the form of magical tattoos to their chosen successors. Some want to help the Solars return to power and overthrow the tyrannical dragon-kings, others think the solars are just as bad. The Twin Moons have remained silent to all prayers since the end of the Green Age, leaving the Lunars to choose their own fate. Abyssals...hmm tempted there to either link them to Dregoth or come up with a link to the Obsidian Plain where perhaps the last surviving Solar of the Green Age has mastered necromancy to such a degree that they have reached a status similar to a deathlord, and in turn created their own deathknights. Not sure. Probably not going to worry about Infernals, but may dabble in Akuma. So, does this sound like a Peanut Butter +Chocolate sort of combo, or more of a Avacado + Chocolate kind of combo?
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oriongates posted:So, does this sound like a Peanut Butter +Chocolate sort of combo, or more of a Avacado + Chocolate kind of combo?
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