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Mr.Misfit posted:I´d say the gun is just as cursed. Anyone who you can kill with it was at the end of their lifespan, so no time is ever added to your clock. All it does is lead to a mass spree of killing without you ever getting any time added to your own. It´s a trick to get the owner to kill. If people have as would be required, a pre-determined amount of lifetime, then anyone you´d kill with it always would have been at the end of theirs, because you´d be unable to choose freely in such a universe. So, congrats on choosing the trick trap option, I guess? The watch requires a recharge time of two hours after every hour of use. So if it's rigged that way, you're aging four hours for everyone else's three. Still a trick, but not as nasty as it could be.
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The wallet is more of a sloth item. It's not enough to actually sate someone who's truly greedy but it's enough to live a very comfortable lifestyle without having to do any work ever again.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 15:08 |
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1337JiveTurkey posted:The wallet is more of a sloth item. It's not enough to actually sate someone who's truly greedy but it's enough to live a very comfortable lifestyle without having to do any work ever again. $365,000 per year is pretty good until hyperinflation gives you a wallet full of wallpaper. Ring all the way. Gives you the skills to adapt.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 15:11 |
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$364k a year would put you in the top 3% of earners in Australia according to a quick google. The fact that the currency changes depending on country should also put off that pittance adding to inflation. The only reason not to take it is that it's not immediately flashy.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 15:21 |
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The wallet also erases any debt tied to a credit card that's put into it so you can always run up a huge amount of debt and then erase it in an instant.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 15:24 |
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That's the wallet's curse bit. Within days of your first card wipe you'll be in a federal holding facility being asked very nicely how the gently caress you did that. Same for the money, 365,000 a year with no source of income is "Where'd you stash the drugs?" time.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 15:35 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:
The ring doesn't actually improve anything, it just makes you think you're an ubermensch and prevents anyone from convincing you otherwise.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 15:40 |
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Sorry for being super weird in this thread a couple of weeks ago, I was under a lot of stress and it was leaking out in weird ways.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 15:44 |
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Hi this is 2 days late but i got a copy of cyberpunk signed by mike pondsmith, hes a really cool guy Best part of the panel was him describing Detroit as being the most cyberpunk city due to its urban decay
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 16:57 |
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oriongates posted:The watch and the gun are way unbalanced compared to the rest. I mean, come on, that wallet is tier 1 at best but it costs just as many souls as the time-stop watch and the immortality gun, both tier 3 or 4 in the right hands? Pfft. This system is totally broken.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 17:19 |
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I’m not touching any of that poo poo. I don’t trust ‘em.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 17:32 |
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Why give away your soul for a gun to shoot the demon with when you can kick it in the sack for free?
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 17:47 |
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That Old Tree posted:Oh absolutely it was a tremendous mess, particularly after the Dawn Fix or whatever it was called when the number of new widgets and resource pools ballooned, and extremely long Charms started to become more common. For my home games I had print-outs of everything with fully integrated errata and house rules, but I just did that sort of poo poo all the time anyway. After the huge rewrites started rolling out, I can't imagine the proportion of people who actually used the errata was all that significant even if you discount the probable majority who weren't aware it existed in the first place. I played mainly in online games where Ink Monkeys and Errata were givens for the most part, and additional house fixes for martial arts or specific splats were also pretty common, which was also often a mess of negotiating "please don't nerf my MA entirely". Add in custom material and the game became pretty Calvinball at times, particularly when you factor things like storyteller favoritism in. Wrestlepig posted:My only question is whether its ever worth not picking Witcher or Mage. I'll let you know once I'm out of the shadow of the car issues I had on the way home.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 18:03 |
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The wallet would let me give unlimited amounts of money to charity via cards and would let me do the most good for others. The flask appeals most to me personally - get fit without having to work out, eat as much as I want, and get to stay up all night instead of sleeping... sounds perfect! The liquor I can take or leave - I'm not much of a drinker. But it's a nice side benefit. Being fit and resistant to disease would lead to a very long lifespan. The watch would get me free time, but the flask does that just as well by obviating the need for sleep. I guess you could also use the watch for like robbing banks and poo poo. Maybe using the watch to steal from the Kochs and Adelsons of the world to give to the poor would be better than the wallet... Tough choice. The rest don't sound that great.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 18:04 |
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I feel like with 1000$ per day you can do so much good while still living a pretty good life that it pretty much makes the sacrifice of losing your soul worth it. Like do you know how many lives you could change with 30000$ a month? E: gently caress, I hadn't even considered the possibility of loving with credit cards that way! Donate a million to cancer research and wipe it out instantly! paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Aug 6, 2018 |
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Pundit hates Actual Plays because it disproves his insane claims about True Gaming vs. (((Cultural Marxist))) indoctrination. You can watch or listen to an Actual Play of normal people enjoying games he hates, while he's an expat in Uruguay who will not reveal his name or face or playstyle to his audience.Libluini posted:The tiniest and weakest army ever
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 19:00 |
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Did Pundit ever switch over to phrases like "SJW", "cultural marxist", and "globalist" like every other internet fascist or is he still using the words he made up because he thinks he came up with the concepts first like "pseudo-activist swine"?
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 19:18 |
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Yes, he did. I don't follow the guy, but last I checked he deflects any criticism of his obviously fascist beliefs by claiming he's of Jewish ancestry and you are the real Nazi for criticizing him because the Nazis were socialist and blah blah blah.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 19:21 |
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A proud consultant on D&D, 5th editon, everyone!
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 19:25 |
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Halloween Jack posted:you are the real Nazi for criticizing him because the Nazis were socialist and blah blah blah. Dinesh & DSouza, 5th Edition
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 19:35 |
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pundit is busy on g+ posting right-wing memes about how if the left endorses political violence they will be mowed down en masse by sons of anarchy cosplay dads with ar-15s
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 19:52 |
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First blush on The Witcher Roleplaying Game: yes, non-witchers / mages / priests do have unique skills with their own (sometimes small) sub-systems. This may not be combat, but a bard is a good face, the game has weapon durability mechanics for the smith to utilize, the medic seems top-tier for getting fixed up, etc. It could be there are issues that I've overlooked, I haven't gotten to do a deep dive yet. Magic has stamina costs and you can only use it so much before wearing out; moreover, high-power spells like mages use are likely to cause actual damage to the caster. In addition, mages can have their casting interrupted and are relatively fragile. Witchers are likely to be the top-end of combat but more because of the options they have available, though many of those aren't necessarily exclusive to them. A Man-At-Arms seems like a perfectly solid combat choice since they'll be focusing their skill on pure combat skills and don't have to worry about developing as many secondary skills as Witchers do. If there are issues I've seen so far, they're the sort of journeyman issues common to 1990s RPGs; you can randomly roll attributes and assign or get points, and tiers of point-buy from "average" to "legendary". A roll will usually land you at the middle between the first and second tiers (67.5 as opposed to 60 / 70). In addition, the tiers aren't really accounted for when it comes to things like skill maximums, which is an issue if you're going to do a legendary game. Some of the key characters of the games are beyond even legendary PCs. XP costs are done on a curve with every other Interlock game, which results in the same maximization issues many White Wolf players will be familiar with (i.e. you want all your traits you're focusing on to be maximized as feasible). Some things like Reputation don't seem to have any description how to increase / decrease it. In general it seems solid so far but some simple house-ruling would really improve things- increasing skills / started skill caps for more experienced starting characters, making skill improvement static (like 5 / 10 IP for skills, 50 IP for attributes, improve low-level skill training to match), etc. In general they're issues with Interlock that just aren't fixed here, but there's nothing as dramatically busted on a flip-through as Solos were in Cyberpunk 2020.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 20:45 |
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Does anyone have any impressions on Zweihander? The exposure it’s gotten after the Ennis wins has me intrigued. Is it basically setting agnostic WFRPG?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Does anyone have any impressions on Zweihander? The exposure it’s gotten after the Ennis wins has me intrigued. It has some implied setting bits in how it's written, but it is very much "WFRP with the serial numbers (lazily) filed off." There is at least one part where they just straight put in a thing from WFRP that I guess is supposed to be an homage or cute reference or whatever, but it's just putting someone else's thing into their already studiously unoriginal game. All in all it seems "fine." The author is an extremely annoying shill for his game. Which, I guess, worked. I wonder how things are looking with WFRP 2nd edition on Drivethru and 4th edition coming out, now?
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 21:48 |
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Vote: flask, then save your soul by transporting medicine into areas afflicted by infectious diseases and refilling water supplies. Rules lawyer: locket, then take a picture of the demon and put it in the locket.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Does anyone have any impressions on Zweihander? The exposure it’s gotten after the Ennis wins has me intrigued. And then he made a Legally Not 40k conversion guide that was just 32 pages and hilariously poorly considered because it's more or less the occupation of Jerusalem in the Crusades but in space and you're playing Christian Templars who have relocated all of mankind to Jerusalem to make a final stand.
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Hostile V posted:And then he made a Legally Not 40k conversion guide that was just 32 pages and hilariously poorly considered because it's more or less the occupation of Jerusalem in the Crusades but in space and you're playing Christian Templars who have relocated all of mankind to Jerusalem to make a final stand.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Does anyone have any impressions on Zweihander? The exposure it’s gotten after the Ennis wins has me intrigued. The new WFRP is coming out soon, it's based in the old world. It's basically an updated 2E with incredible art. It is totally worth waiting for. I have Zweihander and its neat for what it is, and was super exciting when WFRP was dead, but now it's not worth a look. And the creator is really irritating.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 22:42 |
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Dark Astral Ad Blurb posted:In the grim future of Dark Astral, there is only war. Dark Astral Intro Text posted:It is the far future, but in a not-so-distant past of the one we recognize as the Renaissance. Following the desecration of the garden world of Eden, the people fled in a massive diaspora through the Vault of Night, under the auspices of an immortal Technokrat named Sol Invictus. In the grim darkness, a new Jerusalem was erected, a pinnacle of humanity’s greatness. As time progressed, the memory of Eden was lost to a new dawn, regarded barely as a faint echo in Sol Invictus’ convocations. As humanity’s faith and culture spread to new dominion worlds, so did the threats of an unknown universe unfold.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 22:48 |
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quote:In the grim future of Dark Astral, there is only war. Oh my god just gently caress this guy. quote:It is the far future, but in a not-so-distant past of the one we recognize as the Renaissance.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 22:51 |
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The Siege of Space Constantinople
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 22:56 |
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That Old Tree posted:Oh my god just gently caress this guy.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 22:56 |
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i thought you guys might have been overstating it but holy poo poo lmao
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 22:57 |
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immortal technokrat
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 23:02 |
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And again it never stops being funny to me that Zweihander is a 700 page book but the Dark Astral conversion chapbook is 32 pages long.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 23:02 |
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Hostile V posted:And again it never stops being funny to me that Zweihander is a 700 page book but the Dark Astral conversion chapbook is 32 pages long. How is it fuckin 700 pages? Isn't it a Warhammer Fantasy 1E retroclone? How big was the actual game it's "homaging?"
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 23:07 |
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Kai Tave posted:How is it fuckin 700 pages? Isn't it a Warhammer Fantasy 1E retroclone? How big was the actual game it's "homaging?" They basically crammed the entirety of the player-facing content from WFRP2 into one book. WFRP2 core's Careers chapter is about 60 pages; Zweihander's
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Kai Tave posted:How is it fuckin 700 pages? Isn't it a Warhammer Fantasy 1E retroclone? How big was the actual game it's "homaging?"
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Thanks for the heads up, I wanted to believe it was good, but the blurb about a Forbes profile about the game and the stuff about gleeful self labeling as a ‘heartbreaker’ threw some red flags.
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