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Was going to run Dungeon World today, but two of my three players couldn't make it, so I had to cancel.  Bummed.
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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. Yeah, D&D is basically the archetypal RPG, much like Superman is the archetypal superhero and the Sex Pistols are the archetypal punk band. What do all archetypes have in common?... They don't age well. 5e is making its debut in an era where there are dozens of games that capture the flavor of D&D better than D&D.
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Mar 3, 2015 06:47
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gnome7 posted:This basically sums up Dungeon World for me. The core playbooks are dull and uninspired, the steading rules are pointless, and the core book is unclear in more than a few places, but especially in DM advice. Dungeon World doesn't really come into its own until you start adding in all the cool supplemental playbooks other people have written. Hell, the main reason I wrote so many playbooks is because dungeon world core just could not do any of the fun things I wanted it to. EDIT: Made a stupid shitpost and unwarranted PA. Sorry. Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Mar 3, 2015 07:29
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Kai Tave posted:Well that came out of nowhere. You're right. gnome7, and all, I apologize. That was uncalled for. Having a really bad day/week, and trolling about elfgames doesn't help anybody. I think I need a break. Getting way too wrapped up in all this. Sorry, everybody.
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Mar 3, 2015 10:18
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FMguru posted:He just picked up a long probation over at RPGnet and the rather curt and blunt ban message shows that even RPGnet's mods are getting tired of his routine. *reads thread* *starts making a Blue Rose campaign mod for Lamentations of the Flame Princess*
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Mar 7, 2015 07:16
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Whether or not OGL material can be used for a video game hasn't been put to the test. Does that card game still use rust monsters and other distinctly D&D critters? That seems like it could be an issue for translating adventure paths to a card game and then into a video game. Weren't the Star Wars: KOTOR games based on the SW d20 system? It seemed to work pretty well because, funny enough, d20 is actually tolerable with a computer running all the calculations for you. What's stopping PF from doing the same?
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Mar 9, 2015 22:56
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Kai Tave posted:If the idea of "I'm worried that this game is going to go nowhere and resolve unsatisfactorily" is keeping you from playing then it's possible you're in the wrong hobby. I have never, not once, had a game either face-to-face or online resolve with any sort of narrative finality or even on a solid cliffhanger. Games that achieve a satisfactory conclusion in this hobby are in a stark minority compared to games that peter out and quietly die. Hey, I'm in the stark minority! Cool. Just gonna bask in the fleeting feelings of achievement... But yeah, the majority of my games fizzle, too. Not even from flakey players, just from the hassles of RL; careers and such. Having an addendum for that in RPG books would be good advice. I think it's why I'm shifting my focus to sandbox gaming - there's no "epic plot" you have to worry so much about maintaining. Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 00:43
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What would you (the thread) think of a video game based on a *World or Fate property? How would the storygame format translate into a video game?
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Mar 10, 2015 23:27
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Yawgmoth posted:I just wanna know if combat is still a nonsensical pile of overcomplicated bullshit or not. It is. It's a shame. Brian Clevinger (Atomic Robo comic and Fate RPG) wrote an open letter a while back to the Ex3 developers hoping that they'd take a less complex, more intuitive approach to the rules; something more akin to Fate. Their response on rpg.net was basically "Nah, we love overcomplicated bullshit." EDIT: Here's the letter Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 00:14
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The tick mechanic was taken from Feng Shui (a lot of Exalted mechanics were basically a clumsy attempt to graft Feng Shui's innovations onto the Storyteller system). It worked ok for FS because the system didn't really have much in the way of moving parts, but once you started being able to manipulate the battle wheel with extra action Charms and weapon speeds it became a total clusterfuck.
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Mar 13, 2015 02:22
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Geoff Grabowski, the 1e developer, was a writer for later FS books like Golden Comeback. The main influences he took from FS were the mook rules, stunt bonuses, and the trees for Fu Schticks that evolved into Charm trees. Grabowski was gone by the time 2e rolled in, and the developers mistakenly thought "if *these* mechanics from FS work, then surely the battle wheel will!"
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Mar 13, 2015 02:32
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Covok posted:Got a link to their response on rpg.net? Just curious. Here you go. I think it's pretty telling that so many of the Ex3 developers are current and former rpg.net mods. That whole site seems like it's stuck in 2001.
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Mar 13, 2015 09:17
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Splicer posted:Like you wouldn't watch CHUD Danny DeVito. It's Always Sunny in Volivat!
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Mar 13, 2015 23:16
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I'm of the opinion that if you're going to present your RPG as a meatgrinder, character creation should take 10 min, tops. Your total stats should fit on an index card. Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Mar 15, 2015 22:41
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Mince Pieface posted:The funny thing is, a Necromancer with Rebuke Undead would have more reason than anyone to try to kill Acererak, and it makes absolutely no sense that a bunch of Necromancers would be helping him. If Acererak succeeds in Return to the Tomb of Horrors, the result is that all undead everywhere are directly under Acererak's control, and all the other Necromancers are out of a job. Yeah, but the necromancers don't know that. They're like the chumps in a pyramid scheme who all think they're going to get-rich-quick from selling protein shakes and timeshares.
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Mar 21, 2015 06:17
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grassy gnoll posted:"Halt," cries the wizened wizard. He extends one bandage-wrapped talon at you, which crackles with eldritch potential. "You may not pass unless you purchase three cases of potions of mangosteen!" "While you're at it, buy a timeshare on the Negative Material Plane! You can rent it to your friends on the off-season! It's like making gold pieces on vacation!"
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Mar 21, 2015 07:24
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PurpleXVI posted:I think one part of that which definitely needs reviving is the concept of the "Lord" level: Up to and including 2nd edition AD&D, it was assumed that when you hit 9th level, you'd start settling down. Advancement in fighting power(HP) and other adventuring stuff would start slowing down, just murdering things would not provide a lot of XP(relative to how much you needed) unless you went hunting dragons or something(not a clever idea) and your character had probably spent a good while adventuring by that point, up to a decade or so(in-game time). Instead of just retiring and buying a farm, however, every single class had a specific note for 9th level detailing what sort of followers they could attract, and what sort of "fortress" it was suggested they build(guilds for thieves, towers for mages, meditation retreats for monks, temples for clerics, etc.). The Adventurer, Conquerer, King System is a hack of B/X D&D that was designed to do exactly that. It details and codifies a lot of that post-dungeon gameplay that was hinted on in early D&D, but never really expanded upon. As a system, ACKS is a little too nitpicky for me, but I like its approach to fleshing out how to actually run a thieves guild, in-game.
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Mar 21, 2015 10:56
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Elfgames posted:But if i wanted to play that why wouldn't i start a game as the lord and you know probably play a system that was designed to support that playstyle much better. Settlers of Catan: the RPG?
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Mar 21, 2015 19:52
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Been reading A Red and Pleasant Land for LotFP, and I really enjoy the setting (basically an Alice-in-Wonderland-style fantasy world ruled by bizarre vampires ala-Legacy of Kain). It tears me up because I know that Zak S is an enormous douchebag, but I really like the elements of the setting and the artwork (I'd like to see more modern, abstract, and Expressionist-style art in RPGs in general). I want to run a game in PbP (or any LotFP game), but I'm not sure I'd even find anybody willing to play (Even talk about LotFP is outright banned in the retroclone games forum). Frustrating! Pretty sure this book will just end up in the category of "Games I like but will never run/play."
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Mar 23, 2015 04:19
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Tollymain posted:The base system is by Raggi whatshisface, another similarly upstanding member of the rpg developer community Yeah, I read a lot about Raggi, but I don't really get most of the hate; he doesn't start smear campaigns against people, or denigrate people who enjoy different types of games from him (as far as I've seen). The worst he seems to do is stir up poo poo to promote controversy (though publishing Carcosa was a stupid thing to do).
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Mar 23, 2015 04:57
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Flavivirus posted:Pretty sure they were using "D&D" as a synonym for OSR - WoTC aren't about to start hiring this guy. I've read the Grindhouse corebook, and I'd actually say it's a fairly even split of violence against women vs. violence against men. It's mostly violence against people, which is a factor in the sort of horror he's going for. My first D&D game ever was set in Ravenloft, and I like that LotFP captures much the same vibe as Ravenloft, but willing to go to even darker places. And it should also be said that Raggi collaborates with many good writers (Kenneth Hite, Vincent Baker) as well as bad (Zak S, the Carcosa guys). I'm not say that he's some kind of Platonic ideal RPG designer, but I don't think he is, as the Retroclone thread says, "a cancer on the industry."
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Mar 23, 2015 09:59
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MadScientistWorking posted:I don't know if just a bit creepy counts for a man who really likes a movie that features actual animals being mutilated on camera. Care to elaborate? What movie?
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Mar 23, 2015 21:48
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ProfessorCirno posted:CAH is like half actual hilarious potential card combos, half terribly bigotry. gently caress racist humor, I'm in it for the bleak humor. But that latter half just keeps poppin' up, ruining the game!" "Despite humanity's progress, we are still largely defined, and divided by, the stereotypes of race, class, and gender." Seems pretty bleak to me. 
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Mar 24, 2015 22:07
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If I can't punch down, how am I supposed to throw Hadokens?
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Mar 25, 2015 04:36
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dwarf74 posted:Blue Rose is coming back, and Chris Pramas is coming out swinging. Excellent! (I kinda didn't get the reference to the "Supreme Court has declared racism to be over" part. When did this happen?)
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Mar 25, 2015 21:55
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Lord Frisk posted:No one ate pussy in westeros before he mucked box on that ginger chick? Geez, no wonder everybody's so bloodthirsty!
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Ratpick posted:In case you didn't know, Concept art for the Lamentations of the Flame Princess Christmas Spectacular
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