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They've just announced a Dying Earth RPG bundle of holding. Is it worth it? It looks real interesting and I'm a fan of Robin Laws' work but I'm afraid it might fall in the Feng Shui trap of presenting cool ideas in an ambitious but ultimately poor system.
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Mar 16, 2015 19:43
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FMguru posted:It's superb, and wonderfully captures everything about Vance's prose and worldview. It's really three games in one - a low-power game of scam artists getting into trouble over and over again (the Cugel stories), a mid-power game of grim adventurers exploring a weird sword-and-sorcery world (the original DE short stories), and a high-level game of dimension-hopping politics among bitchy archmages (Rhiallto-level); the system is tuned for the first framework and needs some kludging to really work for the next two. Thanks, this sounds interesting. Sorry for barging in on the larger discussion.
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Mar 16, 2015 23:16
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In my experience players will default to ask the GM for setting details anyway, so it's pretty easy for the GM to balance how much they're going to bounce the question back at the players with a "I don't know, what do you think?" And you can do that without explicit rules for player participation in the setting.
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Mar 25, 2015 14:11
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Here Santa is known as "Homem do Saco" aka Bagman and he is either an ecuadorian immigrant or a gypsy (or Roma) that steals children to sell their organs. Other heavy-hitters of Brazilian folklore include a headless horse who spits fire through its nose, the eighth son after seven daughters becoming a werewolf (like a Discworld wizard went wrong), "huge snake only it's on fire", that guy with beer bottles for feet which I never got the point of, pipe-smoking half-naked one-legged black child, and a sexy porpoise.
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Mar 27, 2015 12:31
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ScaryJen posted:I wanna play this RPG story game. I was going to make a huge effortpost about folklore in my Challenge of the Bandeirantes F&F but I just couldn't get through the game. It can be described as "GURPS without the exciting parts", that's how boring it is. Ratpick posted:In case you didn't know, Thing about Santa is, he was a certified badass. TheLovablePlutonis posted:Also the flaming hair goblin with backwards feet. The curupira is genuinely cool though. An indian child with hair on fire and backwards feet (so you can't track him) and a big stick, who will beat you the gently caress up if you aren't eco-friendly.
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Mar 27, 2015 21:40
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Evil Mastermind posted:I am so looking forward to this. I'm as much into making fun of terrible stereotypes as the next man (the looks section is amazing), but when you turn that into an RPG, devote your game design energies to it, and expect players to sink 3-4 hours of their times, multiple times, into it, isn't that going a bit far with the "ironic" appreciation?
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Mar 30, 2015 20:00
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Covok posted:That anime WoD supplement someone posted earlier made me wonder how many bad, fanmade rpgs supplements were made in the 90s based on anime. Kind of doubt any were good. Not the 90's, but Naruto d20 is an absolutely fascinating clusterfuck  pretty sure there was a F&F for it.
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Mar 31, 2015 23:12
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