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As someone whose favorite games are historical or horror(those are two of my favorite things! I’m the target audience!), I am left entirely cold by this pitch. Everyone is entitled to their own fun, of course, but this sounds like a miserable nightmare. And not a fun spooky nightmare.
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I'm reading the rulebook for cats of catthulhu and I wish the writer had better puns because some of this stuff just doesn't work imo. The different classes (called roles) are: Catcrobat - Dexterous rogue-esque class with emphasis on acrobatics and swiftness Pussyfoot - Spoiled class that focuses on getting what they want through allure and persuasion Scrapper - Tough class that centers around looking like a bruiser, being built like a bruiser, and tanking through fights or being so intimidating that fights never even start Tiger Dreamer - A class that is able to tap into their ancestral roots through their dreams and interpreting and applying these visions from their big cat ancestors to gain knowledge and understanding of the situation Twofootologist or Poker - 2 different names but they're the same class, they're the cats that dedicated their time to watching and learning about the twofoots that live under their care and generally gaining some level of understanding of how to use their primitive and basic tools and learning the basics of their primitive language You can really tell where they just kinda went "ehh whatever" with the class names lol
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 06:19 |
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Was Acrocat too much to ask for? Or Ragged Ear for the scrapper class?
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 09:18 |
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I don't want to come across as being unfair to the game so I should include what the book itself says for each role."Cats of Catthulhu - Book 1: The Nekonomikon, by Joel Sparks posted:CATCROBAT There is also a little bit of extra customization on top of that in the form of deciding what kind of lifestyle your cat is from. This comes in the form of picking if your cat is a show cat, a house cat, or a feral cat, and deciding what kind of hunting your cat is most familiar with. I guess in a way these would be comparable to alignments or subclasses or something along those lines since they would more or less define how a character goes about performing their role. "Cats of Catthulhu - Book 1: The Nekonomikon, by Joel Sparks posted:LIFESTYLE
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 09:38 |
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CitizenKeen posted:Started scrolling through the links on GLOGs provided above. One of the first things I see is a set of separate tables for Male Fighter Skills and Female Fighter Skills. Never change, OSR, never change.
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 11:26 |
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Tulip posted:This talk of class systems makes me want to play FFT hacks again. Late, but abbadon is working on a game called ICON right now that's very much a sort of 'fantasy lancer' sort of thing, with FFT as explicit inspiration.
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# ? Dec 11, 2021 21:13 |
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RIP Anne Rice, VTM and by extension the world of darkness would not exist without you
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 12:49 |
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Plutonis posted:RIP Anne Rice, VTM and by extension the world of darkness would not exist without you drat straight. The 90's roleplaying scene would have been utterly different without her writings. RIP.
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 19:37 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:drat straight. The 90's roleplaying scene would have been utterly different without her writings. RIP. Different and probably better.
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 19:51 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Different and probably better. There would have been some other stupid pretentious nonsense, I'm sure.
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 20:06 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Different and probably better. You got the av of one of the worst books in English lit, why even care about your opinion?
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 21:10 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Different and probably better. I don't know what about the past or present tabletop RPG scene makes you think any equivocal early 90s ttrpg phenomenon would be better but could you tell us how to get transported to your parallel reality?
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 21:32 |
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Plutonis posted:RIP Anne Rice, VTM and by extension the world of darkness would not exist without you rip
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# ? Dec 12, 2021 22:03 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Different and probably better. I think 1990s White Wolf's near-open contempt for system was probably bad from a design perspective, mind. But a backlash of that sort was inevitable given the excesses of high-complexity low-fun 1980s designs.
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Warthur posted:Unpack this, please? Given that V:tM inspired an influx of people into tabletop RPGs who would not have otherwise seen it, I am curious about what advantage you see here which outweighs the potential loss of recruitment. I knew Mark (pre-Rein) Hagen in college and he was a pretentious dick then. Seeing his ego expand as WoD got popular and what he did to his 'friends' (names and details redacted because their lives became poo poo after that) pissed me off so much it's stuck with me for over thirty years.
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 00:06 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I knew Mark (pre-Rein) Hagen in college and he was a pretentious dick then. Seeing his ego expand as WoD got popular and what he did to his 'friends' (names and details redacted because their lives became poo poo after that) pissed me off so much it's stuck with me for over thirty years. How does it feel to be An Old
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 00:08 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I knew Mark (pre-Rein) Hagen in college and he was a pretentious dick then. Seeing his ego expand as WoD got popular and what he did to his 'friends' (names and details redacted because their lives became poo poo after that) pissed me off so much it's stuck with me for over thirty years. And you know white wolf and wod wasn't strictly him, right? Also White Wolf's games were infinitely more appealing as RPGs to folks who were less served by the RPG market at the time. There were a lot of gross and dumb things, but WoD games were a place for women, queer, and non-white folk long before the rest of the industry chased those market segments.
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 01:02 |
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Warthur posted:Unpack this, please? Given that V:tM inspired an influx of people into tabletop RPGs who would not have otherwise seen it, I am curious about what advantage you see here which outweighs the potential loss of recruitment. I feel like a lot of the improvements to RPG design over the years have been the result of trends that have made the industry shittier in the short term: For instance, the D20 system and the OGL led to game stores being flooded with OGL shovelware and gave a bunch of people a bad case of 3.x-brain, but also brought a ton of new people into the hobby and really solidified the medium's shift away from the piecemeal design sensibilities of older games. The White Wolf boom of the 90s resulted in an influx of weird neo-Pagan types into the hobby, created a glut of systems with versatile character design options and high concept settings that forgot the part where you needed to do something with your character after you created them and directly or indirectly spawned Otherkin, but I definitely agree the industry would be in a much worse place today if that hadn't happened.
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 01:10 |
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Coolness Averted posted:And you know white wolf and wod wasn't strictly him, right? Yeah, it's my understanding Rein*Hagen had increasingly little to do with WoD even in the first edition wave of games.
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 01:13 |
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Plutonis posted:RIP Anne Rice, VTM and by extension the world of darkness would not exist without you Hmm What afterlife has bisexual vampires kissing in it?
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 01:32 |
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Splicer posted:She's watching bisexual vampires kiss in... tumblr?
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Splicer posted:She's watching bisexual vampires kiss in...
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Splicer posted:What afterlife has bisexual vampires kissing in it?
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 08:11 |
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Quick, you have ten minutes to make a character concept for a fantasy RPG. Where do you go to find a portrait? Is there a repository people around here use?
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 07:40 |
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There’s that AI portrait generator that produces really good stuff, but I can't remember its name for the life of me.
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 07:45 |
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ten minutes and i have to think of the concept from the start too? i'd probably just google a cartoon character or a famous actor i've also got some old commercial sprite assets that i bought for this exact purpose but that's not really a universal solution
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 07:46 |
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Captain Walker posted:Quick, you have ten minutes to make a character concept for a fantasy RPG. Where do you go to find a portrait? Is there a repository people around here use? I’d look for a portrait pack for a CRPG like Kingmaker or Baldur’s Gate. Someone will have gone out and stolen a bunch of different fantasy / anime pieces to make those so there will be plenty to use for inspiration.
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 08:22 |
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Captain Walker posted:Quick, you have ten minutes to make a character concept for a fantasy RPG. Where do you go to find a portrait? Is there a repository people around here use? That's "halfway appropriate" both as in "doesn't obviously run contrary to my imagination" and as in "I have looked through seven pages of dryads and every single one is overtly sexy"
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 09:26 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Google image search with race & class and hope to hell something halfway appropriate is in the first 2-3 pages, with ten minutes I'll already be in a mindset where it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect and I'll get used to anything that isn't quite how I imagine. When you DM and you have to make tokens in bulk and come up with eight different distinguishable "Orc Warrior"s, you kinda get used to that. Pictures of sensibly dressed plant women are some of the rarest things in the world. Sadly applies to most portrayals of women, of course, but with dryads it’s just egregious. Why do so many people want to gently caress trees?!
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Trees give you wood, it's a fact.
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One time there was an encounter with what the adventure explicitly named "nymphs" I wouldn't say it was a bad image search as such but no result was remotely fit for the RPG table
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The crossover I never knew I needed. Craig the disinterested tour guide takes a break from Scottish landmarks to tour Castle Ravenloft. https://twitter.com/EleanorMorton/status/1470714306723565572
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Captain Walker posted:Quick, you have ten minutes to make a character concept for a fantasy RPG. Where do you go to find a portrait? Is there a repository people around here use? Gelbooru
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Captain Walker posted:Quick, you have ten minutes to make a character concept for a fantasy RPG. Where do you go to find a portrait? Is there a repository people around here use?
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 13:32 |
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Pinterest.
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Hot Modrons Thread.
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Artflow.ai ?
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Colonel Cool posted:Pinterest.
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Captain Walker posted:Quick, you have ten minutes to make a character concept for a fantasy RPG. Where do you go to find a portrait? Is there a repository people around here use? I open my overflowing "D&D" folder in dropbox and just crop something cool Real answer is Pinterest
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