Kai Tave posted:

Ah okay, my mistake then, I remember her releasing some statements regarding their efforts to not make it a total fuckfest with racist undertones like the last one and so I assumed she would be supervising it.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Hmm let's just take a lo


NOPE

dwarf74 posted:

Comrade Gorbash posted:

Goes to eleven.

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It seems like the number of actions a spells costs during combat is dependent on the number of components it has. Acid Splash has a Verbal and Somatic component, so it requires 2 actions. However, Shield only has a Verbal component, so the caster can cast both spells in their turn.

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Not really, no? Like I know boo hiss Pathfinder but it's literally just "you get 3 points, this action costs 2, this action costs 1."

You could put a little number next to the spell and you're good to go.

Bedlamdan posted:

Yeah, mostly just making it even more like 3.5 and removing a neat thing from martials I can’t remember anymore. I still preferred the Open Dev process in Beast the Primordial.

Bedlamdan posted:

At least Beast tried to improve, and failed, instead of seeking to make things worse ala PF’s playtest

Bedlamdan posted:

I remember that it changed some of the fluff to make the idea of it more palatable. It didn’t succeed, but There Was An Attempt

Chill la Chill posted:

I've seen softcover versions of the jedi supplement on shelves for a long-rear end time.

counterspin posted:

I just find it hilarious that PF continued to be a thing after 5e. Why bother?

Roadie posted:

There's plenty of out-of-combat magic in 4e, it just goes under the label "rituals". The actual difference in 4e is that out-of-combat magic is no longer limited to only people that also use in-combat magic.

Terrible nerds reject this because they've never branched out beyond D&D enough to even read an old Discworld novel.

Bedlamdan posted:

Christopher Tolkien resigned as head of the Tolkien foundation when it was announced

Flavivirus posted:

It's not the timeline of events they promised, but at least it's something. As far as I can tell Black Hat Matt hasn't said anything about the allegations made against him.

Flavivirus posted:

That's definitely my read on it - I think he's going to try radio silence for as long as possible.

E: Which, given this industry, is very likely to be 'forever'.

GimpInBlack posted:

Fungeons and Fragons

cargohills posted:

To be fair I'm sure they'd rather not get sued for publicly calling someone a sexual harasser.

Roadie posted:

In more evidence of how hosed up the RPG.net moderation rules are, you can't call people liars when they are factually liars.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/HillaryMonahan/status/974439081479491585

looks like we're not the only ones seeing that STOP policy as hosed up and bullshit

Alien Rope Burn posted:

A more accurate acronym for their policy would have been PAUSE.

Evil Mastermind posted:

No, see, it's okay because they used up all actual conversations and some people were getting into conspiracy theories!

This is a good reason to shut down a thread about an important topic because

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Yes. Lisa Stevens was involved heavily in the creation of both Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf. Though she's not as well known because she's generally been an editor or executive, I think it's fair to say roleplaying games would be very different without her.

Warthur posted:

Now I begin to wonder whether the original Vampire was, like Star Wars, one of those projects which was saved in the edit...

Dawgstar posted:

I still remember how achingly pretentious his little columns or whatever at the end of 2E Apocalypse and 1E Wraith and thought to myself that this is not a man who I want to game with, despite having obviously bought many of his games. Especially Wraith where he's losing his mind narrating how his players were dead and their souls eaten and then crapped out into the underworld and they're just staring at him because of how REAL and INTENSE it was. Probably they were too polite to say 'dude what?'

Warthur posted:

I really like 1e Chicago By Night, but I suspect part of that comes from it being the playtest campaign and so having a dose of extra richness and road testing arising from actual play.

Dawgstar posted:

Rage Across New York was especially awful. I remember how it said that unlike the awful white tribes, the Wendigo and Ukena only warred on one another for noble and pure reasons. It reminded me of something from, I dunno, MST3K or something - "My race is pacifist and doesn't believe in war. We only kill out of personal spite."

Warthur posted:

I've got 1E in hardcopy and 2E in PDF and I don't remember them being all that different, save that 2E has a nicer layout job and edit, doesn't have the ongoing story told in the art, and otherwise more or less has the same information, just presented in a slightly different order. So I guess you could count that as being saved in the edit.

Chill la Chill posted:

For all we know, Vin Diesel could’ve memorized all the tables from D&D 2-5 but just doesn’t talk about it aside from mentioning it in some interviews and that one geek and sundry session. Some of those football players are HUGE weebs and could probably argue with you all day about DBZ and Master Roshi’s turtle’s power level.

dwarf74 posted:

Has anyone mentioned how deep Serena Williams is into Avatar, yet?

dwarf74 posted:

Excellent point. I hope my clarification helps. His eyes are round. Like rounder than normal anime eyes. And they seem to have no expressions, like they have been painted on.