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Of course. And also Warhammer FRP, which has randomized character generation that is pretty much the same (in that you can end up as a leprous beggar, a drunken laborer or a badass bounty hunter -- although to give Games Workshop the minimal credit it deserves, the difference in power between optim...

Has anyone here actually played this? If so, did you obey the randomized character creation rules?

codeGlaze wrote: Critical Role is saving DnD?

Does this video have a tl;dw for people who don't immediately know or care what Critical Role is?

I didn't notice much fixing. The same shitty UI and mechanics that were a problem for the first one still infest Dragonfall and Hong Kong. And their Director's Cuts and Extended Editions. Some minor changes and 2 new story modules out of 6 different versions didn't actually fix any of the real prob...

Well, yes, that is how paradox has chosen to market their games. They're designed from the ground up to be sold piecemeal several times, with gaping holes left to be fixed later. And after 3-4 years of development cycles (and effectively a $120 price tag), there is something like a complete game. S...

So right around the start of the 90s, WH40K eclipsed Warhammer Fantasy Battles as the biggest minis game... Is there a single main reason 40K ended up being the more popular Warhammer game? (E.g. better rules, better art direction, the wargame fanbase tends to prefer science fantasy over fantasy, e...

Paradox means DLC. That's how the games paradox develops works. And even then, it's not like Fredrik Wester is sitting on your shoulder forcing you to buy every single piece of CK2 cosmetic DLC. Tho' Harebrained means bungled initial offering and multiple Director's Cuts and retreads, so... pick yo...

OgreBattle wrote:What's a game that feels enough like Shadowrun Returns/Hong Kong, but better

-XCOM: Enemy Unknown
-Silent Storm

The latter is kinda janky tho.

How is this a dying earth hexmap? Isn't the conceit of the dying earth stories that they take place in the crazy far future where modern geography is no longer accurate?

However, a decent number of people want to get more out of draining someone dry rather than just lapping up bloody nose. You could have it be an exponential thing for blood from the same source in a single night/week/whatever, one unit of satiation from a nip, two units for making them woozy, and t...

We decided on Tome feats for odd levels That is a lot of abilities to keep track of, particularly if each player is also running a cohort. Every time I ran Tome, I was the only person at the table who had a grasp of all the houserules and modifications in play. If I was lucky, a given player would ...

I just watched The Lobster. It was bizarre with dry surreal humor. I can totally see why critics on rotten tomatoes rated it around 90% and lay people around 65%. It was designed for critics to love. I really liked The Lobster, but I also consider myself fairly susceptible to well-presented indie-w...

Beyond that, overall Andromeda is most similar to the original Mass Effect in terms of the series and maybe compared to games overall. The ship, the travel, the driving the totally-not-the-Mako-Nomad, the sidequests, heck even the crew (Cora is Ashley, Liam is Kaidan, Drack is Wrex, Peebee is Liara...

Red Archon wrote:Do we want 'widespread terms everyone knows' though?

Well, yes.

The caveats are if you're trying to introduce genuinely new concepts into your game, or you want to try to make as much of the terminology be usable by characters within the gameworld.

I beat the game, minus a few of the optional bosses. So now it's time to clean up and do the DLC, I guess. Like Kaelik mentioned, the level design definitely gets worse as the game progresses. The game's difficulty curved remained weird throughout. I would not be surprised if a majority of my deaths...

The entire D&D Next Modular Gaming Experience never materialized... Oh yeah modular content. I forgot they even ever offered that. According to momothefiddler in this thread (http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?p=476483), the 5E DMG does contain a lot of optional rules that at least approximate ...

I skimmed through the Numenera book. I liked how holding on to too many magic items gave them a chance to explode or malfunction or something. That seemed like an okay, flavorful incentive to use and not hoard one-shot items. Is that in the Torment game? Numenera more of an aesthetic than a Setting....

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I don't think so? You have the giant spider, the sword lady, the giant demon, and Nito v2.

So I've gotten all four of the great souls, which I guess means I'm headed for the castle place and the king. This game's difficulty is kind of weird. As far as I can remember, the only bosses that have taken more than two or three tries for me have been ruin sentinels, smelter demon, and executione...

There's probably a lot more people playing right now than normal actually. Just recently the Dark Souls community had its Return to Drangleic event, where people were encouraged to make new characters and play through Dark Souls 2 and do co-op and pvp as much as possible. It's actually still ongoin...

Is anyone still playing this? I'm finally getting around to it. I most recently beat Last Sinner, and I feel like the level design in this game is not as bad as some have made it out to be (or it gets radically worse later). Forest of Giants, Lost Bastille, and No Man's Wharf have all been relativel...

Short answer: nobody can tell. Analysts and polls have been shown to be unreliable, so we just don't have anything but "general feeling" to guess what could happen. Has polling for French elections been shown to be inaccurate in the past, or is this a statement you're making based on 2016...

When someone swings a sharp and pointy object at you, your immediate reaction is to back away. This is the basic tempo of a fight: Someone on the attack is advancing, someone on the defense is retreating, and if you can't retreat you become much easier to hit, which is why "backed into a corne...

How did you track movement, did you abstract it or have a gridmap or what. Not Lokathor, but when I ran Sundown, we used roll20 maps for combat scenes. Distances were sort of eyeballed and sort of measured precisely. It worked okay; relative to other parts of combat, moving tokens around and measur...

One player was a werewolf that just picked all the "be strong" powers. He wasn't trying to go crazy with it ahead of time, he just picked all the powers that let you flip out and then later when he added it up his strength was 28 or whatever the hell. Nothing that could meaningfully inter...