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Plutonis posted:I'm at a local RPG event and man I've been out of touch with the local scene. I'm playing some grog wargames with people and I think i'm joining their weekend group since they play not too far from my neighborhood! Historicals?
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LeSquide posted:Historicals? Yeah, just got done playing a round of No Retreat! N. Africa Front.
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Nov 24, 2018 19:17
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Dr Snofeld posted:Anyone use a Fire 7 tablet for tabletop gaming stuff? I have some gift cards and it's incredibly cheap right now, but I dunno how it handles PDFs and such. It's not bad, but you'll have to spend a day ripping out as much Amazon software as possible so you can put in generic Android stuff. If you have more time or tech skills than money, it's a good idea. But otherwise, you might want a tablet that is walking adware.
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Nov 24, 2018 19:34
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Just less than fifty people on a saturday... Cripes, i guess its because the RPG people gather on the suburbs instead of the beach but still I've been to shittier anime cons with bigger attendances and these dudes managed to rent half a floor of a shopping center with a lot of space. Lotta cool tables though, made some wargamer friends, whacked people with swords and found out that a lot of books I never expected to be localized not only were but got physical copies!         
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Nov 24, 2018 23:11
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That looks like a pretty decent setup even if the attendance numbers weren't that high, I dunno, I tend to prefer events where it's not super crowded anyway.
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Nov 25, 2018 00:27
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Okay I'm pretty sure that says "The strange" but just briefly I thought there was a storage RPG. Maybe you go into dungeons, automatically defeat whatever weaklings have the treasure, then play Diablo loot tetris and develop your character around what sort of things they just can't throw away.
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Nov 25, 2018 01:17
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Okay I'm pretty sure that says "The strange" but just briefly I thought there was a storage RPG. Maybe you go into dungeons, automatically defeat whatever weaklings have the treasure, then play Diablo loot tetris and develop your character around what sort of things they just can't throw away. I swear I remember hearing something about a board game which was all about playing inventory tetris to try and make off with as much loot as possible but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was called or if it even exists.
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Nov 25, 2018 03:24
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Doesn't Torchbearer have that or am I getting confused with Mouseguard's write your inventory in a little box system.
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Nov 25, 2018 03:50
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IIRC Torchbearer has a simplified form of inventory tetris where you have everything stacked in bags and it's possible to get a hole in the bag and have stuff start falling out the bottom (i.e. in the order it was put in the bag)
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Nov 25, 2018 04:49
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golden bubble posted:It's not bad, but you'll have to spend a day ripping out as much Amazon software as possible so you can put in generic Android stuff. If you have more time or tech skills than money, it's a good idea. But otherwise, you might want a tablet that is walking adware. my kindle fire hd shows an ad on the lock screen. And that's all. It's highly ignorable and not some kind of ad apocalypse device.
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Nov 25, 2018 07:42
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Leperflesh posted:my kindle fire hd shows an ad on the lock screen. And that's all. It's highly ignorable and not some kind of ad apocalypse device. The UI is not great and a storefront first, but it's also not very hard to change without even rooting the device.
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Nov 25, 2018 09:16
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So, after using this story several times, I wrote it up as a one-shot Christmas adventure for Nobilis, if anybody wants such a thing.
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Nov 26, 2018 15:49
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Kai Tave posted:I swear I remember hearing something about a board game which was all about playing inventory tetris to try and make off with as much loot as possible but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was called or if it even exists. Pack n stack.
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Nov 26, 2018 16:07
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Rand Brittain posted:So, after using this story several times, I wrote it up as a one-shot Christmas adventure for Nobilis, if anybody wants such a thing. Last year for my nobilis group I ran a scenario in which Niall retired from the role of Santa Claus and passed it on to former child actor now prosperity gospel huckster Kirk Cameron. "Saving Christmas From Kirk Cameron Saving Christmas." In a true masterwork of scorched earth politics and design by committee, my jerkass players managed to keep the holiday away from Cameron by convincing the utterly terrifying Power of Destruction to become Santa instead. There was a lot of collateral damage. So while I'm not sure I'll manage to adapt Destroying Christmas into this year's followup adventure for our table, the naming scheme obligates me to at least try!
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Nov 26, 2018 22:54
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Lambo Trillrissian posted:This is delightful. There's no way I can disapprove of this.
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Nov 27, 2018 00:17
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Kai Tave posted:I swear I remember hearing something about a board game which was all about playing inventory tetris to try and make off with as much loot as possible but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was called or if it even exists. http://www.gamesbyplaydate.com/pack-the-pack/
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Nov 27, 2018 01:33
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Okay I'm pretty sure that says "The strange" but just briefly I thought there was a storage RPG. Maybe you go into dungeons, automatically defeat whatever weaklings have the treasure, then play Diablo loot tetris and develop your character around what sort of things they just can't throw away. The Storage is probably written by the same team as The Laundry.
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Nov 27, 2018 02:48
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Keep us posted on the Santapocalypse.
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Nov 27, 2018 02:54
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Lambo Trillrissian posted:This is delightful. Hey I'm gonna steal this, thanks.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:54
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If you haven't already, I highly recommend watching Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas beforehand as research, it's so stupid and insane you can't even really get mad at it. One of the best hatewatch movies of all time.
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Nov 27, 2018 20:55
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No thank you.
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Lambo Trillrissian posted:If you haven't already, I highly recommend watching Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas beforehand as research, it's so stupid and insane you can't even really get mad at it. One of the best hatewatch movies of all time. I read a summary already and yeah... gonna have to watch it. The quote about surrounding your nativity scene with nutcrackers to represent the Soldiers of Herod is uh... That's certainly an idea! (An idea for a combat encounter imo) Vaguely related, I'm thinking of ductapping Gumshoe and Valor/Strike together for Superheroics and didn't know if anyone had any thoughts on that?
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Nov 27, 2018 22:21
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My podcast did an hourlong examination of Saving Christmas a while back. That motherfucking movie is a bad, weird thing. https://systemmasterypodcast.com/2016/12/14/movie-mastery-saving-christmas-2014/
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Nov 28, 2018 01:27
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So I've gotten this far, and I felt I should share it: "Every Drow in the North Docks liked Danmas a lot... But the Aelfir, who live up in Amaranth, did NOT! High elves hated Danmas, and cancelled the season! And we all know why: Oppression’s the reason. It could be their goal was to crack down on the Knights, It could be, like they said, to stop riots and fights. But our Ministry knows that to control the drow, The aelfir suppress worship of holy Danmou."
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Nov 28, 2018 22:10
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I'm going through some old books, and look at this:  
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Nov 29, 2018 06:29
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That Old Tree posted:I'm going through some old books, and look at this: He's a dimension hopper, he really gets around. 
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Nov 29, 2018 06:46
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That's clearly Mark Collins.
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Nov 29, 2018 07:20
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Lurdiak posted:That's clearly Mark Collins. I'm gonna need the backstory on that clip.
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mllaneza posted:I'm gonna need the backstory on that clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZ9xkiBywc
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Nov 29, 2018 07:57
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Blood Debts. Best of the Worst covered Blood Debts, among others.
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Nov 29, 2018 09:28
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Having System Mastery covering Renegade Legion recently gave me a good cringe as I thought of that coming fairly close to being the very first Star Wars RPG.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Having System Mastery covering Renegade Legion recently gave me a good cringe as I thought of that coming fairly close to being the very first Star Wars RPG. I love that show but occasionally they cover some really awful space nonsense like that and I just can't stay interested. It's like the Manos episode of MST3K.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for RPGs that play well with 2? My wife and I have an itch to play pen&paper but my schedule makes it difficult to play more than just the two of us.
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berenzen posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for RPGs that play well with 2? My wife and I have an itch to play pen&paper but my schedule makes it difficult to play more than just the two of us. Scarlet Heroes is specifically designed for 1 player 1 GM and is generally really well written to boot
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Pope Guilty posted:I love that show but occasionally they cover some really awful space nonsense like that and I just can't stay interested. It's like the Manos episode of MST3K. Renegade Legion is, at least, a more interesting game with historical context. It's easy to forget it had three video games, five different board games, novels, etc. FASA originally developed it to be their Star Wars game, but couldn't get the license, so they did an "original" setting instead and published it. FASA was good at pushing properties but their attempt at a spaceship equivalent of Battletech never quite caught on. Some of the spaceship rules were later recycled in Battletech products as well. To be fair, the attitude they had for Renegade Legion is pretty much how I feel about Battletech (despite having played it a fair deal) - but then, I've probably never really gotten the appeal of most of FASA's output. They always put out products with high production values for their time, but I always felt there was kind of a uninspired, mechanical feel to most of what they did.
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FASA's Trek stuff had some pretty balls-out crazy moments as they tried to integrate the wildly disparate segments of canon into a single setting.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Scarlet Heroes is specifically designed for 1 player 1 GM and is generally really well written to boot Sweet! Thanks, I'll take a look.
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Pope Guilty posted:I love that show but occasionally they cover some really awful space nonsense like that and I just can't stay interested. It's like the Manos episode of MST3K. I can sit through Manos, but holy poo poo The Starfighters.
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theironjef posted:I can sit through Manos, but holy poo poo The Starfighters. This guy gets it.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Renegade Legion is, at least, a more interesting game with historical context. It's easy to forget it had three video games, five different board games, novels, etc. FASA originally developed it to be their Star Wars game, but couldn't get the license, so they did an "original" setting instead and published it. FASA was good at pushing properties but their attempt at a spaceship equivalent of Battletech never quite caught on. Some of the spaceship rules were later recycled in Battletech products as well. I had an active college gaming group when RL came out. Interceptor had some interesting ideas like the flowchart damage systemm and the weapon templates; but it broke down badly in favor of whoever won initiative for a turn (we kept records, I won initiative 28/30 turns and then we quit). Centurion was a big deal. Anti-grav tanks and APCs with exotic weapons ? That signed 8 people up fora company on company battle. it was so loving tedious we didn't finish the game. Then someone did the math and discovered that the most powerful weapon in the core set needed multiple shots to kill the weakest vehicle. That killed interest in the game; it was bad at tanks. After the first supplement was published, we discovered that the biggest possible gun in the game couldn't one-shot the weakest possible vehicle in the game. That left the whole line buried in a shallow trench a couple of miles outside of town. I've never managed to play Leviathan or Prefect. I wouldn't be surprised than no one has. By the time they came out, there was no reason to trust RL games with a whole session of play, and nobody wanted to spend the time to prove that another RL game was broken.
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