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Kurieg posted:Tenchi Muyo That'd be more of a system issue rather than anything a single move could/should solve. The thing is that AW assumes it's always between two people and so the moves are usually worded that way, which makes figuring out what happens in a situation like the Spectacle's a bit weird. It wouldn't take a genius to work out a method to fix it - hell, prioritise PCs over NPCs, pick who you have the highest Hx with. Battlebabe cancels moves aimed at her and not others. I think that'd work fine in most situations. I'm annoyed by how shallow and clumsy this move is, not the idea of multiple partners in AW.
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inklesspen posted:Tenchi Muyo, the show with a million remakes/spinoffs. It's a pretty goddamn great idea that should show up more in fantasy sci-fi settings.
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 17:00 |
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Kurieg posted:Now I'm not the most educated in Apocalypse World, but wouldn't having a sex move that just allows other players sex moves to function in a multi-partner situation be just fine by itself? I mean sure you have to avoid the battle babe but it's narratively concise and doesn't require a roll.
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 17:04 |
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inklesspen posted:If I ran Tenchi Muyo, it would just be psychic tree space opera. I like that idea. Also the idea that spaceships can transform into humanoid-scale things (Ryo-Oki I think?) seems like a good fit for space murderhobos. Now you don't have to steal your spaceship back at the end of each session.
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Halloween Jack posted:Considering that the Battlebabe is the cool sexy badass who seizes protagonism by their very nature, the idea of the No-Battlebabes-Allowed Post-Apoc Sex Club is kinda funny. I spent about an hour this morning thinking "wow, gladiator and battlebabe are real departures from teenage monsters, I wonder how this skin book even went over" before realizing that it's just a different -world game. I haven't read any of them so they bleed together real easy.
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theironjef posted:I spent about an hour this morning thinking "wow, gladiator and battlebabe are real departures from teenage monsters, I wonder how this skin book even went over" before realizing that it's just a different -world game. I haven't read any of them so they bleed together real easy.
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theironjef posted:
Long live Dolph Gundam, infamous protagonist from WTF, D&D?!'s Maid playthrough! http://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/maid-gross-lolita/1/
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LuiCypher posted:Long live Dolph Gundam, infamous protagonist from WTF, D&D?!'s Maid playthrough! Yeah, their review is even less interested in the source material than ours is. Like just aggressively. Like they read the first 5 pages and said "gently caress this we're funny without this poo poo." Which is true, they are. For reals I can't even read the Street Fighter reviews at work, I start cry-laughing everytime. theironjef fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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I just really want to know who came up with the name "Eric The Red So Fine".
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 18:51 |
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The Deleter posted:
Maybe it's like when a sports team loses and their fans flip out and riot. Or when they win and the fans also riot
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 19:34 |
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Maid is pretty creepy sometimes, but I have to say, the mashup I played in last year of Maid with Kobolds Ate My Baby was pretty hilarious. The plot is, a bunch of Kobolds impersonate maids to steal the Master's platter of endless food. This was streamed live for charity, and this fanart was draw of my character making deals with two separate cursed artifacts:
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 19:42 |
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Haven't listened to the podcast yet, but did you guys address the Nun-Approved File?Hyper Crab Tank posted:The Crocodile is almost certainly a reference to Pochi from He Is My Master, a gag/fanservice comic/cartoon about maids. In fact, that comic is probably one of the big inspirations for this thing. LuiCypher posted:Long live Dolph Gundam, infamous protagonist from WTF, D&D?!'s Maid playthrough!
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 22:25 |
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AmiYumi posted:Don't forget the last time someone did a "Fatal & Friends" of MAID, where the random character creation came up "Niko Bellic" and "Sebastian from Black Butler". quote:Our Stress Explosion, what we do when we crack under pressure, comes up 24, for Street Racing. I got to say that's the most hilarious thing imaginable. Master spurned your advances one time too many? Time to flip out and go Initial D for a few, uh, episodes I guess. Now, don't get me wrong, it sounds like this thing has the potential to be skeevy as poo poo, but I really have to admire how nuts the characters can get by the sound of it.
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 22:42 |
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AmiYumi posted:I got 2-3 episodes into that, thinking "it's GAINAX, I know what I'm getting into, it's gotta be good!" gently caress no. Just creepy and horrible, like someone thought Hayate the Combat Butler or Maid Guy needed to be less funny and more catered towards pedophiles. There's your problem, GAINAX has some well-loved series in a sea of awful poo poo, and lot of the good staff left. Maid is - there's a lot of skeevy poo poo in the examples, but the difference between it and say Black Tokyo is that you can strip out the skeevy elements from Maid and still get a goofy rules-light competitive game based on exploiting quirks. strip the creep from Black Tokyo - what is there left? the bare bones of a d20 system?
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 22:54 |
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Robindaybird posted:strip the creep from Black Tokyo - what is there left? the bare bones of a d20 system? Ya ain't got poo poo.
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That is James Desborough in a nutshell, though. If you take away the controversial things he's done in his games and online, he's just a D20 shovelware hack who hasn't done anything noteworthy after the handful of higher-profile titles he worked on early in his career.
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ZeeToo posted:Ya ain't got poo poo. That goes without saying considering one of the feats involved making GBS threads out a suit of scat armor.
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Halloween Jack posted:That is James Desborough in a nutshell, though. If you take away the controversial things he's done in his games and online, he's just a D20 shovelware hack who hasn't done anything noteworthy after the handful of higher-profile titles he worked on early in his career. I regret to inform you that Black Tokyo is the (presumably one-hand-only) "work" of Chris Field, not Desby.
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Kurieg posted:That goes without saying considering one of the feats involved making GBS threads out a suit of scat armor. Yeah, that feat was memorable in the "why did you think this was worth writing down and sharing?" sense.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 00:00 |
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You mentioned the V-merang or something in the Maid review and thought Kamen Rider. You may well be right about that being the original source, but my first thought was:
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Prison Warden posted:You mentioned the V-merang or something in the Maid review and thought Kamen Rider. You may well be right about that being the original source, but my first thought was: The Greenmerang, as it's called in the book. I'll be damned if I can figure out which Sentai character had that first, but I'm sure one of them inspired Viewtiful Joe.
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theironjef posted:The Greenmerang, as it's called in the book. I'll be damned if I can figure out which Sentai character had that first, but I'm sure one of them inspired Viewtiful Joe. The "V-shaped thing on your head" is possibly Kamen Rider like you said, but the name itself sound to me like it refers to Himitsu Sentai Goranger (the first super sentai show), where one of the characters (the green ranger, duh) literally has a weapon called exactly that, except in Japanese.
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:The "V-shaped thing on your head" is possibly Kamen Rider like you said, but the name itself sound to me like it refers to Himitsu Sentai Goranger (the first super sentai show), where one of the characters (the green ranger, duh) literally has a weapon called exactly that, except in Japanese. Oh man the blue one of that team looks like Cobra Commander and that's awesome.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 01:18 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Considering that the Battlebabe is the cool sexy badass who seizes protagonism by their very nature, the idea of the No-Battlebabes-Allowed Post-Apoc Sex Club is kinda funny. The other thing is that the Battlebabe can be reskinned very easily into something like a Post-Apocalypse Connery-era James Bond, where you could be clad in nothing but a speedo and your obnoxious chest hair zapping bandits with your Magnums and your unbridled machismo. There's nothing in the playbook that states the 'babe has to be female.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 01:27 |
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The true archetype of the Battlebabe is Zardoz, actually.
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Young Freud posted:The other thing is that the Battlebabe can be reskinned very easily into something like a Post-Apocalypse Connery-era James Bond, where you could be clad in nothing but a speedo and your obnoxious chest hair zapping bandits with your Magnums and your unbridled machismo. There's nothing in the playbook that states the 'babe has to be female. If you don't play the battlebabe as a smouldering sexy male that defeats enemies with a glance and a single bullet, I send you a dissapointed letter explaing your poor RPG choices. I'm not joking. Mr. Maltose posted:The true archetype of the Battlebabe is Zardoz, actually. THE DICE IS GOOD THE ABILITY SCORE IS EVIL
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The Deleter posted:THE DICE IS GOOD What we really need is a die roller in the shape of Zardoz's head that just vomits up a pile of D6s
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Kurieg posted:What we really need is a die roller in the shape of Zardoz's head that just vomits up a pile of D6s You design it, I'll find a 3D printer.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 02:06 |
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Kavak posted:You design it, I'll find a 3D printer. I've got one and this sounds like the perfect dice bag substitute to make.
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Young Freud posted:I've got one and this sounds like the perfect dice bag substitute to make. Add a button to press that makes it spout the quotes and I'd buy it day one.
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The Deleter posted:If you don't play the battlebabe as a smouldering sexy male that defeats enemies with a glance and a single bullet, I send you a disappointed letter explaing your poor RPG choices. Oh, good, I'm not going to get a disappointed letter from The Deleter, then!
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Davin Valkri posted:Oh, good, I'm not going to get a disappointed letter from The Deleter, then! You're safe as houses, mate.
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Halloween Jack posted:That is James Desborough in a nutshell, though. If you take away the controversial things he's done in his games and online, he's just a D20 shovelware hack who hasn't done anything noteworthy after the handful of higher-profile titles he worked on early in his career. Black Tokyo isn't Desborough, it's Chris Fields.
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The Deleter posted:If you don't play the battlebabe as a smouldering sexy male that defeats enemies with a glance and a single bullet, I send you a dissapointed letter explaing your poor RPG choices. First time I played Apocalypse World, the Battlebabe was just a guy who'd seen tapes of old James Bond movies and based his life around that. He was on an eternal quest to find an Aston Martin and spent all of his barter having all the dirt and blood cleaned off his tuxedo every couple of days. I quite enjoyed that character.
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Doodmons posted:First time I played Apocalypse World, the Battlebabe was just a guy who'd seen tapes of old James Bond movies and based his life around that. He was on an eternal quest to find an Aston Martin and spent all of his barter having all the dirt and blood cleaned off his tuxedo every couple of days. I quite enjoyed that character. I totally forgot that "formal wear" was actually part of their kit until I reread the playbook yesterday.
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The Deleter posted:If you don't play the battlebabe as a smouldering sexy male that defeats enemies with a glance and a single bullet, I send you a dissapointed letter explaing your poor RPG choices. Ours was essentially Oscar Wilde with a triple-barreled shotgun.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:33 |
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In spite of owning it and being a huge fan of Dungeo World and Monsterhearts I've never actually played Apocalypse World, the game which spawned those two. All this talk of Battlebabes is making me want to play it. Just because of that I started looking at the Apocalypse World playbooks again and something hit me that I hadn't quite realize the first time around: the playbooks are very asymmetrical in terms of how much power they have in setting, but that doesn't translate to disparity in mechanical effectiveness. What I mean is that the Hardholder is literally a guy with a fortress and the Chopper has a gang of bikers, but you could still easily conceive of a situation where a single Gunlugger poses a potential threat to their safety. As some people have pointed out, it actually leads to a very TV-showlike setup. It's great design
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 10:22 |
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Baker once explained it in terms of a graph, with an x-axis and a y-axis. The x is fictional effectiveness--the Hardholder and Hocus define a lot of the game just by being there with their stuff. The y is mechanical effectivess--the Gunlugger and the Driver have a lot of power to do what they say they're going to do. (He also talked about a z-axis, a third dimension to the graph, which is basically how the Battlebabe has the ability to make the game about themself--seizing protagonism.)
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Halloween Jack posted:Baker once explained it in terms of a graph, with an x-axis and a y-axis. The x is fictional effectiveness--the Hardholder and Hocus define a lot of the game just by being there with their stuff. The y is mechanical effectivess--the Gunlugger and the Driver have a lot of power to do what they say they're going to do. (He also talked about a z-axis, a third dimension to the graph, which is basically how the Battlebabe has the ability to make the game about themself--seizing protagonism.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHORRHXtyI
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Ratpick posted:In spite of owning it and being a huge fan of Dungeo World and Monsterhearts I've never actually played Apocalypse World, the game which spawned those two. All this talk of Battlebabes is making me want to play it. One of my friends calls it the 'mo people, 'mo problems scale. That the bigger your footprint in the game is the more the game comes up with problems for you to solve and the less able to solve the in-game problems on your own you are.
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