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Night10194 posted:We'll get to it when we get to Sigmar's Heirs, but Halflings have the only functioning democracy in the Old World and are uniformly fairly prosperous over in the very rich and fertile mootland. Aren't Halflings also the only ones that don't spontaneously burst into tentacles when warp shenanigans occur?
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"This is the spawn point for bullshit that walks/charges/runs/flies/teleports into your gunline"
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Sep 8, 2018 09:56
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Has the Empire ever noticed halflings never seem to mutate or is this just counteracted with trying to ignore their existence and the inability to take them seriously under any circumstances, potential cultists or otherwise?
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Sep 10, 2018 00:25
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You'd think they'd ban axes instead of guns.
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Sep 11, 2018 04:52
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"Barbaric human and dwarf toys which no self respecting real person would ev-" BOOM "HAHAHA, holy gently caress give me one of those."psudonym55 posted:Cavalrymen also come with an expensive horse worth 15 gold crowns. Sold even for half price that is a lot of starting cash for a character. Its not really WFRP unless you're just forced to eat the horse for emergency rations.
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Sep 14, 2018 22:18
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GM's having little obsessions related to their interests outside gaming can either make a game great or really really obnoxious.
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Sep 22, 2018 09:09
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Mors Rattus posted:WFRP 4e - History of the Reikland Hmm?
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Sep 23, 2018 03:17
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Isn't "nazis fighting demons" something  already covers?
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Sep 24, 2018 03:17
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Mors Rattus posted:
Countdown until Nuln experiences a Bat Bomb incident?
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Sep 25, 2018 16:33
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Mors Rattus posted:It is fairly explicit that kids born mutated are better off dead then left to the Beastmen, and that mutants are not evil in and of themselves, but rather that the terror and hate that they're subjected to tend to drive them to the Dark Gods or suicide. Don't most mutants that don't die turn into chaos spawn?
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Sep 26, 2018 02:36
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Night10194 posted:Who ever actually played halflings, anyway? I got a lot of mileage out of playing halfling fieldwardens in 2nd, especially if the game goes long enough to get into vampire hunter. "I AM THURBOOT TUMBLEBOTTOM, DIE MONSTER, YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD." etc
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Sep 27, 2018 05:10
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wiegieman posted:There's the fact that vampires are enemies of Sigmar, mostly because Nagash is an rear end in a top hat and cursed them to be harmed by Sigmar's symbols after failing him. Draculas vs Skeleton Clown God is also one of the better match ups in the game.
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Oct 2, 2018 17:19
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Night10194 posted:
Low level banal hooliganism might be a decent way of keeping people from advancing to "jam needles in eyeballs in order to feel something again."
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Oct 4, 2018 22:43
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Of course we would go from "a wizard did it" to "toy breeds."
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Oct 8, 2018 15:42
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megane posted:How literally every version of fantasy or scifi China was made: Has there ever been any alt-history where the God-Worshiper jacobins manage to topple the Quing Emperor?
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Communist Zombie posted:Are you talking about the Taiping Rebellion? They used to exist as one of the splinter countries that made up China in older versions of the KaiserReich mod for Hearts of Iron / Arsenal of Democracy, but from what I can remember their fluff leaned heavily on the kingdom part (read imperial China) of the "Heavenly Kingdom" and not so much on their proto communist weird christianity. Yes, and ah, that's a shame,
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grassy gnoll posted:Please, these people may be comparatively primitive, but they're still from our future and they traveled 20 light years further than any of us have ever gotten. They have minidisc players. What's the state of the Ariadna/Nomad alliance in the current fluff? Also, wasn't there some sort of unobtanium on the planet that makes their comparatively primitive guns shoot harder? Like if a bolt action rifle could blow through both sides of an armored vehicle?
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I assume letting them onto the Nomad servers was treated more or less like the existential hate the 20-something year old 4chan grubs felt when the Q-anon boomers flooded in and started posting wine mom memes. Or the Ariadna version of the goon that spearhunted pigs and posted pictures of himself with the corpses, but with giant wolves.
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Loxbourne posted:I recall an old marketing truism for both tabletop and computer games is supposedly that a large number of potential players simply will not touch anything but a recognizably modern-day human faction. Human factions (supposedly) outsell non-human ones across the board by a massive margin. If you don't put your Imperial Guard/GDI/Halo marines faction into the game, this large and well-funded chunk of the audience simply will not buy in. I'll admit it, Ariadna weirdness is the only reason I'm interested in the setting, honestly. I usually like the "Guts, Guns, Grit" faction in most settings.
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Oct 18, 2018 23:57
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Yeah, but don't many/most game settings that keep adding stuff eventually get into that kind of overkill? For example, Aridana is still a lot more coherent than any description of Warhammer 40k that's more detailed than "Large potato men wearing refrigerators hit each other with chainsaws."
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As someone who has played in 40k rpgs for over a decade, I absolutely concur. Feed me from the garbage can of
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Mind control is only an interesting theme for me when its encouraging someone to do what they already wanted to do. When its just outright hijacking someone and driving them around like a car, my feeling is a resounding "meh."
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Angrymog posted:Based on some of the questions that Trump has asked about nukes, you could see him nuking the ME with only a little nudge from War, rather than outright mind control. I think this has to do with many people, even as recently as three years ago, thinking of the presidency as some sort of  thing with Serious, Good Intentioned People Doing The Best They Can. So obviously despite any political disagreements I have with the guy, surely the president wouldn't kill millions for laughs?Even as dumb as GWB got, writing for an audience of the 90's/2000s people and telling them there'd be an orange goblin clown with an anus mouth building literal child concentration camps would've got you accused of exaggerating for effect. The apocalypse would be as dumb and cretinous as anything else in 2018. Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Oct 20, 2018 |
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Young Freud posted:If Trump was more political during the early '90s instead of getting self-owned with the Taj Mahal and trying to ingratiate himself in the New York elite, he would definitely would have been part of Ray Winninger's Underground. Underground is the only RPG i can think of that captures the grotesquerie of the current zeitgeist. Maybe SLA industries.
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I give it a .5 on the Oglaf meter.
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Oct 21, 2018 10:37
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Comrade Gorbash posted:There is a pretty common view in certain evangelical circles that the gods of other religious traditions are in fact demons or literally the Devil. Which is already layered on top of the fact that many US evangelicals fall into the dualism heresy, of imagining the Devil as an all-evil omnipotent being on par with the all-good God. Back when I was stuck with a regular radio and nothing else in traffic, it landed on a local christian station where the guy blurted out "Satan is a super-being, you cannot, as a human, defy him without God's help." Also later on in the presentation: "Does your stock portfolio glorify God?"
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Well, I suppose someone had to one up Wraeththu's suggestion of using bb guns for LARP play. 
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For those of you whose verisimilitude would not be satisfied without a sex pest mind reader.
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MJ12 posted:Infinity is basically a game of deep black ops by the CIA-equivalents of every power, so you get to see a lot of incredible assholes basically everywhere. And it absolutely does have this ambiguity baked into a lot of its factions about their actual intents and goals, and the implicit answer seems to be basically 'a little of both.' Ariadna also have that werewolf slavery thing going on, plus probably a lot of gross cultural quirks from the pre-fall West. I thought I liked Nomads more than I did, because when I read the fluff here I instantly went "Uh, that's a Mobster state, not an anarch commune." Which seems to be a major threat for anarchists in real life, if they manage to throw off the state, and they're sitting on any remotely valuable resource, service, or location, the gangsters try to move in.
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Given the themes presented so far, I would've been disappointed if bug lady boobs weren't present.
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Also, you know, sometimes you just hit the guy with your sword, especially if its round 5 or whatever of the combat.
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Zereth posted:Yeah, but anybody who's got the right mindset to be a dispomancer in the first place won't live a normal life. Being an adept isn't just "If I get drunk, I get magic powers", it's having a skewed view of how reality works and believing in it so hard that reality bows to your unbending will and you get magic powers from your crazyness. My Serentity Adept can only gain charges when accepting the things they cannot change, having courage to change the things they can and should, and being wise enough to know the difference while being a wholesome, productive member of society with their needs, wants, hopes, and fears in balance.
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The UA magic system seems like it would be experimented with during some kind of cold war u.s. govt psyops projects that's abandoned for being useless. Like, the gov't knows about magic. It just doesn't care. Like, there's like a 500 billion dollar program trying to farm adept charges by getting people to self destruct doing dumb poo poo. None of it is useful but it keeps getting a senator reelected. Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Nov 5, 2018 |
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What's the ratio on adept killers vs just regular killers in a successful magical plutocrat's retinue?
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Nov 5, 2018 03:38
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I guess its the difference between what would make a good novel vs what makes you able to have a character that can function. Similar to how 40krpg psykers can theoretically explode and that makes for a fun story but usually not a good game. Also how Dorf Fortress stories are fun to read about but I would never actually play it again.
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Feinne posted:Aberrant mechanics I know you've already said this, but the game seems to be a choice between "Do I want to do something flavorful, or do I just want to break the action economy over my knee"
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grassy gnoll posted:
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Dawgstar posted:Man, I remember somebody taking Disintegration innocently enough and finding out how uber it was in the first fight. It's just super gross. We moved on to another supers game soon after. This seems like one of those systems where its a solved game in initially non-obvious ways, but once those ways are discovered, doing suboptimial stuff becomes a deliberate choice on your part.
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Dawgstar posted:That's about right. Were I to fall and hit my head in the tub and decide to run it, I would indeed insist on a gentleman's agreement and that's never a good sign for a system. Often happens with supers games, but still never a good sign. The thing is I see some interesting parts in there its just that I see too much turn-of-the-century era White Wolf, specifically 1st edition Exalted (mechanical clunk, high power level, general "You are an uncontrollable obnoxious man-child destined to blow up the world", etc)
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Feinne posted:You roll a bit higher difficulty and then you get your EXTREMELY NASTY poo poo. I guess the standard for a superhero/modern magic game is "how, at chargen, or soon thereafter, can you destroy the earth?" I think someone calculated that with forces 4+earth something in NMage you could rupture the earth's crust.
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