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Hey Ewen, last I checked Alshard was the big hitter o're in Japan as far as popularity goes. Is it still the big dog or have others come up on the sides?
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Interrupting Ewen momentarily, this was linked on badwrongfun and applies here, I should think! Why every group should play Maid RPG once
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May 20, 2012 03:06
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Ewen Cluney posted:These days every F.E.A.R. game has the "Movement and Engagement" rules with the same little diagram (see below). 13th Age actually has something pretty similar, but the basic idea is that in battle you can be in or out of an Engagement. You have to be in one with someone to do a melee attack against them, but to get out of an Engagement when there's a hostile there you have use a Major Action to use the Escape action. Furthermore, if you're in a closed space you'll have to make an opposed Luck check and not have any enemies beat you in order to successfully Escape. They recommend using colored board game pawns or some such to keep track of characters, putting them in and out of groups to show Engagements. How into depth does this go? Does it cover stuff like environmental hazards or ongoing area effect (are those even a thing? Them not existing could answer that.)
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Jun 7, 2012 06:11
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Which is the RPG someone mentioned in FATAL and Friends ages ago that has cyborg motorcycle knights and its set in some insane-o version of Britain with King Arthur myths an junk? You're thinking of Alshard, and I think I mentioned it, but it's not King Arthur myths, it just has the flying airbase Avalon.
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Jun 14, 2012 01:57
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InfiniteJesters posted:I'm just sticking with the PDF versions because I'm trying not to clog my meager pair of bookshelves. :U Yeah, I'm in Korea right now which doesn't make for very fun shipping, so I'm sticking to pdf.
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Sep 14, 2012 02:35
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Mikan posted:Yes. In Meikyuu Kingdom you can bring your loyal subjects along with you in dungeon crawls and use them to fight enemies/set off traps/explore rooms/meet an untimely end I'm sorry, having redshirts be an actual player resource is ingenious and I'll hear nothing else of it.
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Sep 14, 2012 06:20
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It was a moving gift from Gorbash! I dunno where he got it.
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Sep 14, 2012 10:16
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Man how come I find out all you fuckers are from the Bay after I move out of SF?
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Sep 17, 2012 12:32
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mikeycp posted:You knew I was and you still didn't see me very often. You were three hours and $50 away.
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Sep 17, 2012 13:14
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I have the excuse in having met Ewen a few times and both Mike and I sharing a mutual friend with him.
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Sep 17, 2012 16:59
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shoplifter posted:Does anywhere in San Francisco proper carry TRPGs? I'm here for Dreamforce and popped into Kinokuniya last night to find they had gently caress all. In my experience SF is great for all sorts of card games, but trying to get actual tabletop games means going to Berkeley or Oakland.
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Sep 18, 2012 23:53
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International shipping is a clusterfuck regardless of what countries are involved, basically. Which is one reason I just stick purely to pdfs.
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Nov 3, 2013 06:08
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Desty posted:It's Christmas in Christmastime! The Ryuutama rough cut is out for backers! It's too bad Ryuutama is impossible for non-US residents (and, frankly, like, 9/10 US residents) who missed the kickstarter because of Paypal 
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Dec 27, 2013 06:32
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I'm going to go to Yellow Submarine tomorrow, which is, as I understand it, the place to buy Japanese Elfgames. What games that I cannot read - NOR WILL I EVER BE ABLE TO READ - should I buy, to...christ, support people? Enjoy the artwork? I don't even know. I'm here. I wanna buy something.
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Jan 20, 2014 11:45
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mikeycp posted:If you are in Tokyo you should go to Role and Roll too. It's a cool spot. Sure! Where is it? All I know about them is that they apparently printed some loving radical replays of Shadowrun that were basically Anime Shadowrun Charlie's Angels.
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Jan 20, 2014 12:28
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I just bought SO MANY GAMES THAT I CAN'T READ
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Jan 22, 2014 06:52
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So! I hit up Yellow Submarine (after going to the wrong Yellow Submarine twice) and Role and Roll. Incidentally, of the two, I found Yellow Submarine to be bigger and have far more jTTGs. R&R had a lot more D&D stuff, and I think had some kinda official WotC thing going on. Yellow Submarine had a full section of old western stuff, like AD&D and first gen GURPS old. I enjoyed Yellow Submarine more, but then again, it was just plain bigger, so it had more to go through. I can totally agree with the OP - there IS a sort of weird Galapagos thing going on. There was all of one single D20 supplement in both stores outside the actual D&D stuff. No Pathfinder that I could see. Call of Cthulhu seems more popular then D&D, excuse the obvious jokes, and both stores had a two or three Shadowrun books (SR4; I don't think SR5 has even been translated yet). FEAR looked like the dominant system; lots of games appear to use it. However the big winner of the west is Games Workshop. They had a fairly good chunk of Yellow Submarine's RPG section, were very prolific in the minis/figures Yellow Submarine store I went to on accident, and even some game books in Role and Roll. You can never escape the Space Marines, it would seem. Overall RPGs seem to really pale in comparison to cards over here, at least from my (very) brief viewing. There's a LOT of anime card games - even a Touhou one - and I have no idea what any of their rules are, but a lot of them made me feel very shameful just to look at the pictures. God dammit Japan. SO. The overall score. All but the two Meikyuus were from Yellow Submarine; a lot of these were used and/or on sale. - Sword World 2.0 booklet. I don't think they even have the full book in print anymore; now it's just a rather small rulebook. This was super cheap so, even though it is indeed mostly words, I grabbed it. - Some kinda Touhou game? Flipping though, it seemed to be all about Cirno. gently caress you. Don't judge me. gently caress you. gently caress you. - Barna Kronika. One of the more expensive ones; couldn't find it used. - Arianrhod. Used, dirt cheap. - Double Cross second edition. Used, fairly cheap. I know it's on 3rd edition now...but it was also signed by the maker, so hey, why not. - Alshard. Used, way cheap. I saw Alshard FF in Role and Roll, but...uh...well, to be honest, forgot to buy it. I'll probably get it later. - Night Wizard! The exclamtion point is part of the name, I think. Used, very cheap. Of all the used books, this one shows actual wear and tear, but it's not like I'll be actually using it. - Night Wizard! 2nd Edition. I think? I'm not sure what the first book actually is but it was like $5. Anyways, this one is a loving tome. On sale; STILL expensive. - Meikyuu Kingdom! Two books. I have no idea what the are. They're both different and they have lots of pictures, at any rate. Neither on sale, neither SUPER expensive alone. Overall cost: ~$100-$110 COULD NOT FIND: Endbreakers. Neither store was carrying it; I'm not sure if it's out of stock or out of print. OTHER THEN THAT: The only Beast Bind I saw was I think a supplement and also like 40 bucks so nope. I completely forgot about Monster Maker Legend.
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Jan 22, 2014 08:16
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I mean, I cannot read Japanese, so a fair amount of this is just for the novelty of it. I'm being cajoled to get Tokyo Nova (I saw a lot of it, seems fairly popular), and I might look for Monster Maker Legends, if I do go back.
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Jan 22, 2014 08:43
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I THINK it was Phantom. I fidn't look hard because all the other anime games I've seen have had really creepy artwork. Also, sadly, I A) don't know what thread you mean and B) will not have a scanner gor a long while, probably.
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Jan 23, 2014 05:01
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Ewen Cluney posted:I'll have to find time to read it (it's a pretty thin book), but I don't remember seeing any hint of actual Cthulhu stuff. It's surprising just how well-known Call of Cthulhu is with Japanese fans; I've seen the notion of SAN points even pop up in anime from time to time. I saw a TON of CoC in both Yellow Submarine and Roll&Role. It was probably the most prominent western RPG in both outside of D&D - and if you don't count all the much older stuff in Yellow Submarine, might've even outnumbered D&D there.
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Feb 12, 2014 02:13
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I think Double Cross has a pretty solid and fun combat system, though it's subject to a high degree of system mastery. Honestly I think that it's mostly that a vast majority of RPGs have lousy systems anywhere you are. Though I have to wonder, given how Japanese marketing often works, how much playtesting JTRPGs go through. Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, "most games are mechanically kinda crap and ill playtested" describes this hobby kinda regardless of what country you're in.
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Mar 18, 2014 03:03
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Postin' this in two threads as it's connected to two things! Apparently D&D Next is ENGLISH ONLY NO FOREIGNER ALLOWED. This is a (somewhat rough) translation of an official release of the company that usually gets licensing for WotC's materials in Japan.quote:AN IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT "D&D NEXT"
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Jul 2, 2014 15:00
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And then there're kongohki.
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Nov 24, 2015 05:48
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Covok posted:Are they broken ridiculous good? They gain pretty substantial benefits for treading the knife's edge in karma, and can use Overdrive to reroll and increase their number of successes. They are legitimately combat monsters that can destroy almost any enemy, except maybe literally invincible spirits. They are balanced by being "stunned" whenever they receive aiki...which means the only way to stop them is to feed them more power.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Thats awesome, but what won gold? Knowing the ENnies, probably something not nearly as good!
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