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I personally think this entire "trying to make people feel included" is silly- and I know a bunch of gay people who think the same way. I mean, if somebody came up to me and said "I don't feel like this RPG is for me because they don't explicitly say I'm allowed to be gay", it would seem to me that the person is being petty. After all: RPGs are fueled by imaginations! Why would anybody think you need "authorization" by the game's writer to be whatever you want to be? Did any of the classic RPGs outright say "You're NOT ALLOWED TO BE GAY\TRANS\DOLPHIN" ? Ahhh, but, I digress. The game still sounds great to me, and I can't wait to get my hands on the final product. (I soooo hope you reach the 9K goal! The adversarial mode + extra character options is what I want to see!) P.S: Can't wait to run a super-sexist game in Hyboria. 
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GrizzlyCow posted:I don't know what's more appalling: the people so proud of their bigotry or the people so proud of their lovely houserules. The answer is "the hobby so proud of the first group of people"
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Old grog, but new to me:Mike Mearls, being interviewed in late 2011, posted:"I think we've hit the second era of RPG decadence, and it's gone the opposite way," he continued. "It's all about player power now - the DM is just the rules guy - and the DM can't contradict what the players say. [The game] is taking away from the DM, and that's where I worry because other types of games can do that better. I might as well play a board game, 'cause I'm just here enforcing the rules. Without the DM as the creative guy, what's the point?"
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Mike mearls is a horrible designer and he blocked me on Twitter when I asked him where the second page of the fighter character sheet was
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Feb 26, 2015 18:12
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quote:If you want to be more of a tactical fighter. I would definitely go battlemaster. If you want to hit harder go champion quote:You want to hit stuff VERY hard? Go champion quote:The Battlemaster picks from a bunch of manoeuvres to give himself extra options in a fight, things like tripping, disarming and just being more accurate. He uses these Superiority dice to deal extra damage and status effects or be more accurate. quote:It really comes down to how tactically you want to be in your combats. Champion is very simple and straight forward, like the fighters from older editions. You get up in someone's face and hit it until it dies. quote:Champion: The less complex fighter. You crit twice as often (on a 19-20 instead of just 20, and on an 18-20 at high levels). You also get a boost to all strength checks, an extra fighting style, and regeneration as your capstone feature. This one works well mechanically with half-orcs (extra crit dice for dayz), and really starts to shine when you hit fifth level and get more attacks. Less choice, but it's "always on", and I personally like always having something "extra" that my character can do. I also really enjoy the simplicity at times - it just makes sense for some characters, like Brick Privy, the half-orc criminal fighter who's six-foot-ten and built like a brick privy. quote:Basically a battle master has limited resources he can spend Champion does not. Battle master can put down a beat down really good for a short period of time. Champion is consistent. quote:You like hitting things often and hard, while also getting a metric fuckton of passive bonuses? Champion.
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Something that occurs 5% of the time and an extra fighting style that you probably won't use much anyway: A metric fuckton of passive bonuses.
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:Something utterly unimpressive that occurs 5% of the time and an extra fighting style that you probably won't use much anyway: A metric fuckton of passive bonuses. Don't forget, 5e crits are pretty watered down, too. Can't let the one non-caster mechanic be TOO good!
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quote:I like a lot of things that 5e brings to the table. However I'm not liking the high HPs and high damage its reminding my a lot of World of Warcraft. Time to wrap it up.
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I would almost consider giving a read to 5e to see what they are talking about, but then I remember who were the consultants for that one and I stop myself. Honestly I haven't kept up to date since 3.5 and I don't really feel the need to. I would maybe consider playing the 4th based on what I hear of it from time to time: apparently all classes get spell-like tricks that allow the warrior to do something more than just attack, which is a big plus.
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Feb 26, 2015 22:59
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I'm going to make the disgaea RPG where you have a billion hp and deal 420 million damage yall
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I'm going to make the disgaea RPG where you have a billion hp and deal 420 million damage yall Too late, RIFTS exists.
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Error 404 posted:Too late, RIFTS exists. Doing literal millions of damage and having massive untouchable HP pools is really more of a Synnibarr thing.
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My bad.Error 404 posted:Too late, Synnibarr exists.
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So, I found this article, "10 things I hate about Shadowrun." The article is pretty badly written and not really something I would hold up as any kind of decent critical review... but the comments section had this little exchange.quote:
Emphasis in original. I didn't know that a game system could be, you know, morally and artfully WRONG.
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Error 404 posted:Too late, Synnibarr exists. Never have I wanted a t-shirt more.
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theironjef posted:Never have I wanted a t-shirt more. I legit want a t shirt of that raccoon holding a bazooka and looking at his watch. That is the best thing to come out of Synnibarr.
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clockworkjoe posted:I legit want a t shirt of that raccoon holding a bazooka and looking at his watch. That is the best thing to come out of Synnibarr. It is amazing. I'm partial to the Lemmy gnome firing a tree laser myself. Or the 80s underboob viking that is somehow called an Amazon.
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Honest to god truth: one of the most fun sessions I've ever had was with World of Synnibarr, back in 2006/7 or so. Of course, much of it was at the expense of the game rather than due to it, but still... Synnibarr has a couple of fun ideas in that crazy sci-fi sorcery kind of way you get with 80s cartoons like He-Man, where sword-wielding warriors and cyborgs walk down the same street and nobody even blinks.
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My first Synnibarr experience involved chargenning for ha-has and inadvertently creating an Immortal Born. I'm not sure actually playing the game could live up to that. For some light grog, let's see what Raven c.s. McCracken has to say about new Synnibarr mechanics: Cogency Mass! posted:NEW change... Cogency Mass is totally simple you guys posted:Now for news on the SYNNIBARR front. As a game designer I have always pondered the differences between an effect that alters a subject's status... as opposed to simple damage... I really hope "pages" is a typo posted:102,896 pages in the NOVEL to accompany Synnibarr... it's dark... it's epic and it's done! Yes, strive for relevance posted:Game of Thrones: anyone who knows about SYNNIBARR may have noticed something familiar about the Show Open... yep! They are inside the globe, just like our worldship.
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theironjef posted:Never have I wanted a t-shirt more. It has a very "Darkseid is" ring to it.
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FMguru posted:Old grog, but new to me: This is what kills this goddamn hobby. This idea that it's about one guy being 'in charge' of the whole game and everyone has to listen to his (and trust me, a lot of the shitlords thinking this think the 'his' bit is super loving important too) bullshit the whole time. This is where all this crap about 'NO DON'T PUT IN OFFICIAL STUFF ABOUT TOLERANCE OR DIVERSITY' comes from. The stupid loving nerd power trip that comes from shitlord GMs. Well, you know, that, and all the racism.
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It's late and I made a thing
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Hodgepodge posted:It has a very "Darkseid is" ring to it. Gnomes are born wherever gnomes are born. Usually during winter.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It's late and I made a thing gently caress yes
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It's late and I made a thing Well poo poo, now I guess I have to get a job.
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None of it was interesting or amusing enough to post here, but I glanced into ENWorld to see if anything funny was going on there, and instead found that the place was overrun with gamergate supporters. The owner Morrus in turn told people to visit ENWorld's sister site, CircvsMaximvs, and a quick check confirmed that yes indeed the place was filled to the brim with homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia. ENWorld is the biggest D&D fansite on the web and was the only place Mearls went to directly to talk about 5e. gently caress D&D.
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I should clarify, I just used a shirt design website, I didn't make/order one. I have a friend who silk screens though, so I guess I could get some made.
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ProfessorCirno posted:None of it was interesting or amusing enough to post here, but I glanced into ENWorld to see if anything funny was going on there, and instead found that the place was overrun with gamergate supporters. The owner Morrus in turn told people to visit ENWorld's sister site, CircvsMaximvs, and a quick check confirmed that yes indeed the place was filled to the brim with homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia. Greg Tito is now the community manager for D&D. poo poo clogging the toilet, all the way down.
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Clanpot Shake posted:Who is Greg Tito? First words of the link: "Former Escapist editor-in-chief Greg Tito"
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http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1253173 Apparently Greg Tito is a SJW that brings all the grogs to the yard.
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I've seen him slammed for being the guy who kept the Gamergate thread on the Escapist forums open -and- for being a terrible SJW out to destroy games, and apparently part of the reason he left the Escapist was getting overruled on everything by Macris, who is legit terrible. On the other hand, that...doesn't speak much to his community management skills.
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unseenlibrarian posted:I've seen him slammed for being the guy who kept the Gamergate thread on the Escapist forums open -and- for being a terrible SJW out to destroy games, and apparently part of the reason he left the Escapist was getting overruled on everything by Macris, who is legit terrible. Tito was the person at the Escapist who when it was pointed out that those Gamergate interviews were terrible actually did something about them. Like renaming the article from "Game designers talk about #Gamergate" to "Male game designers talk about #Gamergate" when it was pointed out that the first article had all been female and declared as such. Huge difference. He also removed the RogueStar interview from the Gamergate article. He seems to basically have been as decent as it's possible to be while at The Escapist.
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From what I've seen, Tito tried to play it neutral, which meant being attacked by sealions for not being a True Believer, then ultimately being kicked out by Macris (the guy who's literally bragged about SPENDING HIS WHOLE LIFE PREPARING FOR THIS WAR), only to be snapped up by WotC for reasons nobody is entirely sure of yet. Of course the thread about him on ENWorld ended up becoming sealion con 2015, more or less revealing just how terrible ENWorld was.
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neonchameleon posted:Tito was the person at the Escapist who when it was pointed out that those Gamergate interviews were terrible actually did something about them. Like renaming the article from "Game designers talk about #Gamergate" to "Male game designers talk about #Gamergate" when it was pointed out that the first article had all been female and declared as such. Huge difference. He also removed the RogueStar interview from the Gamergate article. He seems to basically have been as decent as it's possible to be while at The Escapist. EDIT: Its also hard to believe that he was true neutral as Cirno said since well he shares credits with Marcis.
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ProfessorCirno posted:ENWorld is the biggest D&D fansite on the web and was the only place Mearls went to directly to talk about 5e.
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Antivehicular posted:Gnomes are born wherever gnomes are born. 
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MadScientistWorking posted:Except with the ethics and the flat out harassment that went on it raises incredibly suspicion as to why he just didn't quit when it was revealed by multiple sources that they had just committed a major ethics breach. He was more "neutral" then Macris wanted, how about that? And of course, too "neutral" to actually try to stand against the open harassment. Grossly lukewarm in a manner that empowered harassers, only for them to turn on him when he wasn't enough of an extremist. The real question is, why did WotC hire a dude from the Escapist, which has been hemorrhaging money for awhile now?
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