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wizzardstaff posted:The cans are all over the table in a different place in every shot. When they open a can it's closed in a later shot. Is this an intentional middle finger to the concept of continuity or is it just really that bad? So in short, it's both and thankfully this is the most work he gets these days besides whenever someone missteps and hires him to do something or he gets crowdfunded contributions.
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I'm going to go through the F&F at some point later (so thanks Hostile V) but the new Paranoia is up on Bundle of Holding, is it worth grabbing for $super cheap just to get some stuff to use in XP? Also the fact that XP no longer has XP printed on the cover or anywhere makes this discussion annoying.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Normally I'd say turning into a berserk fish monster is pretty apolitical, but it generally tends to impact lower-class peasants who are more vulnerable to attacks by berserk fish monsters. So what I'm hearing is 'fish monsters vs cruise ships'. Now that I think about it, I think I ran that game with the oWerewolf using the Rokea splatbook about 20 years ago. But that Bitcoin cruise would make a fantastic sequel...
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food court bailiff posted:I'm going to go through the F&F at some point later (so thanks Hostile V) but the new Paranoia is up on Bundle of Holding, is it worth grabbing for $super cheap just to get some stuff to use in XP? If it really cheap it’s worth it for the mutation/secret society cards. As a said in the F&F thread, the only funny joke I remember from the entire edition is that the box is white and the label on the box is matte white, making it virtually impossible to read.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Like grassy gnoll said, that's Dan Schneider. He was fired from Nick, but they gave him a $7 million dollar parting gift. In "sex creeps tied to classic Nick productions" there's also the seminally disgusting John K (Ren & Stimpy's creator), who also like to prey on underage girls. And most recently there's Chris Savino who is the creator of "The Loud House," a show that has won awards for its inclusion and quality. Savino himself was of course fired for being a sex pest, a well known secret in the industry for several years. One assumes that it has a terrible fanbase the likes of which rival Kim Possible as Nuns with Guns said but I'm just going to assume and not look.
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food court bailiff posted:I'm going to go through the F&F at some point later (so thanks Hostile V) but the new Paranoia is up on Bundle of Holding, is it worth grabbing for $super cheap just to get some stuff to use in XP? 1: the game was designed so you can buy all the playsets and toys. There is little to no real definition for the environment and culture of Alpha Complex besides that it's a dystopia at Peak Resource Consumption in active free-fall. They want you to get the Secret Society and Mutant cards to add more to the base game and there's a lot of stuff that doesn't show up in the core game because it's content-gated behind stuff in the expansions. Core book has "Commies are sad that Friend Computer views terrorists as a bigger threat to the Complex than them" while apparently other stuff says there's a full-blown ideological schism between the Communists that breaks them down into four squabbling factions. This stuff also isn't in the bundle. 2: for what's in the Bundle I can't say it's worth it.
There's a lot of old XP modules that frankly aren't very good or are too caught up in being fiddly little disaster sandboxes with pre-built behind the scenes backstories and you'd be better off scavenging through those for inspiration. The new edition has a huge tone problem in the form of "it's all three at once in a Straightly collapsing Complex" and that definitely colors...everything else.
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King of Solomon posted:Yes, yes, you don't think Japanese people are capable of making good cartoons, and that's somehow not racist. Whatever you say, dude. People not thinking a thing is good isn't a form of bigotry you loving imbecile. Not all animes are the same but enough of them have commonalities that it's perfectly reasonable for people to not like the whole based on those common elements. Christ, I know you anime fans love to play victim when people don't like the same things you do, but this is beyond the pale. You've somehow moved to a more offensive argument than saying people who don't like anime don't respect japanese culture.
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Lurdiak posted:People not thinking a thing is good isn't a form of bigotry you loving imbecile. Not all animes are the same but enough of them have commonalities that it's perfectly reasonable for people to not like the whole based on those common elements. You have a Gunnerkrigg Court avatar.
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Plutonis posted:You have a Gunnerkrigg Court avatar. Yes, congratulations on your ability to spot the contradiction between "Enjoying a webcomic that obviously has manga influences" and "being offended that someone would dare frame criticism of their hobby as a form of bigotry".
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Lurdiak posted:People not thinking a thing is good isn't a form of bigotry you loving imbecile. Not all animes are the same but enough of them have commonalities that it's perfectly reasonable for people to not like the whole based on those common elements. Saying that you dislike all Japanese cartoons inherently is a hell of a stance to take, especially when you claim that it is not bigoted to dislike all Japanese cartoons. Like, for real! I have some issues with some of the recurring tropes in shounen action series and indeed as an increasing trend in all shounen genres, but that doesn’t mean that I think that a cartoon being Japanese automatically makes it trash, or that I think that all Japanese cartoons have the same issues and motifs.
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Lurdiak posted:People not thinking a thing is good isn't a form of bigotry you loving imbecile. Not all animes are the same but enough of them have commonalities that it's perfectly reasonable for people to not like the whole based on those common elements. Jesus, shut up.
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Take it to BSS or ADTRW dorks. anyone played any extra light or one pager rpgs recently? I need to pad out my game backlog for nights when my full group can’t make it.
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Jun 26, 2019 01:54
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Kai Tave posted:Jesus, shut up. You shut up!
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tokenbrownguy posted:Take it to BSS or ADTRW dorks. We played Honey Heist on free RPG day and my bear passed a crime roll to drift a box truck
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Jun 26, 2019 02:08
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tokenbrownguy posted:Take it to BSS or ADTRW dorks. Since we gamed together once, is it cool if I plug my own game?
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If you conflate the manchild infected scene and culture of anime with japanese culture as a whole you're both a creep and a racist. Hope that helps to the people defending extemely mild critiques of pretty problematic scene of manga and anime in the 80's and 90's with the multi-millenia cultural history of Japan.
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Covok posted:Since we gamed together once, is it cool if I plug my own game? Never not post.
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Jun 26, 2019 02:48
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Slimnoid posted:Oh holy poo poo this is bad. It's honestly uncomfortable to watch. The video link got DMCA'd. Should I be thankful I cannot watch it?
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Len posted:We played Honey Heist on free RPG day and my bear passed a crime roll to drift a box truck Sound dope. I think my group will love it. Covok posted:Since we gamed together once, is it cool if I plug my own game? Hell yeah buddy. Hit me.
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Hey everyone, I received a report about the thread being derailed by a lot of off topic posting. I know that this is a general discussion thread but I would appreciate it if you would please keep in mind that there are other subforums for lengthy discussions about things like anime and TV. If you could also keep the level of discourse above "shut up" that would also be helpful. If it continues to be a problem feel free to report offending posts and we'll take a look.
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tokenbrownguy posted:Sound dope. I think my group will love it. Since we're buds, I'm giving you the game for free. It's called Dungeon Bastards. It was loosely inspired by Rat Queens and me being very drunk in college. As in I literally wrote it drunk in one night. Based off an earlier permutation of the basic ideas that would become powered by the Apocalypse, it's a rules light one shot game made specifically to play douchebag murder hobos rummaging around stiring poo poo. It's a game where you play a bunch of dudebros in a fantasy setting partying like a motherfucker. It's a game where you will do belly shots off Dagon while Cthullu eggs you on and your best friend is failing to get a threesome with Lythalia and a shogoth. They got weird tastes, but the rear end in a top hat is amazing at beer pong so you still hang with them.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Hey everyone, I received a report about the thread being derailed by a lot of off topic posting. I know that this is a general discussion thread but I would appreciate it if you would please keep in mind that there are other subforums for lengthy discussions about things like anime and TV. Officer, I'd like to order a McDouble with large fries and a hot apple pie
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Nuns with Guns posted:Like grassy gnoll said, that's Dan Schneider. He was fired from Nick, but they gave him a $7 million dollar parting gift. In "sex creeps tied to classic Nick productions" there's also the seminally disgusting John K (Ren & Stimpy's creator), who also like to prey on underage girls. I've seen it aired on ABC Family, Cartoon Network, and I'm pretty sure even Nickelodeon had it briefly grassy gnoll posted:You're thinking of Dan Schneider, who was terminated right before it started to come out that in addition to being a raging rear end in a top hat with a foot kink, he was sexually abusing basically any female Nickelodeon personality between the late 90s and last year. Officially I don't think anyone's found any proof that he did any direct sexual abuse, but he was definitely a creep Dawgstar posted:And most recently there's Chris Savino who is the creator of "The Loud House," a show that has won awards for its inclusion and quality. Savino himself was of course fired for being a sex pest, a well known secret in the industry for several years. Savino was also responsible for the really bad seasons of Dexter's Lab As for how terrible the fan base for The Loud House is, well let's just leave it at the fact that the main male character has 10 sisters and you can imagine where it goes from there food court bailiff posted:I'm going to go through the F&F at some point later (so thanks Hostile V) but the new Paranoia is up on Bundle of Holding, is it worth grabbing for $super cheap just to get some stuff to use in XP? On the topic of stuff on Bundle of Holding, has anyone run Advanced Fighting Fantasy, cause it looks pretty neat
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food court bailiff posted:I'm going to go through the F&F at some point later (so thanks Hostile V) but the new Paranoia is up on Bundle of Holding, is it worth grabbing for $super cheap just to get some stuff to use in XP? If you want good stuff on the setting, get the DOA Sector Travelogue from 2e.
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Covok posted:Since we're buds, I'm giving you the game for free.
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dwarf74 posted:Can I just note how for a few brief, shining years we had both Fell's Five and Rat Queens, and since then there's been a giant wasteland of anything similar, and that's pretty sad? Fells Five was so good
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Wasn't one of the creators of Rat Queens a poo poo who, despite leaving the project for being a poo poo, still had some ownership and got a cut? Also Skullkickers was good, if nowhere near as good as Fell Queens/Rat's Five. Len posted:Fells Five was so good
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Wasn't one of the creators of Rat Queens a poo poo who, despite leaving the project for being a poo poo, still had some ownership and got a cut?
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Len posted:Fells Five was so good Yeah, I miss that comic a whole bunch. And John Rogers even kicks himself for going on hiatus at exactly the wrong time which is partly why it died.
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dwarf74 posted:Yes, Rat Queens' original artist was a domestic abuser, and he was cut from the comic as soon as it came to light. His art style was so integral to the whole feel of the comic, though, that it died without him. The comic is still ongoing but the creative team has been reshuffled a number of times. Šejić did art for issues 9-10 while Kurtis J Wiebe stayed on writing. Tess Fowler did art from 11 to 16 and when she left she alleged Wiebe was angling to get Roc Upchurch (the domestic abuser) back as the main artist. She also said she had a sense that Upchurch never stopped having creative input on the series. There was a bit of a reboot after issue 16 and Wiebe came back with a few different artists. The last two issues have been under a new writer and artist.
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Nuns with Guns posted:The comic is still ongoing but the creative team has been reshuffled a number of times. Šejić did art for issues 9-10 while Kurtis J Wiebe stayed on writing. Tess Fowler did art from 11 to 16 and when she left she alleged Wiebe was angling to get Roc Upchurch (the domestic abuser) back as the main artist. She also said she had a sense that Upchurch never stopped having creative input on the series. Are the new ones any good?
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dwarf74 posted:Wow, I thought it was just dead. By chance I just finished a read-through. It's not bad but it isn't as great as the early stuff.
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Covok posted:Since we're buds, I'm giving you the game for free. haha this owns, def gonna run a game. I like the passive vs. active moves, that's a simple way to signal importance as the MC .
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tokenbrownguy posted:Take it to BSS or ADTRW dorks. Lasers & Feelings (there's also a bunch of simple hacks around for different genres, e.g. spy fiction, D&Desque fantasy, cyberpunk) Pocket Danger Patrol (and Gamma Patrol) GHOST/ECHO Danger Mountain! Everyone Is John Geiger Counter Gamma Gazetteer
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one thing i've never understood with traditional pnp roleplaying games is their total unwillingness to let players have cool stuff. I guess it's mostly a d&d thing, but every cool class feature is locked behind a ton of bullshit or has some awful drawback to make it useless, every player race option is some variant on 'no you can't be an angel, you have to be an angel-touched, no you can't be a troll, you have to be a troll-touched'. you'd think Heroic Fantasy would let you be a bit more heroic. more modern gaming systems like Dungeonworld have much less trouble allowing players to do Cool & Fun Stuff right off the bat, but its taken a long rear end fuckin time for D&D to be comfortable with letting you even be a drow without having a crippling level adjustment (although i think people who play drow have it coming in this one case). There's a very miserly attitude amongst games designers it seems like. I get wanting to have Progression, but surely adventurers should be a little bit extraordinary from the get-go?
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juggalo baby coffin posted:one thing i've never understood with traditional pnp roleplaying games is their total unwillingness to let players have cool stuff. I guess it's mostly a d&d thing, but every cool class feature is locked behind a ton of bullshit or has some awful drawback to make it useless, every player race option is some variant on 'no you can't be an angel, you have to be an angel-touched, no you can't be a troll, you have to be a troll-touched'. My dude, I feel you, but were you asleep for 4th Edition? They gave you all sorts of cool poo poo to do right from level 1. My single digit brawler fighter was routinely choke-slamming hydras and breaking giants' spines. It was amazing. (They made me stop having the Wrestlemania soundboard open on my laptop eventually, to my unending sadness.) Sadly drow were not really handled any better than anywhere else with that whole thing where an Epic Destiny let you come back as *sigh* a pure white baby. I'm white as hell so don't want to over-step my boundaries, but I'm really curious how much better the drow fluff would be if they just made them albinos or something like that, since it's actually how underground things evolve and also, you know, not super loving racist.
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Xiahou Dun posted:My dude, I feel you, but were you asleep for 4th Edition? They gave you all sorts of cool poo poo to do right from level 1. *Unless you are an Essentials class
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