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aldantefax posted:Can we get some words from Dwarf74 about the new coronation and possibly about polyhedrals (Thanks, I promise to still be boring.) e: OK, uh polyhedrals.... Here's dice I found last year that I've had forever that I guess are a big deal? 
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Jan 8, 2021 00:10
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My cat Octavius is identical to Leperflesh's other than being much larger, which means they are fifth-dimensionally linked but mine is closer.  Also gently caress I have a star now? What the gently caress is this poo poo
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Jan 8, 2021 02:30
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Legacy is a goon-made game, and it's phenomenal.
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Jan 8, 2021 18:35
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Running 2 games - First is Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. This one's a 50-year-later sequel campaign to 4e Zeitgeist, which kind of does a Legend of Korra timeline update. I was thinking of just using more 4e, but I wanted Gunslingers and 4e is just not great at Gunslingers. It's been a ton of fun remixing the poo poo from my favorite campaign of all time. I have had trouble running it because of politics and I hope to be able to focus on it better. System-wise SWADE is.... Fine? I like that it's a quick and easy generic system with all the poo poo I need - guns, magic, weird science, trains, airships, etc. Second is Feng Shui 2 with my high school buddies. (I am an old, so high school was early 90's lol). This is infrequent, but thanks to roll20 it is going really well!
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Jan 10, 2021 03:18
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New thread announcement - Dice Throne/Dice Throne Adventures! It can be found here
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Jan 25, 2021 19:36
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I am okay making fun of British cuisine and it's really weird to call it classist when that poo poo is in fine dining restaurants and poor kitchens alike.
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Jan 27, 2021 19:57
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I mean, let's be clear - American 1950-70's White People Food is no glorious treat, either.
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Jan 27, 2021 21:20
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Haystack posted:I use Xodo and have no complaints.
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Jan 28, 2021 14:07
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Yeah (d12-1) for the tens/hundreds, rerolling 12's, and d10 for the ones is probably the most efficient way you'll find. Every other method I'm coming up with leads to more rerolling.
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Feb 2, 2021 13:55
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Don't know if you know this one, but there's a very fair way to do this! I mean it can work in a pinch if nobody has dice or something (like the campfire, above), but it isn't a fair probability.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:17
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! I've resolved to actually prep for my campaign this weekend and hope I can stick to it.  I have been playing a Dice Throne Adventures campaign with my kids and that's been going wonderfully. DTA is a really good game, and I made a thread for it.
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Feb 4, 2021 17:46
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aldantefax posted:We totally don't have a Frosthaven thread, I think, but it might be in the "miniature games too small for their own thread thread". There's no reason to separate them out.
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Feb 4, 2021 18:54
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Helical Nightmares posted:I'm as green as a goblin with jealousy. quote:I've been eyeing that thread rather seriously and you nearly have me sold on the product.  It is almost like a dice-based gloomhaven-lite, with non-destructible progression and a quick, repeatable campaign. It also adds really clever deck-building mechanics to the heroes. It honestly has no right working at all - turning PvP into PvE like it does. But I go into that in the Dice Throne thread, probably to excess.
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Feb 4, 2021 19:55
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Know what I haven't heard about in a while? Pathfinder Online. Is it still.... Online?
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Feb 11, 2021 23:48
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Man, I love playing cards in rpgs. One of my favorite parts of Savage Worlds is how they're used for initiative.
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Feb 12, 2021 02:31
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Evil Mastermind posted:It looks like it...might be?
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Feb 12, 2021 03:08
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So for those who have moved from in-person games to remote via roll20 or whatever... Who's considering keeping it that way even post-pandemic? I have got to admit, I'm considering it. Just being able to plop maps and tokens in without printing is kind of amazing. I'm still not sure - but it's a real question when I didn't expect it would ever be.
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Feb 18, 2021 15:13
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Leraika posted:uh-oh, what happened to it? It kind of fell off my radar.
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Mar 2, 2021 15:04
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Leraika posted:oh no It's fine, I hope I get it sometime because "Frog and Toad Together, But With SotDL Rules" still sounds awesome. I think I will probably end up receiving Katanas and Trenchcoats before it at this rate. (Which is extremely late, but actually more active somehow).
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Mar 2, 2021 15:11
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John Romero posted:I love it but it seems to not be updated too frequently, and me, a known shithead, would not check it as often as one that would just be on my timeline 
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Apr 22, 2021 22:56
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GimpInBlack posted:It was, but IIRC his rants were specifically that gaming dice manufacturers were poo poo and that he was making funny dice that were up to casino levels of quality. I also don't specifically remember widespread complaints that his dice were universally bad, the only complaint I particularly remember was that the first iteration of his actual 100-sided d100 was slightly biased, but that it was fixed in later runs. Most of the DCC sets don't use Zocchi's d5/7/etc... Zocchi's d7 is kind of a pentagonal prism, while the one in the DCC sets is ... weird. I think their d5's are similarly shaped, though, being triangular prisms. IIRC, Zocchi's d14 and 16 are kind of like d10's with more sides, while the DCC sets actually make them round - like fewer-sided d20's. But I nevertheless love my Gamescience dice and their sharp corners and obnoxious bright plastic colors, and you can pry them from my cold, dead hands.
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Apr 28, 2021 14:15
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Yeah, Lou is a Gen Con institution. For real, the guy is a legend.
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Apr 28, 2021 15:20
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PerniciousKnid posted:Was he the guy displaying stacks of lumpy dice from competitors? And the Gamescience ad with mismatched dice stacks is permanently imprinted in the minds of any nerd who grew up in the 80's reading Dragon magazine or hobby distributor catalogs.
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Apr 28, 2021 16:51
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Jeff Goldblum in a D&D actual play podcast? Huh, okay. https://io9.gizmodo.com/jeff-goldblum-is-doing-a-dungeons-dragons-podcast-wh-1846781705
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Apr 29, 2021 13:41
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, we talked about that in the AP thread. Turns out Dark Dice is run by Travis Vengroff who, quoting Wikipedia, manages low-income housing and sits on the board of one of the world's largest debt collection agencies. So.
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Apr 29, 2021 14:28
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Imagined posted:Michael Moorcock's eternal champion multiverse would make a great setting for a fantasy wargame. Tons of lore and variety to draw from, from Conan-ish bronze age fantasy to sci-fi, with high magic, monsters, elementals, demons, gods, etc. And not another Tolkien riff. It was ... ... ... chitty
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May 11, 2021 20:18
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There's magic. Just like technology, this should allow for larger cities than the Renaissance normally would. So, I'm good with huge fantasy cities. And it's silly to judge realism based on real-world medieval cities.
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Jun 5, 2021 05:30
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This may not be a story about TG in a traditional sense... But this is absolutely a TG story. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/o2z5pw/am_i_at_fault_for_drawing_a_sword_at_a_person_in/
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Jun 19, 2021 19:43
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hyphz posted:Even if APs like CR didn’t edit or pre-discuss sessions, and CR didn’t have a freaking Creative Director, there’d still be the difference of the players having much more energy because instead of their way of unwinding after work, it is their work. Other APs may or may not, but those don't create anywhere near the nerdfights CR does. Y'all get really mad about CR, and it's weird.
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Jul 11, 2021 15:28
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hyphz posted:Well, that's exactly the false projection they have - that they're just doing your hobby, but they enjoy it much more because they're Better Human Beings Than You. That has a bunch of negative consequences including an increasing trend of people giving up on hobbies that require more energy and effort because it's easier to enjoy them by proxy. Mostly you're gonna have to back up the idea that people are quitting rpgs because AP podcasts exist. This seems unlikely given the current surge of rpg players. There's also that weird "better than you" projection going on here. There's also the general tone of weird gatekeeping that is frankly creepy - like people who enjoy AP podcasts or try to make one and fail aren't in the same hobby. This is part of what's getting so hosed up about all this. It's not enough to dislike CR or other AP podcasts; they have to be somehow destroying the hobby or malignant forces. I don't get it.
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Jul 13, 2021 21:08
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hyphz posted:This is more to do with observations from other hobbies, not creative ones, and usually with adults. Leper pointed out the thing about "kids who pick up a guitar.." but it appears that adults are now decidedly less likely to pick up guitars because they already know they can never be heroes, even though there's no reason why they have to be in order to enjoy playing. "Appears that" is something that requires you to actually be looking at something involving facts. Do you have any of that?
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Jul 13, 2021 22:36
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I mean it's definitely hands-in-each-others-pockets here, right? AP podcasts are huge for D&D's popularity - TAZ then CR and the rest. But also non-D&D AP podcasts seem to have a much harder time attracting and maintaining a fan base.
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Jul 13, 2021 22:51
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hyphz posted:Ok, well, I'm sure that it was something I'd read, and it turned out to be from a series of columns in published material:
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Jul 13, 2021 23:08
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XP is pretty solid, and most of the good older adventures got converted for it. It'd be my choice. 2e is just way too... rules-y... for what the game should be.
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Jul 14, 2021 00:42
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As Leperflesh asked upthread - Please take contentious AP podcast talk - particularly CR fights where you really want everyone to know how (good/bad) they are - to the Industry thread. I have never had the opportunity to use my IK buttons, and I'm getting antsy about trying them out. e: Or make a new thread for angryposting about CR, or about people who are mean to CR. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 03:25
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theironjef posted:Can IKs change thread names? Because having CR in the thread name and a no-CR talk policy might be a recipe for a reoccurring concern.
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Jul 14, 2021 05:13
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In other news, my friend's dog looks like a refugee from IronClaw or some fantasy muppet production.
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Jul 14, 2021 05:18
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Tag urself, I'm "cum prob" Also, yeah, I'm endlessly fascinated by how much of WEG Star Wars became Canon. There's a lot of species names, as the big thing. Also, names for random extras (some of which have percolated into New Canon, too). It was mentioned at the time, and I agree, that Rogue One felt particularly like WEG d6.
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Jul 16, 2021 13:32
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That sounds like a fun contest/trivia idea - guess the year this game was written in based on incidentals in the text.
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Jul 19, 2021 18:45
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