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Evil Mastermind posted:That's the one. I was supposed to run two RPG events but nobody showed for either one. I quite like the small-scale gaming cons, although its been many years since I had the opportunity to go to any convention. The last one was a local convention in Memphis, I actually got recruited to speak on a panel with Rich Burlew and an artist employed by DC just because one of the convention organizers found out I had a webcomic. Not a popular webcomic or a particularly good webcomic. Just a webcomic. I had no place there, but it was fun. I also recall running a game of Exalted at like 1 AM where one of the two players who showed up (a giant neckbeard) found the first opportunity to (very badly) belt out "I Want Love" from the silent hill 3 soundtrack and then in the first real fight he leans over and eagerly requests that his character be killed so he can give a 5 minute long inspirational speech. Still fun. The next night I ran a midnight game where I ran a Delta Green adventure using the BESM system and the Hellsing universe. Because I can make bad decisions too.
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CaptainCon was...okay, but really it's main focus was the WarmaHordes tourney. The vendors were mostly minis skirmish games, there were a few people demoing the games they were kickstarting soon (one of which was a combining-mecha game I really liked and am looking forward to), and the obligatory board game library that had like eight tables. That said, I got to try Guild Ball for the first time and picked up two teams, plus I got to play Cavenra and Codenames for the first time.
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Also regarding MyFarog, while it's a bad game by itself i'm actually glad it was made because Varg Vikernes was on my list of the Top 5 people to see a TRPG being made. The others being Hideo Kojima, Lowtax, Pewdiepie and Shadman, the group also known as the Five Supreme Elemental Dragons.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Also regarding MyFarog, while it's a bad game by itself i'm actually glad it was made because Varg Vikernes was on my list of the Top 5 people to see a TRPG being made. The others being Hideo Kojima, Lowtax, Pewdiepie and Shadman, the group also known as the Five Supreme Elemental Dragons. Kojima would do a FATE/PBTA mashup where you barely even rolled for- aw, that's way too hosed-up, and I apologize.
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In the WoD thread Scion was mentioned, and someone mentioned that pretty much every pantheon except the Greek one was described terribly. I can see for myself that the Aztecs are apparently all bloodthirsty monsters, the exceptions being an rear end in a top hat bureaucrat and a goddess of feces ("pick a single aspect of a multifaced deity and make it its only feature" being a constant in that book) and I heard that the voudou one had some very surface understanding of the loas, but I don't know what is wrong with the Norse one and the Egyptian one. Can anyone illuminate me? If I missed something in the other two I'd also like to know, please.
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Going off memory, but sharing blood is a real loving big deal in old Norse culture (and possible modern as well in places like Iceland). Scion just had you kinda casually mix some animal blood in with your own to gain more power.
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According to Scion, almost every Goddess has sacred prostitutes, or can be found working in some sort of sex related profession, for some reason. Even the virginal ones, or the ones emphasizing motherhood, marriage, etc. There's the idea of a good game inside Scion, but the presentation and the research done into even the Greek pantheon is so surface "I browsed Wikipedia for a bit and extrapolated from what I thought would be the case" level that it comes off as pretty, if not offensive, then at least dumb and inaccurate. With some actual work by actual scholars, they could have something, but even going into, for example, the differences between the different aspects that Athena was worshiped under in different areas and in different time periods, could and has taken up entire textbooks, and how exactly to distill this into something playable without turning it into a research paper... And that's for a Goddess most of the target audience is going to be at least roughly familiar with.
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Well, that and the fact that the mechanics were completely and ridiculously broken by the second book. Oh, and the fact that the provided campaign assumed everyone was playing the pregens, or at least would have a party with the same one-of-every-pantheon distribution. Oh, and that there was no "here's how the rising number of gods and monsters is affecting the world" stuff. Plus powers were ridiculously unbalanced. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Toph Bei Fong posted:There's the idea of a good game inside Scion This matches my experience of Scion, which consisted of reading the first book and going "this is a neat idea, that I can run in any one of several better systems". I think it may even have been the first game that inspired me to swipe a setting wholesale and use a new system for it, which is now pretty much my go-to thing. I didn't even notice the pantheon/stereotype problems, but I was less aware of that sort of thing back then.
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The problem I had with Scion is the kind of idea where you can take the elevator pitch and never need the book. A wikipedia search and your system du jour will get you a lot farther, I think, and I be surprised if a new edition changes that for me.
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Part Time Gods is basically Scion with better mechanics and the ability to be a god of pretty much whatever you want.
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 Repost but lol thjs is the Five Nights at Freddys Fuckmask
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:
I enjoy the thought that being infertile makes you invisible to demonic perception.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:
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Back on Conchat, the two best games of Paranoia I played were at an otherwise tepid anime convention. The guy did all the voices, got up, yelled, and 5000 notes were passed. Each group had a few experienced people and a few newbies (who were constantly thrown under the bus) so I think the party deathtoll ended up being 25+ out of 36 possible deaths.
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I'm on my phone so I can't search the forums too well; is there a thread for Dicemasters, or even a general thread where people occasionally bring it up? My X-wing league plays a ton of it so I'm looking to get in. I did actually order the Faerun starter set but it won't be here till after league tonight; is it a good idea to get two of the same starter or should I look at another set? Or maybe just buy a boatload of boosters?
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There's part of me that hates doing this to you, but it's a small part. http://fogstudios.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/9/3/24933806/futurequest.docx Or if that link doesn't work, http://fogstudios.weebly.com/games.html should. It's... Something special. You have Metabolism, Satiety, and Lung Capacity stats, for example.
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dwarf74 posted:There's part of me that hates doing this to you, but it's a small part. Something A Human Being Actually Wrote posted:Canada has taken over Antarctica and has monopoly over the metal Canadium also gendered stat modifiers 
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Kwyndig posted:also gendered stat modifiers
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Let's see...16 point font, 1" wide margins, and 8 pt line spacing. Just out of curiosity, I set the font to 12 point, half inch margins, and no spacing between paragraphs. The page count dropped from 179 to 85. Also: quote:Ability Name: Laser Cutter
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Can't marry if you don't have a gender, and there's stats for an artifact fedora.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Can't marry if you don't have a gender, and there's stats for an artifact fedora.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Can't marry if you don't have a gender, and there's stats for an artifact fedora*. * functions as girdle of goon change. Player swaps between redditor and goon.
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Alright, now I'm mad. Its Venusian not "Venetian" you gently caress. 
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I am still trying to figure out how one plays this game. It is not as bad as, say, McCracken's newest version of Synnibarr, but it's kinda up there. How do you make this much stuff while having no actual game rules?
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ProfessorCirno posted:Can't marry if you don't have a gender, and there's stats for an artifact fedora. What use would marriage have if you somehow lack a gender.
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Tax purposes.
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dwarf74 posted:I am still trying to figure out how one plays this game.
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Engine Heart/robots inspiration http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-d-qHH9IPo
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Does SA/TG have a Discord thingy? I had the worst time with roll20's voice communications in a game today and I'd like to have an alternative open.
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I just saw on reddit that there's a new RPG lootcrate thing out there. $35 bucks a month, but the first one doesn't look too bad; those are some nice clear minis and I like the little crystal props and the fountain. I remember there's another RPG-related lootcrate out there, but I don't remember what it was called. e: I found the other one; it was Mythoard. Evil Mastermind fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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RPPR produced a fantastic podcast on the Old World of Darkness. Their strategy was to have two veteran WoD players explain Dirty Secrets of the Black hand to a guy (Faust from the Third Wheel) who has no idea what he is getting into. The results are beautiful.  http://slangdesign.com/rppr/2016/02/wod-the-heck/patreon-preview-wod-the-heck-dirty-secrets-of-the-black-hand/#comments
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Met a dude at a bar tonight named Jack Vance. I saw him scrawl his name in chalk onto a wall and called him out. He said he had a few Dying Earth novels but had not read them.
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Helical Nightmares posted:RPPR produced a fantastic podcast on the Old World of Darkness. Their strategy was to have two veteran WoD players explain Dirty Secrets of the Black hand to a guy (Faust from the Third Wheel) who has no idea what he is getting into. This is like The Dollop of TRPGs he just keeps going "what?!"
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Helical Nightmares posted:RPPR produced a fantastic podcast on the Old World of Darkness. Their strategy was to have two veteran WoD players explain Dirty Secrets of the Black hand to a guy (Faust from the Third Wheel) who has no idea what he is getting into. I listened to that, and as someone who knew exactly what every reference was to it was fantastic. Then I read this interview with the new White Wolf lead storyteller: http://imagonem.org/2016/02/15/white-wolfs-lead-storyteller-there-will-be-a-release-in-2016/ The way one illuminates the other is magical.
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potatocubed posted:I listened to that, and as someone who knew exactly what every reference was to it was fantastic. Then I read this interview with the new White Wolf lead storyteller:  This is a GREAT FIND and I must post it everywhere. quote:Dateline: 15. FEBRUAR 2016 So Technocracy winning = tumblr  gently caress
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White Wolf’s lead Storyteller: – There will be a release in 2016 
Our launch plan will always be a secret until it’s not. I love the speculation and mystery surrounding future releases we saw in the 90’s, so we will definitely play with that aspect. Hints and clues to what will come next will appear in future products and WW communiques. There are actually a few of them out there already.
Combined launches of digital and tabletop also games seem to make a lot of sense. In the last few years, focused and easy-to-use products like Mutant: Year Zero and Lamentations of the Flame Princess are selling unexpectedly well. Their brevity and low threshold makes them perfect for introducing new players to the hobby, while the monumental classic-WW-style books generally sell poorly and are more read than played. If future editions of WoD are actively used rather than collected we have done our job.
) Plans for some tools for communities and global character tracking are underway but way to early to talk specifics. What we can say is that MET will not be the only larp in town. Official White Wolf larps will not use Minds Eye Theatre rules but be organized more like Monitor Celestra or College of Wizardry.
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