Lightning Lord posted:

A flyer posted at Grand Prix Sacramento



Apparently he tweeted that he was going to be there, and judges intercepted him and kicked him out.

Tekopo posted:

Bongolesia

This dude thinks he's funny, I think? posted:

International business in Bongolesia has picked up some with the development of the Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar Petrochemical Complex run by PETROCO, and the recent relocation of Perverticus Industries to Bongolesia.

He is not funny posted:

a currency system, (The "Bling-Bling")

DEFINITELY NOT RACIST posted:

The People and The Country as a whole

Bongolesia is set up to be a third world African Hell-Hole that the goverment has tricked the people (mostly) into believing that it's the best thing going since sliced bread. The people are generally uneducated and guillable, but also scheming and have perfected many ways to seperate a person from their money. Greed is paramount in Bongolesia as everything "has a price", and it's been a long unspoken tradition of The Bongolesian people to "Get what you can, when you can, and the mostest that you can, in the quickest that you can"...
This is reflected on the National Seal which has the National Motto (in latin) as:"Nos don't volo a succurro manus manus ; Nos iustus volo a manus manus - sicco." ("We don't want a helping hand, We just want a hand-out...")
The Bongolesian people are shown to be mostly greedy, wanting, and always "needy". They never seem to have enough, and are always out to get "more more more". Due to European Influence in the early 20th Century and UN and International Aid Programs, the concept of begging, and "getting something for nothing" has taken on a whole new level of meaning with the people of Bongolesia.
(This is meant as a satire and an ironice look at the failed programs in Africa over the last 40 years.)

Cogency Mass! posted:

NEW change...
Previously we split effects up into damage types and effects... like a Ta'sets Dark Thunderbolt vs will-force. The thunderbolt does damage...which may reduce life points until the subject is dead...
Willforce now reduces the subject's COGENCY MASS until the subject is affected...
This "cogency mass" is a type of metaphysical life points...once removed or exceeded, the subject is affected...
Like life points..Cogency mass can now be healed, restored and increased...
This aspect of the new game is very important...
Everything is in duality. Shot/BA shot. Fate/BA fate.
Deeds vs Aims... Life points and cogency mass...
Both sides of the coin...

Cogency Mass is totally simple you guys posted:

Now for news on the SYNNIBARR front. As a game designer I have always pondered the differences between an effect that alters a subject's status... as opposed to simple damage...
Life points measure damage... but what measures how one is affected by say a...Will-force?
Primitive systems had us simply compairing "levels" which is a faulty, all encompassing, measure of a subject's prowess...one that is not only inaccurate, but static and lifeless...In this new version of SYNNIBARR, we now have Life points and Cogency Mass, a form of mystic life points with a catchier name... Damage reduces life points... Effects reduce cogency mass... simple clean and solid...0 ambiguity.

I really hope "pages" is a typo posted:

102,896 pages in the NOVEL to accompany Synnibarr... it's dark... it's epic and it's done!
Mage Warrior will accompany the release of the new Synnibarr Role playing game.
A total of 4 books...
That is all...

Yes, strive for relevance posted:

Game of Thrones: anyone who knows about SYNNIBARR may have noticed something familiar about the Show Open... yep! They are inside the globe, just like our worldship.
Thoughts...?

Hodgepodge posted:

It has a very "Darkseid is" ring to it.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Magic was made by Richard Garfield to have fun with his university friends many years ago. Wizards turned it into a business which is fine and understandable. Mark Rosewater came and turned it into a parasite where children don't have enough money to go bowling or take girls on dates cause they spend $50 on a single land so they can keep up with their friends decks.

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Forgotten Realms more compelling without Drizzt and Dark Elves!

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It's more related to my "Don't be a D!¢%" rule. There's already plenty of options, identities, and behaviors involved, and it's even open to LGBT areas. I just don't want the campaign derailed every half hour or so because your character is offended by anything. Or more importantly, regulary does things that drives the rest of the characters to want to kill him or her.

Example: A female PC cleric who was raped by a man as a child became vehemelently misandric, even to her own party members. She refused to help or even heal her male party members and instead prefered the company of the female party members. That alone will get me to allow PvP. But that didn't happen until she offered her ideals of destroying the whole male gender for her claim of a better world, and do it with a Charisma check that could get the Gods in her side.

The resulting primal screaming as they delivered attack after attack until they permakilled her was expected, and if you happen to be a male, understandable.

I would've called upon Ravenloft's 'Dark Powers' and make her into a Dark Lord long before that happened.

Ronwayne posted:

Gonterman now game's the elves? I love it when a classic reinvents itself.

Kai Tave posted:

Man, Five Nights at Freddy's has to be like catnip to Gonterman.

The Gonts introduces an example of his PBP posted:

I hope to keep things to just under 3K words when I really get good and going. I start with some articles from the local paper, add a tie in with other stories in the Realms (In this case the Legends of Baldur's Gate comic book and my own Baldur's Gate character, and just for $#!%s and Giggles, Hatsune Miku in a midevial outfit.

An excerpt posted:

“Yeah, too bad I missed all the fun.” The blue twin-tailed girl smiled. But her voice, as youthful as it can be, carried a psionic tone to it, which showed the wisdom and intelligence of someone who lived millennia. You didn’t hear that tone, but you felt it in your head. Almost as if the girl could look at the Florence and Coran—or anyone she’d talk to—and know every little detail about them, even the parts they themselves forgotten.

Ghaele can really do that.

Natasha doesn’t usually do it on purpose. But what just jumps from their brains to hers can be annoying, like Minsc’s ability to get a thought through his brain edgewise after all the concussions (sixty five at latest count) he had. Or the seventeen girlfriends Coran had before settling in with the Grand Inquisitor, which Natasha doubts Florence even knows about.

“It’s why I don’t usually hang out in public,” Natasha admits. “I try to cover my inner light so that it won’t enrapture everyone five miles—especially when I don’t want it to—but even with my control it sometimes slips out.”

(....)

“Very well, my dear, until then,” Coran said, taking Natasha’s hand and kissing it. He noted that the hand feels like it’s wearing a glove, even though it looks like a fine feminine hand with skin and fingernails, but he let it slide. “Maybe you can change into something more…feylike then.”

Natasha had to chuckle, especially when Florence was punching Coran’s shoulder. “I have a lot of masks in my collection, though you’ll know it’s me when I arrive in the scene.”

“Just like that bird on your head?” Florence said as she dragged Coran from his latest attempt of being a Don Juan.

That’s another problem Ghaeles get when they’re trying not to Ghaele: Their nature tends to attract little woodland creatures. Birds chirping around her; rabbits, squirrels, and the occasional fox scampering around her feet, flowers bloom at her presence, being able to brighten a room with just her smile; magical princess stuff that any girl in Faerun would sell their souls to have.

But when it happens when you don’t want it happening, it does get annoying.

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I was waiting to see how Elminster would look with the 4e game rules, so I could tell if magic users were basically crap or good at higher levels. So instead of spec'ing Elminster, all Wizars does is 'explain' why he's a now based on the craptastic magic-using system in 4e rules?

ive been playing D&D since the Expert days in the late 70's. this is by FAR the worst incarnation of the gaming system ever conceived and published.

wizards has managed to kill D&D for me any for many of my old-school gamers.

oh, and please spare me the 'then just dont play 4e and play the older versions that youre happy with' argument

Rest in Piece D&D, right along side Gary himself. Im sure he is rolling in his grave.

frajaq posted:

Isn't Elminster basically a very powerful wizard? Make him a level 30 Wizard with some unique spells/items then

Darwinism posted:

That spread is entirely because of the ridiculous books where Elminster starts out as a rebel fighting against the usurper of his crown, then becomes an urchin (and if the poo poo he does is level 2 Rogue stuff then drat), then becomes a transwoman priestess of Mystra to teach him a lesson (and he bangs Mystra right after she gives him his dick back IIRC), and then he learned that he's been fuckin really dumb up till now and goes full caster from then on


Why do I remember those dumb books

Ewen Cluney posted:

In the actual books the characters tend to be pretty badass at every point in the story, and Elric is practically a Japanese light novel character. If someone showed up to a typical grog's game wanting to play an albino sorcerer/warrior/prince with a soul-eating magic sword they'd get booted out as a "special snowflake."

alg posted:

In a world where slavery is rampant, guess what else is rampant. . .sexual slavery. Having mature themes, and gritty settings does a lot more to challenge your players than "it has Armor Class 25, and a Breath Weapon".

NiciasTSOF posted:

I've had this guy or his spiritual cousin in my party. Note the part where he implicitly assumes that the DM will gently caress over the entire party if his AC isn't as twinked as possible.

dwarf74 posted:

This one confuses me. On the one hand, great! A paladin can be gay and sexually active! On the other hand ... Something about this bugs the poo poo out of me.

FicusArt posted:

For me it's how men are never treated as attractive or desirable for the character. It's all about how having sex with men is the moral choice since women are out, or how it's the logical extreme of being cordial, and then he goes on to make a false binary choice of "I'm either naked in bed with a dude as a sign of respect and comraderie, OR we are fully armored and fighting to the death"

It's a calculated sexuality from beginning to end. "I need a hole for my dick, I have logically determined that men-holes are the correct choice" and not like "Dang dudes are hot. Just think of the close bonds a couple young men can have, out fighting for each other's lives. That's where real relationships start" or something like that.

How to become a Tarrasque posted:

Step 1: Make yourself a Clone, hide it somewhere safe.
Step 2: Endanger the Tarrasque so that it will use up it's thing that lets it CHOOSE to succeed on saving throws. I don't know how you'd do this, but do it
Step 3: Once the tarrasque has used those up use True Polymorph to change it into a Githyanki Warrior (or any humanoid with low charisma). He does a wisdom saving throw (tarrasque has 11 wisdom so +0) with advantage.
Step 4: Cast Magic jar and switch bodies with him. He does a Charisma saving throw. You will be a Githyanki Warrior for 1 hour, after which you turn back into the Tarrasque. Magic jar lasts until the jar is broken. So pad it in a box and cover it in cement and throw it in the ocean. If it ever does break, if you are at least 100 feet from the jar you and the tarrasque die. Luckily you have a clone waiting for your soul somewhere safe.
Now you are a tarrasque. You retain your personality and alignment. If you ever die, you go back to being you again. No downside really

Good start, but it needs to be GRIMDARKER posted:

I'm picturing a scene where, as the caster is beginning to shunt into the gith-tarrasque it begins to chuckle and then bursts into mad maniacal laughter. As the tarrasque's soul leaves its body the caster senses something is horribly wrong. The magic jar was suppose to contain the creature's soul...but...how...is....
The soul coils and shutters, reforming and twisting in a shower of inky darkness and shards of crystal where the receptacle once was. The earth cracks and burns. A tall thin man dressed in robes black as the void steps forth from the forming crater, a shark-toothed smile forming on his pale gaunt face.
It whispers in abysaal, but you can feel it deep within your mind as well, like the grinding of rusted metal. "Ahhhhh, finally liberated of my tiny cage. A pantheon fell to keep me locked away so I shall let you live, little fool, as a reward for freeing me. Farewell." With a flick of its claw it tears a hole in space, leaps through and is gone.

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Step 2: Hire a small army (50+, skilled hirelings are easily affordable) of mages. Cast a bunch of annoying save spells at it. Some will have to stick eventually. The Tarrasque should have no reason to NOT choose to succeed.
As long as your GM isn't a meta-gaming poopy face, they should have the Tarrasque use enough of it's legendary resistances that you have a shot with your tactic.

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hahahaha, love it. If anyone wants their campaign's tarrasque to be less force of nature more evil mastermind, this is the way to do it. :P

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It would be a great answer to "Hey...I thought it was just a godlike beast", then you explain this and your players realize the game can be very, very deep.

Kurieg posted:

Lunars can have animal-people children by mating with mortals. Which is kind of a thing, half-god people turning out wrong is thematic to all sorts of Mythologies.

But people took that to the logical extreme and came up with hypothetical situations where Lunars set up 10,000 year breeding programs with multiple sires to create hypothetically optimal animal-men. Also lots of furry sex.

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Kai Tave posted:

I'm just imagining a GM gradually getting increasingly frustrated as all his plans are repeatedly foiled by a jumping centaur and it's pretty great. Just this super-excited centaur bouncing all over the place while the GM gets red in the face, crumpling up yet another set of notes that took him hours to write, all because of that cursed +35 to Jump checks, you like centaurs huh, well I'LL SHOW YOU

gradenko_2000 posted:

Am I just being an elitist jerk or what because this just reads like another expression of nerds' crippling lack of social skills that they have to resort to baiting people to comment on RPG books.

Nessus posted:

I've read RPG books in public a bunch of times, especially when travelling. Basically nobody ever gave a gently caress. I think once it was a D&D book and someone recognized the cover. You are not shamefully revealing your stupid hateful hobby that you need to be embarrassed about, I think. (I mean, unless that makes the RPGs more fun in which case yes, sure, totally, everyone's snort-snickering up their sleeves. Shame on you, reading non-pornographic specialist literature in an airport terminal.)

Allen Wren posted:

What the gently caress does this even mean?

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Karl Rove posted:

Is there any purestrain grog regarding people who have played (or are playing ) World of Synnibarr? I know it's the byword for ridiculously bad Rifts-ripoff excess, but I own a copy and having read it, the WTFD&D?! article doesn't fully do it justice.