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kingcom posted:Its probably why I complain about 5e streams so much to be honest, give the smaller companies a chance to show their game and almost without fail it is a giant boon for sales. Interestingly I find you need something special for me to watch D&D 5E - like, sure, I'm watching Critical Role's second campaign but no others - but my absolutely favorite streams are for a FFG Star Wars game and a Savage Worlds Deadlands game. I'm certainly not saying there's only the one good 5E stream, but CR is the only one that I find interesting for whatever reason.
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kingcom posted:Sell those other streams my man, what star wars and savage worlds are you watching? Both are on Twitch - the channel Hyper RPG has Pencils and Paragons which is the Star Wars game. They also have this Battletech game called Death From Above which uses a unique system that mixes an RPG and miniatures (and it's not A Time Of War mixed with the actual miniatures game before somebody asks, but it was developed by some of the BT mucky-mucks). The other with the Deadlands show is SavingThrowShow, and both I think are worth one's time if they like the game already. I know of another one called Happy Jack's that plays, as I can recall, stuff like Savage Worlds RIFTS and the L5R beta but I haven't watched enough of it to form an opinion, but I do like seeing non-D&D games played so maybe check it out?
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Feb 20, 2018 02:16
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PST posted:FFG's Star Wars RPG is basically only beaten out by D&D and Pathfinder, though again, availability on books a few weeks after release, or re-release even has caused problems. I wonder how much being able to sell PDFs would boost things. Not that I think anybody wants to try and undo the tangle that is PDFs being caught up with electronic games in the Star Wars licensing department.
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Feb 28, 2018 14:09
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Dave Brookshaw posted:It was a nightmare for the Egyptian gods, let alone the Hindu ones - Egyptian religion has all the stable canon of a long-running comic book franchise. I'll second the love for Bast's write-up. I love her as Ra's dogsbody (...perhaps ironically) who drinks a lot because of the amount of crap she has to do for her dad. She'll make a fun mom for some Scion.
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Mar 1, 2018 16:49
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One poster was in a tizzy about possibly losing skill points for... say it with me in hushed tones... specialties. It is not to be countenanced.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:38
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Xelkelvos posted:I think by pure math, fighters still throw damage around like nobody's business, it's just that they're incapable of doing anything else and idk if they care to realize it. I remember to have decent damage output as a paladin I needed to go for two-weapon fighting and beg my DM that a spiked shield counted as the other weapon (and he agreed). The pally did okay, but... well, wizards, man.
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Mar 9, 2018 22:55
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Kai Tave posted:Someone really needs to let GMS know that there are plenty more varieties of fruit besides sour grapes. Maybe if he ever made a game we could have people getting paid union scale to play it.
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Mar 13, 2018 13:59
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slap me and kiss me posted:You'd think, especially when outside of WoTC, the marketing budget for RPGs is basically zero bucks. I know Pinnacle is, for example, delighted that the Saving Throw Show Twitch channel has a weekly Deadlands game.
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Mar 13, 2018 15:55
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Kurieg posted:"We're dividing the hobbit into two movies, the first half and the second half." "Okay, but the death of Smaug is the climax of one of the films, right?" "Weeeeeeell..."
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Mar 14, 2018 02:56
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Kurieg posted:1e World of Darkness books are really... not great. 2nd Edition gets slightly better, particularly after the large org reshuffle that saw Bridges moved off of Werewolf and onto Mage. Revised is better but there are still a few stinkers that slip through from time to time because people trusted the writers not to go too far off the reservation. 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?'
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Mar 28, 2018 20:12
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Kurieg posted:The werewolf books were not anywhere near as polished. The tribes backstabbed each other at every opportunity and their clan stereotypes were flanderized up to 11. 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."
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Mar 28, 2018 21:27
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Warthur posted:The 1E A World of Darkness supplement had John Dee as a Tremere mastermind, Crowley as a Malkavian deliberately tricked into thinking he was a Tremere to embarrass them, the Brujah as the secret masters of the Mafia, the original Hunedora Castle background, supernatural kitties, and Oscar Wilde running the world's best vampire nightclub in a buried ship in San Francisco. If that's wrong I don't want to be right. Related: Jim Morrison was a Cultist of Ecstasy. (Why, yes, Phil Brucato wrote that Tradition book. Why do you ask?)
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Mar 28, 2018 23:57
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Nuns with Guns posted:In Black Panther, Michael B Jordan had his Killmonger outfit modeled on Vegeta's armor. Yes, this does mean he was cosplaying for a large portion of a major superhero blockbuster film. And John Boyega has one of my favorite lines in Attack the Block. "Go home, lock your doors, watch Naruto."
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Mar 29, 2018 16:28
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Brother Entropy posted:that's like half the cast Yeah, I was thinking 'is that the one with the lightning, the one with the sand, the one with the Rock Lee...'
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Mar 29, 2018 16:48
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Kurieg posted:
He said the eyes were super round, so I think he means Rock Lee. quote:I unironically love Naruto but the plot can get kind of crazy sometimes (not Bleach levels of crazy, but it was trying towards the end of it's run) Seconded and seconded.
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Mar 29, 2018 17:41
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Kurieg posted:TBF they at least have Naruto work for all his Powerups up until Sage of Six Paths mode (and that's a temporary thing he doesn't keep). They devote a large amount of time to him figuring out how to use the Rasengan, then how to use it in a way that won't kill anyone who wasn't a Jinchuriki. Honestly I think the series hangs together pretty well in hindsight.
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Mar 29, 2018 19:27
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Well, there are myriad reasons for that as well, like giving the creators the boot, massively rewriting the setting and premise, and trying to sell a new RPG system when CCGs were eating everybody's lunch. Strangely, though, it was probably one of the better 90s experiments with cards compared to games like Everway or Changeling: the Dreaming. The Marvel RPG at the time was... odd.
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Mar 29, 2018 21:51
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Desiden posted:I think it suffered more from the succession of antagonists whose plots revolved around "gently caress over the avatar" and Korra's resultant physical and emotional crippling. Kuvira finally had plot goals beyond telling Korra how much she sucked and how useless the avatar was, but that was the tail end of the show. Also it was kinda unwholesome on how it loved to watch Korra getting the crap kicked out of her.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:58
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Plutonis posted:It isn't at all. If anything it's moderate. Although we should let people who have not experienced Eiken bask in their blissful ignorance.
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Apr 11, 2018 21:47
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Kurieg posted:This is how it was explained to me. Complicated by the big involved companies don't seem to like each other very much and none of them really care about forming like Voltr- er, GoLion to sort out international distribution rights.
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Apr 16, 2018 22:03
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Hey, I like Savage Worlds RIFTS. I wonder what the brand manager's been up t... oh. http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?5204-Harassment-Policies-New-Allegations-Show-More-Work-To-Be-Done&postid=7409157#comments_7409157 Features winning comment line: "Doesn't sound like harassment to me but a player being a player, if these girls thought he was more attractive they wouldn't call it harassment."
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May 1, 2018 17:32
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Came back later after posting the link and reading the RPG.net thread and man alive Fannon keeps covering himself in glory. Doxxing people is a bold move to prove one's innocence, however. Wait, what does bold mean?
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May 2, 2018 02:50
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So Kevin Spacey can't act anymore, but he can still executive produce. Darn it, Pinnacle.
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May 2, 2018 20:09
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Warthur posted:Thread got reopened, no sign of Sean being banned. He's banned for a week now, maybe more pending further discussion.
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May 2, 2018 23:25
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You Know Who behind the D&D Und Adult Entertainment Stars went on an interesting little tirade on Twitter: "Satine Phoenix being at WOTC means there are literally more queer women of color in mainstream D&D than in the all the Loudly Woke Indie Game RPG companies put together" "Or even Women of Color. Or possibly even just women." "Some Satine Phoenix facts: -She is responsible for the Google+ RPG community--she was the first RPG person to notice G+ had free multiperson vidchat -She annually organized celeb D&D events for local charities for YEARS -in 2009, She wanted to play D&D-that's why D&Dw/PS exists" First, a moment of silence for the term 'woke.' Thoroughly and ridiculously appropriated in perhaps record time. While I have no opinion one way or another about Phoenix it is impressive that he's is able to turn the importance of representation into a bingo game. I mean, really.  I have no idea what 'loudly woke' companies he's claiming have less representation that WotC but I will assume it's the 'ones he doesn't like' so all of them. Naturally he has to double down into sheer hyperbole. The claim of 'responsible for the Google+ RPG community' is interesting. Did things really spread like wildfire when it was heard she was using Google+? I genuinely don't know. I mean, I know it took off but I don't know what kicked it off.
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May 17, 2018 14:00
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Kurieg posted:Didn't the transgender dwarf character transition by having their god just magic them into a woman? I know one transgender character did so with a Belt of Change Gender. I think she's a paladin?
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May 17, 2018 18:14
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Leave if to Paizo to make me need to slam my palm into my forehead even harder than I thought I needed to.
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May 17, 2018 18:55
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Kurieg posted:Visible diversity. [Redacted] seems to think that companies will loudly crow about any and all minority groups they employ and thus a company that doesn't obviously doesn't have any. It did feel like he was talking about Phoenix the same way others talk about their black friend.
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May 17, 2018 21:02
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Ettin posted:Why are you following him on Twitter? Caught a lucky retweet from somebody else. I may not know what the word 'lucky' means.
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May 18, 2018 05:29
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Darksaber posted:Mike Mearls is a performatively progressive piece of poo poo who acts concerned when you point out that he has two harassers credited as consultants, and then after everyone sends in their evidence and first-hand accounts forwards them to at least one of the harassers involved, then says that there's no evidence that they were poo poo people. But he hired Satine Phoenix so he is now like a Voltron of progressiveness, more progressive than all other companies combined.
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May 23, 2018 22:34
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Mr. Maltose posted:Don’t forget to source your Zak quotes, please. Technically it came from the Adult Film Stars Play A Popular Role-Playing Game account.
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May 24, 2018 00:04
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NinjaDebugger posted:Look when it gets down to it, Nasu-verse Arthurian myth is only of middling inaccuracy when compared to hollywood depictions. I did not imagine that, one day, I would ever think of Mordred as Best Girl, but here we are.
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Now I wonder what system could handle the Nasu-verse. Or how you would even broach it.
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May 25, 2018 00:09
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Lemon-Lime posted:Fate. I'm terrible at FATE. However Cortex might work. Thanks inadvertently! NGDBSS posted:I know someone who thought Exalted would work for it. Fair.
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May 25, 2018 01:47
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Kurieg posted:Kubo is on record as saying that whenever he wrote himself into a corner he introduced a new character. Ha ha! I think you mean that as a plurality. Why one Visored instead of eight?
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May 25, 2018 19:50
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Kurieg posted:And then Dragonball Super happened and Goku ascended to godhood to defeat the dude who's power was basically that one kid on the schoolyard who keeps on going "Nuh-Uh I'm stronger!" I remember the loud declarations of, "This is it!!! Finally Goku versus Superman!" and I watched it and thought, 'No, Superman's actually interesting.'
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May 25, 2018 20:27
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Joe Slowboat posted:I believe that is Fate/ Strange Fake, which was a fan work by the creator of Baccano! Which is now being officially produced as an anime by the main franchise. It's a weird franchise on every possible level. And it's the series in the franchise where the story's Jack the Ripper ISN'T a tiny murderous loli.
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May 26, 2018 01:41
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It's a little surprising - although maybe it shouldn't be - that Harper seems shocked people work faster when they get paid for it.
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May 29, 2018 17:06
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Not so long ago Zak's Erotic Actors What Do Table-Top Games Twitter crowed about because of Satine Phoenix WotC was more inclusive hiring wise than anybody else ever. No doubt his righteous condemnation of #DnDGate is forthcoming. : :
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If it pisses off Tarnowski and Jimmy D, God bless.
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