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Eh, as long as the metaplot keeps moving and the splatbooks start coming, I can care less for Achilli's screeds.

I was expecting it to be more of a "globalized markets and comm tech make things more heard of" thing, but noticing it in a specific region did make me wonder. It may also be that now videogame publishers are mining tabletop for IPs, looking for something to turn into The Next Big Thing, ...

All the quirks of D&D and its own genre are a product of its popularity not the reason for it. The writers of D&D since GG have wasted reams of paper going on about the game's literally origins, but it doesn't emulate fiction at all. D&D is the 8 year old kid trying to describe a mind b...

If you kill the Atropal at the end, CR 13, Acerack himself shows up all pissed off, CR 23... Alternatively, you can just finish the adventure the same way you finished the original, except this time instead of 70 goats, it's 70 hireling archers, which can probably kill him just like they can kill a...

V5 is kind of a mess is what I'm saying, and the newer books are showing the finger to the core to go play in their own sandbox. Eh, V:tM was already the biggest example of Death of the Author in the hobby, so if the "authors" themselves decide it's not worth it to care then it's no skin ...

But... what else is going on besides transhumanism? So you play something that's specifically an essay and comment on transhumanism, and you complain about the transhumanism. Got it. (I mean, ok, I didn't play previous Deus Ex games so I don't know what were the prevalent themes there. Still, HR wa...

So, I started watching Invincible. At minute five I was ready to give up on it, thinking "ugh, yet another piece of lazy writing with Superman as a villain" but the thing is too well done to put down, grimdark nonwithstanding. I'm on volume two, and so far its seems like a new iteration of...

Y'know, I actually wasn't sure whether to put this here or in the "rocked" thread, because it's just so impressive at how bad RWBY has become. Djinn's introduction was the series' Jump The Shark episode. From that point, all you can do is wait for Rooster Teeth to finish the series as qui...

Avoraciopoctules wrote: ↑

Mon May 03, 2021 5:40 pm

I stared into the mirror, and the face of a troll stared back.

Problem?

JigokuBosatsu wrote: ↑

Tue May 04, 2021 3:21 am

Your MC sounds like a complete shitbag. Is there a "reverse Oberoni" where no matter how creative an action the PCs come up with, the MC can always squish it down to RAW?

Oh the Literalist GM, the reason why I avoid canned adventures like the plague.

Is this the intended design? Am I supposed to feel so... hollow? ...and helpless, yes. 5E APs are hot garbage as a general rule if you care for player agency or anything resembling consistency with the rules (because it's 5E, thus hey, what rules?), and players are meant to be outgunned and outnumb...

So, what cool traits you got?

Back in, feel free to delete that other account.

Thanks!

Right now? Because of payola. That's where the money that should have gone to hiring actual devs went. 5E is the Payola Edition.

Is that an objection to AAA pricing when combined with pixel art, or an objection to AAA pricing in general no matter the other circumstances? I haven't paid full list price for a AAA game in perhaps a decade (with a single exception), I find it morally objectionable to pay $60 for a game when 90% ...

Does a runelord count as RPeen if the whole AP is a second order idiot plot anyway?

I love Octopath's engine. I just don't love the game's AAA price tag.

No they aren't. I don't know why people think this, but it isn't true. Lets see... Spell Resistance A deity has spell resistance of 32 + its divine rank. Good luck having a chance in hell at beating that before the endgame! (provided you're fighting a -demigod- at most, that is!). As I said, defact...

Friendly reminder: 3.X dnd deities are defacto immune to magic from people of lesser divine rank than them, are defacto indestructible by muggles, their divine rank is a bonus on all checks, and rules for acquiring divinity all boil down to "GM fiat"... so "punching a god in the jaw&q...

What are those house rules? It's been years since the game I ran, so the only two I remember off the top of my head are: 1) XP per session: I budget the XP based on how far I'll let the PCs advance and then divide the XP by status between the number of sessions I plan the chronicle to last. That ch...

Can I have a source for this? For numbers one and three I'm afraid I lack first-hand sources, and my citations come from the Den, actually . For number two, however, all you have to do is re-reading Werewolf: The Apocalypse. All the abhorrent crap was always there, we were just too young to know an...

The Nazi Question A couple years ago, there was a big to do about Nazi dog whistles in V5 stuff. OPP did not have a great response. The big thing I remember was a roll example that had a pool result in "1, 4, 8, 8." But there was also stuff about neo-nazi Brujah. When your garden variety ...

PhoneLobster wrote:This Imperium Keeps Having Twilights

Sounds like the AAA videogame industry, which died circa 2014, but dumb players' money keep it in a perpetual state of undeath.

Personally I like to call them "RPeen NPCs": (spoilered demonstrative material) https://img.comicfury.com/comics/201/43911a1602816076b69452f1337803537.jpg While NPCs like Elminster, Nadja Taviar, Doctor Destroyer (or any Champions' supervillain, considering Peterson and friends' self-servi...

While I have never been accused of paying attention to the here and now. Wow. I mean, I hadn't even realized Frank had left for this long already... and then, we all have had more pressing things on our minds... like immediate survival and impending societal collapse, so I just thought "the pla...