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Aug 23, 2021 17:57
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Tsilkani posted:DCC also had the magical afro dice, and when the entire team is white, that's not a great look. I did mention that as one of the blaxploitation elements, and that's all that it is. DCC dice sets come with a little legend to talk them up as glorious, lucky, and special: my clear with white glitter set is the holy fragments of Farrah that she used to avenge her father and that using them gives me the luck of the gods. The afro dice only stick out to this community because they were presented out of the context of the sets overall with one synopsis on a vendor website. (The legend has a color-related monster entry on the reverse side, it's a nice little perk to go with the set.) It's genuinely not a big deal.
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Aug 23, 2021 20:34
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Xiahou Dun posted:The 5 necks of Tiamat are freakishly large. That was for no-one but me
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Aug 23, 2021 21:09
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Arivia posted:I did mention that as one of the blaxploitation elements, and that's all that it is. DCC dice sets come with a little legend to talk them up as glorious, lucky, and special: my clear with white glitter set is the holy fragments of Farrah that she used to avenge her father and that using them gives me the luck of the gods. The afro dice only stick out to this community because they were presented out of the context of the sets overall with one synopsis on a vendor website. (The legend has a color-related monster entry on the reverse side, it's a nice little perk to go with the set.) It's genuinely not a big deal. None of this makes the "afro dice" sound okay.
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Aug 23, 2021 22:55
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Also, you don't get to be the company that published Confederate Apologia In Space: The Game and never once walk that back, and then turn around and sell 'magic afro dice'.
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Aug 23, 2021 22:59
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Serf posted:None of this makes the "afro dice" sound okay. Honestly, why not? "These dice have lucky elements related to the character they're themed with" and the iconic wizard or whatever has an afro and it's lucky. It's tongue in cheek dice lore like tons of RPG gamers have. @Tsilkani: that's just terrible RPG Twitter cancel culture bullshit (and i don't use that term lightly but it describes what RPG Twitter is like these days). As we've already discussed, Goodman Games has repeatedly supported Black lives and Black causes including donations. Making an alternative history game twenty years ago is incredibly small potatoes in comparison.
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Aug 23, 2021 23:16
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Has anyone run/played Lancer? I picked up the core book in last year’s itch.io bundle and only got around to actually reading it this week since my weekend 5e group was curious. It seems super cool but there are no active roll20 games so I’m not sure if anyone is actually playing
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Aug 23, 2021 23:33
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change my name posted:Has anyone run/played Lancer? I picked up the core book in last year’s itch.io bundle and only got around to actually reading it this week since my weekend 5e group was curious. It seems super cool but there are no active roll20 games so I’m not sure if anyone is actually playing You could try asking in the active Lancer thread on the first page of this vey forum.
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Aug 23, 2021 23:47
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You don't get to write off Broncosaurus Rex as 20 years in the past when they're still selling it on their website with nary a hint of a disclaimer. Even Deadlands has acknowledged they hosed up, and that's like pulling teeth. And again, a bunch of white dudes don't get to blithely reduce black culture to dice luck.
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Aug 23, 2021 23:47
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change my name posted:Has anyone run/played Lancer? I picked up the core book in last year’s itch.io bundle and only got around to actually reading it this week since my weekend 5e group was curious. It seems super cool but there are no active roll20 games so I’m not sure if anyone is actually playing Lancer freaking owns, if you get on the tg discords there are people playing, and the lancer discord is super active.
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Aug 23, 2021 23:47
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change my name posted:Has anyone run/played Lancer? I picked up the core book in last year’s itch.io bundle and only got around to actually reading it this week since my weekend 5e group was curious. It seems super cool but there are no active roll20 games so I’m not sure if anyone is actually playing COMP/CON is the (literal) killer app for it There's a whole big Lancer thread here, come check it out!
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Aug 23, 2021 23:48
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Toshimo posted:You could try asking in the active Lancer thread on the first page of this vey forum. Oops, it fell off to the second page and I missed it, will check it out
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Aug 23, 2021 23:49
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I'm playing it (and my group's thrown out the setting fluff and turned it into a fantasy game)!
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Aug 23, 2021 23:49
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Tsilkani posted:You don't get to write off Broncosaurus Rex as 20 years in the past when they're still selling it on their website with nary a hint of a disclaimer. Even Deadlands has acknowledged they hosed up, and that's like pulling teeth.
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Aug 23, 2021 23:57
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Arivia posted:Honestly, why not? "These dice have lucky elements related to the character they're themed with" and the iconic wizard or whatever has an afro and it's lucky. It's tongue in cheek dice lore like tons of RPG gamers have. I'm not sure if you're ignoring the racist parts of the "rub these dice on an afro to get luck" concept as a bit or if you just don't know what you're talking about.
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Aug 23, 2021 23:59
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change my name posted:Oops, it fell off to the second page and I missed it, will check it out We talk a lot about all game stuff here, so it never hurts to ask here first. Plus you can remind others about fun games and sometimes direct traffic to a thread we forgot about. The nth iteration of our discussions about how to properly make a pokemon rpg or if d&d style murder hobo games are inherently colonialist can survive a few questions about rpg recommendations interrupting them.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:01
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Leraika posted:I'm playing it (and my group's thrown out the setting fluff and turned it into a fantasy game)! Oh. That reminds me, did that "Lancer Combat, Forged in the Dark for everything else" rpg get published yet? That looked real cool.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:03
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Coolness Averted posted:Oh. That reminds me, did that "Lancer Combat, Forged in the Dark for everything else" rpg get published yet? That looked real cool.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:05
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Tibalt posted:ICON has been released as a playtest and has been undergoing intense playtesting. You can download it off Massif Press' itch.io page, buy I believe it's already on its 4th iteration in as many weeks. I'll wait to play it until it's actually finished, but I'm definitely buying it. I really miss tactical crunchy combat even if I've really fell in love with near 0 prep GMing.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:08
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Tsilkani posted:You don't get to write off Broncosaurus Rex as 20 years in the past when they're still selling it on their website with nary a hint of a disclaimer. Even Deadlands has acknowledged they hosed up, and that's like pulling teeth.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:12
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Coolness Averted posted:We talk a lot about all game stuff here, so it never hurts to ask here first. Plus you can remind others about fun games and sometimes direct traffic to a thread we forgot about.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:12
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Halloween Jack posted:Having heard the System Mastery review and skimmed the thing, there is a lot of Confederate apologia in Broncosaurus Rex that they absolutely can't write off as "Well, 2001 was a different time." Definitely loses a lot of points for the part where the Confederacy frees the slaves in the 1880s because "it was the right thing to do all along and they knew it."
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Aug 24, 2021 00:36
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Leraika posted:I'm playing it (and my group's thrown out the setting fluff and turned it into a fantasy game)! I like the setting a lot but this is a cool option too. Is it basically Escaflowne where everyone has big gently caress off mechs even though it's the medieval times for no reason?
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Aug 24, 2021 00:40
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change my name posted:I like the setting a lot but this is a cool option too. Is it basically Escaflowne where everyone has big gently caress off mechs even though it's the medieval times for no reason? The mechs are refluffed as weapons known as 'regalia' that are extremely powerful and extremely anime - mech size is refluffed as the size of the FIGHTING SPIRIT AURA they put out. Actually, regalia is basically the catch-all term for any sort of magical tool - my character's regalia was originally a tool for civilian use (mapping out leylines and magic currents, extremely important in magical urban engineering) and awakened into a combat form that does Vague Bullshit concerning probabiltiy mapping and divination (her version of the Emperor's overshield is basically surrounding allies with a bubble of 'no actually that missed', and overlaying the possible futures where the enemies got their asses kicked on the present for 1d6 AP energy damage). I've hinted pretty strongly that it's a fragment of some sort of collective record of everything that's slowly rebuilding itself. Leraika fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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Aug 24, 2021 01:03
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Arivia posted:Honestly, why not? "These dice have lucky elements related to the character they're themed with" and the iconic wizard or whatever has an afro and it's lucky. It's tongue in cheek dice lore like tons of RPG gamers have.
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Aug 24, 2021 01:16
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I give, I concede. I’m tired of arguing in circles about this and it’s not helping anyone. I don’t have the energy to bang my head against a wall.
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Aug 24, 2021 01:43
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Arivia posted:I give, I concede. I’m tired of arguing in circles about this and it’s not helping anyone. I don’t have the energy to bang my head against a wall. And Im not even saying their evil because sometimes you just don't know or you make a mistake. EDIT: This is the book with the really creepy you must worship gygax and pay homage to him screed right at the start right? MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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Aug 24, 2021 14:04
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MadScientistWorking posted:This is the book with the really creepy you must worship gygax and pay homage to him screed right at the start right? It's more of a "it's role-playing not roll-playing!!!" screed in defense of the funnel and randomly rolled characters.
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Aug 24, 2021 14:30
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MadScientistWorking posted:Answer the dam question you coward. How about no? Yes, the dice thing was super-racist. That is not an excuse to go after your posting enemies like a shark after blood when they do the sensible thing and back down.
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Aug 24, 2021 15:06
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I like to team up with Yes-man and take over the Mojave for myself, but I see merit in working with the NCR.
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Aug 24, 2021 15:16
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potatocubed posted:How about no? And if I really hated her I would let this go and just let her make a bigger rear end of herself in some other situation. As I said before I didn't even know how violently and ridiculously racist this was until my early 30s.
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Aug 24, 2021 15:32
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Arivia posted:I give, I concede. I’m tired of arguing in circles about this and it’s not helping anyone. I don’t have the energy to bang my head against a wall.
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Aug 24, 2021 15:32
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MadScientistWorking posted:That's not backing down. Backing down is not making a snarky comment about how its too painful to explain how they are right. That's just being an rear end in a top hat who wants to get the last word in. So what? Arivia comprehensively lost the argument. What do you gain by keeping it going?
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Aug 24, 2021 15:53
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potatocubed posted:So what? A stage to continue preaching superiority over people who can't actually do anything about the issue at hand or make any meaningful effect on it? That's all that's been "gained" by having this conversation at all, is opportunities for cheap dunks on posting enemies.
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Aug 24, 2021 16:42
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Crossposting for visibility, since the Thread for Threads isn't the most active place.King of Solomon posted:Since it got brought up in the chat thread, I'm curious. How many goons actually play the Digimon TCG? I've been considering making a thread for it, but I only want to put in that effort if there are people who'd post in it.
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Aug 24, 2021 17:30
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King of Solomon posted:Crossposting for visibility, since the Thread for Threads isn't the most active place. I'd be interested in learning to play, in any case, especially if there's a robust online playing tool.
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Aug 24, 2021 18:23
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King of Solomon posted:Crossposting for visibility, since the Thread for Threads isn't the most active place. I collected the cards but never played.
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Aug 25, 2021 00:10
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Leraika posted:The mechs are refluffed as weapons known as 'regalia' that are extremely powerful and extremely anime - mech size is refluffed as the size of the FIGHTING SPIRIT AURA they put out. Actually, regalia is basically the catch-all term for any sort of magical tool - my character's regalia was originally a tool for civilian use (mapping out leylines and magic currents, extremely important in magical urban engineering) and awakened into a combat form that does Vague Bullshit concerning probabiltiy mapping and divination (her version of the Emperor's overshield is basically surrounding allies with a bubble of 'no actually that missed', and overlaying the possible futures where the enemies got their asses kicked on the present for 1d6 AP energy damage). You kinda turned it into TTGL there.
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Aug 26, 2021 12:50
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You kinda turned it into TTGL there. It is very anime.
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Aug 26, 2021 15:28
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Leraika posted:The mechs are refluffed as weapons known as 'regalia' that are extremely powerful and extremely anime - mech size is refluffed as the size of the FIGHTING SPIRIT AURA they put out. Actually, regalia is basically the catch-all term for any sort of magical tool - my character's regalia was originally a tool for civilian use (mapping out leylines and magic currents, extremely important in magical urban engineering) and awakened into a combat form that does Vague Bullshit concerning probabiltiy mapping and divination (her version of the Emperor's overshield is basically surrounding allies with a bubble of 'no actually that missed', and overlaying the possible futures where the enemies got their asses kicked on the present for 1d6 AP energy damage).
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