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Put my game resolutions over in the other thread. Real-life resolutions I'm still working out. However, my unposted video game budget I imposed on myself also turned out to be a success (no more than $30 or one full-priced game a month, ignoring charity sales like Humble Bundle), so I'm probably going to aim at having a food budget this year. I've been running a Breakfast Cult game for three months now (nuts to its one-shot nature) and just finished the second big mystery scenario, involving Fong Ho's untragic death on the Daedalus space station field trip, which they solved (Gai did it, but he's not responsible), and we're probably going to have some cooldown with some local small-m Occultar mysteries before moving into the third and final scenario. Also, it turns out trying to maintain Fong Ho's mind as a proto-Cold One falls under "most terrible decisions players can make that I never would have predicted". Also been doing some playtesting for Level99, which I can't talk about, other than I've been doing it? Pretty easy to get into if you're interested. Going to MAGfest this upcoming week, so video games! Looks like it's going to have a less impressive guest list this year, I don't know why they decided to hold it on the first week of the year, speaking of terrible decisions convention organizers can make I never would have predicted...
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I liked The Big Idea when it came out (which was AtA with a little more game to it), but the wash of games like it has probably poisoned that well for me by this point.Waffleman_ posted:My resolution is to play more games IRL which will probably be very possible because I am most likely moving to Columbus soon, which is a city that is big enough for me to find a Friendly Local Game Store and meet some gaming friends. Hopefully you'll get to meet some of the cool gaming pals I had when I lived around there, no idea if they're still in the hobby or not.
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OVA is the playable version of BESM.
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Jan 6, 2017 19:39
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The funny thing about BESM d20 is that they seemed perfectly aware of some of the balance issues in core d20... and then go on to create all-new balance issues in their own systems. It's an example of swerving to avoid an oncoming car and driving right off the cliff instead.
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Jan 7, 2017 08:07
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oriongates posted:I will say, tri-stat BESM did do one thing that was different and showed a bit more thought than most "universal" systems as to how genre affects the values of a character's abilities (well, skills only if I recall correctly) and realized that if you're doing a romantic comedy set in not-Hogwarts then social and magical skills are going to be more valuable than being good at shooting someone in the face. Yeah, skills only. And the core issue with that is that it encouraged you to create characters counter to whatever genre you were playing, because you could buy up nongenre skills and relied on the GM not letting your character solve everything with stealth and gunplay in your high school romance anime. Then again you could accidentally make Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu that way, so YMMV.
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Jan 8, 2017 06:08
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Savidudeosoo posted:Sounds perfect for mutants and masterminds. And yet Mecha & Manga was awful. Ultimately Mutants & Masterminds presumes a different sort of narrative flow and doesn't really handle constant power increases well, so I wouldn't use it for battle manga without some real clawhammering. It'd be fine for a manga with plot archetypes similar to American superhero comics, mind. It'd probably be fine for something like tokusatsu superheroes... with slight clawhammering. Of course, then you get into the argument with the issues of superhero systems trying to simulate everything from Incredible Hulk to Young Heroes in Love... but that's another mess to dig through.
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Jan 9, 2017 19:47
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Nuns with Guns posted:is there a single pure thing in this world that someone hasn't tried to poorly convert to d20 rules??? Well, there was an Afghanistan d20, Columbia d20, and a Somalia d20... ... but no Ukraine d20 or Sudan d20, so there's a start. 
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Jan 13, 2017 09:12
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Waffleman_ posted:Oh, was there an interesting .hack anime? I'd love to see it. Pretty sure they're referring to Log Horizon.
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Jan 13, 2017 18:51
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Exalted owes Glorantha a hell of a lot, at the very least. But it's not at all presented as cleanly as Exalted's color-coded world is.
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Jan 17, 2017 03:40
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Fantasy Craft's NPC generation system is a lot easier if you use the Web NPC Builder. In any case, it neatly avoids having the trap of building monsters as psuedo-PCs like mainstream d20 does, which was always more of a headache on my experience.
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Jan 17, 2017 12:52
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I'm always surprised there hasn't been a definitive law enforcement or organized crime RPG. Maybe it's too close to reality, but they're such huge genres it feels bizarre to see them mostly untouched. Maybe they're just more fun to watch than portray.
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Jan 18, 2017 01:28
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Once I worked a bit on a d20 crime game based off of Spycraft, then I found out the Spycraft guys were already doing that so I stopped. And then Ten Thousand Bullets was released in 2007 and it turned out just great- what? It never came out? And now been it's a decade since its original release date? Oh, that's so Crafty Games.
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Jan 18, 2017 01:58
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Kai Tave posted:There's always Haven: City of Violence I think you meant: Haven ... City of Violence
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Jan 18, 2017 02:52
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Preview footage found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmiwbO5icc
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Jan 20, 2017 00:09
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Meanwhile the Overwatch devs had to be like "please make less porn". So it goes.
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Jan 20, 2017 04:03
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Well, specifically, they objected to the in-game models being used to make porn, generally through Source Filmmaker. In general porn was okay, but they objected to having their assets used for it.
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Jan 20, 2017 10:19
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Countblanc posted:Paladins isn't lovely, you move around really fast like an old school shooter and ultimates don't actually feel like buttons you press to instantly win a team fight. It's actually a really good game. Actually the thing you don't like is good and let me explain why the thing you like is worse.
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Jan 20, 2017 23:26
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Ominous Jazz posted:My only problems with hero shooters is that they aren't team fortress 2 and my only problem with team fortress 2 is that it's a bad game now Yeah, Overwatch was just me waiting for a successor to TF2 since Valve has decided they didn't need to put in effort on it anymore. I'm sure Paladins is fine enough, I just don't have time to split my attention on competitive shooters.
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Jan 21, 2017 02:21
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Kwyndig posted:Why put in the effort when you can sell haaaaaats. When I decided I was leaving TF2, I decided to put my only unusual hat up for $200, thinking that it would never go for it but I should give it a shot. I originally had it valued by a goon trader for around $30-$50, which seemed accurate for the Steam history of that hat's sales. But I saw they occasionally went for upwards of that on the Steam history, so hey, worst case it doesn't sell and I have to drop the price. It sold overnight.
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Jan 21, 2017 08:04
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Yeah, the new 7th Sea is generally very good. It definitely has some issues (the corruption mechanic is awful, and where it intersects with the sorcery, doubly so) and as a player I'm not sure you could ever convince me not to take Foul Weather Jack as an advantage (unless you just got rid of it), but it's a strong revision over the original version.
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Jan 22, 2017 23:45
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Lemon-Lime posted:It's written by a weird alternate reality Wick who has zero Wickisms. Nah, there are some, like how awesome But yeah, you can't really lay much of the original 7th Sea at Wick's feet. Though he was really influential on the line, after the core I think he only actually wrote on two or so books (Avalon and Pirate Nations, IIRC). Judging by the derision he's put on the ancient aliens subplot, I don't think it was actually his intent for the line. But it's hard to say. Alien Rope Burn fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Wick said if you want to bring it back in your own game at home, he's fine with that, but has said "NO ALIENS" as far the new edition is concerned. The Syrneth ruins are still around but what the Syrneth were other than "not human" is left a mystery so far.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:15
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Advantage balance also seems really dicey (see also: Foul Weather Jack) as well but that's kind of something you're already used to if you've played 7th Sea or Legend of the Five Rings.
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It's the kind of thing where every time I think of a joke about it, my brain stops me before I say or type anything to remind me that nothing is funny anymore.
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It's true, things can be a lot worse, and whether or not we'll have a real crisis, it's hard to say at this point. But that doesn't make being disgusted with things invalid, even in perspective, and it's not like we live in the world where a disaster in a nation somehow magically stops at that nation's borders. I'm probably not going to face any of the true miseries faced by the Third World everyday, it's true. But if, say, America's economy hits another depression or our leadership publicly decides that a certain other country rolling tanks across a border is a-okay, that's not something that's just America's concern anymore. In any case, just being cynical and shrugging probably won't help anyone going forward.
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I think the key issue with dark elves isn't just their skin color alone and more just having a literally demonized matriarchy that - in its most mainstream version - also includes ritualized rape and your standard fantasy vilification of relatively tame sexual fetishes. Having them also be racially evil dark people is pretty much just the later of piss on a dung cake. I don't see why you couldn't just have underground elves, if you have to, just make them a nuanced concept based around that. As for half-elves, my conclusion is that if you can have half-elves and half-orcs then... orcs and elves must just be different varieties of human, or extremely close relatives. But in general I think most fantasy races don't really justify being anything other some weird human offshoot. Of course, there was that Reign mini-setting that got well into fantasy genetics, but dwarves may as well just be "humans adapted to smaller underground spaces" for how different they actually are, in my mind.
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Sion posted:everyone can talk to badgers tho They can but badgers don't give a gently caress, or so I've heard.
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Kwyndig posted:ARB covered the things wrong with the cultural depictions, but making them dark skinned isn't even fantasy racism, it's just straight up racism. Well, I don't think you can say Gygax, Greenwood, Salvatore et al. ever drew a line between African culture and Drow depictions, but at a certain degree of othering it becomes trivial to draw parallels between real-life racist depictions and fantasy boogeymen.
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Yeah. I think the better term for what most people think of when they think of shōnen or Shōnen Jump manga is "battle manga". But then, I got sci-fi, which is... pretty much anything that isn't slice-of-life or fantasy.
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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. Well, they're more fist-pump anime but I don't know if I'd clarify them as being *sniffs* artistic works. They have a lot of appeal (as long you can bear through the creepy nonsense in KlK, anyway... anime). Really depends on what you're looking for. Baccano! is usually my blanket recommendation these to just about anybody who enjoys genre fiction these days.
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Jan 27, 2017 21:10
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Bedlamdan posted:You guys should try Sword Art Online. I think you mean Log Horizon. 
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El Hazard is the best thing AIC did, I think, it holds up really well. Has done? I forget that they're actually still around. On a more serious note, I would in general recommend anything that Satoshi Kon directed, since nobody else has.
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Honestly it's not that unusual for RPGs to get what's achievable by humans really wrong in general; I'm reminded of the Steve Jackson Games writing guidelines which ask you to make sure you have a copy of Guinness Book of World Records on hand to reference what a normal person can or can't do. Of course, what's achievable by people with or without enhancement keeps growing and we'll probably continue to be surprised in the future. Personally, I'm always bugged by Charisma stats - I'm not convinced that there's some nebulous "likability" that doesn't actually relate to one's social skills or appearance. It's fine enough as a summary of one's social skills in games that don't use skills, but if you have a Diplomacy or Persuasion skill, Charisma itself seems superfluous.
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DOOM 2016 has a lot of minutae you can work on whether you're just trying to be a completist or snapmaps or whatever. Myself, I tried out Wolfenstein afterwards and it seems so clunky in comparison. Still fairly good, but it sure has some clunky checkpointing. I've said it before but I have always found "short people" as a separate species as a weird quirk of fantasy gaming, much less having multiple species of short people.
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It still gets incremental updates but remains unfinished. Goblinworks more or less keeps it on life support to avoid fan backlash, from what I can tell. Well, more fan backlash, anyway.
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Kai Tave posted:lol, and they don't even own L5R anymore. Ryan Dancey's gonna have to find a way to gently caress up Love Letter instead. I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in closing down L5R and Doomtown.
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Ettin posted:What if Trad Games pooled our money together and bought PFO? Goon project I'm pretty sure I wouldn't wish PFO on my worst enemy. Ryan Dancey said he knew how to keep the goons from trolling his game. Turns out he could!... by making a game so boring even goons couldn't be hosed to mess around with it.
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I imagine the cat's cradle of code they have would be a nightmare. I mean, these are guys that, last I heard, still couldn't work out how to do enemy line of sight that doesn't pierce obstructions, preventing them from designing any real interior fights.
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It was absolutely Dancey's baby. Having paid attention to his posts and quoting them during the halcyon days of grog.txt, I got to be very familiar with his pitch and his plan, such as it was. Lisa Stevens is generally a very smart businesswoman, and her letting Dancey do his thing feels like an anomaly likely based on old friendship and his seeming expertise.
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