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Bedlamdan posted:Are you guys talking about Gutter from the Union? Because uhhh when I read that, I finally realized that this was not the wacky Soccer themed Blood Bowl I came in for... Yup! Count me forever uninterested in a game that thinks this is worth including in any part of itself! loving garbage fire poo poo right there.
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Someone in the previous thread asked where D&D got its usage of the term dungeon from. I don't have an answer to that, but I do know that the labyrinth from Greek mythology is a pretty classic example of something we'd see as a dungeon today, and it was designed as a prison for a horrifying monster/child out of wedlock. I'm gonna look into whether Gygax or Arneson made any explicit statements about that. Edit: Designers and Dragons seems to say on page 10 that the term "dungeons" came from the fact that Dave Arneson's fantasy gaming campaign started around a castle, and Arneson saw the dungeons under the castle as an easy place to expand the scope of the game. Arneson showed his material for exploring the dungeons under Castle Blackmoor to Gary Gygax and that's how they started working on OD&D. So it seems, at least going by that book, like the focus around the dungeon largely came from it being the most obvious way to create an infinitely expansive area to move through that logically connected to the castle setting of Black Moor. Nickoten fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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On a totally unrelated note, there's not an existing Stars Without Number thread, is there?
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There's not, but it sometimes gets talked about in the OSR thread, given its roots.
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Nickoten posted:Someone in the previous thread asked where D&D got its usage of the term dungeon from. I don't have an answer to that, but I do know that the labyrinth from Greek mythology is a pretty classic example of something we'd see as a dungeon today, and it was designed as a prison for a horrifying monster/child out of wedlock. I always assumed that Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser crawled into something described as a "dungeon" at least a couple of times
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Isn't a classical definition of a dungeon the underground part of a medieval castle, and by extension would be used in that manner because D&D was the zoomed-in XCOM tactical-level simulation of what happens when Gygax and Arneson's miniatures medieval combat games turned into a siege and someone tunneled into a castle's dungeon from the outside-in?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Isn't a classical definition of a dungeon the underground part of a medieval castle, and by extension would be used in that manner because D&D was the zoomed-in XCOM tactical-level simulation of what happens when Gygax and Arneson's miniatures medieval combat games turned into a siege and someone tunneled into a castle's dungeon from the outside-in? That appears to be the explanation as far as I can find. I edited it into the previous post but took too long. Edit: except I think Arneson purposefully moved the campaign he was running there. The book is a bit vague in Arneson's role in "running" his campaign but I'm guessing the rules he was using made him a proto dungeon master and he was having the characters (Black Moor had you playing as individual characters transported into a medieval world ala Ultima) enter the dungeons as part of that campaign. Nickoten fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Ewen Cluney posted:https://twitter.com/nekoewen/status/948265344195379200 Makes them sing Grease songs. Huge STDH red flag right there. Could only be bigger if it was Bohemian Rhapsody.
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So I found this thing of a Microlite20 being heavily adapted towards D&D 5e. What is the preferred binding method for a work like this that only runs to 17 pages? I feel like ring-binding is excessive or might not fit.
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gradenko_2000 posted:So I found this thing of a Microlite20 being heavily adapted towards D&D 5e. Spiral binding would look nice.
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The word "dungeon" comes from the French donjon, which originally referred to the entire keep of a castle, so using it for some kind of fortified structure isn't that far of a stretch.
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Halloween Jack posted:Continued from last thread: BLACKMOOR! Castle Blackmoor! Thatīs what it was, wasnīt it? Anyway, according to "Playing the World" and Designers and Dungeons (70s) the idea of dungeons actually came about because they had already pacified and mostly divided the surrounding lands of Castle Blackmoor, and to quote Arneson Dave Arneson posted:"Shortly, Castle Blackmoor was too small for the scale I wanted. But it was a neat kit and I didnīt want to abandon it, so the only way to go was down." Halloween Jack posted:I kind of enjoy generically lovely RPGs in the same way I enjoy generically lovely movies: they can only stay "generic" for so long before they become a snapshot of a particular time and place in the medium. What you got? Letīs see....Iīve got Blood & Bullets, a bad d20-ified Western DnD, A Palladium Fantasy RPG Book 2:Old Ones, Osiris RPG - Spielerhandbuch (German, unknown game, weird manga-esque style, boring kind of bad), Testaments of the First Cabal for Mage, Trinity Shattered Europe, Midgard Books, several d20 Mythic Vistas (Medieval Players Guide [bad]), Three Days to Kill (Penumbra-Series), Star Wars d6 Slaves of Goroth, or ERPS (Erstes Deutsches RollenspielsSystem [First German Roleplaying System, but not really] with imaginative adventures like Mother-In-Lawīs Brows Furrow, or Icy Lands of Cold Towers), Bloodshadows RPG, LODland, and several old unboxed DSA (TDE) 4th Edition books Iīll never ever use again because I despise the system and world behind it. Iīve got some other pieces, but canīt be bothered to write them up completely, but much of it is in german, so Iīm unsure if itīs of any use to someone outside 
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gradenko_2000 posted:So I found this thing of a Microlite20 being heavily adapted towards D&D 5e. I tend to use a quick and dirty staple-based saddle-stitch for small books like that. They make specialized staplers for binding a book this way, but you can get comparable results with a stapler that folds open; just be mindful of your stapling surface if you do it that way! If you want to get fancy, you can bind with thread, and that opens you up to a bunch different binding techniques. Of course, all of this requires either downscaling your printed page size or oversized printing in order to create bifolds. As a result of the bifold process, documents with a page count evenly divisible by four have the best results. So the document in question is a perfect length if you can live without having the character sheet as part of the book. If you want to keep the text at original size and as loose leaves your best bet is some form of clamp binding like binder clips or a report/presentation cover.
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Mr.Misfit posted:Letīs see....Iīve got Blood & Bullets, a bad d20-ified Western DnD, A Palladium Fantasy RPG Book 2:Old Ones, Osiris RPG - Spielerhandbuch (German, unknown game, weird manga-esque style, boring kind of bad), Testaments of the First Cabal for Mage, Trinity Shattered Europe, Midgard Books, several d20 Mythic Vistas (Medieval Players Guide [bad]), Three Days to Kill (Penumbra-Series), Star Wars d6 Slaves of Goroth, or ERPS (Erstes Deutsches RollenspielsSystem [First German Roleplaying System, but not really] with imaginative adventures like Mother-In-Lawīs Brows Furrow, or Icy Lands of Cold Towers), Bloodshadows RPG, LODland, and several old unboxed DSA (TDE) 4th Edition books Iīll never ever use again because I despise the system and world behind it. Iīve got some other pieces, but canīt be bothered to write them up completely, but much of it is in german, so Iīm unsure if itīs of any use to someone outside What's the best original German RPG?
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Halloween Jack posted:But Bloodshadows is great! I don't know anything about the 3rd edition, though. The Dark Eye?
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Mr.Misfit posted:I actually researched this a while back and apparently a lot of the dungeon stuff came from the fact that they wanted to expand Castle Black...hawk? Greyhawk? Greyblack? Something Something...., because it was a development from... Greyhawk was Gary's setting. Blackmoor was Dave's.
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So I've been doing a ton of miniature sculpting lately, and we don't actually have a thread for it. I know interest checks are somewhat dumb, but would people want a thread that compiles some mini sculpting resources? I'm sure there's goons who are a hell of a lot better at it than I am, so I'm hoping to get some interest? I feel like it sort of fits in the general painting thread, but it's a totally different skill set and might get some people interested in making their own stuff or showing off conversions/sculpts they've made. Plus, this is the only place I can think of that won't have a sculpting/conversion thread turn into a curated collection of weird tentacle-dick minis.
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So when my (adult, in no way Channer) players saw the Dungeon Mom post they all became very excited about the idea of character sheet stickers. Unfortunately I run my game over Discord, otherwise I would be absolutely all over that poo poo. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can implement this stuff online?
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Saguaro PI posted:So when my (adult, in no way Channer) players saw the Dungeon Mom post they all became very excited about the idea of character sheet stickers. Unfortunately I run my game over Discord, otherwise I would be absolutely all over that poo poo. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can implement this stuff online? Print out their character sheets, put stickers on them, scan them, reupload? I mean, that's goofy as hell but it...mostly works. I guess it's more like...what about it are they hyped about? Just that it's kinda like a cute reward thing? If that's the case, Discord does let you give individual lines emojis; depending on how often your group uses that, it could stand out and be nice for you to give a smile from time to time. Again, kinda goofy, but whatever, human beings are goofy, and it's cute.
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If you have your own Discord you can set it up so only admins can post reactions, make some unique emoji, and do it that way. Or make a google docs spreadsheet and keep that up to date.
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Saguaro PI posted:So when my (adult, in no way Channer) players saw the Dungeon Mom post they all became very excited about the idea of character sheet stickers. Unfortunately I run my game over Discord, otherwise I would be absolutely all over that poo poo. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can implement this stuff online? Smileys/emojis under good posts
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Hackmaster is a beautiful example of quick, less-abstracted, brutal combat that I wish had a big enough following to convince my local group to play, since the term "old school" sends most of them into hysterics.  What are some of your favorite underrated systems, TG chat?
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Saguaro PI posted:So when my (adult, in no way Channer) players saw the Dungeon Mom post they all became very excited about the idea of character sheet stickers. Unfortunately I run my game over Discord, otherwise I would be absolutely all over that poo poo. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can implement this stuff online? Send them emails with a vaguely descriptive commendation and a cute cat gif.
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I've started calling Meeples "Mans" and I think that's a better term for them. Thanks for listening.
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Call them Keyples, because that means you're playing one of the Key-series games.
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Haystack posted:Send them emails with a vaguely descriptive commendation and a cute cat gif. 
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I need to buy a couple of sets of transparent d20s in five-die blocks - five red, five blue, etc. Anywhere I can actually buy individual dice in specific colors for not appalling rates? This is turning out to be more difficult than I anticipated.
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grassy gnoll posted:I need to buy a couple of sets of transparent d20s in five-die blocks - five red, five blue, etc. Anywhere I can actually buy individual dice in specific colors for not appalling rates? This is turning out to be more difficult than I anticipated. http://www.chessex.com/Dice/Translucent/trans_dice_home.htm Order button is on the lower right of any of the specific pages. https://www.thediceshoponline.com/cat/41/sides/15/d20 Same dice, ~20% surcharge for the pleasure of using a website not made in 1974. Alternatively, stop by your LFGS and ask to do a bulk order, if you're ordering 20 d20s at once they should give you some kind of discount. e: define appalling rates. Splicer fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jan 5, 2018 |
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grassy gnoll posted:I need to buy a couple of sets of transparent d20s in five-die blocks - five red, five blue, etc. Anywhere I can actually buy individual dice in specific colors for not appalling rates? This is turning out to be more difficult than I anticipated. You could try aliexpress. They sell dice at a reasonable rate. 10 d20s for $4.25. And there's plenty of other sellers for d20s. The only down sides are that it takes a month or longer to get them and there's no guarantee that they'll be exactly what you expect. EDIT Some sellers don't charge shipping either.
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buy a pound of dice and let god sort out the rest
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Leraika posted:buy a pound of dice and
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Leraika posted:buy a pound of dice and
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Continental US, and equal to or cheaper than one dollar per d20. Unless I want to pay a ransom in shipping, I think I'm gonna have to suck it up and wait for the Chessex booth at one of the local conventions. Leraika posted:buy a pound of dice and let god sort out the rest I did this originally, and all I got were some ugly-rear end swirled dice and more of those kanji d6s than I could give away. I guess if anyone wants some moon-rune d6s, hit me up.
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Hey goons, So for any of you who are following my work on The Next Project (and aren't already on the Discord server) I wanted to post a quick update: I'm planning to have the 5 classes that were nominated for the next 'starter slate' updated to the new design program, in time for the first blog post. Right now the first drafts of the Fighter, Ranger, and Adventurer are all done; the Sage is next on my list, with the Warlord almost ready (just needing a minor math pass.) Speaking of the blog, I'm planning to have posts up on/around the 10th, 20th, and 30th of January (same for February, although obviously not on Feb. 30th  )
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Yo anyone got a recommendation for a quick to play sword and sorcery kinda game? I'm probably gonna run a one shot of 13th age or dungeon world tomorrow and I was wondering if there's another game out there that might be more suited for the genre with an equivalent ease of play.
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grassy gnoll posted:Continental US, and equal to or cheaper than one dollar per d20. Yeah, actually. I could go through my dice collection and see if I can come up with a set of same-colored D20s to trade.
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Benagain posted:Yo anyone got a recommendation for a quick to play sword and sorcery kinda game? I'm probably gonna run a one shot of 13th age or dungeon world tomorrow and I was wondering if there's another game out there that might be more suited for the genre with an equivalent ease of play. Barbarians of Lemuria?
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Benagain posted:Yo anyone got a recommendation for a quick to play sword and sorcery kinda game? I'm probably gonna run a one shot of 13th age or dungeon world tomorrow and I was wondering if there's another game out there that might be more suited for the genre with an equivalent ease of play. Tiny Dungeon is really well-designed for one-shots. The second edition PDF just went live on DTRPG, too!
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