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This year I'm going to finish up 13th Age Organized Play, and do something different with that group since we've been doing it for like 3 years. Probably something cyberpunk-y. I'm also going to start a Fragged Empire game with my other group.
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Countblanc posted:i admire people who buy those games. it takes real courage to openly admit that you don't want to do things that let you, personally, be funny or clever, but instead want to do things where you simply let the game make the jokes for you. Saying that reminds me of the writers of Workaholics have a long list of "joke lines" they're not letting themselves use anymore. poo poo like "Wait for it..." or "too soon?"; things that "have the shape of jokes, but aren't actually jokes".
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Hey, remember at the tail end of the last chat thread and I mentioned this?Evil Mastermind posted:I know at one point Schwalb was going to do a SotDL setting that's "the Demon Lord invades our world, everything goes Mad Max with magic and poo poo" as part of the KS, but I haven't heard anything about it. It's live!  e: Good lord, Robert Schawlb has done about 115 SotDL supplements since August 2015. The man is a loving machine. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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FastestGunAlive posted:This looks dope Yeah, it's pretty good. 
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What's the general consensus about the best version of Shadowrun, not counting Anarchy? 5th Edition or the 20th Anniversary Edition?
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Kwyndig posted:It's all terrible, Shadowrun is always terrible. Good, that's the version I have. Which supplements are for that version?
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Jan 5, 2017 00:49
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Sion posted:Yeah but do any of them have a loving index? 20th Anniversary does.
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Jan 5, 2017 04:00
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Waffleman_ posted:You roll the squares what got numbers on 'em.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:40
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Traditional Games: Dots is good, just count them dots
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Jan 5, 2017 18:22
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Ominous Jazz posted:Sorry, the best fighter build is the grab machine of 4e, because why wouldn't you want to suplex all your problems. One of the best 4e characters I ever played was a dragonborn luchadore. I actually managed to put a slime in a headlock.
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Jan 5, 2017 21:44
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Caves of Qud is really well done, but I don't think I've ever had a character last more than 10 minutes in it.
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Jan 5, 2017 22:34
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I saw that drat thing when it was in theaters.
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Jan 6, 2017 04:56
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Anima: Beyond Fantasy is the most incomprehensible book I've ever read in my life. I refuse to believe it can be understood, let alone played.
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Jan 6, 2017 21:33
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Asimo posted:the benefits of just going OGL instead of straight d20... I still say that the BESM d20 design process was: 1. Take BESM 2. Place the d20 SRD on top of it 3. Apply paper clip 4. Take an early lunch
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Jan 7, 2017 18:09
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Jimmeeee posted:I remember reading about an RPG with a sort of improvised spell list- you'd roll on a table of adjectives and a table of nouns and end up with stuff like "Blistering Shield" and "Nebulous Cone." Does anyone know the game I'm talking about? Maze Rats
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Jan 8, 2017 18:33
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Maxwell Lord posted:Bulldogs! kinda frustrates me since they spend all of one page talking about creating adventures and it's mostly "use aspects." I'm increasingly convinced all games should have, if not a sample adventure, a clear outline/picture of what a "typical adventure" is. Atomic Robo is also Fate and it had much better ways of giving the GM ideas. But you're right; it's surprising that so few games have a "this is a typical adventure for this game/setting" chapter. Hell, Shadowrun still uses the stupid Stuffer Shack thing in all its books.
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While it's not WWII, for military-ish based games there's also MASHED, which is PbtA and takes place during the Korean War.
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Serf posted:Oh man they're doing a Freeport book for Shadow of the Demon Lord. Rad.
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Well, I meant more in terms of tone (Freeport is more on the swashbuckly and pulpy adventure end of things) really.
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Jan 10, 2017 20:19
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I know 3e, 4e, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, and Fate Accelerated.
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ProfessorCirno posted:This is precisely why I avoid the hell out of Star Wars games that want you to start off as the Imperials, because it turns out that's the favorite game of some people for some unfathomable reason https://twitter.com/zhandlen/status/810655439444647936
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Serf posted:This is a fun and productive line of discussion we've found.
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Jan 11, 2017 22:27
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I like that the Dark Carnival Games Con logo is the Dungeon Crawl Classic logo, slightly edited.
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Halloween Jack posted:I was playing the Arkham Asylum series at the same time I was reading through people's attempts to do superheroes in OSR rules frameworks (note: they're all bad), and got the idea that "street-level" supers would make for a pretty good dungeoncrawl where the dungeon is the villain's lair, or Arkham island, or just the mean streets of Gotham. But I was uncomfortable with the latter idea for exactly this reason. There's also Ben Baugh's old Long Stairs setting riff, where a portal opens up under a nuclear bomb test site and it ends up leading to a fantasy dungeon. That's a pretty good job for a Suicide Squad group.
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Ominous Jazz posted:Every rimmer story is about risk if you know what I mean Well, yeah. He's a total smeg-head.
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Jan 19, 2017 21:44
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I hope it's as good as the last WoD video game.
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Jan 19, 2017 22:43
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Very true. I played the hell out of that co-op.
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Jan 19, 2017 22:47
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One of the people in my 13th Age game makes a Harambe joke every week, mainly for my exasperated reaction.Kwyndig posted:There's no such thing as a good Harambe joke.
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Kwyndig posted:Some internet detectives even figured out it was obviously someone at Gearbox who made that subreddit.
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SunAndSpring posted:Unless there is futanari content, the greatest of all fetishes forged in the mighty land of Nippon, I too shall pass this game up. Don't be stupid. He's saving that for a stretch goal.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:On the other hand, I think gallows humor is an important way to maintain resilience in the face of horrifying realities. I gotta laugh, otherwise I start screaming.
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LongDarkNight posted:Same and heavy drinking. Although the election didn't change either.
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Jan 26, 2017 20:36
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Ominous Jazz posted:I liked how 13th age made sure everyone knew orcs were smooth like Ken dolls and that half orcs just kind of happen in places that need them, like they're the chosen ones.
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I'm mainly just sharing this so I can find it later, but this is a really awesome Flash-based random island map generator. Lots of options, and it can generate realistic-looking maps or hex/grid based maps.
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Halloween Jack posted:I heard that Kill la Kill and that Yo La Tengo Toppin' Gurrin' Laggin' thing that I can never spell have actual artistic value. Tengen Toppen Gurren Lagaan is tied with GaoGaiGar as my favorite giant robot anime every.
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That Wisdom calculation is the best thing I've read all week. The Charisma one is the second best.
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According to that thing I have a Charisma of 0, but a Constitution of over 24.
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Jan 29, 2017 17:51
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Arivia posted:It's obviously sarcastic. Blume even said it took "minutes of exhaustive research." The grogs are the guys who were pestering TSR for accuracy even back then. That just reminds me of that Pathfinder dev who was using a mouse with the cord wrapped around his wrist to determine the difficulty of using a cord tied around your weapon's handle to re-equip it.
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I do remember that in Ghostbusters International a person with average strength (so 3/4 of the Ghostbusters) couldn't carry a proton pack, ghost trap, and PKE meter at that same time without falling over.
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 Blades in the Dark has released! They're accepting book preorders for non-backers now as well, and it looks like the Early Access version was updated today too so I guess that's good to go?
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