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I am halfway through writing a xianxia world pbta hack
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Aug 20, 2018 16:56
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It's not going to be very accurate though because while luck and cheating are very important in the system rape is not
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Aug 20, 2018 16:57
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Sex is like the least dramatically important thing in the genre The replacement is "seeking death" moves, the only actual mechanism for characters to die by choosing an obligation like revenge or etc to go out in a blazing rampage over Main characters never die just because they get their asses kicked after all they just run away or lose something or get a motivational poison or injury
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Aug 20, 2018 17:09
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Autonomous Monster posted:What about thieving. If the players aren't constantly stealing from and swearing vengeance on each other you're doing it wrong Obligations (like vengeance) are the central character mechanic like strings in monsterhearts, one of the stats explicitly covers stealing things and conning people, and the fastest way to cultivate is to wheedle poo poo out of your seniors (the second fastest is just being stupid lucky, which has a mechanic)
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Aug 20, 2018 18:37
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Sindai posted:How does combat work? Genre-accurate combat would skip rolling completely and just have both sides compare power levels and win or lose if they're even one apart. Literally every single move can be used as combat move You want to best a dude with your ability to make pills? loving of course you can Its pbta so only the player rolls Folks in different levels either are so little of a threat you don't even roll or being able to beat them is a matter of narrative from having collected the appropriate foozles to stand on their level for a time
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Aug 20, 2018 18:51
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If players can somehow come up with a more ridiculous fight than meng haos days long battle of who can memorize the most plants they are welcome to try
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Aug 20, 2018 19:00
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thanks for mentioning it, i'd rather put it aside because im not in the mood ahead of time than get surprised by that and drop it entirely
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Oct 27, 2018 23:28
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Cynic Jester posted:Exalted is your best bet for out of the box flavor, with a core resource being named Essence and so forth. im (slowly) writing a pbta hack for xianxia cultivation shenanigans (core principle, the fastest way to cultivate is to steal poo poo from seniors, the second fastest way is to be shockingly lucky, followed at a distance by actual work) specifically because there's no good trpg for it
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Jan 12, 2019 05:25
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Shanakin posted:In any accurate cultivation system, the best builds will have all stats as dump stats except luck, and maybe charisma (for scamming). the idea is that's true equally for all the players so they don't really have stats; their attributes are just 'how they specialize in dealing with problems' and are determined entirely by the particular bullshit powers/op items they have
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Jan 12, 2019 13:39
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Shanakin posted:Spoken like a scrub who wont immediately find an all powerful magic mirror artefact that duplicates other treasures and explodes enemies' butts. (and then turns into a trusted scamming companion) alas, meng hao does not work in a game where multiple people have to be on vaguely even playing fields so everyone at the table can have fun now a batshit crazy issth-esque video game on the other hand
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Jan 13, 2019 07:29
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Darth Walrus posted:Are there any decent modern wuxia/xianxia themed games? That seems like that natural medium for the kind of storytelling they go for. There's a fair few wuxia games, but xianxia with its ridiculous scope isn't done in anything i've ever run into
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Jan 14, 2019 21:11
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Shanakin posted:Who said anything about being fair? The "Meng Hao"/Protagonist build is clearly the for min-maxing players with minimal sense of team work that want to break the game. sure, if i wanted to design a bad game
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Jan 18, 2019 13:40
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SugarAddict posted:RIP all the webnovels I'll never be able to read or finish reading. same, but basically all media from the first two-thirds of the 20th century ip is a scourge
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Jan 31, 2019 03:28
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QU just left reddit, its still around. https://toc.qidianunderground.org/
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Feb 13, 2019 15:18
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all the ones i have tried to read suffer from the one two punch of being outrageously and aggressively het and the male lead being a loving abuser
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Feb 15, 2019 19:57
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"honey, please, you can just spend your time and energy on other women around you who actually care about you and not a monster in human guise who happens to have a dick and white skin" -me, 100 chapters in to every qidian fic aimed at women
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Feb 15, 2019 19:59
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Tobermory posted:Still early days, but The Empress' Livestream doesn't seem to be suffering from that. The MC is some sort of military commander from the future, who gets sucked into a Xianxia world by a sapient livestreaming app and reincarnated as the standard girl-disguised-as-a-boy. The app is trying to make her rise to power by scheming and court intrigue, but she prefers to solve all her problems with violence. Basically it wants her to do Dream of the Red Chamber, so far she's well on her way to doing the Water Margin instead. I have read a bit of this and thanks for the rec, and am enjoying it so far. A female protag outright saying 'gently caress you i'm gay' to a narrator spirit demanding she fit with the genre stereotypes is enough to put a smile on my face
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Feb 16, 2019 08:23
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Piell posted:She's straight though, she mentions it later. whaaaaaaaaat  what is with straight people why can't they just let me have a lebsiab
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Feb 16, 2019 14:17
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Piell posted:Chapter 48. 'normal' fuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuu
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Feb 17, 2019 04:11
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Cycling or circulation as metaphors make more sense when you know a bit about Qi, the chinese philosophical/religious concept that its all based on. The character literally translates as air, and you would inhale qi from the world around you which would circulate through your body basically like oxygen does. Traditional Chinese Medicine posits illnesses as disruptions in the flow and circulation of qi inhaled from the air and ingested through food and drink present throughout the body's organs, etc. to tie that into xianxia stuff, cultivation is using a turbo instead of natural aspiration 
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Feb 17, 2019 22:50
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I really, really disliked mushoku tensei but an anime necessarily involves cutting tons of internal monologue which could make it pretty good
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Mar 15, 2019 16:58
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Tunicate posted:we've had Connecticut Yankee for over a century i love that book and think every american should read it but its also probably the worst written thing twain ever put out, so good might be a stretch
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May 13, 2019 15:23
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sunken fleet posted:Government censorship is such a strange thing, as someone from the states, it's real hard to wrap my head around it. I wonder if the Chinese stuff I follow is all going to disappear now? "Violence" seems like such an all-encompassing topic that I can't image what censoring it would look like if not just scrubbing like 90% of webnovels on the market out of existence. i know, its strange to see the government doing it instead of sinclair broadcast group and newscorp not even letting billionaires profit off your propaganda policies, shameful
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Jun 6, 2019 18:15
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Alright okay enough of that My current royal road fav is just a really solid, good scifi story. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15449/quod-olim-erat the adventures of a retired spaceship in a pretty lovely space future, featuring lots of flashbacks and body/memory weirdness
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Jul 20, 2019 06:00
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Katreus posted:For dungeon fics, I like there is no epic loot here, only puns - although I guess because it's fluffy and avoids creepy tropes. just read through this one and will heartily recommend it as well
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Jul 21, 2019 02:53
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Syenite posted:I've been reading through this and it's pretty good, but the memory wipes just completely destroy it for me, I really wish the author hadn't chosen to have them. Having read through it the story hangs entirely on them and they couldn't really be excluded.
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Jul 23, 2019 08:55
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Syritta posted:I like the mindwipes. Are there any other good books with protagonists like this, having to deal with their minds being rewritten? Royal Road's "non human lead" tag hasn't been encouraging. Its not done with mindwipes but if you want the same effect done as a master class in hidden information and creeping dread read Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
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Jul 23, 2019 22:53
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Syritta posted:Hm, thanks. I do like the mental alterations specifically though. There's no shortage of brain weirdness and robots either
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Jul 24, 2019 01:42
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Furious Lobster posted:Nope. 16 - 44 != 300 you think captains are any better? 
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Aug 24, 2019 14:08
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Sindai posted:My favorite recent novel is Divine Throne of Primordial Blood, because the protagonist's cheat is mostly just being smart, and his goal is to overthrow the bloodline cultivation aristocracy by creating a cultivation system anyone can use and giving it away to all of humanity. i picked up this one off this concept and uh, trigger warning that the dude routinely engages in horrible, war crimes level unethical experimentation under cover of medicine but unlike the irl version he gets results new and even more hosed up version of torture boosting and really unexpected from a chinese author considering
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Nov 5, 2019 00:37
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The telling thing is that he's actually enough of a realized person that you can argue about his morality, rather than just an outright villain treated as a hero by the story like many WN protags He engages in threats, intimidation and manipulation against the rich and powerful while being pretty much unfailingly kind and helpful to the poor and powerless. He definitely does evil stuff but also he's possibly the only protag this side of the hilariously problematic Iron Ladies manhwa to have anything close to a class consciousness. (i love that terrible manhwa btw and ascribe a trans narrative that is definitely not intended unto the main character because it fits imo but holy poo poo is the least recommendable thing ever) atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Dec 13, 2019 01:53
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Arkeus posted:But... he is treated by a complete hero by the story. That's why so many people give up in disgust about the story. It constantly does the "Jason makes a quick assumption of someone's personality, and it turns out right". If someone is evil, they will dislike Jason. If someone is nice, they will like him. If Jason dislikes someone, that person will turn evil (or there is a plot point about it). If Jason likes someone, they will be good. I mean yeah, its bad. Presumably if you're looking for litrpg on royal road you've already read the handful of good wns or you don't care about quality at all, or both.
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Dec 13, 2019 13:10
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Artificer posted:Reposting my request from the good isekai thread: The Good-For-Nothing Seventh Young Lady goes hog wild with this, making her primary powerset (curses and mind control) not only something that's usually attached to evil characters generally also something basically exclusively used by evil dickbags in setting. Provided that you think stealing from rich people is a victimless crime she's pretty good people (at least for the first eleven hundred chapters ive read)
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Dec 15, 2019 07:56
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:in the vast majority of such wn's the mc immediately hooks up with the richest and most abusively controlling guy around. is that the case here? Its a xianxia style isekai rather than a palace intrigue isekai so she hasn't hooked up with anyone and instead just has a platonic harem of male admirers. The closest thing to a romantic lead is a spirit inhabiting her body and its not close at all. She spend most of the first several hundred chapters disguised as three boys atelier morgan fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 08:26
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:cool, i'll check it out. i've long wanted to like those 'badass lady transmigrates into some loser girl who lives in a vaguely ancient china-ish setting' webnovels, but they kept letting me down. it's always the same poo poo, too. god yeah there are so many promising wn just, torpedoed by toxic and disgusting abusive relationships being normalized
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Dec 15, 2019 09:40
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Metaworld Chronicles off royal road is another one (the protag is a void mage, who eats life force for power, tries to be decent in a fundamentally awful world) if you can handle the sheer amount of extra and very awkward handling of issues
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Dec 15, 2019 12:58
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StrixNebulosa posted:Also you can't skip on mentioning how World of Cultivation has spent at least 25 chapters focused on farming of all things. Our hero starts off with a motivation to get better at growing crops, and while he's beginning to seek power for other reasons, farming is still the key. Fields of Gold is a reincarnation story where the protag has a magic stone from a xianxia setting in what is otherwise an extremely normal historical setting which she uses in her constant quest as a peasant girl to not starve by growing better crops or healing ordinary wounds. Beware, her other superpower is being a good cook and there are very detailed descriptions of delicious food
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Jun 11, 2020 06:03
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LLSix posted:What are some good LitRpgs? I'm looking for the ones with stat boxes, character sheets and explicit skill levels. I am not looking for cultivation stories. I've read a lot of them and am looking for something a little bit different. Azarinth Healer, He Who Fights With Monsters, Delve and Beach Bum are all reasonably fun ones on royal road and even the most edgy of them is far less awful than most xianxia There is no epic loot here, only puns is kinda sorta litrpg and also good humor with emotion If you want just absolute garbage Metaworld Chronicles has dnd wizards, misogyny and colonialism while Defiance of the Fall has a murderhobo protag in the 'finest' xianxia tradition
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Jun 19, 2020 14:17
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Jon Joe posted:All warlock know how to do is use AI chip and lie
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Jun 19, 2020 18:58
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There Is No Loot Here, Only Puns has a female protagonist and a bunch of other women characters and is also just fun
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Jun 20, 2020 01:54
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