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I liked reading the oWoD books, and then telling myself "I shall never play this ridiculous thing"
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2021 18:07 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 00:41 |
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Yeah, Mage: the Ascension is a particularly weird thing combining the worst parts of "magick" and "what a lot of people think post-modernism is" I feel Mage could be improved a bit by like just making it a thing that the Technocracy is running the laws around EARTH but the rest of the universe has its own Consensus, and as scientists study more of the galaxy and wider universe it is coming up against the outside Consensus (and Aliens coming by using their own magic the gently caress with people or maybe free their minds or some stuff.)
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2021 17:11 |
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Arivia posted:The rest of the galaxy is Lovecraftian-style Old Ones who are very interested in eating Earth and all the nice tasty meat popsicles on it. We know this because there’s a group of the Technocracy (the Void Engineers) dedicated to protecting humanity from them! Solution is simple, just get everyone to agree we are made out of wood instead of meat.
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2021 17:24 |
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radmonger posted:You kind of screwed up your games subtext when you have vampires, demons and occult secret societies, but imperialism and capitalism has nothing to do with them. Instead those things are the direct fault of scientists (free pass to team good guy granted to mad scientists). Vaccines are simply a magical spell that protects from disease, trying to add tracking magic to it would just ruin the spell Technocracy puts the tracking magic in your tap water.
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2021 01:14 |
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I am probably not the best person to do a post on it, but there is a game called Cutthroat Caverns that I own where it is a cooperative to COMPLETE game but only one player can win There are 9 encounters that must be cleared to complete the game, each encounter scores points only to the person who lands the killing blow However players can be killed by the encounters(or friends), encounters do not reduce for dead players, and if the party wipes then you all lose anyway Thus it encourages backstabbing, but just enough to win or ELSE. Another game I like to play is Terraforming Mars where you represent a megacorporation out to and I try to make it clear to people SCORE THE MOST PRESTIGE ONCE MARS IS TERRAFORMED actively going out of your way to terraform mars is actually kind of stupid when you can do anything else to score points because you are not time limited in the game and instead the game ends when mars is terraformed which is itself represented by three different sliders being finished. Its also an engine builder game and generally the cards that terraform do not build your engine as well as cards that don't terraform. I routinely beat the pants of my brother because he tends to forget to just go for the score. Conversely and a game I am bad at is Castles of Mad King Ludwig where you are an architect building a fancy castle for the crazy king with each player having hidden objectives only they know as well as some baseline objectives everyone know. each round rotates who is the "master builder" who sets prices and picks last with the other players picking before and paying the master builder with the master builder paying the bank. This can lead to some weird things, and also I am... bad at the game and lose it routinely but boy it is fun.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2022 03:10 |
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SirPhoebos posted:One thing that I always thought was pretty hosed up was in HoI4 (don't know if this is true in the current version) if played the USSR and deliberately avoided doing the purges and curbed/replaced Stalin, then right when Germany was about to declare war on you, Trotskyist launch an armed coup. Giving the implication that Stalin was right to do the purges. Its been patched, you can go multiple routes, including a bloodless coup of Stalin if you do the right things
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# ¿ Jul 3, 2022 00:53 |
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girl dick energy posted:This is true, but there are good kinds of "everyone sucks" writing, where the people in power are all assholes because the kinds of people who'd seek and obtain that level of power tend to be assholes, and bad kinds of "everyone sucks" writing, where the people in power are all assholes because everyone's a different awful racial/political stereotype. Canopus is a major periphery power, which compared to many many places in battletech is DOING REALLY GOOD all things considered. its just Major Periphery power is still small small potatoes before the big 5 of the inner sphere
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2022 11:10 |
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Magnetic North posted:Wait, really? After surviving 4e and 5e, it managed to get even worse? (IMHO, 4th Anniversary was okay.) I heard they released basically unfinished work with leftover mechanics from 5e hanging around but not interacted with but mucking up the rules. Frankly my biggest issue with 5th edition in a lot of ways was they many mechanics and rules that had no examples given along with them as an intended way for this particular ruleset to work which led to a lot of clumsy grasping by gms to figure out what in the gently caress was actually supposed to go on.
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2022 12:40 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:i have yet to actually win as cats vs other players. on top of being kind of weak and hard to play, they end up often in an early lead but their scoring slows down in midgame. and they are _really_ rewarding to beat up since they make a lot of buildings and end up often with a hoard of cardboard they cant defend or get rid of so even if youre eating poo poo people will still find their best path to victory is destroying you. and your early game position and need to police everyone else means that if there's a particularly vengeful player on the board they will very likely blitz you to burn down your keep as petty revenge for the sin of your existence. to top it all off, the otters could probably be one of your best friends since they'll give you a source of good cards, but a very "meta" strategy is for the otter to just repeatedly squat on your wood piles so you have to pay them for the privilege of playing a normal game, which despite being an obviously losing strategy will still often result in extremely pissed off otter players who will demand death or reparations for your violation of the NAP if you like, respond with "aggression" with actual aggression. Cat has to sacrifice territory to save their pieces and build up enough power to fight
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2023 21:59 |
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girl dick energy posted:SomethingAwful is a cult? We are not adults
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2023 10:17 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 00:41 |
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disposablewords posted:Balrogs are also a subset of the Maiar, spirits who generally seem able to take on different forms though with a tendency to stick to those that suit them. Maybe the wings do or don't exist at whim. It can be rather hard to arrest a fall if you like say get shot off a dragons back with a ballista bolt through a wing.
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 13:00 |