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That article is actually correct about a lot of things, namely the fact that the Empire is the Republic. But of course he then has to describe Palpatine as "a relatively benign dictator, one you could do business with. Like Pinochet, the dictator whose regime had special camps where they trained dogs to rape political prisoners."
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Robot Style posted:Is this guy just taking advantage of a poorly QC'ed fanmade game, or is there active bullshit going on? There are two types of D20 adaptations: awfully-balanced fussy piles of bullshit, and the figment of the author's imagination that he believes he actually wrote.
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Jan 12, 2017 05:58
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Ratpick posted:Someone on tumblr posted a way back about using Strike! for Mass Effect. I have to admit that I'm not familiar with the series myself, but as far as I understand they're essentially sci-fi RPGs with some cover-based shooting, so it does not seem that far-fetched an idea. You could probably even hack the emotional attributes system in some way to make a Paragon/Renegade system. Maybe? I don't know. Here's unseenlibrarian's post with the race/class notes he wrote up for it. Strike! is what I would use if I was going to run ME. Fragged Empire would also work well but would require a lot more work, since that's not designed as a multi-genre toolkit game. Edit: Derp! He beat me to it.
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rkajdi posted:What's it like to be this wrong about everything? People hate on anyone with the taste to base their life around a lower-talent version of Eminem crossed with KISS, regardless of social class. For a good while it was a fad for hip, liberal-leaning news sites to post "I Went to the Gathering" articles. If you were the sort of brain-damaged liberal who takes seriously articles titled "We Seriously Need to Talk About What a Celebrity Just Did and What It Means for Our Culture," these articles were a free pass to ogle boobs and mock poor people for being trashy. It's hypocritical and classist as gently caress.
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Jan 12, 2017 23:20
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From what I know of their work, ICP's early albums are power fantasy narratives about fixing society with violent vigilantism, complete with masks and codenames. It's a pretty basic violent superhero fantasy; no surprise they have fans who would want to make a game out of it.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Re: Mass Effect adaptations Fuego Fish posted:There's also this old hack on the TG Wiki. I think it predates the sequels, though. (Looks like Eric Gibson was good for something after all!)
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Everything I've ever read about the setting of Exalted makes me want to play it, and everything I've ever read about the mechanics, of any edition, crushes my dreams.
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Arivia posted:Or you could do it in the projects and use the tenements as real life dungeons complete with unpeople as monsters!
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Serf posted:Like on the one hand I love The Warriors and a game where you play a goofy New York street gang fighting other bizarre 70s New York street gangs for survival sounds pretty cool. But at the same time there's just no way to make it work without it being totally ignorant. You don't have to play street gangs squabbling with each other, either, but with the heavily-armed vigilantes invading your neighbourhood. SERF, YOU ARE ORDERED TO LEAVE THE BRONX. A SOLAR-POWERED PRE-FURNISHED HOME AWAITS YOU IN NEW MEXICO.
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My favorite edition wars meme is the people who claim that they played 4e with a group of kids and they hated it, but those same kids loved AD&D 1st edition.
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dwarf74 posted:This is probably just me, but I don't like the amount of "figure out interesting consequences" every roll places on the GM. Instead, I struggle with that kind of thing when the burden is on the GM to think of social consequences, as in Monsterhearts. But really, my only complaint about Edge of the Empire is that you have to buy the funny overpriced dice. FFG is good at making people dependent on Ameritrash bits to play with.
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Jan 21, 2017 18:40
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Ratpick posted:I recently blogged about taking cues from the current administration for your games, would also fit in well with Delta Green: http://fuckyeahdnd.tumblr.com/post/156390433272/steal-this-campaign-idea
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Mystara is The Best or, failing that, certainly better than FR and Dragonlance.Sion posted:Half-orcs, man.
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Jan 26, 2017 21:52
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Uh, there's already a RPG counterpart to Vampire: The Eternal Struggle.
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drat it, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna hack Mass Effect into Strike! As soon as I finish 3 F&Fs, and probably rugby season.
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Sounds fascinating, but it appears to be an out of print board game.
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Is this a good place to ask which are the good animes? I'm a WoD nerd, so I tried to get back into anime through Tokyo Ghoul, but it seems like it totally abandons its premise about halfway through in favour of "Whose tentacles are the strongest?" I'm also slowly reading the manga, but haven't caught up to where I am in the show, so I don't know if it goes off the rails similarly. Parasyte is great so far, except for the lovely metal. I heard that Kill la Kill and that Yo La Tengo Toppin' Gurrin' Laggin' thing that I can never spell have actual artistic value.
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EoD sounds like my thing; since the PDF's not expensive I might just have to grab it sight unseen. I would never ever have found it if you hadn't linked it, though.
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Helical Nightmares posted:30% off items in Modiphius's catalogue. I've been looking at DUST a bit and I know nothing about the source material, but aside from the cheesecake it looks really cool.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Well I mean, this is like asking "what are some good French books." "Anime" doesn't mean anything but a national origin + a medium.  Like a zillion other people, I was pretty into anime in college but drifted out of it. I've seen Evangelion and most of Miyazaki's films; my favourite manga were Parayste and Kare Kano. I'm sure lots of people just drift out of the fandom, but I got really fed up with the repetitive cliches and fanservice. (I think you know what I mean: an impossibly bland, nebbishy guy with panic disorder trips face-first into Tsundere's massive boobs and shoots a gallon of blood out of his nose, she screams and beats him up, later he eats a mountain of food. I admit it, at one time I owned the whole run of Love Hina, but I lost it soon after I lost my virginity and never want to see either of them again.) As far as genre, I just like any good genre fiction with a nuanced plot and character development, that doesn't rely on just bundling popular cliches together. I really enjoyed Planetes, and I was impressed with Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, even if the political storytelling isn't particularly well-conveyed. (It relies too much on scenes where the cyber-police literally just drive around the city talking politics.) I heard that Kill La Kill was some Kojima level weird meta-commentary on exploitation and commodification, but if it actually just wallows in fanservice, I'll definitely take a pass on that. Another reason I backed out of anime fandom was a friend who appreciated the "ironic commentary" in Puni Puni Poemi to a suspicious degree. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Parkreiner posted:Ah, you want anime that's actually legit good storytelling as opposed to just grading on The Anime Curve. Then yeah, start with Death Parade, at least check out the first ep of Eccentric Family... and I'll get back to you. I think I have to watch JoJo because I may gradually lose sense of what everyone's talking about if I don't watch JoJo. Apropos of nothing, I enjoyed RaXephon and Dual! more than Evangelion, all things considered, and I think El Hazard is the only harem anime I really like, if that even counts. Man, my anime fandom is from an era where a lot of it was just based on what you could actually get your hands on, I suppose.
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Now I remember why El Hazard is so great, the score is amazing. The arabesque style was really a standout in an era when nerds thought a symphonic arrangement of Sephiroth's theme was high art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WWZwDqG9M Ulpio Minucci's theme for Robotech was exactly what it needed to be, no more and no less 
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I was a sucker for Voices from a Distant Star back in the day.
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Didn't Stevens pretty wisely cordon off Goblinworks so that nothing bad that happens to them affects Paizo? I don't know if Dancey was even on Paizo's payroll.Kwyndig posted:Last I heard there was an angel investor going to save the game any day now but they can't manage to scrounge up the capital. I can't believe any company would actually buy Goblinworks or PFO unless they got the video game rights to all of Golarion in the package though, and I doubt Lisa Stevens is willing to give those away just to get this pile of poo poo off of her desk. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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That's even more WCW, because if people knew Vince McMahon was going to buy the company for under $3 million, a lot more people would've made a play for it, including people who were basically fans. The tape library alone was worth far more than the purchase price.
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My favourite thing about PFO is still the fans who projected onto it all their completely unrealistic-to-the-point-of-insanity dreams about what a video game could be. Like the people who insisted that every single 3e spell needed to be included, including Time Stop and Divination spells. Or the guy who wanted to spend his entire in-game experience running a stable, demanding gameplay deep enough to make taking care of horses a rewarding experience.
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Major features of the game were just Dancey scrambling to come up with an explanation for how the game was going to be a WoW Killer with pitifully few resources behind the development.
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Despite some peculiarities, World Wide Wrestling is the best game I've ever seen for really playing professional wrestlers. (You're not just playing Hulk Hogan, you're playing Terry Bollea playing Hulk Hogan.) I expect people who don't appreciate wrestling won't get into it, though. Edit: Spirit of '77 seems like a successor to a little indie game I remember called The Hard Way. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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General Ironicus posted:While I completely agree, I don't see how that's significantly different from any other RPG. I'd hate to play D&D with a GM who wasn't into fantasy adventure.
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When you actually get yourself elected to Japan's National Diet and work international politics to promote the most widely attended wrestling show in world history in North Korea, it really blurs the line.
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thelazyblank posted:How do you know that anime is actually pretty wrestling?!
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Covok posted:There is not a man alive who could pull that off. Evil Mastermind posted:That would be pretty hilarious, though. Especially if it was still in a different venue each week but still picked up right where it left off at the start of every show.
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There was also the time that Eric Bischoff challenged Vince McMahon to a shoot fight, and when Vince declined, he did put himself on a WCW card just so he could have the ref count out McMahon and declare victory. That wasn't comedy wrestling, that's just how deluded and petty Bischoff was at the time.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I have wanted to play this so bad but like good luck finding people quote:edit: Also grogs blew up the D&D 5e thread so rip me
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Vampire and Shadowrun were my first games, and I got to play a lot more of the latter. As a Shadowrun junkie, I've only done character creation in The Sprawl thus far, but it really hits a sweet spot in the sense that your gear has qualities and they matter a lot, but it doesn't have a table of 15 types of slightly different handgun. Also, like Leverage, it allows for a cinematic playstyle where the PCs are each doing their own thing, not stuck together in round-by-round combat or waiting right behind the rogue while he picks a lock.
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I thought I was about as salty at 5e as one could be, but even I moved on from talking about it because there's not a lot to say that hasn't already been said. It turns out that a stripped-down 3e with AD&D flavoring...has all the problems 3e had. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Feb 13, 2017 |
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Mearls decided to hire a serial harasser and a fascist as consultants. It doesn't really matter how much design work they actually did, or how much he paid them, and least of all if he's currently Facebook friends with them. He also repeated edition war memes in interviews and updates--which is not on the same level, but it's all of a piece with him looking at the most angry, stupid, childish aspects of D&D fandom and said "Yes, I should tap into this." I don't care if Mearls loves Pundit or if hiring him was a cynical marketing ploy. Likewise his courting the worst parts of the online discussion (he certainly spent months of updates and interviews discussing design ideas that never made it into 5e). It's just pathetic that he thought his target market should be, basically, lonely immature men. It would be horrible even if 5e was brilliant design. Arivia posted:And fyi I try to stick to my guns about these things. I mentioned it in this thread before, but I'm no longer buying Paizo products after that poo poo with Kingdom Death, despite all the other good they've done. And you all know how much I like Pathfinder. If someone came up to me and asked if I'd recommend Pathfinder at this point I'd say no because of that poo poo, and tell them why. I know one guy who bought it and he says the design is good, and that the dick monsters and boobarians are only a small part of the game. But GIS for Kingdom Death only gives me titty-studded dickwolves.
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Kwyndig posted:The grog mines are played out, there is no new grog. All you get is inferior, recycled grog or toxic grog tailings that will poison your groundwater for a dozen generations. If what you say is true, it's probably a good thing. Each type of crazy unreasonable person has apparently found their preferred echo chamber where they can be happy. (It's very odd when, on rare occasion, some Gaming Den doctrinaire wanders out of TGD and starts blathering about "player agency" on RPGnet or wherever.) Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Feb 13, 2017 |
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Well there aren't a lot of them being run, but Kevin Crawford in particular is well-regarded. SWN is one of his books I really don't care for that much; in design terms I'd put Godbound and Other Dust at the top. Running oD&D seems like a natural fit for PBP because, as I see it, a big problem with PBP is that people exhaust their enthusiasm in the character creation/campaign setup process. oD&D ain't having that poo poo. The problem is that in oD&D, everything except combat is resolved through conversation, normally in a very bit-by-bit way. Getting people to chatpost about dismantling a simple trap is also exhausting.
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IMO the best thing about Labyrinth Lord is actually Mutant Future, which is basically a version of Gamma World that is compatible with D&D Basic. (It seems most don't realize how different the editions of GW are from each other, and from D&D.)
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