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I feel like Gnosis is basically its own RPG subgenre now.
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May 28, 2019 00:39
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Lambo Trillrissian posted:But I like to imagine that if you showed him something like Chuubo's Marvelous Wish Granting Engine he would have a heartbreaking moment of enlightenment just before his head exploded. to be fair this happened to me too In all seriousness please help, I don't understand how it works
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May 29, 2019 03:32
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Rand Brittain posted:Ultimately Chuubo is just a game with two parallel systems for determining what happens. One is a traditional action resolution system that determines how effective the actions you take can be. The other is a story engine that measures your progress in life via a series of predetermined milestones. Right and I guess it's just the latter that is giving me some trouble. I've played Nobilis 3E before so Chuubo's action resolution system isn't an issue to me. It's probably something I'd have to see played to really 'get', that's usually how it works. Are there are any examples of play floating around on the internet?
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May 30, 2019 00:17
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Lambo Trillrissian posted:https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/248940/Finding-Home-Two-Examples-of-Play Thanks!
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May 30, 2019 19:22
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As interesting as the Realm discussion is, it's also in response to TheNamedSaviour, who probably isn't going to comprehend it. Last time I saw them they were shouting at RPG writers for the sin of having posted in /tg/ years ago.
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Jun 1, 2019 10:50
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If you're going to have something as whack as THE SPELL CUBE you need to go all the way with it. As it is now, it's just regular-rear end D&D spell levels but made needlessly fiddly.
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Jun 3, 2019 04:59
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Goddamn Monte Cook is so loving proud of himself for using the four humours as a stat array without directly naming it as such that he has to sneak in references just to make sure you know he did it. "You might even say you are *melancholic", "short-tempered or even *choleric* in temperament"....
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Jun 5, 2019 12:07
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kevin said it's my turn to win
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Jun 12, 2019 06:39
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Halloween Jack posted:Have any roleplaying games ever done Drunken Boxing without making it tedious and stupid? Weapons of the Gods had an alright one
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Jun 16, 2019 23:55
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Man, Rifts really wants you to know how much obsessing with opposing the not-Nazis makes you evil and just as bad as they are EDIT: Like, holy poo poo, Tolkeen just got obliterated as both a nation and a people. That's what was at stake the whole time. The pro-war 'hardliners' were absolutely right! How do you not realise this when you're the one writing it? ZeroCount fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Jun 17, 2019 |
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Jun 17, 2019 11:52
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"The measures Tolkeen has taken to fight the Coalition has warped them, made them just as bad as their foe," Kevin writes, in the same section that describes Coalition ships dropping bombs on unprotected refugee camps.
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Jun 20, 2019 11:21
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PurpleXVI posted:The double weird thing about the latest RIFTS stuff we've been seeing is that if Tolkeen actually leveraged their magic abilities... that might actually give them some of that moral ambiguity that Kevin wanted. The intended ambiguity would also be helped if Tolkeen had had an ulterior motive to the war, like they'd started it intentionally to achieve some political goal or whatnot. As it is now, the Coalition started the war entirely on their own accord and the only 'warmongering' Tolkeen is guilty of is fighting back against a genocidal aggressor.
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Jun 23, 2019 13:55
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yeah doesn't it turn out that Wall Street is controlled by wizards anyway?
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Jul 8, 2019 03:18
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Infernals were popular to talk about because they had the best mechanics in the game and it wasn't even close. They were actually designed for 2e while every other Exalt type was designed for a version of 2e that only existed in their writer's head.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:43
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Xiahou Dun posted:No you sautee the bread in the butter before you even make the sandwich. God. Are you even trying. lmao at going to this effort and still using lovely american cheese.
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Jul 26, 2019 07:39
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hyphz posted:
Well it helps that the person who wrote this book is in the business of selling published adventures.
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Jul 28, 2019 21:56
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what if I *don't want* my PC to get dysphoria every time they body-hop though?
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Jul 29, 2019 15:56
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JcDent posted:I'm still somewhat baffled when you read about something being deeply flawed, mechanically, on FnF, and then someone comes in and goes "yeah, I love playing it." Why? D&D is the most popular RPG in the world
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Jul 30, 2019 10:44
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man Monte really doesn't want to explain poo poo, huh?
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Aug 3, 2019 12:22
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The Skeep posted:Thats one fine looking Barbecue Pit...
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Aug 7, 2019 04:19
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FMguru posted:The whole book is just the most baffling thing. A Fantasy Heartbreaker from 1981. The Virgin Mary loves mothers but hates people who have had sex.
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Aug 14, 2019 03:13
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also why is it Paul specifically who hates women?
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Aug 14, 2019 05:31
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That specific practice of keeping people in adolescent morphs and refusing to let them grow up shows up in Altered Carbon as well, which is just a great show in general for discussing the practical horrors of resleeving technology. Stuff like the government having a welfare program for resleeving people who lost theirs and can't afford to get it replaced but it's super lovely and nobody actually cares about the people involved, leading to a bit in the first episode where an eight year old girl whose body was killed in a car accident getting resleeved into a middle aged woman because child morphs aren't commonly in stock and gently caress the poors etc.
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now that I actually get Chuubo's, Monte Cook's character arcs really do feel like just an attempt to jack that but infinitely worse
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