Mikan posted:

One of the most common mistakes in this industry is giving too much time and attention to people who are being unreasonable. Reporting a project to Kickstarter and accusing the creator of fraud because you're uninformed, and then escalating it, I'd be refunding the money too.

jivjov posted:

I'm not asking for a "third option". I'm asking for the option that's supposed to be there from the start. I pledge through Kickstarter, I provide my information through Kickstarter. Like the other 40+ projects I've backed.

Cheap Trick posted:

Plus they'd probably be better at keeping track of "who gets what" for many-tiered KSes.

moths posted:

I know XXXenophile was kind of garbage, and they've done some style-jarring MtG art, but is there anything controversial there?

Rulebook Heavily posted:

It's not a matter of securing a sculptor, but of finding one that meets my requirements.

Tollymain posted:

To be fair, the webcomic side of BSS isn't too bad either.

Arivia posted:

Every time I look at Runelords I find something new and terrible.

Like the dominatrix succubi with her daughters as submissive incestual sex slaves - complete with prestige classes to match!

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Mind, with Golarion, succubi are the tricky supernatural seductresses, Incubi just straight-up force surprise sex on people. Also, you can guess which is depicted more art-wise, too... but then, they know their audience.

ProfessorCirno posted:

His "I hate this so it will be weak / I like this so it will be strong" bent comes out basically nonstop. He hated the idea of monster PCs, and what do you know, Savage Species is a terrible book.

Leperflesh posted:

Someone should kill those fuckers.

Terrible Opinions posted:

If you don't see how WotC made the same fundamentally marketing mistake in the transition from 4th edition to 5th edition as it did in the transition from 3.5 to 4th, I don't know what to tell you. In both cases the release was preceded by a whole bunch of talk by developers saying how terrible the previous edition was. Then in both cases the new edition was completely incompatible with all previous books, and generally was just a completely different game. Contrast that with how say Dark Heresy 2nd edition has basically just a new edition of the same game.

I like the end result of all this because I enjoy Pathfinder and 4th edition a lot, but from WotC's perspective both edition changes were made by people who did not understand marketing on a very fundamental level. The primary difference is that 4th edition was you know an actually good game, so even after alienating a bunch of people it still found an audience and a lot of the people initially against the idea were won over. 5th edition has the same alienation problem, but from a situation of smaller market dominance, and doesn't have any good game cred to fall back on.

Bosushi! posted:

I'm more inclined to forgive OPP for this particular plagiarism slip up because they really come across as generic medieval dudes doing generic medieval things, unlike that time when WW published a blatant trace job from the cover art of one of the greatest action video games of all time.

The poser art is just plain embarassing, though.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

I sold my d20 collection for over $1000. There's still a market for it... at the right price. I even dumped dogs like Legends of the Samurai or The Essential Guide to Elves. You just have to know what it's worth, which often isn't much. Still, there were some books, like Ravenloft d20, that I actually made a profit on.

The Crotch posted:

PF art is a lot more than just Wayne Reynolds and includes a lot of highs and some pretty stark lows (specifically, this lady wearing chainmail bodypaint).

Covok posted:

Frankly, they can fire the entire D&D Team and just ask Ed Greenwood and R.A. Salvatore to write novels and they'd might make more money doing that. At least at this point.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Also the thing about DXHR is that it presents its ending in essentially the same way the original DX did. And you certainly can criticize that, but it's definitely true to its roots.

ProfessorCirno posted:

It's not supposed to "make sense." It's OD&D. Each level you gain 1HD and become that next monster. Which leads to some hilarity! Insert the story of the flying vampire/wraith war here.

Leperflesh posted:

We're teetering perilously close to edition wars here - probably the only reason it hasn't kicked off is because most of us liked 4th edition. The real point of the discussion is that a lot of people viscerally reacted badly to 4th edition, and that was a problem for it.

Kai Tave posted:

Then later there are the podcasts of Mike Mearls and the rest of the 5E team playing where it becomes apparent that Mike Mearls is just kind of a boring GM in general.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Kurieg posted:

It's partially a trick question, regardless of the order in which humility and opalescence came into play, they will both be creatures. But as Ixidron comes into play it is still a spell so it's ability will still resolve, flipping them both face down. There is never a time where Ixidron is a creature on the field with a face-up Humility creature.

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As far as what happens when Humility and Opalescence are on the field together...

Kai Tave posted:

But its badness wasn't related to its color palette, is the point, and cleaving to the people posting badly photoshopped screenshots of Diablo 3 Extra Brown edition wouldn't have made it any better.

ProfessorCirno posted:

Don't forget that, like, half of them are literally pointless. The plane of air is literally just air. There's nothing else there. It's just neverending air with no land or water or anything else. Sounds like a great place to do some adventuring, right?

gradenko_2000 posted:

The best way I know planar travel used is when it's a handy "Wizard did it" explanation. The police in Payday come from the Elemental Plane of Cops. My quiver is a portal to the Elemental Plane of Sharp Pointy Objects. Here's a pot that pours out a stream directly from the Elemental Plane of Gravy.

Asimo posted:

From the desperation in their backer updates it probably wasn't just a scam, but what was the actual plan and how early and often did it go off the rails?

Alien Rope Burn posted:

That doesn't keep goons out, but I don't think any really stuck with it, something about it being boring and awful.

Kurieg posted:

Bennies Should Not Be Used As Experience Points


That is all.

Leperflesh posted:

The crux of this is that nobody really knows. The world's fifth largest economy has declared its intention to exit the european union. Anyone who claims to know what the exact results of that will be, a month from now or six months or two years or six years, is deluded or lying. We just don't know.

paradoxGentleman posted:

Are kickstarter comments deleted after a while? I can't find the first comments Nuns with Guns relayed here by pressing ctrl+f and searching for the words used there. The first comments from that guy I can find is the one going "Diversity and inclusion and power dynamics in play already".

Evil Mastermind posted:

I remember Fred Hicks saying a while back how he had to send a bunch of hardcopies to an Ennies judge overseas (because apparently you can't just send judges PDFs for some stupid reason), had to eat the shipping costs, and then the guy dropped out of judging and got to keep the books.

Lightning Lord posted:

Also, Larry MacDougall did art for it. That guy rules. I really should start an RPG art thread.

Brainiac Five posted:

Episode 4: "She's got it where it counts. I've made some special modifications."

Evil Mastermind posted:

Was that what the first two games were about? I admit I never played them due to not having a PC at the time, so I thought the current situation was always the case.

I mean, I remember people flipping out because the game was going first-person, so I know that was a thing?

food court bailiff posted:

Is FO3 really set after 1 and 2? It reaaaaaally seems like it takes place a lot closer to when the bombs fell.

Bieeardo posted:

Bonus points if they're easily reverse-engineered, or actually good examples of playable characters. Zero if they've been tossed undocumented bennies. I've seen that stunt a few times, including what I dimly recall being an early edition of Shadowrun.

Comrade Gorbash posted:

This is not actually the case. A lot of lovely IoT products have opt-out in terms of whether the data is collected, not whether the connectivity is enabled. And that's discounting companies deliberately obfuscating what they're doing, or implementing connectivity features incompetently. A couple years ago one of the early smart home hubs had an admin panel that was searchable over Google, and didn't require a unique login credentials. There's also plenty of devices that are always listening, whether you turn off connectivity or not, and can potentially be forced open if someone finds them while wardriving. Improper siloing of diagnostic and control systems is almost the default rather than the exception.

Conceptually Shadowrun isn't wrong about its lovely IoT. Companies making really dumb, short-sighted, and self-centered decisions should absolutely be a feature of the Shadowrun universe. Where Shadowrun fucks up is it forgets why the IoT exists in the first place. The reason "smart" products are popular is you really can get a ton of added functionality with connectivity. Shadowrun adds wireless to a bunch of items that clearly could function without it, provides no benefit for it, and then has them stop working if connectivity is removed. That's dumb. Sure, in a few cases that's okay - a cyberarm with a wireless diagnostic tool that isn't properly siloed from its control systems is a reasonable quirk or defect - it also mirrors real life examples with things like pacemakers. But for the most part, having connectivity should provide a bonus you lose if you turn it off.

It should be a risk/reward calculation in deciding whether to enable something or not, and if enabled allow a combat decker to close with you and potentially gently caress up your program if they can get something close enough to force a connection. But as pointed out, it got twisted into a way a decker could get involved in combat through the Matrix without having to be present, and a lovely implementation of that concept to boot.

Leperflesh posted:

There are players who legit expect - perhaps not totally unreasonably - that while they are min-maxing their character to be uber powerful, the GM is min-maxing the antagonists in the same way; e.g., their minmaxing is necessary to meet the expected challenge. They may even feel aggrieved that their fellow players aren't putting in the effort to make powerful enough characters.

In that context the complaint "I just shoot everything" may be expressing surprise that the presented challenge turned out to be much less difficult than they expected.

...probably more often, there's just no more thought put into it than "hey I discovered a set of rule synergies that let me have even higher numbers! Woo" and I have a hard time being mad at someone for doing that, either.

It really is just, the game presented options that stack or synergize or were worded poorly to be interpreted as such; so players can but don't necessarily take advantage, leading to major power disparities between characters. And that's bad game design, period.

Kwyndig posted:

Shadowrun, where the physical adept is always the worst choice and the decker dies if you look at him funny.

Liquid Communism posted:

Scaling's a huge problem in Shadowrun. The rules as written want a team of experts, each with hundreds of thousands of nuyen worth of training, cyber, tech, or magic to take on runs at 3k a pop. The books' payout values are just about enough to keep the PCs in lifestyle and consumable gear, God help you if your Decker loses his deck, or someone takes serious enough damage to need a cyber replacement.