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Lina Inverse buys a cursed knife that makes people go berserk at a Magic Weapon Store. The shopkeep wasn't even evil or anything; clearly the GM just rolled on a random table.
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Bedlamdan posted:Lodoss War was apparently /heavily/ embellished compared to the actual play, in the original game Parn died like a couple of sessions in and Deedlit looted all his stuff before pawning it off. Good. Parn sucks.
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theironjef posted:Also it includes phrases like "CAST OFF THE YOLK OF GOVERNMENT RULE" drat Egg Council got its claws into the TTRPG community!
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Just summarize the whole contract to "Don't stab each other in the back because you think it's funny, you chucklefucks."
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Doresh posted:Preferably one you wear on your wrist like a watch. This is quickly turning into Yu Gi Oh duel disc technology.
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Literal Blender Zombies.
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Peasant: The Murdering
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unseenlibrarian posted:Yep. BRP based, though it had a big book of conversions. Man, what a bunch of studs.
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Selachian posted:The Thieves' World boxed set was pretty awesome, though. Besides stats for the various characters and things in the books, it included a huge map of Sanctuary, tables of random city business and encounter generators, building floor plans, and for some reason a copy of Poul Anderson's essay "On Thud and Blunder' which, as it happens, goes nicely with the current discussion on realism in fantasy. Started reading this, but had to stop because I got to the part where Anderson calls katanas "marvels of metallurgy" over the "cruder blades of Europe."
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PurpleXVI posted:Middenarde So if I fired off one arrow, then rolled a 17 on my Visual Acuity check, I'd find two arrows? Bonus!
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Waffleman_ posted:AKA half of Cinemasins' MO. (The other half is popping a boner literally anytime a woman is on screen. Not even like scantily clad or doing a sexy thing. Just a woman.) And even when Cinema Sins is pointing out plot holes, a lot of that time the guy is just wrong and wasn't paying attention to the plot of the movie or the character arcs.
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Waffleman_ posted:He's literally admitted that he writes them while scrubbing through the movie. I think we're agreeing that Cinema Sins is emblematic of Nerd Plot Hole Culture.
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Salvation Army could gently caress a vampire up.
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It is immoral for humans to not give their surplus blood freely to the vampire minority. It's just going to waste otherwise! Merry Christmas everyone!
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Sounds like a great way for a group of mages to get killed and possessed by the strix.
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The Sin of Onan posted:Do it the other way round. Make a Legacy of Liches who get their immortality by hunting down shadow-birds, trapping them with light or fire, and then huffing them like petrol fumes. There's a hosed-up antagonist for your cabal. If I walked in on a lich's sanctum and saw them sucking down an entire shadow owl, I'd probably just turn around and leave quietly.
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Serf posted:
Really appreciating that the artwork for all three of these is some form of grotesque. Especially that wizard.
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Why hello, Joseph Joestar.
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So I admit to skimming over the first few Polaris posts. Is infertility really a widespread crisis in-setting? Any hooks as to what is causing it? Also reading the word Fertile so many times in a row feels uncomfortable.
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Karl Edgesteel is a pretty great Reaper Player username.
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Here is my Beast rewrite: Each player is some sort of tortured royalty cursed into a monstrous form for some personality flaw. They must find true self-actualization to break their curse. Also the crockery sings a lot.
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marshmallow creep posted:This is from months back, but I'm reading the thread and wanted to say that I'm intrigued about a game where every Bethesda glitch you can imagine is happening in the "real" world. The players obviously can tell something is wrong, and in their investigations discover that the world was supposed to end centuries ago, but questing heroes have stopped apocalypses so many times, essentially extending and "patching" the universe to keep functioning, that the code that handles reality is coming apart at the seams, and they need to decide if they're going to keep going patch-jobs to stave off the end, or if perhaps there's a better solution in starting with a fresh build. Sorry, this is just Demon's/Dark Souls.
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I've been skimming the Polaris posts, but the setting mostly seems kind of relentlessly samey with regards to the different nations.
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Ruk has the Gom Jabbar, and that's great.
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The Hanged Man Nephilim that Jef and John mentioned in their review (guy made of fire pretending to be abnormal person) sounds a lot like Demon.
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I heard that Pugmire (man what a bad name) was kind of boring?
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Hostile V posted:Yeah that's kind of the general problem I have with Sorenson's work (cough Inspecters cough). There are some hard settings details, then a disconnect between the details and enforcement that puts all control in the GM's hands and that's really it. Sometimes it does read a lot like "I have no idea what to do with this, I guess I'm just building the framework for the right person to come along to use it" and admittedly that's a designer standpoint I kinda prefer as opposed to when the designer is so far up their own rear end with plot and world details that they can't even see the player anymore. It's a hard line to balance. I did a review of Inspecters, and I've run the drat thing, and I still don't understand if the Gear Up phase before tackling the actual ghost/whatever itself actually does anything mechanically. Also, the Stress Dice mechanic is horribly punishing.
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I will never get over Fight!'s artwork. Especially all the dudes with arms and legs larger than their torsos.
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theironjef posted:Hey, how about we do the thread's namesake? System Mastery presents FATAL. The first one, specifically. You're performing an invaluable service.
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Coral Republic, because I want this farmperson to find out they're actually a wizard.
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Lichtenstein posted:As I got reminded today Mr. Talsonian is/was working on the Witcher tabletop RPG, I thought of giving the original Hell yeah. Really appreciating how that dude's helmet flew off after he was already on the ground. Also Geralt really capturing that murderhobo aesthetic. No comment on the dragon's weirdly tiny head.
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I don't really know what I could post about the Tharkoldu creation myth except "it is terrible" and move on.
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LuiCypher posted:Cheesetator Mmm, Cheesetaters.
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Darth Various posted:Oh hey I had this laying around. I thought this was a Naruto Jutsu chart. I am still not convinced it isn't.
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I still think of the Alexander the Great cartoon whenever someone talks about REIGN.
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Evil Plants doesn't even include Triffids as an example? Lame.
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Had your ankles sent to the Shadow Realm by Shadow Blades.
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theironjef posted:nothing builds a rhythm like the beats of conversation. Put that on a shirt or a mug or something.
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Huh. I'm reminded of Forsooth! Which is a Shakespearean rpg which comes across closer to Fiasco. Pretty good fun too!
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If I have a copy of the rules of Forsooth! I'll do a write up sometime. I don't recall it being very rules-heavy overall.
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