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So Professor Prof's writeup convinced me to run Golden Sky Stories, it'll be fun to see how badly I mess it up, but it should be a good time! I just hope the Mononoke Koyake translation is still in the works, especially with how much Fantasy Friends references it... it's really, really annoying most of the news is posted to kickstarter as backer-only posts. I know I didn't help get it made but isn't having bought it since a good enough reason to keep me in the loop about upcoming stuff to throw money at? Wait, I just realized, is that monkey trying to stick a stick up the cow's butt? LatwPIAT posted:I got bored. Here's a 7th Sea 2e dice statistics calculator: And here's a version that doesn't use anything outside the standard library. (Seriously the stack module you used is just a very very thin wrapper over lists...) Keiya fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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Simian_Prime posted:Witch Girl Adventures has forever poisoned us all. Bieeardo posted:I blame kancho. My excuse is a webcomic strip uploaded over a decade ago, but that probably doesn't help my case.
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Apr 15, 2016 05:20
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It's behind schedule, but reports from people who've played convention games are extremely positive, and the Howard and Sandra Taylor haven't failed to deliver yet. I mean, this is the guy who apologized for a late strip when the facility the web servers were in literally exploded because he'd not missed or even delayed an update before.
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Apr 15, 2016 05:46
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Seriously, harry potterish or like the Italian magical girl genre or something. It's ripe ground for a good game! Just... make it about things that aren't killing boys by turning them into cigarettes and smoking them.
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Apr 19, 2016 01:24
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The Young Wizards setting would be interesting, but very, very different than 'fun fluffy magical school'. For one thing, there's no school. On the other hand, you could put out splat books forever detailing the wizardly traditions of various species both on and off Earth*. And oh god, a Crossings setting book! *: Restricted to major recurring characters, we've seen human, cat, assorted cetaceans, alien giant metallic centipede, alien tree, and a couple of near-human alien wizards. And whatever Mamvish is, I was never quite clear on how to describe her (other than really liking tomatoes).
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Apr 19, 2016 02:59
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PurpleXVI posted:Simple10 I actually kinda like the design of that lil' goat woman. It's pretty basic furry template sure, but it works. Throw it in a setting with decent variety and it'd be pretty great. (Maybe those guys, one of the Warcraft setting's elf varieties, one version of small humanoids, boring humans, and something big and intimidating?)
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Apr 22, 2016 01:22
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ProfessorProf posted:Yeah, but this relies on the deaths all being ambiguous - vat of acid, collapsing building, left for dead. What if you just decapitate the guy? It was a Doombot. A rescue party shows up just in the nick of time to stop you. It turns out a weird magic thing moved his brain into his stomach, so that wasn't enough to permanently put him down. Your axe had a microfracture and shatters against the chain of the locket his beloved gave him as he went off to war.
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Apr 22, 2016 01:56
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hyphz posted:I find RPGs designed for children quite interesting. They generally focus around simple rules and lots of potential for creativity, and are much more player-centred than other RPGs. Aha, that reminds me: there's, well... there's this on the way:  I think I'm going to have to get my hands on a copy and read it, because while it could be really good or really, really bad, I have a hard time imagining that being bland. If nothing else, I'm a sucker for horse puns.
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Apr 22, 2016 02:32
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Monathin posted:Yeah, I'm not sure if I entirely agree with you, but I get it. It's like. We know Alchemicals and Infernals are still a thing. We know that they're going to probably get a book. But at the same time I can see OPP not wanting to put them in a book because they already have to write up two new Exalted types (Liminals and Exigents), and they're likely having to rewrite Infernals from the ground up to not alienate their audience, and rewrite Sidereals due to the fact that John Chambers actively sabotaged their 2e splat. Honestly they should just drop the names for further-afield ones. "There are other Exalted, like the Sidereals and Alchemicals" rather than giving the nice 2 page spread writeups for all of them would be a good middle ground between "stuff that's not coming anytime soon not being mentioned" and "write up all the things". Though honestly I kind of wish they'd give up writing rules for Exalted and just publish the fluff. It's pretty close to what I end up actually using from the books anyway...
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Apr 23, 2016 01:05
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Asimo posted:I tried to like it for years as both player and GM, I really did, but the issues with it are just way too deep and impossible to resolve. I hope Exalted 3 fixes some of it, but in the end I suspect it's just shuffling the deck chairs around on the titanic. I mostly fell in love with it because of Keychain of Creation. And I like going through the fluff parts of the books. Basically I love Exalted (setting) so much that I'm willing to overlook the problems with Exalted (game) and just play something else in the setting.
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Apr 23, 2016 03:16
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I wish he'd at least update the drat news post.
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Apr 23, 2016 07:16
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I actually kinda like some of the outfits in tjat art. I wonder if she's stealing them from someone or if Soto actually has an eye for that (which she then ruins by inserting weird fetishy poo poo. And not even good weird fetishy poo poo honestly.)
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Apr 23, 2016 09:06
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Beasts actually kinda remind me of Exalted in the new way they come about. Except they're poo poo. Given how common the word 'anathema' is in Exalted and how rarely it's used elsewhere I actually wonder if that wasn't intentional and they were trying to set up the 'WoD is the far future of Creation' thing again and just hosed it up harder than you'd normally expect.
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Apr 24, 2016 03:00
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Dareon posted:
Sounds more like eezo than Phazon honestly. Not that they're not all similar.
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Apr 25, 2016 06:25
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Kind of surprised you didn't bring up the Southeast, since that's the biggest expansion to the setting. Really, the map expansion is probably the biggest improvement in the new edition, IMO. I wish they had given themselves more room to write setting material, because I think it's where this edition could have really distinguished itself more. The probable reason they didn't is that the charm writer was paid by the word... and was also the guy in charge of the whole book, so he forced everyone to scrunch down as he wrote more and more useless charms.
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Apr 25, 2016 20:32
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LatwPIAT posted:It appears to have been cut from the final edition, but the original draft did have the Beast that preyed on people who didn't tip. That must be hilarious to people not used to America's hosed up sub-living wage minimum wage obsession.
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Apr 27, 2016 00:49
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Someone just needs to write Fanbook: The Authoring at some point.Evil Mastermind posted:Christ, that reminds me of the time in the last Exalted thread when someone pointed out that using mind-control charms to seduce someone was pretty much rape, and one of the game's writers said something along the lines of "well, it's their fault their willpower wasn't high enough" or something. What? It isn't pretty much rape, it is rape, and it's the sort of thing that will exist in Exalted by its nature of puting some people on a totally different power scale to others. The only thing I'd change in books in that direction is I'd avoid mentioning sex with the mind control stuff... it being used to abuse mortals is absolutely a thing. Great Curse and all that. Keiya fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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Apr 28, 2016 03:30
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Kai Tave posted:I think my question is who looked at the pitch for that and immediately went "oh man, this sounds super great, I'd love to write that!" Reverend Molyneux?
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May 2, 2016 06:10
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Mr. Maltose posted:F.A.T.A.L will never have anyone unironically referencing 'SJWs' so it's a step up. On the other hand, Beast will never have a two-spell combo that forces someone to shove eggs up their butt for the rest of their life.
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May 3, 2016 18:13
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So question about Exalted 3e: Is Harmonious Jade, and more importantly her hair, still around?
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May 7, 2016 06:07
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kaynorr posted:Everyone take 10 when searching for secret doors, it's time to look at Awareness and Stealth in the giant fistful of dice that is Exalted 3rd edition! Stop making me want to play Exalted. It has so many issues but I can't help but love it anyway.
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May 10, 2016 14:21
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FMguru posted:I suppose we should also draw a distinction between games that use elaborate made-up terminology for setting elements (camarilla, kindred, rotschreck), which is understandable if deeply irritating if overdone, and games that come up with their own terms for common RPG terms (it's not a campaign it's a Chronicle, those aren't PCs they're Heroic Personae, that isn't a combat round it's an Action Interval, etc.) which are always infuriating. Exception: Comic book based games. They get to call it heroes and call rounds panels. Especially because 'panel' is a great reference for what can be done: if you can do it in a comic panel, you can do it in one round.
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May 15, 2016 16:10
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Kavak posted:No, it worked just fine there. There were also plenty of examples of what happened when it was totally ignored to back it up. Some of those examples were a little silly, but the idea was sound in TOS. There were no examples as to why the "Let them all die" interpretation of TNG and later was a good idea, probably because it's basically indefensible. The Prime Directive is great when it's "Break this and you will have your rear end dragged in front of the court and you'd better have a drat good explanation". I mean, you can do an episode where someone is defending themselves and we only learn about what happened as they explain it! That's awesome! I think I'm getting a bit off topic though.
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May 16, 2016 22:21
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Nessus posted:If that passage was written in scripto continua or whatever it's called, where the word train keeps going without punctuation at all, he wouldn't even be wrong! pre:WHATAREYOUCRAZYMODERNPEOPLETALKINGABOUTITISONLYNATURALTOONLYWRITEDOWNTHESOUNDSAN DNOTPAUSESAFTERALLTHETEXTISONLYFORPERFORMANCEITSNOTLIKEANYONEWOULDTRYTOREADSILEN TLYORREADATEXTTHEYVENEVERHEARDBEFORESCRIPTIOCONTINUAISTHEREFOREOPTIMALBECAUSEGOD DAMNPAPYRUSISEXPENSIVE Keiya fucked around with this message at 00:28 on May 19, 2016 |
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Roland Jones posted:The Machine is not only inscrutable and dangerous to humanity even as it preserves it from threats that would ruin its plans, it is also may well be broken; sometimes it does things like create angels with no missions at all, leaving them stranded until they either Fall (unless that's impossible; I've seen contradictory stuff on whether exiles can Fall or not) or die, or assign one angel to protect a target and then have another angel assigned to destroy it, which generally will result in the death and/or Fall of one or both angels during or after their clash. Hell, the existence of demons at all is a strong strike against its sanity; angels are part of the Machine, like its own semi-autonomous limbs. If demons aren't actually part of its plan, the fact that its limbs can rebel against it is a strong sign that something is wrong with the Machine. That just means the God-Machine is an octopus. ... actually, 'octopus-built god AI' sounds awesome.
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