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The first RPG I actually owned was Vampire, but I couldn't get anyone to play it in middle school. But I also read Shadowrun novels, having picked one up because the cover depicted an elf firing an assault rifle. My freshman year of high school I made upperclassmen friends who played it, and the rest is history. That said, I haven't played Shadowrun in a long time, and I'm not really attached to it the way a lot of people are attached to a specific version of a specific game because it was their first.
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Harrow posted:I'm looking for some good game or film soundtracks to fill out my "background music" playlists. All of the instrumental music that Brian Eno did during the 70s, including the three David Bowie albums he produced, are my go-to for creepy dungeon music. I used to have a big playlist of that stuff that I would put on while playing Pool of Radiance and other old dungeon crawlers. I also bust these out for anything horror related, especially Lovecraft-related. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5o-GTgonDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBprICVPzKA Man, I'm already back in the slums of Phlan. poo poo poo poo poo poo a pack of wights gently caress
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Jun 8, 2015 23:52
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FactsAreUseless posted:Eno didn't produce the Berlin trilogy, he co-wrote and performed on it (not vocals though). Agreed re:Low.
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Jun 9, 2015 02:09
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Yeah, since Sorcerers don't get bonus feats, you have zip, zero, nada reason to stay Sorcerer when you can take a level in a prestige class that gives full spellcasting. I believe the only thing you lose out on is your familiar becoming slightly more potent.
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Jun 10, 2015 19:05
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There is definitely cool stuff under the broad label of OSR. My favourite, honestly, is probably the job that Goblinoid Games did on Labyrinth Lord and Mutant Future--Mutant Future reconciles all the old editions of Gamma World into one game that's compatible with Labyrinth Lord. Put robots and laser guns into your D&D game to your heart's content.
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Jun 10, 2015 21:59
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Mutant City Blues is explicitly a police procedural, but in a world with super-powers. Either way, the GUMSHOE system is worth checking out.
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Jun 14, 2015 03:16
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I hear DCC is actually pretty good, but I seriously cannot get past that "Halt! If thou desireth not for Erol Otus to cum on thine face, this horseshit is nuncupatory!" thing in the prologue.
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Jun 21, 2015 03:54
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ProfessorCirno posted:A mix of 2 and 3, as well as some starkly negative experiences with the Paizo staff at the time. Am I remembering wrong, or did somebody as Reynolds point-blank "Why don't you make a Combat book that doesn't actually boost wizards at the expense of fighters" and he replied "Nope!"
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Jun 24, 2015 14:36
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The whole set as part of a cheap bundle? poo poo, I'm in. I wanted to get those before but they were prohibitively expensive, piecemeal.
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Jun 24, 2015 23:29
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I didn't play Dragon Age, but I heard the RPG was a great love letter to D&D that actually got 3e-era design right. Having flipped through it, yeah, it seemed stuffed with caster supremacy and pretty boring to play a fighter or rogue type.
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Jun 28, 2015 16:42
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The "Magic Deer" thing seems similar to the thing about how you can't play a D&D paladin in REIGN unless it's a female paladin; a distorted rumour that was hotly debated among a circle of people much broader than the number of people who actually read/played the game.
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unseenlibrarian posted:Oh god that loving thread. Night10194 posted:Oh, yeah, I was more just saying a culture that reminds me of Longshoreman X is instantly interesting to me. The Truils are like semi-nomadic Native Americans, except white, and also like Picts kind of. Their story hasn't played out like the Indian Wars for a couple reasons, to make a long story short. One is that their lands aren't called the Truil Wastes for nothing, so none of their neighbours can get a political mandate to spend vast resources to thoroughly conquer them. Two, the Truils are real loving scary. REIGN is cool.
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Dindavara is definitely not my favourite of the major nations, but I think the most interesting thing to be found there is the friction between their ideology and their reality. Their philosophy says that they have a manifest destiny to conquer the world in order to save it, because only noble Dindavarans are fit to rule; peasants are like children, and foreigners aren't evil, they're like children who have never had good parents. The Dindavarans who are most likely to drink this Honorable Samurai Kool-Aid are blind fanatics, chickenhawks with something to gain from war, or sheltered nobles who have never had contact with foreigners. So there's a tug of war between those fools and the Dindavarans who are skeptical, worldly, or just pragmatic enough to know that spilling gallons of noble blood into the soil is too high a price to pay for a chunk of the Truil Wastes.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:MANDATORY BUTTPLUGS
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Jun 30, 2015 05:43
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They really should just have one Ennie Award and present it to Pathfinder every year. It would save a lot of time and I wouldn't have to hear about the Ennies so often.
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You're wrong about that; D&D itself swept the awards in 2009, but every year after that it rarely wins the Gold award in any category, and never in a major one. Sometimes they give a D&D product the Silver award so that they can give the Gold to a Pathfinder one in the same category. They do this too often for it to be coincidence. They do dole out awards to non-D20, non-fantasy RPGs, sometimes even in the more prominent categories. But generally speaking, Pathfinder wins everything important. The notable exception is Numenera sweeping the awards last year. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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