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May 3, 2021 16:56
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WHFRPG isn't really a setting where you'd have a all-races party. The whole setting is defined by its constant warring between species and cultures. It's easy to frame as grogs being gross, but if a someone gets flak for wanting to play a good-aligned orc in a setting where "orcs massacred our village" is an evergreen backstory, its more likely misaligned expectations than hateful players. There's no reason to get weird about it in D&D though.
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May 3, 2021 17:05
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slap me and kiss me posted:What are good ttrpg discords these days? It's been close to a year since I was there, but so far I've found LANCER's PilotNET official server to be the best community for TTRPGs in general, not just its own system. Things might have changed but it is/was a great crowd.
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May 3, 2021 17:08
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SkyeAuroline posted:It's been close to a year since I was there, but so far I've found LANCER's PilotNET official server to be the best community for TTRPGs in general, not just its own system. Things might have changed but it is/was a great crowd. Joined this, hopped into the ttrpg channel, and the first thing I saw was someone comparing D&D 5e to World of Warcraft. I think it's time to turn in my badge and gun and retire to the coast.
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May 3, 2021 17:21
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slap me and kiss me posted:Joined this, hopped into the ttrpg channel, and the first thing I saw was someone comparing D&D 5e to World of Warcraft. I think it's time to turn in my badge and gun and retire to the coast. I did say it's been a year. I unfortunately haven't found any good substitutes yet, in large part for a lack of trying or a lack of involvement in the couple I'm still in. I'll keep an eye out though.
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May 3, 2021 17:27
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slap me and kiss me posted:Joined this, hopped into the ttrpg channel, and the first thing I saw was someone comparing D&D 5e to World of Warcraft. I think it's time to turn in my badge and gun and retire to the coast.
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May 3, 2021 17:36
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Some people want to play a more socially realistic D&D game, and a bunch of sentient species coexisting really messes with that. But D&D began as a very weird and eclectic mishmash of fantasy and sci-fi, and IMO nobody has ever made D&D work better as something in the vein of Harn than as something in the vein of the Dying Earth. What truly disgusts me is the number of heartbreakers that have nonhumans, but only elves, dwarves, and halflings. Or games where the author clearly felt that they had to include elves, dwarves, and halflings along with cultures that are actually interesting at all. I'm totally bored with Tolkien But Grimdark. Tuxedo Catfish posted:it's still a uselessly broad generalization but if you want to model medieval attitudes a little better, you should have a setting where nobody cares that their neighbor is an orc but if you come from the other village across the river you then gently caress you, buddy 
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May 3, 2021 17:40
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Yawgmoth posted:You could always join the goon mtg server and talk about ttrpgs in the channel for that. We're mostly good people. Would that I had that link anymore
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May 3, 2021 17:47
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slap me and kiss me posted:Joined this, hopped into the ttrpg channel, and the first thing I saw was someone comparing D&D 5e to World of Warcraft. I think it's time to turn in my badge and gun and retire to the coast. Are you sure they weren't making that comparison because (apparently) WoW is bad now?
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May 3, 2021 17:59
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King of Solomon posted:Are you sure they weren't making that comparison because (apparently) WoW is bad now? *has been for a decade
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May 3, 2021 18:00
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Plutonis posted:*has been for a decade So I've heard.
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May 3, 2021 18:01
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King of Solomon posted:Are you sure they weren't making that comparison because (apparently) WoW is bad now? Best comedy argument: "Modern WoW is terrible [like editions that tried things], but 5E is like WoW classic, where WotC realized their mistakes and went back to what worked!"
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May 3, 2021 18:51
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slap me and kiss me posted:What are good ttrpg discords these days? Fuego's is pretty good. https://discord.gg/S6RtcmX
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May 3, 2021 18:57
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jeeves posted:This poo poo is why I asked, can’t tell if the game is good or if it is just so under printed that speculators are sitting on all of the product. *Futurama eye squint meme* It seems fun but he's still got two or three boxes sitting around. That doesn't mean anything though since we're in bumfuck, ohio
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May 3, 2021 18:57
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slap me and kiss me posted:What are good ttrpg discords these days? TG Goon server 1, mostly RPGs: https://discord.gg/5BpxAQ6NPd Rowan Rook and Decard for Spire and now Minerva: https://discord.gg/jMfpzqq3Kv PbTA semi-official: https://discord.gg/fbndujrmqt FitD semi-official: https://discord.gg/ntYXCW4Kcn Largest one I know, but don't know what folks are actually like there: https://discord.gg/dsGNgRU The second Goon server (which is mostly boardgames) and the Goon Indie server don't have public invite options ATM.
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May 3, 2021 19:02
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Treasure from the mines: Waiting for Gygax
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May 4, 2021 03:11
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slap me and kiss me posted:Treasure from the mines: Waiting for Gygax Legit like some of this. Probably the best session I've ever had was the PCs got confused by local politics and then got late night pizza while looking at the stars. May actually use "library hold just arrived" or "NPC thinks about hiring the players but reconsiders."
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May 4, 2021 03:46
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One time my players couldn't decide on a bounty to take so they ended up gambling for like 3 hours.
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May 4, 2021 05:47
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Our weird fun downtimes tend to be food and drink related. In that Maze campaign I ran a while back (that I've offered side commentary in the F&F thread based on our game, and is my only successful "long-form" game as GM), two of the times my players remember best are:
Mixed success. But I try.
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May 4, 2021 05:56
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I once roleplayed an alien superhero who, when granted a human form to integrate with Earth locals, immediately used it to eat too many corn dogs and had to go back to base to lie down and try not to puke. This is a scene I remember pretty fondly. The disease is clearly already inside me.
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May 4, 2021 12:07
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Antivehicular posted:I once roleplayed an alien superhero who, when granted a human form to integrate with Earth locals, immediately used it to eat too many corn dogs and had to go back to base to lie down and try not to puke. This is a scene I remember pretty fondly. The disease is clearly already inside me. I'm pretty sure every alien superhero is required by law to have at least one Earth food they are unreasonably obsessed with, so you're doing good work.
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May 4, 2021 15:34
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Corn dogs is a good choice too. Funny sounding name, got a midwestern and simple vibe that something "caviar" wouldn't, but it's not something as ubiquitous as "hamburger" or "pizza" in the American consciousness so it's still pretty strange. Very nice. I actually kind of go back and forth about food in games tbh, mostly because I love food but have a pretty big dietary restriction none of my players share (vegan), so there's a bit of an emotional disconnect over what different food products mean. But I guess I'm GMing so they can suck it up and deal with falafels and veggie burritos being the main comfort foods.
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May 4, 2021 15:41
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Tsilkani posted:I'm pretty sure every alien superhero is required by law to have at least one Earth food they are unreasonably obsessed with, so you're doing good work.  
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May 5, 2021 02:58
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"No, wait! You didn't wash your hands!"
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May 5, 2021 03:27
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Tsilkani posted:I'm pretty sure every alien superhero is required by law to have at least one Earth food they are unreasonably obsessed with, so you're doing good work. This explains a lot about Garfield.
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May 5, 2021 04:00
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If anyone follows my stuff or Mork Borg stuff or even OSR stuff in general, my book of d8 Supernatural Hirelings, EVERY GOD WILL FALL, is shipping some physical copies Monday. 8 pages, full color, totally gameable (or so I've been told). Get yourself a copy! (Also include your address in the paypal in case that's not obvious) https://twitter.com/TheEldritchTomb/status/1389846977303752704?s=20
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May 5, 2021 08:50
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Tsilkani posted:I'm pretty sure every alien superhero is required by law to have at least one Earth food they are unreasonably obsessed with, so you're doing good work. You leave Martian Manhunter and his love of Oreos alone!
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May 5, 2021 17:37
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I mean, I am neither an alien nor a superhero and I also love Oreos.
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May 5, 2021 19:18
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Hey anyone read the new(ish) Usagi Yojimbo RPG? It's still by Sanguine like the last one from over a decade ago, but it looks like it's PBtA. I'm curious how it turned out. Have they ever done PBtA before?
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May 7, 2021 04:38
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That Old Tree posted:Hey anyone read the new(ish) Usagi Yojimbo RPG? It's still by Sanguine like the last one from over a decade ago, but it looks like it's PBtA. I'm curious how it turned out. Have they ever done PBtA before? I have, and I was considering doing an F&F of it at some point after I finish Legends of the Wulin. My impression was that it's not actually a very good implementation of PbtA mechanics, but if you approach it as "a game that took some inspiration from PbtA mechanics" rather than "a PbtA game," it's pretty good.
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May 7, 2021 08:58
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GimpInBlack posted:I have, and I was considering doing an F&F of it at some point after I finish Legends of the Wulin. My impression was that it's not actually a very good implementation of PbtA mechanics, but if you approach it as "a game that took some inspiration from PbtA mechanics" rather than "a PbtA game," it's pretty good. This is both tantalizing and concerning. I'll probably end up buying it anyway.
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May 7, 2021 12:27
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I wish my copy of the Greg Stolze edition hadn't vanished into the ether.
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May 7, 2021 20:18
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I just released a major update to Dicier, my analog game icon typeface—it adds d4, d8, d10, d12, d20, and a bunch of other features, tweaks, and changes: Check out the devlog for more info!
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May 10, 2021 16:27
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That reminds me - what's a good iPhone dice rolling app? I used to use a now-discontinued one that had an little old-style widget you could just tap various buttons on to roll a d6 or a d20 or whatever without fully going into the app. Anything like that out there now? A plain interface without physics engines and fantasy art would be nice. Just something I can instantly roll a couple of dice with and dismiss.
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May 10, 2021 16:49
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90s Cringe Rock posted:That reminds me - what's a good iPhone dice rolling app? I used to use a now-discontinued one that had an little old-style widget you could just tap various buttons on to roll a d6 or a d20 or whatever without fully going into the app. Anything like that out there now? Honestly Google's dice roller in the browser search does just fine for simple rolling if you only need it locally. Though that's not a widget, it may be a solution that happens to take no local storage or anything else.
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May 10, 2021 16:50
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SkyeAuroline posted:Honestly Google's dice roller in the browser search does just fine for simple rolling if you only need it locally. Though that's not a widget, it may be a solution that happens to take no local storage or anything else.
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May 10, 2021 16:51
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Ugh. Yeah, but it means switching to the browser and switching to a new tab and typing in roll 2d6 or whatever. It's not much hassle, but there has to be a better way than this extremely minor inconvenience. Most likely. I don't play in person much and that's the workaround we've used in the rare occasions a die I didn't have on hand was necessary. Beyond that others will have better ideas.
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May 10, 2021 16:57
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SkyeAuroline posted:Honestly Google's dice roller in the browser search does just fine for simple rolling if you only need it locally. Though that's not a widget, it may be a solution that happens to take no local storage or anything else. i'm like half surprised google has an integrated dice roller and half not because of course they have random nerd poo poo in there too
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May 10, 2021 17:00
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90s Cringe Rock posted:That reminds me - what's a good iPhone dice rolling app? I used to use a now-discontinued one that had an little old-style widget you could just tap various buttons on to roll a d6 or a d20 or whatever without fully going into the app. Anything like that out there now? Dice by Pcalc: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dice-by-pcalc/id1468680083 Has a widget. Easy to use although it is a 3D roller. Lots of customization available but it’s not required, you can just tap and go. Been supported for a couple of years now.
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May 10, 2021 21:48
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Sophie's Dice is my favourite dice roller for basically any purpose. I have it on Android (and PC desktop) but I'm 99% sure you can get it on the app store as well.
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May 10, 2021 23:05
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