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13th age has a strange problem where it's best ideas are really portable. It doesn't take much effort to add stuff like the escalation die, OUT, backgrounds and Icons to other systems, which makes you wonder why you'd want to stick with it's D&D trappings and clunky class design.
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In SOTDL most non-combat stuff is really stat-based as well, so Fighters don't have to worry about their Climb skill, they just Strength their way up. There's also a lot less variance in stats, so you can draw upon your intellect and will easily enough. There's a pretty simple system with Boons and Banes for doing stunts or modifying difficulty (add or minus a d6 or 2) that's a lot more player-facing and built in for doing trip attacks or whatever. The amount of access you have to spells is pretty limited as well, so Wizards don't have a particularly broad set of tools (that everyone can kind of access anyway). I haven't played it but it seems to function pretty well in theory.
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Mar 25, 2017 04:33
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You know what's a great decision in a mech game with a 4 man party? Most mechs needing lots of crew. Do you just have hirelings, or do you share one mech, or what.
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Apr 10, 2017 23:22
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Talislanta seems pretty neat, but if you've got more than 15 races you should really offer race creation rules instead.
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Apr 27, 2017 03:34
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If it's a game about booze obviously you need a drinking game for rules.
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Jun 28, 2017 01:31
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Tunnels and Trolls is really cool, it's like the burgess shale of RPGs. It does really strange and interesting stuff that never really happened anywhere else. I'm interested in how this side-thing goes.
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Aug 5, 2017 02:58
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I'm listening MegaDumbCast, the podcast about Ninjas and Superspies someone shared earlier, and while it could really do with a cohost, I'm laughing hard about cyber blackface so it's doing something right.
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Aug 6, 2017 13:11
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If I wanted to do a warhams campaign I'd start with some Tzeentch worshipping beastmen. The duality' interesting and they'd be a fresh take on the god.
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Aug 11, 2017 00:05
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Mors Rattus posted:This is actually quite promising and I want your thoughts on the doc as a whole, Night. after having a look at it, it's actually really good at avoiding or subverting racist narratives. That's probably because there's not that much from Games Workshop in there and the doc writer is adding a lot of his own stuff from a campaign he did, including an ancient civilisation of higher-tech snake people shapeshifters. It's a strange read.
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Aug 16, 2017 01:03
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If you're writing soft science fiction with crazy supernatural stuff you should ideally be as far away from a reasonable future as possible. Maoris took over new zealand and the Aoteroan empire controls the southern hemisphere. Taiwan takes over mainland China. Who cares, the future doesn't exist and it's going to suck anyway, have some fun with it.
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Aug 28, 2017 01:49
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They might be more right than you'd think, 'All Life Is Slavery' was Sheng Seleris's epiphany, and he found it from a very different context.
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Sep 18, 2017 05:50
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Sheng's fine, just because he's one half Genghis Khan and one half Antichrist and was so brutal he got his own Hell doesn't mean he has some good points about the cosmos and that the Lunars and Kralorians suck.
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Sep 18, 2017 06:10
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That's exactly why it must be right, he meditates for ages and comes to the same conclusion as an ancient empire across the world, despite the differences in circumstances, and then became absurdly powerful. Plus there's the societies that become immortal by doing what they're told, like the Mostali. That shows there's gotta be something there. Shang Seleris 2020
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Sep 18, 2017 06:24
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Mr. Maltose posted:Also, calling Mostali and Zzaburi slaves would be inaccurate at best. No one owns them. They're slaves to Life, it counts from a certain perspective.
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Sep 18, 2017 08:00
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not a fan of this Anti Zzabur sentiment, mors.
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Sep 20, 2017 04:12
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Insanity rules are pointless because most pcs are already insane.
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Sep 20, 2017 07:13
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That starfinder operative's Schtick would be wayyyyy better set up in the same structure as spells. It's not unexpected they didn't do that but it's such an obvious way to represent a known ability you have a limited amount of that requires prep time and triggers reliably. It's an easy non-fantasy wizard alternative.
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Oct 1, 2017 02:42
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Sorcerers have a narrower scope since their toolset has less in it, even if they’re a little more flexible. Not many sorcs are going to take Water Breathing, tongues and other single issue spells when they have to pick between those and Haste, but a wizard can easily swap those in when he hears about the mermaid merchant nearby.
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Oct 14, 2017 12:21
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I don't know why you'd do kidworld as an rpg. As a premise it's not terrible for a sci-fi book, I can see Steven King doing something decent along those lines, but it's a dumb fit for a game where you interact with things.
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Oct 15, 2017 11:06
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Maybe they really liked One Piece?
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Oct 23, 2017 03:37
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Someone’s got to make a one piece ripoff, that, Harry Potter and the dark tower are the holy trinity of things that haven’t been copied for a game.
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Oct 23, 2017 04:12
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Obligatum VII posted:a cleverly placed immovable rod seems the obvious solution. I’d just chuck some grease down, as long as you don’t care about looting the body
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Nov 5, 2017 20:58
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Halloween Jack posted:
Why imagine it when you can read the dark tower.
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Nov 13, 2017 02:06
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ZeroCount posted:Pretty sure telling people to read the Dark Tower is classed as assault in some countries. Watch the movie then I guess
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Nov 13, 2017 02:19
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Do dragons count as animals for the purpose of bestiality
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Dec 1, 2017 21:40
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JcDent posted:
It’s vancian but pared back a lot compared to dnd, plus stunts are simpler
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Jan 4, 2018 08:38
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So dynamite would probably not help.
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Jan 7, 2018 12:50
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Tibalt posted:So basically HSD is the new Doom game but even dumber, with furries. Cool! There is nothing dumb about Doom 
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Jan 8, 2018 04:23
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Feanor did nothing wrong e:no that doesn't count
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Jan 10, 2018 23:02
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Precambrian posted:I just need to ask: how the hell does a black book agency that deals with the entire supernatural and extraterrestrial database of the US Government have part-time employees? Do they work 20 hours here and also pick up some shifts bartending on the side, or are these semi-retirees or something? You'd think the guys sworn to the utmost secrecy would be compensated with full-time employment at the very least. I really hope the answer is Yes
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Jan 11, 2018 23:15
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stupid fucker wizard didn't tag it as Rock and Roleplay, rock and roll roleplaying sounds way worse than that.
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Jan 19, 2018 23:27
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I really like how versatile Call of Cthulu is to be able to support 'investigate train passengers' and 'Massive battle between interdimensional beings and your allies, including a lot of very wise cats'
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Jan 22, 2018 00:17
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The skinless stuff really treads the line between mythos crazy and regular traumatic stuff, it really brings up the assumptions and quibbles of the sanity system to the forefront.
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Jan 26, 2018 21:06
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They probably didn’t know about it, they have their own stuff to worry about.
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Jan 26, 2018 21:40
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Kavak posted:It's still a piece of cloth headwear. Would it be any better if it was the Whispering Beret or Whispering Turban? The tower of Latria in demons souls is based around an evil turban and it’s creepy as gently caress.
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Jan 28, 2018 19:55
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Fez degeneration is the name of my new post punk band.
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Jan 29, 2018 00:50
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Explicit Elitism is a pretty rare thing, I’m shocked by it whenever it comes up but I really shouldn’t be if it’s the Old Mage/werewolf guy.
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Jan 30, 2018 03:13
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DicktheCat posted:
rape ogres are all over the place, I think they were even in pathfinder
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Feb 3, 2018 02:29
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Eclipse phase is a cool setting and it rules that it went out for free but it’s not a great system. I think there’s a good angrypost by ProfessorCirno about how the mechanics messed up Sleeving.
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JcDent posted:That's one of the issues I have when I'm thinking about Cold War guns in Space With Elves: If it’s spacefights with elves it’s really not worth coming up with piles of gear for no benefit. Only add that granularity if everything else has it.
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