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Who What Now posted:DnD is cool and good It's almost 2020 there are so many other (arguably better  ) systems but everyone is like "Let's make a DnD podcast!"
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It's simple and lots of folks either have some familiarity or are willing to learn it based on name recognition, and it's perfectly serviceable for fun casual gaming with friends.
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Dec 7, 2019 00:53
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Riatsala posted:I finished It Hurts across a single day and I have no regrets. Tons of narrative curve balls, very funny, with some actually emotionally effecting themes of friendship, family, and love. A++++ would read again in a couple years. Now you can read Please Forgive Me!!! which is set after the events of It Hurts and follows the reboot universe with Aurora/Pasqualo.
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Dec 7, 2019 01:01
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Len posted:It's almost 2020 there are so many other (arguably better Nothing else has even 10% the cultural cachet. Even the other stuff thats been around about as long have nowhere near the overall penetration. Grandmas have heard of DnD, even if its only from Sheldon on BBT. Even most nerds probably arent familiar with L5R or dungeon world or HERO system.
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Dec 7, 2019 02:33
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Nothing else has even 10% the cultural cachet. Even the other stuff thats been around about as long have nowhere near the overall penetration. Shut up, one day I will find someone else who actually played Wraith: The Oblivion!
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Dec 7, 2019 02:49
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Don Gato posted:Shut up, one day I will find someone else who actually played Wraith: The Oblivion! I have read the Lore on the WW wiki!
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Dec 7, 2019 02:58
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Don Gato posted:Shut up, one day I will find someone else who actually played Wraith: The Oblivion! A subpar choice. The correct answer was Promethean: The Created.
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Dec 7, 2019 03:07
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Grandmas have heard of DnD, even if its only from Sheldon on BBT. Even most nerds probably arent familiar with L5R or dungeon world or HERO system. There was also a big 'satanic panic' backlash against D&D back in the day which just crammed it deeper in the cultural zeitgeist. We even got this amazing Jack Chick tract about it:   https://imgur.com/gallery/e66Sx
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Dec 7, 2019 03:12
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Who What Now posted:A subpar choice. The correct answer was WWE: Know Your Role
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Dec 7, 2019 03:13
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Who What Now posted:A subpar choice. The correct answer was Promethean: The Created. I don't know enough about that but the Wraith lore was pretty great for the company that brought us moody vampires: the moodening
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Dec 7, 2019 03:13
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Milo and POTUS posted:I don't know enough about that but the Wraith lore was pretty great for the company that brought us moody vampires: the moodening I remember going to goth clubs back in the day where the poor harried bouncers had to kick out a bunch of Vampire: The Masquerade LARPers who'd decided to run sessions at the club without asking permission and were being complete dicks to everyone else and trying to kick people out of certain parts of the club where they were trying to run their LARP encounters 
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Dec 7, 2019 03:32
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Captain Hygiene posted:It's simple and lots of folks either have some familiarity or are willing to learn it based on name recognition, and it's perfectly serviceable for fun casual gaming with friends. D&D is actually pretty clunky and overcomplicated as RPGs go, especially since recent design trends have been a heavy move to simplicity. There's a fair few systems specifically designed to wean people off D&D.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:55
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You roll a d20, add a number, and compare it to a target number. It's not that clunky.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:57
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Ghost Leviathan posted:D&D is actually pretty clunky and overcomplicated as RPGs go, especially since recent design trends have been a heavy move to simplicity. There's a fair few systems specifically designed to wean people off D&D. 5th ed. is pretty streamlined. More importantly, Wizards has a lot of money to throw at promotion.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:58
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Yep, 5e at least *can be* nice and streamlined depending on how your group and DM act, and most of the groups in question are very much at the story and character end of the spectrum more than the hardcore type of players.
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Dec 7, 2019 06:02
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Who What Now posted:You roll a d20, add a number, and compare it to a target number. It's not that clunky. PbtA is significantly easier, plays how I've always felt D&D should play, and I would think carries to an audio format significantly easier since it's doesn't have strict turn order or a strong wish to be a miniature game. It also is fail forward so even if you spend the two hour combat missing with your sword you're at least getting xp out of it Plus how many other games have "roll to cheat death" as a mechanic? For content, does anyone remember a webcomic set in a hospital? It was a comedy strip and there was a page where a guy was full of owls. I remember it being funny but this would have been 10-11 years ago
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Len posted:For content, does anyone remember a webcomic set in a hospital? It was a comedy strip and there was a page where a guy was full of owls. I remember it being funny but this would have been 10-11 years ago I can think of a terrible comic set in a hospital and a terrible comic with a terrible owl in it, but neither are funny. Fake edit: I think I'm the owl
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Dec 7, 2019 07:16
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Lucid TV? Edit: http://lucid-tv.com/032.html Edit 2: apparently ther original webcomic had around 200 strips set in the Jim Belushi Memorial Hospital but the creator scrubbed them all and started over with random strips and never archived the originals, so they're super hard to find. Here's a livejournal collection, all translated into Russian, but the photobucket links are all broken: https://ru-lucidtv.livejournal.com/ Edit 3: once my brain remembered the Internet Wayback Machine is a thing that exists it was super easy to find the old strips: https://web.archive.org/web/20070801000000*/http://lucid-tv.com/ Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 07:58 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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Dec 7, 2019 07:18
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Who What Now posted:GURPS is cool and good
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Don Gato posted:Shut up, one day I will find someone else who actually played Wraith: The Oblivion! *nervously raises hand*
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NERDS! e: Also the answer no-one asked me for is: Runequest 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 14:12 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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Dungeons: The Dragoning: 40,000: 7th Edition is by far the best TTRPG out there, you plebians 
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CommissarMega posted:Dungeons: The Dragoning: 40,000: 7th Edition is by far the best TTRPG out there, you plebians looks like somebody hasn't played Cute and Fuzzy Cockfighting Seizure Monsters
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Len posted:Plus how many other games have "roll to cheat death" as a mechanic? D&D 5e
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I'm the only person who ever heard of the 90s RPG called Feng Shui where you roleplay as characters in an action movie but it was good.
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That's a lie, because I know about it too. It was also about time-travelling sorcerers and a bad cyborg future.
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I read all the materials for 7th Sea and ran a campaign many years ago. Jesus Christ what a colossal waste of time.
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vyelkin posted:I'm the only person who ever heard of the 90s RPG called Feng Shui where you roleplay as characters in an action movie but it was good. Apparently it still lives https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/148541/Feng-Shui-Second-Edition-digital
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vyelkin posted:I'm the only person who ever heard of the 90s RPG called Feng Shui where you roleplay as characters in an action movie but it was good. No. I actually played it. The game is magnificent. It's meant to be quickly played and actively encourages playing it like it's a cheesy, stupid martial arts movie. Like hey my cyborg ninja from the future just killed an evil eunuch sorcerer from the 80's (no, not 1980's, just plain 80's) with a bowl of rice that he didn't stop eating from the entire time. Totally normal thing to happen in the game.
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Y'all be forgetting about Paranoia and Friend Computer, and that's treason of the highest order. ...and if you're looking for one-shots with no GM, hard to go wrong with Fiasco: picture a Cohen Bros or David Lynch movie as an RPG. On 7th Sea, they had a Kickstarter that did really well a few years ago; updated rules, fresh artwork, etc.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:No. I actually played it. The game is magnificent. It's meant to be quickly played and actively encourages playing it like it's a cheesy, stupid martial arts movie. It was legit good and I'm sad it never really caught on.
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Dec 7, 2019 19:21
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Valherjar owned but nobody's heard of it
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Aggro posted:I read all the materials for 7th Sea and ran a campaign many years ago. Jesus Christ what a colossal waste of time. I played a game of that at a con earlier this year, it was fun.
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Since nerds have hi-jacked this thread, check out the dice thread in Ask/Tell 
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Get this: what if this children's game is actually super dark and hosed up?
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Doesn't seem like a what if to me, it's right there in the game text
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krinklechip posted:Y'all be forgetting about Paranoia and Friend Computer, and that's treason of the highest order. There's a paranoia crpg that just launched yesterday on epic Games store if anyone wants to experience that old school friend computer atmosphere.
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Scaramouche posted:There's a paranoia crpg that just launched yesterday on epic Games store if anyone wants to experience that old school friend computer atmosphere. Make sure to have fun, not having fun is treason. Treason is punishable by death.
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Who What Now posted:D&D 5e Does it have something like this? quote:Last Breath
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