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starkebn posted:So how about them roleplaying games fellow kids? Looking forward to 4 games in one day at the local mini-con in two weeks I can't believe I've never heard of this! Is it dope? How was last year's?
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Down With People posted:I can't believe I've never heard of this! Is it dope? How was last year's? Yes, very dope, as I believe the terminology goes. I usually play the no-system or indie games run by cool people and always have a good time.
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starkebn posted:Yes, very dope, as I believe the terminology goes. Cons are amazing for getting to play stuff you wouldn't normally get a chance to play , or even think of trying in the first place Don't really get people who go and just play their adventurers league/pathfinder society characters when there's so much else on offer but hey at least they're having fun
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Let's not erase the ones to just want to wank/shlick about the cool angsty young men who dramatically yell at each other. Or, in the case of IBO, 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Let's not erase the ones to just want to wank/shlick about the cool angsty young men who dramatically yell at each other. You're right, I should have said the fake gundam fans fall into those categories. The real gundam fans, women, do that.
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Zurui posted:Ah yes the "Pathfinder is the best game" argument
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So, in a situation where I have to make the best choice between two bad options, with hindsight, what is the better game, Pathfinder or 3.5 D&D? Assume I use Paths of War or Book of Nine swords depending on which is chosen.
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remusclaw posted:So, in a situation where I have to make the best choice between two bad options, with hindsight, what is the better game, Pathfinder or 3.5 D&D? Assume I use Paths of War or Book of Nine swords depending on which is chosen. I will put in a good word for using Path of War, if only because between PoW, PoW Expanded, and the Medic class, you can run an entire party using just those kinds of classes and still capture every archetype.
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remusclaw posted:So, in a situation where I have to make the best choice between two bad options, with hindsight, what is the better game, Pathfinder or 3.5 D&D? Assume I use Paths of War or Book of Nine swords depending on which is chosen. Pathfinder is terrible but it's still markedly less terrible than a game of 3.5 where you don't go to the trouble of banning 80% of the spells in the game and excluding every class that isn't tier 3/4. The real alternative is to drink until you black out so you don't have to deal with either. 
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remusclaw posted:So, in a situation where I have to make the best choice between two bad options, with hindsight, what is the better game, Pathfinder or 3.5 D&D? Assume I use Paths of War or Book of Nine swords depending on which is chosen. B/x D&D
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Pathfinder at least makes an attempt to lessen most of 3.5s problems, to varying degrees of success. Mostly it brings a lot of the really bad classes up to 'playable'.
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I want to vent my spleen about something: why are RPG writers still obsessed with the idea of Japan as an all-consuming economic superpower in 2018? They're 30 years behind. I'm reading HOSTILE, which otherwise has an engaging background, but it imagines a future where China has collapsed (very possible) and Japan is ready to "step up." Why? It seems purely for the sake of its retro-futurist theme. (Although it is intriguing to me that retro-futurism now means Blade Runner instead of Buck Rogers.) I know that cyberpunk dystopia always extrapolates from current trends, and looking for long-term predictions is silly and missing the point, but I can't remember the last time I read a sci-fi game wherein Albania was leading the space race. If you're going to obsess over the economy of a nation defined by the US transforming it into a hypercapitalist pawn in the Cold War, why not Korea, or Chile? Not enough honorabu samurai-chan in the Pinochet regime?
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You can't "extrapolate future trends" if you're already living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Going back to the eighties or whatever and extrapolating from there is the next-easiest choice. e: also "transforming it into a hypercapitalist pawn" probably contributes to the appeal of Japan, in addition to all the more obvious "katanas are cool" factors; exporting your hosed up ideology to someone else and realizing that oops, they're better at it than you are is itself a pretty neat/horrifying conclusion to colonial attitudes (even if it isn't a realistic one) Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Aug 28, 2018 |
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Halloween Jack posted:If you're going to obsess over the economy of a nation defined by the US transforming it into a hypercapitalist pawn in the Cold War, why not Korea, or Chile? Not enough honorabu samurai-chan in the Pinochet regime? Japan’s a G7 nation, which Chile, Korea, and Albania are not. That comes with some reputational weight, because of the economic weight.
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Halloween Jack posted:I want to vent my spleen about something: why are RPG writers still obsessed with the idea of Japan as an all-consuming economic superpower in 2018? They're 30 years behind. https://twitter.com/rizzoTK/status/1034460507879731200  apparently it's not as anachronistic as we might have thought!
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:e: also "transforming it into a hypercapitalist pawn" probably contributes to the appeal of Japan, in addition to all the more obvious "katanas are cool" factors; exporting your hosed up ideology to someone else and realizing that oops, they're better at it than you are is itself a pretty neat/horrifying conclusion to colonial attitudes (even if it isn't a realistic one) gradenko_2000 posted:apparently it's not as anachronistic as we might have thought!
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Halloween Jack posted:I want to vent my spleen about something: why are RPG writers still obsessed with the idea of Japan as an all-consuming economic superpower in 2018? They're 30 years behind. japan has more than twice the population of south korea and ~7 times the population of chile, for one. it's the most populous first-world country after the united states e: or to put it another way, japan is a little less populous than russia and *way* richer
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:e: also "transforming it into a hypercapitalist pawn" probably contributes to the appeal of Japan, in addition to all the more obvious "katanas are cool" factors; exporting your hosed up ideology to someone else and realizing that oops, they're better at it than you are is itself a pretty neat/horrifying conclusion to colonial attitudes (even if it isn't a realistic one) The dumbest part of "Japan as hypercapitalist dystopia" is that it ignores how very deeply the government is involved in planning and influencing the economy. Noted pinko Barry Goldwater called Japan "the only country where Communism ever worked." These are people who made the trains run on time. But during the 80s they had a bunch of money and were doing in some ways better than the US which was in recession, so clearly they must be more capitalist than us. There is no other way. (I am not calling Japan "Communist" or even "Socialist" but the American perception of Japan as libertarian hypercapialist dystopia is just incredibly wrong)
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Cyberpunk setting idea: Jack Ma is possessed by the spirit of Qin Shi Huang, uses his economic power to take the Mandate of Heaven from the CCP and becomes an immortal cyborg emperor of Neo Qin fueled by mercury like the T-1000.
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occamsnailfile posted:(I am not calling Japan "Communist" or even "Socialist" but the American perception of Japan as libertarian hypercapialist dystopia is just incredibly wrong) Jeb Bush 2012 posted:e: or to put it another way, japan is a little less populous than russia and *way* richer Then there's the possibility of development in Africa, which China is all about. But how many RPG writers are qualified to deal with that? Trinity is the only game I can think of that made a real go of it.
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remusclaw posted:So, in a situation where I have to make the best choice between two bad options, with hindsight, what is the better game, Pathfinder or 3.5 D&D? Assume I use Paths of War or Book of Nine swords depending on which is chosen. Pathfinder really does live up to that 3.75 name in so far as there’s a ton of small clarifications and changes that make the game a lot better to play. It’s not going to change anyone’s mind if they don’t like 3e, but it makes for a better game overall.
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 New blogpost for The Next Project is up! Today, we're talking about why there isn't a magic subsystem, as you would find in 3.x/5e-style D&D. The short answer? Class balance actually matters, and trying to balance resource-having classes against others (who go without) pretty much never gets executed properly. I also touch on how one of the core conceits of TNP helps to make balanced classes also be unique and interesting. As always, if you're interested in talking about the game's designs, all goons are welcome to join the TNP Discord. 
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The LOTR digital LCG launched and it's full of micro transactions and significantly more shallow than the real thing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/509580/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Living_Card_Game/ Also the animations are straight out of Hearthstone
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Halloween Jack posted:See, what would be interesting is if turning the Russian government into a condom for capitalism ironically redounds to their benefit in the far future and there's a new Russian hegemony. this is vastly more implausible than the japan thing!
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If a party member is getting talked to by a cursed item we can’t hear, is it metagaming if my character puts two and two together and asks what the gently caress is up with the item?
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How would you know the item is talking in first place?
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Pollyanna posted:If a party member is getting talked to by a cursed item we can’t hear, is it metagaming if my character puts two and two together and asks what the gently caress is up with the item? If they aren't like, stroking the item and calling it the precious then yes. Otherwise you might be able to notice that something is up with the character, but you wouldn't have any idea about the source.
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Plutonis posted:How would you know the item is talking in first place? They were screaming “this torch is talking to me!”.
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Pollyanna posted:They were screaming “this torch is talking to me!”. In that case it is not meta gaming no?
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Pollyanna posted:They were screaming “this torch is talking to me!”. Well that could be schizophrenia.
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Plutonis posted:Well that could be schizophrenia.
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"What's that Swordy? You want me to murder everyone? But that would be wrong! Although..."
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He did try to drown somebody so  Then I rescued her and I tried to push him in then he tried to push me in and then the lady pushed my pet demon in and now my pet is permanently stuck in stasis and I have a new motivation.
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Pollyanna posted:He did try to drown somebody so Kill them and take their talking torch.
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:this is vastly more implausible than the japan thing!
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Not an RPG, but Artemis has Kenya as an ascendent space faring country due to being equatorial and open to rampant capitalism. Not the best book but decent. It’s The Martian but like with plot and dialogue.
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Oh hah, seems like Karyu Densetsu is getting really popular on the RPG sites here, their free fastplay is getting a lot of downloads and there's a lot of tables using that. Might try doing a F&F of that when I feel like it. e: They got their crowdfunding goal ready too and it's still got a month to go, how nice. Plutonis fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Talking weapons are tricky, though I'll always have a soft spot for the 3.5 one which is recommended for a deaf swordsman.
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