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Comrade Koba posted:Not sure what defines a "top RPG series", but GURPS immediately comes to mind. My calculus textbook has prettier pictures. Your calc textbook has an art budget.
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ScaryJen posted:I imagine it's meant to do is protect wizards from lawsuits . Like if you wrote an issue or two of a comic, introduced a character, and then threatened to sue because said character was mentioned in a future issue. Or if they come up with something in-house that's sort of similar to an idea in someone else's submitted material. That's why they ask for short adventures and FR material pretty much exclusively, and why they have the line in the dmsguild front page about purchasing IP if they plan to use it in earnest. Neil Gaiman made a bunch of money this way awhile back- he created some characters for Spawn that it was ruled were his, and he was awarded a chunk of back royalties for them.
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Also a LOT of people's first D&D was 3E, or they played a little 2E then a lot of 3E, and they just assume. e: yeah, that. Pope Guilty fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 14:26
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So is this ridiculous Humble Bundle full of Pathfinder PDFs and a box set of books Paizo giving up on selling those PDFs? I didn't figure we'd see anything so generous.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:59
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I'm just amazed at the sense of entitlement, like OBS is somehow obligated to sell products they don't want to be associated with.
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Mar 25, 2016 19:59
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homullus posted:I do wonder what RPGs would look like from a non-consumer-centric -- or dare I say pre- or post-capitalist -- society. it's just assumed you can buy everything, in tremendous variety, at list price, all the time; this makes sense in a horrific corps-run-everything future like Shadowrun, but makes almost no sense in many other games. The lists are provided so that GMs know how much something is "supposed to cost" as a function of human labor (or in reality, as a function of how the designer pulled numbers out of his rear end), but we inevitably view it as a catalog. Yes, I know some games introduce Rarity and tell you to mark things above list price when selling and below when buying back. In my experience, those rules are rarely enforced consistently, if at all. Shadowrun had a Availability rating for gear reflecting the difficulty of acquiring things illegally. A cheap Ares pistol might be available behind any Stuffer Shack, while expensive cyberware might require some connections.
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Sep 8, 2016 16:07
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Twitter world rather have roving bands of Nazis harassing people than millions of dollars, which seems like bad priorities to me.
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Nov 6, 2016 00:03
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If you're teaming up with Vox Day on anything, you're pretty much not a good person.
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Apr 1, 2017 04:41
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Comrade Koba posted:2E wasn't that long ago, so I'm not sure the market is ripe for a reprint yet. 2E is 28 years old.
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Apr 3, 2017 22:36
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moths posted:Hackmaster was basically Pathfinder for 2e, and will forever hold a special place in my heart. The problem is that it's really fun to watch Brian Van Hoose do terrible, terrible things with Hackmaster rules that exist only insofar as Jolly Blackburn needs them to in order to make jokes about D&D. It's not really fun to actually slog through a rulebook that is literally "You know what AD&D 2 needed? Another two hundred pages of crunch."
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Apr 4, 2017 01:12
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There's an old blog post somewhere where somebody dug up old Usenet posts complaining about 2E and 3E being "too video-gamey". It's the oldest, dumbest complaint.
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Apr 6, 2017 02:03
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Leperflesh posted:It really just boils down to a certain TG gamer mindset that things should be harsh, and attempting to be too fair ruins the game. Player characters should be in mortal danger and should die easily, the GM should have the ability to take things away easily, and you as a player should be proud of the hardships you've faced because that is Real Gaming. I'd like to see surveys correlating this and political beliefs.
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Apr 11, 2017 20:48
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Lightning Lord posted:Can we seriously put to rest the whole "Likes old games = Voted for Trump" thing? Grognards.txt is gone for a reason. It's not about "old games", it's about gatekeeping and contempt.
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Apr 12, 2017 00:39
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I like Vincent Baker's games but I feel like they generally want the GM to be much more capable of improvising at a high level of detail than I can.
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Apr 18, 2017 22:42
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Kurieg posted:Things I've gleaned from various websites. But the Black Furies are going back to reactionary neo-feminism. E.G. "We won't help save you until you treat your women better.", The Red Talons have somehow managed to convince the rest of the Garou nation to start up a 2nd impergium. The Garou have figured out how to transmit the first change via bite to their kinfolk, but anyone thus-changed is completely sterile, and it's not a 100% guarenteed chance to work, so they're utterly destroying any long term chances of the Garou nation surviving to have a handful of more soldiers now. Also apparently the current leaders of the Nation are heavily implied to be the people who fled from the Last Battlefield during the apocalypse, and they've made a lot of sweeping changes to the Litany (Including a double whammy of "GarouxGarou sex is 100% A-OK but you should kill all Metis on sight) I'm pretty sure this is all from the By Night Studios LARP book, not neo-White Wolf's next W:tA version. BNS's setting work is generally deviant from everything else and shouldn't be taken as relevant to anything else.
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May 12, 2017 22:35
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Mors Rattus posted:They touted that as cocreated with White Wolf, yeah, and Swedracula is, like, the most into LARPing. So into LARPing, you have no idea. The kind of LARPing he likes has literally nothing to do with any LARP products ever released by White Wolf, however. BNS will probably either be able to do whatever they feel like because Swedracula gives zero shits about Mind's Eye Theater and thinks it's for dorks orrrrrrrrr Paradox finds a way to cancel their license so MET doesn't mess up their branding with Swedracula's expensive Scandanavian-style LARPs.
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May 13, 2017 00:34
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I started reading Designers and Dragons based on seeing it mentioned here and it's very good. About to the death and sale of TSR.
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May 14, 2017 03:25
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psychopomp posted:Clade it is then. Baramin, surely.
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May 20, 2017 22:52
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PJOmega posted:Ive lost the note but every book has three "big words" that I think Butcher must've learned since the previous book. I fortunately zoned out the S&M sequences (the vampire reporter love interest?) The Molly perving was really uncomfortable. Isn't Molly underage for most of the series?
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May 26, 2017 04:49
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If memory serves, the impetus for Vampire: the Masquerade was Mark Rein-Hagen and Stewart Wieck getting excited after seeing Lost Boys.
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Jun 27, 2017 20:09
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The worst moment for Rock Paper Shotgun was the Fallout New Vegas review, which you could've mistaken for entirely made up by somebody who didn't actually play the game if not for the little things like a screenshot of a flat desert area intended to show how empty the game was. That screenshot, of course, was taken with the player's back to a giant solar collector facility with a huge tower, rows of solar panels, etc, eliminating the possibility of incompetence and veering right into basic lying.
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Jun 30, 2017 05:24
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Either game, hell, get Tale of Two Wastelands and you can play through FO3 in New Vegas.
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Jul 1, 2017 02:14
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I love that Midnight Syndicate is getting their latest cd nominated for an ENnie. They do good work. (Also Plus One Forward is a neat podcast if you like PbtA games.)
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Jul 9, 2017 22:19
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fr0id posted:I probably didn't word my post correctly, but I was more posting my concerns about the mindset of mocking people who are vehement about free speech. In particular, the same old "lol libertarian hypocrites it's a private company!" thing gets rolled out over and over. It's important to keep some perspective about free speech actually being important and not just a thing that assholes on the internet care about. The people who are the topic of discussion don't actually care about free speech. Not in any way. What they care about is their desire to face no consequences, contradiction, or stigma, no matter what. They phrase this as free speech because a) they know their desires are unreasonable and people will not be sympathetic to demands for them and b) they know other people value free speech and want to exploit other people's sense of decency for their own benefit. To even phrase a rebuttal in terms of free speech, except to explain how their vehemence is dishonest, is to fall for it.
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Jul 17, 2017 22:53
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Kurieg posted:All the changes that RPPR have issues with were pushed in by WWP. I wouldn't be surprised if OPP shies away from pushing out any more 20th anniversary books because of the bad optics. Yeah, nobody in a decision-making position at White Wolf right now has anything to do with the company that existed in the 90's and aughts.
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Jan 9, 2018 17:39
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It's hardly a new phenomenon that things which seemed progressive and forward-thinking back in the day now seem regressive and gross. That's just progress. "A conservative is yesterday's liberal" is an older idea than any of us.
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Jan 9, 2018 19:02
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Kurieg posted:It doesn't explain why Swedracula is trying to drag us back into the past and making everyone look even worse as a result. Because he's a particular kind of loser rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 9, 2018 19:14
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Kurieg posted:Also remember the MET rules that got spoiled where the Garou get a rite that lets them turn people with a Bite, but it has like a... 5% survival rate, and they're using it on all of their kinfolk in an idiotic and short sighted attempt to shore up their numbers. Doubly so because the people who survive are rendered sterile. I'm like 99% sure that this is By Night Studios not really talking to WWP or OPP and just getting incredibly high on their own farts. MET: Vampire's post-2003 history is also mostly dumb but not nearly as gross and apocalyptic since the toys they're playing with are different- certainly there's nothing as eye-rollingly bad as "also the Gangrel are down with Gaia now" from MET: Werewolf.
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Technically it's Jyhad, since it's 90's pretentious goth poo poo and all i's must be y.
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