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So just to be clear, you are a huge supporter of the ... Blue Lives Matter movement.... If they had ever invented a way to punch people in the face through the internet, Kaelik, you wouldn't have a face anymore just about now. Blue Lives Matter can eat every real or imagined dick that has, is, or w...

Wait, Pathfailure lets wizards do fucking WHAT?

I mean, I want MY wizard to do that, or a PC at my table's wizard (and she is literally the DM's literal girlfriend, now fiance, and if you're slow on the uptake, the DM is me), but in general, yeah, sounds like it MIGHT be a little problematic!

I have a lot of artists that like a lot of things*. That said, Singularity System (which is what I assume you're talking about) came out in mid-2013 when Elite: Dangerous (which is what I assume you're talking about) wasn't even being crowdfunded yet, IIRC. That means the art was probably drawn in v...

@momothefiddler: I think we can agree on: as Jewish-Americans, if clown meat orange Hitler wins, we both hit eject from the USA. @Krusk: Nah, I actually raged more than you. Just pointing out that your desire to build an RPG based on a licensed property, but removing the minorities from it comes off...

black gay jew KKK nazi.

I know you were going for a hyperbolic analogy, but little did you know you are basically describing an actual person, and I can link you to his youtube feed for your lulz and/or cringes.

Here's the short version: it didn't fix any of the major problems with 3.5e and in some cases made them worse. Pathfinder isn't a bad system. It tightened up the skill list, removed the stupidity around class skills vs cross-class skills, and added character backstory incentives (traits, at least i...

If someone you want to do business with likes Pathfinder, I would just avoid stating an opinion at all and try to move on to other subjects as fast as possible. They will probably assume you agree with them without you having to actually say anything you can be held to, which is the best possible r...

My group's hacker was a starting character and she managed to find the hidden wireless network of one of the Chimera assasins, hack into it, and DETONATE THE CORTEX BOMB IN HIS HEAD. Using the then-current draft of Aaron's retarded Matrix rules. You rolled for every wireless device in a 500 meter r...

GNS? I've got your GNS right here. To paraphrase some guy called "Jeff Grabowski". Also, ACTUALLY READING the RPS model article, here are some interesting pull quotes. Any RPG worth playing will fall into one or more of these categories. Initial emphasis his, additional emphasis mine. Stu...

BEGIN RACISM DERAIL. This thread makes me think you are a racist who is also dumb. Krusk, huh? Well, to get the obvious joke out of the way, ease up with the Rage there chummer, you only get like 2/day at your level. I'm "racist" for not INSISTING that Burr and Hamilton need to MANDATORILY...

Random lurker here, but I'd like to thank you for your work on Splintered State. When I started looking into Shadowrun, (before I realized that 5e is an unsalvageable system) I was looking for guidance. Many of the adventures, including ones that were written for older editions, seemed to paint a p...

@Stahlseele: I really don't know how explaining what happened IN-UNIVERSE in a three-year old published product could possibly be breaking NDA, since it doesn't even get into how the sausage is made, but if JMH is still lurking me and wants to fight that nonsensical legal battle, he knows where to f...

I hope it paid in the long run to work for those "very professional, smart people". It paid in the short run. The long run remains to be seen. The mission is never over (sorry, that's Delta Green, look at me mixing my RPG metaphors). I thought Street Legends to be a silly penis-extension ...

ANYONE GOING TO DRAGON CON? I'M FLYING OUT TONIGHT.

I'm surprised you're entertaining the option of playing the same world under terrible rules, if that's the state of things. Is a clean break not an option? To paraphrase either Robert Boyle or Adam Jury (can't recall which) speaking to JMH, Shadowrun is the one thing I have loved for my entire life...

...the Brilliant Gameologists gushed way too much about it. First off, now that I'm gonna be paying you money to do stuff, if you can get Brilliant Gameologists to gush anywhere near that much about my shit (see sig, see website)...I will pay you a lot of money for that. Or things of that sort. But...

What's wrong with SR4? ...Specifically, what is sufficiently wrong with SR4 that throwing out the bathwater, baby, and bathtub and starting all over again would be quicker than fixing it? The short answer is: SR4 has given me PSTD. I was on the design team for SR5. I tried so hard, fought so hard, ...

I'll respond point by point in a minute.

First thing's first: I literally actually just paid virgil $20.00 USD for helping/making me understand epicycles. ***That Said*** In spite of the awe-inspiring hate pile that this thread has turned into, I think I'll give SW a shot and see how it thinks, because I really need a go-to System for Shad...

OHHHHHH....I GET IT NOW.

I see why it's problematic, but it's not a deal breaker for me.

@virgil: PM me your paypal deets if you actually want the $10.00 USD.

@Kaelik: Wow, I was way more down on GNS Theory that day that I am today. I am a fickle little critter, aren't I? *** GAME DESIGN FLOW - SONS OF LIBERTY STEP 1: NAME THE PARTY A party in Sons of Liberty is (are?) called "(The?) Minutemen", as in the Continental Army. I considered and rejec...

One player plays Loren Coleman, the owner of Catalyst Game labs. The other player plays Loren Coleman, the Cryptozoologist. A third player is the MC (Title: The Colemaster) and drinks as much as Trollmanly possible. :rofl: In some unholy combination of RPG, miniature war game, and adversarial cardga...

Gotcha.

Fair enough except that Frank Trollman hates fucking EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME (except Ends of the Matrix, After Sundown, Doubt, Cyberpunk Fantasy Heartbreaker, Robert Derie, being mean, and booze). Don't get me wrong, it's one of the reason I find reading his musings so entertaining. *** More import...

NECROMANCY #1: What was Step 1? Is it me or did we start at Step #2? Remember that it is entirely possible that you'll have 6 players or more at the table. If there is a structural impediment to the way you've designed the character "classes" such that you can't fit six players into a who...