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Holy shit. I came back here looking for the story about the cool L5R narrative that happened at a tournament and found... Well a major portion of my early 2010's withering away. I'm sad. I had a lot of fun times with y'all and a lot of good discussions and a *lot* of hours wasted thinking about game...

Here's what I see should be happening, as we can see from Brazil, the UK, and the United States: reactionaries within regional powers force their corporate overlords to take actions that weaken their own ability to assert force to satisfy whatever inane political tulpas they have going on at the ti...

While it is a matter of historical fact that there were no largescale successful slave uprisings that created an independent nation in the Deep South, in an alternate history, it would be possible. Having Alabama create a free state in the Deep South seems interesting to me (I like Jubilee for a na...

Witcher art is good: https://i.imgur.com/z8C0K14.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9ajkTE2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qFLXQMR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1GZA1vW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RcSyHEU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OAgzQXO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/alzeHOk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IFKmPrS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1h...

Jesus, this is basically Cyberpunk 2020 so far. Ref and Int, BOD for survival, and botches on a 1 in combat leads to retarded shit like shooting yourself in the ass. Speaking as an amateur designer - do I need to develop the sad condition of being TOTALLY FUCKING UNABLE to learn from my mistakes in...

I read a long non-fiction blog piece by a guy trying to get into Age of Sigmar recently. Among other things, I basically learned that you can buy nearly invincible custom Forge World creatures who have god stats for ungodly amounts of money and curb stomp. I may be wrong about this, but if I am it's...

I for one feel relieved that the Communist/Stalinist conspiracy has been located secretly scheming... in... TTRPG communities. That's seriously some chicken pox virus going dormant in your spine levels of hiding right there yo. Also, that RPGPundit post has both "This machine kills fascists&quo...

Koumei wrote:

TheFlatline wrote:Also, I realized I miss gaming *and* you yahoos.

Dickhead

(Yes I'm just having fun here and reminding you why you missed us.)

See now I feel at home!

I haven't been here in ages really, but when I saw the news about shitmuffin, I figured I'd poke back in here and see what the Den's postmortem was. Y'all handled it pretty damn maturely and comprehensively. I don't have anything really to add. I hope the people he's hurt can heal. Sometimes it take...

Yeah. It used to and still does give penalties to parrying and dodging, but now it doesn't stack with itself. Granted, now Light Armor is also going to be a death trap because all they have to do is roll over your parry/dodge/relocate and have a to hit roll 7 or higher than your armor's Damage Redu...

So they managed to produce a Witcher RPG. The only way that R Talsorian must have even been let within 10 miles of that IP is reciprocity for the Cyberpunk license. It's the only way I can assume that this happened. I haven't read much of the core book yet but I will say it's poorly written, like gr...

That's not actually true and, in my understanding, is the counter-balancing mechanism against gang fights. The winner who waged the most blood decides the fate of everyone involved. Including his teammates. Saying that you won but your teammate got torn to shreds and now can't stop you from musclin...

lifestyle should give bonus the same way a magic sword do. It's been tried in several systems, always ends up seeming like a tacked on excuse to make minmaxers care about lifestyle. It has to be worked into the system at the ground level, such that nearly EVERY interaction incorporates your lifesty...

If you want people to feel time pressure, you literally have to apply time pressure, like a game of speed chess. Putting people on a 5 or 10 second turn clock will make everything feel frantic and rushed. Your resolution mechanic therefore must also be very quick. This is probably the easiest thing...

White Wolf 3.0 hired Zak S.? Are you fucking kidding me? I thought saying 'FAILSNAILS is a usable system' killed your career completely in the RPG industry. Minor criticism of the source: White Wolf games don't have rules. Stop lying and pretending like they do. Haven't we known about shitmuffin's ...

I'll have to watch What We Do in the Shadows. It's been on my list for a while but I never got around to it.

Somehow my group never got the memo that soul killing was a Big Fucking Deal. It was one thing when we all ganked a Shedite when we were angels , but when I ran a demons game the party were outright shocked to find themselves facing any kind of IC consequences for soul killing a Shedite of Belial m...

That being said, I'm not really a fan of extra actions as a model for super speed. It slows the game down significantly. If I were to overhaul the super speed rules, I'd replace extra actions with something else. But I definitely wouldn't do "like SR1, but even harsher on slower characters.&qu...

That being said, I can't recall any In Nomine campaigns actually lasting any amount of time. People who liked that sort of thing seemed to find talking about the setting to be more interesting and accessible than actually playing the game. Failed to hit the playability threshold of like Cosmic Bumf...

I'm totally down with low-level PCs being the lowest of the low all ratcatcher style, but by the time you're a Knight of Whatever, nevermind the Queen of Wherever, you are too important to buckle on your own armor and are at the beginning of ceasing to care about resource management. At that point ...

Much like it's namesake, VTM is going to shamble in a state of unlife towards 5th edition.

https://geekandsundry.com/vampire-the-m ... is-summer/

I heard good things about the Fallout board game, but it is a tie-in game. It's also Fantasy Flight which is both good and bad (their games are usually thematic, complex, over-priced, needing expansions to function correctly, rules are only decent). It's a good game that feels pretty much like fall...

Stuff I'd want to avoid: The actual Diablo-style loot drops. I wouldn't want guns that had level requirements, but did more damage. I'd rather the damage scale naturally with your own level (if that's a sort of thing the core system does). Honestly, this is the only thing that makes Borderlands int...

What games have a board where you gradually improve your production ability like Scythe? I mainly like the tactice sensation of moving blocks around for upgrades Side note: Scythe is getting a legacy style expansion. https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/3/16842722/scythe-rise-of-fenriss-release-date-pric...

I recall somebody suggesting you could use Gem as the framework for a Shadowrun campaign. I think I could get my wife interested in that. I had to run with it and do a lot of MTP, but I ran a fairly successful campaign that sort of riffed on Entourage before the series came out years ago. It starte...