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quote:I like to run all sorts of different games and one of those types happens to be themed based. This could be anything from an all drow party to no spellcasters. This thread has spawned from the "saying no" thread and I would like to go into more detail about preserving the flavour of a theme based campaign when using restrictions. (WotC 5e forums. Basically cheating)
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quote:For those that just can't stand the default video game like healing rules for long rests, powers like Second Wind, and Hit Dice (healing surges), how will you fix these problems and do you think the DMG will have all the options you require? One concern I have is that monsters might hit a bit too hard because the game assumes that the party can rest once and regain all their hit points. With the game designed around the adventuring day in this manner, I think the game might require an adjustment to the clerics healing spells per day. Of course, I want magical healing to be a required aspect of the game and I don't mind the group's dependancy on a cleric. Basically, I'm just looking to play a traditional D&D game with 5e. I'm interested in reading your solutions to this problem.
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quote:It may be 'just a power fantasy' for some groups but rape has a much more varied history than that. It ties into the same reason it's as prevalent as it is in Game of Thrones and ASoIaF. D&D started as a medieval combat simulation game. GoT is largely modeled after the same period. Fact is, rape was a common, every day occurrence back then. The idea that rape is not acceptable by society at large is actually fairly modern idea. So, to depict that era in any kind of length of story involving many figures from all castes of society almost necessitates covering the topic because it was so prevalent.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 02:05 |
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John Tarnowski posted:On Outrage-Fatigue and The "High Road" More people should email Mearls and tell them that Pundit and co. are putting a bad name on his pet project by making GBS threads all over the place, but at Mearls listening to anyone.
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This. The whole world is a puzzle, and you have a diverse array of tools governed by strict rules with which to solve it. I find the D&D Wizard to generally be very rewarding of creative play and thinking ahead, both of which I enjoy. The phrase Batman Wizard was coined for a reason--and as someone who loves Batman, particularly in his Grant Morrison Justice League incarnation where he's always one step ahead and always has the perfect tool for a situation, I enjoy that aspect a lot. I also enjoy the "bookworm nerd becomes living god by virtue of being smarter and knowing more than anyone else" flavor. D&D wizardry takes "knowledge is power" absolutely literally in a way that I find viscerally appealing. -- quote:The problem with D&D's spell system is that spellcasters don't actually play the game, unless they're rolling damage. Spells just work. There's no attack roll or skill roll, they just happen and everyone has to deal with the consequences on their own. People accuse 4e Powers of just laying down cards, but when you use a power in 4e, you have to roll to attack (or make a skill roll), but in other editions, all you have to do is drop a card onto a table and, if you dropped a Fireball or something, roll some damage. That's it. Everyone else has to roll to do something, to attempt to try at something, that's how interacting with the game in D&D, for better or worse, works. Spellcasters don't have to do that. It's why people make such a big deal about Knock despite it not really being that great a spell, or even that good at stepping on the Rogue's toes. Knock does the Rogue's job without a skill roll. It's not exactly better than getting a Rogue to unlock the door, for example the 5e version makes a lot of noise, but it's indicative of the issues at play: spellcasters don't have to interact with the game like everyone else. Magic gets to cheat. This isn't a "problem", its a huge part of the fun and appeal of playing a wizard. My least favorite attempts at modelling magic in games are those like GURPS, which treat magic as just another type of skill, operating off the same basic mechanics that you would use to ride a horse or swing a sword. I want my magic to feel fundamentally different, silo'd from the other mechanics in the system, with fundamentally different resolution mechanics. Magic that "gets to cheat" is the only type of magic I find satisfying. The closer Magic feels to the other elements of a system, the less magical, fun and special it feels. One of my least favorite aspects of 4e was that it essentially collapsed this mechanical silo that in prior editons set magic apart as its own thing. For example, there's no such thing as an anti-magic shell in 4e, because magic isn't clearly delineated as something separate from other components in the system. If I wanted to interact with the world using the same sort of mechanics as mundane classes, I wouldn't play a wizard. -- (Note: the only thing here not posted by a single person.) I couldn't agree with you more. To me, the whole point of playing a caster is that they're "outside"/beyond what other non-caster classes can do. -- I don't care too much about Vancian magic, or if they use Final Fantasy-esque MP, or whatever. I don't particularly care if they use rote spells from a book or cast spontaneously based on whatever effect they want to achieve. To me, the important thing is, casters don't just do what other classes can't; they do what other classes can't even BEGIN to do. -- I've never found Bards to be that satisfying as the living incarnations of "knowledge is power." Bard might come up with bits of useful lore, but Wizards directly turn high int scores and lots of specialized knowledge into godlike power. Its the difference between reading a book and learning something useful that lets you defeat your enemy, and reading a book and learning something that lets you wipe your enemy out of existence by snapping your fingers. To me, the latter much more satisfyingly conveys the idea that intelligence and knowledge translate to being a superior being. -- Except that power is fundamentally connected to knowledge. What are spells? Specific bits of knowledge you memorize. How do you get access to them? By being really smart, and reading them in books. Basically it suggests that if you have a high IQ and read the right books, you become god. Kinda like this video http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c61f805aa7/reading-rainbow-s-new-theme-song-with-levar-burton "Because I read a book, I can literally do anything..." sounds like a Wizard to me. -- I'm not complaining at all. I'm just stating that D&D is and has always been a game where magic is special, and one's ability to do special stuff is primarily governed by one's ability to access magic, either as a class feature via spells, or by finding the right items. Frankly, I prefer it that way. -- All of D&D is absurd. The idea that punching enough goblins means you can walk through lava without dying is bonkers, but its also pretty fundamental to D&D. So is the Wizard's "high IQ and reading the right books have given me phenomenal cosmic power" schtick, and personally I'm a fan of it. It really sells the idea that being sufficiently smart (not in a "hey guys here's this cool bit of lore I know" way, more in a Mensa "hey here's this number on a sheet that says objectively how much smarter I am than you" way) and focusing on learning the right things makes you flat out superior to most of the world. -- I never thought I'd see such a perfect "And they'll regret stuffing me into all those lockers" as I see right here.
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# ? Aug 9, 2014 00:28 |
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hi grognards.txt its been a while but i just wanted to pop by and say http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/paizo-publishing-sends-heart-warming-response-to-transgender-fan.93192/ literally burn this hobby to the ground and kill everyone who ever touched an elfgame kthx
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 07:17 |
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quote:#rpgaday The actual prompt was "Most Old School RPG You Own". quote:Note to creatives: I'm not saying to stop what you're doing. I am saying that you're not doing anything new, you're not doing it any better, and somehow you're getting more accolades than all of the awesome people that created this combined. That's the magic of the internet, not evidence of grandeur. Be humble. Your betters were. Behold, an actual "nothing has ever been better than OD&D" in the wild.
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from insanityv2's RPG Codex Linkquote:What the gently caress? I know many folks into RPGs are messed up in the head/emotionally, but they don't need to shove this poo poo down our throats. Maybe they have access to market research I don't, but to me it seems whatever gain in sales they might get from catering to the LGBTQ crowd could be outdone by disgusted people dropping the line. WIth so many alternatives out there, as well as piracy of pdfs, the market is very volatile. The scariest thing is that while WOTC does seem to care mainly about business and sales, I get the sneaking feeling Paizo actually gives a poo poo about this. They aren't just doing it for a sales boost, they really believe in this crap. quote:I dunno, I think this is pretty cute and heartwarming, and the guy (girl?) is a hottie on their picture. quote:
But, Hark! an Antigrog! Jonathan Wojcik posted:I actually had to sign up to this board JUST to say how loving appalled I am at the ignorant, narrow-minded rhetoric in this thread.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 19:07 |
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quote:Jonathan Wojcik, if you are the same guy, I've really enjoyed your articles and I hope you stick around on the Codex. I really don't think the Codex has a higher proportion of transphobes than the general population - but because we have considerably more freedom of speech than other sites, the users who are transphobic don't have to hide it. If you had access to General Discussion, you'd see that a tranny porn/appreciation thread is sticky'd there.
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nah it's even worse, it's like "I don't think we're misogynists, look - there's a bunch of loving whores in a porn thread here." E: gently caress, need to pay the tax, does this count? Re: YOU make the perfect RPG, what dice mechanic/system would you use? posted:For attributes, roll 3d6 in order 6 times. Tollymain fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Aug 10, 2014 |
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RPGCodex seems to be for CRPGs what The RPGSite is for TRPGS. It's a place for people who've been bannably bad jerks on other sites to whinge about "my freedom of speech!" and the like.No really posted:The Codex is a place to debate and discuss computer-based roleplaying games. It was founded by a group of RPG fans who wanted somewhere to discuss how terrible RPGs were without getting banned on various developers' official forums or having their posts deleted (it turns out if you call a game's combat system crap on the developer's official forums, they don't like you very much). As such, the Codex is quite happy for people to come here and vigourously debate - until they run out of breath - how good or bad their favourite / least favourite RPG is. Codexians should feel free to do so without fear of being banned for using "offensive language", having their thread locked because it "got too heated" or warned for "flaming". By all means, feel free to troll each other as much as you please and incite flame-wars with whichever willing participants you are able to find. --Tax-- Folks who lurk/post on GiantITP, how quickly can you identify this grog? quote:
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 20:57 |
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I remember when i used to play in a group and well there was That Guy in our group i hated and the only reason i stayed with the group was because i had fun when he wasn`t being a grognard. (All this is when our group was trying 4E D&D) The signs he was hosed up in the head came slowly at first, like knowing i was in range and still doing a whirlwind attack, then he willingly went into a pit of blood that was affected by dark magic, his character ended up turning into a Yuan-ti Hunter that was 8 levels higher than us and the rest of the team was killed and i was baraly able to stop this nonsense that ended up allowing the villain to escape. Weeks later is when he went full grognard on us, we were visiting a village when he decided to poison the one well in the village, kill people including children in horryfing ways, burn down the village and using his magic spells to cause abortions and here's the reason he gave us for all of this crazy poo poo: In his backstory his character had impregnated a woman in this village and he did felt like being a father and wanted to erase every trace of where he and i quote "was "Blackmailed" into having sex with a woman". I left along with some the other players after we this, I could stand to be in the same room as this guy and my DM anymore.
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NGDBSS posted:RPGCodex seems to be for CRPGs what The RPGSite is for TRPGS. It's a place for people who've been bannably bad jerks on other sites to whinge about "my freedom of speech!" and the like. The Brodex is a place for idiots to spout memes about "decline" and "incline" at each other, while posting emotes of a fist. And much like "We actually hate the Pundit and are only on his board to give him poo poo", there's a contingent of people who claim to be just loving around. They're not REALLY angered by other people wanting representation in the realm of RPGs, they're just going along with the frat house, faux right wing philosopher tone of the board! Honest, guys! ~*tax*~ quote:5 years of 4E d&d, 0 character deaths Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Aug 10, 2014 |
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Chaltab posted:(Is Wojcik and industry professional or something? The name sounds vaguely familiar.) Wojcik is Bogleech. He runs a website on various creepy things (he's a huge fan of bugs, as well as toy monsters and the like). He used to write articles on Cracked back in the day. Grog tax! Someone in the thread tries to defend RPGCodex to Bogleech. quote:Jonathan Wojcik, if you are the same guy, I've really enjoyed your articles and I hope you stick around on the Codex. I really don't think the Codex has a higher proportion of transphobes than the general population - but because we have considerably more freedom of speech than other sites, the users who are transphobic don't have to hide it. If you had access to General Discussion, you'd see that a tranny porn/appreciation thread is sticky'd there. A tranny porn/appreciation thread. That makes everything all better. EDIT: Missed that dwarf had posted the same bit, so new grog for the grog god! Same thread. quote:
They sure showed him! JackMann fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Aug 10, 2014 |
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quote:This view of game design is why our shelves contain so many narrow, patronizing games. Any generic table top roleplaying game having a 'classic' structure (DM and group of players) should empower the DM to control the content, feel, grittiness, etc. of his or her setting. Whether a goblin is dangerous and an ogre not is irrelevant; there is an infinite number and diversity of creatures, NPC's, traps, diseases, etc. and the DM should sort out what mix of them is present in his or her world in whatever way suits his or her vision. The notion that the game designer would make these decisions for you in advance, serving up to you a recipe for a specific vision of your game world, is only loosely acceptable for licensed settings where there is some sense of responsibility to reproduce something familiar, but in generic games like D&D is always vile.
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RPGnet's Lars Dangly, showcasing his mastery of the rhetorical arts in a 5E discussion thread:quote:I can't figure out how to assemble quotations from a dozen posts, so I'll just summarize: all objections to my earlier post are totally and obviously wrong.
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Dark Lolimon Card (Cn) Aura moderate transmutation CL 10th Slot none Price 2,500 gp (DC 21) Weight negligible This collectable game card depicts a little loli girl dressed in a costume that is supposed to make her look fearsome, but only accentuates her butt. The Japanese text gives in-game stats for fearsome horrors like werewolves, dragons and demons, but their roles are played by petite seductresses in fantasy cosplay. If the Dark Lolimon Card is torn and tossed in the general direction of a creature, that creature is affected by baleful polymorph. On a failed save, the creature becomes a Small Humanoid with 1 HD and 9s in all ability scores and no special talents or abilities. The creature speaks one language spoken by the person who tore the card and shares his or her alignment. Her skimpy clothing resembles her previous form in some manner. Construction Requirements Scribe Scroll, baleful polymorph Dying Girl Panties Aura moderate transmutation CL 5th Slot belt Price 18,500 gp (DC 28) Weight negligible These bruise-purple silken panties have a little grey skull decoration on the gusset, and the English motto “Die a little death with me” printed repeated along the waistband. Goryohime often hand stitch these panties as a gift for young girls who have experienced the noose dream- giving them a chance to experience existence as a Goryohime undead temporarily before committing to the noose forever. Upon command or at need, up to three times per day, the wearer may call upon the panty’s magic to be transformed via undead anatomy I. While in this form, she becomes immune to suffocation, death effects and the sickened and nauseated conditions and gains lowlight vision. This form may be maintained for up to three minutes per activation. The Dying Girl Panties will always transform the wearer if daily uses remain when she is targeted by a death effect or begins to suffocate. Construction Requirements Craft Wondrous Items, undead anatomy I, creator must be a Goryohime Cost 9,250 gp (DC 25)
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pming;6357403 posted:Hiya.
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Are these people serious? Her armor has nipples. She's not wearing pants. e: to make up for my serious lack of content in this post, I offer this racist dribble from the forge: quote:Sounds to me that if you offend everyone equally, it could be okay. So not only do you have offensive native American stereotypes, you have offensive Chinese and Jewish stereotypes! Everyone wins, right? Oh, and notice how his first thought for "offensive Jewish stereotype" is magical shyster. SymmetryrtemmyS fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Aug 13, 2014 |
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:Are these people serious? Her armor has nipples. She's not wearing pants. Still better than half of elfgame art because at least her chest is covered and her spine isn't impossibly twisted. Magic grog! quote:Getting rid of mana burn was one of the most idiotic changes to the game, though it's also one of the fairly few really idiotic changes to the game. The real purpose of mana burn--drat that silly "memory" garbage from Garfield--is to punish the player for making boneheaded mistakes or for simple excess. [...] It is far more likely the removal was done solely because whoever responsible probably kept losing to it. "The only reason this rule was removed was because someone high up was butthurt." quote:All rules in this game exist to force people to remember them. The day you forget that is the day you stop playing Magic. The day you hate that is the day you should stop playing Magic. There is a reason why we have a very large comprehensive document of rules, and that reason is not "complexity". "Magic has a lot of rules, so Magic should have even more rules. Don't like it? Quit. "
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 00:14 |
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Someone has decided to respond to RPGnet's decade-old review of FATALquote:I rather wish they would reprint FATAL. They really need to simplify character creation, though. I'm all for crunch or whatever, but spending literally an hour and a half generating a character isn't fun.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 14:51 |
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The issues you raised about a struggle for personal identity through role playing are important and interesting, but compeltely different than counting the faces of a self-selected group of people who show up for an event that anyone can attend by paying a fee. If you go to GenCon, then by definition it's not all white anymore. If you create a game then gaming creators aren't all white anymore. Complaining about it isn't going to change that any faster. I suppose you could encourage friends of various races or ethnicities (or genders!) to show up with you, but you probably have white friends too, so don't invite them and then you can get the numbers up. Why would anyone really care about the makeup of the larger community? Gaming is usually something you do with small groups of friends or people with common interests, so the demographics of people you game with is your own choice to make (if you care at all). I played RPGs and PC games for decades and never once attended a gaming convention. I'm more interested in the people I play with regularly than some sort of organized larger group.
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) Not "making room for" minorities is not evident in an entire industries lack of interest in doing what the author believes will attract minorities. 2) A small percentage of white people are interested in tabletop RPGs. Black people are %12 of the American population.If the same interest were present in Black America, you're still looking at a comparitavely small number. 3) Cultural differences- particularly Black Americas enactment of masculinty- might reduce the amount of interest in nerdery even more.Like a previous commenter noted, there seems to be no shortage of Asians intersted in gaming. 4) Transparent attempts at appealing to minorities often come off as contrived.Are we just talking about asking artists to use lighter browns in favor of peachy hues? Or are we talking about adapting gameplay to a significantly different vision of the world? One is arbitrary, the other seemingly impossible. 5) It's a kind of oppressive ideological impulse to hold one culture in contempt for simply enacting or manifesting their culture in an organic way. In other words, why should white nerds be seen as martinalizers for simply creating & playing the games they want to? What could they do otherwise? 6) Gaming is for everybody who wants to game. The mechanics of games are not culture-coded.It's a set of logic propositions to do with risk/reward scenarios. Everything after that is up to the imagination.While some might be done to let those who don't know about it find out, the idea that creators changing how they create, or gamers how they game, is going to "make room" for someone who isnt in the room with them is silly. If you have an imagination and can understand the rules, you can play. Using ones imagination freely is the point.If we want that for people who are darker than us , the only thing we can do is practice it ourselves.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 20:34 |
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Could not disagree with this more. I am an educated white male of 42 years for the record. I have a bachelors degree in history from Roosevelt University in Chicago Il. (a very socially liberal University) I will not make the "color-blind" arguement. I will not say "some of my best friends are black". I understand what institutionalized racism is, and its insidious effects on people and society. I understand that minorities in general are under-represented in the RPG and gaming community as a whole. At the risk of being dissmissive and apathetic, racism, institutionalized or direct, is NOT an issue in the gaming community. Or at least not nearly the issue it is in society, specifically American society, at large. I have often made an observation to my friends as to the seeming lack of Hispanic attendees to gaming conventions. Is this because of racism? or is it simply a cultural bias against, or unawareness of, these kinds of entertainment? How on earth can you see Gen Con as an unwelcoming place? As a 25 year attendee I have seen all kinds of people and gamers, and only once, in all that time have I ever witnessed an act of overt racism. Even that act was not really so overt as I dont think either person involved was really aware how racist they were being. To claim that GenCon subtley promotes some kind of institutionalized racsim is also ridiculous. The very fact that this kind of convention exists, and indeed thrives, is because it is intrisically INCLUSIVE, NOT EXCLUSIVE. Everyone is welcome, black white hispanic ork or elf, it matters not. If you feel uncomfortable going to GenCon due to the color of your skin, then that is an issue of yours, not the gaming comunity.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 20:35 |
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When I go to Basketball games I feel I'm not adequately represented. I think Basketball teams should be forced to look like America - the races of the various players should be restricted to the percentages of the various ethnic groups currently making up the citzenry of America. Two can play at this outrageous game. No one is stopping anyone from playing or creating Roleplaying Games. If you don't like what you see out there. If you don't like being around or socializing with "WHITE PEOPLE" then make your own drat RPG and play with whomever you desire. But don't call white RPG fans racist just because they were minding their own drat business playing games they enjoy.
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# ? Aug 13, 2014 20:35 |
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I have some 3.5 stuff, and tried Pathfinder, but... with those two it almost seemed like you had to have a Feat to take a leak, and that needed to be rolled for. Most of what Feats do are pretty much covered in role-play with the previous editions. And, 3.5/ Pathfinder are given to power creep. As for 4th... I've watched a few games, and tried a session. Couldn't stand it.Too much instant gratification, no gamer left behind type stuff.
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# ? Aug 14, 2014 02:46 |
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This. Racism indeed. As a caucasion white male I absolutely should not be allowed to enjoy *my* cultural heritage, the stories of *my* ancestors, of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, the Sorceress Morgaine le Fay and all the sword and sorcery outgrowths of that. No, I have to be not 'colour(culture) blind', but be colour/culture-sighted and put all other colours and cultures ahead of mine even when celebrating my own culture. Because otherwise its me who is racist!
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Mormon Star Wars posted:This. Somebody should ask this guy if all the knights of the round table were white. Then tell him about the black one and the werewolf. Edit: Tax quote:Tabletop roleplaying games are like Star Trek's Holodeck, a virtual reality handled with pen, paper, dice, and your imagination. Instead of a computer, a person, called the Dungeon Master, runs things. You will be playing a character and acting as if you are a hero in a fantastic situation. Error 404 fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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By some counts there were about 3 black knights of the round table (Because Palomides' two brothers were both members) and at least one other who wasn't part of the round table but was part of the arthurian cycle! ...Which means the Round table has more black men in its membership both as a percentage and absolutely than the US senate. Tax: quote:I'm not going to bring gender into this in any way. In my games, regardless of gender, life experiences, whatever, people have a clear forewarning that I run games (regardless of system) where things CAN happen. We don't sit around and push it to the limit every session - that's immature and takes away from the impact of those events. It's just a sandbox where things CAN happen. You KNOW for a FACT that you are not "protected" by your own comfort zone, that your character may experience things that make you uncomfortable, and that the bar is set somewhere in the sky and is never going to be lowered. A gaming session might be fairly inoffensive, or it might be pretty dark. It all depends on character actions, consequences, and so forth.
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Regarding a possible Let's Read of FATALquote:I read through it and didn't see any rape jokes. The book is written in a very dry clinical tone for the most part, which makes it boring in addition to a bad system. A few well timed rape jokes would have been an improvement. grognards.txt - A few well timed rape jokes would have been an improvement
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FMguru posted:Someone has decided to respond to RPGnet's decade-old review of FATAL Someone needs to tell this kind of moron about the existence of games such as Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Riddle of Steel or the recent clone/revision/whatever Blade of the Iron Throne (which has obnoxious nudity in the marginalia art like Conan d20 but at least isn't loving FATAL) Mormon Star Wars posted:This. Oh yes, please tell me how people constantly give you poo poo for being interested in one of the lynchpins of Western literature that has actual scholars who devote their lives to studying it. Error 404 posted:Somebody should ask this guy if all the knights of the round table were white. Then tell him about the black one and the werewolf. Yeah, I know, right? Jesus. Actual medieval Europe was more inclusive than the fantasy world these dipshits live in. ~*grog tax*~ quote:I didn't mention this in my initial comments about the PHB, but it is worth pointing out that I noticed it right away. There were definitely multiple passes done on the artwork choices for this book to ensure it was ultra politically correct.
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# ? Aug 15, 2014 12:05 |
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Lightning Lord posted:Given that RPGs are a primarily male hobby, and will remain a primarily male hobby, I don't understand their choices. I've been seeing this kind of bullshit a lot in the past few weeks. "I don't see the problem." or "I don't understand." and when people explain it to them "That can't be right." or "That doesn't match my definition of..." or something equally flimsy. I get that turning over stones can reveal some nasty poo poo, and maybe even reveal that you are/were complicit in that nasty poo poo, and there's a strong temptation to deny or ignore any problems - but pointing at the poo poo and going 'That is not poo poo! It is gold!' and smearing it all over yourself is the wrong response. ~tax~ I think you could argue about the origins and problematic nature of orcs and drow - and such a discussion is present in that very thread! - but, again, this is the wrong response. But there's icing on this cake!
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# ? Aug 15, 2014 12:34 |
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jedipotter is a font of terrible opinions about elfgames. How do you handle a disruptive player? Talk to them outside the game? Nah. jedipotter posted:I don't like talking to people out side the game. I feel that if they act badly, they are too far gone to even bother talking too.
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# ? Aug 15, 2014 21:27 |
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This Magic grog is upset about having to see minorities on his precious cardboard.quote:What about other instances of political correctness in this game? For example, in grizzled outcasts, one man in the artwork appears to be of African descent, and the woman appears to be of Asian descent, making them out of place in Innistrad, which is modeled after Victorian England and other parts of Europe during that time period. I can understand WotC's desire to be more inclusive, but I believe that accuracy should take precedence over that.
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# ? Aug 16, 2014 04:04 |
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Winson_Paine posted:- Must post grog. This is the big one. Your post can certainly comment on some funny grog, but the last thread was overwhelmed with low effort slackers riding the jocks of the real grogposters. Don't post grog, something bad will happen to you. Commentary on previous posts is fine, or discussing grog, but you gotta bring a pie to the buffet if you do. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Somebody fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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David Hill is offering free stuff to anyone who ditches GenCon to help in Ferguson and is selling his books so he can donate all proceeds to the ACLU. Clearly, this is just a cynical ploy by the OUTRAGE BRIGADE!!!!
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GorfZaplen posted:David Hill is offering free stuff to anyone who ditches GenCon to help in Ferguson and is selling his books so he can donate all proceeds to the ACLU. Ahahahahahahaha! Tax is related: https://twitter.com/gmskarka/status/499944074292764672 Error 404 fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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John Tarnowski posted:If You Were At Gencon Right Now You Might See... Victory. I've seen some tacky poo poo in my time but holy poo poo this takes the cake.
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Well, since the MUD thread lives in TG now... The bestworst of MU* players. quote:****'s lusts have pushed hir far beyond hir limits, each being sie unbirths now adding to an immense battery of energy that has changed the dragoncat, forcing hir to evolve to survive the massive energies of hir guests. Sie has been pushed even further now, thanks to the relentless input of energies from beings like **** and ****, pushing hir evolution further and futher. Hir womb now pulses with immense energies that sie is only beginning to control. But with those energies comes the hunger for more.
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# ? Aug 16, 2014 10:10 |