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It doesn’t sound like there’s much similarity between this and starfinger, which is a wasted opportunity for experimenting and prototyping
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Xelkelvos posted:Trying to convince people to play a fantasy RPG that isn't D&D or Path is like trying to convince a child than some off brand superhero toy is just as good as their Superman or Iron Man action figure. it's not hard to do with licensed properties, people are generally down with Star Wars or Call of Cthulu in my experience
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What do unions have to do with this Skarka
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Pope Guilty posted:I was rereading the CoC corebook awhile back and it's amazing how painfully obvious it is that the game is a reaction to D&D from the early 80s. the BRP rules certainly are, to a pretty amazing degree. Greg Stafford, in the intro to Guide to Glorantha posted:A friend of mine, Jeff Platt, was at a printer’s shop to pick up a catalogue where he met a guy getting his new fantasy game. Jeff bought one from Gary Gygax right at the shop. Gary told me later it was the first copy of Dungeons & Dragons ever sold. My first game, White Bear & Red Moon, was released in California at almost the same time that D&D was released. The fantasy gaming field was born. I found D&D to be almost illiterate, poorly organized and not worth my trouble to sort out.
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Comrade Koba posted:Is this the same guy who gets very, very upset when you don’t play Pendragon according to his one, true vision about how it should be played properly? Yeah, although it’s not so much his vision as the original text
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It’s not out of a respect for the concept of texts, he really liked the arthurian stories. I agree about the value of going off-canon for representative reasons though.
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I see spending 500 dollars on invisible sun as a bad thing because invisible sun is dumb. I can't really knock the middle class having money to throw around, but I can laugh at spending 500 bucks on an rpg that probably isn't good. At least get one of those Cthulhu board games with the giant models.
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there's nazis in pretty much every community, same as abusers. Accept this as a baseline and work from there.
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clockworkjoe posted:https://www.evilhat.com/home/refocused-resized-hat-mode-activated/ At least there's a new edition of AGON coming out, that's had some champions in the discord.
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I’ve been thinking about making a thread about non-combat systems in games, it’s an interesting part of rpg design that doesn’t get much attention.Reene posted:Before you literally said Burning Wheel I was about to slide in with Burning Wheel. http://charred.herokuapp.com/#/ There’s an online character maker that’s absolutely essential, and kind of fun to gently caress around with Wrestlepig fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 23, 2018 |
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Having an obtuse wizard make everything complicated is incredibly close to what it's like to read Burning Wheel.
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Ratoslov posted:I was not expecting that sentence to end with the Blood In The Chocolate dude being the principled and ethical person here. just because he has a sexual fetish for women inflating and his main work has terrible racial politics and stereotyping of lesbians as predatory doesn't mean he likes the alt-right.
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If the dude wants to be transgressive he should be celebrating because this is probably the most controversial thing ever in rpgs.
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remusclaw posted:You joke, but have there been any games made with the intention of playing like AD&D 2nd edition was supposed to be played according to the text? I'm not even sure AD&D 2e was that
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Liquid Communism posted:So serious question, what's the good thing to go to if you want a D&D-style dungeon crawl that is more balanced? I mean, I'm going to end up playing Pathfinder anyway because that's what the rest of the group wants, but is there a better option? Torchbearer if you want a cruel grinding experience with lots of crunchy rules, Basic D&D or World of Dungeons otherwise
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Warthur posted:The Chaosium/Editions Sans-Detour situation grinds on. Chaosium have seen their way to putting out a unilateral licence which allows ESD to fulfil their crowdfunding obligations, but do nothing else with them. They also further outline how ESD haven't paid them for ages and shut down discussion whenever the subject turns to payment. ESD have gone totally silent, so there isn't a side to their story.
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Nah it all fell back into the baseline misogyny of rpgs fairly quickly
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Establishing tone and expectations beforehand is definitely the biggest improvement you can make to your rpg sessions. All the session zero rigamarole about X-cards, long-term goals and what everyone wants feels excessive but they have an incredible impact.
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There’s a few reasons. Streams and podcasts are a major part (especially how there’s a fandom behind them that’s finding rpgs scratch a lot of artistic itches) but Nerd stuff is more prominent than before, everyone is on social media so organising is easier, online tools are really strong, and the economy is poo poo so lots of people have lots of time and desire for fairly cheap entertainment and socialisation.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Has 7th Sea gotten a Fantasy Flight remake like L5R? I remember Winston raving about it years ago but I've never had the chance to play it. It got a second edition which was a decent improvement but they hosed up the Kickstarter with too much free stuff and the line collapsed.
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Kai Tave posted:Also depending on who you talk to it's still apparently something of a mechanical mess. I'm one of those guys, I'm just trying to be polite
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It better be an adventure game because nothing else will work.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:But it should be. Someone write a M*A*S*H RPG. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/199282/MASHED-A-Korean-War-MASH-RPG
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Greg-Staffords-Office-RuneQuest-Movie-Script-Chaosium/133089597802?hash=item1efcc2196a%3Ag%3AbOEAAOSwmgVdCXb%7E Turns out there was a runequest movie in the works. It was in the financing stage but Conan came out and took all that heat. Also apparently the script wasn't great but what did you expect.
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There’s an order of dark elf historians using the twisted remains of a planned train network that got too hosed up by the eldritch Heart of Spire and budget cuts as a library.
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That Old Tree posted:Against the Darkmaster, a MERP clone that I think ended its KS just recently, had a whole subthread on RPGnet about getting rid of racial modifiers. They've just got "heritage" modifiers instead, or something like that. It's not racist if a troll is naturally dumb because of their troll heritage. Totally different words! Who the hell is looking for a merps retroclone
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That Old Tree posted:I had a little interest until I read the aforementioned "heritage" posts. If they do the work it can be a fine system. If they’re just going to take Hackmaster and tidy up the terms so they’re close to lord of the rings and also not as problematic, all power to them. I like MERPS but it’s a weird historical artefact that married two things that weren’t a match at all, and a retroclone is going to miss that.
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