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FFT posted:This came up. I uh if you can't tell the whole thing is incredibly sarcastic and tongue in cheek
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That's the point, yes. Vaguely recall that Russia is described as "wow you just got really lazy here, huh?"
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LashLightning posted:The Brigmore Witches and the Whalers are bestowed powers by Delilah and Daud, respectively. There's a handful of other characters who gain powers in a similar fashion, the torturer in the first game gets some abilities from Granny Rags for example, but not to the level that the Witches or Whalers have. I ran a game set after the Death of the Outsider, where it was revealed that the Outsider was created to hold the forces of the Void back and now that he's gone all kinds of people are getting the power as well as horrible things crossing over from the Void into the physical world. The party had a bunch of Void users, a Witch, and two non-powered characters and according to the after-session feedback notes, none of them felt overshadowed.
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Mar 30, 2020 04:46
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FFT posted:This came up. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3mybyo/terrible_map_design/?
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Mar 30, 2020 05:01
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hell yes that's the one, thank you!
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Mar 30, 2020 05:09
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And Ireland, and scooched Iceland over, Turkey's smooshed in weirdly, there are a lot of issues beyond just the rotation.
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Night10194 posted:The inexplicable but ever-growing love FFG had for Techpriests is my favorite baffling subplot of WH40KRP's development. Not coincidentally, the action RPG Inquisitor's first major expansion was for adding tech priests as a fourth playable class. It has about as many Steam achievements as the main storyline, so I guess people really do love the Mechanicus characters.
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mllaneza posted:Not coincidentally, the action RPG Inquisitor's first major expansion was for adding tech priests as a fourth playable class. It has about as many Steam achievements as the main storyline, so I guess people really do love the Mechanicus characters. Makes sense, besides Space Marines they're the Imperial faction that gets the most toys to play with, especially if we are only counting personal weapons and not stuff like vehicles Also is Inquisitor any good, was thinking about maybe renting it from Gamefly if they have it, or maybe buy it on PSN if it goes on sale anytime soon
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drrockso20 posted:Makes sense, besides Space Marines they're the Imperial faction that gets the most toys to play with, especially if we are only counting personal weapons and not stuff like vehicles
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So is it camel up or camel cup? The only thing I remember about playing that game is the loud drunk argument over its name we had
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Apparently it's Camel Up even though the position of the C and the presence of racing flags indicates that it quite clearly should be Camel Cup.
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Mar 30, 2020 12:40
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On the subject of Inquisitor (this may be a rehash but i wasn't following the thread and just skimmed the recent pages): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWnYnXLR9rM
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Lemon-Lime posted:Apparently it's Camel Up even though the position of the C and the presence of racing flags indicates that it quite clearly should be Camel Cup. When they did the 2nd edition they fixed the artwork to more clearly be Camel Up
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Mar 30, 2020 12:53
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CitizenKeen posted:I can get into it later, but Wonderdraft is an order of magnitude better. I would love for you to get into it if you had the chance.  Also yeah I am looking for someone thing which could make world/continent/country maps.
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Everyone in my condo building is dying of boredom so I tricked them into letting me run a Night's Black Agent campaign/game. Hit me with all your useful cheat sheets, reference cards and chargen tools to make it easier on these first-time RPG'ers
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Free stuff.quote:Two days left to get Dust Bowl Galaxy PDF for free. DriveThru link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9e3fc60a4c Website: https://feyhaven.com/dust-bowl-galaxy/
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SkySteak posted:I would love for you to get into it if you had the chance. Wonderdraft gives you complete license to your work, even as a pro user. It's got better tools. It's just a more robust toolset. It's a client side app (installable), and it just runs smoother than trying to do it through your desktop. You can install your own assets for free, and the asset community is fantastic. Just off the top of my head. Inkarnate was cute, but also, since you can't make your own assets, everything just looks like Inkarnate. Inkarnate is the Vancouver of map tools - it's fine if you want to be cheap.
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NGDBSS posted:It's a decent but shallow Diablo clone. Grab on a sale if you like but not at full price. Once you finish with the campaign and get into the endgame loop you just kinda run out of things to do. It's great for purging mass quantities of heretics or Dark Eldar or whatever, but after you beat the story you're basic running through procedural generated mini-campaigns until you get bored and stop. The story missions were fun, especially once you get the Imperial Knight. "Oh no ! A whole group of Wraithlords !" "Deploy the Knight !" <mass purging ensues>
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To illustrate my point, a sampling of four images from the top of r/inkarnate in the last month. https://imgur.com/a/CeW6MMO And a sampling of four images from the top of r/wonderdraft in the last month. https://imgur.com/a/DjVfwUe
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CitizenKeen posted:Inkarnate is the Vancouver of map tools - it's fine if you want to be cheap.
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Yawgmoth posted:First time I've ever seen "Vancouver" and "cheap" sharing a sentence. Have to assume they mean Washington state or something.
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SkySteak posted:I would love for you to get into it if you had the chance. So it should be noted that there's two different kinds of those maps for RPGs, basically divided on whether they use a hex grid or not. (A hex grid map is much better if actual exploration is the point of the game, instead of just going from point A to point B; this is very common in old-school RPGs, and shows up in Tomb of Annihilation for 5e.) CitizenKeen has made a good argument for Wonderdraft if you're not using a hex grid; if you are, the two leaders are Hex Kit and Worldographer (formerly Hexographer.) Hex Kit is much easier to use and looks much better; Worldographer has some advanced features that are useful if you're making really complicated hex maps (arbitrary icon scaling and placement, arbitrary line drawing.) I would recommend Hex Kit in general, unless you want to map out specific political boundaries or something. Hex Kit is also on deep discount as part of a coronavirus bundle: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/306709/Cone-Of-Negative-Energy-Please-Stay-Home-Bundle?manufacturers_id=10434 (get the bundle, you want the other icon sets) Arivia fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Mar 30, 2020 |
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Vancouver is cheap to film in due to taxes. But shows and movies in Vancouver look bland and the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQXVFZ6onfE
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It should also be noted it's Vancouver Canada.
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NGDBSS posted:Once you finish with the campaign and get into the endgame loop you just kinda run out of things to do. Yeah this is how games work? When you beat the game you have beaten the game. Then you get to play the next game.
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bewilderment posted:Yeah this is how games work? When you beat the game you have beaten the game. Then you get to play the next game. Well no, there's a bunch of games with timesuck built around 'endgame' the diablo series is known for that sort of massive replayability. Like I don't know anyone who enjoyed d1 and d2 that just beat the story on normal then moved on to something else.
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Coolness Averted posted:Well no, there's a bunch of games with timesuck built around 'endgame' the diablo series is known for that sort of massive replayability. Like I don't know anyone who enjoyed d1 and d2 that just beat the story on normal then moved on to something else. I did that. Same with D3. Also with Borderlands. You beat the game and then you're done. Why would I do anything else? I played FF14 recently. I got to the end of the current story, got the armor that was the right combination of easy to get + able to do the current raids/dungeons, then I stopped. When the next patch drops for more story I'll log in and do that again and then stop again. Why would I play the same thing endlessly repeating the exact same tasks for minimal returns? Wow I do +20 damage now, time to fight the enemies with +20 armor.
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Coolness Averted posted:Well no, there's a bunch of games with timesuck built around 'endgame' the diablo series is known for that sort of massive replayability. Like I don't know anyone who enjoyed d1 and d2 that just beat the story on normal then moved on to something else. Really, it's like George Mallory's quip on climbing mountains. If D3 is Everest, then Inquisitor is Saddleback Mountain in the Adirondacks - looks impressive but it's just a day hike.
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The Dark Heresy game went well: I almsot died!
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bewilderment posted:I did that. Same with D3. Also with Borderlands. You beat the game and then you're done. Why would I do anything else? Playing a game just one time and then walking away forever is loving strange.
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There's a vague, fuzzy target where you're playing a game purely for the joy of playing it, and I find it's usually more time than "do a single play-through and then never touch it again" but also far, far less time than any of the games mentioned expect you to play and string you along using psychologically manipulative extrinsic rewards.
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CitizenKeen posted:To illustrate my point, a sampling of four images from the top of r/inkarnate in the last month. So recently I've noted inkarnate actually has a lot more variety than you're putting on display here. The old type of map style is called regional, and that's what you've got on display in the gallery but it can also do full on world maps.   I've not gotten to actually work with the now 1.0 version of Inkarnate, but I'm not so sure I would sell it short just yet. However I can also say WonderDraft is the best $20 I've ever spent for mapping.
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Absolutely fair! I may be selling Inkarnate short. I haven't used it since I got Wonderdraft, and I just grabbed the "top in last month" from the subreddit and that's what I saw. It's entirely possible there's more in Inkarnate than I'm aware of.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:There's a vague, fuzzy target where you're playing a game purely for the joy of playing it, and I find it's usually more time than "do a single play-through and then never touch it again" but also far, far less time than any of the games mentioned expect you to play and string you along using psychologically manipulative extrinsic rewards. Yeah it's gonna vary from game to game and something with multiplayer will probably have a longer shelf-life. I don't try to 100% stuff like I did as a kid, and I'll even get sick of some games trying to pad out playtime with collectable hunts or other "unlock basic maneuvers because that's how games work now!" BS meanwhile games that actually do give you more nuance or 'advanced build options' or whatever are totally my jam. Hell, I actually really love exploring I just don't like when it's tacked on and forced in a bland map not worth exploring. Yawgmoth posted:Because it's fun? You know, that thing people usually play games to have? There's a ton of classes and each one plays differently; part of the fun is replaying the game and seeing how the different classes play, and seeing yourself improve on the harder bosses. bewilderment posted:I did that. Same with D3. Also with Borderlands. You beat the game and then you're done. Why would I do anything else? In the same way I've beaten every boss in the Sentinels of the Multiverse card game, but it's still fun to crack it out with friends who haven't played before, or try some of the harder match ups with friends who know what they're doing. Like it's okay if story novelty is your thing, I'm just explaining why people'll sink hours into endgame or repeating stuff beyond just manipulating their lizardbrain with "Numbers get bigger!"
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I'm sick of it collecting dust on my shelf and have heard it has decent enough solo play, does anyone have any thoughts on the Fallout board game? I might sit down with it tonight, throw on some Ink Spots and Andrews Sisters tunes, and roll some weird FFG dice.
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Has anyone played either of the Soft Horizon games (Sand Dogs or The King Machine)? Picked up the PDFs because they were recommended as Discord friendly. Thinking of getting physical books. Mechanics seem to be Apolcaypse World and Spire adjacent. The King Machine is very evocative, and both of them hint at a fun world going on in B. Murray's brain.
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Did anyone hack Tenra Bansho Zero to keep the setting and use less of a clunky system?
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Welp, did our first all skype session tonight. Went really well. Even had a guy who hasn't played with us for a decade. In fact it was pretty much the same group as when I was in my 20's so the nostalgia value was high. Had six players which is something I've not had for I don't remember it's been so long, but decent internet kept the whole thing rolling. Might have to make this a permanent thing, better attendance, longer playtime, and my journey home is ending the call.
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