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Lurks With Wolves posted:Correction: I meant Seven Samurai. Six Samurai isn't anything.
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Halloween Jack posted:If you were playing Monsterhearts you could have a Six Strings Samurai. "Only one werewolf can turn on this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me." Zorak of Michigan fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Yeah, but if I'm running a game, I do like having the physical book, even if I'm sure I could find the PDF quite easy for 7e. I just know the 4e reprints are super cheap. They're like 100% different games though. If you're not finding Gamma World 7e you're better off adapting a lightweight system like Sentinels or PBTA than taking some stultifying old TSR chart 'n graph pileup that happens to share a name. theironjef fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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If DriveThruRPG doesn't have a Print On Demand option, what's the best alternative to print a PDF? The only real option (see not insanely expensive) that I know is Lulu but wondering if there is another option. Ideally some place that offers a coil/spiral binding, but I can live with doing my own three ring binder if it's cheap enough.
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radlum posted:How are Vaesen and Monster of the Week? I like the concept for both games and I would love to try them bu haven’t seen much conversation around it I'm in a campaign for both! They are excellent. The systems themselves work quite well for what they are trying to accomplish, with the standard caveats of being very narrative focused games and thus needing full investment from the GM and all players.
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nessin posted:If DriveThruRPG doesn't have a Print On Demand option, what's the best alternative to print a PDF? The only real option (see not insanely expensive) that I know is Lulu but wondering if there is another option. Ideally some place that offers a coil/spiral binding, but I can live with doing my own three ring binder if it's cheap enough. Lulu is fantastic. I’ll print custom PDFs to be used as dossiers of sorts for players in heist adventures in a perfect bound booklet. If there’s an easier way, I’m interested but every time I’ve looked, it’s been like 8x Lulu prices.
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If you just want spiral bound, have you tried a local print shop?
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nessin posted:If DriveThruRPG doesn't have a Print On Demand option, what's the best alternative to print a PDF? The only real option (see not insanely expensive) that I know is Lulu but wondering if there is another option. Ideally some place that offers a coil/spiral binding, but I can live with doing my own three ring binder if it's cheap enough. If you're in the US, FedEx locations will do this for very cheap but they have a limit of IIRC 140 pages per bound item. So if you don't mind breaking it up you could go that route. https://www.office.fedex.com/default/presentations.html
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In my experience, FedEx will also sometimes refuse to print RPG material. I had to wrangle my local FedEx into grudgingly agreeing to print material for a game we were play testing, and they once outright refused to print a grid of cards for a game I wrote because they weren’t 100% convinced I had the rights. This was two different locations, too, so it’s some kind of corporate policy. All that said, if you can get them to do it they will often be very cheap.
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Kestral posted:In my experience, FedEx will also sometimes refuse to print RPG material. I had to wrangle my local FedEx into grudgingly agreeing to print material for a game we were play testing, and they once outright refused to print a grid of cards for a game I wrote because they weren’t 100% convinced I had the rights. This was two different locations, too, so it’s some kind of corporate policy. All that said, if you can get them to do it they will often be very cheap. I have literally seen rpg playtest documents where the first page after the cover is a line that says “Fedex, literally anyone has permission to print this out at any time.”
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Bucnasti posted:If you just want spiral bound, have you tried a local print shop? There is only one in my area but I haven't been able to get any info from them as to whether they'd do a small personal order or what it would cost. Other than that one it's just Staples/FedEx/OfficeMax style places. Neo Rasa posted:If you're in the US, FedEx locations will do this for very cheap but they have a limit of IIRC 140 pages per bound item. So if you don't mind breaking it up you could go that route. FedEx is insanely expensive for anything more than a hundred pages or so. Even a basic black and white unbound print is four times as much as the equivalent from Lulu with binding. One of the books I want to print out is the Wicked Ones rulebook (which does have POD from DriveThruRPG, but I've already owned the PDFs for years) and I can literally buy three copies of the rulebook (in color no less) through DTRPG for the price of the basic black and white printout through FedEx.
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What highly specific need or obstacle is preventing you from then simply buying the POD book of Wicked Ones from DTRPG? It's $35.00, an absolute steal for a book that's almost 400 pages.
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The recent video by People Make Games made me curious about LARP in the US and elsewhere. Is there a book that gives a general overview, or maybe one system that's the most popular? Doing a quick Google Mind's Eye Theatre is or was really popular?
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busalover posted:The recent video by People Make Games made me curious about LARP in the US and elsewhere. Is there a book that gives a general overview, or maybe one system that's the most popular? Doing a quick Google Mind's Eye Theatre is or was really popular? You can see in the video I assume you're referencing that at one point they "die" to a fight that was nothing but rock paper scissors. This is the most popular "system" for big open festival style freeform larps because anything more complicated gets in the way of the fiction and requires referees, which is unsustainable in the first place at an event of that scale and leads to weird bickering and power cliques. A major part of making big freeform events like that successful is *not* having a rules system, people just play pretend with lots of "Yes, and." There is a somewhat more regimented larp event scene in Europe but I don't know much about it other than that some are very good about safety and consent and some are very notably not.
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busalover posted:The recent video by People Make Games made me curious about LARP in the US and elsewhere. Is there a book that gives a general overview, or maybe one system that's the most popular? Doing a quick Google Mind's Eye Theatre is or was really popular? This book is one I give folks who are interested. The article here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzart1lzv4vjjuo/We%20Hold%20These%20Rules%20to%20Be%20Self-Evident.pdf?dl=0 is probably the most telling of the ways LARP differs.
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That Old Tree posted:What highly specific need or obstacle is preventing you from then simply buying the POD book of Wicked Ones from DTRPG? It's $35.00, an absolute steal for a book that's almost 400 pages. I used that as an example because I could compare the cost of POD to FedEx. However if I already own the PDF and want to buy a physical copy I'd rather get a full size spiral/comb bound printed version if I can get it, even if it's a bit more expensive, than the smaller softcover format.
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Hm, it looks like I have a few hours, and only a few hours, to myself in NYC this weekend, which gives me enough time to visit one store. Does Compleat Strategist carry a lot of vintage stuff?
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That Old Tree posted:What highly specific need or obstacle is preventing you from then simply buying the POD book of Wicked Ones from DTRPG? It's $35.00, an absolute steal for a book that's almost 400 pages. Mind you that's just for the book itself, after that you're going to get reamed by DTRPG and their absolutely absurd shipping prices, at least if you don't want to wait at least a full calendar month for your book to ship Lambo Trillrissian posted:You can see in the video I assume you're referencing that at one point they "die" to a fight that was nothing but rock paper scissors. This is the most popular "system" for big open festival style freeform larps because anything more complicated gets in the way of the fiction and requires referees, which is unsustainable in the first place at an event of that scale and leads to weird bickering and power cliques. A major part of making big freeform events like that successful is *not* having a rules system, people just play pretend with lots of "Yes, and." Which is why I've always found doing LARP to be kind of dumb, if you have to dumb down a game that much then it stops being a game entirely and just becomes a waste of time
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drrockso20 posted:Which is why I've always found doing LARP to be kind of dumb, if you have to dumb down a game that much then it stops being a game entirely and just becomes a waste of time it’s just playing pretend, like an improv class or something. nothing wrong with that, not all roleplaying needs to be supported by damage tables
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Kestral posted:In my experience, FedEx will also sometimes refuse to print RPG material. I had to wrangle my local FedEx into grudgingly agreeing to print material for a game we were play testing, and they once outright refused to print a grid of cards for a game I wrote because they weren’t 100% convinced I had the rights. This was two different locations, too, so it’s some kind of corporate policy. All that said, if you can get them to do it they will often be very cheap. I don't really get why print shops are on such a hair trigger for this. It's not even worth asking about because it's going to be no if it looks anything like a book, no matter how many times it says you have permission to make copies, no matter how big the letters are. Like I went into a local non-chain print shop to get an official document photocopied and I had it kept in between the pages of a large hardcover book in my backpack because it was the safest way for me to carry it that I could think of. As soon as the clerk noticed that a book (!) had gotten within a hundred feet (!) of her photocopier (!) she started freaking the gently caress out and I had to repeatedly reassure her I wasn't interested in photocopying a page out of the book. I didn't just walk out because gently caress it I didn't want to find and try another shop and probably get the same response. Like why do they even think it's their job to enforce that. Yes I am going to write "PHOTOCOPIED AT XYZ PRINT SHOP" in the margins of the bootleg books I'm totally selling. The book police are going to come for them next.
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Because publishers can and have sued them out of existence for it, I imagine.
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Cessna posted:This needs to be written in gold embossed letters on every GM screen. I've been saying at work for years now, "actually talking to people is the superpower we forget we have." That applies anywhere.
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Rand Brittain posted:Hm, it looks like I have a few hours, and only a few hours, to myself in NYC this weekend, which gives me enough time to visit one store. Does Compleat Strategist carry a lot of vintage stuff? Hopefully not too late on this, but: maybe! They used to, but it’s been a very long time since I visited the NY location. It's definitely worth dropping by, at least.
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Parkreiner posted:Hopefully not too late on this, but: maybe! They used to, but it’s been a very long time since I visited the NY location. It's definitely worth dropping by, at least. It turns out they do.
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Trip report, dry run of Avatar was pretty fun and the advice here helped a ton. I was expecting us to spend the whole time doing character creation but that went pretty quickly so I came up with a practice scenario I made up on the spot which, of course, didn’t go the way I was expecting and had to improvise a bunch of stuff, which I felt I did well. This game really emphasizes interpersonal relationships and communication with each other, which we’re not used to; we’re used to the Expanse game and traditional D&D elements as opposed to PC driven story. I did take the feedback here to heart of asking everybody what I could’ve done differently, what they’d like to see, etc. and the feedback was that it’s too early to tell but they’re enjoying it so far. Also sounds like they may incorporate piss bending into the story somehow.
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Louisgod posted:didn’t go the way I was expecting and had to improvise a bunch of stuff, which I felt I did well. This will happen every session. Strap the gently caress in, it's gonna be a ride. I will again recommend building in "GM's brain is melting" breaks into the session schedule. Louisgod posted:Also sounds like they may incorporate piss bending into the story somehow. I am not judging your group at all when I say that something like this will also happen every session.
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Sweat bending is already a canon thing, to say nothing of bloodbending. Random idea; Cyberpsychosis isn't just having a wooden leg makes you crazy, it's having too many bionics makes you a larger attack vector for the constant Internet Of poo poo assault of malware, adware, bugs and monetization from dodgy as gently caress bionics companies that are eager to literally take over your brain. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Random idea; Cyberpsychosis isn't just having a wooden leg makes you crazy, it's having too many bionics makes you a larger attack vector for the constant Internet Of poo poo assault of malware, adware, bugs and monetization from dodgy as gently caress bionics companies that are eager to literally take over your brain. that's incredible thinking, that's so much better and more immediately relatable than the baseline. it makes me mad this isn't adopted widespread. Planned obsolescence, cyber-nintendo pushing a patch to try and force your jailbroken spine to connect to the wifi so it can brick itself
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Sweat bending is already a canon thing, to say nothing of bloodbending. *silently points, once again, at Hard Wired Island*
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I dunno, I liked how 2077 treated it better. As in Cyberpsychosis is just a catch-all term used to cases of people snapping when it is in fact just them breaking down and lashing out from the sheer shittiness of life in Night City, being explored by the Corpos and Gangs and not being able to take it any longer.
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Plutonis posted:I dunno, I liked how 2077 treated it better. As in Cyberpsychosis is just a catch-all term used to cases of people snapping when it is in fact just them breaking down and lashing out from the sheer shittiness of life in Night City, being explored by the Corpos and Gangs and not being able to take it any longer. 2077 treats it as a completely manufactured label being slapped on anyone who happens to have extensive cyberware when they go postal because capitalism sucks, yeah. Pondsmith himself has long since moved away from "prosthetic legs make you crazy!" and RED explains it like this:  Personally, I like the idea that cyberpsychosis is just what happens when you turn yourself into a bipedal tank capable of atomising everyone around you without breaking a sweat, and then work in a job where you routinely murder people to take their stuff.
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One of the games I'm in was losing steam so I offered to run Pendragon for the group. So that means making Arthurian knights with all the trappings. One of the players produced this coat of arms: it was a joke suggestion but lol still
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Sweat bending is already a canon thing, to say nothing of bloodbending. Guy got bonzi buddy'd, took two squads to bring him down
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Lemon-Lime posted:2077 treats it as a completely manufactured label being slapped on anyone who happens to have extensive cyberware when they go postal because capitalism sucks, yeah.
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Nuns with Guns posted:One of the games I'm in was losing steam so I offered to run Pendragon for the group. So that means making Arthurian knights with all the trappings. One of the players produced this coat of arms: Really good detail with the ring.
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Triangle Agency looks like my jam: https://triangle-agency.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders/ Anybody know anything about it?
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whydirt posted:I see you’re familiar with the Goat King of Sussex Hmmm.... *pulls up NPC sheet and begins taking notes* Plutonis posted:Really good detail with the ring. I was all prepared to call her out on that and no... she had prepared for this.
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