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Ravenloft was my first D&D campaign, and the Van Richten Guides are still some of my fav gaming books ever.
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Dominic works best as Heaven's police commissioner, telling the PC's that they're "loose cannons" and "out of line". He always threatens to take their Words, but he keeps these Angels on the edge around anyway... Because they get *results*! 
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Cythereal posted:One's a Seraph of Judgment. One's a Mercurian of Fire. Together they are... The Matchmakers. Dominic: "NEMIAH!... SAMIEL!! You two, in my office, right *now*! I got the Higher Heavens breathin' down my neck after the last stunt you pulled!!!" *slams door*
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The defining quote for my next Night's Black Agents game: "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for creatures like you. If you let Bella Swan go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
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Feb 23, 2016 01:05
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One plot line I've toyed with is the idea that the story of Uriel reaching the Higher Heavens is false; Uriel actually Fell, after his murderous zeal had gone above and beyond what God had asked of him. Originally, only pagan creatures who worked directly for Lucifer, or engaged in heinous practices like human sacrifice, would be dealt with violently. It was hoped that Heaven and the virtuous pagans might reconcile... But Uriel put them all to the sword. So his Damnation brought him straight to the Lower Hells, where he was not seen again. But a cover story was created about him going to the higher Heavens, because if all the Host knew this, it would expose that God had a flaw in his plan. But, still fueled by the mindless hatred that led him to slaughter, Uriel festers in his Oubliette, feeding off of the massacres of humankind; the ethnic cleansings, the race and religious wars that remind him of his Purity Crusade. The 20th century has done much to feed him (it?), and soon it will grow strong enough to emerge upon the world as The Demon Prince of Genocide. Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 09:13
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ProfProf, between your awesome Undertale LP and selling me on NBA, just gotta say, "Thank you!". Currently plotting an NBA campaign with either A) A game with the sparkly Twilight vampires as the conspiracy, or B) A Dracula Dossier scenario with pregen characters based on the cast of Archer. "Do you want VAMPIRES?!? Because *that's* how you get vampires!!!"
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Feb 29, 2016 19:57
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Telluric vampires sound cool. I was think of using a similar explanation for the powers of Twilight vampires, since they're basically made of a sparkly, granite shell around a chewy crystal center.
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Mar 2, 2016 23:40
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theironjef posted:I want to know who's onboard with my vision of a CCG that competes with magic by including five extra cards per pack that can be used for short duration bonuses by being torn up, having stickers on them, or having scratch off sections. Combine a CCG with one of those pornographic playing card decks and get Clown Nudes: The CCG. The destructible cards will have the most scandalous photos, because destroying them is the only rational response.
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Mar 9, 2016 03:19
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"You know all this cool stuff we spend half the book talking about? *Never* let your players do *anything* interesting with it, *ever*." :facepalm:
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Mar 27, 2016 00:14
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Kavak posted:
*m'lady intensifies*
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Apr 12, 2016 20:53
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Nessus posted:That monkey's just holding a stick and isn't trying to put it in the cow's butt, y'all need either Jesus or "to not seek fetish content in all things" Witch Girl Adventures has forever poisoned us all.
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Apr 15, 2016 05:49
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How does WGA keep having supplements published? I've literally never heard of it outside of this forum. Does it just have a KS constantly funded by a dedicated core of fetishists? Or are the publishers all trust-fund kids?
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Apr 18, 2016 21:24
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It says a lot about the collective RPG industry as a whole that when their market clearly demanded a Harry Potter-alike RPG setting... ... And this is what it got. 
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Apr 19, 2016 00:27
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Was Beast written for an audience that read Harry Potter, but sympathized with Dolores Umbrage?
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Apr 26, 2016 04:41
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Just found out that the CoD Dark Eras setting for Beast will be based around the Reconstruction. I'm predicting a *glorious* train wreck...
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May 2, 2016 00:50
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I'm predicting worse; the Heroes will be former slaves striking out against a Beast plantation owner who torments former slaves "for their own good."
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May 2, 2016 02:06
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Stop making jokes about this bad game! What do think this is, some kind of *humor* website? ... But yeah, joke's kinda run into the ground at this point. Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 17:58 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 17:50
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Remember when MAD magazine did movie parodies? The art in WV reminds me of a MAD spoof of Hellraiser.
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May 12, 2016 04:27
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Hostile V posted:I like the idea that a round is a comic panel and a minute of combat is, like, a page. Six panels to a page. 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.
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May 15, 2016 21:45
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Count Chocula posted:It's a bit on-the-nose, but you could just run it in Unknown Armies. You wouldn't need to change anything, expect maybe writing up an Adept school that uses it and giving it a human origin to fit with You Did It, and Mechanomancers can fill both those niches. Change them from steampunks into agents of the God Machine. GNOMON, the magickally-sentient government surveillance computer from UA3e, feels almost like a piece of God-Machine infrastructure that found its way in the UA universe.
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May 26, 2016 00:17
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Count Chocula posted:Are we pretending both of these aren't kinda based on CBS' Person Of Interest? Apparently in the later season they even worship the computer. I've never followed that show closely, but if that's true, it certainly sparked my interest.
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May 26, 2016 00:28
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MonsieurChoc posted:Would BOB from Twin Peaks work as a Beast? He works better as one of the Strix from Requiem. Beyond all the creepy stuff, for me Beast's big sin is it's misleading premise. The pitch leads you into thinking that you're playing some kind of mythic monster in the modern day, like a hydra or minotaur. But instead you're playing a cultist who sacrificed his soul to an evil goddess, for powers fueled by abuse. It'd be like a Call of Cthulhu game where you played the insane servants of the Old Ones, and the Investigators were cast as bigots trying to oppress your religious freedom.
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May 28, 2016 11:05
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Not sure how it plays out in practice, but in theory a variety of forms makes things more interesting for players. It makes a better dynamic if players can take different forms and gain a tactical advantage for it. Changing to hybrid form and just biting problems until they die is the Werewolf version of just saying "I hit it with my sword" over and over again in D&D combat.
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May 29, 2016 04:51
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I've never really been a fan of excessive jargon in books, especially in Werewolf and Mage. All I can imagine running this game is explaining the First Tongue to players and 1) Having it never used, or 2)Used excessively to the point where it all sounds like we're speaking Klingon.
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May 31, 2016 20:43
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Kavak posted:You have a problem with that, p'tak? Experience BIJ!!!  All jokes aside, I just tend to find that too much jargon confuses players and removes their interest in the game. EDIT: Agreed, UA does probably the best job of any occult horror RPG at Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 21:25 on May 31, 2016 |
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May 31, 2016 21:22
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"When Masquerade Met Requiem: The Sketch!" 
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May 31, 2016 21:41
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Kai Tave posted:How many people actually buy into Beast though? Like, the DTRPG reviews as was pointed out are basically the equivalent of those Amazon reviews that read "A+ product for the service, very good of quality and would buy again" that you see spammed everywhere. Are there any Beast actual plays going on right now? Someone running a sweet Beast podcast so we can see what a game is actually like out in the wild? Obviously there are people who'll go to bat for anything and go digging through a comatose teenage girl's stat block to find evidence that she deserved to be "taught a lesson" if you know what I mean, but there's a difference between the sort of person who likes to argue that Star Wars' Empire is actually a noble force for stability and order and an actual fandom. https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?759812-Beast-The-Primordial-Roots-in-the-Community The only actual play I'm able to find is the one McFarland posted on RPG.net he did for his own group. Surprised red flags didn't already pop up when one of the characters describes "I'm going to a kid's soccer game and I look at the crowd. If I see any parents on the cell phone while the game is on, I'll know whose children to kidnap later." Honestly, the AP is just so full of inane jargon that it gives me the impression McFarland's been writing for WW too long. His head is just so completely up his own rear end with terms from 6-7 different games that it's completely unintelligible to someone with even a passing interest in RPGs.
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I guess we can say the only good thing Beast gave us is that it made Geist look better by comparison. (I agree that Geist has the potential to be a good game if you tighten the focus and give characters clear objectives)
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Jun 8, 2016 09:48
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Look at that stoned cat. He's high as face.
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Jun 9, 2016 09:35
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I remember when Wuhrwilf: The Apocalypse was in full swing, mixed Changing-Breeds games were nearly as popular as Wirrwilf-only games. Sure the oWoD was a mechanical mess, but you could see why people enjoyed the mix. People liked the core concept of Woorwoof but liked the ability to play a big kitty-cat, or a dinosaur while fighting Captain Planet villains. It surprises me that the *nWoD* version of the same thing was the one with the creepy fetish stuff.
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theironjef posted:So we put an Afterthought episode out on Monday, and it included the listener question of "What's the dumbest thing in RPGs you see people arguing about?" I went with people arguing over fictional characters alignments. Jon went for the jugular and said "people arguing over what HP represents." We both agreed that it's a bullshit argument that no one should care about anymore. It's gone on long enough. The answer depends on the players and the edition, etc. Whatever. So far the comment thread argument about what HP is is the largest bulk of comments we've ever had. Of course. Recently I feel like a lot of grog has popped up on the comments under your recent installments; like you have a lot of listeners who get the subject matter, but are completely humorless. That sucks. 
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I vote for a Requiem 2e review because it's a good game, but it has some of the most laughable art I've seen in a long time. (The Lancea Et Sanctum group pic  )
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I feel like they were trying to go for a sort of " you play Stephen King's "It", your Lair is like something out of Clive Barker psycho-horror." Even the Heroes are portrayed like Every Bully from an 80's Stephen King novel. But if they remind me of anything, Beasts remind me more of Lovecraft Mythos cultists. The disconnect from your character from the actual monster-soul makes it feel like you just some dub schmuck worshipping a horrible Thing From Beyond and doing horrible poo poo to power your black magic. And the Investigators are cast as bigots trying to "oppress your religious freedom". You're not really a Beast so much as a Toady. Kai Tave posted:Appropriate enough to the discussion, it's also a bad one. Do you mean Boss Monster? I always thought it was pretty fun. 
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I want to see the Hellas version of Diogenes of Sinope, founder of the Cynic philosophy.Wikipedia posted:Diogenes taught by living example. He tried to demonstrate that wisdom and happiness belong to the man who is independent of society and that civilization is regressive. He scorned not only family and political social organization, but also property rights and reputation. He even rejected normal ideas about human decency. Diogenes is said to have eaten in the marketplace, urinated on some people who insulted him,defecated in the theatre, and masturbated in public. When asked about his eating in public he said, "If taking breakfast is nothing out of place, then it is nothing out of place in the marketplace. But taking breakfast is nothing out of place, therefore it is nothing out of place to take breakfast in the marketplace." On the indecency of him masturbating in public he would say, "If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."
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Jul 25, 2016 23:20
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Mors Rattus posted:Any preference on species or should I roll randomly? He probably fits best as one of those Kyklopes dudes; seen enough with his third eye to give zero fucks about anything.
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Jul 25, 2016 23:31
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If you're looking for a fun, non-stop combat & action RPG, I recommend Feng Shui 2.
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Aug 2, 2016 20:48
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"Make Magic Magical Again" belongs on a red baseball cap.
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Aug 7, 2016 22:04
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Digging those Madlands monsters.
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Halloween Jack posted:Wick's entire writing career is Show Me On The Doll Where D&D Touched You. He understandably doesn't want to make more games wherein you play wandering, violent hobos with no social connections. But he presents this in a nasty, scornful way, both in this game and in Blood & Honour: "You want to play ronin? Here you go! You suck and all your stuff sucks and everyone hates you! How ya like dem apples? Welcome to the real world, jackass!" Instead of just saying "There are other games that will let you play a D&D party in fantasy Japan, but that's really not the focus here, despite appearances." I'm just going to imagine now that the video is just an average day for Wick. It's just too appropriate.
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Madlands seems like the kind of setting that'd be perfect to adapt into a Lamentations of the Flame Princess module.
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