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Zurui posted:(Assuming the forums are still here tomorrow.)
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Setting aside the rest of that stuff about Auril, I note in the blurb that WotC claim to have invented the concept of 'a boss which has a second form when defeated'.
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Jun 24, 2020 10:46
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I wouldn't normally mind the Three Goddesses thing, it's a piece of cool folklore that it makes sense to tap into for inspiration, but turning the Mother into just a womb is yikes. potatocubed posted:Setting aside the rest of that stuff about Auril, I note in the blurb that WotC claim to have invented the concept of 'a boss which has a second form when defeated'. ...now I wonder which videogame did it first.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I wouldn't normally mind the Three Goddesses thing, it's a piece of cool folklore that it makes sense to tap into for inspiration, but turning the Mother into just a womb is yikes. Also ignores their own history of monsters in 4e that had different stats/powers when bloodied.
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Jun 24, 2020 11:23
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Didn't 4e already do phased statblocks? That was the whole point of Bloodied, but maybe it was 13th Age that had full-on phased fights. Also yeah Maiden Mother Crone is a longstanding thing, but "womb" is beyond hosed up. I guess the thinking was that you beat years off her life and she ages backwards - but killing a child is icky so she reverts into her pre-birth, but they didn't want to make it an abortion fight against a magical fetus so we accidentally got this poo poo.
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I think the intention is that as you fight her you're stripping away the accumulated 'cruft' of existence until you expose her fundamental nature. Which is a womb. A literally frigid one. And... look. I like the basic idea of a multi-stage boss where your attacks remove parts of its identity until you're fighting nothing but What It Is, it sounds like a great way to inject some good symbolism into what would otherwise be a tedious grind -- but if you're going to add symbolism, you should probably show more awareness than this of what your symbolism... symbolises.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:41
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It literally says "a new 5th edition mechanic" As in it's new to 5th edition which it is.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:53
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Wait, what's happening to the forums?Dexo posted:It literally says "a new 5th edition mechanic" Yeah, dunking on D&D is fun, but "new to this version of our product" is bog standard marketing speak for... pretty much anything.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:09
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CitizenKeen posted:Wait, what's happening to the forums? Edit: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928980&pagenumber=1 Don't go past the first page, there's no new information and lots of goatmen and other banmes.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:12
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CitizenKeen posted:Wait, what's happening to the forums? lowtax has been credibly accused of abusing his current partner. The most immediate material impact of this development is that people have been leaving his Patreon en masse we don't actually know yet what's going to happen to the forums per se, but given that lowtax ultimately has the keys to the entire thing, there's a certain expectation that he may take it down in retaliation, and even if he didn't, other people are weighing the ethics of continuing to stay on the platform, so there is also a flurry of people trying to find ways to disassociate from posting in SA directly while still retaining their links to friends and communities they've found since
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Jun 24, 2020 15:14
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gradenko_2000 posted:lowtax has been credibly accused of abusing his current partner. The most immediate material impact of this development is that people have been leaving his Patreon en masse The good folks at the SA Discord have made a TG as an Industry channel.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:59
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actually3raccoons posted:The good folks at the SA Discord have made a TG as an Industry channel. Converging on Discords is going to be a PITA, because I'm not seeing an industry channel in either of the TG Goon Discords I'm in.
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CitizenKeen posted:Converging on Discords is going to be a PITA, because I'm not seeing an industry channel in either of the TG Goon Discords I'm in. Yeah... I'm only in two of them, the main Goon one and a 40k one. I haven't even started looking into the GDN list.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:23
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Discord sucks for anything beyond basic chatting , so I hope there’s eventually an effort to make an actual new forum
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Jun 24, 2020 17:50
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There is breadnroses.net which is a lefty spin off forum.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:50
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I am a mod on https://slaent.com but it is a small forum (roughly 100 active users) and doesn't really have a traditional gaming presence. Anyone is welcome to join, of course.
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actually3raccoons posted:Yeah... I'm only in two of them, the main Goon one and a 40k one. I haven't even started looking into the GDN list. https://pastebin.com/Hz7rPxiJ tl;dr Don't trust GDN on anything, they enabled a Nazi supporter to provide information to his Nazi friends. It might be fixed now but I have zero reason to trust it.
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Jun 24, 2020 18:50
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://pastebin.com/Hz7rPxiJ Oh holy gently caress. Good call, thank you!!
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Jun 24, 2020 18:52
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://pastebin.com/Hz7rPxiJ this was posted on one of the goon discords: quote:from a thread: No idea if it’s true though.
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Jun 24, 2020 18:59
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Comrade Koba posted:this was posted on one of the goon discords: Completely unrelated to Brobot. quote:I give Tempus a bit of read-only admin panel access out of respect for his championing the bot this far Tempus being the Nazi friend who was skimming information to give to his Nazi buddies.
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Jun 24, 2020 19:00
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whydirt posted:Discord sucks for anything beyond basic chatting , so I hope there’s eventually an effort to make an actual new forum Yeah, and if there's a bunch of discords (I can't imagine a single discord could support so many people) there's less accountability for mods. I've had a bad experience with a pusdeo-goon related discord where the admin decided to ban me and then tell a bunch of lies about me.
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Jun 24, 2020 20:43
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So ive been offline for two weeks for surgery, and... holy loving poo poo.
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Jun 24, 2020 23:17
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Bieeanshee posted:So ive been offline for two weeks for surgery, and... holy loving poo poo. The meme's always been 'could you imagine trying to explain 2020 to someone in 2016', but it turns out it's hard enough trying to explain June 2020 to someone from May 2020.
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Jun 24, 2020 23:22
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potatocubed posted:The meme's always been 'could you imagine trying to explain 2020 to someone in 2016', but it turns out it's hard enough trying to explain June 2020 to someone from May 2020. It's getting to the point where it could take a full day to explain Wednesday to someone from Monday.
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Jun 25, 2020 00:12
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potatocubed posted:The meme's always been 'could you imagine trying to explain 2020 to someone in 2016', but it turns out it's hard enough trying to explain June 2020 to someone from May 2020. It's understandable these are equivalent problems, because 2016 was four years ago, and May was also four years ago.
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Jun 25, 2020 00:18
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Weeks where decades happen is the subtitle of 2020.
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Jun 25, 2020 00:31
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In the years to come, "May you live in interesting times" will be shortened to "May you live in 2020" "2020" will also become an alternate punchline to The Aristocrats.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:35
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I feel like 2020 is the setup to the Aristocrats.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:40
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The end of this site, actual or effective, will.likely do a lot of damage to indie ttrpg.
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I'm glad that some good communities have come out of this site, I just wish that someone else owned it.
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Hopefully someone dedicated and weird enough can take over without disrupting the good parts (but also flushing GBS and the like down the toilet). Honestly, my expectation is that the site continues as-is because Lowtax has been trash forever and this sort of stuff more often than not blows over.
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Jun 25, 2020 03:28
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gradenko_2000 posted:lowtax has been credibly accused of abusing his current partner. The most immediate material impact of this development is that people have been leaving his Patreon en masse Thanks for posting this. I had actually forgotten that I was a SA Patreon. Now that you've reminded me, I 've taken the time to cancel.
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I’m from 2021 and YEESH just wait till you see it cause wow yours doesn’t even hold a candle, honestly. ...I mean, some of you who will see it.
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Demon_Corsair posted:There is breadnroses.net which is a lefty spin off forum. And it already has a Trad Games + Actual Play subforum.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:07
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If the having to pay/donate for BnR isn't amenable to you, there is also the https://slaent.com site that has been around for five years or so that was created specifically to foster communities. There is little to no existing community for trad games there, despite me trying to start one a couple times. For transparency's sake, I am a mod there and do want to see it grow a bit. However, it is free, no ads, and offers 2-factor authentication. Accounts do require approval, but I am checking that every half hour or so and letting any account that isn't obviously spam go through.
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We added an industry channel to the TG discord for folks: https://discord.gg/c4JUKMa It's a stopgap but it's something while we sort poo poo out.
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Don’t know if it’s already been mentioned, but joining BnR is free (for the moment), it just takes a little while to get authed because they’ve had thousands of people register in the past two days.
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please stop spamming bnr in every single thread, jesus christ. and for posterity: Reene posted:With the disclaimer that I'm aware they'll insist this is some kind of Admin Bias the leadership of BnR includes at least two people who have been accused of being sex pests and someone who has no problem with outing trans people if they are Posting Enemies.
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Kibner posted:If the having to pay/donate for BnR isn't amenable to you, there is also the https://slaent.com site that has been around for five years or so that was created specifically to foster communities. There is little to no existing community for trad games there, despite me trying to start one a couple times. Just to clarify, right now you don't have to pay to join BnR. The admins are letting in goons for free right now. You just need to sign up then wait once you hit the paywall screen. The admins over there will approve your account as soon as they can. They are just hilariously underwater right now, there are 4 people doing approvals and the member ship has gone from 600 to over 5000 in just over a day.
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