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I regret all Dragonlance I read. Every word.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I want to know the op’s thoughts on gully dwarves. why did you remind me those loving EXIST
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Aug 21, 2020 00:07
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they’re so loving twee it’s insufferable just raw cloying fantasy vomit, perverted and self-indulgent about it in the way only truly smug and self-satisfied ivory tower roleplayer nerds love to be with their dessicated idea of fantasy
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Aug 21, 2020 03:12
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Tasslehoff can go tassle off a cliff
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Aug 21, 2020 17:13
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Zeniel posted:What's a gully dwarf? Race of literally-retarded dwarves that everyone hates and treats like garbage
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Aug 21, 2020 17:22
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Soth is a fuckin’ loser and so is the D&D concept of Paladins
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Aug 21, 2020 22:41
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yeah Valko most RP material was made by losers with insane sexual hangups and creepy fetishes and an obsession with ‘unclean’ races and genetic fuckups
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Aug 21, 2020 23:01
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Internetjack posted:Yeah, not seeing many problems with this sexiness. yeah no problem with unloading your mommy dom fetish onto a race of black skinned villains who are mostly sexy FEMALES ready to punish you
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Aug 21, 2020 23:19
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it’s the reeking cloud of rotten nerd fetishes that really makes the whole mess even more classy wow woah BIG titty fight grrl and a race of thieves who look like perpetual children (??!) WOAH hot ogres who are so sexy!! Wait we need more pedophiles how about a prequel book with an elf who is a young girl perpetually and can’t grow up fuckin’ skin crawl creepshow as the author masturbates over including their ERP masterpieces in a generic D&D romp
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Aug 22, 2020 14:16
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hell astro course posted:
had a childhood 'friend' whose parents were a pair of abusive idiot hippy-dippy druids who were obsessed with all things fantasy and roleplaying, and their house was loving DIRTY, and the mother loved to repeat that stupid bumper sticker's phrase 40 year old woman and she's flailing her arms around cheering it out like the most twiddly-twee parody of a human you've ever seen
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Aug 22, 2020 15:13
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hell astro course posted:this describes the type perfectly, down to the dirty house. Absolutely a type. God drat. it was unbelievably gross, 10-year old me was silently wondering what the gently caress- they had rabbits who just shat everywhere, massive piles of dishes, mountains of books and papers lying about, DIRT-drenched carpets, weird hoarder stashes, you name it just a bunch of insane and dirty and child-abusing freaks who love their fantasy novels that desperately want to be erotic fiction, but they're too much of a coward to write it so they sublimate it forever into lukewarm fantasy slop
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Aug 22, 2020 15:29
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The P&P RPG development scene has always been crawling and infested with sex criminals and creeps
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Aug 22, 2020 18:45
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I know, it takes a pretty sick mind to come up with kender. “looks like young children forever race who steal and act innocent” gives me poo poo shivers for how blatantly fetishistic and child-rapey it’s slimed with
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Aug 22, 2020 19:06
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There is absolutely no interesting qualities to Tannis and he never actually suffers much at all for being half elf
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Aug 22, 2020 20:45
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nobody told those coulda-beens to masturbate BEFORE you go full horny ghoul with your lovely D&D game book
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Aug 22, 2020 21:10
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Empty Sandwich posted:Railroading yeah railroading is a hell of a topic for a GM to tackle, and the old consensus among angry control-freak nerds was "I am God and you play in MY sandbox, peons" When I design and run my adventures, I follow what I call the Skeleton System - first, I create the skeleton of the game and the entire plot, start to end. I think of who the important NPCs are, how the plot begins, plays out, and then ends. As best as I can think it all through. THEN. Then. You introduce the PCs. THEIR job is to absolutely maul the skeletal system I set up, by way of laying on the 'muscle' in the form of their actions changing the plot and expanding it. I may have originally planned, in a timeline plot undisturbed by the players, for Tanis to die at a certain point or get a kidney stone. I then change and adapt that set-in-stone bone by reacting to what the players do. You treat the players like they're stumbling into a planned-out timeline, and they're here to gently caress it up. In this way, you follow a general outline, but it can constantly change, shift, and adapt to what unforeseen ideas the players have, while still maintaining a mostly cohesive start-middle-end trajectory. Worked amazing for a 7-year game I ran. You start with a skeleton and end with a full body that you AND the players built together. It's worth it if you can choke down your ego to allow things to go wildly different than how you planned. It becomes a game of act-react, constant adaptation and shifts.
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Aug 23, 2020 00:53
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Nah it’s an EVIL RITUAL which perverts the egg into evil dragon men
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Aug 23, 2020 01:06
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Galewolf posted:First thing Lord Soth does in Ravenloft is chokeholding a red dragon and knocking it's teeth out like a chad. He overcompensates. He will never be a chad. Always chasing coulda beens and abloo bloo blooing his own sad sorry stupid rear end.
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Aug 23, 2020 03:38
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Robo Reagan posted:freakin epic wheres the updoot button gently caress Soth!! 
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Aug 23, 2020 04:06
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Fizban was a DMPC and the worst kind Twee and silly because it was written by decayed ‘adults’ who never actually decided to grow up, for consumption by the same class of half-people who cry of you tell them Star Trek is cancelled
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Aug 24, 2020 19:09
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I could respect these loser freaks if they could just admit ‘this is low quality offensive porn I jerk off to’ but they can never quite seem to manage it
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Aug 24, 2020 19:17
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cynic posted:I don't know why this one causes issues, but it did. A long time ago. dragon is over this poo poo
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Aug 24, 2020 23:41
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bagual posted:
never read these and hated the covers because the dragons look stupid as hell made the right choice
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Aug 25, 2020 03:56
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Aug 25, 2020 04:06
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when you think about it dragon scale mail like that makes no sense since you'd need to use REALLY small scales like the ones found near the toes to have it fit right for a human suit, otherwise you should be using one massive scale chunked up more like dragon plate armor which is hardcore
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Aug 25, 2020 04:16
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I was about done being a teenager when those books were out and I heard what they said about him being so young, and I thought, as a kid who has been writing since I was like 10, thought "no way my stuff is NOT book-good at all, his stuff cannot be worth it"
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Aug 25, 2020 04:46
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Automatic Slim posted:Never figured out which way Raistlin , Caramon, and Kitiara were pronounced. Years later I find out the pronunciations in my head were all wrong. Let's see. I was "Rast-lin", "Cara-mon" like a cara-mel dig-mon, and "Kit-eh-are-uh" like a model kit
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Aug 25, 2020 05:24
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ArbitraryC posted:Schlock or not I’d encourage kids to read this stuff. I do not agree I would be extremely choosy about the 'stuff'
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Aug 25, 2020 06:38
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I keep forgetting it was really just mom-and-dad sanctioned publishing of ideas and I shrug because yeah he was just a kid and that was an unfair thing to say yes about, just let it be what it was and hope his career improves
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Aug 25, 2020 07:07
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any dork who still fetishizes the 'mysterious orient' needs to have their right to write taken away permanently
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Aug 26, 2020 16:39
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Brevity is good Most garbage puke fantasy books could be ok if they were 1/5th the length
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Aug 26, 2020 17:20
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Prydain was a great early read even if they did gently caress up the ending really bad
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Aug 26, 2020 18:58
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that's why I like to run games where the PCs almost always end up obscure an unknown by the end despite whatever worldshaking thing they did
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Aug 26, 2020 20:16
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Most of these books are written one-handed and it shows when the author no longer gets off on the porn and has to force a plot
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Aug 31, 2020 17:32
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PetraCore posted:The things I liked about Pern were weird worldbuilding I felt could be, like... torn apart and reassembled in a way I like. I really liked the one with the mutant white dragon and his rider who wasn't allowed to be a formal rider bc of weird nobility issues. But in retrospect it like... wasn't good. Even stuff like I thought Lessa was cool and tough but in retrospect it's all about how she's fiery and emotional and F'lar or whatever has to 'tame' her and it's like, drat, can't a chick just want to punch things with dragons. probably one of the biggest shames of a lot of fantasy is that a good deal has a handful of really cool ideas that could go somewhere (that isn't porn or child rape)
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Sep 2, 2020 01:29
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oh hey I remember that guy's impossibly sad and handsome face from seeing that book advertised and in stores
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Sep 2, 2020 01:39
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come to think of it Dragonlance was probably another early event that helped to contribute to my OVERWHELMING DEICIDE COMPLEX
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Sep 5, 2020 06:16
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Tunicate posted:I believe canonically the guy Ao is talking to is the GM that's some dumb nerd puke right there
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Sep 6, 2020 00:31
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Comstar posted:I dunnom that sounds like something that would work. A Dungeon Master builds an entire world and the gods of said world then proceed to gently caress it up without his consent or knowlage and he dosn't find out until the adventure's go WAY off the rails. Like he's trying to get a party to loot a random dungeon and then the gods start walking around and the DM gets his world taken over by his creations. yes that's a fine idea but I don't want to see it as the basis of a book unless it's actually written as "God tries to handle their favored people (the protags) but the lesser gods (or angels or whatever) keep loving around the planet" and not "LARRY THE DM'S CREATIONS GOT AWAY FROM HIM! ROLL DICE"
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also if you have to debate and think through the age implications of this creepshit then you're already stumbling way too far towards a real bad place and should walk away the sex stuff is all creepy and hosed and I don't care about the age of consent of a crow because I don't want to read about magic crowfucking
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