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So can people play pen and paper RPGs online now? I have no friends but would love to get in on this.
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i'm a level 20 hudson-vasquez dual class
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May 12, 2021 09:47
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Pennywise the Frown posted:So can people play pen and paper RPGs online now? I have no friends but would love to get in on this. Yeah, there's roll20 for instance which is an incredibly useful tool for playing RPGs online! 
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May 12, 2021 12:18
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More obscure references I caught in the RPG during my brief skim-through: Wilks and Spears from Nightmare Asylum get their own stat lines Ridgeway tanks and Bougainville starships (the Conestoga successor) get their own statlines The fuckin’ Kenner vehicles like the XT-37 Stinger and Evac Fighter get their own statlines The Geholgod Institute and Dr. Keitel from Aliens: Apocalypse get mentioned The weird mutated chestburster from ‘Aliens: Kidnapped’ gets its own statline The MOX units from ‘Aliens: Tribes’ gets its own statline There’s a whole campaign mission based around O’Bannon’s World from the Colonial Marines comic The Arcturians (now Arctura) from the old RPG are back The Church of Immaculate Conception from Earth Hive are the backbone of most of the campaign
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Pennywise the Frown posted:So can people play pen and paper RPGs online now? I have no friends but would love to get in on this. e: not a hello.jpg. or do I'm not your dad Splicer fucked around with this message at 14:32 on May 12, 2021 |
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May 12, 2021 14:10
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Thinking about this fact-checking in the Alien RPG Facebook group
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May 12, 2021 14:22
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Do you want to eat like an ultimate badass? Well now you can! It's good for you, boy. Eat it!
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May 14, 2021 20:38
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 that sounds delicious
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May 14, 2021 21:11
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No loving way! This is getting done posthaste this morning
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May 15, 2021 10:17
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What's the recipe for Corn Cob Up His rear end
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May 15, 2021 13:39
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zenguitarman posted:What's the recipe for Corn Cob Up His rear end It doesn't matter when its Arcturian  Hey Bishop do that trick with the knife
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May 15, 2021 17:38
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So how is it?
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May 15, 2021 18:07
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Xenomrph posted:So how is it? I definitely nailed that recipe because it tastes like corn meal and sand . I am gonna eat it all or feed it to the birds though its fine bread I have barely had 1 square piece and I'm already full Sjs00 fucked around with this message at 18:19 on May 15, 2021 |
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May 15, 2021 18:17
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Xenomrph posted:So how is it? Guess he don’t like the cornbread either.
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May 15, 2021 18:23
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Sjs00 posted:I definitely nailed that recipe because it tastes like corn meal and sand . I am gonna eat it all or feed it to the birds though its fine bread I have barely had 1 square piece and I'm already full That's awesome. 
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May 15, 2021 19:16
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I love this thread so much.
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May 16, 2021 00:11
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To me, it looks like love upon first sighting.
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May 16, 2021 00:40
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So what is being done gamewise with the stat blocks in the rest of that book released? I am considering buying it if I can run seriously crazy tank battles versus specific breeds of xenos, and if there is associated art or is it all text blocks
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Sjs00 posted:So what is being done gamewise with the stat blocks in the rest of that book released? I am considering buying it if I can run seriously crazy tank battles versus specific breeds of xenos, and if there is associated art or is it all text blocks So the entire book is geared up for running a campaign for Colonial Marines. It has a story driven campaign that weaves a narrative across multiple worlds, dealing with everything from drat dirty space commies, to Engineer ruins, to secret off-the-book black ops facilities. It also has random tables and more bare bones scenarios to help create your own custom campaign, as well as notes on how to file the serial numbers of the story campaign for your own use. Equipment wise, it gives stat blocks for new small arms, heavy ordinance, and vehicles (including tanks!) for both the USCMC and their equivalents in the 3WE, UPP, and ICSC. Same for starships, with some new information for Connestoga-class ships and new ships entirely for both the UA and UPP. Special appearance by the same ship class as the Betty from Alien Resurrection. There is new art for a chunk of the new equipment, but not all of it. Same with the ships, though the few that don't get art are likely not the kind you'll end up having players use. There are new talents and starting classes (or Military Occupational Specialties) for Marine players. Things like medics, vehicle specialists, et. There isn't much new as far as Xenos go. There's a new bio-engineered drone that has a built in expiration date and can't produce queens they sometimes survive the kill switch and they still reproduce through ovomorphosis. There's also a gross chestburster mutation that spreads a disease that makes you explode in a gore eruption. Anathema stat blocks if you missed them in Destroyer of Worlds. While xenomorphs and black goo are featured, a lot of the book is about the secret organizations on both sides of a rapidly heating cold war trying to be the first to actually weaponize xenomorphs. Speaking of black goo, this book serves as a continuation of the events of the Destroyer of Worlds book. I'll be curious to see if this meta-plot continues to progress in future books. *EDIT* The Arcturian thing is settled once and for all. Arcturians are all but directly stated to be another Engineer project, look incredibly close to human, and share a lot of our genetics. Also on their planet are the Arcturas, the semi-intelligent cave apes from the old Leading Edge RPG. Mutant Headcrab fucked around with this message at 06:09 on May 16, 2021 |
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May 16, 2021 04:24
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Is the Arcturian thing canon? I'd like it to just be that.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Is the Arcturian thing canon? I'd like it to just be that. The RPG is canon (until something comes along and changes it). Mutant Headcrab posted:There's also a gross chestburster mutation that spreads a disease that makes you explode in a gore eruption.
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May 16, 2021 04:53
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Xenomrph posted:That’s straight out of the comic series ‘Aliens: Kidnapped’ and it’s pretty wild to see it make a return. They even kept the pink egg, too!
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May 16, 2021 04:54
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Thanks thread, I had cornbread for breakfast in honour of the fallen 
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Mutant Headcrab posted:So the entire book is geared up for running a campaign for Colonial Marines. It has a story driven campaign that weaves a narrative across multiple worlds, dealing with everything from drat dirty space commies, to Engineer ruins, to secret off-the-book black ops facilities. It also has random tables and more bare bones scenarios to help create your own custom campaign, as well as notes on how to file the serial numbers of the story campaign for your own use. I know this RPG is know for being extremely deadly for PCs, in terms of contact with the aliens. How does the USCMC fare?
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Sjs00 posted:I definitely nailed that recipe because it tastes like corn meal and sand . I am gonna eat it all or feed it to the birds though its fine bread I have barely had 1 square piece and I'm already full I asked the RPG’s author about the cornbread recipe and he said the version in the PDF has some numbers flipped, which will be fixed in the print version. Oops! 
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May 16, 2021 09:01
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Just wanted to pop by and say that sometimes I put on an Alien audiobook when I'm going to sleep. So I can fall asleep thinking about Aliens.
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That might give me nightmares.  Where do you get Alien audiobooks from?
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May 16, 2021 22:50
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Audible has several of them.
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May 16, 2021 22:55
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Wow you weren't kidding. They have a bunch of them. Although $25 for an audiobook seems pretty crazy. I don't know how much they usually cost though. But I'd never pay more for an audiobook than I would a book.
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In case you never saw it:
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The Last Call posted:In case you never saw it: 940 to 2014? That's a drat good run. Dude lasted a millennium.
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MrMojok posted:I know this RPG is know for being extremely deadly for PCs, in terms of contact with the aliens. How does the USCMC fare? In a straight up fight, marines can reliably take out up to Stage IV xenomorphs. The big problem is the majority of encounters aren't straight up fights. Xenomorphs move fast, hide great, and tend towards ambush tactics. A dedicated Marine team has more gear and guns than Colonists or Space Truckers, but they ultimately still have to rely on balancing out stress and dice pushes. The real question is how well do players do against other people with guns. COVID has kept me running this game with my group as I intended so I haven't even had a chance to run Destroyer of Worlds and see how gunfights work out. (I just can't get into roll20; I need that physical presence to get into a game, running or playing). Xenomrph posted:I asked the RPG’s author about the cornbread recipe and he said the version in the PDF has some numbers flipped, which will be fixed in the print version. Oops! Aww! It sounds like they nailed the intended effect!
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Torquemada posted:Guess he don’t like the cornbread either. 
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May 17, 2021 02:42
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someone above my pay grade hosed up the numbers
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Guess he don’t like the cornbread either.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That might give me nightmares. You can find a lot of them on youtube.
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The Last Call posted:In case you never saw it: What happened to the 1? You can see an indent for it but it's just... gone?
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May 17, 2021 10:17
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sigher posted:What happened to the 1? You can see an indent for it but it's just... gone? Someone probably chiseled that piece out for a souvenir
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that looks like shadow over the sheen in the corner there or did someone actually deface his loving gravestone
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it's just the light/reflection, simmer down everyone. that's etched, there's no removing that for a souvenir.
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