TG January Chat: It's your grogs, Gary. Something's gotta be done about your grogs!

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MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Lightning Lord posted:

That's a bit of an overstatement, unless you're saying specifically don't play 5e, which is a position I agree with but I've seen a lot of "Don't play any permutation of D&D because Dungeon World" posts out in the wild.

No he's actually right. There are so many permutations of D&D that honestly 5e is the Johnny come lately of so many other games.

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MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Lightning Lord posted:

I think you read my post backwards.

Yeah I agree with you. Im kind of sick right now and didn't completely understand what you wrote.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 16:19

MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Lightning Lord posted:

So I was talking with my buddy the other day and the subject of what an Appendix N for people just starting fantasy gaming today would look like.

Honestly, I would just chuck the entire concept into the garbage. I think that most forms of fiction benefit from a wide berth of ideas and just to limit it to a single genre stifles creativity.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2015 16:05

MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Appendix N was never that useful other than as a reference for the fantasy Gygax & Co. liked, it's not like D&D properly represents the grand majority of the fantasy it references.

I just double checked the passage and it is definitely supposed to be a source of inspiration which in defense to Gygax & Co. doesn't mean flat out imitate.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2015 16:16

MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

P.d0t posted:

Isn't this basically the same thing that happened with the Diablo and Warcraft games?

d20

Except its not a d20 game????????

# ¿ Jan 16, 2015 13:21

MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Libertad! posted:

Significantly, no, although he once addressed concerns about the rape in a conversation with Anna Kreider last I remember.

From Adept Press' description, it seems to focus more on the "dung ages" interpretation of the Middle Ages, where there were no centers of learning, large governments with social structures, or even knights or nobles. It seems to be going for the most technologically primitive reigns of medieval times and making it a universal standard.

It could potentially be an interesting setting, what with the conflict between two magical traditions and the PCs belonging to a special order who can manipulate both, but the pitched setting sounds kind of lacking in variety to me.

You know for a guy who pontificates endlessly about creating stories he sure knows how to pick the most boring story premise ever.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 16:42

MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

ProfessorCirno posted:

They have a women in gaming panel without a single woman actually on the panel and have to go out to recruit one.

I read that as not being to get someone who works for a gaming company which is an entirely different proposition.

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MadScientistWorking: Jun 23, 2010; "I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

Talkc posted:

Im in an awkward dillema with my superhero campaign. Ive sorta fallen into a trap of making too many characters, without a lot of substance to them. To top it off, i have a bad head for FATE Core. So ive been trying to come up with superhero type things that would work for the campaign, but when it actually comes to the mechanics i pretty much fumble them.

Its not the fact that you introduced too many characters more than the fact that you are trying to juggle too many characters at once in a session. Its something I don't even like to do because I feel really dumb talking as multiple NPCs at once. And I wouldn't worry about screwing up the mechanics too much . As long as you don't go on tilt that one day I actually got frustrated at the dice rolls.

moths posted:

You're lucky it's a supers game! Because this actually happens with superhero comics, and that's when titles get cancelled. You can either play it as a meta joke about staff-cuts at Whattacomic Publishing, or tell your players that they're starting the New Infinite Secret Crisis Wars Invasion arc and start piling up the bodies.

Noooo..... That is going to get my character killed somehow. I know it. :saddowns:

EDIT:
Im not saying that Talkc is that type of DM. Im just that inept.

MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Jan 31, 2015

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