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Reene posted:In deference to that other thread, post about a time a game managed to make you break into a cold buttsweat in sheer abject dread. The oWoD game I was in where we realized that the GM's wife convinced him to start turning the game into her slashfic of our characters. I may have posted about this game before. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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Bieeardo posted:Thank you for prompting my morning horrified shriek. I was worried it wouldn't come out before noon. That whole campaign was a loving cavalcade of terrible things. Like, I'm pretty sure it hit every "this is a terrible gaming thing" point we regularly bring up around these parts, the highlights being insane power creep, DBZ-style combat heightening, two Mary Sues (one was the GM's pet NPC, the other was his wife's character), every fight scene being The Matrix, enemies never retreating no matter how badly we destroyed them, the aforementioned shipping-type thing, and the hard railroaded plot. Someday I'll write a long thing about it for the Worst Experiences thread.
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Jul 1, 2014 16:45
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ImpactVector posted:That's why the players in my group take it the other way: Why are you charging the d10 with the 8 face-up? You'll throw off the calibration! Everybody knows you let your dice sit with the highest value showing.
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Jul 1, 2014 17:53
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*squint* Oh, so it is. Looked like a d10 with the dim lighting. Carry on, then.
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Jul 1, 2014 18:01
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Ratpick posted:It's been a while since I've watched Evangelion, but wasn't pretty much the entire idea of that show to on one hand make sense of the fact that the pilots in mecha anime tend to be teenagers (i.e. in the case of Evangelion you need a sympathetic connection between the pilot and the host spirit occupying the EVA, so teenagers who have lost a family member in an EVA-related incident are the best candidates) while at the same time trying to really make the point that using teenagers as mecha pilots is pretty sick (because teenagers tend to be really fragile and unstable, so making them fight big monsters from outer space in giant robot suits is bound to gently caress them up)? Well, there's also the fact that the guy who was writing it more or less had a nervous breakdown during the process, so...
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Jul 1, 2014 20:17
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I never got into Eva (thank God) despite being in Animes Club in college when it came stateside, but I know enough about it that I can appreciate this.
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Jul 1, 2014 20:45
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Elfgames posted:Noway are you crazy? You always charge your dice with 1 facing up! A.)it uses up most of the 1's rolls so you get less. B .)it puts the energy directly into the highest value. And C.) it shows all ones instead of something dumb like 2 6's and an 8. Wrong wrong wrong. You put the highest number up so a) the die learns what number should be showing, and b) it settles a bit, so the mass goes down to whatever face is opposite the highest number, causing it to roll that number more. Seriously, it's like you don't even know your basic gamer physics.
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Jul 1, 2014 21:36
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So apparently the D&D Basic set has a "thank you" to RPGPundit at the end. I don't have screenshots but Adam Keobel mentioned it on G+. Seriously, gently caress this hobby.
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Jul 3, 2014 15:11
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Oh, I'm completely done with D&D now thanks to this, yeah. The problem is that they just legitimized one of the most toxic people in the hobby in what's the "flagship" game of said hobby, like it or not.
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Jul 3, 2014 15:23
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Darth Various posted:So, do they call him "RPGPundit" or use his real name? I'm not downloading it to find out, but apparently it's RPGPundit. Because we all know how he feels about his real name.
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Jul 3, 2014 17:51
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Oh yeah, I forgot about him too. So that's two people who've publicly said they hope people "like me" will die or commit suicide in the credits. e: 
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Jul 3, 2014 18:19
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It should be pointed out too that Mearls is a fan of Pundit's blog. So there's that.
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Jul 3, 2014 19:49
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Fuego Fish posted:How can you be a fan of Pundit? Like, legitimately, I am curious. What particular facet of his giant rambling posts that don't go anywhere is engaging enough for someone to go "wow, I should read more of these!" I mentioned this before, but (supposedly) Pundit's blog is supposed to be an Andy Kaufman-esque joke. The problem is that, even if that's the case, there are a lot of people who follow him and take him seriously. Hell, all of RPGSite is based around his personality.
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e: I'm sorry, I just needed to get that off my chest before I blew up.
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Jul 4, 2014 02:37
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ProfessorCirno posted:Legit do you mind if I copy+paste this elsewhere to help point out why I'm not supporting this game? At this point, sure.
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Jul 4, 2014 02:56
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It's sad that Zak is pretty much the cause of or related to every meltdown post I have here. It's sadder that it's been more than one meltdown post.
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Jul 4, 2014 03:15
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Bucnasti posted:But you also have to remember that for every shitheel that makes noise on the internet there's ten perfectly rational people who are happy and have better things to do than post on crappy little websites. Yeah, but the happy people aren't the problem.
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Jul 4, 2014 03:19
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ProfessorCirno posted:EM, apologies in advance and you certainly don't have to, but do you by any chance have links or whatever to Zak S's crusade antics? It looks like he turned most of his poo poo to private, and the KOREA TABLETOP GAMING page doesn't seem to believe this kinda poo poo actually happens. No I don't. I know it's on G+, I think it might have been in one of Sage's threads. We have each other blocked (at least, I've blocked him), and he's smart enough to only share most of his poo poo with limited circles. Someone mentioned it in a different G+ thread and given his history I see no reason to doubt it's true.
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Jul 4, 2014 03:48
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grassy gnoll posted:Be the change you want to be, motherfuckers. Run some games that address the issues you care about, publish your own games or supplements on the indie markets, get at least one new person a year to play our dumb games of pretend, 'cause that's what it takes to make this hobby not suck. Ignoring the problem does not magically make it go away. If anything, it makes it worse.
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Jul 4, 2014 05:35
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MadScientistWorking posted:If someone has a succinct bunch of horrible quotes from them I'm just going to try calling Hasbro for the hell of it. Zak's being Zak here, apparently.
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Jul 4, 2014 16:38
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Tollymain posted:they call it pathfinder unchained but idk it still looks pretty chained to the d20 framework Wait, what? (one google later) Oh good grief.
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Jul 6, 2014 18:33
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Nancy_Noxious posted:From a discussion on the matter in the Paizo forums: All Pathfinder is is 3.5 backwards compatibility! Because it's just 3.5! Oy, my head.
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Jul 6, 2014 19:03
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I hate to say it, but I doubt it's going to do any good. My G+ feed is chock full of "well he's never been terrible to me so everyone is making things up" and "how dare people GATEKEEP" (despite the fact that that's what people like Zak do when they try to drive out people they don't like) and other assorted bullshit. Like the people who are complaining are just making poo poo up because who loving knows. Seriously, gently caress this hobby.
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Jul 7, 2014 17:52
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I really do wish people would stop making DW playbooks and make things like campaign frameworks and adventures and stuff. We need more GM-facing stuff.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:49
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I'm honestly surprised Lemon hasn't come in yet and bugged me about the crashed spaceship/space gods DW module I'm never going to finish.
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Jul 9, 2014 04:33
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Lemon Curdistan posted:
 Admittedly, my GM prep is pretty minimal to the point of I generally don't know what I'm going to do in a session until people are done unpacking their sheets and dice.quote:How's Barrier Peaks coming along?
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Jul 9, 2014 14:34
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Lemon Curdistan posted:It is similar in that there's a lot of stuff being done by people who don't understand how to design for the system or what makes AW a good PbtA game, that part is true. The difference is that PbtA isn't a garbage system, so it's actually possible to make good PbtA stuff. On that subject, Michael Sands is doing a new edition of Monster of the Week, because (as he put it) "PbtA technology has advanced significantly since I wrote MotW!"
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Jul 9, 2014 15:51
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Lemon Curdistan posted:Hopefully, he's going to turn it into more of its own game and less of "core AW with some vague concessions to Supernatural" - it desperately needs a real mechanical framework for investigation (with as much detail as DW puts into its combat framework). Well, he's been working on it with Fred Hicks (who's recently discovered PbtA games) and Fred's been hacking moves, so it's pretty likely.
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Jul 9, 2014 17:13
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In other news, I have a registered sex offender signing up for my 13th Age organized play table. Joy.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:37
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SunAndSpring posted:I wonder what kind of class Aatrek likes to play. Cleric? 
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Jul 9, 2014 18:53
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Evil Sagan posted:And since he plays TRPGs, it's probably exactly as bad as you imagine. One of the people in my group forwarded me his offender registry a little while ago, and I sent him an email basically saying "this was brought to my attention, do not show up". We also let the store owner know since he probably doesn't want any of that action either. e: SageNytell posted:Maybe don't let that happen? I understand inclusivity but this hobby has enough problem players to being with without risking someone with a known, criminal problem in a group of strangers. Is your organized play table open to minors or held in a location frequented by minors?
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Jul 9, 2014 18:59
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SageNytell posted:If this is a location frequented by minors, you may also wish to bring this to the attention of the local police, as may the store owner. Many offenders have court orders preventing them from going to such places to prevent repeat offenses. quote:That sucks, man. That really sucks.
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Jul 9, 2014 19:08
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SageNytell posted:I do not want someone who collected kiddie porn in a shop that is frequented by kids under any circumstances, full stop. This whole thing wasn't made public to the group at large, I just sent him an email saying "this was brought to my attention LINK Please do not show up tonight or sign up for future games."
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Jul 9, 2014 21:19
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There's also the fact that I have to look to my own personal comfort, and (should it come up) the comfort of the rest of the people in the group. Now, if the store owner decides he doesn't want to address this at all? That's fine, it's ultimately his store. But at the game table run by Evil Mastermind, I have to look at how things will affect both myself the group I run games for.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:41
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Winson_Paine posted:This is the goofiest derail. So does that mean I can't say how this turned out?
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Jul 10, 2014 03:08
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Winson_Paine posted:You can finish the anecdote about a game store, which is perfectly relevant. It is the extended argument about the inadequacy of the criminal justice system to deal with sex offenders or whatever that I am outlawing. Okay, cool. I did bring the guy aside when I got to the store and had the following two-sentence conversation: Me: "I was informed about your registration." Him: "I'm out." When he left, I informed the rest of the group what happened. Unsurprisingly everyone was okay with him being gone. The guy did contact me after the fact to say that it "wasn't cool" that I told everyone; I'm guessing that's because someone else in the group told the store owner but gently caress if I'm going to feel guilty over this.
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MadScientistWorking posted:None of those are the right genres though. Its supposed to be some sort of horror procedural but your right about the horror aspect being vague. Which is fine! Sometimes you want to do something about the slow slide into madness that is dealing with the supernatural on a daily basis, and other times you just want to stomp monsters.
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Jul 10, 2014 15:17
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I'm pretty sure that's it, and even then Tabletop Day is focused more on board games than RPGs.
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I would just like to go on record and say the Strands of Fate is the worst loving implementation of Fate out there, even with cash-in games taken into account, and way be one of the worst games I've ever had to make a character for. e: just talked the GM into using FAE instead, partially because I bought the group copies for Xmas. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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The thing about Strands of Fate is that it came out around the same time as SotC, meaning it's working off an outdated version of the Fate rules, but it's also written with the core idea of "I want to make Fate more like 3.X".
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