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Arivia posted:And now we return to discussing Elminster getting it on with his adopted daughters. Elminster is the Carlos Castenada of the Forgotten Realms
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Also I am reading a paper on ideas of divinity in Jahiliyya-era (pre-Islamic) Arab poetry and the second chapter is a list of gods mentioned in surviving bits of that poetry and one of the deities is a couple (Isaf and Na'ila) who were caught "having sexual relations" in the Ka'ba and transformed into stones that became idols. If you want your fantasy RPGs to have ultimate verisimilitude please include pairs of gods that were people caught having sex in places they shouldn't, thanks.
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Night10194 posted:Haifisch's LP of it was great, too. It was a lot of fun to vote in and was what got me interested in Glorantha.
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I was watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Star Wars trivia battle, and then I saw the weirdest thing in the YouTube comments:
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Terrible 3 AM game ideas: "Nyarlothotech support, or The Call Center of Cthulhu". A game where everyone's the tier one tech support team for an evil mythos-based corporation and has to deal with people calling in about their baby-powered batteries and wondering why their shipment of guns somehow got diverted to the very enemies they were fighting. Possibly a fiasco playset?
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unseenlibrarian posted:Possibly a fiasco playset? Office culture + menial labour with lovely managers + a weird twist is more or less a perfect formula for Fiasco, so yes, write this as a Fiasco playset.
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I would play the hell out of a fiasco set where petty office politics could leave my mind and soul cast backward thousands of years into the mail room.
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Glorantha A) requires a lot of prep work to create basal exposition for players and B) doesn't have any game systems that capture the best part of the setting very well. One of the few that approaches it conceptually is DnD 4th, but it would require almost complete reworking to have the Gloranthan feel in actual play and the highpower mechanics are sparse.
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Green Intern posted:I would play the hell out of a fiasco set where petty office politics could leave my mind and soul cast backward thousands of years into the mail room. The mail room "staff" is actually a single amorphous entity possessed by a multitude of minds, eternally wrestling against each other for possession of the packages around which its body is wrapped. Suffice to say, there has not been a successful claim since the apes learned how to make fire.
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Bitchtits McGee posted:The mail room "staff" is actually a single amorphous entity possessed by a multitude of minds, eternally wrestling against each other for possession of the packages around which its body is wrapped. Suffice to say, there has not been a successful claim since the apes learned how to make fire. Sounds less like Fiasco and more like The Laundry to me.
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Mormon Star Wars posted:Also I am reading a paper on ideas of divinity in Jahiliyya-era (pre-Islamic) Arab poetry and the second chapter is a list of gods mentioned in surviving bits of that poetry and one of the deities is a couple (Isaf and Na'ila) who were caught "having sexual relations" in the Ka'ba and transformed into stones that became idols. Combining AW special moves and Shadow of Yesterday's transcendence, I like it
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Okay, I'm going to regret asking this, but where's a good place to read up on the whole story of harassment by Zak S. and Pundit? I know there are plenty of examples of them being belligerent jerks, but this more specific case is harder to track- obviously if some of the people affected want to keep things confidential, that's their right, but everything that I've been able to see publicly is responding to something else that happened earlier cascading into infinity. It's rather confusing.
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Libertad! posted:I was watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Star Wars trivia battle, and then I saw the weirdest thing in the YouTube comments: What the gently caress.
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Libertad! posted:I was watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Star Wars trivia battle, and then I saw the weirdest thing in the YouTube comments: One of these things are not like the other, one of these things are reddit. Edit: Who wants to bet the guy thinks that trilby is a fedora?
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I think if you are at the point where you are distinguishing trilbies from fedoras, no, you are the demons.
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neongrey posted:I think if you are at the point where you are distinguishing trilbies from fedoras, no, you are the demons. Is it a crime to work at a hat shop over a summer a few years back?
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Covok posted:Is it a crime to work at a hat shop over a summer a few years back? A crime against humanity yes. Unless all you worked with were women's fascinators in which case you are the Chosen People.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay, I'm going to regret asking this, but where's a good place to read up on the whole story of harassment by Zak S. and Pundit? I know there are plenty of examples of them being belligerent jerks, but this more specific case is harder to track- obviously if some of the people affected want to keep things confidential, that's their right, but everything that I've been able to see publicly is responding to something else that happened earlier cascading into infinity. It's rather confusing. There's not really any one place, as far as I know. Part of the problem is just how much poo poo has been going on, part of it is that people don't want to relive these experiences, part of it is that collecting information on this is soul-crushing. There's a tumblr that's a bit of an attempt, but I can't remember the URL.
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It's this: http://wouldyouagreethat.tumblr.com/
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Covok posted:One of these things are not like the other, one of these things are reddit. Particularly idiotic since Colbert is a Sunday school teacher in his spare time.
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Covok posted:One of these things are not like the other, one of these things are reddit. He's being sarcastic. Dude's ironically shitposting.
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SunAndSpring posted:He's being sarcastic. Dude's ironically shitposting. Still a shitpost
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Hey Zak S I know you're reading this so I just have one thing to say: gently caress you. You're a misogynist shithead and a plague on the hobby. I hope your lunch gets eaten by birds tomorrow!
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Jul 18, 2014 22:42
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aha is he tracking this thread to keep an eye on the goon menace
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THE GOON MENACE
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Man, the parallels between goonswarm and the swine menace are fantastic.
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Down With People posted:THE GOON MENACE But is it better than the phantom menace? Also, traps in 3.PF are dumb, uninteractive, and super dull binary horseshit. GMs may as well just flip a coin and say "x person took y damage because I said so," or the players may as well just hand a list to the GM and say "we do this for every single loving square possible."
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Traps only work as encounters/skill challenges where the room is filling up with water or whatever and everyone's doing something.
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Down With People posted:THE GOON MENACE Zak would have probably posted:...I have here in my hand a list of 205 . . . a list of names that were made known to my minions as being members of the Social Justice Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping opinions on the Internet. . . .
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What is so bad about social justice and moral outrage, anyway? Of all the pejoratives they could have picked, being "just" or "moral" doesn't strike me as a particularly horrid label to be saddled with.
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privileged silence
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See if you're too just or moral then some cis hetero white dudes might feel left out.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:What is so bad about social justice and moral outrage, anyway? There's a couple bad groups on Tumblr and Reddit, especially poo poo Reddit Says, that make what social justice is supposed to be (supporting those who are marginalized and their rights) into just another way of trolling people. So, people in opposition to it all can just point to one of these blogs and say, "See? This is what social justice is!" and discredit it. So basically it's become a buzzword, sort of like "check your privilege", and has lost a lot of meaning because of it.
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I, too, remember when all those people withdrew their support for social justice and equality causes because they had become too mainstream. Oh if only we hadn't had the hubris to try to make people aware of issues or actually think about things. Alas, now we cannot beg rights from the privileged, for they are tired and need to nap.
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The prevalence of "bad" social justice groups is greatly exaggerated to justify the dismissal of legitimate issues. If anyone is using triggered Superwholockians as a reason to ignore you or insult your position, they're either idiots or purposefully taking a dishonest approach to shut you down.
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SunAndSpring posted:There's a couple bad groups on Tumblr and Reddit, especially poo poo Reddit Says, that make what social justice is supposed to be (supporting those who are marginalized and their rights) into just another way of trolling people. So, people in opposition to it all can just point to one of these blogs and say, "See? This is what social justice is!" and discredit it. I rest my case.
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SunAndSpring posted:There's a couple bad groups on Tumblr and Reddit, especially poo poo Reddit Says, that make what social justice is supposed to be (supporting those who are marginalized and their rights) into just another way of trolling people. So, people in opposition to it all can just point to one of these blogs and say, "See? This is what social justice is!" and discredit it. The Something Awful Traditional Games community may not be for you.
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