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mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Plutonis posted:

It definitely had the first depiction of a black woman with fake elf ears on TV before T'Pol from Enterprise

Jolene Blalock is white though????

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mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Nearly 15 pages late but I want to point out the studio making the WoD Werewolf PC game are the luminaries behind those bad Bloodbowl games and the Styx series. What I'm saying is don't hope for much.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Xiahou Dun posted:

What the gently caress did I just read.

I've never cared about wrestling either way, but this is so weird I'm debating at least watching some highlights.

Lots of clips are floating around on daily motion and the like, but DDT Universe is an amazing service and only $8 a month.

This is the same promotion that has a blowup doll and invisible man as competitors. That's silly as hell but you watch those matches and it blows your mind witnessing the talent of the person in the ring selling those as believable competitors.

mango sentinel fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Feb 10, 2017

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Evil Mastermind posted:

Seriously, this guy sells being powerbombed by a blow-up doll better than some wrestlers I've seen facing real humans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LApVz53Spw

I can't find any videos of the ladder winning, though.

Ibushi is maybe the best wrestler working today, and looks like an irl superhero. He's also in the latest movie from the visionary auteur behind Calamari Wrestler and Crab Goalkeeper. https://youtu.be/MyZQt-Rny4U

Minoru Suzuki is also there for some reason.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
5e claims another thread.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Carteret posted:

I'm struggling with myself to take advantage of the 20% sale they are running and picking up a poo poo load of stuff, or waiting until GenCon and getting everything without worrying about shipping.

How are you getting to/from GenCon and how much other stuff are you looking to buy/pack for the return?

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Pope Guilty posted:

Huh! I wouldn't have guessed Scott Pilgrim still had legs as an IP.
It probably doesn't.

Zurui posted:

So...Is it any good?
It probably isn't.

It's out this summer, nobody has played it for review yet.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Nuns with Guns posted:

someone's not open to experimentation



Beholders don't poop and reproduce by dreaming so I am very afraid of what that orifice could be for.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

I hope it makes the Jetsons car sound.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Gobbeldygook posted:

4/20 is the :420: day. It is also Adolf Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of the Columbine school shooting.

I started dating my now wife the day Columbine happened. Everyone who hears our anniversary assumes we're potheads.

:negative:

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Kwyndig posted:

There's got to be somebody out there who plays both and has like, the most poo poo tastes in both board games and RPGs and I shudder to think what their shelf has to look like.

I've got friends who play both but they also own like, every RPG and Board game so it's hard to tell how their tastes run.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Elminster doesn't gently caress but he's the type who will host an orgy at his place, then wander around surveying the action to make sure "everyone is having a good time."

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Pitchford's magic career was basically akin to being an LA stand up comedian, not a carnie.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

ChrisAsmadi posted:

So did Wizards of the Coast stop publishing novels or something?

I think they've slowed down and maybe stopped doing MtG novels completely but they're still publishing D&D stuff.

I just started listening to Brimstone Angels on audible, it is not good, but I'm also trash so I'll probably stick with it.

http://dnd.wizards.com/products/fiction/novels

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Halloween Jack posted:

The Alan Conway of the Leo Bloom of the Steve Jobs of things.

I know at least a couple people running Pathfinder campaigns right now.

The way they used to do it was "the spin-off CCG is profitable even when the supplements aren't."

Apropos of nothing, you gotta hand it to White Wolf for selling a ton of supplements based mostly on the strength of the writing, and not on stuffing them with new character options. Granted, there's a downside to their approach: people buying books to read and not to play. That doesn't hurt anything per se, but over time I found there was this negative effect on the fandom whereby people became preoccupied with their deep knowledge of the setting, sometimes sorta parading it around in a My Uncle Who Works For Nintendo Said way, which makes the game impenetrable to new fans.

Like, when I played Exalted, the GM seemed to want everybody to know the setting as well as he did. I don't think needing to read a whole book to play a game is a good idea, unless you're talking some very niche setting like Tekumel or Glorantha where immersing yourself in an extremely rich, strange culture is the point.

PCs in White Wolf games are so inextricably a part of the fabric of the setting (no weave pun intended) that players should probably know about it. Not encyclopedic, but should probably be able to give a run down of the big factions and players. Wanting people to have read expanded fiction books is a bit much, maybe just give them a study sheet handout if you really need to supplement.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Covok posted:

Tell that to the comics industry.





Greg Lands' overly shadowed, porn traced, garbage art is 100% hand made, not poser models.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

why does iron man's suit have muscles

Because the naked man the artist traced did.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

fool_of_sound posted:

why is he cosplaying as captain america?

Because he's the Iron Patriot, a New hero for the Pepsi Generation.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Serf posted:

i'm glad i was too poor to read comics during this arc

In retrospect it seems quaint next to the current Marvel storyline about Heroic Nazi Captain America.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

drrockso20 posted:

Shame that the art in her book is garbage though

I will fight you.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Plutonis posted:

Suicide Squad was an insanely bad movie and while I liked Fury it's the exception in a really bad slump since Training Day so I'm not that excited for another David Ayer movie/series

I'd call Suicide Squad incredibly uneven but more to do with studio meddling and David Ayers' bad script than his directing. That said, no way in hell am I giving two hours of my life to anything Max Landis wrote.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Yes! I can safely not give a gently caress.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Plutonis posted:

I'm honestly surprised Todd hasn't ported Skyrim to the last great platform... The D20 SRD.

Is the 3e ogl still available?

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Plutonis posted:

That didn't work too well to Blizzard either

Eh, I think it worked fine. It goosed the long tail on W3, and Blizz had no direct competitor to Dota 2 when it launched.

The OGL is more akin to if modders used W3 to make Starcraft 2 and Warhammer Total War.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
I only know Nightlife from the System Mastery episode but this cover will be forever a monument within my psyche.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Plutonis posted:

Is that a parody cover because I recognize the woman from a lovely van spray meme

100% real and unironic. Here's a splatbook.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Evil Mastermind posted:

There's two stores I go to that still have shelves full of d20 poo poo they're never going to unload because they're trying to sell them at the MSRP instead of pricing it to move.

One of these stores doesn't carry any indie RPGs. Not even Dungeon World or Fate.

How many combined feet are the length of the owner's beard and circumference of his waist?

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Isn't Fragged an incredibly more complicated take on PBTA?

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

dwarf74 posted:

The 80's were weird, but I have to believe the licensing of Marvel's characters was more complicated than that. I'm not worried about the game system, I'm wondering about the names and likenesses of billion-dollar franchise superheroes :)

Marvel in the 80s was owned by a movie distribution company owned by Roger Corman, I could see them doing dumbshit things. Hell when they got bought by some genius businessman at the end of the 80s, he was the smart guy that licensed the characters to Universal theme parks in perpetuity. Marvel had no idea how to actually manage IP until Disney bought them.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Jimbozig posted:

I know this has already been answered, but I want to emphasize just how wrong this is. Fragged is super loving trad when it comes to the non-combat stuff. You have skills and roll against target numbers chosen by the GM, plus they can give you a bonus/penalty for RP, and the results are pass/fail with no fail forward elements at all. There are some "strong hit" effects you can choose which act basically like a critical success system. Looking at just the skills system, Fragged is essentially akin to a d20 game from 15 years ago.

Yeah, I think I got a poor second hand description so all I knew was d6 bell current resolution and strong hit sounded like degrees of success. Honestly hearing it's closer to a d20 system (but with a bell curve) makes it more appealing to me.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm not gonna rehash the Quicken Spell story again because I know you've heard that a bunch of times from me already, but it's still my favorite bit of trivia about Skip Williams.

I haven't. :allears:

mango sentinel fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Aug 11, 2017

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

theironjef posted:


Me, I've got the whole set and Drivethru was polite enough to print me a copy of every card they ever made for it for 20 dollars. The future is rad.

What's the quality like?

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
I've seen it broken down and damage on miss is a horrifically bad ideas for low level D&D. It's probably fine once you get more robust HP numbers and could represent a growth of competence.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Arivia posted:

Considering it's about winning an RPG award, it does make some sense.

Its okay because they're actually Peruvian.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

LuiCypher posted:

Now that I'm thinking about it:

Why are we all surprised that the piss-wizard module about Oompa-Loompa gang rape won a Gold Ennie?

I'm not surprised a "psychosexual romp" won, just one with such a specific and unusual fetish.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
NWoD is garbage and OWoD is the one people who play video games want.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Are we doing Secret Santa this year?

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Nuns with Guns posted:

The loss of DickBats still pains me to this day

I like Bruce, but DickBats was the best Batman, in large part due to how it shaped his interactions with Tim and Damian.

I miss DickBats.

mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo

Helical Nightmares posted:

Patreon canceled their fee change!

Patreon is still gonna restructure in the near future, and no matter how they decide to structures it, it's gonna involve de-aggregation on both ends and some kind of additional processing fee.

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mango sentinel
Jan 5, 2001

by sebmojo
Why did we have to get a messy Max Landis turd instead of a cool and good real Shadowrun movie?

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