Count Chocula posted:

Paths of the Wick should be the name of the thread.

Mors Rattus posted:

The world is a joke, and humanity is the punchline.

Kobal, Prince of Dark Humor, is Hell's jester and beloved by Lucifer, who allows him to say anything, even if he'd punish anyone else. Kobal perverts humor into mockery, hatred and despair, turning thought into laughter and concern into callousness. He appears dfifferently whenever he manifests, but his demons can always recognize him. Sometimes he is cheerful, but mostly he is depressed and caustic. He prefers intelligent humor and word games to simple gags. He is an Impudite and used to spend a lot of time on Earth, but does so less and less this century. He's heard all the jokes now, he's jaded and getting bored and angry. He only comes out when called or to enjoy some especially brutal practical joke. He is planning to perform the ultimate joke, though he's not necessarily consciously aware of it. When he does it asnd on whom may make the difference in the War. It is dissonant for any demon of Kobal to go a single day iwthout worsening someone's luck by laughing at them or making others laugh at them.

In Nomine, Superior Opinions posted:

(snarky bullshit)

Doresh posted:

"I do wonder: How can we use a cosmic horror disguised as a clown in our War on Terror?"

LatwPIAT posted:

OK, the most hillarious part of this backstory? Caine was jealous of the women having more power than men; Caine was jealous of all the magical power the Circe gave to women but not men and rebelled, which tells us that the real issue at hand here are the thousands of years of discrimination that men faced at the hands of Circe. In fact, the last five thousand years of Patriarchy cannot be seen as traditional oppression by the powerful. Rather, Patriarchy is the lashing out of an abused and impoverished group, and the witches who worship Circe are reactionaries trying to regain their own position of superiority.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

I imagine it comes of rolling on treasure tables, because that's what you do in a lot of old games, if you have a monster with Treasure Type Ψ, you just roll that poo poo.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Bill Webb's Book of Dirty Tricks

gradenko_2000 posted:

Bill Webb's Book of Dirty Tricks

So we learned from the earlier part that Bill Webb doesn't just let you roll to open a secret door: you have to figure out how to do manually/mechanically manipulate the doohickeys in the door to get it to open. He had a bad experience at a con game where the player party was composed of eight elves, which meant that they'd always find secret doors, since OD&D lets elves find secret doors on a 1 or 2 result of a 1d6 roll.

Kurieg posted:

That isn't even the most hilarious piece of artwork Bellum Maga has to provide.

The antagonists chapter has a piece with a witch giving two supreme court justices explosive diarrhea in front of a Hobby Lobby. No. Really.

It's such a specific and dated reference that it's hilarious in it's pettiness.

Ratoslov posted:

'The seemingly harmless being that's just hanging out in the dungeon turns out to be dangerous!' is the most incredibly transparent D&D cliche.

Doresh posted:

I think it helps to imagine the PCs not as murder hobos, but as medieval fantasy Indiana Jones'.

Asimo posted:

Rolemaster then?

theironjef posted:

"Secrets of the Juke" coming to stores near you.

Night10194 posted:

To be fair, the witches probably aren't doing anything to those F-35s; exploding/malfunctioning is their natural state.

Night10194 posted:

The Astounding Adventures of Killfuck Soulshitter

Crasical posted:

These two words elegantly sum up why I'm completely sick of 40k.

In particular, why I'm sick of a certain type of online tabletop game board poster who the franchise creates, who peppers their speech with 'Heresy' 'Traitor' and 'Purge' and parrots the 'kill the mutant/heretic/alien/other' slogan of the Imperium any chance they get, and tries to jam the philosophy into completely inappropriate settings.

Yeah, buddy, it's sure edgy that you think we should purge all the elves and dwarves as inhuman scum. You're really a mature and cool individual. I'm glad you came to enlighten us about how all aliens need to be executed via flamethrower in our Star-Trek style scifi setting.

Traveller posted:

In true '90s fashion, we also get stereotypes of what Clans think of the others. How exciting!

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

Who was it that coined the term 'Cogservatism'?

theironjef posted:

I'll look into wrestling games! Based on a perfunctory googling, it looks like the PBTA one is both too good and too new for our purposes, but I bet there's some terrible ones out there.

Doresh posted:

Man, I should seriously write a supplement about the Otakumancer class.

(He can cast Flesh to Hug Pillow and Super-deformed Polymorph)

theironjef posted:

Our first three or so episodes are completely terrible, to be fair.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Do you have any special memory or call out regarding Arduin Grimoire? That sounds interesting.

LuiCypher posted:

Indeed. But to be fair D&D 1e (which Arduin is really just a variant of rather than its own ruleset) basically set that standard.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I thought that the Judges Guild Ready Ref Sheets were impressive from a technical perspective from the same reason that they were basically a bunch of DMG-esque random generation tables, but had to have been laid out by hand.

Kurieg posted:

So what you're saying is that he wanted you to do the review in order to get press for his Kickstater and now that his Kickstarter is done he wants the review excised from the internet so the game maintains it's "exclusivity"?


He does realize that removing it from Inklesspen's website doesn't magically remove it from SA right?

Night10194 posted:

Imagining a kingdom of dragon rappers is honestly way more interesting than the game's actual setup so it probably shouldn't use Dre.

Halloween Jack posted:

So, having listened to the review: I have never seen a game where the true nature of the setting was hidden not only from the players but the GM, that managed to carry it off well. SLA Industries, Insylum, Noumenon, Lacuna, a|state, all of them are just half-baked as a result.

theironjef posted:

I really want to revisit that but I don't think FATE was going to be the right toolkit for us.

hyphz posted:

I can't remember if Sailor Moon came before or after the really old 1e of BDSM (the yellow book, not the green book).

chiasaur11 posted:

Am I missing something, or is this falling below my "I check the library's manga section" level of cultural understanding?

JcDent posted:

It's more exciting than "Silicon Valley dominating the technofuture"

Comrade Gorbash posted:

To be honest it isn't as silly that the original authors decided to keep that particular Japanese rendering. French doesn't quite have a direct equivalent to the way gimmick is used here, so it's defensible to use a foreign term, and at that point why use the English one? I mean sure there's a "cool" factor here but it's not as egregious.

That would also make it more evidence that the translation here is a bit lazy. The translator looked at the skill list and translated all the French on it, and left the Japanese... and didn't bother to consider that the "Japanese" skill name is actually English.

e: Or decided to keep the Japanese for "cool" factor which is just as silly.

unzealous posted:

As for style I’m sure you are already well aware of what is generally expected in a letter, being an individual of class and refined tastes.

quote:

I also found this interesting paragraph that I am copying verbatim as I hope you will find it as amusing as I did.

“One more thing: email. No email! This will kill the atmosphere stone dead. Unless someone deliberately wants to play using a different convention from the other two, and create a vision of today’s world with its Internet, its hurrying around, cell phones, great rushing streams of information, exchanges of brief electronic messages full of verbal static, acronyms, computer slang and the like.

This kind of thing would let them create a world straight out of Conspiracy Theory or The X-Files. But the ease and convenience which the Internet tempts us with are deceptive. If, through sheer laziness, using email prevents you from savouring the game in its traditional paper form, be careful: communicating and expressing one’s thoughts on paper is totally different from e-mail. A letter requires effort, takes your time, your concentration. It’s a sign of your respect for the addressee, too. Email is slapdash trash, full of mistakes, sometimes just tacking a few rushed comments on the end of thoughtlessly quoted fragments from a previous message. Let those who use email as their standard form of communication have a rest from their computers in the evenings when they’re playing De Profundis. Either way, be wary about email, as it distorts communication and our attitude to the addressee.”

gradenko_2000 posted:

Delta Green also splits up sanity losses into Violence, Helplessness, and The Unnatural. If you lose SAN from Violence or Helplessness three times without taking a temporary insanity or drawing a disorder, you become Adapted to it. You can no longer lose SAN from type, but it brings with it a separate set of penalties since someone Adapted to Violence becomes rather unempathic.

DNA Cowboys posted:

I don't have the exact wording, but it was along the lines of, "If it makes you uncomfortable to portray religion in your game, turn clerics into philosophers of different factions."

Freaking Crumbum posted:

Alien Rope Burn posted:

We haven't gotten one supplement in before the Society starts more or less banning material, though a few can be "unlocked" through playing through a set number of scenarios. Some will only be available by the region you play in, but if you aren't in the region a race is available they're be rotating them out-

Robindaybird posted:

they're anarcho-capitalist. Also a total idiot.