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At the very least I would support the Disarm stunt being prohibitively expensive against specialists because you don’t want your swordsman losing his sword every other turn. I recall getting the impression that if you hit but fell short of a crit, it was relatively easy/expected to turn your second, third, and fourth net success into effective accuracy for your next attack. Maybe I’m forgetting how punitive Feint was or imagining some nonexistent or deleted stunt.
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So hey, looks like I'm not the only one who thinks there was some uh.... Less than legitimate votes.... in the Ennies this year. http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/ennie-awards-time-for-change/
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Desiden posted:Matt Loter wasn't delisted from poo poo, chuds are just morons who don't understand that "local businessman who teaches an occasional special topics class" isn't the same as "professor on staff". Nah man, here’s the archive for the university’s faculty for literally yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20180809024902/https://www.qu.edu/student-resources/directory.type-faculty.mode-letter.query-L.html And here it is today: https://www.qu.edu/student-resources/directory.type-faculty.mode-letter.query-L.html I mean, it lists him as part-time so maybe there’s nothing odd about it, but other people say he was supposed to teach in fall quarter. Hopefully he just walked on his own while all this drama was going on, because sacking him over unverifiable internet drama over a children’s card game seems... 
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dwarf74 posted:So hey, looks like I'm not the only one who thinks there was some uh.... Less than legitimate votes.... in the Ennies this year. I did not get the impression that there was any thing stopping me from voting multiple times.
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Aug 11, 2018 01:18
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Hambly tweeted out the receipt from his lawyer - a little over 5K for I assume a down payment for a 'I'm not going to get paid unless I bilk this moron' case.
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Aug 11, 2018 01:35
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dwarf74 posted:So hey, looks like I'm not the only one who thinks there was some uh.... Less than legitimate votes.... in the Ennies this year. Always nice to see SA get name-dropped by that dickhead in the comments. Could I request a quick summary of the voting irregularities you suspect? I don't follow the Ennies.
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The most obvious one was ballot stuffing in one direction or another. Sure, they're probably tracking IPs, but using a VPN or even sometimes just using a separate device can stymie the more credulous protections out there. Honestly they'd probably be best served by moving to some sort of model with meaningful control on both nominating and voting, but for various reasons that's not likely to happen. It's not how ENWorld operates, and in general the industry is really incestuous. Edit: Yeah, the Hugos are a bit more nuanced than my poor example. NGDBSS fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Aug 11, 2018 |
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Aug 11, 2018 05:36
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Always nice to see SA get name-dropped by that dickhead in the comments. It may have been a legit win, but going up against both fan favorite Blades in the Dark and Paizo-crafted Starfinder? If the guy weren't such a relentlessly self-promoting shithead, that'd be one thing. Or, if it wasn't just an unimaginative brick of a poorly-made warhams retroclone. But he is and it is, and so I am giving it the side-eye.
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Aug 11, 2018 05:43
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NGDBSS posted:some sort of model like the Hugos et al. where the anonymous public gets to nominate stuff This is not how the Hugos work. NGDBSS posted:before a fixed set of judges selects winners This is also not how the Hugos work. Both to nominate and vote, you need to be a Worldcon member, which costs money even if you're not actually attending the con. That helps, but - as the Sad/Rabid Puppies showed us - it's not a guarantee.
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Aug 11, 2018 06:20
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dwarf74 posted:Oh I have no evidence, just a hunch that the dillweed behind Zweihander - the guy banned from rpgnet because he wouldn't stop shilling, and who registered an account here to defend the Ennies' honor after he was nominated - seems exactly like the kind of person who'd see a complete lack of security and the potential for ballot stuffing and just.... Well, jump right in and do that for the sales and recognition boost. That makes sense, thank you.
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Aug 11, 2018 06:38
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Alhireth-Hotep posted:This is not how the Hugos work.
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who's going to start the thread to figure out how to rig the ennies and bend them to the SJW anti Zak goon hivemind will?
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I know that's a joke, but please nobody try to rig the ENnies. Apart from anything else, after recent years they've changed the rules so publishers can't campaign for specific judges or their games will get DQed. Since a lot of Trad Games posters are also game creators, you'd risk loving them over.
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dwarf74 posted:Oh I have no evidence, just a hunch that the dillweed behind Zweihander - the guy banned from rpgnet because he wouldn't stop shilling, and who registered an account here to defend the Ennies' honor after he was nominated - seems exactly like the kind of person who'd see a complete lack of security and the potential for ballot stuffing and just.... Well, jump right in and do that for the sales and recognition boost. Neither BitD or Starfinder came second though, that was Delta Green, which was also right in the middle of a successful kickstarter so doubtless had an extra boost, but it has quite a loyal fanbase who 'buy everything' so were likely to vote for it. Zweihander on the other hand is largely dead but has a shameless wanker promoting it every chance he gets and spamming people, so i'd be unsurprised to see him having fixed the vote. Same with that lovely OSR thing the other year that got vastly more votes than it had had sales.
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The Ennies thing probably happened because Raggi tried to fix the judges to get his OSR poo poo nominated. Apparently he did this successfully two years in a row but now the judge that was shilling for him got booted. Ennies more like OSR Participation Awards. Kemper Boyd fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Aug 11, 2018 |
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Aug 11, 2018 09:46
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If terrible racist fetish fest LotFP adventure Blood in the Chocolate can get an ENnie nomination, the awards are screwed.
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Aug 11, 2018 13:01
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Rand Brittain posted:I've heard a few people saying that the Geist dev left after the core because he couldn't stomach working under Paradox Wolf any longer? Is there any evidence that that story is actually true? That's me, and while I wouldn't phrase it as "couldn't stomach working under Paradox" because, well, I didn't work under them, yeah, it's true, and has been true for a long time. I told OPP after the first round of nuWW hiring and defending Zak that I wouldn't work on any more WW-owned IPs unless something dramatic changed. And that... hasn't happened.
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GimpInBlack posted:That's me, and while I wouldn't phrase it as "couldn't stomach working under Paradox" because, well, I didn't work under them, yeah, it's true, and has been true for a long time. I told OPP after the first round of nuWW hiring and defending Zak that I wouldn't work on any more WW-owned IPs unless something dramatic changed. And that... hasn't happened. I want you to know that I really admire you for standing by your principles and doing what's right here. It shows great moral courage.
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GimpInBlack posted:That's me, and while I wouldn't phrase it as "couldn't stomach working under Paradox" because, well, I didn't work under them, yeah, it's true, and has been true for a long time. I told OPP after the first round of nuWW hiring and defending Zak that I wouldn't work on any more WW-owned IPs unless something dramatic changed. And that... hasn't happened. Geist is really really good so far. You'll be missed.
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Bedlamdan posted:Apparently Matt Loter has been delisted as part of the faculty for Quinnipiac University. There also was a police report submitted. So uh, clearly more than just nothing happened here, and if Loter really was the victim of a random frame-up then he probably ought to have done more than go radio silent and hope the whole thing blew over. A quick google says precisely three news sources have picked this up, and they are Campus Reform, Breitbart, and Daily Caller. A bit of digging in archive.org shows Loter as a part-time faculty member running a single course this fall, Game Design 101. Probably not a surprise that any controversy at all leads a school to drop someone running a single class in 2018. It's a nothingburger. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Aug 11, 2018 |
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Aug 11, 2018 17:12
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Bedlamdan posted:It lets Hambly’s story go uncontested, and for the most part the only people picking up on this are right wingers trying to poo poo on Loter instead of left wing people picking apart Hambly’s claims. You need to check again, and stop taking Hambly's bullshit as gospel. AFAIK he was at the booth talking up Expancity through the con, and Hambly spent most of that time whining about why he hadn't been kicked out yet. Picking apart Hambly's claims isn't worth the effort, because he's manufactured a pure he-said-she-said situation where the only ones who could definitively say what happened were in the bar. Those people have already talked to the ID cops, who do not give any impression of giving a poo poo. Getting into an internet slap-fight with chuds over made-up bullshit is definitively a waste of time.
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Say that I want to get into games writing. Is creating a cool, well-crafted, self-contained adventure/module, then showing it to a RPG publisher and saying, "Lookie what I can do; I'd love to write for you if you ever have any scrub tier work available," a terrible way to do that? Is there a better (or more typical) way for new games writers to get a foot in the door? I'm willing to sink some solid effort into a games-related portfolio piece, but only if there's a chance of it actually being useful.
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PST posted:Zweihander on the other hand is largely dead but has a shameless wanker promoting it every chance he gets and spamming people, so i'd be unsurprised to see him having fixed the vote. This was my thoughts exactly. It's so uninspired and the creator is so shameless in self promotion that I figured he'd have people vote multiple times. My buddy thinks it's European gamers voting for it since the other offerings wouldn't be as appealing to them but I think that's pretty unlikely.
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Trustworthy posted:Say that I want to get into games writing. Is creating a cool, well-crafted, self-contained adventure/module, then showing it to a RPG publisher and saying, "Lookie what I can do; I'd love to write for you if you ever have any scrub tier work available," a terrible way to do that?
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:My buddy thinks it's European gamers voting for it since the other offerings wouldn't be as appealing to them but I think that's pretty unlikely. I’d love to hear the the reasoning behind this. 
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Trustworthy posted:Say that I want to get into games writing. Is creating a cool, well-crafted, self-contained adventure/module, then showing it to a RPG publisher and saying, "Lookie what I can do; I'd love to write for you if you ever have any scrub tier work available," a terrible way to do that? Do a real thing and put it up for sale on DTRPG for single-digit dollars. Do many. Don't work for free, don't do "pay what you want." The best way to get most jobs is to already be doing it when the exciting opportunity comes.
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Comrade Koba posted:I’d love to hear the the reasoning behind this. His thesis, which I do not agree with, is that European gamers love Warhammer Fantasy RPG and that Harlem Unbound and Delta Green are too American for them.
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Zereth posted:I sure hope you're not expecting to get paid a significant amount here. I'm aspirational, not a madman!  homullus posted:Do a real thing and put it up for sale on DTRPG for single-digit dollars. Do many. Don't work for free, don't do "pay what you want." The best way to get most jobs is to already be doing it when the exciting opportunity comes. I feel pretty dumb that a significant portion of my income already comes from self-publishing, and yet I hadn't even considered that angle.  Thanks for reconnecting my loose wires!Gonna drill down on some top-rated self-pub CoC modules and see what I can see. Trustworthy fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Aug 11, 2018 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:His thesis, which I do not agree with, is that European gamers love Warhammer Fantasy RPG and that Harlem Unbound and Delta Green are too American for them. Europe also fuckin' loves Blades in the Dark though.
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spectralent posted:Europe also fuckin' loves Blades in the Dark though. I think he was just trying to defuse me chants of, "The fix is in!"
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:His thesis, which I do not agree with, is that European gamers love Warhammer Fantasy RPG and that Harlem Unbound and Delta Green are too American for them. I can't find it offhand, but this is amusing in that it was either Dennis or Shane who called out just how many backers from Europe there've been for both the recent kickstarters.
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Liquid Communism posted:You need to check again, and stop taking Hambly's bullshit as gospel. AFAIK he was at the booth talking up Expancity through the con, and Hambly spent most of that time whining about why he hadn't been kicked out yet. Yeah, there’s lots of hyper partisan crap online over all this, and it’s very hard to find out anything that doesn’t shill for Hambly
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What's this all about? https://twitter.com/hottestsingles/status/1028307304880451585
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clockworkjoe posted:What's this all about? Uh is this about the "beaners"?
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Man, I liked dreadsingles. Then I found out he's contributing to Zak's latest game.
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clockworkjoe posted:What's this all about? Yeah, like when they included beaners!
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dwarf74 posted:Uh is this about the "beaners"? Maybe it's about native Americans being less likely to have souls.
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I have never professed to want a single thing from Monte Cook games and god willing I never shall.
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Joke's on you! People who care about diversity usually think this is a broke take. 
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It's about this: https://twitter.com/EricVulgaris/status/1028130802570121216
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