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Castle Falkenstein's PDF just got updated with bookmarks. I guess it's nice to see that people still care about things like that?
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I'm vaguely reminded of the power in Chuubo that lets you suddenly develop a new power that completely turns the situation in your favor, but only to resolve an established emotional subplot or to beat an enemy who's already kicked your rear end twice.
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Jan 17, 2019 04:28
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Halloween Jack posted:You'd think that the fanbase would rebel at the point where they're flat-out telling you "Nothing you do below epic-level matters, it's all a kiddie ride made by Ed's GMPC." They don't tell you that, though? Like, the 3e core has a note from Elminster that explicitly says "I can't fix everything, no matter how powerful you think I am, and the Realms need you."
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Jan 28, 2019 17:26
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Dawgstar posted:That's always been his way. I remember any defense he had of liking or promoting sexist things was "these PORN STARS I play with like it so it's not." Oh, for the days when I just thought he was the ultimate bad faith poster who could think of no more relevant person than Tipper Gore. Yeah, we went through a long, long period on RPGnet of assuming he was just some kind of super-autist who couldn't communicate with normal humans, because he approached every conversation like the other person was the gorillas in the mist and couldn't understand normal speech. It was only later that we realized he really does just think everybody else is stupid.
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Feb 11, 2019 16:20
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm sorry, but it should have been obvious that his "Would you agree that..." style of arguing is an attempt to take control of the conversation. That pseudo-Socratic method is popular with assholes who took one philosophy class in college. He's far from the only guy to ever do that. He tried it here and got laughed off and banned in short order. Hey, I was all for banning him years before they actually did. In fairness, I was all for banning pretty much everybody and got thrown out for advocating that stance. On the bright side, they now seem to have adopted my views on moderation, so there's that.
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Feb 11, 2019 16:30
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GimpInBlack posted:How about we don't say poo poo like this, hmm? Fair enough. It is what we thought, but it turns out actual autists aren't like that and people with that behavior pattern are actually abusers trying to take advantage of you. The more you know!
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Feb 11, 2019 16:33
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moths posted:I'd pay stupid money for a plain-language PDF translation of Burning Wheel. I mean, the language in the actual book is fine, but yes, I just want a dang PDF.
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Feb 12, 2019 18:05
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The other thing to remember about quest cards is that the major, 5 XP goals, you have to actually do in play, but the small 1 XP goals, players are allowed to just narrate into being in the background. (This is why turning a quest into its simplified version usually just means swapping the major and minor elements, making the foreground elements into background ones and vice versa.)
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Feb 22, 2019 20:05
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Jimbozig posted:Could you elaborate on this? If I swap the major goals with the quest flavor in the dog example, what happens? I mean, you don't swap them one-for-one, but what it basically means is this: Suppose you have a quest like "Winning the War," where you're trying to win a war using your magical hero skills. If this is a major part of your arc, then the quest is probably going to keep the war itself in the foreground. Your big 5-point goals are going to be things like "win a major battle," "get wounded and lie in the arms of your beloved," or "acquire a weapon that can turn the tide." Then, as your minor 1 XP plot-points, that you're just going to sort of narrate in the background in between the important goings on, are going to be things like "argue with your advisors about how to proceed," "get into a fight with your family over the war," and "get a makeover to match your new at-war self." On the other hand, if the actual war is not super-important, because what your arc is actually about is the intrigue between you and your rivals for the throne, you might have a quest about that as your arc quest, and do a simplified version of the winning-the-war quest at the same time. But that quest is going to have different priorities, because it's a B-plot instead of an A-plot. For that quest, getting into a fight with your family or completely altering your presentation to fit the way war has changed you? Those are going to be the big, 5 XP plot points, and things like actually fighting the battles are going to be the little things that happen in the background.
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Feb 22, 2019 23:12
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Ewen Cluney posted:I'm kinda curious whether they bothered to do anything interesting with these PDFs, because it would be legit cool if someone could figure out a way to make RPG e-books of some kind that serve the medium rather than just being digital copies of the print RPG books, though I'd be really surprised if it came from Monte Cook. I keep trying to get people into ePub, because well-done ePubs can be extremely good (loads of RPGs would benefit just from having a reference that's completely readable on their phone) but not many companies want to do the work of making a good ePub, rather than a very mediocre one exported straight out of inDesign. For example, I did an ePub of Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought trying to interest Onyx Path, and included a bunch of footnotes that included all the references to the corebook, so that when the book referenced making an ammunition check, instead of having to look that up, you could just tap it and the ammunition check rules would just pop up in a little window. It's crazy useful for referencing purposes! In theory you could even do stuff like include a JavaScript dice-rolling app inside an ePub3, although I'm not sure how well this would work in practice. The problem is that right now it's a hell of a lot of work to get from "kind of bad" to "quite good" and most companies don't think it's worth the effort. I'm not aware of any ePubs besides the ones I make that I'd call good.
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Mar 14, 2019 15:55
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Yeah, an ePub is basically a website written with a Kindle in mind. It probably can't do everything a website can even if you pushed it, but I think "website in a box, stored locally" is an idea whose time may have come. (/me looks vaguely in the direction of the long-promised Homestuck archive.)
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Mar 14, 2019 19:11
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CitizenKeen posted:The "sites go down" argument is a valid one, but I think they can exist simultaneously. If you've got a sweet website, you can make a less-than-aesthetic epub or somesuch. Or open source the site. People can use the site with all its bells and whistles with full knowledge that the game is still there if the site goes down. No, which is why I'm suggesting a format which, like ePub, is basically a self-contained website, but designed around being, well, a single-file website intended to be used in a real browser, rather than the very limited type of website that ePub is.
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Mar 14, 2019 19:58
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Is Dragons Conquer America the good kind of insane, or the bad kind?
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Mar 22, 2019 20:48
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unseenlibrarian posted:Also apparently he may be using art he never paid for for 3rd edition books he never made as part of the promotional materials for 4th ed. Which is possibly going to really do a number on his claims that this is a new company not liable for any debts of the old one. Please note that Mark MacKinnon stole the entire stock of Nobilis 2e hardcopies from Jenna Moran along with a five-digit sum of money. Please do not buy from his company ever.
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Apr 30, 2019 01:05
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I'm looking forward to people getting to play Glitch which is basically a combination of Nobilis and Chuubo with a brand-new conflict system, based on playing as Excrucian Strategists. I usually describe it as "a game where you play someone who has unbelievable cosmic powers but can't reliably hold a job or dress themselves." Then people say things like "very relatable." So yeah, we're making "hot mess epic fantasy" the new "isekai."
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May 17, 2019 18:44
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Covok posted:Awesome! Right now it’s in closed beta, but there should be a Kickstarter sometime this year.
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May 17, 2019 19:07
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Chuubo is also an example of "surprisingly pleasant post-apocalyptic fantasy."
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May 21, 2019 20:14
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I think Forgotten Realms 3e had some reasonably buff halflings, although they were still fairly lean compared to these other guys.
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May 22, 2019 21:18
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Meanwhile, Jenna has starting tweeting about the Glitch RPG. More to follow soon.
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May 29, 2019 03:04
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CitizenKeen posted:So we know nothing except it's Jenna Moran, it's called Glitch , and it'll probably be pretty loving narrative. It's a Nobilis spin-off where you play as Excrucian Strategists. Here's the blurb on her site! Jenna wants us to be pretty cagey about the details until she's done a proper announcement, but that much is known. Instead of telling you more about that, I'll tell you a story: I spent some time writing extensive outlines for Nobilis 4e in the hope that this would cause a fourth edition to spontaneously arise from the ether. One of my concerns was that the Nobilis 3e conflict rules, where players uses Health Levels to defend their player agency until reaching Defeat, rarely actually got used, because players would give up long before actually reaching Defeat, much like a game of Monopoly. "Jenna," I said, "you should write a new set of conflict rules that build towards Triumph instead of Defeat so people will actually reach the end of the track!". Jenna didn't do that! Instead she did something else, which was
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May 29, 2019 23:52
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I guess I could imagine them cracking if you left them in the car somewhere with extreme temperatures?
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May 31, 2019 00:13
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Okay, so Jenna just dropped the press release announcing Glitch.
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May 31, 2019 23:21
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I did my best to make my Vault stuff for Exalted as gay as possible. I kind of wanted to basically take the school of design where everything is a hot naked woman, even if it's a spiderbeast or a rotting corpse, and apply it to the gay male gaze, so that even the dinosaurs would be guys with great abs. (Mostly just to see how long it would take for people to notice.) Unfortunately, Vault stuff is reasonably profitable, but not profitable enough to justify new illustrations in every release, so the premise is semi-notional. Still, I tried!* But to give proper credit to someone else, I have to say I really love how the new development team on Exalted's official work has made everything super queer and demonstrated how your fantasy universe can suddenly be full of lesbian-powered super robots without falling apart or feeling like anything really changed. * Interesting fact, making everything in the book a hot guy has weird interactions with Exalted's style guide insofar as you always describe the user of a power as female and the object as male, but whatever.
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Splicer posted:I know I'm misunderstanding this, could you please elaborate? All Exalted Charms have the person using the Charm as “she” and the person the Charm is used on as “he” to avoid confusion.
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This thread has a pretty clear run-down of Totally Spies. It's less that the show is particularly kinky at any given moment, and more that over the course of over 100 episodes they hit so many kinks that it's hard to believe it was accidental. I've never heard of Kim Possible being described that way before, though.
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Jun 24, 2019 23:51
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Yeah, people have been losing their minds for Shun-the-Smiling-Lady-related reasons ever since 1e. That Charm causes madness.
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Jul 11, 2019 16:43
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The PDF for the Planescape Campaign Setting, which used to have a PDF for every book in the boxed set, just got replaced with a single 600-MB PDF that includes every book in one file, and also has a large white border around the page. I think maybe this is the same file they use to make the print version? I don't really know that that's an improvement, although I have asked in the past for them to make larger files for scanned book titles, because the compression level they've been using makes the text hard to read.
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Aug 6, 2019 16:25
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Leperflesh posted:Oh, sure, and actually the "files" for stuff that old may well have been physically laid out, meaning, text typed on typewriters and clipped out in blocks and taped to pages and then sent to a printer like that. I know that's how Palladium was still doing things for at least a decade after it was obsolete, lol. This is the Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set, which was in fact released in 1994. Quite a lot of classic RPG products are scan-only, and many of them have pretty good scans, but I do think DriveThru tends to compress them too hard, although it's definitely a trade-off.
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DTRPG apparently has a giant bundle of files from whatever new digital files Paradox assembled from White Wolf’s back catalog (dozens of which showed up for the first time on worldofdarkness.com before that site died) but after eight months they still haven’t shown up.
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Jenna just posted the opening fiction for Glitch, hopefully to kickstart in November.
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Sep 28, 2019 18:36
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And here's a forthcoming chapter from Glitch, appropriately called The Essence of Glitch, which should help to explain exactly what the game is about.
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occamsnailfile posted:More chat thread contently: For those who use a tablet for RPGs, what model do you use/find readable for RPG PDFs? I have a Galaxy Tab E that's pretty solid but sometimes text feels a bit scrunched and I'm not a huge fan of having to zoom and scroll. EBookDroid is basically perfect from a technical perspective. I generally just read books in landscape so that text size isn't really an issue.
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Oct 9, 2019 23:53
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Moriatti posted:This but levelling is done by a Chuubos style quest sheet. Digivolution probably does run on something similar to the powers in Chuubo that can only be activated after completing a short emotional subplot or getting your rear end kicked twice by the same villain.
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Oct 20, 2019 05:19
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Hm, I want to hear more about Affinity from people who used it!
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I need to decide how sarcastic to be to the people in DTRPG comments telling me my books are too expensive.
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Len posted:How much are your books? I'm not familiar with your work. Knowing the internet I assume cheap and they're bitching about dollars? I make a point of not undercharging for my work, so I charge $10 for my smaller PDFs (about 10-14 pages) and $12 for the larger ones (15-25 pages). They're also extremely nice, so there's that. I haven't done original art since the first batch since the money just isn't there for it, but I flatter myself that the layout looks much nicer than what's in the official books.
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Antivehicular posted:Now I'm considering Chuubo's Glorantha, which seems both potentially rad and prohibitively esoteric I presume this would be a post-apocalyptic survey of a rich and ancient culture derived entirely from reading the reviews of quaint local cafes they left behind.
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Antivehicular posted:Yeah, and I feel like introducing it as post-apoc Nobilis isn't the best way to sell it? Especially not calling Town a "theme park." Town is the last pocket of reality (well, entirely consistent reality; there are other places floating in the Outside, but it's complicated/wacky), and there are lots of elements of that in the setting, but it's also a living community where people just live. You can readily tell whole stories in Chuubo's without ever touching the Outside or the Excrucians. You can also make a plausible argument that Chuubo is what happened after Creation won the war against the Not, albeit in a very messy way.
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Meanwhile, Jenna Moran's new game, Glitch, is entering the final stages before its Kickstarter begins and playtesters are finally being allowed to answer questions about it. https://twitter.com/RSVance/status/1195487382944059392
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Blockhouse posted:I am desperately trying to keep the holiday spirit alive despite it being nearly 70 loving degrees on Christmas loving eve so let me pose a question to you, TG chat thread: what is the greatest Christmas-themed premade tabletop adventure, if any actually exist? Failing that, what would you run for a Christmas one-shot and in what system? Too late now, but here's my Christmas one-shot for Nobilis, DESTROY CHRISTMAS.
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