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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3679966 TGSS 2014 thread is up! Early! Because I realized I needed to get my rear end in gear. 
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Tollymain posted:this week is dragon week, please post you proest dragons In the art thread.
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Nov 9, 2014 01:58
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Ettin posted:In the art thread. We should totally have dragonchat is here though! When I was in highschool a D&D campaign I ran featured an albino red dragon which I think is the perfect encapsulation of what a weird, bad DM I was. That and the railroading.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:46
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I don't like Dragons. They're lovely, short ranged, underpowered, hard to control ATGMs, and what really gets me is that they existed in a time when much better designs were available, and I can't figure out for the life of me why the US kept using them all the way up to freaking Desert Storm! It's like, hey, you already use Swedish AT4/M136 launchers, you couldn't ask them to throw on some BILL 1s in the package? Or borrow some MILANs from West German or Italy while you're buying Rheinmetall tank cannons or Otobreda naval guns? ...oh, wait, wrong Dragons. Er...I don't like those dragons either. I don't like the whole "older and wiser and more railroadier than you" air they give off, and I want to shoot them down with J35s for irony's sake.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:58
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Davin Valkri posted:I don't like Dragons. They're lovely, short ranged, underpowered, hard to control ATGMs, and what really gets me is that they existed in a time when much better designs were available, and I can't figure out for the life of me why the US kept using them all the way up to freaking Desert Storm! It's like, hey, you already use Swedish AT4/M136 launchers, you couldn't ask them to throw on some BILL 1s in the package? Or borrow some MILANs from West German or Italy while you're buying Rheinmetall tank cannons or Otobreda naval guns? This is truth.
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Nov 9, 2014 04:48
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Any recommendations for a youtube video that shows what playing a TTRPG is like for a beginner? One of my officemates came up to me the other day and asked me about what RPGs are after reading a post I made on facebook and I'm not sure I explained it very well - I basically said it was like playing cops-and-robbers except you use the dice to make sure you don't get into any arguments about who shot first. He seemed keen on the idea and asked me if he could show me how that's done. I suppose I could demo the concept to him as well.
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Nov 9, 2014 06:04
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I had good luck with dragons with a very specific concept: That all the dragons in the setting were the souls of long-dead dragons from other worlds and settings, shoved into the bodies of adolescent or young adult dragons, in a world where muskets and cannons would've been enough to threaten them even if they weren't suddenly back to only being large enough to menace livestock. Thus, since all the dragons in the setting had been slain once before, they tended to be slightly paranoid wrecks trying to stay the hell out of everyone's sight, get their bearings, and work with humans wherever they could to avoid getting shot in the face. Experienced, but physically weak and kind of traumatized by having to scrape and crawl back into the land of the living once already, and dumped into a world as alien to them as they were to it.
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Nov 9, 2014 07:52
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Ettin posted:In the art thread. I opened up a lot of tabs at once, and got confused and thought this was the art thread. Hence my rather art thread post. Dangit, tolly.
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Nov 9, 2014 08:39
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Fuego Fish posted:I opened up a lot of tabs at once, and got confused and thought this was the art thread. Hence my rather art thread post. Legitly, I had opened this thread and the art thread in separate tabs when you posted the dragons and was very confused.
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Nov 9, 2014 08:48
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i should catch up on the modrons thread but then i will feel the need to spend too much time making massive effortposts in there again e: good lord i'm still the most prolific poster in that thread by an absurd lead despite not posting in forever, yeah i should stay out of there 
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Nov 9, 2014 10:07
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Davin Valkri posted:I don't like Dragons. They're lovely, short ranged, underpowered, hard to control ATGMs, and what really gets me is that they existed in a time when much better designs were available, and I can't figure out for the life of me why the US kept using them all the way up to freaking Desert Storm! It's like, hey, you already use Swedish AT4/M136 launchers, you couldn't ask them to throw on some BILL 1s in the package? Or borrow some MILANs from West German or Italy while you're buying Rheinmetall tank cannons or Otobreda naval guns? This is truth. Also, why I wrote a game where dragon-vs-J35 is an entirely possible thing.
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Nov 9, 2014 12:06
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DigitalRaven posted:This is truth. Also, why I wrote a game where dragon-vs-J35 is an entirely possible thing. Let's be honest - at some point, we all wrote *that* game.
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Nov 9, 2014 13:04
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DigitalRaven posted:This is truth. Also, why I wrote a game where dragon-vs-J35 is an entirely possible thing. Relatedly, I still mention how cool Operation Dragonslayer is to people and have yet to be able to cobble a group together to play it.
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Nov 9, 2014 14:34
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the eternal lamentation of the tabletop nerd if it's cool and it's not an established property good luck getting a game together for it, ever
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Nov 9, 2014 16:13
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Isn't that the ending to Drakengard?
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Nov 9, 2014 17:03
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Rockopolis posted:Isn't that the ending to Drakengard? One of them, yeah. You go to Earth somehow and fight jets and a giant music themed rhythm puzzle boss. Edit: It is much less cool than it sounds.
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Nov 9, 2014 17:08
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that's the timeline that causes nier right
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Nov 9, 2014 17:09
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Kwyndig posted:Edit: It is much less cool than it sounds. Look at how wrong you are
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Nov 9, 2014 17:11
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Kwyndig posted:One of them, yeah. You go to Earth somehow and fight jets and a giant music themed rhythm puzzle boss. To really simulate it, wait until your players are driving home and text them to make one last defense roll. Give them two minutes to reply.
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Nov 9, 2014 17:12
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Tollymain posted:that's the timeline that causes nier right Yep, when everything from the Drakengard world dies in that ending it unleashes the horrible magical calamity that makes Nier, which was horribly depressing.
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Nov 9, 2014 17:46
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Tollymain posted:if it's cool and it's not an established property good luck getting a game together for it, ever That's why I'm happy for getting my ileni game up and running.
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Nov 9, 2014 18:00
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DigitalRaven posted:This is truth. Also, why I wrote a game where dragon-vs-J35 is an entirely possible thing. Oh, really? Which game is that? I'd like to see that.
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Nov 9, 2014 18:03
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Davin Valkri posted:Oh, really? Which game is that? I'd like to see that. it's GURPS lol
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Nov 9, 2014 20:26
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yeah but nobody plays gurps either
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Nov 9, 2014 20:28
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Tollymain posted:yeah but nobody plays gurps either I'm not even sure I remember how to play GURPS.
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Nov 9, 2014 20:35
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Ettin posted:In the art thread. you're not my real dad 
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Nov 9, 2014 21:40
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grassy gnoll posted:you're not my real dad I love this picture so much.
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Nov 9, 2014 21:52
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is that a dragon designed by committee
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Nov 9, 2014 22:04
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Tollymain posted:is that a dragon designed by committee It's too cute for that. A dragon designed by committee would be the M47...I mean the D&D 5e dragon.
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Nov 9, 2014 22:08
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grassy gnoll posted:you're not my real dad And now I know what dragon will be terrorizing towns in my low level lovely heroes fighting lovely threats game tomorrow.
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Nov 9, 2014 22:09
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Tollymain posted:is that a dragon designed by committee It is a dragon designed by looking at fatbirds.com, which is one of the best ways to design an RPG monster.
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Nov 9, 2014 22:12
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Tollymain posted:the eternal lamentation of the tabletop nerd What if it's a popular, but shameful property? I'm asking for a uh...FRIEND. Yeah, a friend.
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Nov 9, 2014 22:13
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FewtureMD posted:What if it's a popular, but shameful property? I'm asking for a uh...FRIEND. Yeah, a friend. Monsterhearts is awesome despite taking heavy inspiration from Twilight. It'll be fine, I'm sure.
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Nov 9, 2014 22:42
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Close, but no (zodiac-themed)cigar!
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Nov 9, 2014 23:09
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FewtureMD posted:Close, but no (zodiac-themed)cigar! ...Saint Seiya? Fruits Basket? Uhm...Zodiac killer?
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Nov 9, 2014 23:17
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i meant like, dnd or shadowrun or whatever the problem with homestuck is what the hell system do you use? i suppose it kind of depends on whether you're playing the game straight or going with the tone of the comic
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Nov 9, 2014 23:20
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I honestly think the game to hack for Homestuck is Polaris.
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Nov 9, 2014 23:45
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Tollymain posted:i meant like, dnd or shadowrun or whatever Chuubo's Marvellous Wish Granting Engine, I'm fairly sure it was in part designed specifically to do that, making someone face palm is one of the best ways to earn XP, also you should use it to emulate everything and anything. Play Chuubo all day every day.
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Nov 10, 2014 00:04
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I was thinking FAE for a base, because Homestuck is all about the tone and mood behind your actions, and steal the character journal from Castle Falkenstein as a character sheet/log of sorts, probably reskin it as an 'about me' tumblr page or w/e. Beyond that for the actual game itself, IRC/skype would be a must for character communication, with a thread being used as a n archive or for really big "everyone in the group is affected"-type of deals. I'd probably bring in flash games and logic problems as Land Puzzles, and use the expenditure of fate points to simulate spending grist on such big things as house construction, to sort of mimic the in-game economy, while allowing players to freely alchemize weapons and armor and other silly things...oh god so many words. Kill me before I infect you allllllll  edit: or chuubo, that works too
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Nov 10, 2014 00:05
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Hey Ettin, how about stickying the Feng Shui thread since the thread title already says its the November Game of the Month? 
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