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ocrumsprug posted:GM: You are a bus driver. What do you do? I'm imagining the
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Colon V posted:Where are all these cool evil campaigns happening, and why am I not a part of one? It's just like real life: you either invite yourself to one, or you start your own.
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I am one-hundred-percent opposed to this vile idea of treating droids as if they were people and not, at best, useful and amusing possessions.
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Jun 3, 2012 06:29
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Do elucidate.  We don't serve their kind here!
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Jun 3, 2012 06:50
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This game sounds like part rpg, part riddling contest to the death with only Star Wars canon trivia. (which is to say, it sounds good)
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LuiCypher posted:Feeling threatened, my robot gunslinger attempted to figure out just how to get rid of this guy. Haha, yeah, you certainly do prefer characters who don't get involved in messy human social interactions, like actually saying "hey, why don't you quit being such a jerk" or "your character is making it not fun to play this game".
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LuiCypher posted:Needless to say, you raise a good point. Perhaps, but I was also being snide, and it seems you're self-aware enough not to have deserved it. Play games, have fun.
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Jun 8, 2012 04:54
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Bassetking posted:I went on to keep gaming with them for another four years after that happened. This is like the cat-piss story-ending equivalent of "...and I know...because I *was* that crazy killer!!" quote:There's no witty end here. No catchy denouement. I did something stupid by responding in the manner in which I did. He did something stupid by openly playing favorites at the table. She did something stupid by thinking that she could make the rest of the table like and respect her by mocking me. Nobody came out of that story looking good. It was a tough time, but you sound like you're in a better place now. May you with regularity find games you like and friends to play them with.
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Jun 19, 2012 14:39
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Presumably he means they have stunted moral sensibilities.Volmarias posted:Evil characters are not irrational characters, just morally limited. If one of your party members is going to screw up your schemes of world domination, kill them. Darwinism is the best way to weed out the chaotic stupid here. Alternately, talk to the players, your friends, and find out what you all want from the game? It's just crazy enough to work.
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Jun 19, 2012 16:18
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Section Z posted:Yeah, awkwardness can be one of the great joys of being the Helpful Evil PC. Quirk is fun, but Alignment is dumb.
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Jun 20, 2012 07:04
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Section Z posted:Is it okay to attempt to be a parody of alignment results though? I'll allow it.
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Jun 21, 2012 06:10
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I don't know that there is a definitive such game, but those are good options. There's also Wushu, very much a "trick your friends into making up stories" system. ghost//echo has the most replay value of any one page game I know. And those are both free, which helps... Really, the best game for such things is whichever engages your friends. If it makes them want to talk about what's happening, that's the real measure of success.
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Jun 27, 2012 00:57
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If you like your space-trading game to be drama-filled, just play Apocalypse World in space, and note how there's a 1-to1 correspondence between playbooks and Firefly characters.
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Jun 27, 2012 23:40
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Golden Bee posted:should we start a gaming evangelicalism thread? Every thread should be that thread.
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Jun 29, 2012 05:42
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Back when I played Magic, I could not loving resist ending every third or so turn by saying, with perfect gravity, "...and I play a trap card face-down." This obv. made me extremely popular.
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Jul 3, 2012 14:29
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This thread activated my trap post.
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Jul 4, 2012 01:43
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mllaneza posted:An Arbites-Inquisition-Heretics-Ordinary Citizens game based on The Wire would be phenomenal. It would be really heretical though!
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Jul 14, 2012 20:15
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Joe sky lives.
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Jul 17, 2012 01:47
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Blasphemeral posted:Suddenly, Mitch stands up and screams at the top of his lungs: See, this is why i keep telling you guys not to break people's verisimilitude!!! (It's messed up you're still friends with this person.)
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Aug 1, 2012 18:32
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Blasphemeral posted:Oh, I'm not. I haven't seen him in a decade. I apologize for any bad thoughts I thought of you, and I can completely sympathize with that exact position.
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Aug 2, 2012 19:12
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Radish posted:So that's the story of how a fairy gimmick designed to further the plot and a 50 gold magic item almost destroyed a party from within. I believe it was Bertrand Russel who said "that which can be destroyed by a fairy gimmick, should be." The monk sounds like the worst kind of attention-demanding "I'm a ninja" player.
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Aug 10, 2012 02:27
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Why not say so, with his words?
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Aug 10, 2012 04:55
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An npc, having a barbecue?! Just what is going on in this game...
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Aug 21, 2012 00:24
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Clanpot Shake posted:The worst thing about roleplaying games is the people who play them. RPG is other people.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:14
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Tollymain posted:My god. I remember playing this game in my old college gaming club. We never had anything this hilarious happen though I don't know how you can avoid it. Every Zombie Card is an invitation to make with ridiculous roleplay, or at least make a silly voice.
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Oct 10, 2012 06:27
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VanSandman posted:Holy poo poo, I would love to play Soviet Ghost Busting. Or just read about it. It would make an awesome urban fantasy series. It is a new Russia now, my friend! Many exciting business opportunities in previously state-run industries!
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Oct 11, 2012 06:37
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Asphyxious posted:the worst character I have found a contradiction in your tale. 
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Nov 3, 2012 21:23
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Half of the satire in Paranoia is targeting death-heavy mother-may-I dungeon crawls. The arbitrary dictates of friend computer represent the mis-match of expectations in the shared imagination space in groups without functional trust and communication. E: I am 100% sure that I read a story in g.txt about someone going "Of course the player should have known that cloak was covered in death-mold! I told him what color it was and everything!" Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Nov 4, 2012 |
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Nov 4, 2012 17:27
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GimpInBlack posted:You want to pick yourself up a copy of Don't Rest Your Head and apply this hack to it: Of course Bailywolf had already made this game. Of course!
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Nov 9, 2012 15:54
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Yawgmoth posted:I have never heard a story about wargames of any stripe that didn't end with "and then he threw a tantrum and stormed off", usually with a table flip and/or merchandise damage added in. Selection bias! People are way more likely to repeat those kinds of experiences than "One time we played a game and everything happened as is normally expected, all participants had fun and parted on friendly terms."
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Nov 11, 2012 21:05
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Yawgmoth posted:Then make a thread for it because I really curious as to where exactly you're going with this, where you're coming from, what you consider a "glorified wargame", and what games you do play that are so very different from the baseline. There is literally a thread for  indie games, to say nothing of threads for various out-there un-war games, to say even more nothing about Fiasco, which makes frequent appearances in this thread including on this very page.It's great to be into wow-gamey stuff like 3e, but please don't pretend like it's the only poo poo ever shat. e: Actually, speaking of Fiasco, the bestest briefest survey of rpg possibilities is probably just the Bully Pulpit Games corpus, especially their free downloads. Just please do direct further inquiries in the appropriate thread. 
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The disks are mountable on a spindle, right? I would have guessed he was pulling a " Honey, have you seen the hand towel?" moment.Don't pretend you haven't been there.
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Colon V posted:As Golden Bee said, it's a notable gaming story- this thread's title is inspired by Cat Piss Man, you can't say "I played a game with someone kinda weird" isn't within its purview. People getting shot? What's that got to do with gaming?!
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Error 404 posted:"My name is Mr. Concern, and you are none of mine." Obligatory.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Oh, you may say that the bar wench should not have been suplexed, but I say to you that her suplexing was an unfortunate byproduct of my need to suplex something Pretty sure suplexes are an inherent good. (eta quote) Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Mar 14, 2013 |
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For those unfamiliar the language of Glorious Rokugan. a 'shugenja' is a wizard, 'Matsu' and 'Kakita' are family names, 'Seppun' are servants and guards of the Emperor, and a 'Hare' is a kind of large-eared rat famed for its agility and cleverness.
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Notable gaming experience: against all common morals and sense, I play RPGs with people younger and less credentialed than me! e: vvv legit thoughts Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Feb 12, 2014 |
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Dareon posted:Just saw this on imgur, I vaguely remember seeing it before, but who knows, it may be new! The problem is that this immediately puts clean customers on guard.
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XyloJW posted:I'm told this story goes here: I would watch an HBO Series about this man. E: "He works out all day when he's not refereeing 40k games."
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Barudak posted:No no, you make them question whether or not they're really human and leave them with existential angst. Howl hauntingly and shove your head through a wall.
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