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Judging by the like 15 gigs of PDFs I have, I must be literate as gently caress. One day I’m gonna POD all these things only to have the bookshelf they’re on collapse atop me, burying me alive in the nerd games I’ll never play.
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Did you ever wonder why AI keeps leaning towards fascism?  https://twitter.com/WargamerCom/status/1706671759229866434?t=L9d9v_kwwfeH64ov0w1M-w&s=19
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Well Played Mauer posted:Judging by the like 15 gigs of PDFs I have, I must be literate as gently caress. Haahaahaa. Same.  Anyway I've been looking for music to write to and I've some what I would call tg related music videos that others might enjoy as well. Got any recommendations? A good song with a tg related music video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpSMoBp8awM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pv1X0CRIOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvWVO29zs0 I'm on a mecha/cyberpunk kick. Not a music video but I have to include this because dwarves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISzxdEgDCU Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuEvAR7xVA8 Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Xelkelvos posted:Ettin's showing off some Wetrunner stuff but something seems odd about it I knew I should have led with the Antarctic brain fungus
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Well Played Mauer posted:Judging by the like 15 gigs of PDFs I have, I must be literate as gently caress. 15 gigs? lol  I know ALL the swear words, real and imaginary.
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Sep 29, 2023 17:46
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Well Played Mauer posted:Judging by the like 15 gigs of PDFs I have, I must be literate as gently caress.  Amateur... However, I have been scanning my collection (and anybody else's I could borrow) since I first got an Apple Scanner back in 1989.
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Sep 29, 2023 17:55
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Look, it's not a proper collection until you load it into Calibre and tag everything.
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Sep 29, 2023 18:15
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Rand Brittain posted:Look, it's not a proper collection until you load it into Calibre and tag everything. You don't see the Calibre library folder in that screenshot? I just don't copy the files over into that folder.
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Sep 29, 2023 18:18
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:You don't see the Calibre library folder in that screenshot? I just don't copy the files over into that folder. ...wait, you can do that? I thought Calibre insisted on moving everything into its folder structure.
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Sep 29, 2023 18:52
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Father Wendigo posted:Did you ever wonder why AI keeps leaning towards fascism? *makes a jerkoff motion with hands*
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It is hard to think of any warhammer book as sympathetic to fascism as your average AI programmer.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Glad more people are aware of Luka's stuff and the Vaults of Vaarn! Luka is the illustrator as well as the game designer of the Ultraviolet Grasslands. I just got my physical copy of There, A Red Door yesterday. I love his style, both prose and illustration. This is allegedly a location and items sourcebook with maps, but it's just an excuse to do art. A good excuse. https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/there-a-red-door There's a free preview of UVG available, 78 pages worth of psychedelia, https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/241606/the-ultraviolet-grasslands-free-introduction
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Vermis 2 is up for pre-order. https://hollow-press.net/products/vermis-ii-mist-mirrors
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Rand Brittain posted:...wait, you can do that? I thought Calibre insisted on moving everything into its folder structure. I use sym links= e; Longer answer I had to use symlinks because the way calibre handles metadata makes it a pretty special princess, and the devs want to think that using other folder structures is the antichrist. It took a while to figure out how to do it, and it still breaks a lot. tldr; it's a pain in the rear end to set up. Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Terrible Opinions posted:It is hard to think of any warhammer book as sympathetic to fascism as your average AI programmer. I've read two or three (mostly as research for a game set in 40k for a group of friends who are really into it). Based on that very limited sample size they're mostly about people who have totally internalized the Imperium's Catholic guilt and self-negation and are miserable because of it. Like just really self-serious tragedies or near-misses, where people set themselves up for failure and death and then either fail and die, or manage to distance themselves from the indoctrination just enough to stabilize. I'm most reminded of Catch-22, except nowhere near as funny or as well-written on a technical level.
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After spending all month playing Yakuza Kiwami I'm convinced that the fighting styles and heat actions need to be ported to tabletop. Has anyone done this already?
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Spellbound Kingdoms doesn't capture it perfectly, but you can get up to some Yakuza-feeling shenanigans in its combat system. It involves combat styles mapped out on a table, where you can go from move to move along fairly open but still limited paths (so you can't jump from like a basic punch to a combo finisher in one go), and you can swap styles on the fly as long as you know them. It also has rules for getting a shot in at the enemy's Mood (which is an extra health bar) at the start of a fight by whipping your clothes off to dramatically reveal a cool tattoo, or other flashy actions.
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disposablewords posted:Spellbound Kingdoms doesn't capture it perfectly, but you can get up to some Yakuza-feeling shenanigans in its combat system. It involves combat styles mapped out on a table, where you can go from move to move along fairly open but still limited paths (so you can't jump from like a basic punch to a combo finisher in one go), and you can swap styles on the fly as long as you know them. It also has rules for getting a shot in at the enemy's Mood (which is an extra health bar) at the start of a fight by whipping your clothes off to dramatically reveal a cool tattoo, or other flashy actions. God Spellbound Kingdoms rules Shame about the Kickstarted expansion being vaporware
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I'm waiting on my players to give me concepts for a Mythras Classic Fantasy game I'm going to be starting soon. Mythras used to be Runequest 6 and was rebranded as such after some licensing things with Chaosium happened and they stripped put all the Glorantha. It's a d100 game in the BRP family and it ticks a lot of boxes for me - Vancian magic and D&D's class and level system always felt super restricting conceptually to me. It surprises me that I see so little discussion of this game because it nails the "gritty low fantasy" vibe so well. It has some magic systems that are kind of crunchy but they're also totally modular if you want or don't want to include them in your campaign. The Mythras line itself has some cool supplements detailing mythical versions of historical civilization - Mythic Britain and Mythic Constantinople that I'm aware of and I think there's at least one more, but Classic Fantasy is a halfway point with AD&D that I'll be playing for the first time and it looks really good. I just felt like giving the game a shoutout because I really like it and they released this free starter book for Classic Fantasy recently. Anyone who has been wondering how to shoehorn their historical low fantasy game into D&D might be interested in it or especially core Mythras.
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Asterite34 posted:God Spellbound Kingdoms rules I've been thinking about getting the base game of Spellbound Kingdoms for a while but have never actually gone through with the purchase. Is there enough content in the existing book without the vanished xp?
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The Malthusian posted:I've been thinking about getting the base game of Spellbound Kingdoms for a while but have never actually gone through with the purchase. Is there enough content in the existing book without the vanished xp? 100%. It's a real treasure trove that doesn't feel a quarter as dense as it should. For instance, it chucks a goddamn integrated wargame into there over the span of, like, 12 pages and it just sort of... fits in and feels like a natural extension to all the high concept swashbuckling..
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Absolutely. The expansion would've been some neat and nice extra material, but it's also just that - extra. The book is pretty drat solid on its own and tends to spark new ideas every time I so much as glance through it.
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Terrible Opinions posted:It is hard to think of any warhammer book as sympathetic to fascism as your average AI programmer. Eh, the AI programmers (in academia) I know are much more leftwing than the general populace
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Yeah, Spellbound Kingdoms deserves to be much better known than it is, it comes from a similar place as the infamous bonkers games of yore like Realms of Synnibarr, except that it isn’t a pain in the rear end to actually play.
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disposablewords posted:Absolutely. The expansion would've been some neat and nice extra material, but it's also just that - extra. The book is pretty drat solid on its own and tends to spark new ideas every time I so much as glance through it. Exactly what I was hoping to hear! Thanks!
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HOMOEROTIC JESUS posted:Eh, the AI programmers (in academia) I know are much more leftwing than the general populace
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yes, in academia, i.e. the powerless ones without venture capital
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Is Spellbound Kingdoms still full of really sad poser "illustrations," because I found the mechanics delightful but the presentation is so infuriatingly offputting
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No Poser stuff now. The art is currently a mix of a bunch of classical work across the past 500-ish years and current professionals. It's overall a pretty good selection.
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disposablewords posted:No Poser stuff now. The art is currently a mix of a bunch of classical work across the past 500-ish years and current professionals. It's overall a pretty good selection. That's so much better, good to know! Thanks!
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Does anyone make a d20x5? That is, a 20-sided die reading 5, 10, 15, up to 100. Preferably in a fairly normal size and colour scheme. I'm looking at yet another set of (wargame) rules that uses percentile rolls and has everything scaled to 5% increments, and wondering if people really like having to roll two physical dice for dozens of individual attacks or actions every turn.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Does anyone make a d20x5? That is, a 20-sided die reading 5, 10, 15, up to 100. Preferably in a fairly normal size and colour scheme. A lot of people really enjoy rolling dice; the more dice, the better.
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the spellbound kingdoms expansion will come out one day! I feel it in my bones. it's not gonna do me like will hindmarch
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:A lot of people really enjoy rolling dice; the more dice, the better.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:A lot of people really enjoy rolling dice; the more dice, the better. I've played Exalted, can confirm.
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Wouldn't you just use regular d20s and multiply the results by 5?
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Funzo posted:Wouldn't you just use regular d20s and multiply the results by 5? yes. or you could get dice as the op requests and eliminate the part where you do mental math every roll
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to be clear, i can do the mental math easily in my head. in fact i'm doing the mental math right now. but lesser mortals may not want to
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maybe each thing that has a percentile chance associated could give you the number you need to roll at minimum
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I just think it would be nice to have dice that do the conversion so I don't have to annotate tables or do minimal mental arithmetic.
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