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Goa Tse-tung posted:D&D Post-Modern Dungeons & Doom Patrol
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Fred Hicks talking about the effect streaming has on game sales (particularly TAZ's recent Monster of the Week game): https://twitter.com/fredhicks/status/965631462124015616
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Feb 19, 2018 18:55
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quote:No more having to workout to carry all the manuals. quote:Character advancement through the new APTitude System rather than traditional “leveling”.
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Mar 2, 2018 03:37
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My favorite bit is that it tells you nothing about the system or how it works.
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Mar 2, 2018 07:11
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Lemon-Lime posted:I don't know if these have been there for a while and only just slipped through my adblocker or something but
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Mar 12, 2018 16:23
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DTRPG have some customer testimonials on the checkout screen now?
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Warthur posted:Meanwhile RPG.net shuts down discussion on the topic, because the most prominent RPG-specific forum on the internet isn't actually fit for purpose for discussing significant news stories in the field. This is a good reason to shut down a thread about an important topic because
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Mar 17, 2018 15:36
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dwarf74 posted:I was pretty sure the physical product restrictions got loosened? That may have happened after Evil Hat got screwed shipping a ton of stuff to a judge overseas, who then dropped out and kept the books.
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Jul 5, 2018 23:51
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I haven't put a lot of stock in the Ennies, mainly because at no point do they say _why_ games are nominated. Yeah, I know it's a popularity contest, but people act like it's the Emmies of RPGs. But without the context of _why_ these games are head and shoulders above the rest the award is meaningless. And I don't just mean in terms of Starfinger or whatever stupid retroclone got twelve nods this year. Even with game I like, I'd appreciate some discussion of the ways that this book here is one of the top five of the year.
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Jul 6, 2018 17:48
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There was an F&F of it a while back, that might have something to do with it.
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Jul 6, 2018 19:23
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If I remember correctly, Zweihander is a clone of WarhamsRPG 1e, not 2e.
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Jul 7, 2018 03:15
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Ennies are based on a public vote. He wouldn't have had to try too hard.
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Aug 4, 2018 16:21
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So are people actually streaming Monte Cook's Big Box of Mystery now?
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Aug 12, 2018 16:15
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Kurieg posted:Can you touch the cube!? I don't know; is that one of the thousand loving spell cards in the box?
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Aug 12, 2018 17:50
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Zandar posted:The thing that annoys me about Invisible Sun's price is that most of it's probably not going towards paying developers more, it's going towards a plastic hand and spell cards and a bunch of other stuff which isn't actually necessary to play the game. It's like selling a deluxe version of a board game without selling the entry-level version, and then telling people to get their friends to pool their money if they can't afford it. If I remember correctly, they're not even doing a pdf version. Its the $200+ box or nothing.
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Aug 15, 2018 15:57
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Kurieg posted:Though the reason for the App's existence is one of the other things that bothers me about the game, because they state that "being able to walk up to your storyteller anywhere in the real world and being able to have them adjudicate your downtime actions that you came up with on your lunch break" as a selling point.
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Aug 15, 2018 17:28
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Sadly, it didn't work out that way given how badly it burned d20 publishers and game stores. It didn't hurt D&D by any stretch but it definitely crashed the third-party craze.
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Aug 21, 2018 02:28
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Kwyndig posted:I don't think they even have the rights for electronic games for Dresden Files, I sincerely doubt Butcher would have handed those over with the traditional games rights. That's not even considering the millions of dollars that console development costs. There is a digital version of the Dresden Files co-op card game on Steam, but I think that was done as part of its original kickstarter.
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Oct 3, 2018 12:55
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Ratoslov posted:One good thing I'll say about Invisible Sun: The PDFs are properly hyperlinked. Wait, I thought Invisible Sun wasn't coming out in pdf? Or is that a backers only thing?
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Oct 29, 2018 17:14
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Trustworthy posted:It's like the mentality of a bratty ten-year-old, after being told, "Stop hitting your sister."
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Oct 29, 2018 23:20
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"How are you, declaring rules of behavior for a private internet forum, any different than the people who rounded up specific ethic groups and murdered them en masse?"
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Oct 30, 2018 00:05
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Libertad! posted:If anyone cares Dndspo-I mean RPGSports.tv released their first streamed episode here.  Hmm WotC didn't want to put the stamp of approval on this, you say?
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Nov 11, 2018 05:30
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Dawgstar posted:It still brings me a chuckle to think of an eSports-style coach for a D&D group. "Uh, yeah, but I don't really have a lot of control over what comes up on the die, since..." "Don't give me your excuses!" fake edit: would weighted dice be the equivalent of juicing?
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Nov 11, 2018 19:42
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Man, it's been a crazy day for the industry, hasn't it?
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Nov 17, 2018 04:32
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Nuns with Guns posted:GMS redid the rules using the old d6 Star Wars system, right? So did it turn out to be a better or worse fit than d20 for his kung fu western game? I imagine it'd be a little better since d6 is a better "generic" system than d20, but it's still a bland as hell system that doesn't do anything beyond being a die resolution mechanic. So it's till going to be dead in the water. Oh, and GMS was supposed to be doing updates every Friday but that died out after like two months.
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Nov 27, 2018 13:45
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homullus posted:This is literally what he should have done years ago -- paste it onto an existing, functional system and eat some poo poo for turning out a substandard game. Instead, he seated himself at the end of a poo poo conveyor belt, and has been eating a stream of it all this time. The thing is, the game did originally use an existing functional system. It was using class d20 with aspects glued on. Yhe original delays were from the Mythical Chapter 9, which was the gming chapter.
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Nov 28, 2018 15:32
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I've talked before about how there a few game stores near me that have stacks of unsold 3.x third party books they're never going to unload because they still charge full price for them. RPG stocking all about the sunk cost fallacy on physical books.
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Dec 5, 2018 17:19
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ProfessorCirno posted:While Alexis Kennedy tends to hit kinda the same note a lot, it's a good note, of "there are cosmic beings far more massive then us, and oh, they care so much about you, and their love isn't exactly a good thing."
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Dec 7, 2018 00:03
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Yeah, a big thing with Basic was that Gygax didn't like it because it'd bring in too many people who he didn't feel were "right" for D&D (i.e., anyone not in college).
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Dec 17, 2018 05:54
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I don't know which term I hate more; "disassociated mechanics" or "empowering the GM".
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Jan 30, 2019 16:56
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Darwinism posted:Ah, one of my favorites, the "I don't understand why critical failures are bad in a system where people can trigger failures at radically different rates,'' pitfall "That's the thing about chaos...it's fair."
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Jan 31, 2019 02:25
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Heliotrope posted:Yeah there are people saying "I told you not to name people and you did you idiot and you didn't remove them after we asked and now you're acting like you had no idea how bad Zak could be until now" As bad as this apology is, I'm darkly entertained and completely un-shocked that it's turned into the Bojack episode where he goes to visit Herb.
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Feb 12, 2019 14:38
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Nuns with Guns posted:Yes, he posted exclusively in the big grognards.txt thread that's been goldmined, so you can find all his posts here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3098558&userid=185243 That page is a shame I'll never live down.
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Feb 13, 2019 17:53
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I remember when Apocalypse World first hit the scene and RPGSite lost their poo poo over it, mainly because it was different. People were saying things like "how is Hot a stat? What does that mean?", "the game expects characters to have s-s-s-SEX", and a lot of anger over the game explicitly telling you how it's intended to be run (HOW DARE YOU TELL ME HOW TO PLAY YOUR GAME I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS).
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Feb 21, 2019 17:24
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thespaceinvader posted:It's more, I think, that consumers want to treat everyone except for big publishers as if they were hobbyists doing it for the love of the task, rather than being willing to pay good money for good content from freelancers who've not been employed by WotC/Paizo. e: I'm sure a large part of the problem too is that a lot of people don't consider writing or editing "work". Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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Feb 25, 2019 21:35
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Warthur posted:I wonder how much Rule Zero comes in with respect to curation/low standards. There's also the problem of how nerds treat criticism of a thing they like as an attack on themselves personally. Or how a depressing amount of nerds can't understand that you can like something and be critical of it at the same time.
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Feb 26, 2019 16:09
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gradenko_2000 posted:D&D 3e actually tried to tackle that problem: if your Take 10 is good enough, and there's no time pressure, you Take 10 and do it, no rolling necessary.
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Feb 27, 2019 16:37
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Liquid Communism posted:Note that is part of why I despise Dystopia Rising. Take horror, give it immediacy on a level that provokes fight or flight, and keep this up for 36 hours without space to decompress OOG? That is going to gently caress with people who thought they were down with it in unexpected ways and they will try to soldier on because they dont want to ruin others' fun. quote:The Manor may give its patrons unwanted haircuts, drench them in fake blood, submerge them in water, force them to eat and drink unknown substances, have them bound and gagged, or engage in other forms of emotional or psychological torture.
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Mar 12, 2019 16:07
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I know there was one for Unknown Armies, and Torg Eternity has one too. Fun fact: you can remove the end of the URL FMGuru posted, just put in a number, and go through them all that way
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Apr 3, 2019 16:36
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Mors Rattus posted:I mean, that basically is the take. Friend Computer genuinely believes it is trying to help you and genuinely wants you to be happy.
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hyphz posted:White Box had a neat take on this: it’s a late stage civilisation and everything is running out. But no-one ever programmed The Computer to allow for there being no metal in the mines or no oil in the derricks (because what would they have it do, just say goodbye?)
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