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I'm going to be running a Fate game in the Burn Shift setting one my schedule settles down a bit and I'm not running all over the place. I'm also doing GoD at PAX this weekend.
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BTW if you're gonna be at PAX East come to Games on Demand and demand my games. I'm running two Fate games and Monster of the Week.
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Mar 1, 2015 17:33
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Exalted is pretty much Feat Tax: The RPG only with about 50 times more mechanics than you need to do loving anything, with a side of WW's usual "how dare you expect to be a unambiguous good guy, here's some mechanics to make you do evil poo poo if you want to or not".
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Mar 1, 2015 18:51
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Tulul posted:Sorta curious how the stats work out in WWW, since I noticed that they're the lowest for any PbtA game I've seen. Everyone's going to be rocking a -2 or a couple of -1s, which means there are going to be a lot of failed rolls.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:56
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General Ironicus posted:We also recorded a short chat about how Wrestling intersects with roleplaying in some interesting ways: http://feats.podbean.com/e/world-wide-wrestling-rpg-podchat-show-wrestling-rpgs/ When are we going to get the "fall of WCW from an RPG perspective" discussion? 
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Mar 2, 2015 22:28
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Plague of Hats posted:There's a new Torg bundle up, with all the sourcebooks that weren't in the first one. I kinda don't like the idea of splitting up a game line like that, but I suppose it might drive higher sales from those whose interest was piqued by one of the bundles but missed the other. They admitted during the first bundle that they weren't including some of the cosm books because "they weren't very good". There were enough people asking for them for completeness' sake that they decided to do a second bundle later.
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Mar 2, 2015 23:39
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gnome7 posted:I'll be honest, I actually forgot we set up a late backer system, so I'm sorta glad for the reminder. Gotta make sure those people get their rewards too! Speaking of which, what's the latest on the IW hardcopies?
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Mar 3, 2015 03:05
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Captain Walker posted:You'd think that, as the de facto leader in the industry, Wizards should feel some sort of obligation to create not just a good game, but a forward-thinking one, inclusive, with no potential player turned away because "this game isn't for me". With their budget they could probably do it. Add in whatever they're paying Mearls and Smith and they could definitely do it. But here's the thing: there's always going to be people who feel left behind because the game is Different now. They don't want to move with the times, and then get upset when they end up getting left behind. Like, this? quote:As it stands the brand has become this monolithic thing that embodies TRADITION and VERISIMILITUDE and GYGAX'S LEGACY, among other code words for THE WAY I PLAYED BACK IN 1989. It suffocates innovation and collapses under its own weight anytime someone tries.
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Mar 3, 2015 03:13
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gnome7 posted:Everything should be out now except the Personalized Tier and the Illustrated Tier. I have finished doing art for every single physical book, and all of them are in Mikan's hands now. She needs to write all over them for the Personalized Tier stuff, and then mail them out. I'll ask her for a status report next time she's online, we're probably due for an update. No, I've been waiting on the personalized one.
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Mar 3, 2015 03:36
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Impermanent posted:D&D is the rocket booster that this hobby needed in order to get into the atmosphere. We can safely leave it behind now that Apocalypse World exists. D&D is the foundation stone of the hobby, the cornerstone it was built off of, and the anchor around its neck.
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Mar 3, 2015 06:00
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Yeah, love it or hate it "D&D style fantasy" is pretty much the universal RPG language. And as tired as I am with generic D&D-style fantasy, it is a very handy mental shortcut to start building off of.
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Mar 3, 2015 18:37
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PresidentBeard posted:This still boils down to being upset that something you don't like is popular. The other universal language of gaming.
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Mar 3, 2015 19:54
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I still think you should call the fantasy Gunlugger the Swordlugger.
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Mar 3, 2015 20:28
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I can't tell who's being serious and who's not in this thread anymore. Is that bad?
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Mar 3, 2015 21:47
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FactsAreUseless posted:What is the best song for playing an RPG? I think it's either Ween's "Your Party," Elvis Presley's "Party," or "Aaron's Party" by Aaron Carter. That last one assumes your party's Cleric, Artificer, Shaman, or Bard is named Aaron. Weezer's "In The Garage". e: or Pink because Pink owns.
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Mar 3, 2015 22:33
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quote:I've got a Dungeon Master's guide
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Mar 3, 2015 22:37
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DalaranJ posted:Yes, I would like someone to make a 'Monster Hunter' RPG, TIA. I still cannot figure out why nobody's done this yet.
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Mar 4, 2015 03:28
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Yawgmoth posted:I don't think I have ever seen a game with grappling rules that weren't awful. In Fate the grappling rules are "you roll to create advantage, if you succeed you put a "Grappled" aspect on the target."
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Mar 4, 2015 16:49
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Yeah, all the editions before 3rd had separate XP tables for every class. That was the "balancing mechanic".
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Mar 4, 2015 18:18
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Well, another part of the magic problem is that D&D only really treats magic primarily as a weapon used to blow poo poo up in combat, with everything else feeling like an afterthought. Think about it; if "Create Food and Water" is a readily available spell, then why would anyone go hungry? Or bother farming? Likewise with "Continual Light"; that spell is an infinite amount of free, eternal light bulbs. You don't think that'd have an effect on society in general? Magic is an infinite, non-polluting energy source that can do pretty much whatever you want, and I think Eberron is pretty much the only D&D setting that takes that into account.
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Mar 4, 2015 20:58
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I also want to say that if you want to understand how lovely D&D used to be, go download a Sierra game from the 1980s. They are garbage pixel-bitching "you're suddenly dead" turdfests and that's the kind of stuff that professional designers influenced by D&D were puking out. These were adults that were incredibly negatively influenced by the badness of D&D. The typical teenage DM had absolutely zero chance of doing anything of value at all with the system. Oh man I remember one of the King's Quests games had a bit where you had to stop a cat from killing a mouse (an event that happens within seconds of your first entering a screen, and with no indication that you can or should do anything about it), and if you didn't, you couldn't complete the game because you needed the mouse hours later.
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Mar 4, 2015 21:25
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Just the fact that magic works at all would result in a society vastly different from the shitfarmer-based ones we see in every fantasy setting ever. If I wasn't busy as hell and going to my game in an hour and a half I'd post one of my Continual Light rants. The tl;dr is that if you have people who can turn a brick into an infinite free completely safe light source, you've got street lights and lights over businesses (shops can be open later, streets are safer), which leads to a lot of other societal changes.
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Mar 4, 2015 21:29
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GURPS was sadly not an appropriate system for Discworld. It's a setting that needs a looser ruleset. Not that the sourcebook wasn't good, but still.
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Mar 4, 2015 21:45
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Does anyone have anything to say about AMP: Year One? It's by the Part-Time Gods people and apparently uses a system based on that, and I'm always looking for good supers systems. All metas fall into one of nine categories: Blasters, Bulks, Elementals, Ferals, Mindbenders (mind control), Psychs (other psychic powers), Shapers, Shifters, and Travelers. Then each of those has five or six sub-types, and each of those sub-types has its own small power tree. It's designed to be like the Heroes TV show (or at least season 1), where everyone only has a few powers and people are just starting to become aware of the existence of metas. I'd say it's in teh same category as Icons in terms of just picking powers and going. e: although one problem I do have is that there are a bunch of powers with goofy names like "Were you trying to hit me?" or "Play Chicken", which lets you keep going if you've had a major part of your body lopped off. It's not a problem per se, but it still trips me up a bit. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Mar 5, 2015 16:03
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Lemon Curdistan posted:This sounds somewhat like Double Cross, except potentially without the layout nightmare that is the Double Cross rulebook, so I'm down with that. I'm also okay with pre-built powers and nonsense power names - I'm not convinced by Icons, but mostly because of the weird mishmash of Fate and other stuff. Actually, yeah, I'd say it's like DX but less complex and with clearer rules. You just pick powers and go. And it can totally do Runaways/YA.
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Mar 5, 2015 16:44
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Ratpick posted:Yeah, I know DCC and it looks fun, but a bit too on the heavy side for my tastes. I mean, I like the fact that it's basically an adaptation of my favorite edition of D&D (B/X) with a very clear focus on emulating the Appendix N vibe, but on the other hand it looks very cumbersome in play what with the critical hit and miss charts and specific roll-dependent effects for every spell. However, I still reserve judgement on the game on account of the fact that I haven't actually seen how it works in play. DW has Funnel World, which serves the same start-with-a-bunch-of-disposable-guys purpose.
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Mar 5, 2015 21:39
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I just read the best post about Pathfinder Online's leveling system.quote:From what I can tell of the leveling system, it's a kind of bizarre hybrid of a standard MMO XP grind with EVE's learning system. Apparently Dancey generally liked the EVE system, but felt it was flawed, and saw this as the fix.
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Mar 9, 2015 16:45
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In related news, and online buddy has invited me to his PF game. I'm...not eager. He says he runs the game looser than the rules are presented, but the overall gamer mindset of his group means they won't even try games that are designed to be lose in the first place.
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Mar 9, 2015 17:23
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I honestly don't think I've ever been in a PbP game that didn't just fade.
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Mar 9, 2015 18:04
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It is loving amazing to me that Dancey constantly comes up with such terrible ideas that aren't grounded in anything and yet not only keeps getting work but seems to keep getting better work.
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Mar 9, 2015 18:21
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:As somebody who has a group of friends who only play D&D 2e, I've had a similar experience. Just don't talk any other games with them and try to go in with an open mind. Regarding my situation I did just that, it was about as terrible as a bunch of 40 year old aping lovely mechanics and mindsets from the 1980s could be, but at least I gave it a shot and I'm glad I did. They were also very gracious when I said it wasn't for me. It's weird to me, because I do "Games on Demand" at PAX East every year, and I get people playing DW or Fate coming in from more traditional games, and they end up loving it. In fact, last weekend I had a group playing the Atomic Robo RPG, and two of my players immediately bought FAE and some dice, and they told me that they've been playing WoD for a long time, but they always ignored a lot of the rules because they didn't fit their playstyle. At least now they have a game that'll support them. v  v
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Mar 9, 2015 19:10
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I'm really curious to see how 5e continues. The brand seems like it's on shaky ground on the tabletop as it drove out guys like me who actively disliked old D&D and, judging by Roll20, failed to recapture a lot of Pathfinder's market share. But the point about "identity politics" still feels right; regardless of who consulted on it I have zero interest or desire to play 5e because everything leading up to it made it clear that they weren't interested in the opinions of people like myself who enjoyed 4e and accepted that it was D&D.
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Mar 10, 2015 16:27
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Serf posted:The only mechanic I really miss from 4E are action points, but I haven't found a good way to work them into 13th Age. Icon dice? I've used a system where people can use relationship dice for bonuses and such, but that's because I only run the organized play stuff so things are a little more limited in terms of working Icon stuff into the game.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:25
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PresidentBeard posted:They are idiots who now populate the paizo site and complain endlessly about "rules bloat". Seemingly wanting Paizo to commit corporate suicide and just stop producing books.
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Mar 10, 2015 19:27
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Maxwell Lord posted:I think Next is going to do pretty well because it's an edition that most people can settle for. It's not as broken as 3.x, doesn't try anything new like 4e, doesn't have most of the restrictions of older editions, etc. It's not aiming to be the best, just the least disagreeable. "Fifth Edition D&D: it's okay, you don't have to try something new"
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Mar 10, 2015 20:01
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paradoxGentleman posted:Is there any agreement on what storygame means, exactly? I hear it from time to time and I know Pundit hates them, but that only tells me that they are not D&D.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:15
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PresidentBeard posted:They love the core rules but hate critically examining them. They seem to want to play something rules-lite but don't want to quit d20 for some reason. I've run indie games for people at cons, and you would not believe how many people I've gotten playing stuff like DW or Fate who say things like "this is how we always played D&D/Pathfinder/WoD, really loose and ignoring a bunch of the rules. We didn't know there were games that worked like that out of the box!"
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Mar 10, 2015 20:19
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PresidentBeard posted:Part of that is Paizo and White Wolf being much much better than those other games at getting advertising into stores and providing continuing support that validates previous purchases. Paizo more than WW is about maintaining a sunk cost fallacy.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:28
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Kai Tave posted:I am somehow doubtful that Paizo has found the magic elfgame formula that will allow them to completely avoid the same slow but inexorable decline in sales that pretty much every other RPG publisher experiences over time which necessitates some sort of new edition or similar big release to get things moving again every so often. I've had Fate on the mind a lot lately, and it's interesting to see the reactions of Fate fans to new editions (SotC to DF to Fate Core) versus the D&D fanbase's reactions to the end of 3e.
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Honestly the fact that it's a Monte Cook game is the main thing that's preventing me from buying The Strange, even though it's a game that is completely and utterly in my thematic wheelhouse.
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