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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

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I thought you meant sheriff Geronimo


MST3K 10.08

By popular demand fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jan 15, 2016

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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

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Can't refuse the Magical race war :allears:

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Zereth posted:

I'm in favor of more of a "You are not, and never were, a human. You are just wearing a cheap human disguise, you weren't born a human and remembered it later or anything."

Why are you, a Kraken, wearing a cheap human disguise? gently caress it, you like doritos. It's very difficult to purchase and eat doritos as a giant squid-monster. Also you like not being attacked with torpedoes and depth charges.

I like the idea of beasts just hiding in plain sight for their own protection, gently caress trying to predate on humans they got bombs and poo poo.:krakken:

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:swoon: This thread keeps rewriting games to awesome places.

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The Lord of Hats posted:

So wait, given that heroic actions get rolled against the Doom, that means that aside from oppressing the peasants to keep their Inspiration down, the nobles are actively incentivized to make the world a shittier place, because now they're harder to overthrow. And they know this. Really gives me a bit of a Brandon Sanderson vibe. What a cool system.

I considered myself to be burned out on fantasy games but this one sounds like it could fill the void in my heart :stwoon:

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I figure that's when you get nasty, as in 'bad guy is actually a possessing spirit/gets reborn' kinda way

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Can't, not one paragraph is singing praise to the genius that is John wick.:smuggo:

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Guys, please don't talk about butts (or other orifices) right after the FATAL post:baby::barf:

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And once again this thread creates in two posts a better structure for a genre game then some professionals do in two decades.

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Simian_Prime posted:

The Marvel Universe RPG (the diceless one from the early 2000s) tried to use this for time and movement. It was a clever idea, the problem was that the book was so poorly edited that the terms "panel" and "page" became interchangeable. Goddamn that book was a hot mess.

If the book can't even consistently describe a panel as "several quick actions" and a page as "one short combat" , then what good is it?
My point about the thread's design-by-committee being superior to many paid RPG writers stands.

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It seems to me that the god machine would work best at a low-wierdness setting.
Very few supernaturals and no big antagonists, only strange unknowable forces.

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How do you feel about the 40k treatment?

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That sounds far too rad for this game, I'd wager that this risk is never mentioned.

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Poltergrift posted:

here's another instance of "how I would fix Beast."

Use this as a reskin for Promethean and I'm game.

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Both in Django and Fury road, revenge comes as a side benefit .
The protagonists are not looking for trouble beyond the main goal,
If the bad guys stand in the way however...

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Once Upon a Time in the West,
features a 'classic' revenge plot, Harmonica even protects the villain because he wants to be the one who kills him

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^^:stare:

On a more powerful note, I'd like to thank everyone who is reviewing and explaining what it is they enjoy .

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Progenitor has a really well detailed history from the late sixties to 2000 and it's repeatedly stated that this is only the shape of things if the PC's don't interfere.

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:toot:June thread of the month:toot:

E: So can we all agree that Progenitor has the best alt-history of any RPG?
I`d be happy to hear about more games doing it well.

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An idea:
the Machine is not sapient at all,
nothing more than a bacterial colony on a global scale.
It only adapts as a result of massive blind experiments because it has no capacity for creativity.

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Goddamnit Matt forback, how can you put so much effort and love into something and have it come out this poo poo.

E: did he have anyone exerting any sort of editorial control?

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I remember that KODT comics joke about an RPG tagline "not for sissies".
Would you say that Rifts takes about that amount of :smuggo: ?

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Outside of some bad webcomics, that was the least exciting thing involving superheroes, robots and fighting Nazis I ever read.
Quite an accomplishment really.

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Seattle, we're already here.

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My favourite part in the Captain america movie was the crazy superweapons that took inspiration from real designs

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Dang it Hostile V, how can Evil Inc. possibly be dumber than this?
Is the entire book filled with descriptions of identical 3x3 rooms?

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Hostile V posted:

One of the new Delta powersets is "Forger". You're super good at forging. That's it.

I just realised that far from being a normal man, am a "Procrastinator"™:coolspot:
Naturally I intend to harness my amazing powers for the benefit of all of humanity, if I can be arsed about it.

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So what have we learned?
I learned that in the context of a "what if" questions there are stupid questions and unimaginably boring answers.
I forgot many games reviewed here, but I think that I'll remember BNW for being less appealing and bland than a pile of soggy Quaker oats.

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If FATAL can be likened to an entertainingly bad movie like 'the room' or 'manos the hands of faith', then BNW is 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies'

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Bieeardo posted:

More dice is only more fun when you're rolling damage.

This, a thousand times this.
I have never exclaimed "shadowrun again, I can't wait to roll a container full of plastic dice all the time!"

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Jul 17, 2007

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Maybe it's good that Gygax is dead, the world can only handle so much pretentious Original Designer (tm)

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gently caress me, people complain about the 40k universe being static but you can easily create a sector and go hog wild.
L5R seems entirely pointless.

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Jul 17, 2007

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Sounds like you need some alone time with a dictionary:cop:

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Jul 17, 2007

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They were probably just in that learned helplessness mindset that abusive GMs try to enforce.
Which is another sort of dumb.

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Do play Planescape torment though. Some of the best writing in video games.

E: I seriously can't recommend this game enough, so long as you have the patience to read all the dialogue.

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The combat in that game was uninspired but fortunately it was very easy to just hoard curatives and roll over anything that I couldn't avoid.

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It's worth it to play to the end at least once to make choices.

By popular demand fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Sep 23, 2016

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You guys forgot to mention the very best ending in that game, where you walk off middle finger raised high to all the bickering factions.
You usually don't get WoD GMs cool enough to allow that.

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Who was it that coined the term 'Cogservatism'?

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Jul 17, 2007

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Hyperbrains are better implemented in Progenitor:
One is a bit of an anarchist, developing technologies to improve mankind's lot without tying himself to any one government.
One creates a third superpower in the cold war.
The lesser hyperbrains have lesser effects on history.
One creates a hypermeme that makes legalisation of weed more acceptable, because she wants to export it to the U.S.

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