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Jul 8, 2019 05:45
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I feel ashamed of my words and deeds
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Jul 8, 2019 05:51
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Splicer posted:Mrs. Splicer has been having a similar issue with trying to find decent female protagonist, non-YA genre fiction. Most of the women are either, well, the usual women in sci fi and fantasy, or the book is all about Exploring Female Themes. She just wants to read a book where a person goes around being a badass in space/elfland/space elfland and that person is also female. Bonus points if that person occasionally bangs people* and it's not treated like a big deal or in a weird male fantasy way. Joking-but-serious: Has she looked at the Honor Harrington series?
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Jul 8, 2019 07:34
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Thanks for all the recommendations!juggalo baby coffin posted:I wrote a novel with a female protagonist juggalo baby coffin posted:
quote:Drudrick stepped from the bath and caught sight of his glistening body in the mirror. Sighing, he ran his eyes down his carefully groomed chest hair to the narrow, masculine hips perfectly framing a pendulous set of testicles.
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Jul 8, 2019 08:50
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Splicer posted:Thanks for all the recommendations! lmao thats great, also i sent you a pm
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Jul 8, 2019 09:10
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Splicer posted:Thanks for all the recommendations! I’m still working through it but Empress of Forever is really good - queer and female-led sci-fi that’s fun and adventurous and imaginative, like Guardians of the Galaxy with significantly more lesbians. In general I definitely recommend Max Gladstone’s books, including the Craft Sequence, for imaginative speculative fiction with really well fleshed-out female and queer characters.
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Jul 8, 2019 09:19
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Nothing remotely set in stone yet, but I'm contemplating running an online game soon, both so I can finally say that I have successfully run a game as a GM(as my RL social life is near nonexistent these days and my online one ain't a whole lot better), and cause I'm tired of waiting for someone in these parts to get around to running a game that isn't a PBP game, still sorting out a lot of the specifics like system(probably will be an OSR system or possibly Advanced Fighting Fantasy, though Gamma World 7e, d6 Star Wars, and Battle Century G are all possibilities too), schedule(I'm thinking probably once a week, though every other week would be possible if necessary), and various other details too(like should it be text only or with voice chat as well, and I'd need to learn how to use Roll20 as well) Hopefully by the time I'm ready I'll be able to find some people to play with
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Jul 8, 2019 09:49
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Anshu posted:Joking-but-serious: Has she looked at the Honor Harrington series? The first book is pretty decent if I remember right, as far as shameless Hornblower In Space ripoffs go, but then Weber just kept ramming those hams all over the keyboard and it turned into Space British Empire vs. Space Revolutionary France complete with Rob S. Pierre being a real actual character. And a whole planet that felt dedicated to the author's likes - oh you see they duel with katanas and eat 'Oriental' food and listen to country music! Oh also the first book does that whole thing where the slaughter of tons of indigenous people is done 'unavoidably' and it goes into pretty disgusting milporn about the super awesome weapons being used to murder all those drugged-up savages just looking to loot and pillage civilized folks. So maybe it was less decent than I remember...
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Jul 8, 2019 18:52
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Is there a thread for Fria Lagan's games? Would there be interest in one?
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Jul 8, 2019 18:58
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Angrymog posted:Is there a thread for Fria Lagan's games? Would there be interest in one? I feel like maybe a "teen and young adult adventures" thread might be more lively, drawing in Bubblegumshoe, and…uh, the other games I'm sure exist.
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Jul 8, 2019 19:01
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Has anyone seen a dice thread on here? We need to appreciate math rocks a bit more! 
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Jul 8, 2019 19:55
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Angrymog posted:Is there a thread for Fria Lagan's games? Would there be interest in one? I'm definitely keen. Their Mutant games are my groups current craze, and we've got Forbidden Lands, Alien, Coriolis and Tales all lined up for after.
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Jul 8, 2019 20:22
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I'd buy the Drudrick series of novels, just sayin'
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Jul 8, 2019 20:32
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Drixit would be a horribly unoptimized 2e build, iirc.
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Jul 8, 2019 20:33
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theironjef posted:Gamma World 7e but the first power source is your magical superpowers and the second is the dark secret of your heritage. and yes rolling double means you're a normal human girl with the dark secret you're just a normal human girl
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'd buy the Drudrick series of novels, just sayin' P.S. the men writing women subreddit is one of the very few reddits I will wholeheartedly endorse
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Jul 8, 2019 21:59
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That Old Tree posted:I feel like maybe a "teen and young adult adventures" thread might be more lively, drawing in Bubblegumshoe, and…uh, the other games I'm sure exist. See, I'm not particularly interested in Loop or Flood at this moment in time 
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Jul 8, 2019 23:30
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Spiteski posted:I'm definitely keen. Their Mutant games are my groups current craze, and we've got Forbidden Lands, Alien, Coriolis and Tales all lined up for after. I'll see if I can sort out some sort of effort post then
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Jul 8, 2019 23:31
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Splicer posted:Thanks for all the recommendations! The Gutter Prayer by (noted writer of good rpg things) Gareth Hanrahan might suit. There are a number of point of view characters, but the primary protagonist is a woman, and there are a couple of cool female supporting characters. The setting is pretty neat too. Kind of like Bas-Lag, but fun.
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Jul 8, 2019 23:51
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Splicer posted:Mrs. Splicer has been having a similar issue with trying to find decent female protagonist, non-YA genre fiction. Most of the women are either, well, the usual women in sci fi and fantasy, or the book is all about Exploring Female Themes. She just wants to read a book where a person goes around being a badass in space/elfland/space elfland and that person is also female. Bonus points if that person occasionally bangs people* and it's not treated like a big deal or in a weird male fantasy way.
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Jul 8, 2019 23:53
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theironjef posted:It's a two-parter that starts here: http://oneshotpodcast.com/one-shot/266-domina-magica-part-1/ Thank you!
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Coolness Averted posted:and yes rolling double means you're a normal human girl with the dark secret you're just a normal human girl Well yeah, because you still have the powers you got from both the thing you rolled doubles on and Engineered human, so you're basically faking having magical superpowers but also you make a great team leader. All like using gadgets and misdirection and stuff.
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Jul 9, 2019 03:15
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Coolness Averted posted:and yes rolling double means you're a normal human girl with the dark secret you're just a normal human girl Please don't doxx me and half my high-school friends
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Jul 9, 2019 03:22
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Darwinism posted:The first book is pretty decent if I remember right, as far as shameless Hornblower In Space ripoffs go, but then Weber just kept ramming those hams all over the keyboard and it turned into Space British Empire vs. Space Revolutionary France complete with Rob S. Pierre being a real actual character. And a whole planet that felt dedicated to the author's likes - oh you see they duel with katanas and eat 'Oriental' food and listen to country music! Darwinism posted:Oh also the first book does that whole thing where the slaughter of tons of indigenous people is done 'unavoidably' and it goes into pretty disgusting milporn about the super awesome weapons being used to murder all those drugged-up savages just looking to loot and pillage civilized folks. So maybe it was less decent than I remember...
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Jul 9, 2019 04:24
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https://twitter.com/BW/status/1148254900452810754?s=20 . . .
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Jul 9, 2019 04:27
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Personally I'm not against the idea of professional DM's, but 500 dollars a session is ridiculous, seems more like the kind of thing that would be in the range of say 30 to 50 bucks a session(assuming that each player pitches in 5 to 10 bucks each), and maybe buy them dinner and/or some booze too if it's done in person
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Jul 9, 2019 04:39
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12.50/hour is pretty lovely for four hours of creative work.
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Jul 9, 2019 04:43
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drrockso20 posted:Personally I'm not against the idea of professional DM's, but 500 dollars a session is ridiculous, seems more like the kind of thing that would be in the range of say 30 to 50 bucks a session(assuming that each player pitches in 5 to 10 bucks each), and maybe buy them dinner and/or some booze too if it's done in person I think $20 to $50 per hour, or even more for something exceptional, would be where I would feel okay
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Jul 9, 2019 04:45
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Splicer posted:Mrs. Splicer has been having a similar issue with trying to find decent female protagonist, non-YA genre fiction. Most of the women are either, well, the usual women in sci fi and fantasy, or the book is all about Exploring Female Themes. She just wants to read a book where a person goes around being a badass in space/elfland/space elfland and that person is also female. Bonus points if that person occasionally bangs people* and it's not treated like a big deal or in a weird male fantasy way. Has she read any of the female-led Discworld books? Susan Sto Helit is one of my favorite protagonists in fiction
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Jul 9, 2019 04:46
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500 dollars is something you'd pay for a loving novelist or professional setting writer to GM. Or maybe if the group is doing an unspeakably nasty and unholy ERP and need someone to guide their Furry multi dicked OCs through the piss forest.
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Jul 9, 2019 04:46
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That's crazy that people pay 500 bucks for a session, but what's even more crazy is those sale numbers for 5e starter set.  Also, not crazy that the amount is 500. I think that's worth it if he's supplying all equipment, set up, tear down, prep and dealing with a bunch of people for four hours of game time (plus an hour for set up I assume) that's not that bad. I just think it's more crazy that there is a market for it that's supporting these people. Not totally surprising though, I was going to join a game a while ago that had 4/5 players, and got as far as the GM collecting the payments for the session that I had no idea about. Was 30USD per person for the session. Everyone else was "Yeap, here's the paypal receipt" etc. I just politely noped the gently caress out because not what I had signed up for but everyone else was on board so vOv
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Jul 9, 2019 04:49
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Hiring a professional performer for your party can easily be $150 an hour, a good GM is providing that service. Nothing wrong at all with $500 for this if you're doing it professionally and paying tax and providing supplies.
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Jul 9, 2019 04:49
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Cassa posted:12.50/hour is pretty lovely for four hours of creative work. Well I'm not really seeing it as an actual job, more as a way to encourage GM's to put their top effort in but I'll admit I have somewhat skewed opinions on what people in creative fields should charge for their work
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Jul 9, 2019 04:50
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from the article: quote:for $500, he’ll come to your office and run a D&D team-building activity. this is undercharging
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Jul 9, 2019 04:54
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Spiteski posted:That's crazy that people pay 500 bucks for a session, but what's even more crazy is those sale numbers for 5e starter set. Honestly as much as we like to bitch about 5e, the actual physical quality of it and it's products is pretty good, and it's Starter Set is probably one of the better ones in recent years(as is the new Essentials Kit), not to mention it's available in a lot of stores(Target has been selling it for at least two years now, probably longer)
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Jul 9, 2019 04:54
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On the one hand if someone can get people to pay $500 a session for running D&D then more power to'em, you do whatever you can to make it through the month and I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't try and run someone's dream campaign for $500 a pop. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever had a GM in my entire life that I would say is worth paying $500 a session for. I'm not even sure how I would tabulate their skill on a dollar basis, but I can't really imagine what someone would have to do for me to say "this gaming session was unquestionably worth $500." e; oh if it's like corporate teambuilding stuff then yeah, $500 is actually underselling yourself.
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500 bucks a session isn't that unreasonable when you consider it's at least 4 hours of session, maybe more, and probably a similar amount of prep, + paying for skills. Also, as someone said, this is in an office environment.
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Jesus remind me never to hang out with any of you skinflints. Buncha 5% tippers itt.
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