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Crocoswine posted:that tumblr post is really old and I hope no one here thinks the OP's posts aren't a super obvious joke. Are you saying that you don't believe he has three girlfriends who all smoke weed?
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Brawnfire posted:It is not a board game!!! There is no board, and no pieces!!! one of my D&D players bought a bunch of miniatures and I was like "uh well we don't really use those" but they were so stoked about em that I started laying them out on the bare table to give a vague idea of where everything is I don't really like the board game part of it, usually fights more resemble a Dragon Warrior game than something more Fire Emblemey, "oh sure you're close enough to run up and hit the guy" and the rest of the game is them investigating and making assumptions that I usually run with
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Andrast posted:Are you saying that you don't believe he has three girlfriends who all smoke weed? call me when he's got three gang weed slonking girlfriends
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Peanut Butler posted:one of my D&D players bought a bunch of miniatures and I was like "uh well we don't really use those" but they were so stoked about em that I started laying them out on the bare table to give a vague idea of where everything is Yeah I got pretty irritated when my DM started buying into grids and minis. The best D&D game I ever played, we just stuck random numbers into stats, nobody rolled any dice, it was pretty much a GM-directed communal story with lots of wine. Lots more fun someone digging into the apocrypha books for a two-word phrase that means you do 11 damage instead of 10.
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Jan 28, 2019 21:45
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Brawnfire posted:Yeah I got pretty irritated when my DM started buying into grids and minis. The best D&D game I ever played, we just stuck random numbers into stats, nobody rolled any dice, it was pretty much a GM-directed communal story with lots of wine. Lots more fun someone digging into the apocrypha books for a two-word phrase that means you do 11 damage instead of 10. I tried that with my game, but combat (especially ranged combat in a modern setting) really quickly became untenable and unbalanced. I had to go back to using maps and markers just to keep track of where everything was on the field. 
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Jan 28, 2019 21:47
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Why are you even playing DnD then since like 95% of the game rules are related to combat and dungeon crawling
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Idk, because we had all played it before so we were familiar with it, and just wanted to do one that was loose in that way.
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Jan 28, 2019 21:52
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Brawnfire posted:Idk, because we had all played it before so we were familiar with it, and just wanted to do one that was loose in that way. You may want to look at World of Darkness. That system is designed for abstraction and more narrative focus.
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Jan 28, 2019 21:57
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Brawnfire posted:Yeah I got pretty irritated when my DM started buying into grids and minis. The best D&D game I ever played, we just stuck random numbers into stats, nobody rolled any dice, it was pretty much a GM-directed communal story with lots of wine. Lots more fun someone digging into the apocrypha books for a two-word phrase that means you do 11 damage instead of 10. At this point, aren't you just playing pretend? Like, that's cool if you're into that poo poo, but, it's kinda not a game anymore.
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Aramek posted:At this point, aren't you just playing pretend? Well the GM would still roll sometimes for skill checks or counters, but for the most part it was saying what we wanted to do and the GM making sure it was constrained to moves. Plus a lot of the plot was a party where we had to socially affect NPC so... It worked out, and it definitely still fit the ruleset, I don't know how to explain this better. Sandwich Anarchist posted:You may want to look at World of Darkness. That system is designed for abstraction and more narrative focus. To my eternal shame I did LARP Vampire: The Masquerade, which was definitely much more flexible in that regard. But so, so, so lame.
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Jan 28, 2019 22:06
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Andrast posted:Why are you even playing DnD then since like 95% of the game rules are related to combat and dungeon crawling familiarity my game's been running for eight years and for half of em it's their first game; 5e especially is not a difficult system to bend to your will as a DM, and there are scads and scads of resources online and at game stores for it really the rules don't matter aside from being a way to incentivize my PCs to play in a way that's entertaining, so yeah I went with the one that's cool right now and that I played cumulative months of in the 90s would rather be running Dungeon World tbh but I mostly run things like that system on the backend, so really it's about player comfort. Much like labor and capital, a DM cannot exist without players
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Jan 28, 2019 22:07
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Skwirl posted:Please let it be a vegetarian place.
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Aramek posted:At this point, aren't you just playing pretend? d and d is just quantifying your imagination, anyway, it's not really a game
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Jan 28, 2019 22:09
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Brawnfire posted:Idk, because we had all played it before so we were familiar with it, and just wanted to do one that was loose in that way.
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Jan 28, 2019 22:11
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Yawgmoth posted:You'd probably enjoy some of the lighter RPGs then, like Apocalypse World. If you like the granular mechanics but don't really give a poo poo about positioning et al. beyond "is that a touch power or line of sight?" then the 2nd edition of Chronicles of Darkness (not to be confused with World of Darkness only because there's some "exciting" fuckery surrounding White Wolf/OPP/versions that I invite you to ask/read about) is definitely for you. Thanks for the advice! I have been wanting to run a small adventure for some friends but was always burdened by the sheer weight of the D&D mechanics and ruleset. I felt like I would necessarily be leaning on my friend who usually DMs for help even as he played PC. This sounds like it hews more closely to my style of group improvisational storytelling.
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Brawnfire posted:Well the GM would still roll sometimes for skill checks or counters, but for the most part it was saying what we wanted to do and the GM making sure it was constrained to moves. Plus a lot of the plot was a party where we had to socially affect NPC so... It worked out, and it definitely still fit the ruleset, I don't know how to explain this better. Who said anything about LARPing? Sit at a table with character sheets and play vanilla WoD
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Jan 28, 2019 22:23
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Who said anything about LARPing? Sit at a table with character sheets and play vanilla WoD That's just the only example of contact I've had with WoD, is all. Just anecdote.
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Jan 28, 2019 22:24
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yeah I pitched DW when we wrapped up a Lv 1-20 Pathfinder campaign, but the players were more interested in 5e DnD and there are more of them than me so I ran with it the advantage/disadvantage mechanic is great for on the fly calls, and rewarding it for good play is an easy incentive structure that reminds me of Paranoia's perversion point system mostly I pretend I know the rules super well in order to move forward into drinking beers and doing lightly structured improv
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Jan 28, 2019 22:25
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Proteus Jones posted:The hippest. right, we're like Real Metal, we didn't go away....just went underground. you haven't heard about motley crue either lately have you...but they still rock checkmate teenailures
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Jan 28, 2019 22:40
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This indie musician used his artist's platform to sell overpriced closet sized apartments in LA and is totally not mad that people are making fun of him because of it https://twitter.com/WAVVES/status/1089327517863821312 https://twitter.com/WAVVES/status/1089389638379159554
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Jan 28, 2019 22:56
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letthereberock posted:Oh please please please tell me you have a good Square dance drama story. Sadly nothing specific, just that square dancing clubs apparently have a tendency to pop up, get taken over and dominated by a handful of toxic lovely members who then drive everyone else away to start their own new clubs, and the cycle repeats itself.
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Jan 28, 2019 23:08
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Slippery posted:God, same. there's no shortage of things to be depressed or anxious about but willfully putting babies at risk from sheer ignorance ugh sure but even the adults depress me, to think that people can be hoodwinked and led astray so horrifically just makes me sad rather then finding it funny they were killed by something that last killed boris the caveman or w/e
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EmmyOk posted:sure but even the adults depress me, to think that people can be hoodwinked and led astray so horrifically just makes me sad rather then finding it funny they were killed by something that last killed boris the caveman or w/e concur
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EmmyOk posted:sure but even the adults depress me, to think that people can be hoodwinked and led astray so horrifically just makes me sad rather then finding it funny they were killed by something that last killed boris the caveman or w/e Shilling for deep state big pharma itt
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it makes me feel like a crazy person but I can't help but think that there's a concerted effort to create dieoffs in the lower classes as a ghoulish solution to labor automation
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nerdz posted:This indie musician used his artist's platform to sell overpriced closet sized apartments in LA and is totally not mad that people are making fun of him because of it Now I know why a musician I follow tweeted “If Wavves thinks his fan’s understanding of economics is bad wait until he hears about their taste in music”.
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Peanut Butler posted:it makes me feel like a crazy person but I can't help but think that there's a concerted effort to create dieoffs in the lower classes as a ghoulish solution to labor automation The Stand v2.0: Jenny McCarthy is The Walkin Lady
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Peanut Butler posted:it makes me feel like a crazy person but I can't help but think that there's a concerted effort to create dieoffs in the lower classes as a ghoulish solution to labor automation That's just biopolitics
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For some reason I decided to read the comments on a Washington Post article about this week's forecasted record cold weather. In addition to the usual climate change denial "if the globe is warming why's it so cold"  I found this: Just try to imagine how big of an idiot you would have to be to think JesuswichSonOfManwich is not the best screen name. Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 00:47 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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Jan 29, 2019 00:45
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Brawnfire posted:It is not a board game!!! There is no board, and no pieces!!! https://www.miniaturemarket.com/woc21442.html Game set and match 
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Jan 29, 2019 00:54
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Moms on social media are nasty. Posting bath photos of their kids with little suns censoring their genitals. One of the kids is in elementary school. It's hosed up and weird.
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MizPiz posted:That's just biopolitics Just as a warning studying this stuff is the first step to getting a philosophy interest, which will quickly lead you to go suck dick for the chance to argue about passage 3 of Kant's least readable chapter, needing to be ever more well read in obscure dead people (read: go into academia). Don't be like me kids, stay away from the Big P. Do something more constructive, like smoke crack and eat tide pods for fun. You'll still make more sense than Judith Butler.
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nerdz posted:This indie musician used his artist's platform to sell overpriced closet sized apartments in LA and is totally not mad that people are making fun of him because of it Like half my family lives in LA, you'd think I'd be used to hearing about inflated prices. But I still did a double take at $3k a month. My husband and I paid literally half that much to rent our last place, and it was a stand-alone house with a backyard.
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heh. im old and uggo and my game is weak and thank roosh for making me still competitive.
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https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1090038812804345857 lol
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..why not? Ol' Stevie's take isn't without its charms seveneves is a hell of a book and so is station eleven but I ask you: did either of them feature the trashcan man no they did not
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