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Count Chocula posted:I've linked this too many times on this forum and elsewhere, but if you want to read an essay on racism in Tolkien and fantasy in general, here's one by a fantasy author who is much better than Tolkien, Michael Moorcock: http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953 Moorcock is throwing some very hefty rocks for living in a glass house.
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Count Chocula posted:A rogue like type game where you try and arrange the coolest death each time would be awesome. I think a few games let you narrate your death, like Feng Shui and that Aliens/Event Horizon style one. Has there been a comprehensive review of Pendragon here?
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Aug 15, 2016 03:46
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Kurieg posted:....Right, Got it then. Well I don't like this game, and I am going to continue to be harsh on it because that is what it deserves. I have read the whole thing, I have podcast on it twice, this game has injured me and I am not going to be nice on it just because you want to play a hyperrapist. Where was the second podcast on it?
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Aug 18, 2016 05:55
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Count Chocula posted:No way, you set up a horrible small town (redundant, I know) full of hypocrisy and pain, and you play Beasts destroying all the small-minded residents who are destroying each other in small ways. The Hunters are the redneck antagonists. Get a real Stephen King/Shirley Jackson vibe. Maybe transplant it into a small apartment building or gated community or something. Any place where normal people inflict petty cruelty and aesthetic ugliness on each other.
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Aug 19, 2016 04:48
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That goblin description seems to indicate that they're not really stupid or violent by nature but a product of hideously short life spans due to violence and having no adults around.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:51
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Were the free ogres ever playable in L5R?
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Aug 21, 2016 01:48
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Alien Rope Burn posted:No. It wouldn't be hard to do so (they even get a school or two later down the road), but their base stats aren't really balanced at all with normal player characters. Oh I'd assume that you'd need to start them at lower experience levels or as like a junior ogre or something but all the various pre-fall humanoids banding together to retain their ancestral lands feels way more compelling to me than samurai dudes. Then again that might just be my inner Trollbloods/Homeworld player talking.
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Aug 21, 2016 08:32
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This is really weird because in old D&D perytons had the shadows of whatever creature's heart they had last eaten. Which seems significantly more interesting than it being a "I got you in my sites" mechanic
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Aug 22, 2016 10:28
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Doresh posted:(Oh well, at least she's not interesting in my Elfen Lied and Berserk manga collection XD)
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Aug 28, 2016 21:12
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Didn't they also kill off the entire Ivory Kingdoms at some point
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Sep 1, 2016 16:17
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The picture is supposed to represent artifact transformation turning someone into an ogre.
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Sep 22, 2016 00:27
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Cythereal posted:gently caress you our special snowflake gets to violate a major rule of the setting because.
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Sep 23, 2016 05:17
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It is however appropriate to acknowledge that Beast is monstrously homophobic and it is appropriate for any review to delve into why Beast is homophobic, as Kurieg is doing.
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Oct 3, 2016 19:29
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm not sure if "homophobic" is quite the right word, because I'm 100% sure Beast was written with good intentions.
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Oct 3, 2016 19:44
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Your enemies, no matter how hateful, are still humans. Even if they deny the essential humanity of their targets, they are human with all the attendant human rights and to act otherwise is to do yourself a terrible disservice.
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Oct 3, 2016 20:02
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Also honestly given their absolute hatefulness and clear inability to understand morality I wouldn't want the people behind beast to be participating in any real effort to move civil rights and social perceptions forward anyways.
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Oct 3, 2016 23:16
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Cythereal posted:Still seems a bit less bullshit than Valley of Dust and Fire. Has anyone done a Fatal and Friends on that yet?
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Oct 5, 2016 06:24
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Oh all of Purple's Dark Sun stuff has been listed together as one mega review.
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Oct 5, 2016 07:30
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There really can't be a more fitting punishment.
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Oct 8, 2016 07:38
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PurpleXVI posted:Are we talking about some other "G-word" or did "gypsy" somehow become offensive rather than just a bit archaic in use?
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It kinda helps the Roma populations in the US that driving from place to place in trailers and picking up odd jobs is a fairly common practice among everyone in certain parts of the Western US.
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Oct 12, 2016 00:14
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Doresh posted:So they're the cops from Kamen Rider Kuuga, who towards the end figured out that a much better alternative to "have the weirdo in the costume kick the monster so hard it explodes like a friggin' nuke" was to develop bullets that cancelled the monster's healing factor by exploding with just the right timing to throw them off. Killin cops with Sydney and Trapper.
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Kavak posted:The novelization also ends with Amuro being killed by a random Zaku with a bazooka. No glorious sacrifice, no dying speech, his luck just runs out and he's gone.
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Oct 15, 2016 10:38
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Night10194 posted:Please no. Especially not with the direction some of the non-Original-Creator Gundam stuff made. We don't need an Imperial Japan apologist like the Unicorn author to get together with the weirdo neo-nazis (aside from Fantasy Flight, they did great work mostly) writing 40k these days.  Just imagine we could have Age of the New Type, and get reality balls touching in anime form.
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Oct 16, 2016 00:58
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Mummy reminds me of Darklands and its insistence on using made up Olde English for any and all names.
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Oct 19, 2016 09:13
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Kavak posted:Beasts are the groups society marginalizes -for good reason-. Beasts are serial killers.
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Oct 21, 2016 16:03
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Nessus posted:Impossible. Next you'll be telling me vampires are a metaphor for sexual threat, AND for fear of immigration/the Other/the Slavosphere generally, AND disease and social threat, AND queer sexuality, AND you might even advance some preposterous claims that the seniority of the Carmilla story to the Dracula story indicates that the real root might be nascent fear of liberated female sexual choice. rumble in the bunghole posted:But I'm not sure werewolves have ever been metaphors for substance abuse, unless there's a didactic buffy episode I haven't seen. Mostly it's just suppressed emotions like Jekyll and Hyde. They certainly aren't in any WOD stuff, considering they're dealing with spirits half the time and White Wolf couldn't keep a consistent metaphor to save their lives.
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Oct 25, 2016 12:00
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Kavak posted:What's an Anti-Cleric, Dick Dorkins? Better yet, what's an Anti-Bard?
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What really pisses me off is that the Wall wasn't like some fundamental part of the universe. It was made by Myrkul, an absurdly evil and relatively young god of death. In fact the original evil lord of the dead, Nergal, didn't even do something like that. But then Ao decided "oh that is an excellent idea, ultimate evil dude". Though it would be an interesting campaign idea to play as followers of Nergal and Kelemor trying to overthrow the divine order. Find one of those god killing elder evils and use it to kill Ao and the other gods who condone the Wall.
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Night10194 posted:It's like the story in the Fiendish Codex or whatever it was called, the book on Devils, where all the Good Gods were willing to sign on on the horrible torture damnation stuff Asmodeous was pushing in order to 'keep law', but demanded he take it somewhere they couldn't see it and ended up giving him free reign to create Hell. That's a bit of a disingenuous take on that story. The gods saw that mortals kept finding ways to let demons into the Prime and Asmodeus offered a solution which the gods agreed to without really thinking about it or inquiring as to what the solution meant. When they figured out about Hell they then tried to get the whole thing stopped and Asmodeus was just like "someone didn't read the EULA before clicking accept, not my problem".
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Rand Brittain posted:2e -> 3e didn't have one. (Mysteriously, this was the best edition.) Die Vecna Die and the Apocalypse Stone were both enormous cosmic shake ups.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:11
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Leviathan should be rebuilt and released as a proper product before Beast gets a fan fix.
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There are actually a lot of series particularly comedy series that are way better dubbed even back in the early 2000s.
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Also it wasn't really budget cuts so much as a monstrously unhealthy time crunch that killed EVA's original TV run.
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Nov 30, 2016 04:22
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FMguru posted:This particular nerd trait actually predates RPGs - I see it in things like the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and the Star Fleet Technical Manual and even the appendices in Lord Of The Rings. That 1978 Poul Anderson essay On Thud And Blunder captures the mindset pretty well. The idea that there's a concrete, consistent, concrete foundation underlying your favorite stories that you can engage with is a really seductive part of fantasy worldbuilding. Also I know trap sprung, etc.
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It's kinda sad that GW's not-Egypt was noticably less racist than Forgotten Realm's and GW was the company that had "pygmy" as a minis line.Robindaybird posted:which painfully reminds me of how pre nu52 that editors and writers of DC looked at everything created since the 80s, the readers who grew up with Wally, Kyle/Jon/etc, and non-Kryptonian Supergirl, and killed them to replace them with their Silver Age versions that THEY grew up with, gently caress the current fans.
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Night10194 posted:The Tomb Kings are the best, and one of the genuinely original things in the Old World. A bunch of Undead who are absolutely not bad guys and at worst, want you to get off their lawns and stop trying to steal their treasure? Yes.
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Kurieg posted:That is explicitly how Elves work in Golarion..... with the added caveat that if they turn evil their skin turns black to match their soul.
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Count Chocula posted:If Angela Carter watched too many Shaw Brothers movies, she could probably come up with that story, but written from the Sisters point of view.
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wiegieman posted:GW is currently being run by the inmates, so of course they don't get what made whf good.
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