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Selachian posted:Know Your Role is actually a pretty good game for a d20 product. The big problem I always ran into is defining what a Savvy (i.e. Charisma-based) move is. If the People's Elbow is a Savvy move, does that mean any move can be Savvy if you tack on enough showing off? Basically yes. It's been a long time since I've read KYR, but stuff like Hogan "hulking up" or Cena's 5 Moves of Doom would be Savvy moves. As for what a savvy heel would be, I'd say Goldust is a pretty good example. quote:If you want a genuinely questionable wrestling game, check out Kayfabe. It has some interesting ideas -- players are supposed to play both the writing staff of a wrestling show *and* the wrestlers themselves. But I can't see how it would work out in real play. Now at this point you're roleplaying running a Pro-wrestling franchise. Most wrestling RPG's assume that everything is in character, although I would love to see one that just runs with this idea and apply it to all the silly character concepts (Undertaker is a literal zombie, Mr. Fujiyama has for real hypnotic powers, etc)
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Wrestling nerds complain about "cool heels," but there have been tons of them, going all the way back to Gorgeous George and further. Ric Flair was both a cool heel and a "chickenshit heel" and Savvy works for both.
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SirPhoebos posted:Now at this point you're roleplaying running a Pro-wrestling franchise. Most wrestling RPG's assume that everything is in character, although I would love to see one that just runs with this idea and apply it to all the silly character concepts (Undertaker is a literal zombie, Mr. Fujiyama has for real hypnotic powers, etc) I want a game where both versions of wrestling are true. The matches are choreographed and the stories are fake, but it's super important that they do a great job, because their power is derived from the adulation and screams of the masses, and it's also just the way the wrestlers make money in public. Outside the ring, they have to go forth and fight the shadow war the people can't know about. Vampires, zombies and worse. The only thing standing in the way of the monsters enslaving society is the wrestlers, and when they're out of the ring, they don't have to hold back! Yokozuna's got his earthquake stomps, the Rock is literally hard as stone and so on. And then the second book drops and oh poo poo, the monsters made a good enough offer! Now the heels of the wrestling world are just as evil outside the ring! Can the heroes of the squared circle manage to maintain kayfabe in a ring with a foe that would happily kill them if the lights went down?
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SirPhoebos posted:Basically yes. It's been a long time since I've read KYR, but stuff like Hogan "hulking up" or Cena's 5 Moves of Doom would be Savvy moves. As for what a savvy heel would be, I'd say Goldust is a pretty good example. The thing is, most of the Savvy moves given in the book are cheating and taunts, so it's easy to make a Savvy-based heel. Making a Savvy face is a lot harder -- I've seen more than one argument over whether "basic move with extra showboating" counts as Savvy.
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Halloween Jack posted:Wrestling nerds complain about "cool heels," but there have been tons of them, going all the way back to Gorgeous George and further. Ric Flair was both a cool heel and a "chickenshit heel" and Savvy works for both. It's less "nerds" and bookers like JR who have selective memory or a certain philosophy on how to set up matches
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taichara posted:Really now? I completely agree on all of this but this. All of these actions indicate Matt doesn't handle criticism when applied to a game were a LOT of his personal politics are attached. While it's not natural to have a mental breakdown like he does when someone like you points out how his work protrays the exact opposite of what he wants it to, it's far from unheard of.
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NutritiousSnack posted:I completely agree on all of this but this. All of these actions indicate Matt doesn't handle criticism when applied to a game were a LOT of his personal politics are attached. While it's not natural to have a mental breakdown like he does when someone like you points out how his work protrays the exact opposite of what he wants it to, it's far from unheard of. I meant that it wasn't trolling or politics on my part, or that of the vast majority of the other posters (iirc someone did eat a threadban for actual trolling). Now, I totally believe that McFarland needed and needs to pull his head out his arse where his own sociopolitical issues are concerned.
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theironjef posted:I want a game where both versions of wrestling are true. The matches are choreographed and the stories are fake, but it's super important that they do a great job, because their power is derived from the adulation and screams of the masses, and it's also just the way the wrestlers make money in public. Outside the ring, they have to go forth and fight the shadow war the people can't know about. Vampires, zombies and worse. The only thing standing in the way of the monsters enslaving society is the wrestlers, and when they're out of the ring, they don't have to hold back! Yokozuna's got his earthquake stomps, the Rock is literally hard as stone and so on.
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That sounds like a dark reboot of Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. I like it.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'm pretty sure that was the idea of a WWE comic book series at some point. Also there was an ARPG that THQ was working on before it went under that was this premise too. Concept art included Vince McMahon wearing powered armor that could transform into a limo
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theironjef posted:I want a game where both versions of wrestling are true. The matches are choreographed and the stories are fake, but it's super important that they do a great job, because their power is derived from the adulation and screams of the masses, and it's also just the way the wrestlers make money in public. Outside the ring, they have to go forth and fight the shadow war the people can't know about. Vampires, zombies and worse. The only thing standing in the way of the monsters enslaving society is the wrestlers, and when they're out of the ring, they don't have to hold back! Yokozuna's got his earthquake stomps, the Rock is literally hard as stone and so on. I would also like a Lucha Underground game, yes.
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There is definitely a Lucha game...Lucha Hero, I think it's called? Where you play movie luchadores. Like, I don't know if matches are even a part of it, but you fight vampires and werewolves and robots and Aztec mummies, like El Santo did in his real job.
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Halloween Jack posted:There is definitely a Lucha game...Lucha Hero, I think it's called? Where you play movie luchadores. Like, I don't know if matches are even a part of it, but you fight vampires and werewolves and robots and Aztec mummies, like El Santo did in his real job. Samson vs the Vampire Women is one of my favorite MST3K episodes and was a perfect send-off for TV's Frank. It's too bad I don't trust Onyx Path to make Luchador: The Mask without making it terrible in some manner.
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theironjef posted:I'll look into wrestling games! Based on a perfunctory googling, it looks like the PBTA one is both too good and too new for our purposes, but I bet there's some terrible ones out there. There was a WWF "Basic Adventure Game" in 1993, but I guess it's pretty hard to find nowadays. On the other hand, it's an early 90's game so it's pretty much bound to be System Mastery Material.
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NutritiousSnack posted:I completely agree on all of this but this. All of these actions indicate Matt doesn't handle criticism when applied to a game were a LOT of his personal politics are attached. While it's not natural to have a mental breakdown like he does when someone like you points out how his work protrays the exact opposite of what he wants it to, it's far from unheard of. Well, there's having a mental breakdown, and then there's going "Whoa there buddy you're starting to sound like my strawman antagonists."
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Halloween Jack posted:There is definitely a Lucha game...Lucha Hero, I think it's called? Where you play movie luchadores. Like, I don't know if matches are even a part of it, but you fight vampires and werewolves and robots and Aztec mummies, like El Santo did in his real job. Feng Shui had the Luchacabras, Luchadore Chupacabras.
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Halloween Jack posted:There is definitely a Lucha game...Lucha Hero, I think it's called? Where you play movie luchadores. Like, I don't know if matches are even a part of it, but you fight vampires and werewolves and robots and Aztec mummies, like El Santo did in his real job. I think it's Lucha Libre or Lucha Libre Hero. I heard it called the former when i played it at a con. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/62173/Lucha-Libre-Hero?filters=0_0_0_10010_0&
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Halloween Jack posted:There is definitely a Lucha game...Lucha Hero, I think it's called? Where you play movie luchadores. Like, I don't know if matches are even a part of it, but you fight vampires and werewolves and robots and Aztec mummies, like El Santo did in his real job. Silent Legions has a Lucha Libre class in its appendix. Now El Santo can suplex Not-Cthulhu.
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theironjef posted:And then the second book drops and oh poo poo, the monsters made a good enough offer! Now the heels of the wrestling world are just as evil outside the ring! Can the heroes of the squared circle manage to maintain kayfabe in a ring with a foe that would happily kill them if the lights went down? Okay, so you just posted XCrawl today. I swear I thought I remember you guys making fun of the dungeon cheerleaders in the podcast. I must be confusing you making fun of the Rave Drow from Urban Arcana with another review. Hey buttholes: If you want to burn your brains out trying to fix a game, fix XCrawl instead of Beast. What are you gonna do, brother, when Umber Hulkamania runs wild on you???
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Halloween Jack posted:You don't, like, think this hasn't happened in real life, do you? My level 12 Monk of the 36 Chambers of Shaolin gonna drop the Stone Cold Stunning Fist on you, is what.
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I'd drop it on Shadowrun. Instead of an elaborate alternate history explaining why there are demihumans on Earth and all that, they just pop up and we stick them into Crawls. Instead of all those weird Roman Empire references, you have megacorps. But with D&D 4e's system. Maxwell Lord fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Hey buttholes: If you want to burn your brains out trying to fix a game, fix XCrawl instead of Beast. What are you gonna do, brother, when Umber Hulkamania runs wild on you??? This is p. dumb because X-Crawl is the anti-Beast: It's the easiest thing in the world to fix because it's a simple but powerful through-line for a setting and then you staple whatever system to it. It's just that it got stapled to a very bad system.
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Skip the whole backstory stuff and make it delightfully incoherent. EDIT: You could take X-Crawl one step further and instead of making it 'What if D&D was sports?', make it 'What if D&D was sports entertainment?' Complete with you having a script to play into/deviate from, monsters showing up for work drunk so you've gotta help them look good for the crowd, face-heel turns, the ever-present steel chair, etc. Ratoslov fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:This is p. dumb because X-Crawl is the anti-Beast: It's the easiest thing in the world to fix because it's a simple but powerful through-line for a setting and then you staple whatever system to it. It's just that it got stapled to a very bad system. d20 is the ruiner.
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There are definitely good-but-wrong systems for Xcrawl. Anything narrative-based, for example.
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What if we staple Xcrawl's fluff to Beast's crunch? Some of those atavism could be refluffed as wrestling moves.
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LordAbaddon posted:What if we staple Xcrawl's fluff to Beast's crunch? Some of those atavism could be refluffed as wrestling moves. That is the RPG they make you play in the 9th circle of hell.
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Ratoslov posted:That is the RPG they make you play in the 9th circle of hell. I suppose they do get bored of playing FATAL all the time
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You could have a Beast who's a twisted wrestling nerd straight out of a Mountain Goats song, who's Lair forces whatever environment it's in to obey X Crawl or wrestling tropes. Just like wrestling nerds try and shoehorn wrestling terms into every type of story. So they call The Masquerade 'kayfabe', heroes 'faces' and Beasts 'heels', and their job is to be the best heel? See, I've never even watched wrestling and I know this stuff. The Beast just does this to all of reality. The evil Hero says 'wrestling isn't real, you idiot'.
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I mean "No Children" does basically sum up how I feel about Beast in a nutshell... I am drowning there is no sign of land you are coming down with me hand in unlovable hand and I hope you die I hope we both die Kurieg fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Kurieg posted:I mean "No Children" does basically sum up how I feel about Beast in a nutshell... Actual execution of Heroes and how they were written: Lovecraft in Brooklyn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHgZRGLgo0
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One of those songs is my current online handle. Why isn't Trace Italian from Wolf in White Van an RPG you can buy? I asked John Darnielle about RPGs and he said he games with the Apocalypse World guy. Like I said, oWoD and Beast make sense to me. That Lair thing is so cool. Isn't The Beast also a Vampire term? Combine that with the crossover thing and Beasts could tempt other splats to be more monstrous - telling vamps to give in to their hunger, werewolves to eat people, mages to go full Faust. And when they do it creates Hunters/Heroes, which are basically the same thing! Maybe give the Beasts a righteous cause, make them Antifa or something.
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Count Chocula posted:Isn't The Beast also a Vampire term? Combine that with the crossover thing and Beasts could tempt other splats to be more monstrous - telling vamps to give in to their hunger, werewolves to eat people, mages to go full Faust. And when they do it creates Hunters/Heroes, which are basically the same thing! 2: They already do. 3: No they're not. 4: Stop trying to fix Beast. You cannot fix Beast.
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Count Chocula posted:Isn't The Beast also a Vampire term? Combine that with the crossover thing and Beasts could tempt other splats to be more monstrous - telling vamps to give in to their hunger, werewolves to eat people, mages to go full Faust. And when they do it creates Hunters/Heroes, which are basically the same thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Deg7VrpHbM
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Is Count Chocula White Wolf Stymie or is that somebody else? Either way do not respond to him.
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Nah, he just still thinks that Beast is a game about punching up and wants to defend it to the ends of the earth, just like Bellum Maga.
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It's only a matter of time before Onyx Path releases a book about witches who sit on your birthday cake.Mr. Maltose posted:This is p. dumb because X-Crawl is the anti-Beast: It's the easiest thing in the world to fix because it's a simple but powerful through-line for a setting and then you staple whatever system to it. It's just that it got stapled to a very bad system.
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Kurieg posted:Nah, he just still thinks that Beast is a game about punching up and wants to defend it to the ends of the earth, just like Bellum Maga. He is one of the most egregious contrarians I have ever seen. If people liked Beast, he'd be on the exact opposite side of the fence.
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Kurieg posted:Nah, he just still thinks that Beast is a game about punching up and wants to defend it to the ends of the earth, just like Bellum Maga. Yeah but otoh he's also in favor of the God Machine. Go figure. Besides, Count Chocula posted:See, I've never even watched wrestling  EDIT: To be fair to CC, at least he's on topic with his contrarian opinions and doesn't just hop into the thread and out of nowhere start yelling about why Elminster is totally not a Mary Sue.
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