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- Sat May 04, 2019 5:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
Quite frankly I can't even think of an RPG other than Ars Magica that at least tries to do something with the existence of society. Well, quite trivially you have games like Vampire and Shadowrun, and even back in the 70s you had games like Traveler and Call of Cthulhu. The general consensus of gam...
- Sat May 04, 2019 11:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
Very often, European fantasy is basically Viking raids versus villages that have no particular access to a larger society. And when Euro-fantasy gets more advanced socially , it also progresses militarily into being pirates firing cannons at each other. Orientalist Fantasy can smoothly deliver &quo...
- Fri May 03, 2019 1:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: SR 6e Announcement
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9027
I don't think Cyberpunk is or ever was about nihilism. Much like with Lovecraft, that's a severe flanderisation. The Sprawl Trilogy and Snow Crash, being the biggest examples of the genre, all end with happy endings and/or hope for the change. And for the record, here's Gibson talking about Neuroman...
- Fri May 03, 2019 11:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
- Thu May 02, 2019 5:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
- Thu May 02, 2019 4:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
- Thu May 02, 2019 8:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
Doesn't the saying goes that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Besides it's one of the oldest habits of humankind. Cultures copy cool stuff from each other when they meet and we all profit from it. Like Anime started by imitating western cartoons and ended up becoming its own great thing...
- Thu May 02, 2019 8:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
- Wed May 01, 2019 9:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: SR 6e Announcement
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9027
- Wed May 01, 2019 5:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
- Wed May 01, 2019 2:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: SR 6e Announcement
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9027
If SR6's setting doesn't have the resurgence of Blood-and-Soil fascism (as opposed to Singaporean-style fascism) rocking the foundations of the corporatist status quo then I don't even think it's worth discussing. I don't think this narrative would make much sense without rewriting large chunks of ...
- Wed May 01, 2019 7:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
L5R authors didn't go out of their way to disparage the Burakumin (aside from a tidbit that a Burakumin can only reincarnate into a Burakumin), and you can justify their inclusion. As a samurai interacting with Burakumin is a social equivalent of juggling turds at the dinner table so you just never ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40760
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:03 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Avengers Endgame (Contains ALL THE SPOILERS)
- Replies: 111
- Views: 31763
It is a little weird that captain America has a relationship with a woman who'd otherwise have met someone else and had kids with them, though. I'm assuming those kids just vanished after being unsnapped... Captain America's creepy incestuous time traveling relationship is probably the weirdest thi...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 7:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40760
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 5:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40760
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40760
5e restarted the setting, but I've never been much of an L5R scholar so I can't tell you what they changed and what they left behind. The big issue is still that Rokugan is lacking the key elements that make the Sengoku Era so compelling. Sengoku Japan is split into a shitton of tiny clans bound by ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:02 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9000
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 16899
I've been reading L5R 5e lately, and I think it's an interesting case of a game that has been successfully modernized while also being really bad due to carried over baggage. Modernization: L5R 5e has five stats (rings): Fire, Water, Earth, Air and Void. In 4e- these rings were a compilation stat of...
- Fri Apr 26, 2019 9:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 16899
I'm trying to think of a virtue that is explicity bad for a PC...? I think Frank's wrong about Enduring Magic - it's situationally useful. That said, Mercurian Magic is only ever good if you have access to an entire mercurian cabal, in which case you skullfuck the setting with big rituals. The rest...
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Not-Awaited Witcher TTRPG Review by WiserOdin
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21072
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40760
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:14 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 495533
I'm also a pariah because I prefer the Hobbit trilogy to the LotR trilogy. I like shiny action. I only said that the new trilogy was better than the original in my personal opinion. It's been decades since I watched the Hobbit, but the live action trilogy was a road trip movie that lasted over 11 h...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 10:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40760