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Bieeardo posted:I'm going as the spookiest thing a Canadian can imagine: a giant cup of Tim Hortons coffee with the rim rolled up to reveal a 'Try Again!' message. As a Canadian-in-Exile, the scariest thing to me is Americans going out of their way to tell me how much they enjoy Tim Hortons.
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Bieeardo posted:Do any of the others try to fight you for the honour of Krispy Kreme? I just think Timmy's makes bad coffee and bad, microwaved donuts. KK actually makes theirs. TheLovablePlutonis posted:Conscious consumption is a lie considering that anyone posting here is using an electronic device whose creation involved the brutal exploitation under subhuman conditions of african and southeast-asian laborers in order to reduce costs and increase profit rates of CEOs because that's how Capital works hahaha! This is actually true. On some level, it's shitbags all the way down. In the wake of the Scott Allie controversy in comics (long story short, dude is a senior editor at Dark Horse, and he got wasted at a con party, bit a dude and grabbed his junk and has been doing that kind of thing for years because he's an alcoholic) David Brothers wrote about this http://tumblr.iamdavidbrothers.com/post/130368181942/this-is-something-thats-been-weighing-on-me-and-i That said, it doesn't mean nobody should ever decide that something isn't for them for a moral reason. "Shitbags all the way down" is indeed true but it can be a moral copout. Electronic devices are pretty much indispensable in this fallen world. Entertainment isn't, especially when there's so much of it around. That doesn't mean I think someone's a monster or I'll stop respecting them or being their friend or whatever if they want to do something like run Red and Pleasant Land. But I don't think it makes them immune from criticism for doing so either. Of course, I might have to swallow my own bitter medicine soon. Scott Allie is the editor of most, if not all of the Hellboy stuff and that's my favorite comic so... gently caress. I'm probably not going to boycott it, but I hope he gets fired or his job is made contingent on going to rehab. theironjef posted:Hey so did that Savage Worlds: Rifts thing die on the vine already or is that still happening? Pinnacle is known for being tight lipped, so expect news to show up out of the blue when they have something of substance. They're probably going to miss the Christmas date since this is RPGs, but who knows? From google I have learned that playtests are occurring, so that's good news. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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Arivia posted:You impugned Tim's. We can no longer be friends, LL. My cousin used to work there and I got to see how the sausage is made.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I stopped reading Cape trash from murricans since three years ago and it was the best decision I've ever had. Go read Franco-Belgian, Japanese or Southamerican comics yall 
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Usagi Yojimbo has good rules to emulate chanbara where the protagonist mows down legions of goons as well, like Zatoichi. Or UY itself, actually.
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paradoxGentleman posted:How crunchy should a system trying to emulate mythology be? Well Glorantha, possibly the most mythic setting in all of RPGs, was traditionally tied to a Runequest, a crunchy system. Now it's almost exclusively officially tied (at least until Runequest Glorantha and 13th Age in Glorantha come out) to Heroquest 2.0, one of the lightest systems I've ever seen. Playing Gloranthan games in either system produce very different results, but I think I'd call them both mythic. Just in different ways. The fiddly bits in Runequest (I haven't played any of the recent versions, so I'm not sure if these are trimmed back at all) can detract from that feeling though. Kai Tave posted:Kevin Sembieda in particular is infamous for never actually using the Rifts system he sells to people to run Rifts games, apparently he just wings it. I've played with him a couple of times, and he does use the Palladium house system for sure, he just does a lot of fudging and uses a ton of personal house rules. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:After playing a bunch of Symphony of the Night (and less successfully, Dark Souls) I've started thinking of if you could make an RPG with that kind of "difficulty"- where if you're getting hit by the enemy, it's not because of a randomizer, but because you made a mistake. If the whole party gets killed, it's not "campaign over" but "okay let's try that again using what we've learned." That sounds like something you should try to figure out how to abstract rather than reproduce, you know?
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So generic RPGs... what kind of gameplay are each of them best at, do you all think?Simian_Prime posted:RIP grognards.txt I just found the most amazing thing, too! Some of the Weird Grog I like rather than the typical "lol 3.x is good!!!" crap. But it clocked in at over 100k characters, and I was trying to figure out how to pare it down when the thread got nuked. Oh well.
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Reason posted:Can anyone recommend some systemless setting books with neat art? Off the top of my head: Guide to Glorantha Atlas of Rokugan Dragon Kings Calidar - In Stranger Skies (There's a tiny Pathfinder section in the back) Tekumel Sourcebook gradenko_2000 posted:How are you supposed to read pre-written campaigns/adventures/modules? Every time I try my eyes glaze over because I know I'm never going to remember all of this stuff and I feel like I'm just going to end up railroading players even if I did. Skim it, see what appeals to you or what you think your players would like and then break it down into gameable content in the way you prefer.
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I don't think there's just rules light and rules heavy games. There's games in between, games that are heavy in one area and light in another, etc.Tatum Girlparts posted:Yea the tabletop population as a whole is still 100% in the D&D is king mindset with splatterings of Shadow Run and Dark Heresy and all. FATE is still met with mostly 'oh right the weird dice thing that isn't the Star Wars game' in most places. Hence my confusion at the idea of the dudes who have to kickstart their games and all to get them made at all having the ability to 'push' the hobby anywhere. It's kinda like saying that dude with the hotdog stand sure is pushing the food industry to Chicago style hot dogs. He's selling them, and there may well be a lot of people going 'yea man Chicago hot dogs rule' and there are even other stands that offer those kinds of hot dogs to get some of that market, but it's not like Gordon Ramsay's going to do an all Chicago hot dog special or something any time soon. Now you've done it. Now people are going to get bogged down in arguing about this metaphor and how actually, the whole hobby is hot dog stands.
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