I want to say figurative, but it's been years since I read it, and the elves in the Tirs were pretty explicitly racist...I'd have to check.Lago PARANOIA wrote:Was The London Sourcebook a figurative hate crime or a literal hate crime? I don't like to have to make that kind of distinction, but...
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Yeah, come on Shadzar do a review of the 3.5 DMG.
Kaelik wrote:Fuck you Haruhi is clearly the best moe anime, and we will argue about how Haruhi and Nagato are OP and um... that girl with blond hair? is for shitters.darkmaster wrote:Tgdmb.moe, like the gaming den, but we all yell at eachother about wich lucky star character is the cutest.
If you like Lucky Star then I will explain in great detail why Lucky Star is the a shitty shitty anime for shitty shitty people, and how the characters have no interesting abilities at all, and everything is poorly designed especially the skill challenges.
I'd like to see someone go over Monster Manual V at some point.
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Figurative. "Hate crimes" are basically not a thing.Ancient History wrote:I want to say figurative, but it's been years since I read it, and the elves in the Tirs were pretty explicitly racist...I'd have to check.Lago PARANOIA wrote:Was The London Sourcebook a figurative hate crime or a literal hate crime? I don't like to have to make that kind of distinction, but...
(they boost the sentencing guidelines for some things that are already crimes)
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
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What's the most famous/used 3rd Edition D&D 3rd Party sourcebook? None of that Star Wars or World of Warcraft crap; I mean stuff that piggybacked right atop of the base rules.
I have a feeling that it's either Relics and Rituals, Quintessential Monk, or AEG: Feats but I can't pick between those three.
I have a feeling that it's either Relics and Rituals, Quintessential Monk, or AEG: Feats but I can't pick between those three.
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Hyperconscious gets a lot of good press.
virgil wrote:Lovecraft didn't later add a love triangle between Dagon, Chtulhu, & the Colour-Out-of-Space; only to have it broken up through cyber-bullying by the King in Yellow.
FrankTrollman wrote:If your enemy is fucking Gravity, are you helping or hindering it by putting things on high shelves? I don't fucking know! That's not even a thing. Your enemy can't be Gravity, because that's stupid.
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Yup, I think a review of Runequest 2e would be cool. Even more if its "player book", Cults of Prax, was reviewed too.
The traditional playstyle is, above all else, the style of playing all games the same way, supported by the ambiguity and lack of procedure in the traditional game text. - Eero Tuovinen
I'd like one of the old Mechwarrior rpgs done.
King Francis I's Mother said wrote:The love between the kings was not just of the beard, but of the heart
I've been thinking of doing Dragonmech. It was the first setting I ever really looked into.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I have the old RQ 2e and Cults of Prax, myself. But I dont have the time at moment to write a review.Orca wrote:Is there anyone who has one of the earlier versions of Runequest handy who'd be willing to do a review of it?
Besides it, I think it would be more interesting if Ancient History and Frank reviewed it. Their reviews are really cool.
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I have the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles somewhere around here. It uses Palladium's system and there's some pretty funny shit in it. Highlights included the ninja cuttlefish with natural camo ("I am sand... I am sand... I am sand...") and like 8 limbs that did no physical damage but made him into a slaughterhouse if he had like throwing knives and shit.
TMNT would be a good OSSR review I think because it's based on the original, much darker comic book as opposed to the kid's cartoon.
TMNT would be a good OSSR review I think because it's based on the original, much darker comic book as opposed to the kid's cartoon.
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Oh, Jesus Christ Palladium. Even before I heard of 'Why Monks' Palladium was the go-to system for mocking overly obsessive and parochial rule sets. Not to mention the standard mocking of Rifts.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Isn't that the one where you have exploding stat rolls and if all your characters are from the same batch you get all the extra dice from the whole party? I remember one TMNT game where that caused you to have stats 3 times higher than you would otherwise.
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FrankTrollman wrote:If your enemy is fucking Gravity, are you helping or hindering it by putting things on high shelves? I don't fucking know! That's not even a thing. Your enemy can't be Gravity, because that's stupid.
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I'll see if I can dig up TMNT for a possible OSSR.
And Palladium had two modes. "Human-esque" and "Clearly not-human-esque". TMNT was bananas but still on the "Human-esque" level of the scale, so it sort of worked. Kind of. The problem is that the integration of MDC into SDC games. And the steady spiraling power creep that would occasionally spike into low orbit. My friend still "fondly" remembers the Psychic Knight Atlantean with bullshit this and that so he had like twice as many powers/tattoos as normal. Just for giggles they put him up against Macross SDF-1 and he punched it out after taking a point-blank shot from the main fun.
I don't remember about the stat rolls though. Last time I touched Palladium was a Robotech/Macross RPG and we were more concerned with massive robots of doom than rolling stats.
And Palladium had two modes. "Human-esque" and "Clearly not-human-esque". TMNT was bananas but still on the "Human-esque" level of the scale, so it sort of worked. Kind of. The problem is that the integration of MDC into SDC games. And the steady spiraling power creep that would occasionally spike into low orbit. My friend still "fondly" remembers the Psychic Knight Atlantean with bullshit this and that so he had like twice as many powers/tattoos as normal. Just for giggles they put him up against Macross SDF-1 and he punched it out after taking a point-blank shot from the main fun.
I don't remember about the stat rolls though. Last time I touched Palladium was a Robotech/Macross RPG and we were more concerned with massive robots of doom than rolling stats.
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Yes. When all your characters have stats in the fifties, the game is... different.TiaC wrote:Isn't that the one where you have exploding stat rolls and if all your characters are from the same batch you get all the extra dice from the whole party? I remember one TMNT game where that caused you to have stats 3 times higher than you would otherwise.
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Rifts can be even worse, depending on how your GM interprets the setting. I don't know if the "you can be anything from any show/game/movie/comic/your twisted mind" was in the rules, but when one of the characters is the farmer from Harvest Moon, complete with strength sufficient to hoe entire rows in a single swing of his hoe, and a bottomless backpack, the game is also different.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
So, I picked up a six pack of Woodchuck Cider today, which makes me kind of want to do an OSSR, to which end I'm taking requests.
I could pick up my review of AEG Evil again, review BoVD since Frank reviewed BoED.
I also have and am willing/tempted to review:
I could pick up my review of AEG Evil again, review BoVD since Frank reviewed BoED.
I also have and am willing/tempted to review:
- Freak Legions (WoD)
- Possessed (WoD)
- After the Bomb 2nd Ed. (Palladium)
- Secret College of Necromancy (3.X)
- Either Fiendish Codex (3.X)
- AEG Monster (3.X)
- Nymphology- Blue Magic (3.X, Mongoose's dirty book)
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
I'd love to see Danger Patrol sometime.
http://www.dangerpatrol.com/
http://www.dangerpatrol.com/
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.