TG June Chat Thread: Bruce Willis' Bonus Feats

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Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Are there any great guides for running RPGs online with chat or voice chat? Roll20 and Skype seem to be common options, but I'm thinking of dipping my toes in finally to get some far-flung friends together, and I'm probably going to be organizing things, but I'd like to have some idea of what the best tools are and what the common stumbling blocks are.

Roll20 is pretty easy to use once you get used to making the maps. Just treat it a lot like playing an RPG with a shared whiteboard and it'll go fine.

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Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Mind elaborating on that? I'm guessing one of the following reasons:
1. the variant rules are a continuation of cheap rip-offs of 3.5
2. it didn't actually add much to martial classes despite the name
3. it had new and more spells, which is rich for a book called Ultimate Combat, especially when said spells continue to tread on martials

It's number 3. It has as much or more material for spellcasting as fighters, and the Gunslinger it added is a hot mess.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2015 07:32

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Kellsterik posted:

I agree that it would come from an already unfriendly reading of the book, but the torc is a bit unsettling because it evokes the imagery of the "taking over the world for humanity's own good" stock setting. It's not hard to read that and picture these people having glassy eyes and not quite remembering their own names.

It sounds more like it's just a magical version of psychiatric meds for psychotics.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2015 18:58

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

unseenlibrarian posted:

Also "By the way almost everyone's black, the only white cultures are the cannibal barbarian werewolves and the sea-going nomadic pirates with a fighting style based on weaponized longshoreman's hooks." But then, they only ever -read- that paragraph, so...

In fairness, it sounds like the white guys got some pretty cool hooks to work with there. No pun intended.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 05:46

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Kai Tave posted:

I don't think it was ever meant to be some sort of in-your-face HEY CHECK IT OUT IT'S LIKE IF RACISM WAS REVERSED thing, Stolze makes a point of noting that there's no real history of ethnicity-based slavery or genocide going on in the setting, simply that every culture views themselves as the apex of civilization and every other culture as filthy barbarian savages.

Oh, yeah, I was more just saying a culture that reminds me of Longshoreman X is instantly interesting to me.

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