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Well, the nPlayer aspect that became the foundation of Wesely's "Braunstein" is assumed to have come after, not from, wargames.Voss wrote:Apart from silva, I would hope we all knew that bit already.The roots of the modern rpg are firmly planted in wargames and wargame theory.
I've looked at the PDF and my brain refused to process it, but to be honest...talozin wrote:I can go dig my copy out of the attic and OSSR it.
Omegonthesane wrote:a glass armonica which causes a target city to have horrific nightmares that prevent sleep
JigokuBosatsu wrote:so a regular glass armonica?
Not nearly as much like ass as you would be justified in expecting. I have a head cold, so it might be worse than I think, but at minimum it smells better than my cat's litterbox.JigokuBosatsu wrote: I'm curious what a hard copy of Cyborg Commando smells like.
TheFlatline wrote:This is like arguing that blowjobs have to be terrible, pain-inflicting endeavors so that when you get a chick who *doesn't* draw blood everyone can high-five and feel good about it.
That is now one of my all time favorite quotes. XDJigokuBosatsu wrote:I'm curious what a hard copy of Cyborg Commando smells like.talozin wrote:I can go dig my copy out of the attic and OSSR it.
nockermensch wrote:Advantage will lead to dicepools in D&D. Remember, you read this here first!
Yes. Back in the '90s, during the first dotcom boom, I bought stuff just for the hell of it -- if it looked interesting or if it looked terrible. After all, you can learn just as much from terrible games as from good ones, if not more.silva wrote:Do you actually own physical copies of Cyborg Commando and World of Sinnybar ?
Fuck no. I have standards. Not high standards, but standards.Tell me you dont own FATAL and RaHoWa too.
TheFlatline wrote:This is like arguing that blowjobs have to be terrible, pain-inflicting endeavors so that when you get a chick who *doesn't* draw blood everyone can high-five and feel good about it.
How is Hong Kong Action Theatre? It's one of those games I've only heard of in passing.talozin wrote:Yes. Back in the '90s, during the first dotcom boom, I bought stuff just for the hell of it -- if it looked interesting or if it looked terrible. After all, you can learn just as much from terrible games as from good ones, if not more.silva wrote:Do you actually own physical copies of Cyborg Commando and World of Sinnybar ?
So I do in fact own physical copies of Cyborg Commando (bought it new in shrink wrap!) and Synnibar, along with SenZar, Space: 1889, SLA Industries, Prince Valiant, Hong Kong Action Theatre, the first edition of Gamma World, what the fuck ever. I have a copy of Engel for no better reason than "huh, I don't think I've ever seen graphic design quite that abusive before."
Fuck no. I have standards. Not high standards, but standards.Tell me you dont own FATAL and RaHoWa too.
FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
I don't know how much you've heard about it, but the central conceit is that you're all generating actors who appear in the action movies that you play out as game sessions. So characters have the same basic stats in every "film" (adventure), but can have different skills and specialties (e.g., a big brawny guy might be cast as a pro football player in a modern movie -- and thus get a bonus to sports-related stuff for that adventure -- but become a leg-breaking thug in an Ancient China adventure and get crime connections for that adventure.) The GM is supposed to concoct adventures with "roles" that any of the characters could get cast as, and the players bid on individual roles for each new adventure with Star Power, which is also used to raise stats, and do "script rewrites" during the course of the adventure. Besides gaining back Star Power at the end of a movie (a multiple of what you bid, based on how well you did in the role), you also get it back for doing ridiculous stunts.Mask_De_H wrote: How is Hong Kong Action Theatre? It's one of those games I've only heard of in passing.
TheFlatline wrote:This is like arguing that blowjobs have to be terrible, pain-inflicting endeavors so that when you get a chick who *doesn't* draw blood everyone can high-five and feel good about it.
