Pharmaskittle posted:

Where did that pedophile pirate game go? I was pretty pumped about watching it either get even creepier or implode, but I can't even find it in the Gas Chamber.

crime fighting hog posted:

regular Toughness was the second worst feat in 3.x

Impermanent posted:

The thing about this that bugged me was that I always thought that earth and water would work just fine as their own damage sources without mutating them into acid and cold. Being hit with a firehose sucks and being hit by something with that 10x that much pressure would blind any beholder (with central eye closed) around.

And earth? Earth is fuckin' earthquakes and rocks and poo poo. Why would we move to acid? If your magic is aristotlean, keep it aristotlean! Or maybe have a separate group of mages that manipulate the four humors if abstract, antiquated systems mean that much to you.

Stuntman Mike posted:

But that's the issue - who says the elemental blocks of the universe have to translate into different forms of plasma/energy for the purpose of doing damage? If you're an earth wizard, your control over that element confers powers over....the earth. Which will mostly involve hitting things with rocks. Fire mastery would mean having power over energy/plasma/fire. The need to equalize everything in D&D creates a lot of nonsensical situations.

Halloween Jack posted:

I have to admit, I always thought games that had rules for establishing some kind of domain and then being able to buy "upgrades" for it are fun, as long as they're not too complicated. Shadowrun had a strong "pimp my whatever" element and I liked being able to customize my safehouses with the Sprawl Survival Guide.

Liesmith posted:

Honestly if I was an immortal wizard I'd do poo poo like that. and I'd spend a lot of time standing ominously/majestically on unreachable places like rocks in the middle of the ocean or unscalable cliffs. Being seen by travelers would be welcome but not required

wizardry is one of those make your own entertainment jobs.

Angry Diplomat posted:

space titanium is not the same thing as titanium and if you're getting annoyed about crappy pop-science in a discussion about science fiction then I'm not quite sure what you're expecting here. I could just as easily have said steel but the point is the same

Angry Diplomat posted:

I kind of want to see if it would be workable to run a game using the exalted ruleset and the d&d cosmology. unfortunately I hear bad things about the exalted rules, so maybe not

Bedurndurn posted:

I've played in a Fallout-inspired tabletop before, and our GMs goal of a scarcity/starvation themed game failed when after killing enough raiders our first two sessions, we had enough guns and ammo to be wandering arms dealers.

NorgLyle posted:

One of the three core skills (focus I think) lets you enter bullet time but it burns focus to do it. One of the martial arts combos you learn instantly kills a guy and turns him into a focus refilling orb. If you want to have fun with the combat parts of the game, don't do that.

Vanilla Bison posted:

In earnest, though, Nobilis sounds pretty cool but how does it cope with people attempting afflictions like "I am dead"?

Halloween Jack posted:

Question for those of you who've actually run a lot of high level 3.5/Pathfinder, ... whereas the martial characters were brutally optimized.

Fuego Fish posted:

I've been doing this for about 10 years or so, most of them have a pretty good idea I'm not the art pictures I use to present myself

Android Blues posted:

You literally can't even equip a blaster and just shoot them, you have to have one of a possible two force powers to engage in the bossfight gimmick

Benagain posted:

Welp, the evil overlord is dead. Let me be the first to say that my support of him was actually a clever ruse designed to lead to his eventual permaing. I'm a hero, like that one dude from Battlestar who eventually gets shot when he mutinies anyway.

Thuryl posted:

It bothers me way more than it should that the characters in this cover art are basically Lina and Naga from Slayers reimagined as furries. (Seriously, compare for yourself.)

I mean it's one thing to want to make Furries: The RPG, but who thinks "the first thing our prospective audience should see in order to attract them to our product is a cover plagiarising a generic fantasy anime from the 1990s"?

Doc Hawkins posted:

Or, as we always put it, "Dogs gives you total freedom of choice: you can declare gay marriage okay now, or you can do it later!"

Halloween Jack posted:

Imagine AD&D with more subsystems, less consistency, and no balance whatsoever. But you can play a pirate ninja zombie cyborg psychic dragon (insert whatever thing you could make in a better generic system)!

Liesmith posted:

wait they made a dragon age P&P game? No way in hell would I play that

Mystic Mongol posted:

Nonsense. Let's say that Body + Armor + Various Enhancements comes to a grand total of 30 (A ludicrously high number, even for a troll). Then if an assault rifle with explosive rounds goes full auto, dealing 17P damage, on average the troll will take 7P, and die after two bursts. Faster if the guy with the gun is a good shot, or gets lucky.

Players can be pretty much immune to small arms fire, but soldiers and commandos and stuff gently caress runners up.

NorgLyle posted:

Unless it's BESM

Halloween Jack posted:

How do you feel about BESM D20, a product I still can't wrap my head around?

Guilty Spork posted:

The thing about MacKinnon was that he was a huge Amber fan, and was very much the type to hand wave the poo poo out of everything. He basically wanted to make rules that were a thing you would occasionally fall back on in the middle of doing freeform role-play, but he didn't understand or articulate that at all. Instead, he hired David L. Pulver, of GURPS Vehicles same, to work on the system for the second edition, taking the freeform-y base system and trying to turn it into GURPS light. Which was doubly strange considering that (1) MacKinnon has outright stated that he "doesn't believe in balance," and (2) for years he ignored Pulver's pleas to switch to a roll-over system that would fix many problems that had plagued Tri-Stat from the very beginning, until they sat him down and forced him to play through an entire combat.

MacKinnon had a lot of passion, and was apparently a pretty decent businessman, but was pretty terrible as a game designer, not to mention the ethical problems that emerged around the fall of Guardians of Order.

Doc Hawkins posted:

What kind of game are you playing of where every roll has a non-zero possibility to kill a character? It sounds really lovely and un-fun, a game of "describe how you minimize risk, in every possible way, for everything you do, for the next four hours."

TheTatteredKing posted:

It's because females literally have -4 strength in FATAL

Guilty Spork posted:

Amber Diceless does have a loyal cult following that still plays it at AmberCon and all that, but I don't know that it fared all that well as an overall commercial enterprise even when it was in print (which AFAIK it hasn't been in a number of years).

Grand Prize Winner posted:

It's okay to post grognards from other forums, right? I don't know if this is a doozy or not but it's quite... ah gently caress it, here ya go:

Fire posted:

I get the feeling, especially with some Northrend quests that some writers were testing to see if anybody even reads the quest text because NPCs were sending you to do things your character should perceive to be vile deeds.

Gomi posted:

If Tieflings are already persecuted, presumably due to demonic ties/heritage, how dumb is using a demon's name as your patronymic? "Hay guys the chief boss daddy demon is totally my father hey why are you building a big bonfire come on it's cool he'll let us drink his beers"

Jackard posted:

What. What??

Coolness Averted posted:

Why did Exalted become such a playground for this kinda poo poo in 2nd e? They added nearly all of the creepy stuff these asses sperg about in 2nd e. 1st didn't have the "Yes, Dragonblood are inherently horny, oh and the Scarlet Empress is a giant lesbian, oh and here's some powers related to dogfucking to make wolfmen with a +5 against ogres"

Endorph posted:

Seriously though dude to be honest I'd take Lesbian Drow Eyeball-Priest over you.

Endorph posted:

Well like, if the player goes into way too much detail about the eyeballs or the lesbian thing, then yeah that'd be creepy? But if they're just like "I need eyeballs for my god. Gimme them eyeballs." "YOU HAVE FIVE EYEBALLS." "Also I am going to hit on the princess." then that actually sounds like kind of a fun character.

Dr Nick posted:

Just so I'm clear (I've never played it), is WoD the system where if you buy stuff with points in the beginning it costs less than if you buy it later leading to all sorts of (nontransparent) implications?b

crime fighting hog posted:

I seriously can't go to any other forums anymore. Just seeing the first response in every thread as "first" makes me want to unplug my modem.

lighttigersoul posted:

Actually, this was my experience when I was given the money for an account, there's a lot of poo poo in SA, but it's a lot better than other places.

RPGPundit posted:

1) Claim that this mechanic is primarily intended as a mechanism for altering the game reality, but does it poorly. (of course, it was never meant to be that in reality)

Lemon Curdistan posted:

The degree of what?!?!?!

Ettin posted:

publishes a card game about tentacle rape

LGD posted:

The World of Synnibarr loving owns, sorry.

Lemon Curdistan posted:

You are asking someone to do an in-depth read and analysis of both FATAL and Synnibar.

Reality check, here. Why do you want to murder a poor innocent mangoon, Doc Hawkins?! WHY?!?!?!

Evil Mastermind posted:

I actually own a PDF of Synnibar. You have to love any system where you can pick "Gnome" as your race and "Elf" as your class.

Thuryl posted:

So how exactly did the designers intend to enforce that, given that the players have already decided the rules needed changing?

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