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Nuns with Guns posted:Games Workshop is insisting the Squats are real and legit now btw: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/02/what-april-fools-the-41st-millenniums-next-faction-is-real-heres-a-model-to-prove-it/ Not even kidding.
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disposablewords posted:It seems like a decent way to test the waters. Purportedly, the idea of Yakuza: Like a Dragon becoming a turn-based JRPG style of game came from an April Fools joke that got a really good response, so they decided to go for it. April 1 is the start of a fiscal quarter or year in Japan so a lot of legitimate announcements tend to also get made on this date which ends up giving the jokes mor attention than normal.
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Nuns with Guns posted:A revamped Spelljammer that can just push Starfinder out of whatever tiny niche it has once and for all seems like a possibility. There isn't really much thematic or mechanical overlap between the two, considering that Starfinder is crunchy futuristic science fiction and Spelljammer is very strictly not that. Genre-wise, Spelljammer has about as much in common with Starfinder as it does with Shadowrun.
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So push Shadowrun out of the niche, too.
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Halloween Jack posted:I still don't know all the details about the Blood War, but it sounds like the least interesting thing you could possibly do with Planescape. Ooh, a big war everywhere forever. It's a forever war but it's (mostly) confined to the Lower Planes. It's a hazard that occasionally spills over to neighboring chunks of the Outlands (the True Neutral plane), where the most "normal" people who aren't in Sigil tend to live. Broadly across the game line, its presence deforms everything around it to provide drama and plot hooks, but is not often meant to be engaged with directly because it's just not on the same scale. It's also the excuse for why there can be anywhere that's got "normal" people in that the demons and devils are all busy with each other instead of constantly stomping all over the Neutral realms on their way to sieging the Heavens. A couple of the books elaborate on how there's a conspiracy of celestials arming both major sides of the war to try to get them to extinguish each other, while using the profits to help deal with the collateral damage, and the actual "goodness" of this given it's being done by beings literally made of Good is left hanging as a huge hook.
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A modern take on Planescape is impossible because the Free League are libertarians and nobody wants to hear about age of consent laws
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Ettin posted:A modern take on Planescape is impossible because the Free League are libertarians and nobody wants to hear about age of consent laws I think the Fated are that kind of libertarian. The Free League are internet contrarian pundits.
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Ettin posted:A modern take on Planescape is impossible because the Free League are libertarians and nobody wants to hear about age of consent laws The nameless one has the romeo and juliet law tattooed on his arm, ready to whip out at a moments notice like that one character from the transformers movie.
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Kurieg posted:The nameless one has the romeo and juliet law tattooed on his arm, ready to whip out at a moments notice like that one character from the transformers movie. Nope, it's actually tattooed nowhere on him but morte insists it is and that it also says he gets to watch.
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Rand Brittain posted:The Free League are internet contrarian pundits. They're definitely the ones loudly insisting man this ain't my dad this is a cell phone.
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gtrmp posted:There isn't really much thematic or mechanical overlap between the two, considering that Starfinder is crunchy futuristic science fiction and Spelljammer is very strictly not that. Genre-wise, Spelljammer has about as much in common with Starfinder as it does with Shadowrun. I actually could see them rewriting Spelljammer to make it a "standalone" scifi setting instead of being about hopping between the different campaign setting spheres, like revamped in that way. Keep some of the magitek but kind of make it more spacefuture Eberron.
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Rand Brittain posted:I think the Fated are that kind of libertarian. Free Leaguers have a regular issue with police abuse and try to organize against it so if they were to map to anyone in modern US politics they'd be closer to the various voices that contribute to "defund the police" and promote alternative measures. The Fated are absolutely "gently caress you, got mine" libertarians who got into a position of power, though. Their self-absorbed old guy leader even has a skeevy, manipulative secret relationship with another faction leader who is much younger than him, only like 19 years old. It's blatantly exploitative, especially as part of the background of the Faction War adventure.
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I think the Free League would like to be Black Lives Matter, but it comes across as kind of hollow since they have nothing in common except a vague dedication to "don't tell me what to do" that doesn't really result in them actually doing anything. They don't really feel like a genuine minority group; they feel like a group that works the way conservative pundits think the world works where the government is constantly struggling to cancel them. If you were doing a 2022 Planescape, you'd probably want something like the "defund the police" movement, but I honestly feel like the Athar already fulfill the Planescape version of that function. They just need a bit more "defund the gods" energy and a bit less "debate me" energy. Then you could tie the Harmonium with the gods (not any specific gods so much as the general concept of the status quo), because obviously they would be. Honestly, the first and foremost problem with rebooting Planescape is that more than half of the factions have philosophies that are kind of dumb. (The second is that it's a world full of impossible wonders that takes such a cynical approach to everything that it never really stops to appreciate that aspect of itself, and the third is that, like most settings written during that period, or possibly ever, its adventures relentlessly focus on stupid bullshit.)
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Honestly I'm kind of okay with Sigil being primarily inhabited by losers whose ideological stances are inherently antithetical to any kind of real movement or change. "The Twitter at the heart of the multiverse", if you will.
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This portal can only be opened by viciously subtweeting at the lady of pain.
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Rand Brittain posted:I think the Free League would like to be Black Lives Matter, but it comes across as kind of hollow since they have nothing in common except a vague dedication to "don't tell me what to do" that doesn't really result in them actually doing anything. They don't really feel like a genuine minority group; they feel like a group that works the way conservative pundits think the world works where the government is constantly struggling to cancel them. Sometimes I just randomly remember that Aymon Bundy, of those crazy guys who took over a wildlife refuge, made pro-BLM statements.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Sometimes I just randomly remember that Aymon Bundy, of those crazy guys who took over a wildlife refuge, made pro-BLM statements. Even funnier that it's specifically Black Lives Matter, not the Bureau of Land Management whom he has beef with. Libertarian types that haven't gone full Trump cultist can be a bit of a wildcard on those topics since they're among the few people who actually occasionally look at cops critically and not the state-mandated worship of them.
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Kurieg posted:This portal can only be opened by viciously subtweeting at the lady of pain. It's a delicate balance because if you make it too obvious, she'll pop up in your living room and let her shadow fall on you.
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Sometimes I worry that my overly critical and excessively negative attitude on my Delta Green discord is having a chilling effect on people's creativity. Then I look at the actual developers' posts and I stop feeling bad. https://twitter.com/drgonzo123/status/1511036781134692354?s=20&t=Wp8BlMCkUIxHmij03tW5Gw
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mellonbread posted:Sometimes I worry that my overly critical and excessively negative attitude on my Delta Green discord is having a chilling effect on people's creativity. Mythos cops dev says what?
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mellonbread posted:Sometimes I worry that my overly critical and excessively negative attitude on my Delta Green discord is having a chilling effect on people's creativity. Detwiller really is just in a constant race with himself to be the biggest rear end in a top hat imaginable. It wasn't that long ago he was opining that anyone who thinks D&D has if not a literal monopoly on the TRPG scene than a figurative one is literally mentally ill.
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mellonbread posted:Sometimes I worry that my overly critical and excessively negative attitude on my Delta Green discord is having a chilling effect on people's creativity. most game developers across all mediums could save a lot of time by just saying "I am an insufferable jackass and you are funding me with each thing of mine you buy"
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Honestly I'm kind of okay with Sigil being primarily inhabited by losers whose ideological stances are inherently antithetical to any kind of real movement or change. "The Twitter at the heart of the multiverse", if you will. Makes sense. If they had a coherent ideology they'd find a home in another plane.
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mellonbread posted:Sometimes I worry that my overly critical and excessively negative attitude on my Delta Green discord is having a chilling effect on people's creativity. me @ detwiller 
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Kai Tave posted:Detwiller really is just in a constant race with himself to be the biggest rear end in a top hat imaginable. It wasn't that long ago he was opining that anyone who thinks D&D has if not a literal monopoly on the TRPG scene than a figurative one is literally mentally ill. There's also something wrong with you if you can't move to Canada like he did, according to double D.
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Kai Tave posted:Detwiller really is just in a constant race with himself to be the biggest rear end in a top hat imaginable. It wasn't that long ago he was opining that anyone who thinks D&D has if not a literal monopoly on the TRPG scene than a figurative one is literally mentally ill. Wait, was he saying people who think DND has a monopoly are mentally ill or those who thinks it doesn't?
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wait, was he saying people who think DND has a monopoly are mentally ill or those who thinks it doesn't? The stupider one.
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Kai Tave posted:Detwiller really is just in a constant race with himself to be the biggest rear end in a top hat imaginable. It wasn't that long ago he was opining that anyone who thinks D&D has if not a literal monopoly on the TRPG scene than a figurative one is literally mentally ill. His twitter handle is seriously drgonzo123? Seriously, how is this not a parody account?
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Bony-Eared Assfish posted:His twitter handle is seriously drgonzo123? Seriously, how is this not a parody account? The TTRPG industry is the joke.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wait, was he saying people who think DND has a monopoly are mentally ill or those who thinks it doesn't?  
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1) Christ what an rear end in a top hat. 2) That is profoundly not how semi-colons work.
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We’ve all heard of Mark Rein•Hagen, now it’s time for Dennis; Detwiller.
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To be clear, since I know a lot of people here don't really keep up with twitter, literally nobody in the indie RPG scene thinks that D&D is actively and maliciously persecuting them like some sort of advanced elfgames gangstalking thing, they just correctly observe that D&D sucks most of the air out of the room and dominates the mainstream in a way that makes it exceptionally difficult for anyone else to break out into the open in a meaningful way. This stuff isn't in response to any sort of take that actually exists, Detwiller just loves beating up strawmen.
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And I thought Kenneth Hite was the ones with bad opinions.
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In retrospect, maybe a couple of developers who looked at the Cthulhu Mythos and thought "you know what this needs? more cops, and you get to play them!" were a bit dodgy to begin with.
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It makes sense to apply the cosmic horror of lovecraft to the human horror of the deep state, as they basically have the same root: how tiny and pointless you are compared to the great beast that devours lives.
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I really like idea that the deep state exists but it's just your letter carrier, the deputy mayor, and someone at the DMV. And they're fighting extra dimensional terrors.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:In retrospect, maybe a couple of developers who looked at the Cthulhu Mythos and thought "you know what this needs? more cops, and you get to play them!" were a bit dodgy to begin with.
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