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Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

shotgunbadger posted:

Is this only for terrible RPGs or can we talk about obscure ones we like? I just dug out my PDF of the wrestling game I like and it could be fun to show that wrestling can actually be done right in RPG forms, because god drat I already know that Know your Role! is going to be a clusterfuck.
I dunno, KYR! is actually sounding fairly decent as far as a d20 version of professional wrestling goes. Much better than d20 Moderns version of, well... anything.

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Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

To be fair to the makers of Continuum, there was suppose to be a second book where you could play the narcissists, and reality worked on a sort of Back To The Future system - if you patched things up enough that you, the time traveler, could still exist, well Time just didn't give a poo poo about your paradox.

Which kinda makes the Continuum the villains, since they're intentionally preventing Hitler from getting a bullet to the face (Going as far as impersonating Hitler if he does die) just so their particular time line where the Holocaust happen doesn't change.

Time travel is loving confusing.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

The Aberrant posted:

Whats the whole point of this loving game anyways?
I dunno. What would YOU do if you were nigh-immortal time traveler who can't actually change anything, just participate in what already happened?

(The answer is "LARP Doctor Who, using my powers to bring a police booth with me")

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

King Doom posted:

People keep mentioning infernals and alchemicals. I thought the other big concentration of 'oh what the hell!?' in Exalted was in the lunars book with all the stuff about beastfolk and the creating of. How'd the alchemicals guys beat that?


Edit: if it's worse than the Infernals stuff, don't answer me, just pretend not to notice my question.
Lunars weren't actually that bad, it could mostly be summed up as "When a lunar and mortal love each other very much, you can use this charm to create an army of mutated demigod children" and left at that.

Alchemicals from what I can tell have you playing as robots living inside larger robots and isn't exactly bad, just poorly thought out and scatterbrained.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Of all the trickster creatures of legends, I would probably prefer to deal with the Coyote the most. At worst I'll get a lame job like being the moon.

I would stay the hell away from the Kitsune tho. I like my loved ones uncooked and not in a stew that I'm tricked into eating, thank you very much.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Goggle Fox posted:

Can you point me to that story? I keep hearing about it, but I can never find it.

E: Maybe it was because I wasn't looking at Korean fox myths? Re-read that old one about the sister who was a fox, and it looks like a match.
I always get them confused. Yeah, the Kitsune (Japanese) are mostly either mean-spirited but harmless, or just mischievous while the Kumiho (Korean) are kinda evil and monstrous. Always think it's backwards for some reason tho. Edit: And apparently the Huli Jing (Chinese) are sometimes evil but also show up romantic stories. Who knew! Thanks, wikipedia.

Anyway, my point still stands. Stay the gently caress away from foxes, but coyotes are cool.

Jonked fucked around with this message at Jul 23, 2011 around 04:56

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Daeren posted:

First off, where the hell did you see the originals?
The artist put all the originals up on his DA page, IIRC. That's where the Mandeergo original picture came from, actually.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Dareon posted:

Prestidigitation NECROMANCY and Oriental.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Zereth posted:

Iunno. They do know when you hit 40th level, though, becuase levels are apparently an actual in-world thing, in that you can be demoted levels as punishment for losing your Amazon(r) Toolkit and such.

I mean, they'll probably notice if you cast it right there in the shop. I also like that it's only for purchases, of more than a large amount. Using them to build yourself a big drat mansion out of solid gold and diamond just outside Terra City? A-OK! (Also, missing the point that if you have people capable of mass-producing gold like this, gold has already lost scarcity and is thus really only useful for its material properties.)

EDIT: And, note, there's a lot of 40+ guild-classed dudes listed as proprietors of shops and such in the bit on Terra City. So they've got enough people around that if they wanted to pave their streets in pure gold in Terra City, they could do it pretty easily.
Shouldn't everybody switch over to a post-scarcity economy at that point?

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Ettin posted:

There's a sidebar about halflings which makes no sense here. They kept to themselves in isolated farms and were basically hobbits, until they decided to make friends with humans. Unfortunately "by inviting the humans into their villages, they inadvertently invited in the enemies of humans", whatever that means, and they became homeless. Then it turned out humans were kind of jerks to them anyway. Later, it will turn out that halflings are basically black people. I have no idea why this is here.
I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the Lord of the Rings, where the end of the book is Sauroman loving up the Shire because two hobbits stole his orb.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Xand_Man posted:

Xcrawl was just ruined for me. The last thing I want to think about when I'm mudering a roomful of goblins is how they are just victims of circumstance.
There's this subtle "Rollerball" undercurrent to X-Crawl that I'm not sure was even intended. But there's a definite set-up for a game where you team up with the monsters to overthrow Emperor Reagan like Spartacus in spandex.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Honestly I would just keep it simple and say "Your Daily power is your Signature move, that's why you don't use it all the time". KISS and Verisimilitude with one stone!

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Sticky Beethoven posted:

So I don't have to account for the Coriolis Force while firing a rifle then or anything nutso like that then?
The most basic way to shoot a gun in GURPS would be 1.) Roll 3d6, 2.) If you rolled below your skill, you succeeded, 3.) Your target rolls 3d6 against his Dodge skill to see if he, well, dodges.

But on top of that, you can add stuff like Aiming, Called Shots, tripods, laser sights, and so on. But it's all set up in a module sort of way, so the whole system doesn't break down if you don't use the Called Shot rules.

On top of THAT, yeah, somebody has probably come up with sniper rules where you have to take Coriolis Effect and gravity and ect into account for every shot.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

I kinda want to do a review of Dungeonscape, but doing a good analysis of the book without going through it line by line is hard. It's some good and more bad, mixed together to create something stupid. But drat is it hard to explain the stupid.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Wow, okay, some interest. Yeah, Dungeonscape is Rich Burlew from Order of the Stick and Jason Bulmahn from Paizo getting together and writing a book about dungeoncrawls back in 07.

It has the Factotum, who outbards the Bard, and it has Acidborn Sharks, which... is something. I guess I'll get to work.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Asehujiko posted:

I'd play the gently caress out of an Old Testament game based around Samson's various murder sprees.
I know this isn't what you're looking for, but have you considered EXALTED by White R.R. Wolf?

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Mors Rattus posted:

The Sleepers seem a bit out of place.
I'm glad I'm not the only wondering if there's a surprise "surprise sex and murder dreams" in store

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

WhitemageofDOOM posted:

People sign up to join private military contractors WHY?!
Same reason people join the military today: money, duty, glory, adventure. Plus it's not like you're going to meet an actual boosted soldier - all the burn outs and freaks are ghettoinized in LA

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

I kinda want to run an Amber game now, and make Warfare the area for people who are too dumb to figure out a way to kill somebody without stabbing them in the face.

Psyche, on the other hand, is the route to true power...

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Wolfsbane posted:

If that's the APC I think it is, would you mind posting the complete description? I want to see if anyone else thinks it's ripped off from somewhere obvious. The one I'm thinking of was part of some black mission where the party could go hang out in the wilderness for a couple of weeks in their APC.

I'm almost sure I've never played this game, but I've definitely seen this image before. Anyone know what I'm talking about? TinEye doesn't turn up anything.
It's pretty similar to the style of Jean "Moebius" Giraud, I fairly famous French sci-fi comic book artist. Maybe he drew something similar?

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Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
I am the love child of Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler!

Lemon Curdistan posted:

This is not the case in sane countries.
To be fair, messing around with hormones is kinda something you want a doctor involved in, and getting a prescription requires little more than asking your doctor for one, and also prescriptions tie into health insurance. But yeah, it's a little crazy.

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