Murphy's Rules: Your Favorite Game Is Weird

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Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Prison Warden posted:

For a kind of mediocre collectathon anime show one thing I did always like was that in the episode where the main character fights against someone who is using a God Card to set up a situation where he can't lose, the hero wins by exploiting some basic flaws in the games rules to force opponent to cede defeat on a technicality. The writer's inspiration from Magic is clear in a few places.

Makes me miss the actual first season where Yugi straight up murdered people with games and deathtraps.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2013 02:41

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:54

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

ZeeToo posted:

Geez, so much Decipher, and not a word yet about Decipher Star Wars CCG? Let's rectify that.
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And it's been so long I'm probably forgetting half the fundamental flaws!

Can you properly explain the madness that was a minelayer deck?

# ¿ Mar 8, 2013 08:36

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Vavrek posted:

I want to hear more about :

Much more. I mean, the Soviets were handled so well by the rules.

Entire army is Simo H�yh�?

Jedit posted:

The Finnish Ski Murder Patrol is also probably historically accurate. Underplayed, if anything.

Damnit, beaten while I was looking up his name.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2013 09:29

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Zemyla posted:

R&D's Secret Lair breaks most hilariously with Floral Spuzzem.

"Floral Spuzzem, do you want to destroy an artifact? I'll wait until you tell me."

Sometimes you just have to listen to the heart of the cards.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2013 04:56

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

... So, you could use that feat to be half-orc (The other half is also orc).

# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 21:58

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

So, a Rastlin who spends less time trolling himself.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2013 23:47

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Bieeardo posted:

Given there's a Russian folk tale that involves doing almost exactly that, I think this goes straight from Murphy's Rule to loving epic.

Oh god, I remember the Jim Henson's Storyteller on that. It's what made me realize that immortality actually sucks.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2013 20:08

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

I'm reminded of Andy Collins tale of the "white dragon".

I'm just kinda :catstare:

at that paragraph at the end about CR. Even the designers didn't know how to make it work.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2013 20:35

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

It's not D&D enough for my friends who like D&D and it's too D&D for my friends who don't like D&D. I think it's pretty awesome, but I'm also told I have bad taste.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2014 21:15

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

So, what's the feat tax to get an ability that lasts for one minute per caster level to streatch for 35 days, or to cut that build time down to something reasonable?

# ¿ May 14, 2014 09:12

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Forer posted:

"Jesus christ jimbob you must be the luckiest fighter around, How can I learn to be you?"
"Well first, you gotta wear nothing but the largest most cumbersome trashcan armor, then you need to roll around on the ground the second you get in a fight, close your eyes, cover your ears, and pray."
"and then?"
"And then somehow they die!"

Ninjadebugger can explain better than I, but there was a school of swordsmanship in early versions of L5R dedicated to this sort of nonsense. Dark Sword of the Bitter Lies.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2015 07:50

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Do walls and desks even count as similar enough to paper or parchment for the erase spell to even be able to target them? Or does this only work for schools in places with paper walls?

# ¿ Aug 3, 2015 20:08

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Hmm, can the answer to the question be read without having the skeleton computer actually process and answer the question?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2015 23:28

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

LightWarden posted:

_{Toot toot motherfucker}

That was amazing.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2015 05:02

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

How many chickens do you have to sell to buy a bag of holding?

# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 18:34

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Goodman Games, before they did Dungeon Crawl Classics the RPG, made their business publishing 3.5e modules under the Dungeon Crawl Classics brand. The overarching concept was that it'd be 3rd Edition modules, but with a TSR-era D&D dungeon crawling feel, with dungeons and traps and rooms and corridors and random encounter tables and all that, rather than the grand, sweeping story arcs of later D&D.

The idea for Dungeon Crawl Classics the RPG (probably) came from that, because one of their earliest DCC 3.5e modules was Legends Are Made, Not Born, which was a module that was tagged to be for "Level 0" characters, not even Level 1. That is, you were supposed to use the Warrior, Commoner, Aristocrat, Expert and Adept NPC classes from the 3.5e DMG, rather than the standard PHB classes, so that they'd be even weaker than level 1's:

He's an unoptimized mess, but who can pass up a chance to play BEELORD, LORD OF THE BEES?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2016 06:23

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

You'd think that after the second one, corps would start installing pit traps in the lobbies.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 22:53

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Waffleman_ posted:

A preview of a revelation I had while writing the next Slayers d20: It is entirely mechanically possible for you to play as a fish who is also a wizard. You can also be one third fish, one third dragon, and one third demon.

Your fish-dragon-demon will never be as handsome as Noonsa :colbert:

# ¿ Nov 24, 2016 20:08

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

TokenTrevor posted:

Please please look up Shadow Hearts 2. There is a character that does exactly this.

THIS POST WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT BLUDGEON!

# ¿ Aug 4, 2017 02:50

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Tendales posted:

Probably not, except maybe for sporting or ornamental purposes. Just not enough draw on a crossbow that small to really be dangerous.

A tool for hunting pheasants, not peasants.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 05:00

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Comrade Koba posted:

But if it activates on impact it won't ever enter the body, it would stop in mid-air with the point lightly touching the target.

Could put the switch on the side.

Speaking of overly complicated arrows, did anybody ever stat up the nonsense that is expanding broadheads? I expect gnomes to be involved.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 08:13

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

... It's the first episode of Cowboy Bebop, but with less space and more guns.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 23:47

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

How is that not a silver boarder card?

Also, is forcing them to concede a valid option?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2021 09:35

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:54

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

All this talk of pants removal, and nobody posts the frigging card that makes it relevant.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2021 07:12

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