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There’s a few hours left on the Symbaroum bundle of holding, anyone have any opinions of the game? The artwork alone is really piquing my fancy. https://m.imgur.com/a/fqHJy Edit: wait no, I was reading days as hours.
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Leraika posted:What's being performed?
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Aug 23, 2018 19:18
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Tangentially relevant to the chat about Dungeon World, PbtA, and BitD-dressed-as-D&D from a few pages ago, Kavita Poduri just dropped the playtest document for Songs for the Dusk, which is her hopeful postapocalyptic rebuilding game using the BitD engine. Maybe worth a look?
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Aug 23, 2018 19:49
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Antivehicular posted:Going to try and start writing up Invisible Sun for FATAL & Friends, now that I've got a PDF of my misprinted book and have read the whole thing. You have to do an unboxing for it as part of the F&F, should be gloriously stupid. drrockso20 posted:Yeah DCC is a great game with great support, both official and third party, also the book is gorgeous and huge(and the softcover edition is fairly cheap on Amazon) I heard they had a dice roller app and that seems like it sort of misses the point.
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Aug 23, 2018 21:49
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DalaranJ posted:You have to do an unboxing for it as part of the F&F, should be gloriously stupid. It's actually a really nice app, especially since it includes some other stuff besides just a dice roller
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Aug 23, 2018 21:52
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DalaranJ posted:You have to do an unboxing for it as part of the F&F, should be gloriously stupid. Unboxing photos are in the can and will be the first post. I've just been holding off because my copy of the first rulebook is misbound, missing a chunk of pages from an early chargen chapter, and I didn't want to make a post or two and then pause indefinitely. MCG just put out a PDF of that book, though, so... whoo?
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Aug 23, 2018 22:05
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drrockso20 posted:Only real issue is that it can be a bit of a pain finding the special dice for it for a decent price I usually point people at Impact! Miniatures. Looks like it's $5 flat shipping in the US. Alternatively, I also usually mention The Crawler's Companion, a free DCC app (web, iOS, Android) that handles all the weird DCC dice. As a bonus, it also has all the spell tables, crit tables, rules references, and a bunch of other stuff.
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Aug 23, 2018 23:37
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:There’s a few hours left on the Symbaroum bundle of holding, anyone have any opinions of the game? The artwork alone is really piquing my fancy. https://m.imgur.com/a/fqHJy I have most of the line. The setting is quite cool, and offers some good opportunities for different game types, including urban adventures and wilderness/dungeon exploration. Unfortunately, important setting information is spread out between the various books, including in the adventures. The art is wonderful. The rules are...basically fine. It's a roll under system using a D20 and only the players roll. There are some issues with certain character builds being impossible to damage—which is more or less of a problem, depending on the kind of game you are playing. The adventures are not very good, in my experience. They tend to be extremely railroady, and some feature a lot more combat than I think is reasonable, and the encounters can be repetitive. The underlying stories are cool but need some work from the GM. I've been using the setting (and the big adventure path), but using the rules from Shadow of the Demon Lord recently.
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Aug 24, 2018 00:01
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Sion posted:It's Thursday, my dudes. Wedding (not mine) on Saturday. Gloomhaven (mine) on Sunday.
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Aug 24, 2018 00:24
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Moriatti posted:I think modeling it on scroller type beat-em ups would be a more effective model for RPGs. Having enemy archetypes for most enemies, and named bosses that could appear multiple times. This allows the players to become familiar with some matchups but occasionally be thrown a surprise. A nice part of Gloomhaven is that you feel like you're getting better as a player and not just a character, since you learn what enemies can and can't do over the course of your campaign. Like you might barely scrape by the first time you encounter Rending Drakes but the next time you can remember some of the cards they use and play appropriately
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We played Gloomhaven last night. We're about to retire our first character (next session!) and I'm giddy. I never want to retire my big rock man, though. The class just feels dynamic, with how I can reshape the battlefield. Also I very much feel like there's tons of potential for something like the modifier decks in an RPG.
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Gloomhaven has really kicked my rear end into thinking critically and tactically to a point I'd never really done so before. Getting slammed in the first mission 2-3 times really made me pay attention. Great game though.
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I really want to play Gloomhaven but I made the mistake of ordering from a seller on Amazon who “shipped” early, said it was a pre order, and proceeded to just not send anything, even after new copies got sent out. I got a refund, but I really wish I had got the game instead.
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Aug 24, 2018 00:59
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Tonight is Pathfinder, Saturday is Pathfinder 2e. In between is the new WoW expansion.
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I adopted a quasit tonight. 
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Aug 24, 2018 01:14
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Pollyanna posted:I adopted a quasit tonight. what, like irl
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Aug 24, 2018 01:15
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I’ve already got a black, toothy monster snacking on kibble back in my real apartment, thank you. I’m really hoping I get a chance to run Dungeon World with this group at some point. They seem like they’d be into it, and I find GMing a bit more fun than playing. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Aug 24, 2018 |
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remusclaw posted:I really want to play Gloomhaven but I made the mistake of ordering from a seller on Amazon who “shipped” early, said it was a pre order, and proceeded to just not send anything, even after new copies got sent out. I got a refund, but I really wish I had got the game instead. That sucks  If you really do want to try it out, I can recommend Tabletop Simulator for it. There are workshop copies of the game that are amazing.
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Spiteski posted:Gloomhaven has really kicked my rear end into thinking critically and tactically to a point I'd never really done so before. Getting slammed in the first mission 2-3 times really made me pay attention. Mission 1 is intended to be a big giant punch in the balls from the first room. That's when you realize truths like "there is no tanking, really, in this game" and "huh enemies almost always do at least some damage if you let them and rarely miss outright" and "probably a scoundrel should not just run into the middle of the room early on the first turn because they will have to LOSE TWO CARDS, STEVE." We only lost it once, but yeah. It made a lasting impression.
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My group lost Scenario 13 3 times, twice when I was away and once back with the 4-character party. BEARS
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I didn't see a good thread for it. Is there a good system for using generic models in a warhammer-like format?
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Harvey Mantaco posted:I didn't see a good thread for it. Is there a good system for using generic models in a warhammer-like format? Kings of War.
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So I did get to play exceed season 2 tonight and drat it was fun.
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S.J. posted:So I did get to play exceed season 2 tonight and drat it was fun. Having played against people using both S1 and S2, season 2 seems like the superior set all around. The characters seem like they're better differentiated and the way Exceed transformations work as sidegrades or style shifts rather than plain powerups is a lot more interesting.
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Season 2 is fantastic and shows a lot of lessons learned from both Season 1 and BattleCON. The balance is pretty well-tuned and it has a lot more varied and interesting mechanics. It's probably my favorite Level 99 product so far and that's a fairly high bar.
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I think I also just picked characters I enjoyed the concepts of that were really straight forward. Lightning Lass and Not-Akuma.
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quote:Hi there! Bob from Wildfire here. I look forward to finding out how much of this actually turns out to be true, if it ever actually sees the light of day.
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"The grimdark and squick" is a fantastically nondescript way of saying "our last edition had literal Nazi rape machines in it." Honestly I didn't even know a Cthulhutech 2E was even still happening, so I guess the feedback they got must have been pretty negative after all.
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So I've been hearing good things about one of Osprey's newest games Gaslands, anyone here given it a try?
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CthulhuTech is coming back, you say?
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Kai Tave posted:"our last edition had literal Nazi rape machines in it." What?
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Aug 24, 2018 09:25
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Does the machine rape nazis?
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No, it's a Nazi-made machine that rapes people put in it. 
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fool_of_sound posted:Kings of War. Thanks  This only high fantasy or would it work for something like 40k or traditional war?
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That Old Tree posted:I look forward to finding out how much of this actually turns out to be true, if it ever actually sees the light of day. Oh, now they're admitting that they got negative feedback and taking it into account instead of pulling a WELL ACTUALLY WE CTRL+F'D RAPE AND IT CAME UP ONLY A FEW TIMES SO STOP CALLING IT THE RAPE GAME? I'm not sure if I'm more miffed at that or amazed at the fact that they apparently didn't learn anything from the first go-round.
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For a setting that's meant to be Cthulhu+Evangeleon they managed to include far, far more rape than either so much as alluded to.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:For a setting that's meant to be Cthulhu+Evangeleon they managed to include far, far more rape than either so much as alluded to. Rape + Rape = Rape2???
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Ghost Leviathan posted:For a setting that's meant to be Cthulhu+Evangeleon they managed to include far, far more rape than either so much as alluded to. You just know some fuckhead on their team went “but that’s my favorite part!”.
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Pollyanna posted:You just know some fuckhead on their team went “but that’s my favorite part!”. Always the rapist, never the raped.
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