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canepazzo posted:I haven't planned that far ahead but yeah that one is on my list of stuff to look at very closely as we get nearer; haven't decided if I want to give them a bit of respite in between battles, or have them arrive at that point with a couple more levels under their belt. Gods yeah. I have no idea in the world if they playtested that fight. Gods I should play Pendragon at some point, it's so wonderfully OTT.
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Snooze Cruise posted:drat, when is the crossover, lets get Lina Inverse into space
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Xerophyte posted:Well, first it was the background setting for a 3 faction PVP MMO that died in development because the publisher realized competitive MMOs were a dying genre before investing too much. Then the setting got used in a home game, which was turned into a multimedia franchise. Based on watching like two episodes, it also feels very much like it's borrowed heavily from the ~1980s novels CJ Cherryh wrote set in Alliance/Union, specifically Heavy Time and its sequel, Hellburner, which are in the earliest time period of that setting and use as background the tension between the belt miners, independent Mars, Earth, and the increasingly independent (but shouldn't be) navy. aldantefax posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3956452  Are you gonna like, do the shitwork of maintaining an index in there, or am I signing up for that?
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Snooze Cruise posted:drat, when is the crossover, lets get Lina Inverse into space They made that already, it was called Lost Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYl1a3DOc44 Leperflesh posted:Based on watching like two episodes, it also feels very much like it's borrowed heavily from the ~1980s novels CJ Cherryh wrote set in Alliance/Union, specifically Heavy Time and its sequel, Hellburner, which are in the earliest time period of that setting and use as background the tension between the belt miners, independent Mars, Earth, and the increasingly independent (but shouldn't be) navy. I am happy to maintain some stuff on a weekly or monthly basis since I'm one of the sick freaks that actually looks at threads aside from my bookmarks list from time to time.
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The Traveling CCircus thread has come to Trad Games! This is a thread for sharing your creative output with other goons from across the wide forums. Do browse it to see some of the cool poo poo people have made and done, and then please also feel free to post a sample of your (TG or non-TG related) creative stuff there! I would definitely like to see stuff related to: RPGs, minis & painting, character artwork, and so on.
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aldantefax posted:I am happy to maintain some stuff on a weekly or monthly basis since I'm one of the sick freaks that actually looks at threads aside from my bookmarks list from time to time. Sweet. I mean I can do it because I have the POWER to EDIT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS but that is kinda rude and the Radium System does not actually preserve previous versions so it's impossible to recover what was overwritten etc. etc. so yeah if you feel up to it you can periodically maintain the first post, and if you run out of steam I can take over, or we can replace it, or whatever. I'll go ahead and sticky that now.
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Leperflesh posted:Sweet. Can you please go back through all my posts and make them good?
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theironjef posted:Can you please go back through all my posts and make them good? He said he could edit other people's posts, not perform miracles. Go easy on the man.
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Leperflesh posted:Sweet. I give you permission to randomly append “butts” or something to my posts at your whimsy cause it’s funny. butts -sincerely, dwarf74 Somebody fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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hyphz posted:I find it very amusing that Reclaimer was written by someone with an infosec background. I mean that was Shadowrun circa the 2030's in-setting, when the first cyberdecks were invented and nothing could keep them out, followed by a virus built on the same principals that ate the internet. Then the corps rebuilt the entire global communications grid to their own spec. That's happened in-setting a couple times now. That said, the situation you describe isn't in the corps' interest. If infosec is dead, so is their ability to gain market advantage, and that's going to hit their bottom line. They may not pay for it being fixed but it would almost instantly destroy the idea of computer networking as they all balkanize onto their own internal networks that don't talk to anything else.
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There's a similar thing going on in the Rifters setting. The internet became so infested with self modifying viruses that nobody does any networking outside of airgapped, walled gardens. In the third book of the trilogy, a character makes the mistake of briefly plugging her post apocalyptic survival van into the global telecommunications network. It's immediately hijacked by a murder virus that activates all the weapons systems and kills everyone in line of sights. I don't remember if it's ever addressed why the network even still exists at all - who is maintaining the routers and transmitters whose only purpose is to transmit turbo-worms.
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DigitalRaven posted:But shouldn't this post go in the thread for new thread ideas? So suggesting the thread for new thread ideas before the thread for new thread ideas exists is getting Gödelian up in here. The forum already has load-bearing bigotry, you can't expect it to handle ontological collapse as well. It's by Stephen Lea Sheppard, who has this to say on it now.
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mellonbread posted:I don't remember if it's ever addressed why the network even still exists at all - who is maintaining the routers and transmitters whose only purpose is to transmit turbo-worms. Probably the same kind of people who currently have ham radio licenses or whatever.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Probably the same kind of people who currently have ham radio licenses or whatever. Or just go with "yeah it was set up to be highly resistant to disruption, and now still exists just because no one is gonna waste the resources to destroy the satellites, or find every broadcast tower and dismantle its super battery. Better to just ignore the old network, anything attached to it has long since fallen apart"
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Coolness Averted posted:Or just go with "yeah it was set up to be highly resistant to disruption, and now still exists just because no one is gonna waste the resources to destroy the satellites, or find every broadcast tower and dismantle its super battery. Better to just ignore the old network, anything attached to it has long since fallen apart"
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Nessus posted:I certainly can't think of any uses for an eternal nuclear battery in the post-apocalyptic hellscape. Pretty single-use technology right there, honestly. Probably for the best, the last time I went poking around one of those cool treasure vaults with a "This is not a place of honor" fake-out signs, all my teeth fell out.
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got to calculate falling velocity for acid spiders in gurps today and also found out a springy boy can leap 5 horizontal yards no problemo
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mellonbread posted:There's a similar thing going on in the Rifters setting. The internet became so infested with self modifying viruses that nobody does any networking outside of airgapped, walled gardens.
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I picked up the Alien RPG recently, and while I haven't been able to look close at the rules I gotta say I'm impressed not just by the presentation (though it's freakin' gorgeous) but how comprehensive it is. There's setups for multiple types of campaigns, plot hook generators for all of them, and enough information on the setting to support a lot of different kinds of games. I really wanna dig into it.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Probably the same kind of people who currently have ham radio licenses or whatever. I just remembered that in Final Fantasy 8, the internet is unusable because they trapped a mighty sorceress in an orbital tomb-prison and she's just hijacked radios and the internet to just be her angry shitposting everywhere.
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Tulip posted:I just remembered that in Final Fantasy 8, the internet is unusable because they trapped a mighty sorceress in an orbital tomb-prison and she's just hijacked radios and the internet to just be her angry shitposting everywhere. All this time I thought FF8 was bad, I guess I missed out.
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The best reason to have warforged in any fantasy setting, is to have a villainous bard use their detached skulls to play Prototyperaptor songs while giving all of his minions combat advantage.
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PerniciousKnid posted:All this time I thought FF8 was bad, I guess I missed out. FF8 has a plot so threadbare as to be see-through but the worldbuilding is fantastic.
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Boba Pearl posted:The best reason to have warforged in any fantasy setting, is to have a villainous bard use their detached skulls to play Prototyperaptor songs while giving all of his minions combat advantage. Hard disagree. The best reason to have war-forged in any given setting is that they're really, really cool.. There doesn't need to be any other justification. butts Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Jan 24, 2021 |
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Xiahou Dun posted:Hard disagree. The best reason to have war-forged in any given setting is that they're really, really cool.. There doesn't need to be any other justification. Torso-mounted subwoofers for bardic songs. Hologram projectors behind the eyes for bardic knowledge checks. Yep, they're pretty cool.
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Y'all can just say robots are cool
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Xarbala posted:Y'all can just say robots are cool That is what we're saying 
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Xarbala posted:Y'all can just say robots are cool
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robots are cool.
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I feel a theme that needs to be in cyberpunk more is what we're constantly reminded of in real life: the megacorps are not all-powerful and invincible, they are are hamhanded, unsustainable feudal oligarchies run by thin-skinned drug-addled useless failsons, managed by petty, incompetent nepotistic bureaucrats, and the people actually keeping them running are overworked, underpaid and constantly being cycled out to replace with desperate new blood. Corps WILL gently caress you over and stiff you just to save some more on the quarterly reports and assume you cease to exist the moment they stop being attention to you, especially since that money likely went to their ultra-cocaine budget. The fancy computers are all running on the equivalent of Radium code and fancy new technologies are rushed to market and abandoned when the CEO gets bored. If you want poo poo that works, and isn't bloated to the gills with spyware and likely to start playing ads at you, you gotta make it yourself. Any supernatural agencies offering deals with the devil has every line of communication chock full 24/7. Make sure you're getting paid at least twice on a job, because at least one client is probably going to stiff you. Be nice to the receptionist, night janitors and code monkeys, because they are not being paid anywhere near enough for this poo poo.
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Yawgmoth posted:robots are not inherently cool Boba Pearl posted:robots are cool. One of these posters always lies, one of these posters always tells the truth.
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CaptainRat posted:One of these posters always lies, one of these posters always tells the truth. Alas, the only question anyone ever asks them is 'are there stairs in your house?'
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CaptainRat posted:One of these posters always lies, one of these posters always tells the truth. I can answer this paradox with one example. Detroit: Become Human had some really super lame robots.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Hard disagree. The best reason to have war-forged in any given setting is that they're really, really cool.. There doesn't need to be any other justification. Robots are cool Butts are cool
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Robotic Folksinger posted:Robots are cool
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Nier Automata got really depressing after the first two "endings"
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Robotic Folksinger posted:Robots are cool I love butts
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I will never understand how D&D, being the kitchen-sink of ideas and concepts that it is, has never bothered making an anthropomorphic canine race ever since the Lupin from like 2e.
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Azran posted:I will never understand how D&D, being the kitchen-sink of ideas and concepts that it is, has never bothered making an anthropomorphic canine race ever since the Lupin from like 2e. https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/gnoll
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