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Halloween Jack posted:You'd think that the fanbase would rebel at the point where they're flat-out telling you "Nothing you do below epic-level matters, it's all a kiddie ride made by Ed's GMPC." Which is worse? Faerun, a metaplot setting where the god-tier DMPCs are going around doing cooler stuff than you? Or Deadlands, a metaplot setting where the god-tier DMPCs go around killing PCs after they do enough cool stuff? Edit: How come we never got an official Elminster stat block in 4e or 5e? Libertad! fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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Halloween Jack posted:https://twitter.com/tnielsenart/status/1071136123009740800 Are we presuming that being Mormon means being pro-Trump?Trump hammered Romney's religion pretty hard back in 2012. But this is a pretty "out there" portrait, I'll give you that.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:put a dollar in the swear jar Deadlands D20
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drrockso20 posted:Well I did say I'd only be using the settings for the two games I mentioned not the mechanics, and with the one you're mentioning I'd be doing some heavy rewriting of the setting to get rid of the Confederate stuff(I'd probably be changing up a lot of things on the human side of the setting anyways) theironjef posted:There's more about confederates than there is about dinosaurs in that trash fire. If you cleaned up the politics you'd be left with nothing but dumb scifi. The setting is basically a Georgia eight times the size of Jupiter and the dinosaurs are made exactly intelligent enough to make it clear that the good guys are slavers again. I posted it in the FATAL & Friends thread, but Goodman Games tried to update the setting to DCC back in 2017, called Dinosaur Crawl Classics. But nothing came of it since. My personal suspicions are that the Charlottesville Rally shown to the wider public exactly the kinds of people who rally to that flag. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/223988/Goodman-Games-Gen-Con-2017-Program-Guide http://goodman-games.com/event/dinosaur-crawl-classics/ http://goodman-games.com/event/dinosaur-crawl-classics-2/ http://goodman-games.com/blog/2017/10/06/designers-diary-dinosaur-crawl-classics/
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Terrible Opinions posted:It also accidentally insentivized paladins and other people of the good aligned persuasion to keep evil bondage clubs because all the evil bondage gear items didn't take up normal magic items slots and the Book of Exalted Deeds had rules for turning them into good guy items without changing what they actually did at all. Keeping things Safe, Sane, & Consensual is in line with Celestial ethos.
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hyphz posted:Well, if inconsequential failure generates XP, then the player can argue their PC goes off and spars or whatever until they have max XP. Which is awkward to argue against because it’s how people actually do learn in a world where you learn from failure. This is the same, indirectly, if inconsequential actions aren’t rolled. I ask this in all seriousness, but do you really think this will fly at most gaming tables? Back around 2006 when 3rd Edition was a thing, a notable WotC forum min-maxer by the name of Frank Trollman argued that 1st level D&D characters could start with massive wealth by playing as Elves and rolling Profession (Farmer) checks for 100 years before they became adults. Now, this is something that wouldn't fly in most games, but to Frank this was a huge flaw that he presumed most gaming groups would exploit, and thus an explicitly worded rewrite of the rules in his homebrew was necessary to prevent edge cases of players acting like dicks. And not just with this hypothetical scenario, but every other case where the rules were unclear and vague. This is the Elf Baby Farmer problem all over again.
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To be fair to the Cook, it says that it's a massive 1,000 pages. And if the artwork within is similar to the samples given, that's not an unreasonable price. This is going solely by the price-to-content ratio and not what the quality of said content.
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I know it's 2 pages ago, but the Bag of Rats problem can be easily solved by pointing out how it's a clear case of animal cruelty, and would make your cleaving/healing maneuver/etc PC Evil. If it makes your PC sound like the kind of guy who tortures trapped squirrels for fun, they don't get that Silver Crane [Good] tagged healing sacred power. Problem solved!
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Mar 23, 2019 08:04
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A Pay What You Want RPG inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog fanfics is up on Drive-Thru RPG. I don't think anything more needs to be said.
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I'd like to apologize to everyone for getting the new grognards.txt locked again. I was too tempted by the low-hanging fruit that I didn't consider the consequences of how my slobbering juice-stained mouth would look to everyone else. I hereby solemnly swear to never grogquote again.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I kinda agree with Tuxedo Catfish as far as we're getting a Suicide Squad "reboot" after all of one movie, so the idea that any one depiction of a piece of fiction is any more "real" than another is completely arbitrary. They're willing to throw away the concept of continuity as long as it serves their purposes (and so should we). Continuity for 70+ years of books, or 30+ years if we take Crisis of Infinite Earth's hard reset. Or 8 years if we count Flashpoint's reset.
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Splicer posted:That's the point. Using mutants as a stand in is results in a situation of "Yeah they are but..." and it doesn't matter what comes after the but because the initial premise is flawed. Using it as part of the discourse lends credence to a harmful conceit. This is not a comic book nor a tabletop, but Valkyria Chronicles is a very good handling of Fictional Fantasy Racism. For those not in the know It's basically a World War 2 third-person shooter/RTS hybrid in a fantasy version of WW2 Europe. The Darcsen are very heavily coded Jews, and the antagonistic Empire faction are obvious pseudo-Nazis, down to being downright genocidal and the narrative not shying away from said groups' racism. The Darcsen are a human ethnic group whose ancestral homeland is in what is now a desert kingdom, and their nation's participation in a long-ago war is used as an "original sin" justification to force them into ghettos and menial jobs, especially the mining and construction industries. They're often blamed for being dishonest criminal types, in spite of an entry in the in-game setting bible showing that they're not more prone to crime than others, and losing said war and subjugation encouraged a pacifistic culture among them. The Darcsen originally went to war against a group of people known as the Valkyrur who are worshiped as akin to living gods for basically conquering Europa and being the winners of history (and who the fascist Empire wants to revive as a kind of Master Race even though said experiments only ever result in destruction). The Darcsen, while being over-represented in various "building/technical" jobs, don't have some superpowered trick up their sleeve or systemic power. Barring Darcsen soldiers joining the main squad to fight the Empire, there's no crazed extremist group trying to bomb Imperial civilians or unjustified actions on their part (unless I'm missing some weird thing from VC2 and 3, I didn't play those games). Although the game series does have some cringey moments in regards to various things, the systemic racism against the Darcsen is quite literally unjustifiable. Unless you're a political figure seeking to shift blame or because actual historical records showing the Valkyrur as being on the wrong side of the ancient war would shake the religious foundations of the continent's false history. More works of fiction should do something like this IMO. I could go on for much longer about VC, but in spite of being a silly anime game it created a rather detailed outline of a better representation of handling such an issue IMO.
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Plutonis posted:3 has the antagonists being an entire elite unit of Darcsens that the Empire uses for extremely dangerous missions in exchange for a Darcsen homeland. In the end their leader eventually snaps when his plan goes awry and tries to hijack an experimental Imperial missile facility and nuke the Gallia capital in order to strongarm the rest of the world into granting his goal but they are presented as pretty empathetic through the game. Well dang. Having the not-Jews work for the not-Nazis and blackmailing the world with a nuke to get not-Israel probably explains why the series went downhill to the point that the 4th game was advertised heavily as being a r"eturn to the classics." Or maybe it was turning the 2nd game into yet another dumb high school anime.
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Clanpot Shake posted:True story. I ended up going whole-hog and got a Platinum upgrade and avatar as well as the archives, marking this my first day as a non-Trump Lover. What unholy pact have I just made?
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Leperflesh posted:The thing that gets me about the whole "mutants as metaphors for minorities" is that there's a very obvious and easy to write and glaring example where they could be used to bring new focus and attention to racial disparity and race-based oppression. Just gonna leave this here...
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May 8, 2019 04:32
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 The "m" word. Lol.
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Ettin posted:I didn't even write that one. Like three people sent it to me when I was looking for noodle stand names. You could say that they...sent you Noodz! 
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Covok posted:Aaron on Thor is still good. How's Saladin Ahmed's current run on Ms. Marvel going?
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Covok posted:No, he kidnapped the Flash and chained him to the batmobile for the express purpose of stealing his powers and killing all the criminals in a flash. You too, can be born into wealth with enough hard work!  drrockso20 posted:Worth mentioning that he and the other evil Batmen are from a literal Dark Multiverse, composed of flawed universes literally too grimdark to survive, and since the Dark Multiverse is overseen by a bat demon by the name of Barbatos, that darkness often had as it's focal point the local Batman equivalent Seems a bit strange given that the Iron Age of Comics was a thing in Marvel/DC's main continuity.
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I hope that none of you previous posters have an uncovered webcam and are planning to play on Roll20. That site has the video + voice settings enabled by default.
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Dunno the appropriate thread, but back in the day Paizo's Dungeon Magazine had four maps detailing parts of the Greyhawk setting. I owned them all and decided today to hang them all up together. Click the image to enlarge. Libertad! fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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Slimnoid posted:Oh holy poo poo this is bad. It's honestly uncomfortable to watch. The video link got DMCA'd. Should I be thankful I cannot watch it?
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juggalo baby coffin posted:theres a lot of weirdly fascist ideology coded into fantasy it seems like, and i wonder if the resistance to monster adventurers and removing the alignment restrictions on races that a lot of grognards have is tied to their lovely reactionary politics. I recall one of the forgotten realms books heavily implied that Lolth was a puppeteer goddess who would psychically whisper into the minds of dark elves ever since they were babies. And that those who did not act in her way of an ideal drow would start getting constant threats and terrible dreams. Thus the reason why so many drow are Chaotic Evil is because they're effectively suffering under a music torture device that triggers for days if not years on end if they don't act like a serial killer. Which if anything heavily implies that the drow are more victims than anything.
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I'm 75% certain that the Book of Vile Darkness was Monte Cook's personal Magical Realm.
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Lunatic Sledge posted:as someone who used to get paid an exorbitant amount to stand at a table and deal blackjack, not only will I accept payment for DMing I will also encourage tipping Roll20/FantasyGrounds is your friend. 
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FirstAidKite posted:How's everybody doing today Had a very busy Sunday and just finished my latest FATAL & Friends write-up, so I'm feeling quite accomplished 
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Zurui posted:Are ERP modules you know, a thing? Venger Satanis wrote several for the OSR and his own sci-fi game Alpha Blue. James Desborough wrote a tabletop RPG for the Chronicles of Gor novels. While a setting and not an adventure, it's quite clearly intended for ERP. I believe it had an adjoining module, but I do not know its name. As for ERP modules not written by chuds, I cannot think of any off the top of my head. Pathfinder and 5e's OGLs clamp down heavily on that kind of content, which is why for D&D derived variants the OSR claims most of this territory. There was a 3rd Edition 1 on 1 module called the Pleasure Prison of the Bthuvian Demon Whore, which itself was a parody rather than something to add to your spank bank. It's actually a joke from the Fear of Girls youtube parody. As for non-D&D RPGs besides CthulhuTech, I cannot attest. I should note that sexy tabletop tends to go more for sourcebooks than adventures, a la Book of Erotic Fantasy. Adventures tend to be railroady and constraining if done for ERP. This is due to the fact that lots of different people have different kinks and turn-ons, so unless said adventure is intended for a specific fetish or sub-community it has limited appeal. Libertad! fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Jul 16, 2019 |
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Fuego Fish posted:As far as I've heard, most erotic roleplaying is done with D&D 3.x/5e despite the fact the systems aren't built for anything approaching that, because wOrLD's grEateST ROlepLayIng GaME There's plenty of Vampire the Masquerade ERP out there if you know where to look. LARP and otherwise, uwu.
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FactsAreUseless posted:It's the only time 3.5's "save or suck" gameplay has worked well. USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST
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hyphz posted:I do get the spirit behind most of the answers, what I don't get is how they, once accepted, would deal with "I look with my eyes. What do I see?" No offense, hyphz, but based upon my readings of your typical gaming groups they're full of sadistic players who read the rules with the intent of "how can I be as disruptive as possible to everyone else?" As a result, you're basing your rules readings around presuming that the rules need to handle those who will misconstrue them into bad faith arguments. Any system has holes in it, and if some disruptive Munchkin wants to abuse the wording of the rules they will find a way. I can get that; a lot of newcomers have had their interactions with a system or tabletop at large tainted by bad sessions. As cliche as it may sound, playing with other groups, or even like Serf said reading and watching other people play can help illustrate how people would deal with the "what do I see?" question in actual play. And also to stop gaming with the problem players; no gaming's better than bad gaming. If you have 50 minutes to spare, here's an Actual Play of Masks by veteran tabletop gamers. I watched them play Deadlands a while ago, and they are good at injecting personality and role-play into the sessions to make them entertaining to listen to. I have not watched the whole thing, this was what I pulled off of a YouTube search, but they're a channel I recognize. Libertad! fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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Lurdiak posted:I don't think it has ever helped. World War 2 continues to be the universal exception (as in invading Nazi Germany and its occupied territories).
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I would say there are four major factions in TG As a guy who was once trapped in the D&D/Pathfinder ghetto, briefly escaped to do a bunch of one-shot indie games, whose last major campaign was Savage Worlds Deadlands, and most recently ran Shadow of the Demon Lord, this leaves me in a very weird place.
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Found this posted on a Savage Worlds Facebook group. Deadlands: Lost Colony is getting an SW update on October 2019.
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So I found this on a Savage Worlds Facebook group of some other big changes coming to Deadlands. The Confederacy is being retconned so that it lost the war and is no longer a playable faction. This was listed as one of several things in an October update on the official site.Shane Lacy Hensley posted:Hey friends! Let's talk about today's Deadlands announcement. Libertad! fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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Covok posted:You know, y'all are way too focused on Pokemon when Digimon is clearly the better show. The fact that Digimon can talk does wonders in elevating them from "cockfighting monsters" to feeling like real partners of the Digi-Destined with character development.
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Covok posted:How many medieval fantasy role-playing games that lack magic in their system and setting? It can't be many. It must be fewer that are good. I haven't read them, but I recall that a few Game of Thrones/Song of Ice & Fire tabletop RPGs were more or less magic-free. On the PC's sides at the very least. Adventures in Middle-Earth 5e is a close case or qualifies depending on your standards, with the closest 'magical' options being elf arrows which can put people to sleep but nothing in the vein of blasting lightning bolts from your fingertips or summoning a swarm of animals.
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Hey y'all, I take it most of you aren't Dragonlance fans, but one of the more novel ideas the setting had was alternate timelines due to River of Time shenanigans. One of the sourcebooks had an entire chapter on alt-Krynns based on major historical incidents changing. Like what if the Kingpriest prevented the Cataclysm, what if the Wizards of High Sorcery got more involved in politics and set up magocracies across Ansalon, etc. I was wondering if anything similar happened in What If? scenarios for other settings out there. Like Faerun, Eberron, Greyhawk, etc. Seems a cool idea
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Nuns with Guns posted:Thanks for saying I have brainworms because I stated "rapidash cavalries probably existed", I guess. I don't see where I demanded detailed rules regarding mounted pokemon combat and honestly you're spinning a lot of fanfic out of a two word statement from one guy. May be the strangest dog to have in this fight, but Plutonis actually cut off a more detailed portion of the reply. There was a pseudo-Pokemon setting and new mechanics made for Pathfinder known as Mystical: Kingdom of Monsters. it got high reviews from many players, although when it comes to PF that's no indication of the quality of balance.
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Speaking as someone who chilled in the OSR for several years... There are some good games to be found there, that have actual reasonings beyond nostalgia. All of Kevin Crawford's work, the Nightmares Underneath RPG, and publications by Hydra Cooperative are all good systems designed by non-reactionary people as far as I can tell. But many of its larger names, from Frog God Games, Lamentations, Autarch, etc, have shielded and legitimized toxic people and whose works were mainstream within said OSR sphere. While Zak S has justifiably been exiled with extreme prejudice from several communities, others still have a sense of legitimacy to this day. Thus the reason for SWORD DREAM forming. Lord knows that Paizo and WotC have their own bad takes, as does wider nerd culture, although in my personal experience I have encountered more reactionary, bigoted, and overall terrible people (both as general fans and game designers) within the OSR than other D&D subcultures and fandoms. While I do play some retroclones time and again, I would not think to recruit strangers anymore for them. This is a wider policy with games in general no matter the system as I already built up my own circle of confidants, but least of all with retroclones nowadays.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:So co-opted by nazis means "the logo creator says no hate speech and some assholes complained"? I mean, I've not seen these "forums" of people but I'll take your word they exist - do you really think the complainers are more representative of the overall attitudes in the OSR than the logo creator declaring "no hate speech"? "The community uses copyright law to cast off hateful content" sounds like evidence of the opposite to me, even if there are some folks who will protest. Macris, the creator of Adventurer Conqueror King asked Vox Day to design one of his classes for an upcoming rulebook. When people complained he admitted that fans of Vox's novels contributed a substantial portion of backers for his KickStarter (second post in the thread). While we have no hard and fast data on the political beliefs of the average ACKS player, Vox Day's blog is full of things like speaking positively of the alt-right including repeating the 14 words mantra, alleging that it would be a net positive to expel the United States' black population and uses the triple parenthesis logo around people he doesn't like. He's also the person who masterminded the Sad Puppies fiasco, so it's not like he was an obscure name at the time whose background couldn't have been found with a quick Google search. Given that Vox's claim to fame in the wider sphere of geek culture is hateful rhetoric, this means that if you sit down and game at an ACKS table there's a chance that one or more players are the types of people who believe that whites are the Master Race if we go by Autarch's own words on proportion of KickStarter backers. Macris' promotion of his work on the RPG Site after getting in a forum war with the Gaming Den over the latters' anger at his association with racists like Yiannopoulos, along with several of those RPG Siter's trotting out phrases like "chimping out" in said forum war, is not a good look for the company Autarch keeps or wants to bring in as fandom. Of course the OSR does not begin and end with ACKS, but this is but one example of many of the OSR's toxic communities. Libertad! fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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