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Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Besides Ghouls for VtR, I don't have anything particularly horrible- unless you want a transcription of B vs D from Damnation City.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2011 06:08

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# ¿ May 24, 2013 22:08

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

projecthalaxy posted:

E: I could do Fallout PnP, if anyone wanted to hear about that.

The one that Bethesda forced them to change, or the free one that's floating around the internet?

# ¿ Jun 30, 2011 13:57

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Dear God in Heaven, Black Tokyo is John Ringo's Ghost: the RPG.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2011 05:25

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Gau posted:

gently caress you, we're on the road to the abyss already. Let's ride this flaming surprise sex bus all the way down.

surprise sex bus? This is a party boat to hell!

# ¿ Jul 2, 2011 05:59

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Ariamaki posted:

I have literally used the damage-reduction charts to induce vomiting.

I'm sorry, what?

# ¿ Jul 3, 2011 06:06

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

projecthalaxy posted:

What's with all the black and white photos of I assume the authors trying to kill each other. Why would they think that was good. Why. Why.

I vaguely recall someone on RPG.net saying that one of the lower-rung guys called the game "[The Creator's] mid-life crisis." during an interview. Not long after that, the official website went down. So, I guess this is what the mid-life crisis of a violent, misogynistic Texan white supremacist looks like.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2011 13:30

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

FewtureMD posted:

I feel like creating some rules for Victorious Nacho should have been a high-priority thing on the developers' to-do list, but oh well, SYNNIBARR.

They did- you're supposed to make an Ego roll to learn Vendertron Necronomicon. They just forgot to mention HOW you make that roll.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2011 18:31

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Is it possible some of the authors were taking the piss while others were dead serious? Because that's how it's coming off to me.

Daeren, God bless you for going through this poo poo. I read the introduction in a .PDF I downloaded, and I couldn't make it any farther. Little did I realize that the rabbit hole was really a rabbit hole...

# ¿ Jul 8, 2011 19:49

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

recon_etc posted:

This is going to be fun.

And by fun I mean horrible and I don't know why I hate myself so much.

You survived the John Ringo thread man, you can survive anything.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2011 23:18

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

recon_etc posted:

Cyrano4747, grad student and milsurp extraordinaire, did Ringo, not me. I was just... watching.

(I did end up reading one of the later books to see what was in between the choice selections. I... didn't finish it.)

I know Cyrano read it, but we were all there with him. NOTHING could be worse than those excerpts.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2011 23:23

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Ariamaki posted:

Why are you bugging out about this? I see nothing wrong here. Is it because it's supposed to be a "realistic" setting, but they have a bullet-skipping feat?

A -2 roll and -1 die penalty in d20 is nothing compared to the benefits that brings. It might work if the penalties were higher or dependant on the level of cover your foe had.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2011 02:17

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

veekie posted:

Considering the rather limited benefits of cover in d20 its probably too big a penalty even, since you paid a feat for it.

What were the benefits? I haven't played d20 in a while.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2011 08:39

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

FrozenGoldfishGod posted:

All this Continuum talk makes me want to write a tabletop game built around time travel where the time travel doesn't make everyone go cross-eyed trying to figure out how it works.

Imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff...

# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 06:20

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

I think...that thing...might've just killed any faith I had left in White Wolf. That is the worst thing I have read on paper since the Ringo thread. Someone has to save that company from itself, or at least it's intellectual property, because it's clear they can't be trusted anymore.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 03:09

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Alectai posted:

To be fair, White Wolf has largely stopped giving a poo poo about their RPG products, and has turned creative control over to "Whoever wants to do the job".

Fortunately, the people who did the (Excellent) second half of the book did, in fact, manage to take control of the line, and they've been churning out drat good material ever since. Supposedly, they're working on a major revision to make the game more playable (And have an estimate of "Sometime this Fall") for the core revisions to be released.

But yes, nobody you'll ever find will Ever defend Chapters One and Two. You just all saw why, and it's pretty much a guaranteed thing that the two guys credited for that half will never be forgiven for it.

Good for them, but part of me can't help but feel that it's too late for a lot of the game lines. I probably just some time to recover from CAPSLOCKGRL's post- or a drink or two...

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 03:39

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Kwyndig posted:

I think I have a copy of that floating around on the other computer, I will have to check.

But yeah, most of the deleted items that I remember are mega creepy.

edit: Yeah, I found it. The first page is an explanation of why they cut things, the word 'creepy' is used a lot.

Not all of the deleted items are creepy, many of them are just references to stuff unheard of in the West. But here is a semi-creepy example:

Aren't there Nazis in there somewhere, too?

# ¿ Jul 27, 2011 00:51

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Kwyndig posted:

Yes, there's an Iron Cross item that makes Nazis follow you around. Whether you like Nazis or not.

The Eisernes Kreuz isn't even a Nazi symbol, dammit. The German military used it before they came to power and they still use it.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2011 01:05

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Rocketlex posted:

It would be so much cooler if you could use it to summon the Red Baron.

Of course, they'd need another item to summon his counterpart and arch-rival...

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# ¿ Jul 27, 2011 01:13

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

anagramarye posted:

GURPS Space, Part I�or�no, not any aliens yet

I need this generation system. Is this available as a .pdf?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2011 06:25

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

Factions: Kind of Like Cliques in High School

I recall an interview where White Wolf basically admitted that the seven original clans are all based on high school stereotypes. The Tremere are the nerds, the Brujah the punks, the Ventrue the preppies, etc. It goes a long way to explaining why oWoD is the way it is.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2011 18:36

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Okay science is bad, but the engineering and metallurgy behind the necklaces and spears that they're showing off is okay. It's just modern science is bad, the kind that is the best at improving living conditions.

loving bunch of Luddites.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2011 15:43

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

TheTatteredKing posted:

Oh boy here we go

What happened to the guy who was doing Black Tokyo, anyway? Did he kill himself to avoid having to read more?

# ¿ Aug 8, 2011 00:13

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

demota posted:

Alright, who wants to hear about a cross between Changing Breeds and Maid RPG, from the designer of Maid RPG?

The Japanese designer or the American translator/editor?

# ¿ Aug 14, 2011 04:35

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Etherwind posted:

nWoD has about one paragraph of Changing-Breeds-quality stupidity every three or four books, usually in the fiction rather than the game rules. They're noticeable because they stand out against the general quality. nWoD is nowhere near as consistently terrible as oWoD in that regard.

Unfortunately, White Wolf's given up and is slipping back into creep mode, if their next project for Requiem is any indication.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 05:35

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Bieeardo posted:

Is Scion NWoD or OWoD-era White Wolf? Because good god loving drat, Hero is filled with some skeevy, skeevy stuff.

It's nWoD era. What's it like?

# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 06:43

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

So it was just White Wolf being White Wolf.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2011 02:24

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

CommissarMega posted:

Don't forget the Atlantean gods!

Oh Christ, I have to hear this...

# ¿ Aug 18, 2011 09:08

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Bieeardo posted:

Now I really want to see D&D Jackass. Nothing but skill challenges.

"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville, and today I'm going to eat a Gelatinous Cube."

# ¿ Aug 20, 2011 23:22

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

FactsAreUseless posted:

I would, without hesitation, play a Paladin whose creed is "Be excellent to each other."

And the battle cry "Party On, Dudes!".

# ¿ Aug 25, 2011 05:47

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

crime fighting hog posted:

teleportation circle hydrogen bomb.

Okay, I understand the other two, but what the hell is this?

# ¿ Sep 8, 2011 21:46

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Bitchtits McGee posted:

Been there.

Spill it or get thee to the worst experiences thread. Or did you already post it there?

# ¿ Sep 10, 2011 20:14

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Favored Enemy: Man. United Fans

# ¿ Sep 16, 2011 21:07

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

WINNERSH TRIANGLE posted:

Not to steal Ettin's thunder, or gallivant to quickly on to the salaciously bad parts, but here's a quick picture, a taster of what's to come, about all that is worst about Cthulhutech.

Trigger warnings for surprise sex, torture, and Bad Game.

It's pretty much the epitome of 'oh look how grim and dark we are', and does so in a spectacularly cack-handed and offensive way.

Holy poo poo that section on the right- I'm starting to get the feeling these people are aping the wrong aspects of Lovecraft's work...

# ¿ Oct 8, 2011 10:09

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Drox posted:

Hey. Hey. Woah. This is totally different. That's a rabbit girl. Get it right!

Lower left paragraph.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2011 15:56

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Looks like a quarter of Ireland has been taken over by raping fishmen, joy and rapture

.

Do they go into detail about exactly what they control there, or is it just the lines on the map?

# ¿ Oct 9, 2011 00:47

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

homeless poster posted:

You'd think with the huge amount of money that the Christian right represents in this country that someone representing that group would get some scratch together and make something that was a fun game first, and had bible verses or whatever added as a subtext, but what do I know.

It's fully possible to make a video game with religious themes and have it still be good- the problem seems to be that most of the people who would make a game with religious themes view the game as a form of proselytization, so very little effort is put into the game in favor of talking nonstop about Jesus.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2011 04:57

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

I keep searching for a comment, but all it comes back to is "Metaplot is the worst plot". Why give players an interesting setting to explore and adventure in right away when we can detail it piece by piece and ~~shift more product~~tell our own story!

# ¿ Oct 26, 2011 06:25

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Let me guess- for some reason the efforts of the Reckoners will focus on the comparatively sparsely populated region of the American west rather than, say, China, which at the time they return is coming out of a civil war (the Taiping Rebellion) which left tens of millions dead and was falling in into another one (the Dungan revolt). Sounds like a much better environment for sucking out fear and stuff from humans.

Still, I'm starting to see why the overall setting was appealing. It sounds like a lot of fun to explore, they just presented it so poorly.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2011 06:54

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Glitterbomber posted:

Rifts was written by Nazis.

Good, I wasn't the only one who thought that.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2011 20:42

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# ¿ May 24, 2013 22:08

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009; Curses are often harder on the cursed

Wait, is this an actual setting thing, or just a massive dearth of player creativity?

# ¿ Oct 28, 2011 03:52

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