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White Wolf was really starting to crap out at the start of the decade- between the height of the recession, the layoffs, and the eventual birth of Onyx Path, they produced their last physical books and the writing either became mediocre or outright stupid in some cases, like this or that one creepy as hell chapter in the Werewolf Chronicler's Guide. Besides, the idea of "You are secretly run by teh BAD GUYS O NOEZ!!1!" is so loving cliche and overplayed it's not fun to play with. Twists like "They're monsters, but still patriots" are much more palatable. Kavak fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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Luminous Obscurity posted:Edit: That book also had a pretty cool Werewolves in Ancient Sumer chapter, though. That it did. The issue with the chapter in question wasn't so much the "No werewolf sex taboo" but the way it was written. I can't describe how skincrawly it was, like the author was trying to convince you to have sex in a fursuit. EDIT: ^^^^^ No, but it came pretty close to resurrecting the Animal Magnetism rules from Apocalypse.
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Jun 14, 2015 01:51
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If I ever run a Hunter campaign, the cell is going to find itself competing/cooperating with Iran's counterpart to both Valkyrie and the Malleus Maleficarum, VAJA's Subministry for Unusual Threats to the Islamic Republic*, colloquially known as the "Djinn Hunters". *Name pending
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Jun 14, 2015 02:21
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Tsilkani posted:Change name to Sons of Sulayman, stat. Is there a reference I'm missing besides Solomon ruling over Djinn?
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Jun 14, 2015 02:38
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Luminous Obscurity posted:One of Promethean's supplements had some stuff on human cloning. If memory serves it wasn't bad, just a bit out of place for most Promethean games and kind of forgettable as a result. Promethean started getting into a lot of Sci-Fi stuff with the Zeka and the Unfleshed, and I think they were looking for stuff to fill out the last book.
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Jun 15, 2015 00:03
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Simian_Prime posted:I almost feel like the clone thing was just a setting justification for having disposable mooks to throw at Prometheans. Just make a swarm of lovely Pandorans and you're good.
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Jun 15, 2015 00:32
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Wapole Languray posted:Aren't Geists literally just straight up Ghost-Superheroes? And incredibly broken? Pretty much. There's nothing that sucks about being a Sin-Eater to drive the plot- nothing's pursuing you, your Geist has no mechanical control over you, there's nothing stopping you from going back to your old life. I blame the recession for a lack of playtesting.
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Jun 17, 2015 07:37
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quote:The reason why no Iconomancer has been able to channel Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, is due to the fact that Jim Morrison made history as the first Iconomancer. Jim Lives. And he’s channeling himself and living in L.A. My ancient plan of designing an adventure or campaign based off the lyrics of Celebration of the Lizard no longer seems so crazy. Mr. Mojo Risin 
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Jun 17, 2015 12:08
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oriongates posted:Personally I find They Might Be Giants a terrific source of inspiration for surreal horror games. Cartoon Network had them write a song for Courage the Cowardly Dog for a reason.
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Jun 17, 2015 12:27
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Doresh posted:I hope you mean Persona 3, where summoning involves pretend-headshotting yourself. It's one of the listed inspirations for Geist.
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Jun 17, 2015 23:00
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unseenlibrarian posted:It always gets me when people say "Wish fulfillment" like it's a bad thing to have happen in an RPG session. Oh no, you might get things you want or enjoy out of playing a game with your friends! I don't think wish-fulfillment actually means anything when he says it. It's like communist, socialist, and fascist to rightists- they're all substitutes for "bad thing".
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Jun 22, 2015 23:37
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Blue Rose seems like a fantasy take on Star Trek- the government is built on humane foundations and is run by good and noble people, so you're supposed to adventure and explore away from it or fight those who want to undermine it. It's just that they spend so much time talking about the kingdom before getting to the playable stuff that it seems preachy.
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Jul 28, 2015 09:55
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taichara posted:Sorry, writer person, but I don't think having the ruling caste as well as the effective peasant caste be free of refugees really exempts you from having pretty much written "the enlightened pale-skinned people who were too Good to stay in their corrupting kingdom fled and brought art, culture and civilization to the dark-skinned primitives". I thought the theocracy was going to be the racist as poo poo part, but I guess they saved it for the supplements. Kai Tave, do the Jarzoni ever get physically described?
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Jul 31, 2015 16:20
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Do the mutations let you play as the immortal demi-god who will conquer earth and reunite mankind's stellar empire?
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Aug 3, 2015 22:41
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Mr.Misfit posted:Oh, it´s a grog-fest alright, wit more "verisimilitude" than you can stomach. It´s also Bureacracy the Game and is the most successful and biggest roleplaying game of Germany (which says a lot about us but even more about what many people like to play) with a metaplot of just about mhmm....30 years? And Ulisses recently recalled a Ingame history book due to fan outrage about the changes...it´s hilarious. We kind of have to review it now. And by biggest and most successful, you mean by overall sales or just your best selling domestic game?
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Aug 4, 2015 15:24
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Doresh posted:I'm not familiar with the sales, but The Dark Eye is our Dungeons & Dragons in that nearly everyone has played it at some point. D&D was never as big here, and the competition with D&D has probably become even less after WotC basically abandoned the German market after the first release of the 4th edition core books. Not sure if they're back with the 5th edition though. Part of my confusion was that I got Das Schwarze Auge confused with a very different game where everyone lived on bridges over an endless sea of tar- go figure. But yeah, it got started in '84 while D&D was still in its birth stages, conquered its market, and never let go. Can't wait to see how three decades of unrebooted metaplot works. Also I the demigod I mentioned was this dude, just in case I'm misunderstanding you.
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Aug 4, 2015 17:36
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FMguru posted:Sounds like Tales of Gargentihr , a 1990s steampunky fantasy game where the world featured solid rock continents floating in giant seas of...silt. One-and-done publisher, and I'd call it a heartbreaker except the setting is just too weird to really be in the tradition of AD&D-only-with-more-rules fantasy heartbreakers. That's not it- it was definitely black tar, post-apocalyptic, and possibly French (Humans might've lived on barges instead of bridges- seems more workable). Someone in the Good, Bad, & Catpiss thread described it, and how one player ignored everything else about the campaign to dive into the tar with his submarine.
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Aug 4, 2015 19:28
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Mr.Misfit posted:For Germany? I´d say both. Boosts biggest sales by a mile and remains best selling domestic roleplaying game due to a stern and "faithful" (read: toxic) customer base. Are we talking grog rage like what got the setting history book cancelled or something nastier?
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Aug 4, 2015 20:24
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gradenko_2000 posted:Oh yeah I mean I've literally and unironically been in a spot where "huh I need to set this in a farm, but how big is a middle-age-esque fantasy farm plot?" Same here. That thing is giving me a fat, pink, immersion boner.
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Aug 14, 2015 06:43
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I may rag on Harn, but by god I respect it. When I said it was THE Peasant/ simulator I was not kidding in the slightest. I was at the GENCON where it was first released and it produced the same 'Holy poo poo!' reactions then as it does now. Robin Crossby is a mad genius. You were at GenCon '86? 
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Aug 14, 2015 10:11
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I would pay good money to see an RPG with a Romani equivalent that does not come off as unbelievably racist. I used to think a lot of American writers simply didn't know they're still a real ethnic group, not just some medieval construct, but they don't have that excuse anymore.
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Aug 15, 2015 21:18
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poo poo, I actually bought one of the Dragon issues that had part of the Age of Worms in it- Issue 5, according to Wikipedia. In the letters section, one DM had a player (Described as a burly construction worker) break down in tears when a love interest NPC betrayed them.
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Aug 22, 2015 22:32
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Egregious Offences posted:The whole "magic union" angle could work really well as a way to introduce the different splats of magic users. Also, mages that refuse to join a specific school/style of magic could be part of a IWW style "One big union of all the wizards". An IWW magic union would have each magical type and school as one section of a larger Spellworkers Union. ARCANE DEPARTMENT, SPELLCASTING UNIONS 110- Abjurers 120- Conjurers 130- Diviners etc. DIVINE DEPARTMENT, SPELLCASTING UNIONS 110- Lawful Good Clerics 120- Neutral Good Clerics 130- Chaotic Good Clerics etc. Maybe a seperate department for druids or lump them in with the divines, then have one for magical creatures...
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Aug 27, 2015 15:50
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Tasoth posted:I'm am saddened that the author went with hyenas being scavenging sadists. Hyenas pretty much kill everything they eat with very little scavenging. Lions, on the other hand, tend to just chase off hyenas and scavenge more. Sometimes the shifters represent the popular (Western) idea of an animal, and sometimes not. The reason both happen is flurp durp fart this book is loving dumb.
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Aug 30, 2015 06:16
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Something similar to Purple XVI's avatar.
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Sep 2, 2015 05:31
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Combining White Nationalists with Indians, I think Hitler passes that test as well, as well as Stalin for different reasons. It's a pity it has to be post-WWII, because I'd like to see what they do with Lenin.
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Sep 2, 2015 21:29
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I always pictured the NCR's cities being heavy on bicycles. There's one functioning car left in the west, railroads are just coming back online, Brahmin are everywhere- they might able to build tramcars, but bikes would be a good choice in a safer environment like that.
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Sep 3, 2015 03:51
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D&D grogs've got nothing on TDE fans.
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Sep 6, 2015 08:35
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Speaking of good crunchy systems, what happened to that review of Harn?
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Sep 9, 2015 06:36
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Kurieg posted:No, their newest video game is Sword Coast Legends, which will be getting a tie in book for the actual tabletop RPG as well as a bunch of novels and other stuff. I was really hoping it was going to be Neverwinter Nights 3, but it doesn't sound like it's as modifiable or complete.
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Sep 10, 2015 16:55
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The kleptomancer would fit a thousand times better if it was a hoarder adept. Taboo is you can't throw away anything, and cannot knowingly let anyone throw something away for you. Bam, instantly thematic and relevant. The issue is how you measure charges- is it just something you gain over time, so the longer you survive in the more awful the house the more powerful your magic?
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Sep 13, 2015 10:48
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Cooked Auto posted:It's almost as if I'm back playing the Neverwinter Nights Original Campaign again. At least the NPCs cough up more than one portion of backstory per level. Also, does each Age of Worms adventure have a different author or do some come back after a few chapters? Was there any editorial oversight?
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Sep 13, 2015 11:51
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Okay, I'm sorry for being a late arrival to the podcast, but where did Cheese Dudes start?
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Sep 23, 2015 05:52
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theironjef posted:Man the art in the original Urban Arcana book basically sells a 70s module all by itself, with the hard-nosed bugbear private eye and the gnoll pimp. I can just see orcs working on muscle cars in an alley and so on. That'd be awesome. Driver stole their spot, unfortunately, though I'd love if they'd start doing games set in the past again.
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Sep 25, 2015 03:32
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Bieeardo posted:This reminds me way too much of that autistic trans-person who claimed they needed Beast because it mirrored their struggle with transition. It's kind of telling that one of the few people the game really appealed to was someone whose self-esteem was so low they believed it was best for everyone else that they were dead. "The suicidal" should not be your target audience.
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Oct 1, 2015 04:32
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First clue: His name is Topher. Seriously, which kickstarter?
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Oct 1, 2015 15:53
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Why'd he get kicked off RPG.net? And do you think it was always a scam, or did he decided he didn't want to work on it anymore and tried to weasel his way out?
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Oct 1, 2015 16:05
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I can't remember the last time a game system actually caused a serious debate in this thread- Polaris?
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Oct 9, 2015 09:01
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FMguru posted:1980s design, to me, means efforts at making systems more unified, more universal, more “realistic”. Moving away from the D&D/AD&D model of independent subsystems that weren’t terribly well integrated. Comprehensive skill systems. Universal result tables (like in Marvel Super Heroes). Things like Champions/Hero, GURPS, BRP, Rolemaster, and the first D6 games. It strikes me as a transition from common law (Collections of rulings and systems established on a case-by-case basis) to civil law (Something designed and written from the bottom-up to work together as a coherent whole).
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Did any of these HST pastiches/tributes ever reference poo poo outside Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? You'd think they'd at least read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 or Better than Sex.
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