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Halloween Jack posted:I have tried to gently advise people that if someone wants to read a transcript of the entire book, they'll just pirate it and read it themselves. "Has anyone transcribed word for word this book that came out last year?" "  "
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Feb 5, 2019 19:28
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Halloween Jack posted:The thing that consistently weirds me out is when the authorial stance seems to be that being a hyper-atomized off-the-grid anarcho-libertarian is a good thing. I mean it's a reasonable response to living in neolib hellworld, but I wouldn't say it's good. I bought the recent Shadowrun book about "Hooding" (IE: Ethical shadowrunning) and in the comments section there's one of these libertarian types constantly sniping at everyone. Someone hacks his bank account and gives all his money to charity and also buys free pizza for their apartment block.
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Feb 5, 2019 19:44
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theironjef posted:"Has anyone transcribed word for word this book that came out last
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Feb 5, 2019 20:01
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Okay today is actually awesome.
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Feb 5, 2019 20:28
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dwarf74 posted:Okay today is actually awesome. I'm sad I only have a 2nd edition copy without the cthulhu guys. But my copy I found at a garage sale and the original owner colored in a ton of the artwork with crayons, so it's still awesome. Also old-school Erol Otus art rules. 
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Feb 5, 2019 21:16
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erol otus > larry elmore yearly reminder
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Feb 5, 2019 21:45
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Wrestlepig posted:Paranoia had some really incredible adventures. Nobody's even mentioned Stealth Train or the algae vat one that kills everybody in Alpha Complex. Stealth Train was only OK, and pretty terrible as a beginner’s adventure. “What do you do?” “Um, we keep guarding the train.”
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Feb 5, 2019 22:50
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hyphz posted:Stealth Train was only OK, and pretty terrible as a beginner’s adventure. “What do you do?” “Um, we keep guarding the train.” just ask "what train?" and wait for the fireworks
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Feb 5, 2019 22:57
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Gort posted:Was Cyberpunk 3.0 the one where instead of artwork they used photos of some children's dolls they'd dressed up as punks? Honestly that isn't an inherently bad idea in my opinion, but it was really badly done in that specific instance Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:erol otus > larry elmore And Peter Mullen is better than both of them
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drrockso20 posted:And Peter Mullen is better than both of them Agreed on Larry Elmore, who is just a kinda "acceptable dragons fantasy artist", but while I do like Mullen, I think Erol Otis' art has more weird character and Mullen's art leans a bit too much on cross-hatching. Could just be the nostalgia talking, though.
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Feb 6, 2019 00:17
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In the end, when it comes to D&D art, my favorite is DiTerlizzi, the Brian Froud of RPG's.
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Feb 6, 2019 00:21
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Erol Otus and Dave Trampier, please.
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Feb 6, 2019 00:39
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remusclaw posted:In the end, when it comes to D&D art, my favorite is DiTerlizzi, the Brian Froud of RPG's. Rebecca Guay was one of my favorite for classic nerdgames too
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Feb 6, 2019 04:03
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Coolness Averted posted:Rebecca Guay was one of my favorite for classic nerdgames too Wow, Rebecca Guay is really good. Along with her, DiTerlizzi and Amano, I think I might have found my preferred sort of aesthetic. Stephanie Pui-Mun Law also did stuff in a similar style, I first saw her work when I was random buttoning on Elfwood back in the day. Of the early D&D artists I suppose Darlene comes closest to this sort of look, thought it is all line work in that case. Her stuff really stands out in the AD&D cores. remusclaw fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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Feb 6, 2019 04:22
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Coolness Averted posted:Rebecca Guay was one of my favorite for classic nerdgames too Terese Nielsen was one of my favorites, but she turned out to be a MAGA chud 
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Feb 6, 2019 04:23
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Arivia posted:Terese Nielsen was one of my favorites, but she turned out to be a MAGA chud oh god no
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Feb 6, 2019 04:33
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Arivia posted:Terese Nielsen was one of my favorites, but she turned out to be a MAGA chud yeah but vesuvan doppleganger
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remusclaw posted:Wow, Rebecca Guay is really good. Along with her, DiTerlizzi and Amano, I think I might have found my preferred sort of aesthetic. Check out Caitlyn Kurilich as well. She's not done any D&D work that I know of but her art seems to share a style with DiTerlizzi and Guay.
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Feb 6, 2019 09:59
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Arivia posted:Terese Nielsen was one of my favorites, but she turned out to be a MAGA chud https://twitter.com/tnielsenart/status/1071136123009740800 There's a whole lot of "a whole lot going on here" going on here
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Halloween Jack posted:https://twitter.com/tnielsenart/status/1071136123009740800 That's amazing
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gradenko_2000 posted:take it to the Chat thread if you'd like, but what did you think of this system? I bought it for cheap last year and have been thinking of running it On the good side, it's unusual and gonzo, usually in interesting ways. Monte Cook is good at worldbuilding, and he does a solid job here. The classes and races are (mostly) interesting, and he does some neat twists on d20 like racial levels. On the bad side, it's a Monte Cook game. Class balance is all over the loving place. Oathsworn, Mageblades, and Witches are all terrible. On the other hand, Greenbonds and And if that's not enough, feats let you add templates to spells. Which can do things like add stun for a few rounds. For free. On that fireball you cast. Or, like, change the saving throw to use the target's Intelligence modifier instead of the normal one. And so on. So yeah. I loved it but could never go back.
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Soeaking of Oathsworn, just like 3E Monks a lot of the class is centered around a weird grab-bag of resistances and immunities that end up meaningless in play. One of the less dumb ones, as with the 3E Monk, is spell resistance. The community at the time jokingly referred to this as "Eschew Sucking".
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NGDBSS posted:Soeaking of Oathsworn, just like 3E Monks a lot of the class is centered around a weird grab-bag of resistances and immunities that end up meaningless in play. One of the less dumb ones, as with the 3E Monk, is spell resistance. The community at the time jokingly referred to this as "Eschew Sucking". I remember asking a friend who was far more into 3E than I was what the Monk was good at. He thought about it for a good bit, shrugged, then said "not dying, I guess." It made the class sound riveting.
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Feb 6, 2019 19:12
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I played a Mageblade in an Arcana Unearthed/Evolved game back in the day and can confirm they were hot trash. Huge newbie-trap class.
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Feb 6, 2019 19:13
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Like, you can take a feat which gives you improved access to Acid spells and also gives you an Acid template which you can apply to any spells you cast. This is a real thing you can do, and I am not making it up. quote:Acid Well, there's not tons, but the game's Super Fireball But Actually Any Energy You Want spell does the trick handily. There's another one, which is basically "all your spells get +1 to their save DC, and you can spend double slots to increase that to +3" Oh and this one I alluded to, which I was also not making up. quote:Runic SO yeah.
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Feb 6, 2019 19:35
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Runes, that famously mathematical and scientific language of Norse mysticism Monte has a dozen different ways of getting on the Magic is Super Science train and they're all boring and stupid
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Antivehicular posted:I played a Mageblade in an Arcana Unearthed/Evolved game back in the day and can confirm they were hot trash. Huge newbie-trap class. For real, the full casters in the game just run the table after about 5th level or so. There's so many ways to make your spell DCs astronomically high, your best spells are extremely spammable, and each spell is really 3 spells with a lesser and a greater version if that floats your boat. By like 10th or 11th level it became impossible to challenge both the spellcasters and the other characters in the party in a single encounter. Even without as many save-or-dies, it gets old when a caster can toss out effectively limitless quantities of not-fireballs in whatever element or energy best suits the situation.
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I remember Runethanes being silly not because of their spells (2/3 casting) but because they could prepare a wide variety of stored effects for later use. Some of them got really silly, like mimicking at-level spells or quick summoning. If you really wanted to indulge your inner accountant there was even a cheap magic item to make more of them at once. (Normally you were limited to one point of effects per level and the best stuff started at 4 points before you tacked on extras.) It also didn't hurt that they got the Runic template for free, but that paled in comparison to buying a bunch of Runeplate (or whatever that property was) crossbow bolts and blowing enemies away with touch attacks. NGDBSS fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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Feb 6, 2019 20:33
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Halloween Jack posted:The tech gaffes don't bother me as much. (Shadowrun, at least, got around data issues by putting everything in "Megapulses" and said that ordinary text, image, and video occupies a trivial amount of space. But it still has its gaffes, the most immediately visible one being the Pocket Secretary, a brick-sized PDA.) The pocket sec doesn't even bother me today. It's a smartphone through the lens of 1989.
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Liquid Communism posted:The pocket sec doesn't even bother me today. It's a smartphone through the lens of 1989.
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Feb 6, 2019 21:24
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FMguru posted:Misunderestimating mobile communication technology could be said to be on-brand for the cyberpunk genre - Neuromancer famously had sapient AIs, space cities, brain-computer interfaces, vat-grown enhanced organ transplants - and banks of pay phones. I thought analog technology was liked due to not being on the grid, so to speak. Like paper money vs credits. Hell we're at the event horizon of an awful technofuture and we still are based on analog phone tech
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Halloween Jack posted:https://twitter.com/tnielsenart/status/1071136123009740800 Are we presuming that being Mormon means being pro-Trump?Trump hammered Romney's religion pretty hard back in 2012. But this is a pretty "out there" portrait, I'll give you that.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:17
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Libertad! posted:Are we presuming that being Mormon means being pro-Trump?Trump hammered Romney's religion pretty hard back in 2012. considering mormons tend to be terrible racist bigots going from mormon secret underpants planet owner to trump maga chud doesn't seem like much of a leap tbh
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Personally, and due to family history, I'll never forgive Mormonism for being buddy-buddy with Apartheid South Africa, and also they declared that black people have the same kind of souls as white people (well, black men the same kind as white men, women are still not full members of the church) in the 70s for political concessions from the American government. It's one thing that they ever had to officially make that ruling and another that the church of Mormon refused to budge until they were threatened with loss of tax-free status iirc. The Scientology of the early 1800s.
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Libertad! posted:Are we presuming that being Mormon means being pro-Trump?Trump hammered Romney's religion pretty hard back in 2012
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I look at her twitter feed and see none of that. She says she left the church because being gay and Mormon didn't mix well and everything else seems all art stuff. Are you maybe mistaking her for someone else? https://twitter.com/tnielsenart/status/1071519762969063424 Looking up her art the only article I can find her being quoted on talked about how she likes that better representation has become a regular part of art direction in Magic. http://www.krcu.org/post/interview-artist-terese-nielsen#stream/0 Last bit of what is starting to feel a little too investigatory on my part is that she seems to follow a bunch of politicians and journo's including Drudge, Hillary Clinton, Berny Sanders, Adam Schiff, James O'Keefe and Barrack Obama. So gently caress if I know what her politics are based on that. remusclaw fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 00:45
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Sorry bud ive already made up my mind
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Eugh, my GMing definitely takes a hit when I’m doing it after work, and especially when I’m sleep deprived. That was garbage. I’m pretty sure there was a good 10 seconds where I just stared blankly at my notes trying to think of what happens next and all I could think up was “uh you trip or get caught on something”.  I’m genuinely beginning to think that running a PbtA game after work is too much for one day.God I’m loving tired.
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dwarf74 posted:Alright so Arcana Evolved... I love and hate it.
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