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Captain_Person posted:I would kill to see the intrepid heroes playing Blades in the Dark. Imagine the shenanigans Emily could get up to with flashbacks! I have watched through some of Haunted City and it was pretty fun, but I would enjoy it much more with the production values and comedic leanings of D20
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Froghammer posted:I watched the Adventuring Party and yeah, you're right, Porter's being a bad teacher I got the impression that... Gorgug's found his own way of barbarianing that isn't as anger-focused and that's working out just fine for his particular personality, but despite the numbers all working out Porter thinks it isn't the right way, because you should be doing it normally. So he doesn't even entertain the idea of allowing a multiclass because he thinks Gorgug is a bad barbarian. Even though he's not. (And then you stack onto that that Artificer isn't a proper barbarian multiclass and it goes right out the window) That kind of story is D20's bread and butter, to be honest.
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pseudosavior posted:I wouldn't mind seeing the kind of bonkers combos the Intrepid Heroes could get up to in Lancer, tbh. id like to see a level 20 high school reunion dark future season where they all narratively made extremely ill-advised multiclasses and had to live with them
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Megazver posted:Glass Cannon's Haunted City is what John Harper considers the best BitD AP, apparently, and it has Ross Bryant as one of the players. (I really should get around to watching some of it.) The other two, Abubakar Salim and Josephine McAdam are no slouches either. Abu in particular has a level of chaos in his play that rivals Emily. It would be fun to see D20 with Mork Borg or something similar. And an OSR clone with each player having like 10 backup characters ready to go could be fun as hell done right.
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I want to see a D20 one-shot funnel adventure. Six adventurers at a time, I want to see what kind of halfassed costume changes Grant comes up with. By the end of the session he'll be on his fourth character and his entire costume change will be a bowler hat, fake moustache, and he's changed his t-shirt from "I ❤︎ The Crew" to one that reads "I Heart The Crew".
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id like to see a d20 season that uses gurps and leans into the sim elements
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Captain_Person posted:I would kill to see the intrepid heroes playing Blades in the Dark. Imagine the shenanigans Emily could get up to with flashbacks! one time in NADDPOD they used flashbacks, and Murph and Emily used them to find some shithead beetles to kill instead of the cool beetles, and summon a great OB/GYN to coach a pregnant unicorn through the birthing process, respectively. so I’m in favor of it
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id like to see D20 do a season outside in the woods dome? no. tent.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:id like to see D20 do a season outside in the woods A LARP where Sam hunts them with actual guns.
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Megazver posted:A LARP where Sam hunts them with actual guns. The most sinister "I've been here the whole time" yet.
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Captain_Person posted:I would kill to see the intrepid heroes playing Blades in the Dark. Imagine the shenanigans Emily could get up to with flashbacks! If you haven't watched it yet - Worlds Beyond Number did a two part barn animal heist game that Erika Ishii ran that was primarily using the Roll For Shoes system, but added the "spend experience for a flashback" system that Blades uses. It's absolutely as insane as it sounds and worked phenomenally well. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKLAQeES5doHDGbHkm9TQEpOLi6DRaJHY&si=bGLr1kJGlsmb1cwQ
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Megazver posted:A LARP where Sam hunts them with actual guns. If Katie's involved she'd kill slaughter him two minutes in.
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DeathSandwich posted:It's absolutely as insane as it sounds and worked phenomenally well. A severe understatement. I've seen tabletop games that go into Looney Tunes territory before, but this is the first time I've seen one go full Ren & Stimpy
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DeathSandwich posted:If you haven't watched it yet - Worlds Beyond Number did a two part barn animal heist game that Erika Ishii ran that was primarily using the Roll For Shoes system, but added the "spend experience for a flashback" system that Blades uses. It's absolutely as insane as it sounds and worked phenomenally well. "No loose ends" The team absolutely steamrolled over Erika and I could not stopping laughing. Pro click. They should make Grant make a character in FATAL.
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Captain_Person posted:"No loose ends" "buk-buk-buGLOCK!"
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"You're the meat, mama." Ally is a one-liner machine.
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Junior Year ep4 random thoughts... - For some reason, I got a bad vibe from the artificer teacher. He appeared chill and willing to work with Gorgug, but suggesting a 400% course load is insane. - The power grinders are a fun concept, but I think they're a red herring. - This season is going to give me a ulcer from second hand stress...
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Brennan is letting his d&d nerd flag fly in the best way: The rat grinders, dropping a modron and thri-keen, a jump build barbarian
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Xand_Man posted:Brennan is letting his d&d nerd flag fly in the best way: The rat grinders, dropping a modron and thri-keen, a jump build barbarian that whole KVX bank rebranding bit ending with "smote their ruin on the skyscraper" loll
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Who's the bitch on her lap?
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Watching "A StarStruck Odyssey" episode 4, and it's pretty "funny" how a party with three 20's and a 19 in Intelligence is probably one of the dumbest bunch of chucklefucks ever seen. I now understand why the skipper seemed like such a dick in episode 1. Ex: "[When you leap into open air to get away,] are you going just to the next level down, or -" "I'm going straight for the ship." No questions were asked ahead of time about "how far down is that," just straight up going for it. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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Bobulus posted:- The power grinders are a fun concept, but I think they're a red herring. As I think Siobhan even mentioned in ep. 4, the Rat Grinders who've been introduced so far are way too specifically built to be the Bad Kids' Injustice League (or if you prefer, the Linear Guild). It'd be too big a narrative coincidence if they weren't at least secondary antagonists for the season. * a halfling rogue who's willing to take every shortcut available to her * a gnome bard who's Fantasy Ed Sheeran but actually attends classes * a cleric of Helio who apparently really impresses Kristen's parents * a kobold barbarian who's basically a mountain with feet and has no other utility or personality to speak of I'd imagine there are two other members who are equivalently opposite Fabian and Adaine. I'd imagine the one's a poor but streetwise fighter with a healthy romantic relationship and the other's a rich sorcerer who's faking her way through wizard classes.
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Wanderer posted:As I think Siobhan even mentioned in ep. 4, the Rat Grinders who've been introduced so far are way too specifically built to be the Bad Kids' Injustice League (or if you prefer, the Linear Guild). It'd be too big a narrative coincidence if they weren't at least secondary antagonists for the season. I hope they're all level 20 too.
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Wanderer posted:As I think Siobhan even mentioned in ep. 4, the Rat Grinders who've been introduced so far are way too specifically built to be the Bad Kids' Injustice League (or if you prefer, the Linear Guild). It'd be too big a narrative coincidence if they weren't at least secondary antagonists for the season. they could still just be a source of friction at school. i mean that group has spent two years grinding and literally never been in a real fight so we'll see what the end game is beyond just be a pain in the rear end at school. its going to be hilarious tho if they get in a real fight and immediately panic I do think its unbelievable they'd be that consistent with training even after the gnome bard blew up. like there's no way they can keep 6 people on that hyper rigorous schedule through all of high school. Relentlessboredomm fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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Relentlessboredomm posted:they could still just be a source of friction at school. i mean that group has spent two years grinding and literally never been in a real fight so we'll see what the end game is beyond just be a pain in the rear end at school. its going to be hilarious tho if they get in a real fight and immediately panic That's part of what makes them frustrating, which also plays into one of the old ludonarrative dissonances about D&D. As was said during the episode, it's as if the Grinders are on the EXP rules while the Bad Kids use milestone advancement. Every single one of the Bad Kids has been through multiple traumatic experiences, several of them have died, and they spent their entire summer break on a single quest to save the world. Meanwhile, the Grinders have simply been pummeling the same monsters over and over again for 3 years. Both the Kids and Grinders are juniors, which means they're about the same level, but the Grinders have confined all their "adventuring" to a single boring 3-hour daily excursion. It means no drama, no loss, and for years, likely no genuine threats, which means they've got no trouble with their work-life balance. There are a couple of old Adventuring Academy episodes where Mulligan talks about the inherent strangeness of D&D's EXP model, where apparently the express train to power is raw murder. It's almost explicitly what he's satirizing here. I'm reminded of the old joke about how, rules-as-written, anything you kill in earlier editions of D&D is worth at least 1 XP, so in theory you could power-level by going out and pouring boiling water on an anthill.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:I hope they're all level 20 too. 80,000 rats was thrown out at some point, napkin math is 80,000 x 10 experience is 800,000. Divided six ways that's 130,000 xp which puts them at level 13.
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Wanderer posted:L I'd imagine the one's a poor but streetwise fighter with a healthy romantic relationship <DING> Nemesis Alert!
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I am watching Very Important People for the first time and as much as I normally have a desperate anxiety over awkward interview humour, this is pretty solid. Vic's character is a funny high-strung and Princess Emily finds her stride. Asking if the host can perform the splits, getting an affirmative, then dropping into them yourself and waiting for them to follow is such a power move.
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Wanderer posted:* a kobold barbarian who's basically a mountain with feet and has no other utility or personality to speak of The bad guy of the season being rules-as-written XP Systems and literal Rules Lawyers is a wonderful narrative twist. (I'm assuming that's the bad guy, there's a lot of bad poo poo happening. Maybe we'll get strudel demons from the strudel dimension)
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I expect there'll be a more overarching villain that thematically ties into those complaints.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:id like to see D20 do a season outside in the woods Steal the Bake-Off tent and get some British comedians in there. Bill Bailey would rule on D20.
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I think the interim principal might be the BBEG, since it's extremely powerful and literally follows Rules As Written
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Join us next week on Fantasy High: Junior year, we're gonna burn down Fabian's house! Lou: NOOOoooooooooo
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Pleads posted:I am watching Very Important People for the first time and as much as I normally have a desperate anxiety over awkward interview humour, this is pretty solid. Vic's character is a funny high-strung and Princess Emily finds her stride. if you have anxiety about awkward interviews, just wait until you get to the Vic’s Ex Step-Grandma episode, which is deeply off the rails (or just skip it if it’s gonna shake you because it goes places)
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Bard Maddox posted:if you have anxiety about awkward interviews, just wait until you get to the Vic’s Ex Step-Grandma episode, which is deeply off the rails (or just skip it if it’s gonna shake you because it goes places) Mob posted:canISMOKEINheahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh??
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Sestze posted:To add to this, someone in the comments of this video, that with the right build and the kobold being level 10, he's hitting 35 from 18 with a whopping +17 to the roll. It would make sense if she had a bunch of potions of storm giant strength on her. It'd be the least difficult way to hit numbers like that, and each potion lasts for an hour. That would really fit with the seeming ethos of the Rat Grinders. They'd probably define it as "smarter, not harder," whereas anybody else would call it an appalling shortcut. You know what'll ensure you get onto your high school football team? Show up so juiced that you could bench-press the team bus.
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I don't think the Rat Grinders are going to be the main villains. Maybe antagonists or annoying for the heroes for a bit, but like none of them seem evil. And Brennan while he's not a big fan of EXP, has stated multiple times he doesn't hate powergaming.
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Dexo posted:I don't think the Rat Grinders are going to be the main villains. It's incredibly clever that it's mixing a disdain for a particular gaming style with the natural resentment that a high school student might feel about being forced to compete with those personalities. So you're right, probably not outright villains.
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Bard Maddox posted:if you have anxiety about awkward interviews, just wait until you get to the Vic’s Ex Step-Grandma episode, which is deeply off the rails (or just skip it if it’s gonna shake you because it goes places) Yeah I basically hard-stopped that episode the moment the interview began, and don't plan to go back. From her appearance on Make Some Noise, Lisa Gilroy is an immense improv talent, but she goes extremely hard on antagonistic monkey cheese humour and it that just ain't my vibe. Catching up on Breaking News has been great though!
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