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Simian_Prime posted:I don't even get why somebody would put that in a game at all, unless it was some kind of animal torture simulator. It's less that a more a factor of trying to flesh out goblins and using them as fodder enemies at the same time. Training an animal for combat is supposed to be something of a barrier of entry for certain things, but horses and dogs will attack goblins without training because they just for some reason don't like goblins at all. I assume this is to prevent new untrained animal companions from being useless for the first few levels, because training becomes trivial. Due to goblins being the size of a toddler this usually ends with victory for the animals.
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Mormon Star Wars posted:Guys, I know I was dogging on pathfinder for letting you take a feat specifically geared towards making you a fearsome killer of domesticated pets, but sometimes they knock it out of the park. Like this PC race's ability: For point of reference this is an ability possessed by a plant race, and now that I think about it a fairly blatant copy of a namekian ability from Dragonball. Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Specifically the Senator's whole fight.
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Error 404 posted:You mean like Slaves went "haywire" when they were emancipated? Well closer to the slaves learning to talk and read/write. They were stills slaves during the second rebellion.
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Feb 9, 2015 06:11
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It's really easy to have Shoggoth lords as the real bad guys with tragic/sympathetic normal shoggoth or proto-shoggoth underlings. Specifically one could have the lords' human shapes be the gift of some dark god they struck a deal with. Humans with their concrete form and distinct tissues are monstrous in the extreme to shoggoth culture, but such is the price of power.
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Feb 9, 2015 06:26
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Honestly as a regular sufferer of snow I prefer it to the weird freezing rain/snow mix we tend to get through most of December. With snow the big plows and the early commuters clear it out by 7 am or so, but freezing slush rain will stick around for a full day or two causing car crashes.
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Feb 9, 2015 18:44
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I have run into a few Soviet apologists while historical wargaming but they are nothing compared to the legions of wehraboo fascists.
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Feb 12, 2015 15:45
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Uruk are cannibals though? Only in the movie. In the books accusations of cannibalism caused a duel, and they seemed to think that humans ate captured orcs.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:33
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Bob Quixote posted:Yeah the 'always chaotic evil' thing is REALLY stupid. I think most modern designers agree with you. Hence why even a lot of games that are grouped in retro aesthetics like Pathfinder have non-evil dudes of the various monsters races when they bother to examine them in detail.
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Feb 13, 2015 02:59
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Those sort of good guy necromancers and undead are in the Sacrred Lands setting by White Wolf and Tomb Kings in Warhammer Fantasy.
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Feb 13, 2015 18:47
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Night10194 posted:Coincidentally, the Tomb Kings are super cool and neat. "Whole nation killed by rear end in a top hat father of Necromancy but that get up with their own will and personality still." is great. Too bad they totally got chumped in the End Times bullshit. Settra was the only one even given a decent scene of defiance.
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Feb 13, 2015 19:48
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Fuego Fish posted:The term originated on infamous Nazi internet forum Stormfront, and it's all just gone downhill from there. I could have sworn it originated in GBS livejournal mock threads.
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Feb 17, 2015 21:50
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I'd recommend to change groups or set up another meeting time for dungeonworld. You two clearly have different preferences. You'll continue not liking the game, and complaining during combat likely isn't helping anyone else's enjoyment. There's nothing wrong with someone enjoying 3.5, there is something wrong in showing up to complain.
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Feb 18, 2015 20:38
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My group really doesn't have any issues with this sort of thing as combat is kinda the point of having a grid based overly fiddly RPG. Large combats take about as long as an xcom map if everyone knows what they're doing because it's the focus. Anyone who tries to use d20 or 4th edition for story games or who gets defensive about "power gamers" is dumb and using the wrong system. edit: 4th edition had very well designed skirmish combat rules but the first monster manual had issues with bad monster design. Most high level enemies couldn't do anything interesting and had huge amounts of defense, so they took forever to kill relative to how lethal they were to the players. This was remedied in later monster books. Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Feb 18, 2015 21:09
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In general for me mordenheim, warmahordes, and 3.5 take about the same time assuming you're encountering 8+ enemies. Warhammer is always long because holy gently caress that game has gotten stupid and has high model counts.
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Feb 18, 2015 21:25
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Your mordenheim games take over an hour?
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Feb 18, 2015 21:29
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3.5 is a lot like dwarf fort. You can have fun with it but it requires absurd dissection of the rules boarding on autistic obsession. A 3.5 game with experienced players takes 20-30 minutes. Maybe an hour for really complicated encounters. For inexperienced players or a GM whose bad at running NPCs you end up with something that's a total mess and takes 2-3 hours. Mordenheim will always take about 20-40 minutes same with warmachine/hordes. Warhammer takes 1-3 hours depending on if someone has an army flatly better than another. If you're just getting into the hobby I'd recommend 4th edition for shorter but still tactical combats. If you find you want more rules fiddliness go to 3.5 or Pathfinder, but 4th edition is a much better presented and tightly designed tactical game.
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Feb 18, 2015 21:37
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It's mainly the weird lego-like way they fit together. It makes you feel clever and unique for fitting something together that works better than the sum of its parts. Your ownership of the character is validated by diving through tons of books to make something relatively unique. Same basic reason people liked 2nd edition 40k, Palladium RPGs, dwarf fort, etc. Even then most people who enjoy that require houserules.
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Feb 18, 2015 22:16
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Possible though I can't imagine a gaming group being good while there is someone loudly complaining about system preferences throughout the game.
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Feb 18, 2015 22:27
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Sounds like the problem is more that your group is bad, or more specifically that your GM is bad. edit: you also said that your complaints were loud and frequent, which is if accurate just you being a lovely friend. Having shittier friends doesn't absolve you of that.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:06
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Marvel has issues casting anyone besides WASPs and white atheists. This also in the sky is blue.
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Feb 24, 2015 16:14
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MartianAgitator posted:This sounds really stupid. If you need one character to be the morally gray extremist how could you pick MLK? Or maybe I'm being stupid: when you say "it says a lot" what do you mean? Well at least post Mecca trip Malcolm X was a lot more moderate than MLK.
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Fuego Fish posted:and much like drone strikes they pretty much exclusively murdered the innocent. As opposed to bombs dropped by manned aircraft?
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