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Another thing with Exalted CharGen is that you need to do it backwards thanks to how pre-requisites work. But the same is true of most Storyteller games.
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Silver Ladder is still the best. Thunder: Imperium is the Sovereign Right of all Humanity, gently caress yeah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
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May 5, 2016 17:15
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If we want to get technical, oMage had everyone doing Chaos Magic while the new one has everyone doing a new type of true magic unlike any "real" occult magic, but most occult traditions have some fragment of the truth so someone using Japanese Onmyoudo is as right as someone going full Hermetic. So funnily enough, if you take both game's metaphysics into account, oMage is the one actually being super eurocentric, despite it's appearance otherwise. 
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May 5, 2016 18:34
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There was an entire book of nMage devoted to magical traditions.
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May 5, 2016 20:22
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I've been slowly going thtough System Mastery and I've just reached the Aberrant D20 episode. You know, it's pretty blatant just how bad the game is compared to it's companions Adventure! And Trinity. Not just mechanically (base game was badly designed way before the D20 version) but just the writing. I still don't get why it's the one people keep talking about instead of the other two.
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May 6, 2016 01:57
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kaynorr posted:The thing about Aberrant is that it got more support than Adventure! (which is to say, any follow-up whatsoever) and it was more interesting that Trinity which suffered from being somewhat bland. And for all the system problems and mediocre writing, it has a genuinely interesting notion at its core (society copes with superheroes by turning them into celebrities) which still sometimes shines through. Bland isn't a descriptor I'd ever use to describe Trinity.
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May 6, 2016 04:37
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Oh man, yeah, Brave New World. It's... almost good in parts? The Power packages are super specific and really unbalanced. One of them is simply the power to blow yourself up over and over.
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May 6, 2016 05:03
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Kai Tave posted:I don't know if it's a 90s game thing specifically but one reason no one uses premade example characters out of an RPG is that without fail they're always built incorrectly. I don't mean "they aren't at peak optimization," I mean they're built using faulty math, older versions of systems before stuff was changed, have abilities that they couldn't legally take due to lacking prerequisites, and are otherwise riddled with mistakes...and they're frequently terrible at their purported areas of expertise as well. The first edition of L5R was terrible for this: a ton of example characters had stats and skills higher than the character creation cap of starting+2 or 4, whichever is lower.
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May 12, 2016 18:21
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As for Street Fighter, having actually played in a pretty fun game for a few months, I'd never call it's mechanics particularly good. But we had fun.
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May 12, 2016 18:35
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L5R 1E has one of the most mini-gamey character creation I've ever seen. With the right combo of skills, advantages, dojo, ancestors and schools, there's a billion ways to make a super-broken character at the start. Like a scorpion with the ancestor to see through illusions and gain 2 free raises on perception rolls and then take the different school advantage as a Kitsuki Investigator to get 4 free raises on all investigation rolls at Rank 2 and blackmail everyone everywhere. Or the Akodo Bushi with Bishamon's blessing and the appropriate ancestor to gain 3 free raises on any attack roll all the time. I've done both of those builds, although I only got a chance to play the second. Our group was formed of Masters at L5R character creation.
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May 13, 2016 03:37
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, I used to have all the Munchkin d20 books from when SJ Games was fire saleing them, and managed to sell them off last year at a profit, because people are coocoo for that game. I'd use a Plutonium Dragon as a boss fight. No joke.
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May 18, 2016 21:58
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As a fan of the other gamelines, the way Beast walks all over them pisses me off.
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May 22, 2016 20:03
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Any Centimanus that meets a Beast would wonder how it could be better than them considering they only have two arms.
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May 23, 2016 05:35
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My feelings are that the slow return of old White Wolf started somewhere around Geist or Mummy, but that's all just my completely irrational feelings.
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May 24, 2016 16:52
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There's a group of vampires who worship the God-Machine in one of the Requiem books. They get answers to questions they haven't asked yet. Which is cool and all, but if they don't ask the question in time really bad stuff starts to happen.
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May 25, 2016 00:18
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The God-Machine first showed up in the original World of Darkness corebook, as part of a big block of weirdness/fiction. It was pretty popular at the time, but didn't get much more than a nod here and there until Demon/GMC. That book also had Mothman, but I don't think that myth got a full write up in nWoD. Or am I wrong?
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May 25, 2016 00:46
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I used to love those old "Rumors in the style of Unknown Armies" threads on rpg.net from years ago. This feels similar.
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May 25, 2016 03:43
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I Am Just a Box posted:The release of the GMC book sparked a pretty good thread in exactly that vein, too. On that thread is a pretty cool World of Darkness: Rumors fan supplement. I didn't know it existed, so I downloaded and was happily surpised to see it had rumors I submitted back in the day! Hopefully they're not the bad ones. If any of you guys want to check it out: http://www.mediafire.com/download/2ls4xd2jn5bf5pj/World+of+Darkness+Rumors.pdf
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May 25, 2016 04:09
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To accompany the update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58
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May 25, 2016 08:20
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The nWoD's toolkit approach means you only need to add whatever's needed for your game. Also, it's been described as full of unknown weirdness, with questions only leading to more questions, from day one.
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May 25, 2016 17:02
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:First four seasons on Netflix. It takes until episode 7 to really hit its stride, and then it been gathering speed ever since. Probably not on Netflix Canada.  Another funny thing about the God-Machine is that it's basically the Gangster Computer God.
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May 26, 2016 04:51
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Crasical posted:There's something kind of....? I can't put my finger on it, but it sure is something putting down The Bill of Rights, constitution, and Declaration of Independence as 'inspirational/recommended reading' for your game. Well, this is the same company that had heroic Confederates in Deadlands...
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May 27, 2016 06:17
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Would BOB from Twin Peaks work as a Beast?
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May 28, 2016 07:14
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Simian_Prime posted:He works better as one of the Strix from Requiem.  That's perfect!Actually, Beasts are closer to lovely Cenobites than BOB. 
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May 28, 2016 16:14
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My favorite Forsaken Lodge is The Lodge of the Crossroads, from Blasphemies. They specialize in american folklore and legends, and were supposedly founded by a wolf who saw a bluesman sell his soul at the crossroads.
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May 29, 2016 06:13
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In the one game of Brave New World I played in, my character was a Bomber named Ferdinand Molotov. I mostly used the exploding powers as intimidation bonuses.
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May 31, 2016 07:52
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I gave up on my Ravenloft reviews because I thought I wasn't good enough to do it justice.
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LatwPIAT posted:I find it vaguely amusing that you call me out for being a biased STEMlady with anti-queer sentiments by pointing out the characters I like are ugly. To be fair, the M20 version of the Tradition and Crafts are really bad. Sorcerer's Crusade/Revised give a much better version of them, so that the Traditions are flawed protagonists and the Technocracy are sympathetic villains. I used to love oMage to death, and even if my love has cooled down a lot, I still have "opinions" on it.
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Jun 7, 2016 08:19
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Kurieg posted:Does this make me Frodo or Gandalf? As long as you don't go full Turin. Never go full Turin.
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Jun 7, 2016 20:28
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Kaza42 posted:Instead, just go full Huan and beat up Sauron and an army of werewolves while being a dog Agreed: Forsaken is a better game. 
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Jun 7, 2016 20:38
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Young Freud posted:I already started thinking about a Beast that feeds on other Beasts. A teratophage, if you will. My end goal is to transcend the mortal world and become Gamera, friend to all children. I neat you to it with my Godzilla, King of Monsters, character pitch a few pages back. That would be the entire team, actually. Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, the whole gang. Fighting other Beasts.
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Jun 8, 2016 03:26
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Strange Matter posted:It's been years since I saw Victory but if I recall correctly its endgame revolves around the Monopoly Man trying to manipulate Lady Space Jesus into powering some kind of giant psychic space laser, so it's not entirely without its newtype nonsense, though none of the main characters are that. Actually, the giant psychic space laser powered by thousands of psychics just renders everyone on earth braindead so that when everyone's dead the bad guy can quietly take over. The main characters and his friends are also Newtypes, though the show doesn't really focus on that.
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Jun 9, 2016 22:00
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Count Chocula posted:A Vince Gilligan/Darin Morgan Unknown Armies...anything would be so perfect. Isn't that basically Millenium?
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Jun 29, 2016 05:48
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As my Mother's moving out of her house and I need to take back all those big carboard boxes full of books I didn't use I'd stashed there, I find myself surprised at all the stuff I bought and never played. Ah, the halcyon days when I had a job and could spend money so freely. One of them is a western RPG called Aces and Eights. A quick scan shows it to be a weird mess with lots of random parts in characters creation and advancement (something I've come to strongly hate) and an alternate history where the South won (although unlike Deadlands they're still slavers and their economy is poo poo). I'm curious if anyone ever ran the drat thing or if there ever was a deeper look at it. Seems like something that would fit in a System Mastery episode.
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Jul 3, 2016 05:57
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As I keep opening more of these boxes full of books, I can't help but wonder at how much money I could waste on books I never played and, in some case,s never even read while I'm now down to counting individual dollars. Why the gently caress would I want a copy of the Star Trek rpg? Why do I have semi-complete collections of Tribe 8 and Jovian Chronicles when the only times we played no one liked the system? What the gently caress is Dawning Star: Operation Quick Launch!? At least I'll always have these abused copies of Continuum and Ghost Dog I got for less than five bucks each.
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Jul 5, 2016 00:26
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Kaza42 posted:If you ever decide you want to sell some of this stuff let me know. I've got a bizare unplayable soft spot for Continuum Sorry, but I'm keeping those two. They're also in pretty bad shape anyway. But there's a ton of crap I,d be happy to get rid of! Like the first and second edition corebooks of Changeling the Dreaming! (Dear god why) Or the Conan D20 rpg!
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Jul 6, 2016 02:59
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Kellsterik posted:Dune is an incredibly bleak setting to me. The idea that it's thousands of years in the future and so closely resembles feudal societies from a certain point in history is bumming me out. Like I was reading the description of the Bene Gesserit, and thinking how depressing it is that this organization of deceitful spermjacking ice queens exists in the setting in the first place, and that it would be necessary for the Great Houses to "send their girls somewhere" to be educated. Dune, at least the early books, are pretty much a deconstruction of sci-fi tropes, but also of modern-day politics and religion. The worst thing to happen to the Empire s that it gets the Messiah it had been wishing for.
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Jul 9, 2016 13:22
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I remember White Wolf's book on Muslim vampires, Veil of Night, being pretty good, although it wouldn't be the first time a white wolf book I used to love years ago turns out to be bad upon a new reading (Second Sight is an easy example). It portrays Mohamed as a man with a giant blank space instead of a face IIRC.
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Jul 15, 2016 00:27
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SirPhoebos posted:I think what Monsierchic means that WhiteWolf's description of him is "no, Muhammad literally had no face" Hahaha, no, it's definetely going for Islamic art.
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Shoah's the only F&F I managed to finish. 
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