sweet geek swag posted:

How about the stats for a spellcaster system?

Lightning
Inflammable
Granite
Magic
Air

Dexo posted:

Yeah.

I don't think it's 1 to 1, as I'm pretty sure if you buy everything piece meal it's obviously going to be more expensive but you do get discounts.

Dexo posted:

The Fear about NFTs/or Like loving Inspiration being sold or whatever is dumb imo. This whole thing is still a problem because Vertical integration loving sucks, and will make for a far far less healthy ecosystem for artists and designers, but they aren't ever going to be able to get away with offering any in game benefits in a loving tabletop game like this lol.

Leperflesh posted:

I dabble in a lot of hobbies and I can n'th the observation that tons of people only ever engage in one very narrow aspect or part of the hobby.

Woodworking: there are whittlers who refuse to pick up a saw. There are chainsaw animal carvers who are worried about trying to learn how to use a plane. There are people who just make pretty boxes, and nothing else.
Photography: there are people who only work in black & white. There are people who only do portraiture. There are people who only care about taking pictures of birds, and spend tens of thousands of dollars on horrifically expensive lenses to make bird photos better.
Comic books: there are people who love DC and hate Marvel and don't care about any other small print or whatever. There's people who only read superhero stories and people who never read superhero stories. There are people glued to manga who insist western comics are all trash, and vice-versa.
Magic: plenty of posters right here on this forum play their one format and are quite certain all the other formats are trash, or for babies, or insanely expensive, or all three. They like to deride their fellow posters for playing the bad formats or spending their money differently.
Hiking & camping: car camping? Ugh that's for pathetic babies, the only way to hike is wilderness backpacking. Wilderness backpacking? Ugh I can't poo poo in a hole are you insane, I need a campsite with a shower and wifi.
Automotive Insanity: going in a straight line fast is the best. No, autocross is accessible and fun. No, drifting. Actually drifting is stupid as hell. Classic muscle cars own. Actually they're slow and heavy and you'll die, idiot. F1 is the purest pinnacle of the sport. Actually it's incredibly wasteful passtime for the ultra-rich. I only drive Subarus. No I only drive japanese cars. Actually I think you'll fine german engineering is the best. I'm over here restoring 1930s classics, they're so beautiful, I have no interest in anything made after 1950.

It goes on and on and on. Identifying one specific niche and focusing exclusively on it is the norm. Being someone willing and interested in trying out every aspect of a hobby is the rarity.

moths posted:

Dungeon Madden and multiple other participants..

Lumbermouth posted:

D&D YouTubers who increased their subscriber base off of OGL drama videos

The Bee posted:

They still have a chance if One decides to depart radically from 5E, but frankly its playtests are only about as different as Black Flag's has been. And the fact that Black Flag is pushing "feats but named differently" and "humans can be Mountain Dwarves" as big deal highlights in their interviews, instead of saying the best is yet to come, is . . . less than inspiring, tbh.

I don't want to write them off. Especially when the strategy moths mentions keeps paying off gangbusters for Paizo. But they need to give people reasons to support them, and literally anything would've been better than what they showed off.

The Bee posted:

Avatar gave me that vibe big time. Is it some groundbreaking story? No. But its a rare big budget movie that isn't frozen in mid wink.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Donald Duck is officially the most powerful mortal mage in the entire Final Fantasy extended canon.

Honestly I find that the weird bit given Donald you'd think would be a physical fighter and Mickey literally has an iconic outfit as being a wizard. And they outright have Yen Sid show up. Like, Goofy as a paladin I can get at least.

TheDiceMustRoll posted:

Your username is "comstar" and was registered in 2007 and you weren't aware of this? I got into bt in 2021 and learned this right away: http://ogrecave.com/2010/03/18/catalyst-monetary-trouble-rumor-gets-official-reply/

Its why I ultimately cancelled their pledge.

TheDiceMustRoll posted:

The point was basically that Kai's surprise that people would still hire the other guy after he did something awful is that well, listen, this industry is basically a joke. Look at new TSR, where they're slapping the Gygax name on whatever garbage products they can poo poo out. Look at Williams TSR, where they basically just racked up debt forever until someone came looking to get paid back for once. Look at Gygax TSR, where the whole TSR company was basically just a meal ticket for Gygax and the Blumes. I'm pretty sure they laid off a ton of people while using company funds to send one of the Blumes's nieces or whatever to university, full ride scholarship. Gygax renting a house in LA to party for months and months etc etc etc, and that was like, the company that started this whole industry!

TheDiceMustRoll posted:

Has anyone here noticed a lot of people sort of read dungeon adventures like some kind of weird-rear end comic book or novel and never run them or care about the utility at the table? I see a lot of stuff get praised and then I read it and it's like, a horrid overcomplicated mess that would be an actual nightmare to run at the table. There's an adventure in the WFRP line that requires the PCs to take the hook that they recognize a PC from a previous adventure that's an optional encounter and decide to go balls-deep chasing this lady across the entire Empire of Man because they're a little sketchy. There's a lot of nonsense like that in publishing. I understand buying adventures to steal ideas from, that's a great idea, but I have never in my life ran an adventure, published, without severe editing.

neongrey posted:

have you considered that because you can end that game as a king that the game is pro-monarchy

you can just play games for frivolous fun if you want thats just my opinion

Dexo posted:

I'm curious what the art review standards? are for WotC? at this point.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

I have no idea what identifies this is AI art

senrath posted:

There's other AI art in the book as well, including a dinosaur that's very clearly missing a leg.

Lumbermouth posted:

Or just wait for poo poo to go on sale or show up in Bundles of Holding! It is very easy not to pay full price for RPG PDFs if you can wait like six months to read them.

gradenko_2000 posted:

senrath posted:

They're huge, but they're not Microsoft huge, and they decided to declare that Microsoft would be on the hook for any and all payments of the new fee for any Unity games on the Game Pass.

KingKalamari posted:

Eh, I think that's just a further extension of how revolution and the morality thereof is portrayed in media as a whole. The media, like every other aspect of our society, is ultimately a tool controlled by corporations and conglomerates whose control over our hierarchical power structure is largely dependent of buy-in on the part of the working public, so they have a vested interest in presenting revolutionary activity as needing to be governed by certain moral limitations. And that's not even to say that the situation at White Wolf is the direct result of corporate pressure as it could just as easily be the case of the developers having internalized the narrative that's been pushed by our corporate overlords for the past century to the point it's just become unquestioned truth...



That also just reminds me of an incident in a game I played in where our group had started a revolution against an oppressive monarchy and, in the midst of revolution going on, one of our players was trying to broker an alliance with some nobles who had holed themselves up in an estate when they became surrounded by a mob of revolutionaries demanding to know what she was up to dealing with the enemy. Faced with having to placate the mob without alienating the nobles who were standing right beside her, the player (Who IRL identifies as a "classical liberal" in the most insufferable way possible) decided to...try to shame the mob about "going to far" in an unbearably condescending way. When the mob did not react to this particularly well the player just...kept doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result?

spectralent posted:

I think this is a question that's different for the in-universe setting and the TV show in the real world. In universe, he's arguably not disabled - his accomodations appear very routine in much the same way glasses are today and nobody thinks it's being awkward or invasive. But, in the real world, we recognise that he's blind, and blind people are disabled, and that by including a blind person who isn't affected by that at all, we're providing an aspirational character to (at least some) blind people.

I'm always sad whenever I've run a star wars game nobody wants to play an alien or a droid

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Whatever this is isn't showing up for me.

FishFood posted:

(Barbie didn't rely on improv at all)

That Old Tree posted:

While I'm sympathetic to the complaint about video length, there's a pretty real difference between the occasional very long video from Hbomb etc, and poo poo like mauler whose whole thing is going frame-by-frame through a movie for a million hours to be mad at women.

Though I am willing to admit I found my limit with Noah Caldwell-Gervais when he broke my heart after finally getting a new mic but then started putting out 7- and 10-hour videos.

Subjunctive posted:

I think YouTube’s copyright stuff sucks, but I don’t really know how you would expect it to catch video essayists ripping off books and magazine articles.

theironjef posted:

Well now... just don't look directly down their throats. Their mouths are lined all over with needle sharp backward pointed spines so that fish can't just wriggle out of there. They can't bite with them though, they're for holding a fish in place while gulping, so this doesn't really change their general absolute lack of danger to people.

Magnetic North posted:

The only thing I'll add is don't get your hopes up too much. The vast, vast, vast majority of CCG cards are basically worthless, even among the big 3. But I hope you'll have a positive surprise.

dwarf74 posted:

What, you don't want to pause the game while the wizard player does IRL math puzzles every round?

Kai Tave posted:

One of the biggest eyebrow-raises in this article is the estimation that as much as 18% of Kickstarter's revenue comes from fraudulent projects. Like everybody knows that KS doesn't give a poo poo as long as they get their cut (and it won't get them sued by Disney or something), but I wasn't expecting the percentage to be quite that high.

Leraika posted:

- oh yeah and they're localizing the Shin Megami Tensei TTRPG, and it's available for preorder on their web page

gradenko_2000 posted:

If Catalyst is some fly by night operation how did they secure those two lucrative gaming licenses

whydirt posted:

Let’s send Ulilillia to be our journalistic correspondent