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So... your ideal is to make the game excessively bloated (by hyzmarca's standards) after about five years. I'm still inclined to believe that many other good things will be sacrificed long before the setting hits fifty books, but okay. After all, all these books will end up online in one way or ano...

Josh_Kablack wrote:Small victory that is personally yuge: Yesterday I actually ran a mile -- it took almost 6 months since the hamstring injury to recover enough to do so.

Awesome.

How'd you injure your hamstring?

I was a weird fat kid who is now a weird fat adult and I enjoy some sportsball on occasion.

Whipstitch wrote:

Prak wrote: I just skipped the whole thing because fuck the Sports.

Boo to that. I wish more nerds would pay attention to sports. I'm sick of making moe jokes about Kawhi Leonard and having nobody catch the pun.

I got that, you dirty bastard.

You got lesbian porn if you downloaded 4e books off of /tg/. Granted, it was Touhou futa, but given how much of a clusterfuck 4e was, and how utterly useless the books became, the Touhou futa was the better deal. Although sometimes it was dolphin dick. Still probably better than Essentials or anythi...

So what do heir gun mGes do if they can’t use guns They're magic is based around manipulating social perceptions and relationships. So, they can make people think "This dude has a gun, so he must be an authority" or "This dude has a gun, so he'll protect me" or "this dude h...

I can understand that argument but I'd argue that from an ongoing game design standpoint Dipsos by the RAW are actually more problematic than a school that's merely weak. You know that troublesome thing in D&D where Clerics are buffed by every book that comes out because they automagically know...

I'm intrigued at how "gunmagic" precludes "gunplay". Also, why people who signed up for "gunplay" don't pick an other form of magic that synergizes better than "gunmagic" doesn't. Because Unknown Armies 3 is awful. I didn't think it's possible to design a sch...

At least the second venue got Brother Nero and the OBSOLETE song.

That's...pretty much the only nice thing I can say about it.

Jedi aren't space wizards. They're space youxia . That's an important distinction. The role that the Jedi serve in the plot is the role that youxia serve in wuxia movies. I fixed those strange mispellings for you. Fam, the Jedi are named after jidai-geki. Is there any jedi in the movies that commit...

Finally, here's a helpful table to hopefully settle this issue: Vampires risk killing people when feeding Game Genre Jimmies YES NOT HORROR not rustled NO NOT HORROR not rustled YES HORROR not rustled NO HORROR rustled Table A: Incidence of rustled jimmies regarding vampires in RPGs (sample size: 1...

In the real world, hard lines between monsters never existed until Gary Fucking Gygax wrote a book that had Basilisk and Cockatrice as separate entries with different amounts of hit dice. Vampires, Succubi, Ghosts, and Demons are overlapping terms which are used interchangeably in the source materi...

I'd make a joke about Bear World campaigns not lasting long enough to have space be an issue (they die quick and one of your final advancements is "stop playing, lol"), but I'm not going to discard zeruslord's experience. Bear World's Moves/GM playbooks are in fact a mechanics cheatsheet, ...

We care, Count.

erik wrote:Zine, are you seriously arguing that something didn’t happen because it is stupid?

You’re running the risk of your post being a paradox.

He's arguing something didn't happen because he is stupid.

Cody/Ibushi is interesting due to the fact it might be Cody's next best chance to pull a match higher than 3 stars from Meltzer, after Okada in the States.

Motherfucker what if we were actually making Burger: the Flipping? Or an Iron Chef RPG? Stop nitpicking examples when you agree with the conclusions, i.e.; there are situations where gradations of quality/success can be concrete and necessary that an elfgame can map. Like broad-form diplomacy/propag...

Like hyzmarca said: degrees of quality for the hamburger, from "barely edible" to "meatgasm". Orthogonal/time sensitive checks for the lockpick example. If it's something where there's no time constraints or threat, then the roll can either be abstracted like Take X or the roll d...

I assume you want your Orc/Goblin or Orc/Dragon mix so you can get two sources of +1 damage per damage die when casting Explosion, there? That's the Bloodline Arcana , not the 1st level Bloodline Power , so you can't actually get that from being an Arcanist/Exploiter Wizard. Arcanists don't get Arc...

What's the breakdown of Wizard vs Arcanist? Be a Wizard. Do not be an Arcanist. That's pretty much it. The Arcanist is a Wizard who gives up access to the various Wizard-specific options in exchange for having access to a different but much smaller set of Arcanist-specific options instead. -Usernam...

Because those are the roles he takes?

I'll elaborate later, but the short version is that I consider Rey to be a mary sue because she never faces meaningful opposition. Her lowest moment in TLJ is that Luke doesn't live up to her standards and expectations. That's not what a Sue is, fam; that's what a wish-fulfillment protagonist just ...

Anything that stops a fight from happening or stops people from attacking, like Aura of Fear (can't attack you unless they Overcome or someone else tags you). Anything that deals an extra consequence on a success/success with style; most enemies only have a few consequences. Anything that generates ...

I was a JRPG and PC D&D (Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment) kid who actually found the first or second edition of the Returner FFRPG when I was like 9. Read the test play transcripts, thought they were the coolest shit, started buying TTRPGs at Borders. Ended up with BESM, Mekton Z and D&D ...

With Fate Core, you aren't really getting more splats than what's on the SRD or what stunts you can convince your MC to let you make. In general, numberwang and creative bullshitting with Aspects are how you "win" Fate, so you want to be very good at the Create an Advantage action. Since y...