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Forgot to note that you can add another notch to the "copies of Beyond the Wall sold thanks to your review" tally. This one's probably the least shameful of my F&F-inspired purchases, considering that the previous additions to my library have been Double Cross (which I can't get anyone to play) and CthulhuTech (which is easy to find players for, and difficult to find THE RIGHT players for).
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Night10194 posted:What's been your problem finding players for Double Cross, exactly? 
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Mar 30, 2015 23:20
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theironjef posted:
I don't have time to listen to it right now, but I still don't believe this exists
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Apr 1, 2015 09:07
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Esser-Z posted:Approps of nothing, I started listening to System Mastery last week. I am really, really enjoying it!  (I just listened to the most recent Afterthought about an hour or two ago, while throwing together eggplant and bell peppers in a miso/soy/xiaoxing sauce. Both were delightful.)
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May 12, 2015 03:58
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theironjef posted:I love that my copy of Skyrealms is signed because it was a gift from the author to my girlfriend's aunt, who he was dating in the 80s. I'm tenuously connected to greatness!
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May 14, 2015 01:21
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Looks like I'm about to have another t-shirt I don't even try to explain to anyone. 
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May 15, 2015 07:44
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Tasoth posted:I do agree the that WoD is not a good place to put any kind of magical girl game, even if they have grown up. But I think exploring the choice to keep fighting the war you did as a child or give it up for the handful of things that make the world really matter to you could lead to some interesting stories. Especially if you leverage the Things That Matter into sources of drama and extra reserves. Do you choose to die for something you believed in as a child or do you give up and live out your life with the things you've come to truly care about? Nessus posted:Also I'm gonna post about NIGHTBANE, the Palladium RPG, later. Believe that.
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May 18, 2015 23:21
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theironjef posted:
 Yay, one of my questions made it! And went to a horrifying Weekend At Bernie's direction! Time to go buy a Cheese Dudes shirt.
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May 19, 2015 06:31
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theironjef posted:Hey I know this is a thousand pages old but what's in the MAID episode you like so much? The source material? Our guest host? The examples of play skits? I'm just researching for methods to improve the show in future episodes and that one has been really popular in terms of downloads and so on. It's also nice to hear someone else agree with my opinion that MAID suffers from the "I want to play/run this but am automatically suspicious/disgusted with anyone else who would play this" problem. ...I'm going to try to order a Double Lolita Crunch next time I end up at a Taco Bell. theironjef posted:Nice! Let me know how it looks when it gets there. Haven't seen one in person myself yet.
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May 21, 2015 05:01
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Ah yes, the ever-so-useful "here's a bunch of  about this race, individual members of which do not actually follow these about the race, thanks for the money you dumb fuckers" splatbook.
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May 25, 2015 00:36
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Xelkelvos posted:Watanabe Eriko of some TVTroper fiction called Saga of Soul (this took me a little bit to find it since there's an actress with the same name) I went to his  page and clicked on what I thought was another work of his with an interesting title. It turned out to be an obscenely-long Sailor Moon/Dungeon Keeper fanfic. I then said "ugh" aloud to no one in particular but my cat.
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May 26, 2015 06:44
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theironjef posted:Put the shirt on your traitorous cat.  Putting the shirt on was the easy part. Turns out, getting a cat to wear a shirt long enough to take a picture when the cat wants out? Kinda difficult.
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May 27, 2015 01:44
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Has anyone ever covered the oWoD Strike Force Zero book? Because it was goofy as hell, and made for a fun-rear end game.
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May 28, 2015 00:50
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theironjef posted:We always do terrible at the anime questions, because neither of us really follows it all that much, so we can maybe name like 10 shows between us. It's not surprising there's already a Tenchi Muyo one though. Don't know about High School of the Dead or Kill la Kill, but there is an Apocalypse World hack for Attack on Titan that seems pretty good. Was kind of hoping the multi-part question would trip one of you up enough to blank out and end up explaining why "Tentacle☆Panty Fighter: City of Violence" would be the best RPG.
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Jun 3, 2015 04:56
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I can't imagine you'd need a special system for High School of the Dead other than rules for interrupting a scene randomly every XdX minutes to roll lovely fanservice. Roll for body or parts (boobs, butt, nape), the effect (bounce, twist, squish), and the special effects table. Then feel lovely and embarrassed and try to get on with your game.  
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Jun 3, 2015 05:29
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theironjef posted:
*sorry for the TV Tropes, but it's a Japanese thing so of course that's what Google brings up
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Jun 10, 2015 02:23
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I legitimately don't understand why Plutomancers are supposed to be weird or "out-there" enough to get magic power. I don't get a "crazy outsider" or even a "scary manipulator" vibe off of them, I get a "this is what wide swathes of the US actually believe" vibe. That merits magickal powerz, for some reason?
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Jun 12, 2015 17:33
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I get it slightly better now, it's just that the first image I had was that scene in Boiler Room where they go over to the raking-in-the-cash stockbroker's apartment, and it's empty other than like one couch and a bunch of crates. "I'm still moving in." I've known that guy; I think any of us with enough friends have known that guy. That's why it doesn't seem weird enough to me.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:46
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I hate to be critical again, but the Pornomancer seems like a case of death-by-editor. Like, the central paradox of pornography is so easy, why do you even need all the "Naked Goddess cult" poo poo? Guys who are so obsessed with porn that they don't understand actual sex is a legit problem in the real world.
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Jun 13, 2015 14:36
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RE: Alignments in Nightspawn/Nightbane, I remember the codes of conduct being weirdly restrictive on behavior even for alignment systems. Like, I was trying to create my character as an ambivalent pothead teenager; mostly just uninterested and selfish but not Disney Evil or anything. The GM and I basically went back-and-forth before mostly giving up on where that'd place me.
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Jun 18, 2015 19:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:Cheese Dudes: Is Movie Mastery a backer-only kind of thing? I couldn't find it on my podcast feeds and I need to hear you guys rip apart Master of Disguise - I love that dumb film. Speaking of which, can I put in a recommendation for Attack the Gas Station!? It's Korean, I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix, and from what I remember it's weird and funny.
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Jul 2, 2015 11:13
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Scrolling down was a fun double-take of "is that a lovingly-detailed erection?"  Doresh posted:
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Jul 3, 2015 04:37
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Doresh posted:And one of the more recent games feature an absurdly powerful evil CPU called Blue Heart / Rei Whatshername from the destroyed land of Tari. No idea what Atari console she's supposed to be, though. *combo of laziness and poo poo taste; the disc was already in the BD player when I sat down Doresh posted:I'd personally make one based on the CD-I. 
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Jul 3, 2015 07:14
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The Lone Badger posted:I figure, when you're someone like that you don't need to actually buy things. You just put it in your contract that you will be supplied with everything you want.
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Jul 19, 2015 08:10
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Doresh posted:Indeed. It's character growth in every sense of the word. I wonder how that idea could work in a D&D campaign ("The reason you don't see any goblin weaponmasters around is because those actually turn into giants or trolls. Or hobgoblins, depending on their training and personality.")
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Jul 26, 2015 11:52
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Doresh posted:3. A class system calling itself something different, like "profession" or "career". 3a: Classes only determine the point cost/rank of skills, and their max ranks by level 3b: Meaning, every class has a table that lists every single skill 3c: Lots of typos and "design decisions" that are indistinguishable from typos 4a: Every spell is its own skill 4b: Combat is also handled via skills, but every class has the same cap on attack/defense skills so going Fighter is a dead-end 4c: Wizards get more skill points "because they have spells", but no restrictions on how they spend those points Ugh, I'm not even sure which system(s) I'm making fun of anymore. This hurts.
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Aug 28, 2015 00:02
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Kavak posted:Okay, I'm sorry for being a late arrival to the podcast, but where did Cheese Dudes start? 
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Sep 23, 2015 05:54
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Strange as it was to hear my professional name bandied about on System Mastery, then transformed into a verb* and put to song, you did my too-complicated "literally-came-to-me-in-a-dream" question all the justice it deserved. *as far as I am aware it actually translates to "ostrich"
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Sep 25, 2015 03:17
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Maybe I just had a bad experience (as a player), but I remember the Exalted MA charm trees going "thing I actually want > dumb conditional thing I will never use but need in order to get: > improved version of charm #1 that means I will never use the lower-level version again" and so on.
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Oct 6, 2015 06:10
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It also had that weird problem a couple of WW lines at the times had, where "oh, we just won't put Aggravated Damage in the Corebook, that'll keep things from turning into a meatgrinder!" was followed by every proceeding book getting a sidebar of "this attack does a new harder-to-take kind of damage called Aggravated Damage, here's the same explanation you've read dozens of times now:".
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Oct 16, 2015 06:37
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Am I the only one that *really* liked the side details in Aeon/Trinity? Like, the bits about the chambers that make Psions not quite functioning right, because they were made according to alien specifications and have been running p much non-stop for decades, or the Aberrants of that era following different rules because the background radiation is different, or (especially) the Qin bodysuits being rainbow monstrosities because they were going off of black-and-white TV signals?
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Oct 17, 2015 05:38
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FMguru posted:It had a really detailed and convoluted metaplot, none of which was explained in the core book. If you actually wanted to run a game in the Trinity setting, you had to wait and buy a dozen $25 supplement books before you had enough of an idea of what was really going on to successfully run a game there.
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Oct 17, 2015 15:02
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Doresh posted:It is for this reason that meikyo armours are not piloted by a noble lord and his retainers, but by their underaged children, for only they are innocent and sheltered enough to have an insignificant amount of Karma. Still, gaining Karma is part of human life (especially when you're killing people by the hundreds as a giant death machine), and most Riders don't even get past their teenager phase before the mirror rejects them.
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Nov 15, 2015 21:10
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Comrade Koba posted:You should have the Podcat as a guest host on your next episode. Can't wait to hear its in-depth opinions on all the Immortal craziness.
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Dec 12, 2015 19:57
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Doresh posted:As the only thing with a Western setting, the book also recommends Valkyria Chronicles for its character-driven drama during a TBZ war campaign. Actually, playing Valkyria Chronicles with Kongohki and Armours would be rad. 
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Alien Rope Burn posted:The other example goes back into the  No, your character doesn't do that ", combine it with " my DMPC is so awesome you guys totally back down and now I shall narrate what happens instead ", and figured out a way to accomplish both without even having to put in the slightest effort to justify it in-game. I know the WoD bit was pretty obnoxious and unfun, but this here is the pure-strain Wick.
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Houses of the Blooded LARP he runs. There was a time when some folks wanted to poke in a ruin for artifacts, but he invoked dire peril because they were "poorly equipped" and they backed off. He talks about a regular player he has who decided for a change of place to play a duellist that hated sorcerers. (In the setting, sorcery is illegal, but everybody does it anyway, because sorcery is rad.) So she duels and kills them. Then she finds out the character she's working under is a profilic sorcerer, and when she goes after him, John walks around after holding up a sign that said Dire Peril. And I guess people were cowed and it was awesome and stuff, and she cuts a few people down (who volunteered to be cut down in that scene, we're told).