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Error 404 posted:Too late, RIFTS exists. Doing literal millions of damage and having massive untouchable HP pools is really more of a Synnibarr thing.
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Error 404 posted:Too late, Synnibarr exists. Never have I wanted a t-shirt more.
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Feb 27, 2015 18:17
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clockworkjoe posted:I legit want a t shirt of that raccoon holding a bazooka and looking at his watch. That is the best thing to come out of Synnibarr. It is amazing. I'm partial to the Lemmy gnome firing a tree laser myself. Or the 80s underboob viking that is somehow called an Amazon.
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Feb 27, 2015 20:41
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It's late and I made a thing Well poo poo, now I guess I have to get a job.
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Feb 28, 2015 08:47
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Kai Tave posted:Really, it's perfect that he brings up oldschool point-and-click adventure games as a counterexample for why fail-forward is for social justice whinetards or whatever because adventure games are more or less the literal opposite of fail-forward gaming. If you don't know the one specific puzzle solution involving making a moustache out of cat hair in order to progress then the game just grinds to a halt until you brute force your way through it. There's a reason adventure games are a mostly dead genre these days and it's because people largely got tired of poo poo like that. D'awww someone's played Gabriel Knight 3.
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May 7, 2015 16:18
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Isn't the reason something like Deathwatch is 60 bucks that it's all you need to play, where 5th ultimately requires something like 90-120 bucks before you're playing?
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May 7, 2015 18:22
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moths posted:People will pay $90 - $120 for D&D. Ah, I just read the guy wrong. I read 5th as 5th edition D&D and not 5th edition Call of Cthuhlu.
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May 7, 2015 18:45
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FireSight posted:I paid $150 for one out of print book for WFRP 2e. I am one of those people. *sob* Don't feel bad, I just spent 70 bucks on Synnibarr and I don't even want to play it.
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May 7, 2015 18:51
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Plague of Hats posted:Yeah, I bet Frank was all "Beep boop, that's not optimal, end of statement" like he always is and his ban was 100% capricious. It's funny that people would defend one edition vociferously but not another one. What could be the meaning of this? The editions are different with different stuff in them, could that have something to do with it? Nah, I'm just going around in circles! I could crack this case if only Bugs Meany wasn't banning me from the forums. Turn to the end of this book to see how Encyclopedia Frank solved the mystery!
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May 7, 2015 21:08
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Plus I think 5ive Turkeys is really what we need to call the big fans of that edition. 5etards is just terrible.
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May 7, 2015 21:14
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quote:In D&D 3.5, you see rules for making money using Profession (X). The rules are poo poo, but they give us a basis for seeing how crap daily life is in a D&D world. This hotel is way worse than the last hotel! Not one piece of poo poo in my bed at all! I know it wasn't a huge poo poo at the last hotel, and it was a little dry, but I am used to poo poo in my bed and demand it now!
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May 7, 2015 22:36
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Mewnie posted:Well, I was threatened to be kicked out of the pubby guild I'm in, in Guild Wars 2. Huh, I thought Eldritch Knights were a Pathfinder thing.
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May 8, 2015 02:04
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"I just read the 4e rules and I knew the game was poo poo."
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Plague of Hats posted:Happy to oblige! I think he meant the former, but I would LOVE to find a post that is straight up calling us bullies.
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May 12, 2015 20:49
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Halloween Jack posted:The weird thing about YDIS is that it's really juvenile itself, and if you aren't hip-deep in OSR goings-on, you won't get a lot of what they're talking about. Yeah, I could barely read that. It was like a hatchet job on someone, I could tell that much, but after that it was pretty arcane stuff.
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May 14, 2015 21:06
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quote:How I roll stats "This is different from just using an array because arrays aren't random and this is totally random."
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May 15, 2015 05:54
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Plague of Hats posted:Roll 100 times and take the most average! It's only fair. All of your stats are 10.5! Deal with it!
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May 15, 2015 06:30
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ProfessorCirno posted:The crazy thing is, I get why randomized chargen is fun, but not when it can make you significant weaker or stronger then otherwise. I liked the onne that was basically point buy, but you rolled randomly for how many points you got, and then if you rolled a high number of points it lowered the max you were allowed in any one stat. So people with lower pools tended towards one high stat characters, while people with higher pools tended towards multiclassing or classes that required a lot of medium high stats, like a 2e ranger.
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May 15, 2015 15:52
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IT BEGINS posted:Is this Yeah. I think that's what, 2e Skills and Powers? It's not perfect but it's a neat idea.
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May 15, 2015 16:21
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13/16 defense at SPD 6 with a Soulless command aura and you have to kill the thing twice is bullshit for 2 points too. At least he should try to appropriately price his gross fetish monster.
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May 18, 2015 07:06
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TheAwfulWaffle posted:Are there any rules anywhere for creating characters above 1st level? Specifically, is there any kind of wealth by level chart anyplace? What? Start above first level? Earn your fun, you loot-addled millenial.
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May 18, 2015 16:40
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Man where's the forum fight between D20 and Gurps and Tricode Prime Directive? Oh wait here's some: Illumisar, apparent author of original Prime Directive posted:As for the GM vs. Player // non-cinematic thing? Hey, any GM can skew a game against the players but there was not of that built into the game itself and certainly none in the material I wrote, especially considering the various character background and reputation systems and whole wheedling system. In fact the game was very intentionally designed precisely to model the sorts of cinematic/script-immunity/"aw-geez-are-ya-kiddin'-me? " kinds of tropes that were so commen in the TV show. Different strokes for different folks I guess . . . Here we see him responding to someone saying the game was somewhat old-fashioned and adversarial, which was weird for a game with a cinematic background. He naturally disagrees and thinks the game was friendly. The game in question being the one where your player can wheedle out of death by spending months in a hospital (just like on Star Trek) by begging the DM for that allowance. If the DM is feeling lenient, he is encouraged to agree to spare the character's life, send them home to copy words out of the dictionary, and wait there as the DM and other players go out for pizza. None of that is hyperbole, it's actually what the book says. theironjef fucked around with this message at 22:52 on May 18, 2015 |
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Man, my favorite thing is when instead of just saying "I'd say no" they go on a hilarious hypothetical threat-rant about how they'd kill the PCs with buff monsters.
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May 19, 2015 07:34
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I thought the simpler "adjust the fights accordingly" guys were actually coming within range of being reasonable. No fighting, no chicanery, no dumb rocks fall from the heavens retaliation. Just "This guy has all 18s so here's a few more monsters." It was the guys coming up with clever solutions that look like assholes. Just make 'em fight the Tarrasque right away, that'll teach them! Then give him ability drain because I guess we're playing 2e? Then give them a fake magic item, the Book of gently caress You, Darryl!
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May 21, 2015 14:42
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Heh I love his little bit on how it's a roleplaying game because you act out a role. Like if you play a ranger you have to do ranger stuff, and the joy of playing this game is appropriately doing ranger business in the model laid down by the rotisserie-graved Gygax. He's like so close to establishing that role means "part someone plays in a story." He's got this mindset where if you play Hamlet you don't even need a script, you just do accurate Hamlet stuff from the examples in the book and maybe roll a few dice maybe to see if you Hamlet properly.
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May 26, 2015 22:14
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quote:If you are playing a story game which consists of games from The Forge, storygames.com or FATE then yes, those systems are set up to be narrative and to create stories. Traditional role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, Deadlands, Traveler and the like are traditional role playing games and the story that is created is the after effect of all of the player’s actions, not the purpose for the player’s action. This is my favorite part. The story that is created is the effect of player actions and not the point of player actions. If the story isn't a barely tolerated byproduct you're doing it wrong! I wonder if he'd just be happier playing Dwarf Fortress. I also wonder what the point of player actions is in his system. Is it tautological? They are playing D&D for the purposes of D&D play?
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May 26, 2015 22:40
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Hugoon Chavez posted:Well, which one is it? First one is transitory, second is racial.
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May 27, 2015 16:18
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Dude has to get his background in order, he is ruining my immersion.
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drunkencarp posted:Since he was fighting Morgoth I'm assuming he was one of the calaquendi who had turned from the Valar in pride, so both high and dark. Like whatshisname who crafted Turambar's cursed sword. Beleg Strongbow, most cidery of the Sindarin.
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He even knows what healing surges are, and mentions them in his third point, which is the best point anyway. "WOW has lots of necessary videogame abstractions. 4e doesn't have them, but here's a list of terms from 4e presented similarly."
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May 27, 2015 20:43
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gradenko_2000 posted:A couple of months back, someone made a thread on reddit about how pigs were really cheap according to the 5e PHB and so you could buy a bunch of them and send them ahead of you to trip traps in the dungeon. Sounds like a rare example of a good reddit story to me, because I would like to assume that everyone just also thinks it's funny. Then again, I post my show episodes in there and while browsing around I've noticed a funny trend amongst the people in /rpg. They apologize before saying they liked 4e, almost universally.
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May 28, 2015 16:22
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Doodmons posted:That reminds me of the apocryphal story of somebody meeting Gary Gygax at a con and, after the introductions were out of the way, telling Gygax that his party made it through Tomb of Horrors unscathed by herding cattle ahead of them to set off all the traps. Thinking that this defeated the point and the mood somewhat, Gygax told him "Gandalf didn't herd cattle ahead of him when he journeyed through the Mines of Moria!" He did the fiirst time! You think he really needed 13 goddamn dwarves around? No one needs that many dwarves. Also cows hate going down stairs. They'd basically just stand around mooing like bitches at the entrance.
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May 28, 2015 17:09
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drat, absolutely nothing in there about Prime Directive. I was hopeful to find a rich well of support for that crapsack. That said, they have a whole toplevel forum dedicated to posts about why ONE GUY was banned, including published rebuttal posts from the banned guy that go on for pages and pages. The El Dorado of weird nerd whining! theironjef fucked around with this message at 16:18 on May 29, 2015 |
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Literally had to go back and look again to make sure this thing isn't a parody. It's not wrong, it just looks like LiartownUSA made it.
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I believe he also had an example of the miniatures his kickstarter would produce on a kickstarter, and it was pretty clearly just a Heroforge design.
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Wikipedia Brown posted:It's especially weird with Trek, which is generally such a progressive show. There is a real wingnutty subsection that loves the militaristic aspects of Starfleet and probably draws parallels between the Enterprise's mission and, like, the duty of the US to spread democracy. Reading Prime Directive (the RPG version of this) only makes this more apparent, as it stresses the difference between the Starfleet Navy and Starfleet Marines, replaces away teams with Prime Teams (with a healthy dose of "Star Trek is stupid because the chain of command would prohibit captains from leaving the ship, duuuuhhhh"), and then makes those Prime Teams basically the GI Joes. They're always giving themselves team names like the Red Eagles, high-fiving over killing off weird aliens, and arguing for raises.
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Selachian posted:Wasn't there one race in SFB that had ships that were basically hollowed out asteroids with warp engines stuck on them? I never played but a cousin of mine did. (He was, unsurprisingly, a military buff.) Yeah, the Jindarians, which are described as being space gypsies.
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Ardeem posted:I wonder what kind of party this guy has that HP aren't irelivant by level 10. I would love to see his followup post on how he messes with caster classes. If he's got one, a nice big one full of arcane fizzle chances and exceedingly rare components and scrolls that evaporate when you fail to learn the spell on them and rats that wake you up so that you never get a full rest, he's okay by me. He runs a weird dumb game, but don't we all?
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Anticheese posted:The central paradox to pornomancy is that it is just a rote act. There's nothing sexy at all about it at all. Well now that's exactly like the making of por ohhhhhhhhhhh.
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Chill la Chill posted:In the cool anime one piece there's a dude who triple wields katanas using his arms and teeth. I'm thinking it'd be p The stock on both my crossbows is hollow and filled with bolts, and the spring-loaded cover over the bolt storage is opened by an attached hook designed to pull on the other crossbow's string, thus making it a smooth motion for me to reload them without emptying my hands. Gnomes built them.
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gradenko_2000 posted:For the record, not everything I post is supposed to be "what a lovely human being"-grog, I think this thread also has room for "a bit out there but harmless"-grog. Never stop posting. Weird stuff is just as good as awful stuff.
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