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just read through this thread and I've got to say: god drat. Rpgs are some serious loving business.
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it was actually mildly enternaining and only took about an hour and a half.
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Oct 20, 2010 22:11
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grognards.txt: A place for fashion advice.
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Oct 22, 2010 03:08
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Wait so how is killing your party members not kicking puppies?
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Oct 27, 2010 18:37
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Yes, the exchange is entirely believalbe. I was convinced that a group of clear headed individuals would risk their lives for the protagonist who, in the span of about five minutes, becomes Hitler.
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Oct 27, 2010 19:55
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quote:Based on what he posted (I played Jade Empire aeons ago): "I'll keep the power to do good!" "You'll do evil and become a tyrant! We'll kill you!" "Shut up, I know best, I'll kill you first! *becomes tyrant, thus proving their point*" And you don't see how this entire exchange is rediculous?
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Oct 27, 2010 21:30
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FrozenGoldfishGod posted:So if I have fun playing a silly kung-fu Bioware game and ignoring the plot except to skip through it, I'm having badwrongfun? I like how you make a point and then invalidate it in the same post.
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Oct 27, 2010 23:44
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Yeah to be honest i don't see much difference between revolutionaries and grognards both are out there risking their lives for the people
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Oct 28, 2010 17:04
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Wasn't he the lead singer for RAge against the machine?
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Oct 28, 2010 18:25
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Arneson is the crappy fiction writer to Gygax's rules sperging. It was the perfect marriage for the mid 1970s. Cause you could either throw your money into a bitchin wizard painted on the side of your van or a new white polyester jump suit (that doesn't come sized for "Fat Nerd").
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Oct 28, 2010 20:24
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quote:Ok, after you've done that pointless busy work, the game begins. Here are the rules in play: What the loving christ? Here let me invent a stupid game. SEE HOW STUPID IT (IE YOU) IS? Here is my response: Say you are reading a book. The book is two pages long and repeats the same four words over and over again. You get to pick the words. That's D&D up until 4e.
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Oct 29, 2010 17:19
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Well it's listed right there under "languages".
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Nov 2, 2010 23:48
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Well in my games lizardmen run the casinos so all the past murder rampages against them are forgiven now
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Nov 3, 2010 00:14
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How much do you guys want to bet this isn't the first time he brought up anal sex to her in some "joking" and "casual" way?
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Nov 4, 2010 01:25
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The flavor is in roleplaying someone with a 16 con different than someone with a 17 con, right? Snipe content: While not exactly grog, this is one of my favorite threads on the WotC forums from the last week or so: quote:The character builder is a wonderful tool. One that make creation so easy.
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Nov 9, 2010 06:11
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quote:my women to be raging nymphomaniacs I stopped reading here because he literally thinks of the women in the internet porn he watches as "his".
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Nov 9, 2010 17:54
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This guy can't be real can he? He has to be playing this up... no one can be this myopic... can they?
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Nov 10, 2010 23:00
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What the gently caress is that even supposed to mean? Like I get the gist of it (anything made after 3.5 is a video game) but the sentences don't parse right.
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Nov 11, 2010 22:06
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This should be the beginning of every campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfahp4J_-_o
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Nov 13, 2010 23:38
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I would play a wizard every god damned time.
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Nov 13, 2010 23:44
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quote:Casters are balanced in 3.5 if you put no thought into making them especially effective! If only this were true. It's so easy to accidentally make a caster that trumps everyone. Seriously. All it takes is for the level 1 newbie to go: "Color spray sounds fun!" Or how about : Cool! Wildshape! I think I'll play Druid! or maybe: I like the idea of a Cruisader so I think I'll play Cleric but not worry so much about healy spells.
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Nov 15, 2010 21:18
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quote:Fluxx What a fantastic idea for a card game. It's so beautifully meta.
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Nov 16, 2010 21:25
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PeterWeller posted:You dumb scrubs. You don't rob the bank, you run the bank. When I play Monopoly I steal from the till just to keep things more realistic (banker supremacy)
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Nov 17, 2010 01:32
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LA was the shittiest idea ever commited to paper. I mean it's lovely because it basically encapsulates every lovely thing about 3e in one tiny little nugget of a rule.
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Nov 19, 2010 04:18
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quote:You had people posting builds on forums that could do 800 damage with a cavalry charge or throw a rock that did infinite damage, but would lose instantly to someone hitting them with hold person or a decent trip or disarm attack, etc. etc. etc. this is called balance. 
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Nov 19, 2010 19:29
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Ahahaha. Keep poking. We'll either get more hilarity or possibly a grog shift in perspective (unlikely).
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Nov 20, 2010 00:02
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quote:If someone says that NFL Football and Arena Football are pretty similar games, it won't get you very far to say, "The ball is made from different materials; the uniforms aren't the same; the field is shorter (and it's called an arena, totally different); the uprights are narrower; and you can do things in arena football that would get you penalized in the NFL." Just look at this guy. quote:dissociated mechanics One day this retarded theory will be shown for what it is and on that day, all of grogdom will weep.
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Nov 20, 2010 01:21
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quote:You're either very, very right or very, very wrong on what you think dissociative mechanics actually is. Near as I can tell I'm right. I mean by this guys dumb reasoning, all RPGs ever use dissociated mechanics. Ever. Because by their nature, they are dissociated from the activities they represent. Otherwise, we would actually be doing the things the game represents. So quibbling about healing surges but not balking at hp in general is really, really dumb as is shouting about dailys for martial classes but not vancian casting.
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Nov 20, 2010 05:08
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I woner how many of his players have invoked that right? Quite a few I'd bet.
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Nov 23, 2010 23:49
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quote:This has never happened with any of my regular gamers who I to some reasonable degree share some level of established expectations with about how the game will run. (What modern academia is pleased to call a social contact, because it can't use ordinary plain English.) Yeah because "established expectations with about how the game will run." is much simpler and plainer than "social contract". It just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
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Nov 24, 2010 20:19
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Party Boat posted:We all like your avatar Dr Nick but you don't have to keep playing up to it. But... but... it's the only thing I know. 
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Nov 24, 2010 23:45
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"I don't play these games but your characterization of them rings true. They are nothing like these other games I don't play."
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Dec 2, 2010 01:45
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quote:"When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!" - W. Zedmore Remember when Peter was like "Ray? What did you do, Ray?" and then the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man shows up? Man that was great.
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Dec 3, 2010 00:10
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shotgunbadger posted:Jedi are literally the worst part of Star Wars. The other side of the coin is that Han Solo is literally the best part.
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Dec 3, 2010 01:19
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Drox posted:Oedipus'd! ground fuckin floor
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Dec 5, 2010 04:33
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quote:if just out of some form of childish spite! It's you.
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Dec 6, 2010 19:49
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Not sure if this is technically grog but holy poo poo: Not everyone can game, just a fact of life. Used to do dinner get togethers with a long time friends couple (since moved out of town though). The husband, a very nice guy, but as dim as the day is long. Makes the perfect factory worker. Good as a worker, just not much between the ears. Give him a simple task and he's ok slogging away at it. He always lamented how I always seemed to end up winning at anything we did. Always won at Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit whatever game we played. It gets old listening to him complain though. So eventually it just became the rule, dinner was served, then myself and the two wives would watch TV or something and he crashes on the sofa and falls asleep Guy has more in common with a good watch dog than most anything else hehe 
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quote:(since moved out of town though). Just wanted to add that these people did not, in fact, move out of town.
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Dec 6, 2010 23:25
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Because if I can't absolutely gently caress over every small hamlet I go through by spending my dragon's horde spoils it is not naturally gygaxian enough for me.
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The guy's serious suggestion to fix 4e is: 1. Change all the math 2. Destroy all the classes 3. rebuild the classes into some sort of 3.5 frankenstein monster. 4. Everybody gets a sub system because
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