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Moriatti posted:Have you considered that this type of game may just not be for you? No, I like superhero games just fine. I really liked MHR, I’ve played a bunch of M&M, and even some HERO. Jimbozig’s bad copy mess of 4e and Burning Wheel or whatever it was isn’t a good superhero game. It’s not a good game period, but it’s at least feasible for those “4e with the names rubbed off” anime games people were running before they converted them to FATE next. Like you yourself said, if you don’t need grid combat, don’t play Strike. And you don’t need grid combat for a superhero game.
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Reene posted:hey in the interests of literally any conversation but this, I'm set to play in a 2E Ravenloft campaign. I have no idea if it’s any good, but there’s an official Complete Book of Necromancers for 2e. There’s also the Complete Wizard’s Handbook, the Tome of Magic, and there’s probably some Ravenloft specific stuff too.
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Moriatti posted:Arivia, People think very highly of the brainstorming and other similar activities in Atomic Robo for smart, thinky characters as far as I know.
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Those spells would definitely be in the mighty WIZARD’S SPELL COMPENDIUM we all forgot to mention. 
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Moriatti posted:So if you are passionate about a bad system and ypur players are on board, it is sometimes worth running that game. This is why I’m still running Pathfinder
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Simian_Prime posted:Mostly can’t get into the stock 5e Realms because most of it feels painfully generic, the same way I feel about most high fantasy settings these days. The Second Sundering outlined that it really wasn’t a setting anymore, just a bunch of interchangeable setpieces where people’s actions no longer mattered because the reset button could be pushed at any time. The 5e Realms are pretty bad, yeah. You’re right in saying they took out a lot of what’s unique about the setting. The Realms are nowhere near as crowded as people make them out to be, but the level of detail is for sure a lot of what appeals.
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Dec 11, 2017 13:21
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Lurdiak posted:Was there a single Essentials subclass that wasn't just a worse and more boring version of the original? The Mage was better because lol Mearls.
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Dec 11, 2017 20:04
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That actually has narrative and attention and an editor and layout and so many other things, so yep much better than Strike.
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Dec 20, 2017 05:19
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Zerilan posted:You have like the weirdest loving grudge against that system. I don’t have a grudge. It’s just bad and it’s baffling to see a bad system get promoted so heavily here.
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Dec 20, 2017 07:26
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Zerilan posted:Yeah strike's book would probably be a lot better of a read if it didn't try so hard to be so setting/theme/etc agnostic and embraced its dungeon crawler roots more. Jimbozig considers its bland lack of anything to be a strength though. He actually intentionally designed it that way because he thought it was better for the game to have Futurama references and Avatar/Star Wars in all but name instead of actual creativity.
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:is there a homebrew game thread? I started converting shadowrun into a houserule'd quasi-medieval setting and went way too far and now it's a 20 page document. Is there a good thread to post some rules snippits so grogs can really tear into me and tell me why I'm wrong? As one of the local grogs you’re wrong. no honestly that sounds pretty cool I agree with 
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I'm going to guess this is a better and more nuanced representation of "monstrous humanoids facing oppression in the modern world" than Bright is despite being made on a thousandth of the budget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMKOx6fumc
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