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Yesterday I went to my LGS for the first time in over a year and one of the employees there talked about Guild Ball in what I assume was an effort to drum up interest for it. Within 2 minutes he mentioned a character getting raped in the fluff as part of their backstory and chuckled about it. I loving hate people. also hi it's my birthday, Pandemic Legacy season 2 is fun and y'all should play it.
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LeSquide posted:What the gently caress. I'm a huge Guild Ball fan, but that poo poo would've driven me right the gently caress away. It's seriously turned me off from giving it a closer look. I was interested for a while since skirmish games are kinda my thing but when some 300lb neckbeard brings that up as an example of how "dark and grim" the game is, then maybe I don't want to play that game!
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Jan 2, 2018 17:28
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Bedlamdan posted:Are you guys talking about Gutter from the Union? Because uhhh when I read that, I finally realized that this was not the wacky Soccer themed Blood Bowl I came in for... Yup! Count me forever uninterested in a game that thinks this is worth including in any part of itself! loving garbage fire poo poo right there.
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Jan 3, 2018 04:04
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Please stop engaging with bargain bin Frank Trollman.
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Jan 8, 2018 22:24
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Moriatti posted:Mario and Rabbids is actually the 4e videogame and you can't convince me otherwise. You're not wrong.
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Jan 21, 2018 23:11
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How he can talk with his foot in his mouth is another story entirely.
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Jan 23, 2018 01:05
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Planescape: Torment has a great premise, setting, and storyline that's married to the most abysmal loving engine. It's drat near unplayable by today's standards. I never thought I'd agree with Plutonis on anything but, here we go.
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Mar 10, 2018 01:06
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Countblanc posted:Make sure to not give your character any family or loved ones or else you've lost I wish I could convey to other GM's that just because I have family that's still alive in my backstory, does not mean it's a license to kill/kidnap them at a moment's notice. It's tired, trite bullshit and it's really boring to play the "I'm a loner with no family" schtick for the upteenth time because I can't trust the GM to let my character have family that isn't some product to be stolen to antagonize the character. This isn't to say them being kidnapped can't be done well. It can! But the second you mention that any family or loved ones are still alive in your backstory the GM will immediately want to put them in peril and it's just so lacking in imagination that I want to zone out and go to sleep whenever it comes up.
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Mar 25, 2018 17:03
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slap me and kiss me posted:20 king movies, none of them good. And all of them happening in Maine.
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Apr 9, 2018 23:50
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Is there any superhero RPG out there that's both good and isn't an overcomplicated mess of mechanics?
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May 9, 2018 23:35
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Maxwell Lord posted:It seems like from what I've been able to gather, good superhero RPGs are either super mechanically complex, or very narrativist and simple- there's not a lot of middle ground. Given my brief foray into M&M, I'm leaning more towards the simple end of things. Brother Entropy posted:strike! I backed the kickstarter and tried reading through it when it finally released and honestly nothing about it really grabbed me. Being burnt out on 4e after playing/running it for so long probably didn't help. I suppose I should figure out if I want to run a superhero game and then decide at what general "power level": vigilante (minimal/no powers), superhero (moderately-powered heroes) , or cosmic (Thor, basically), and then find a system appropriate for it. I'm getting the feeling FAE might do what I need to do for at least the first two power levels, and the latter...I dunno.
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May 10, 2018 00:49
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dwarf74 posted:Like, I think a superhero game should spend more time on superpowers. Agreed. The game itself also shouldn't be so bogged-down with rules as to come off as being focused on the minutae, like mosy D20 versions end up being.
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May 10, 2018 01:01
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Lemon-Lime posted:We're not in the 90s any more. 40k stopped being self-aware 10-15 years ago. Closer to 20 years at this point. 3rd edition really ramped up the grimdark and removed a lot of the tongue-in-cheek material. You still had the occasional oddball/silly reference (Orks at the time come to mind), but by and large it started to take itself far more seriously around 1998 and hasn't looked back since.
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May 23, 2018 01:54
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Hostile V posted:Oh thank god I now know when A Castle Adventure That Is Legally Distinct From Other Properties That Involve Bloodlines And Draculas are coming out. See also: every game I run, ever.
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Jun 5, 2018 23:09
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Mr. Maltose posted:Gamergate spun off of the various long running harassment campaigns in the Tradgame space so this is less a spinoff and more of the original recipe boiling over. It probably won't get much traction only because a lot of the other bad actors in that have a lot invested in appearing politically left. Well that, and Pundowski has negative charisma and couldn't lead ants to a sugar pile. If this stupid hashtag gets any sort of traction it'll be in spite of him, not because of him. Also  of course he follows Jordan Peterson. Of loving course.
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Jun 20, 2018 12:33
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Foglet posted:The dude keeps a real-life Great Book of Grudges listing everyone who ever mentioned him in a non-praising context or argued with him online, what could you expect. I think I got on his list because I told him his haircut looks stupid. Which it does.
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Jun 28, 2018 15:55
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I was thinking more World of Warcraft, but that works too. I mean, I'm no fan of WoW, but Blizz actually sometimes takes input from the player base and makes moves to improve upon their old-as-poo poo base game and implement quality-of-life upgrades. D&D doesn't. Or, when they try, they just get the player base screeching at them until they stop.
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Jul 3, 2018 14:14
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Leraika posted:I wish there was a version of 3.5 that kept the parts that were good, namely the Binder class, and tossed the parts that were bad, namely everything else. Secrets of Pact Magic exists so that's pretty much the same thing.
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Jul 6, 2018 21:59
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Pollyanna posted:Eberron is also cool, but apparently it's not as popular as Forgotten Realms I think? Popularity shouldn't determine what you should or should not run. Eberron has a ton of supplemental material for it, and while nothing will ever approach the sheer volume of work in FR, the stuff that is out for Eberron is both good and consistent in terms of setting tone and expectations. Also FR sucks.
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Jul 7, 2018 00:34
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Out of the list of games I've played/ran, I've got:
Of the above list, I'd only really go back and play 4e, Gamma World, Microlite, Orpheus, and Hunter/nWoD; I don't think I'd ever go back to the overcomplicated mess of 3.5/2e/Returners, or the outright broken garbage of SW: Saga. I've played the living hell out of 4e and it's probably my favorite, but GW is really fun and the brief time I had with Microlite was enjoyable enough. Out of the games I have that I'd like to play but haven't done so:
I honestly don't know if I'll ever get to play even half of that list, since being an adult with no free time sucks.
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Jul 12, 2018 17:14
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beeoi posted:Since you guys are such big fans of you-know-who, here's a critique of Maze of the Blue Medusa. I like that the author gets progressively more fed up with the whole product as the article goes on. It's like the physical product version of dealing with Zak--it just gets worse the more you experience it.
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Jul 15, 2018 15:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:the prevailing reaction that I've seen rather seems to be to cast aspersions on the author's credibility by claiming that they didn't read the book, followed by pages upon pages of OSRsplaining I wonder if the people in that thread defending the book know that Zak won't go out with them.
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Jul 16, 2018 12:39
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:I hate that this tired bullshit about 4e persists. The first loving page of the TAZ graphic novel takes a swing at 4e for no reason other than the person writing the introduction getting to feel smug. There's people in that thread who are apparently still annoyed that TSR removed demons and devils in 2e. lovely opinions about D&D never die, they just get old and crusty.
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Jul 23, 2018 14:35
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gradenko_2000 posted:he went on a ranty crusade a few months back about how people who only engage with the hobby by listening/watching APs don't really count as being part of the hobby By his dumb logic, sports fans aren't part of their hobby either.
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Aug 4, 2018 14:10
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The wallet also erases any debt tied to a credit card that's put into it so you can always run up a huge amount of debt and then erase it in an instant.
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Aug 6, 2018 15:24
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So I guess that SIGMATA game has a soundtrack in the works () and one of the tracks was just released. The track itself is perfectly fine (Irving Force is pretty legit), but the fact that the game creator wanted to commission an actual soundtrack for his wildly misinformed game is...kind of special.
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Aug 19, 2018 01:38
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Ettin posted:Soundtracks are cool and more games should have them I just wish better games than this had them  Plutonis posted:GMs should bring custom mixtapes instead Soundclown mixes only.
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Aug 19, 2018 03:34
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Kill Six Billion Demons does the isekai story better than most, in part because Allison is played off as being wildly in over her head but she's also crafty enough that she can, with a bit of luck, pull a fast one over her enemies long enough to avoid getting her head caved in (e.g. Princess Jack Moonshine).
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Sep 3, 2018 03:30
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Halloween Jack posted:A playstyle that 4e genuinely doesn't support is one where characters are disposable and easily replaced. Of course, 3e didn't support that either. Arguably, Gamma World supports that kind of play due to how easy it is to make characters, but that's kind of a different beast.
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Sep 14, 2018 16:17
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I don't remember that Winamp plugin.
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Sep 18, 2018 01:49
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01011001 posted:lol From a Steam review:  loving if true.
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Sep 26, 2018 00:16
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Desiden posted:Is it hard to find a printer for RPGs that isn't scummy? Honest question, I just figured with the number of printers around domestically that finding and vetting a legit one wouldn't be one of the more common failure points. Trying to set up manufacturing with some weird little factory in China you found online for a board game or whatever seems to lead to a lot of trouble, but I wasn't aware the printer side was also dodgy. The vetting process is cumbersome on account of a lack of professionalism in the RPG industry. Most RPG writers are, after all, not very good at business or even know a lick about it.
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Oct 4, 2018 16:08
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Covok posted:Which is a better game: Savage Worlds or Fate Core? GURPS? Moriatti posted:4e next question. But joking aside, it depends entirely on what you're trying to do with the systems and your comfort level towards crunch. SW is medium-crunch but plays pretty fast, and FC is lighter and more abstract. GURPS is as light or as heavy as you need it to be. It'd be more appropriate to ask which is better for a game theme you're going for, like superheroes or pulp action or gritty inner-city/cop drama or whatever.
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Covok posted:
Private Speech posted:ABP rule to block this, err, this poo poo:
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