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Azran posted:At the same time, isn't Pathfinder the game where pretty much every classic monster (ogres, orcs, etc) reproduce through rape first and foremost? Not every one, only a few come to mind. Although that was in their earlier works, and when people pointed out various problems through the years Paizo took a different direction on things in later works.
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 01:08 |
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Libertad! posted:Not every one, only a few come to mind. Although that was in their earlier works, and when people pointed out various problems through the years Paizo took a different direction on things in later works. Except for This thing. It's pretty recent.
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 01:18 |
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Oh, that's nice to hear actually. Anyways, grog chat. On a topic named "My attributes... too many?" posted:14? Probably a few too many for practical reasons. Though my current game i'm working on has over a hundred, but I stopped checking. Only about 3-6 matter at any given time or character and many just overlap.
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 01:18 |
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Pulsedragon posted:Except for This thing. It's pretty recent. Yeah, if I had to name a problem with Paizo in terms of sexism, I'd probably identify their issues with Sexy Lady Rape Monsters. Even back into Dungeon rereads, you get a ton of really unnecessary succubi, which only get more terrible when they have to bear plot weight. The fifth module in Rise of the Runelords is hosed straight up by its succubus content, and when I read that the second module in Shattered Star revolved around loving succubi, I kind of just stopped buying Adventure Paths. This is probably not the biggest social-justice problem with Paizo -- that honor still goes to their reliance on really awful racial stereotypes for a "pulp" feel, so the pseudo-Africans speak "pidgin" and one of the major in-game ethnic groups are whimsical magical gypsy criminals -- but it's definitely an issue. I enjoy PF reasonably well for when I want crunchy dungeon-bashing, but a lot of Paizo's output is a goddamn embarrassment.
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 01:28 |
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Grognards.TXT: Neo-Stalinist Groupthink Also, noted cargo cult pseudo-designer and plagiarist RPGPundit continues to be almost as funny on G+ as he is on his own blog/forums.
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 03:33 |
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Error 404 posted:Grognards.TXT: Neo-Stalinist Groupthink Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Like when he tells Desborough to gently caress off with his poo poo. Pundowski posted:for gently caress's sake stop trying to make my threads about your causes. They aren't my causes, they're not the point of what I'm talking about, and all you do is feed ammunition to the assholes to they can conveniently ignore my point and focus on the desborough-sideshow. Jimmy-Dead the Sausage King posted:Sorry, but you see nonsense like the above and it needs stamping on. Like it or not this is your cause as well as part of a wider culture war. Whether you recognise it or not. Pundowski posted:I know about the culture war. I also know that MRAs don't represent me, neither do the extreme elements of GG. Your absolute failure to self-criticize is a serious but far from unique problem. Your inability to call out the bad poo poo people do in GG or MRA's name is exactly the same as self-styled 'activists' failure to condemn their own side for pulling poo poo like censorship or making up outright lies about you (or me). Of course, he still takes time in his mini-rants to rail against THE PSUEDO-ACTIVISTS but it's kind of funny how even Desborough is running out of other toxic elements to hang out with.
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 04:12 |
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Slimnoid posted:Of course, he still takes time in his mini-rants to rail against THE PSUEDO-ACTIVISTS but it's kind of funny how even Desborough is running out of other toxic elements to hang out with.
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 04:48 |
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FMguru posted:Desborough can always count on his big big patreon earnings. drat, that's gone up since last time I checked. Used to be eight dollars.
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SunAndSpring posted:I like that the Wikipedia page for the guy who made Glorantha (which is a great setting) has this as its first sentence: He's actually super famous for that outside of RPG circles - IIRC, he was the editor of "Shaman's Drum" for a long time. I actually have an academic book on the history of how the pop culture understanding of shamanism was created ("The Beauty of the Primitive" by Andrei Znamenski, a Russian historian who specialized in Siberian history and comparative religion) and he references Stafford towards the end of the book. I was like, "Wait a sec - that's an RPG person!"
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Mormon Star Wars posted:He's actually super famous for that outside of RPG circles - IIRC, he was the editor of "Shaman's Drum" for a long time. I actually have an academic book on the history of how the pop culture understanding of shamanism was created ("The Beauty of the Primitive" by Andrei Znamenski, a Russian historian who specialized in Siberian history and comparative religion) and he references Stafford towards the end of the book. Jack Chick was right all along!
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 08:33 |
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Nothing worth quoting directly, but now Des is finding people laughing at his Twitter fight with a bot, and then tweeting at them "Cool story bro" with a screenshot of him when he figured it out.
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Plague of Hats posted:Nothing worth quoting directly, but now Des is finding people laughing at his Twitter fight with a bot, and then tweeting at them "Cool story bro" with a screenshot of him when he figured it out. Coming from a GGer that's pretty hilarious, considering how unbelievably repetitive GG is.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 00:02 |
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Guilty Spork posted:His response was basically "Well if a bot can convincingly imitate anti-GG then clearly THEY'RE the stupid ones! " We need a .gif of Alan Turing shaking his head sadly and turning to walk away.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 00:19 |
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quote:It's worth noting that there are some other parts of Steve's post that seem disingenuous. For example, his comparison to "satirizes police killings of minorities" is suspiciously similar to a a similar statement from Evil Hat's Fred Hicks, where he <a href="https://archive.org/download/fredhickstweetfergusonobs/fredhickstweetfergusonobs.JPG">compared</a> the GamerGate card game to the events in Ferguson directly.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 07:51 |
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quote:No the card game is about people arguing over the internet. The only unbiased thing about the Gamergate Card game is that James made gamergate the good guy and the anti-gamergate the bad guy. Beyond that both sides are made fun of.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 08:39 |
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 08:52 |
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quote:the 4X game Fallen Enchantress Fallen Enchantress suuuuuuucked and Stardock's CEO could be grognards.txt superstar all his own, so good.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 08:57 |
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I leave this without comment. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DriveThruRPG/posts/RjNqnw6yn8q
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 16:54 |
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The only unbiased thing is the bias! God Bless This Mess.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 17:25 |
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quote:Recently I downloaded the pathfinder masterwork tools app to look for content to adapt into 5e. I noticed that several systems are very similar. The level number, the archetype system, the skill system, these are all very similar. Did wotc rip paizo off? Are these systems done better in 5e?
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 17:38 |
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Slimnoid posted:I leave this without comment. quote:Note too that this is a card game, not a roleplaying game. Some may feel that if we were to ban an RPG from our marketplaces, that action would levy a significant economic penalty on that title since we have a long reach in the overall RPG market. This is not true of card games, where OneBookShelf is currently a tiny corner of the card game market. Our not carrying a card game should have minimal impact on that card game’s economic viability...
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:21 |
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gradenko_2000, have a source for that? The dramatic irony there is wonderful.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:27 |
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http://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/2p351o/similar_to_pathfinder/ There you go. In fairness he's not really a grog, probably just a new player that isn't familiar with the history.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:32 |
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Halloween Jack posted:I will comment to point out that grognards tend to be laissez-faire South Park Republicans until it negatively affects them in the slightest way, at which point, business owners having control over their own business becomes censorship. Will you be surprised to learn that it's a stirring cry to battle, to fight at the barricades against the dawning of a new intellectual dark ages, and the very soul of civilization itself? gradenko_2000 posted:There you go. In fairness he's not really a grog, probably just a new player that isn't familiar with the history.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 18:56 |
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FMguru posted:Grimace has responded: http://www.donotlink.com/framed?600633 donotlink posted:Most people think this page is nonsense
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:17 |
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NGDBSS posted:I wonder how much longer he can stay solvent in the business while alienating more and more people in the name of his own self-serving "outrage". Ask Gareth Skarka.
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Halloween Jack posted:I will comment to point out that grognards tend to be laissez-faire South Park Republicans until it negatively affects them in the slightest way, at which point, business owners having control over their own business becomes censorship. ...So they're South Park Republicans?
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:26 |
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ProfessorCirno posted:...So they're South Park Republicans? Libertarians that pay lip service to social causes.
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Error 404 posted:Libertarians that pay lip service to social causes. No no, I'm saying, "pledging yourself incessantly to the free market right up until the market decides against your favor and then demanding the government force business owners to do what you want" is basically a clear description of most South Park Republicans.
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ProfessorCirno posted:No no, I'm saying, "pledging yourself incessantly to the free market right up until the market decides against your favor and then demanding the government force business owners to do what you want" is basically a clear description of most South Park Republicans. Oh!, Yeah, my bad.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 19:55 |
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Error 404 posted:Ask Gareth Skarka. Or Pundowski
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 20:49 |
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And the saga of people who need psychiatric care or are probably under some sort of psychiatric care continuesquote:http://i.imgur.com/vz481VT.jpg From Dakka. To be fair though that is a pretty decent conversion and would look aweosme if it just didn't have a goddamn tail.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 21:38 |
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Slimnoid posted:I leave this without comment.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 22:50 |
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Pundowski posted:So I'm really looking forward to all of you people who say "this was a card game, not an rpg" and "there is no plan to engage in blacklisting" to stand behind me in five or six months when one of Zak Smith or James Raggi (or my own) products is attacked through pressure to get OBS to ban it, and not to be proving that all the stuff you're saying right now is just so much loving hypocritical bullshit (like how much all of you suddenly love the Free Market and the rights of Business Owners, an affection I've never seen any of you professing earlier and which I suspect will vanish into dust again the moment its not opportunistically useful for you anymore). The part in parenthesis is pure
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 23:22 |
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What does he even care what "all we people" say about him in the first place, geez. You say crazy poo poo on the internet, someone's going to point out that it's crazy. As funny as this is I wonder if the paywall on TradGames should go back up for Pundowski's ease of mind.Slimnoid posted:The part in parenthesis is pure
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 23:39 |
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Chaltab posted:What does he even care what "all we people" say about him in the first place, geez. You say crazy poo poo on the internet, someone's going to point out that it's crazy. As funny as this is I wonder if the paywall on TradGames should go back up for Pundowski's ease of mind. I think it's more the fact that most grogs (don't know if Pudowiski is one) are libertarian to some degree and, as such, believe a completely unregulated market is best market.
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# ? Dec 12, 2014 23:44 |
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FMguru posted:Grimace has responded: http://www.donotlink.com/framed?600633 And then he can't help but reference the bot thing at the end. I'm sure everyone will laugh with you at some point, Des. Keep loving that chicken.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 01:09 |
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The best part of the outrage at DriveThru is that you know none of these people screaming about fascism are going to actually stop using the site. It's like how the one line that GamerGaters refuse to cross is the one where they have to stop consuming video games.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 02:16 |
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Antivehicular posted:The best part of the outrage at DriveThru is that you know none of these people screaming about fascism are going to actually stop using the site. It's like how the one line that GamerGaters refuse to cross is the one where they have to stop consuming video games. Don't you mean the Anti-GGers?
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Xelkelvos posted:Don't you mean the Anti-GGers? Don't start this.
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