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If I was running a space game where all the players were in one ship, I'd probably run ship encounters as skill challenges or dramatic tasks or what have you. Players could tell me what they were doing to solve the current issue, give bonuses based on the skills used, and encourage people to change up exactly what they were doing as the task progressed. One player might be piloting, another would use science to boost the ship's technobabble, someone fires the weapons, maybe someone uses their social skills to keep the crew from panicking, etc. Focus on what each character is doing and let that determine what the ship is doing.
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There's a game about tall ship combat caked Beat to Quarters that works pretty much like that.
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HopperUK posted:There's a game about tall ship combat caked Beat to Quarters that works pretty much like that. Yeah, I really love this game. I have wanted to run it reskinned as a Star Trek rpg for years. The resolution mechanic works well in the little bit I have played, which is nice to see in smaller unknown games.
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Kestral posted:Say what one will about filk (my guilty pleasure), the end of Dawson's Christian is genuinely chilling in a spooky campfire ghost story way, and if I ever get a chance to use that scene in a game I'm going to do it. Carmen Miranda's Ghost is great and I will near nothing bad about it. 
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Holy crap this owns. How have I never heard of this!?! Like yeah it's obviously more than a bit campy, but it's also amazing in every single way a thing can own. Is this part of like an actual genre, or is this basically it? I'm getting my mando out and writing some god drat space shanties no matter what.
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Story songs, work songs, and oral-history type songs are already extremely my poo poo, and the idea of a genre that's entirely that but for purely fictional events is... I dunno, I'm intrigued but incredulous. Is there someone out there being like spaceman utah phillips? Or, I mean, I'd love to see what Shadowrun's harry mclintock is doing. e: gently caress someone tell me there's a dark sun woody guthrie. Talkin' silt sea blues. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Jan 5, 2020 |
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That was one of the things early Shadowrun had that got dropped later. Rockers. Journos. Ways for counterculture media icons to influence the dystopia they liven in; through punk ethos rock that speaks truth to power, or dogged pursuit and publication of those things the corps don't want known. Filk is an amazing part of the sci-fi/fantasy fandom that's badly fallen by the wayside and could use a revival.
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Liquid Communism posted:Rockers. Journos. Ways for counterculture media icons to influence the dystopia they liven in; through punk ethos rock that speaks truth to power, or dogged pursuit and publication of those things the corps don't want known.
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Looks like the user who uploaded Carmen Miranda's Ghost has some other filk albums uploaded. There are also some publishing companies dedicated to filk, but unfortunately a lot of the old stuff is on cassettes and out of print.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Holy crap this owns. How have I never heard of this!?! It falls under “filk”, aka folk songs based on genre fiction, but that’s a fairly broad category of which this is only a particular niche. I don’t know of much, but there is more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6LiVJkwyA KOGAHAZAN!! fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jan 5, 2020 |
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Oh hey, while on the topic of spaceship games, in the board game space Tony Go is right now running a KS for the multiplayer version of his Deep Space D6, which was a fairly fun little solo game. (Deep Space D6 Armada) It's built around that "roll custom dice and assign to things" mechanic that you've probably seen, like in the Tiny Epic games, among others. I don't think that mechanic has much conveyance, which makes it pretty poor for RPGs, but there are probably some fun mechanical bits to borrow there.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:e: gently caress someone tell me there's a dark sun woody guthrie. Talkin' silt sea blues. Holy hell, take my money.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Story songs, work songs, and oral-history type songs are already extremely my poo poo, and the idea of a genre that's entirely that but for purely fictional events is... I dunno, I'm intrigued but incredulous. Is there someone out there being like spaceman utah phillips? This is one of the only filk songs I know. I think it's solid if you like this kinda thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsVJezFRi4
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Has no one here ever listened to American Murder Song? The dude who wrote Repo! The Genetic Opera has been doing early 19th century-style murder ballads for like four years now and it's great
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Hot drat, that owns
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Ookla The Mok are pretty awesome too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8lvwXx_Y8 Banned from Argo is still a classic campfire-style song among certain con crowds. Sometimes there are arguments between purists who think it should only be in-character songs and people coming at it from a more Weird Al-esque "silly fandom music" direction, but there's a whole bunch of stuff out there good bad and weird.
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It continues to baffle me that YouTube doesn't have a single performance of 'Fuel to Feed the Drive' (also by Jordin Kare) on it; that one was just as ubiquitous as the others mentioned at the time...
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Cessna posted:Holy hell, take my money. Hardly even need to adapt half his dust bowl stuff. Just change the place names and switch words like "telephone" to "messenger" and "ford car" to "wagon". Bruceski posted:Sometimes there are arguments between purists who think it should only be in-character songs and people coming at it from a more Weird Al-esque "silly fandom music" direction I have practically no interest in the latter (although I'm sure it has its place) and that's what I'd always thought "filk" meant. The idea of in-fiction folk/history songs is amazing though. Like, you've got the presentation of this epic world with wizards and dragons and questing knights and when the Official Source mentions a song it's all like militaristic ballads or the complete history of why our god is the best, but of course there's some dude out there with the local equivalent of a hosed guitar going "being a worker sucks, yo", "my wife and kids died of wizard plague", "Town guard all up in my poo poo again" and "Sir Fuckstain Got The Title But We Did The Fighting (help me, I'm homeless)" Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Hardly even need to adapt half his dust bowl stuff. Just change the place names and switch words like "telephone" to "messenger" and "ford car" to "wagon". Might be a bit too terminally nerdy, but I’m in a steampunk band prepping to record a demo, and all of our songs are about guillotining the nobility, solidarity with undead workers, and tricking colonialist “explorers” into dying via faulty diving equipment, which I think is kinda close to that ideal?
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Filk is super big in LARPing circles, especially the big festival-style ones where after people are done fighting for the day they get around campfires and sing songs in-character about poo poo other people in-character did.
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Hedningen posted:Might be a bit too terminally nerdy, but I’m in a steampunk band prepping to record a demo, and all of our songs are about guillotining the nobility, solidarity with undead workers, and tricking colonialist “explorers” into dying via faulty diving equipment, which I think is kinda close to that ideal? No that's exactly the right level of terminally nerdy.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:No that's exactly the right level of terminally nerdy.
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Hedningen posted:Might be a bit too terminally nerdy, but I’m in a steampunk band prepping to record a demo, and all of our songs are about guillotining the nobility, solidarity with undead workers, and tricking colonialist “explorers” into dying via faulty diving equipment, which I think is kinda close to that ideal? You're a hopeless nerd, and I salute you for your strength.
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Hedningen posted:Might be a bit too terminally nerdy, but I’m in a steampunk band prepping to record a demo, and all of our songs are about guillotining the nobility, solidarity with undead workers, and tricking colonialist “explorers” into dying via faulty diving equipment, which I think is kinda close to that ideal? I salute your intense nerdery.
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Toss a coin to your Witcher...
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Comrade Gorbash posted:Toss a coin to your Witcher... Dude I had JUST GOTTEN IT OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!
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Toss a coin to your witcher, You can leave your friends behind. Cos your friends don't witch And if they don't witch Then they ain't no friends of mine.
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The Last of Robb Stark's Halberdiers
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Whybird posted:Filk is super big in LARPing circles, especially the big festival-style ones where after people are done fighting for the day they get around campfires and sing songs in-character about poo poo other people in-character did. Repping Jamie Wakefield for being straight-up one of the best things LARP has done for this country.
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Doodmons posted:Repping Jamie Wakefield for being straight-up one of the best things LARP has done for this country. I wonder if this is the same Jamie Wakefield who was a popular very early (1990s) MTG author. Seems pretty likely. Neat.
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This is a claim on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/elfkbq/massive_layoffs_at_ffg/ quote:A large amount of people have been laid off from Fantasy Flight Games and Fantasy Flight Interactive. Confirmation about FFI here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6620002528014712833/
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https://gamasutra.com/view/news/356367/Fantasy_Flight_Interactive_to_close_after_companywide_layoffs.php Fantasy Flight is killing its digital stuff. Edit: OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD 
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FFG had just teased but not yet revealed, an expansion for Journeys of Middle Earth, which is app driven. I think Asmodee have another app company but don't know what they've done or if they're as good. Genesys hasn't been the best launch, I think, mostly because their RPG dept is just pretty small these days. FFGSW has been pretty good on the whole, though distribution and release timing has been poo poo and they're now just putting out 'collection of stuff we've already done' books. L5R on the other hand has been fantastic, so if that's stopped that will be a real shame. PST fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Jan 7, 2020 |
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This sucks. I hope the L5R rpg team gets to keep existing. 
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For a while I was wrestling with the question of whether I should buy my own copy of Mansions of Madness 2e instead of mooching. The answer is no.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:This sucks. I hope the L5R rpg team gets to keep existing. Almost certainly not. RPG department was completely gutted, their entire marketing department is gone too, and people fired from multiple other departments. 35 people laid off so far (which is over 1/4th the company), and I'm not sure if that includes people that will be leaving in the next month. This includes the third (ever) employee of FFG.
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I think I remember there being some discussion whether or not FFG was about to die in the Death Thread. There were some nay-sayers but looks like it's true 
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PinheadSlim posted:I think I remember there being some discussion whether or not FFG was about to die in the Death Thread. There were some nay-sayers but looks like it's true FFG as a whole isn't dead, they blew away the RPG department (which I'm to understand has been struggling for a while) and it sounds like there's at least one person cut from every team beyond that, but most of the layoffs were on the operational/Asmodee side
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