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Mexcillent posted:But, with all the weird TG baseless hostility toward perceived threats in White Wolf writing I wouldn't expect someone to have ever really thought about Sorceror's Crusade all that much. Ahaha, what?
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It's nice that Iron Man became a capitalist war profiteer instead of a Psych Major, I guess? Also the leaves metaphor for the beauty and death of childhood is hilarious and they need to keep riding that fucker to the bank and back. Talk about knowing your audience. Mr. Maltose fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Anyone who thinks kids don't take things seriously has never had the fortune of actually dealing with children.
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It helps to remember than there really aren't good concepts in C:tD.
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Jan 16, 2014 19:46
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White Wolf has moved on to the more fertile fields of not making poo poo games.
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Jan 17, 2014 01:49
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Yeah, the expanded story is pretty racist trash where the unwashed pagans attempt to accelerate global warming because apparently gods are climate powered. There is a nazi plan to create a literal nuclear winter.
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Jan 19, 2014 17:38
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GimpInBlack posted:By the way, looking at the TechNoir book, it looks like the first post of my review will cover character creation. So if anybody has a concept for a hard-boiled cyberpunk private eye or an avenging street samurai wandering the Sprawl with her deadly Hanzo steel, go ahead and post it now and I'll do up some example characters. Pics would be even better--TechNoir is even lighter on artwork than Aletheia was. Oh man, make a Peter Riviera. An artist with a bad habit of theft and a tendency to hurt more than necessary. For the art, you understand.
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Jan 27, 2014 23:19
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Majuju posted:This is the most understated reading of Peter Riviera I have ever seen. The dude's a god-drat psychopath! That said, excellent suggestion, stat the poo poo out of him. Well, presumably he needs to be PC Playable.
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Jan 28, 2014 00:20
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TechNoir is astounding if only for allowing you to create the UrGoon method of internet browsing.
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Jan 28, 2014 05:28
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InShaneee posted:(if you're looking for game balance, avoid the name "Mike Pondsmith"). Castle Falkenstein, buddy.
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Feb 5, 2014 07:03
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Lets be honest, we barely learn poo poo about our own country except the highlight reels of all the wars we won/lost until undergraduate classes. This certainly isn't a US problem alone, either.
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Feb 5, 2014 23:05
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That's actually Chapter Three.
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Feb 18, 2014 19:05
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What kind of fly by night philosophy system neglects the wonderfully complex system of the Buddhist afterlife. You don't just pop right back up in a new body, dang it.
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Feb 26, 2014 06:53
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I'm sad they couldn't incorporate more of the source material and have Transhumanist as the class that is Best At Everything.
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Bieeardo posted:I think it was someone around here who pointed out that the 'jotunblut' power of the Norse group as written up was shockingly insulting to Norse culture-- blood was something you shared with a man that you felt confident calling 'brother', not lesser bodies who might qualify as minions, and certainly not animals. That was Rulebook Heavily in I think the Murphy's Rules thread. Edit: Yep Rulebook Heavily posted:Sharing blood is a way to make someone as close as family. And that's quite literal: After a blood sharing rite, the people saring blood would be brothers. Period. You could know if it was by birth or by blood, but it didn't make a shred of difference. It's sacred, not in the sense of "a god made it so" but in the "this is a big loving deal" sense. Mr. Maltose fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Mar 6, 2014 |
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I'm pretty sure part of Gen's whole gimmick is that fireballs and Psycho Power and sonic boom kicks are party tricks you learn in your pursuit of ULTIMATE FIGHT MASTERY but eventually you surpass the need for them.
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Mar 8, 2014 01:28
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The DM's Word, which is obviously law.
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Mar 22, 2014 22:01
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Apparently they stop cloning dudes between movies, possibly because being a scary totalitarian state makes it cheaper to conscript than have your own locally grown artisanal clone jackboots.
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Mar 27, 2014 23:02
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I like the dude in stripey Moebius pants. Hopefully there's more Giraud lookin' stuff in the book.
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Apr 4, 2014 00:07
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Ixians are dudes from Planet Ix, who are the most advanced producers of "machine culture" and are just short of violating the ideals of the Butlerian Jihad. The Bene Tleilax are the genetic engineers who make poo poo like Gholas and Face Dancers.
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They bred themselves to look super nonthreatening to other people. Tleilaxu are scary as hell. The worst the Ix ever did was accidently unleash a horde of self learning self replicating pre-Butlerian hunter seeker drones and killed all of humanity in a possible future prevented by Leto II.
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occamsnailfile posted:maybe Hank Pym shouldn’t feel so bad. Just kidding. Hank Pym doesn’t feel bad. It says something that this is what irks me most out of that entire section, GMPCs and weakass thunderbolts included.
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Apr 11, 2014 20:57
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Yeah that is some pretty mythically accurate Hades. Dude was probably the least worst of the three brother gods, because he just didn't give a gently caress about anything but playing post-mortem Sim City.
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Apr 12, 2014 05:42
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Forget Arachne, the pinnacle of Athena being petty is Medusa.
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Apr 14, 2014 02:04
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Chains of binding are from Sisyphus. Thanatos is told to go take the dude to Tartarus with the bling'ed chains directly instead of having Hermes be the psychopomp, which tips Sisyphus off. Thanatos is tricked into chaining himself up (because Sisyphus is heroically crafty or Thanatos is a dink, the world may never know) and nobody dies until either Ares or Sisyphus himself lets him go.
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Set is my favorite god in the egyptian pantheon because, yeah, he's a dick. But he's also the fiercest defender of Ra during the 12 hours of the night when everything gets crazy and Apep comes around. And then his brother dicks over the boss (in some cycles. Egyptian myth is pretty messy because it is old old old) who Set is buddies with and he's calling himself king of the gods. Except for the versions where it's not Set, it's Typhon. And instead of Horus Heracles shows up and helps Isis superglue her husband back together.
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Castle Falkenstein is not only probably one of the top ten games in the hobby, it's also probably the best use of regular playing cards in a trad-game.
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Apr 17, 2014 00:09
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All PDQ modifiers are by powers of two, so it's using the same notation.
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Apr 17, 2014 16:01
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The last thread was goldmined, so any review on the wiki can be read at your leisure!
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Holy poo poo Adam X, where is your ballcap? To be fair, the ability to set blood on fire by yelling the word burn at the top of your lungs is RIFTS as hell.
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"Hey dudes, let's not talk about the bits the book hasn't covered yet." And somehow people can't even do that, Jesus.
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May 8, 2014 14:37
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Kurieg posted:Wasn't 7th Sea pretty good before it moved to d20? It was a flagship (OH HO!) system for many intolerable 90's concepts, chief sin among them being spend exp as cool benny points ie do cool things or advance.
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Andras is possibly my favorite vestige story, although it's a tough competition. Just dropping the mic and walking off into the void because the new boss is pretty much the old boss.
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Count Chocula posted:Nobilis set my brain on fire like nothing since Unknown Armies and Exalted's Shaping Combat is how I see the world sometimes - it's a narrative that we tell ourselves. Not the world's most ringing endorsement.
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If a dude says you just have to think harder at a thing while also admitting his real life thinking has been altered by reading elfgames you can probably assume his advice won't help that much.
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Jun 19, 2014 08:26
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A Harlem Globetrotter but for Euro-Football instead of Basketball.
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Jun 29, 2014 01:57
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A perfectly normal father of one of your friends who certainly isn't an octopus at all.
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Jun 29, 2014 06:46
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The best part of Dark Force powers is that IN CANON one of the Jedi Elders campaigned to have Force Lightning recognized as a not-evil use of the force. He called it Force Justice or something similarly EU.
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How do you multiclass in OctaNe?
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Davin Valkri posted:Did proper mechanically-backed genre emulation really only happen in the 2000s? It feels weird hearing about stuff like that Indiana Jones example in an age where Apocalypse World, Monsterhearts, Leverage, Atomic Robo, and Double Cross are all readily available. Turns out people learn things over two decades. If this wasn't nerd poo poo we would have learned it earlier, but them's the breaks.
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