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i've totally played/run some rpgs
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 18:08 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 01:51 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:I remember once someone saying that Pundit is just an Andy Kaufman-esque character of Tarnowski's. Not to mention the fact that a significant portion of his fanbase takes him seriously. It's sort of like Rush Limbaugh fans who say that their idol is a "satire" of conservatives; they just happen to agree with his most extreme positions.
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 18:27 |
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Gau posted:Yeah. Combat is boring and generic, the advantage/disadvantage system is overdone at best, and there's nothing about the game that evokes or reinforces the setting. It's a popular choice for all the reasons that people like GURPS or Unisystem or Storyteller 2.0. Out of the three, only GURPS really offers something to put it ahead of the pack of "low-impact systems I can pretend work for every game." XyloJW posted:I have to agree. I played Savage Worlds in three different settings, with three different DMs, and every time the combat just felt boring. I had fun with the rest of the system, and it's a credit that it worked in such completely different settings, but the combat was always very samey. Parkreiner posted:SW combat is an insanely dull slog once the maps and minis come out, there's the whole "getting stunlocked" death spiral, and on top of that it keeps the "spend luck points for rerolls or hoard them for extra XP" thing from Deadlands (now extra exacerbated because you can spend them to stop being stunned), and Necessary Evil in particular is an awful campaign filled with overbearing NPCs constantly making GBS threads on the PCs and a super-powers system that I can only describe as unplaytested garbage. Glazius posted:Savage Worlds assumes you're going to have 2-6 generic mooks to control during minis combat, along with your painstakingly designed character who has to roll an 8+ (on, at most, a d12) to do anything but run away the second they get grazed, or spend one of the two or three bennies they'll get for the night on being able to act. I'd kill for a game that took the basic setup of Conclave or Avengers Alliance and made it playable on a tabletop. Quarex posted:Aww thanks for picking this up Ha-Ja, and I liked your Antonio Inoki joke. quote:Yeah, I have literally no idea what happened when they were creating the system. If it helps I know at least a couple of the designers are people who love RIFTS even if they know mechanically it is bad; they may figure since it is more coherent than RIFTS that they have done their job. Ettin posted:Things I discovered while browsing recent Wikipedia RPG pages:
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 19:29 |
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Halloween Jack posted:He looks exactly like what I expected. It's sort of amazing how people like Desborough never look like anything but what they are. The world is littered with douchebags that aren't detectable from down the streets, yet if you ever met Desborough in person, you would look like you were having a seizure, because you would try to punch him in the face and double over from laughter at the same time.
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:22 |
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I am delighted that your list is half as long by iself as the database my gaming buddy made of every gaming book that a half-dozen of us collectively own and keep at the guy with the biggest house's house. Hmm though actually that means that each of us is 1/3 as bad a gaming hoarder as you ... and considering the vast majority of those books belong to me or the database guy or the house guy, I guess that means we all have problems. Edit: Oh I missed this page Halloween Jack posted:It sounds like the game as it's run at conventions is very different from how the book presents itself, which is not at all uncommon. It also seems like another case of the designers having a great game to make, but also wanting to present their homemade system that fixes all the problems they've had, both in practice and in theory, with other games they've played.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 01:04 |
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New thread here.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 05:42 |
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Welp, already goldmined. Now what?
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:14 |
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See ya in August.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:15 |
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ritorix posted:See ya in August.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:17 |
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Here in radioland, I have a Monday night show, so it is technically still Monday for 40 more minutes and I intend to make the most of it!
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:21 |
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The new thread is here. Let us never speak of the other one again.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:23 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 01:51 |
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Davin Valkri posted:Welp, already goldmined. Now what?
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:25 |