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After several false starts for games and a cross-country move I've finally rounded people up for a spooktacular Deadlands game I'm wavering between finding a good pre-made to start the campaign off on so I can start asap or taking my time to sketch out a long term general campaign plan/first adventure
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Blockhouse posted:After several false starts for games and a cross-country move I've finally rounded people up for a spooktacular Deadlands game I have never actually found a good Deadlands pre-made. So if you find one please share! For about a year now I've really wanted to run ETU, but its never managed to come together.
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Pfox posted:netflix and boo? netflix and chiller 
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Probably going to run a Monster of the Week game and get the three playbooks I wrote some playtesting.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I would just like to let everyone know that I am finally getting around to watching Rick & Morty and enjoying it immensely. I said it somewhere recently, but I really have to start watching this show. Lightning Lord posted:As a Canadian-in-Exile, the scariest thing to me is Americans going out of their way to tell me how much they enjoy Tim Hortons. Do any of the others try to fight you for the honour of Krispy Kreme?
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Oct 3, 2015 16:51
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Bieeardo posted:I said it somewhere recently, but I really have to start watching this show. It's pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOBoKxEcVAA
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Oct 3, 2015 19:50
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unseenlibrarian posted:Probably going to run a Monster of the Week game and get the three playbooks I wrote some playtesting. Do you have a link to those? I've never seen third party stuff for Monster of the Week before.
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I thinking this month might be the perfect time to run A Red and Pleasant Land. I'll probably run the Heart Queen's castle using Dungeon World, set Voivodja as its own domain in Ravenloft, and, quite possibly, make the world the current resting place of the Antediluvian Malkav. 
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Oct 3, 2015 21:27
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Gazetteer posted:Do you have a link to those? I've never seen third party stuff for Monster of the Week before. Sure, but as mentioned: mostly unplaytested and pretty much 'first time efforts at doing PBTA stuff at all. The Athlete: Jocks, cheerleaders, would-be Olympians. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B67MVAfQf1SjcTNxb1RmY180d1k The Celebrity: You know Roddy Mcdowell in Fright Night? David Tennant...also in Fright Night? Bruce Campbell in "My Name is Bruce?" Yeah. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B67MVAfQf1SjS2VDRWcxVkZpSlE The Cryptozoologist: Because most of the sciency-playbooks were more about 'use science to kill monsters' instead of "use science to know about monsters" https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B67MVAfQf1SjZFBaYjZZTy05UzA
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Simian_Prime posted:I thinking this month might be the perfect time to run A Red and Pleasant Land. 
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Ningyou posted:speaking of, it's really too bad bc i read a blurb for Red and Pleasant Land and it sounds like it would be totally up my alley if not for the whole 'written by an obsessive serial harasser who harassed women into quitting elfgames and vanishing from the internet' thing Wat D: What happened Ooh it's by Zak Smith ok yeah
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Oct 3, 2015 22:49
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You can play the game and avoid giving the bad internet guy money if you think piratical theft is a lesser evil.
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Oct 3, 2015 22:52
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unseenlibrarian posted:
Yeah, I remember when I tried to run MotW and one of my players wanted to use the Action Scientist playbook, and I was like "I'm trying to run an occult horror game, and you want to play Iron Man?" (To be fair, every single character she makes in an RPG is some variation of "gender-switched Tony Stark.")
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Ningyou posted:speaking of, it's really too bad bc i read a blurb for Red and Pleasant Land and it sounds like it would be totally up my alley if not for the whole 'written by an obsessive serial harasser who harassed women into quitting elfgames and vanishing from the internet' thing My background is in art history, so I've pretty much come to terms with disliking an artist as a person while still enjoying their art. One of my fav painters is Caravaggio, and he straight-up murdered a dude over a tennis match.
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Or you could just do your own Alice in Wonderland v Dracula in Toothville in a battle that ravages the entire public domain.
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Simian_Prime posted:One of my fav painters is Caravaggio, and he straight-up murdered a dude over a tennis match. Sounds like a badass
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Oct 3, 2015 23:10
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There's a slight difference between overlooking the flaws of a long-dead person who will never profit from your appreciation, and a living person who can benefit from your money or attention. Not to mention the long-dead person was likely around in an age where most of the folks had the morality of cat-burners or slaveowners or crusaders or whatever, and the living person is in an age where we have a whole lot of tools enabling us to Know Better. Not to say you can't enjoy Red and Pleasant Land, it's your call, but it's a different and far more lively can of worms.
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Simian_Prime posted:My background is in art history, so I've pretty much come to terms with disliking an artist as a person while still enjoying their art. e: who~ops sorta-beaten
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Ningyou posted:i'd argue that there's a difference between someone who accidentally...? killed somebody hundreds of years ago and someone who intentionally stalks and harasses marginalized folx and obsessively namesearches for new targets in the *now* (and revels in people going 'hey that's kind of hosed up' because SJW TEARS HEH or something???, and harassed mikan til she was a panicky, withdrawn wreck afraid to have any web presence at all) but uh you do you i guess Fair enough. I do agree that Zac S is a lovely person, and not considering a product based on a person's behavior is perfectly valid. (I feel the same whenever people tell me about Ender's Game, knowing what I do about Orson Scott Card) I dunno, there's definitely a conflict for me, because I was impressed enough by ARaPL that I was willing to give my feelings about its author a pass, which is something I don't do often. The artwork and aesthetic are a rare treat in this day and age where most RPG art is just the same overpainted Photoshop fantasy stuff that you see on M:tG cards.
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Oct 3, 2015 23:36
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i just saw Trick R Treat and liked it a lot!
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Simian_Prime posted:Fair enough. I do agree that Zac S is a lovely person, and not considering a product based on a person's behavior is perfectly valid. (I feel the same whenever people tell me about Ender's Game, knowing what I do about Orson Scott Card) Conscious consumption is a lie considering that anyone posting here is using an electronic device whose creation involved the brutal exploitation under subhuman conditions of african and southeast-asian laborers in order to reduce costs and increase profit rates of CEOs because that's how Capital works hahaha!
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NutritiousSnack posted:i just saw Trick R Treat and liked it a lot! One of my favorite Halloween movies of all time! What was your favorite segment?
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Oct 4, 2015 01:57
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Thanks for all the hit location rpg recommendations gents.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Conscious consumption is a lie considering that anyone posting here is using an electronic device whose creation involved the brutal exploitation under subhuman conditions of african and southeast-asian laborers in order to reduce costs and increase profit rates of CEOs because that's how Capital works hahaha! I'm predicting that, five years from now, a company in Portland will offer a free-trade, artisanal smartphone that costs 3 times as much as your typical iPhone.
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Simian_Prime posted:I'm predicting that, five years from now, a company in Portland will offer a free-trade, artisanal smartphone that costs 3 times as much as your typical iPhone. The trick is that the while the assembly is made in Portland the parts are still made with congolese Coltan
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:The trick is that the while the assembly is made in Portland the parts are still made with congolese Coltan Marginalizing Africans is a proud Portland tradition! (Man that reads like a Cards Against Humanity joke)
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Oct 4, 2015 03:10
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Hey so did that Savage Worlds: Rifts thing die on the vine already or is that still happening?
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FewtureMD posted:One of my favorite Halloween movies of all time! What was your favorite segment? Honestly Surprise Party, though The Principal and Meet Sam were great
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Bieeardo posted:Do any of the others try to fight you for the honour of Krispy Kreme? I just think Timmy's makes bad coffee and bad, microwaved donuts. KK actually makes theirs. TheLovablePlutonis posted:Conscious consumption is a lie considering that anyone posting here is using an electronic device whose creation involved the brutal exploitation under subhuman conditions of african and southeast-asian laborers in order to reduce costs and increase profit rates of CEOs because that's how Capital works hahaha! This is actually true. On some level, it's shitbags all the way down. In the wake of the Scott Allie controversy in comics (long story short, dude is a senior editor at Dark Horse, and he got wasted at a con party, bit a dude and grabbed his junk and has been doing that kind of thing for years because he's an alcoholic) David Brothers wrote about this http://tumblr.iamdavidbrothers.com/post/130368181942/this-is-something-thats-been-weighing-on-me-and-i That said, it doesn't mean nobody should ever decide that something isn't for them for a moral reason. "Shitbags all the way down" is indeed true but it can be a moral copout. Electronic devices are pretty much indispensable in this fallen world. Entertainment isn't, especially when there's so much of it around. That doesn't mean I think someone's a monster or I'll stop respecting them or being their friend or whatever if they want to do something like run Red and Pleasant Land. But I don't think it makes them immune from criticism for doing so either. Of course, I might have to swallow my own bitter medicine soon. Scott Allie is the editor of most, if not all of the Hellboy stuff and that's my favorite comic so... gently caress. I'm probably not going to boycott it, but I hope he gets fired or his job is made contingent on going to rehab. theironjef posted:Hey so did that Savage Worlds: Rifts thing die on the vine already or is that still happening? Pinnacle is known for being tight lipped, so expect news to show up out of the blue when they have something of substance. They're probably going to miss the Christmas date since this is RPGs, but who knows? From google I have learned that playtests are occurring, so that's good news. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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You impugned Tim's. We can no longer be friends, LL.
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Arivia posted:You impugned Tim's. We can no longer be friends, LL. My cousin used to work there and I got to see how the sausage is made.
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There hasn't been any official news on the Rifts Savage Worlds stuff since the initial announcement. I've heard scuttlebutt on details but nothing verifiable so far. You'd think they would have had something for Gencon and the Rifts 25th anniversary, but it's been pretty quiet. A lot depends on how well Palladium handles the approval process. Hopefully it'll go well, but history is not a great indicator there. On a mildly related note, the TMNT cartoon has had some nerd flags showing when they recently introduced the "Dream Beavers", which were thinly veiled revamps of the Terror Bears from the old Palladium TMNT RPG. The show also had a running gag all last season with the fictional cartoon "Crognard the Barbarian", a He-Man / Thunder knockoff who relentlessly murders everything in his path.
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New Halloween avatar!
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Love the eyebrows!Lightning Lord posted:I just think Timmy's makes bad coffee and bad, microwaved donuts. KK actually makes theirs. I didn't know that about the doughnuts, but yeah, there's a reason why everyone seems to order a double-double.
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Dream Beaver
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Dream Beaver My most cherished GM mask.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Dream Beaver Very soon, just in time for Halloween, store shelves at major retailers across America will have "dire beaver" and "dark beaver" action figures available for sale. Make of that what you will.
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NutritiousSnack posted:i just saw Trick R Treat and liked it a lot! This movie is fantastic. Whenever Halloween rolls around and we start watching horror movies, there's always one person who's like "I don't watch horror movies" and we get them to watch Trick R Treat and its amazing to see their reaction. Like nothing in that movie is scary, its just awesome. It's great for getting people into the Halloween spirit even if they're not into horror movies. Also, if anyone is into horror movies, you should watch It Follows because that's the best horror film I've seen in a while. Badass and unconventional sountrack too.
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Fly me high through the starry skies Maybe to an astral plane Cross the highways of fantasy Help me to forget today's pain Oooh dream beaver!
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I already bought my "Sexy Tabletop Gamer" costume at Party City.
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