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Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Young Freud posted:

They were both lovely tanks compared to the Sherman :colbert:

Which is saying a lot.

Every WWII tank was a lovely tank compared to Hobart's Funnies.

"lovely" in this context is defined as "the one that didn't include a flamethrower"

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Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Tatum Girlparts posted:

complex issues, like spider-monsters.

I totally want to see an official discussion at some Parliament or other about spider monsters.
"The origins, and consequences, of arachnid creatures which belong to the monstrous persuasion".

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Tasoth posted:

Looking at the general design of the lispsabers and the concept behind their construction, I can only see this as a guide to the jedi art of lightsaber fighting. Written by someone who has watched far too much anime. Do they try to incorporate Japanese sword style later in the book? It seems like it would be a fitting style for foam sword smashing.

I would totally watch a series about lightsaber samurai.
I would also watch a series about LARP lightsaber samurai, but for very different reasons.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Bitchtits McGee posted:

they have hundreds of eyes on the inside of their bodies. :psyduck:

Well you know, you gotta watch what you eat. :downsrim:

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Lemon Curdistan posted:

<Eberron>
And also:

How did it come to be?

Back in 2002 (oh, hey, that was over a decade ago now :smith:), Wizards figured out that maybe relying on just Forgotten Realms as their flagship setting for D&D might be a bad idea. In an effort to resolve this problem, WotC started the Fantasy Setting Search contest (what an original name :what:).

The contest received about 11000 single-page setting pitches, from a mix of amateurs, industry folk and professionals from outside the tabletop industry. Out of all of those, Wizards ended up selecting a mere eleven pitches to be developed into 10-page outlines.

After several months of judging, Keith Baker’s Eberron pitch won the contest. Since part of the submission guidelines involved agreeing not to disclose any info about the setting pitches, the other ten have unfortunately been lost to the mists of time and WotC’s R&D vaults – although there are some reasons to believe a lot of the content ended up being reused in late-era 3.5 documents and maybe even bits of 4E’s PoL setting.


I think that Rich Burlew (the dude who does Order Of The Stick) had created a setting which got into the final 11, and that's why he's known to throw a few stabs at Eberron. I could be remembering wrong though, so if someone knows better, feel free to say so.


Also, Eberron sounds like a great setting. Magitek and megacorps, can't go wrong with that.

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Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




GimpInBlack posted:

And that's it for the Introduction. Next up will be the Characters chapter, where we'll learn exactly how much parkour we need to outrun a bat. We'll also design a cell of vampire-slaying burned-out ex-spies to showcase the rules, and that means it's audience participation time! Submit your ideas for spies you'd like to see punch a Dracula in the face, and I'll pick between three and five of them to build out as player characters. You can also vote for which, if any, modes you'd like to see used for the audience participation segments. (If you want to vote for a vanilla, unmodified game, vote for "thriller.")

Hm. I wouldn't mind a Greek vampire hunter. In this economy, he's a full-time vampire-slayer, after being an informer against the junta (of 1967). His position within the ranks of the soldiers (in order to inform) gave him a spot close to the action when the attack on the Polytechic, and it haunts him to this day. Smokes a lot.

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