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gradenko_2000 posted:That would require people steeped in leftism to start designing games, which isn't impossible, but the people who make politically self-aware elfgames are at best "very liberal". Then I have good news for you comrade ! I'll report back after Thursday's event put on by the Democratic Socialists of America - San Francisco: 
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Lemon-Lime posted:This is great, I wish I could see that panel. It dropped off the calendar at the last minute so I went home and hid from air pollution. Had my copy of Spire with me and everything.
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atholbrose posted:I wish I liked Pirates of Hindostan better. It had some great stuff, but as a kind of transparent attempt to duplicate Baahubali it falls miserably short. And I'm looking forward to this one. Lots of women chopping up British soldiers with swords. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmkMVaNu9g
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unseenlibrarian posted:Side note, you probably don't need to be worried that D&D is the only game AP podcasts will encourage anyone to try. Note to self, get any RPGs I design onto a good AP asap !
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Ratoslov posted:The only lessons Beasts teach is that Beasts should be killed and the value of keeping tarps and quicklime in your car. I can't say this enough, SHOVELS people SHOVELS. Also a bag of potting soil. Your lawyer will thank you.
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Bless you for setting the standard you want to see.
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Here's an entry for "games as art and/or educational tools". https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unrulydesigns/rosenstrasse quote:As the Nazi party rises to power, lines are drawn in the sand to separate who is German and who is not. This line runs straight through marriages between Jewish and “Aryan” Germans. Over an in-game decade, players explore how the Reich’s racial policies, restrictions, and violence strip away liberty, security, and dignity for these families. They don't have the rules out, but the sample characters and scenes show real promise. The real life Rosenstrasse protest saved lives, the game is trying to save minds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest
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Kai Tave posted:Well they Kickstarted a whole big honkin supplement for it not that long ago which looks like a bunch of everything, classes, advances, scenarios, setting info, etc, so my thought on the matter is it looks like Grant and the Spire team feel like it's got legs. During the Kickstarter I pointed out that they really needed more GM tools for managing stuff around the city, but they didn't have time to work anything up for this supplement. Maybe that'll bear fruit in the next one. And does anyone know where they hang out on social media or forums ?
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I'm thinking the scale of changes, at least for gaining advancements should be: street, district, city.
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I'm really hoping the last surge gets the colection of essays funded. There's stuff in that list I really want to read. e. 5 days, $700 for the collection, c'mon in ! The water's fine ! also full of sharks
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The per-word rate for that should be in something other than money.
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DalaranJ posted:I'd like to talk about EPT some more but this is def. not the place for it. I should just do an F&F. Oh do, please do. I'm grossly underqualified to do it, and I've been tempted a few times.
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I went to high school with MZB's grandkids. That was not a happy family.
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taichara posted:So it's a known quantity in any case and I assume HG did a double license or something along those lines. Or they both said "gently caress it", possibly because the HG copyright on SMG's site runs through 2017, which is when they got their asses handed to them in court. If you dig a little in their forums there is a beta of their game available. They also seem to have two simple boardgames available. NB: the Savage Worlds version on DTRPG is not complete, you need the SW rules to actually play. To make things weirder, there's a third company doing Robotech games, but they're using a pledge manager nobody has ever heard of. https://bravefrontier.pledgemanager.com/projects/robotech-crisis-point/participate/ On the other hand, BGG says their first Robotech game exists and doesn't suck (7.5 rating). What a time to be alive !
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That Old Tree posted:Maybe they could've put more time into figuring out their own game if they hadn't been distracted by fear of the Looming Goon Menace. The griefing would have been glorious, you have to admit.
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inklesspen posted:Meltwater, which I believe is by a goon, is a game that makes this absolutely explicit. I recommend it. Oh they've got some amazing ideas for games on that site. https://hollandspiele.com/
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Rhandhali posted:SJG makes a lot more sense when you read their source material, namely Robert Anton Wilson’s ILLUMINATUS trilogy. The ILLUMINATUS trilogy very rarely makes things make more sense. I should re-read that with an extra 35 years perspective.
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Rand Brittain posted:I think for that kind of thing your goal needs to not be "become more popular and influential than the Ennies," but instead to be "be a better example of how awards should work than the other awards people have actually heard of." I'd like to see awards broken down into things like setting, mechanics, art direction, best use of a dice pool, variety of character types, inclusivity. The "best game of the year" does you no good if it's a rules-light story game when you wanted something with crunch and solid tactical play.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I will also happily buy you a copy of The Spire. More people should be buying, talking about, and playing Spire. Strata posted:A Black Guard sergeant removes their helm to show that, under their iridescent black armour, their skin is crawling with beetles bearing carapaces of the same colour. Rumour has it that the armour itself is just several huge beetles trained to sit very still.
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LazyAngel posted:Obligatory plug for my F&F review of it. Really need to get my arse in gear to go through Strata, and probably the rest of Black Magic past the classes. Strata is good so far. The two new classes are cool as hell and the setting stuff is full of groovy weirdness. Now I just need to get through the adventures, pick a couple I want to run and start recruiting.
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neaden posted:Beyond the Wall does a great job of creating a social context for the PCs as a D&D game by having you create your village and backstories as a group and having that play into your characters stats. Goblinville does similar. WHat's available in your village at start derives directly from what jobs the PC's have.
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theironjef posted:We did an episode on it and yeah, it's insane. Two episodes actually (There's an RPG!)!  After I get through my Zine RPGs (Goblinville is almost done, Obachan Panic is next !) in F&F I'll have to give this a look and see if it's worth the effort.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I just watched Wizards because of this thread. Yikes. Just yikes. The 70s were a very different time. Try Fritz the Cat next !
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Darwinism posted:Pretty sure it can be both Let's let the viewer decide ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujQ-nMc0WGE
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Whybird posted:...and the primary antagonist has a big beard and nose and wears black, flowing robes. Don't make me link the second video I found. It gets way worse than that. I think there's an actual point or message in this mess. Somewhere. But I can't quite get at it. Oh god. Oh god no. Now I have to not only watch the drat thing but do the F&F fir the RPG.
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"Alignment: Himself" They got that right !
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Arivia posted:The funny thing is that it's not even "gently caress you no" because it has obvious holes in it. What is a demigod designed to take on 75th-level characters doing with an AC of 17? Mind controlling people into not melee attacking him. :snark: The Dominator should be built to mentally control wizards of 35th-45th level and to pull off some flashy epic-scale attack spells like in the Lady's duel with the Black Castle/Dominator at the end of the second book. I particularly like the invisible giant's foot stomping all over platoons of soldiers for both effect and style
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Kai Tave posted:The Flex Mentallo Effect, surely. Not emptyquoting. Watch Doom Patrol. I really admire how PbtA implements DTAS in two ways. First off, they strip them down to just the mechanical effect. Stats are just the mechanical effect (a bonus to a die roll), not a number with an associated mechanical effect or effects that are what you ever actually use. The WEG d6 system does something similar; every number on your character sheet is how many dice you roll when you do that thing. Secondly they get away from 'RPG Phrenology' and go with reinforcing the genre you're playing. Apocalypse World itself uses cool, hard, hot, sharp, and weird as their array. Those stats tell you what your character is good at and what the game is about all at once. Even better, they come from an entirely different design philosophy than D&D. Dungeon World recast the classic D&D stats pretty well, but they're still the classic six with all their baggage. On my own part I've used these arrays in full-blown PbtA RPGs or just simple hacks. All stats chosen for their utility in genre emulation, all stats are what the character can do, no objective measurements, nothing for chuds to latch on to. hard, sharp, cool, charm, tech, psi (A Traveller RPG) bang, boom, sharp, charm, tough, slick (elite bodyguards to the 0.01% RPG) claw, think, talk, plan, weird (Advanced Creeks & Crawdads) physique, fighting, persuade, figure, focus, angle (Green Swamp, Blue Sea - a 1960s Florida RPG) fight, figure, front, fast (experimental stats for Green Swamp, Blue Sea) faith, fury, fire. steel, cog, warp (you guessed it, a 40K hack - The Deathwatch Will Protect Your Worlds) fire, fury, faith, with cog/charm/warp (40k again - A Commissar's World Extends as Far as His Voice Reaches) Note that the two 40K hacks use similar, but different, arrays and Commissar's World will have different arrays on different playbooks. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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Dawgstar posted:See aforementioned Watch Doom Patrol. They cast Devan Long as Flex. I don't recognize the name, but he's got a pretty extensive resume the last 6 years. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4231435/
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Joe Slowboat posted:This, plus you can play a drunken gangster in knight armor. Who can go on a Grail quest and crown the true king. Seriously, if you've only glanced at the Knight class, take a closer look at what the advanced moves are implying.
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ExiledTinkerer posted:Loomis passing is still just such a cringe for posterity considering all he pulled off even if he managed to hang in there a fair while---exactly how many of the formative pioneers are even left at this point? A dozen or so tops? There might be a dozen people left who played proto-D&D with Gygax or Arneson.
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Oh dear lord. I just had a fit of nostalgia and signed up for the PBM game Hyborian War. It's a country-level game set in Conan's world; I had a very promising game back in high school cut short by an interstate move and I wanted to try it again. Hell, I've had the map up behind my computer desk for over two decades at this point. What really got me about the game was the intensity of the diplomacy. Way back in 1987, one summer Saturday I come back from lunch at work to hear someone called for me. They called back and it was one of my neighbors in the game wanting to talk about a coalition against Aquilonia. Between a few calls and a bunch of actual letters we did put together a coalition to bring down Aquilonia. There were about 10 of us involved, direct neighbors and other nations called in to backstab some of our allies. See, three of us managed to work out an arrangement where we were going to come out on top, while the rest had their territories traded away to make sure the Big Three got all of Aquilonia between us, as well as big pieces of some of our allies. I wish I knew how it all came out. Notice I didn't say PBEM. You can email a turn in, but they still accept handwritten forms sent via snail mail. Their website (http://www.reality.com) has been up so long it links to multiple webrings. And no credit cards accepted online of course. Oh, and they have Forgotten Realms game too. So, should I just do an F&F of this throwback to a simpler time or go whole hog for my first LP ?
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Rules and maps here: http://www.reality.com/hwpcont.htm Oh, and I'm playing Ophir. I get to try and build a coalition again. Pity you can only request contact info for two players a turn diplomacy takes a while to get going.
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I'll just drop this here for context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5VYO_gitw
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Falstaff posted:I read it's also partly due to outdoor cats being less common than in the past. Life expectancy for outdoor cats are much, much shorter than indoor cats, so that would have to bring the average up. My mother adopted a feral cat colony and feeds them wet food daily. They're achieving lifespans of up to 17 years, which is pretty drat good for pussycats outdoors, dodging owls and coyotes.
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LatwPIAT posted:A Lasers and Feelings hack that... honestly I convey its tone no better than it conveys in its own opening paragraph: So nothing of value was lost.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Illinois Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis. Which is ironic now since driving into crowds is their thing now.
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Dawgstar posted:Ticks and shifts and shifts and ticks and aaaaah. Just the game's glossary makes you want to take a shower.
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