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Arivia posted:Also canonically Elminster has a secret treehouse moonbase with a fridge and a Frigidaire air conditioner. Also his favourite beer is Budweiser, which he imports on his trips to Yellowstone. That singlehandedly makes Forgotten Realms worth playing AND explains the name!
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May 1, 2014 23:06
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Davin Valkri posted:I can make the girl in that one, given that she explicitly drools over the shirtless swimmers she's surrounded by. Really, that'd just be an excuse to make my fanboying explicit instead of implicit. Winson_Paine please modchallenge Davin Valkri to make his next app some ripped, ugly, scarfaced meatslab motherfucker, tia. Even if it's for an anime game. Especially if it's for an anime game. Like, everyone else is an ambiguously-gendered visual kei character, and he's literally Mickey Rourke cast in his role as Marv from Sin City.
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May 1, 2014 23:23
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Thesaurasaurus posted:Winson_Paine please modchallenge Davin Valkri to make his next app some ripped, ugly, scarfaced meatslab motherfucker, tia. So, Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist or Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revengance?
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May 1, 2014 23:27
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Davin Valkri posted:So, Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist or Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revengance? Both are acceptable, but the latter is also worth extra credit for each bishie you punt like a football.
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May 1, 2014 23:31
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Davin Valkri posted:So, Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist or Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revengance? I feel like the former is still kind of an edge case, honestly
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May 1, 2014 23:31
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Sigh...I suppose I could find a game where a nanomachine resurrected Chesty Puller would be an acceptable option. Wielding a flamethrower with a bayonet duct-taped to the nozzle end. Or something. (Seriously, though, where did this challenge come out from?!)
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Davin Valkri posted:So, Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist or Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revengance?
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May 1, 2014 23:53
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Spincut posted:Paying to play Munchkin? Really? Honestly if it was a buck for two hours, it wouldn't be a bad way to meet people; just treat it like a nerdy mixer. Only getting four games though, that's robbery.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Honestly if it was a buck for two hours, it wouldn't be a bad way to meet people; just treat it like a nerdy mixer. Only getting four games though, that's robbery. My LGS charges for time/event, but gives you the equivalent value in gift cards for the store. They sell drinks and snacks too. That seems like the best way to go, I think. Syrg Sapphire posted:I cannot count how many times nerds have asked me "so which NPC was your fetish insert?" thanks to that comic. Late to this party, but none of my NPCs are fetish inserts.  If I used them as NPCs I wouldn't get to play them as PCs. 
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Has anybody actually playhed any of these games that Mikan and RublehookEavily are promoting on G+ today? drat, the typing, crazy.
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Someone's played Treasure Hunters because the contest it was in mandated playtesting, so there's that. (It's by forums poster Bahamut in case you're wondering.) And for those wondering.
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dwarf74 posted:I want to make a character based on FMA Armstrong so drat bad now. In 4e, Cosmic and Draconic sorcerers add their Strength mods to spell damage and AC, while genasi wizards can take a feat to add their strength mod to damage of their elemental spells, so you can punch lightning at people and block swords with your abs if you're a sorcerer.
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LightWarden posted:In 4e, Cosmic and Draconic sorcerers add their Strength mods to spell damage and AC, while genasi wizards can take a feat to add their strength mod to damage of their elemental spells, so you can punch lightning at people and block swords with your abs if you're a sorcerer. BRB, making characters
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dwarf74 posted:You know, I always forget about Strength-based Sorcerers. Good call! Draconic works better; cosmic is ok at highlevel but Draconic works out of the bag. First time I played as one first encounter I crit hit with the 6d6 damage daily instantly killing the guy we were fighting so the DM ruled I punched their heart out of their chest. Best character I've ever played.
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May 2, 2014 01:37
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Muscle wizards are my fetish insert.
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Plus Draconic Sorc works nice and well with Dragonborn, so you can be a fire or whatever breathing lightning punching dragonman! There are few things more rad.
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Man fetish inserts are out, G+ tradgame spotlights are in! Get with the times chump 
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Esser-Z posted:Plus Draconic Sorc works nice and well with Dragonborn, so you can be a fire or whatever breathing lightning punching dragonman! I played as an acolyte of the squat, believing that the duty of a muscle sorcerer was to help bear the burdens of the world and use their workouts to heal others. His lightning breath was just weakness leaving the body and entering those who opposed making a sick world swole.
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Barudak posted:I played as an acolyte of the squat, believing that the duty of a muscle sorcerer was to help bear the burdens of the world and use their workouts to heal others. His lightning breath was just weakness leaving the body and entering those who opposed making a sick world swole. Tangent: Blackguard is the only class that makes roleplaying temporary hit points fun.
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ErichZahn posted:That singlehandedly makes Forgotten Realms worth playing AND explains the name! In Dragon Magazine, Ed Greenwood would write short stories about how Elminster would host parties for Mordenkainen from Greyhawk and Dalamar from Dragonlance - at Ed Greenwood's house - where they all would eat ice cream and discuss "the Raistlin problem" and their hot new interns and poo poo.
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Any ideas/plans for a May contest, or is that already a thing and i somehow missed it?
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P.d0t posted:Any ideas/plans for a May contest, or is that already a thing and i somehow missed it? Let's make may the official month of finishing projects started for previous contests. I still feel bad about not producing a playable Snakes & Ladders based on Catch-22.
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May contest: spring cleaning, all entries have to be projects that have already been worked on (post your current drafts right at the beginning so everyone can see your secret shame), get your half-baked projects finished and out of the garage before your spouse donates them to the Goodwill.
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Reposting from Auspol:
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Kai Tave posted:May contest: spring cleaning, all entries have to be projects that have already been worked on (post your current drafts right at the beginning so everyone can see your secret shame), get your half-baked projects finished and out of the garage before your spouse donates them to the Goodwill. Times like this, I lament the fact that I basically have one game that I've been working on forever, and I just finished a big rewrite. I just need to stress test it now.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Honestly if it was a buck for two hours, it wouldn't be a bad way to meet people; just treat it like a nerdy mixer. Only getting four games though, that's robbery.
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MartianAgitator posted:In Dragon Magazine, Ed Greenwood would write short stories about how Elminster would host parties for Mordenkainen from Greyhawk and Dalamar from Dragonlance - at Ed Greenwood's house - where they all would eat ice cream and discuss "the Raistlin problem" and their hot new interns and poo poo. What is the "Raistlin problem"? I have an idea who Raistlin is (that wizard bad guy from that place where dragons are self-segregating) but I've never heard of a particular "problem" with him. Is it the general "wizards who are too powerful completely break narratives" thing or something else?
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Well, he had an authority problem, and in one particular uture he sort of killed the gods and took over a dead Krynn. He gave wizarding a pretty bad name, is what I'm saying.
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Hey, it's my birthday today! Happy Birthday to me, Dwayne Johnson, David Beckham, and Lily Allen! For my birthday, my computer decided to break my wireless card for me, probably in an ill-fated attempt to break my Dark Souls 2 addiction. Thanks, computer! 
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ImpactVector posted:The problem is you wouldn't want to mix with the kind of person who would pay to play Munchkin. Also in 2 hours you'd be lucky to get 2 games done, let alone 4. Munchkin is plenty of fun, and paying a buck to spend two hours playing a silly elf card game and meet people is fine. I'm kinda glad you'd never do that, because it means I never have to worry about meeting you.
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Davin Valkri posted:What is the "Raistlin problem"? I have an idea who Raistlin is (that wizard bad guy from that place where dragons are self-segregating) but I've never heard of a particular "problem" with him. Is it the general "wizards who are too powerful completely break narratives" thing or something else? I'm not sure that we need to put the loving Dragonlance books' plot in spoilers but Raistlin is the best wizard because he took wizarding to its only logical conclusion, cast down the gods and murdered the planet.
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"The Raistlin problem" is called "The Drizzt problem" these days. Basically, a character becomes so popular they start popping up a lot, including in official material, until the setting becomes inextricably bound to that character and the canon starts to warp around their every move and action. They become omnipresent, there at all major events, possibly the prime movers and drivers of major events, and their legacy casts a long shadow even after they're officially gone. Yes, D&D fantasy writers think having popular characters that connect directly to their setting and who become major movers in it without pissing off the fans is a problem that has to be solved. They want fewer Raistlins and more Elminsters. e: The other Raistlin Problem for games is everyone naming their character after the popular one, but that's another story.
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Rulebook Heavily posted:"The Raistlin problem" is called "The Drizzt problem" these days. Basically, a character becomes so popular they start popping up a lot, including in official material, until the setting becomes inextricably bound to that character and the canon starts to warp around their every move and action. They become omnipresent, there at all major events, possibly the prime movers and drivers of major events, and their legacy casts a long shadow even after they're officially gone. From what I've heard (just on this forum  ), Elminster sounds largely the same, though? In terms of "everything in the setting links back to them in some way or another", at least.
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Eh, a single character's omnipresence in a setting that's supposed to be shared across multiple authors is, if nothing else, a logistical problem. If every author's got to deal with one character getting in everyone's hair, that's a pain.
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Yeah, but the difference is that Ed Greenwood likes Elminster and a lot of people hate that fucker and don't name their characters after him. It's a silly problem. They should totally run with characters being popular, go Full Wolverine on that poo poo.
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ProfessorCirno posted:I mean Greyhawk is just as generically high fantasy and nobody that matters cares about it at all, so it doesn't really annoy me too much, I'm going to MAKE SOME ENEMIES but Greyhawk is by far the most aggressively boring D&D setting. Only the parts of it that touch of the history of the Suel are even remotely interesting.
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And while it makes perfect sense that the first (well, second) campaign world might not be the most particularly interesting, particularly given its origins, that does not mean you have to like it. Though I imagine we would view Greyhawk a lot more fondly if it had been the setting for any computer games.
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Mormon Star Wars posted:I'm going to MAKE SOME ENEMIES but Greyhawk is by far the most aggressively boring D&D setting.
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Mormon Star Wars posted:I'm going to MAKE SOME ENEMIES but Greyhawk is by far the most aggressively boring D&D setting. Only the parts of it that touch of the history of the Suel are even remotely interesting. EDIT: I actually like Greyhawk better because its quite readily evident that it isn't uptight about the what D&D is and that is a really goofy game to play. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 05:42 on May 3, 2014 |
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