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Bro, you fucking explode. People generally die when they explode, even robot people. I know it doesn't explicitly say you blow up, but when I read "your body erupts in the same holy power that shaped the universe at its birth", that sounds like a Good Explosion to me. There should be little Warforged chunks strewn about the battlefield afterwards.
Yes, fluff wise. But mechanically, warforged can be repaired. So even if the body is exploded, there's still the question of "can the warforged's parts be taken to the local craftsguild, or is it time to find a cleric with Resurrection?"
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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last I heard Warforged are constructs and constructs go down and stay down beyond the power of any Cure Wounds equivalent if you hit them enough times in the right places.
Let us not think too hard about how it must be relatively easy to install a grown up warforged brain for all the warforged fluff to work given how hard it game mechanically has to be to repair one. Maybe the Spark permanently fucks with the relevant circuitry so that attempts to repair it without resurrection magic get you restored to factory settings.
(...when I ran a D&D campaign I might have been too determined to come up with in character terms for game mechanical shit. So there was a handout called Anima all about how that was the term spellcasters used for Hit Dice to the extent that they could be objectively observed e.g. by requiring X amount of onyx to animate you, or needing X "Anima" to no sell Sleep. And relatively fresh off an Exalted campaign I had it in my head that "the Spark" was the physical property that caused a person to take levels in PC classes instead of NPC classes.)
Let us not think too hard about how it must be relatively easy to install a grown up warforged brain for all the warforged fluff to work given how hard it game mechanically has to be to repair one. Maybe the Spark permanently fucks with the relevant circuitry so that attempts to repair it without resurrection magic get you restored to factory settings.
(...when I ran a D&D campaign I might have been too determined to come up with in character terms for game mechanical shit. So there was a handout called Anima all about how that was the term spellcasters used for Hit Dice to the extent that they could be objectively observed e.g. by requiring X amount of onyx to animate you, or needing X "Anima" to no sell Sleep. And relatively fresh off an Exalted campaign I had it in my head that "the Spark" was the physical property that caused a person to take levels in PC classes instead of NPC classes.)
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Kaelik wrote:Because powerful men get away with terrible shit, and even the public domain ones get ignored, and then, when the floodgates open, it turns out there was a goddam flood behind it.
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I just realized that the "ambiguity" was based entirely on a misreading. Warforged are "inert" between 0 and -10 hp, implying they gain the "Dead" condition at -10 like any other character.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
This sounds kind of interesting. Blades in the Dark is rules-light MTP trash, right?
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Blades in the dark is a Bear World knockoff.
It lost me when it had a number of units you could spend to avoid a consequence, which are explicitly phrased as "avoid" and not "blunt", and in the very description of how these were used went "even though this is what you paid to *avoid* the cost you still pay 2/3 of the cost in addition to the thing".
It lost me when it had a number of units you could spend to avoid a consequence, which are explicitly phrased as "avoid" and not "blunt", and in the very description of how these were used went "even though this is what you paid to *avoid* the cost you still pay 2/3 of the cost in addition to the thing".
Kaelik wrote:Because powerful men get away with terrible shit, and even the public domain ones get ignored, and then, when the floodgates open, it turns out there was a goddam flood behind it.
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath, Justin Bieber, shitmuffin
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I have never in my life wanted to play a game less than this, and I've read FATAL.High Magic Lowlives wrote:Unlike any RPG you've ever played before* you can get paid for livestreaming your fight against the jack-o-lantern queen of zabraxas. Your companions would probably prefer you help them survive the fight, but they'll forgive you when you capture their critical hit for all to see.
This could be one of the most mechanically sound TTRPGs ever released and I would never touch it out of that one paragraph by itself.
oh god there's hashtags too
Damnit, they stole my idea.The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:I have never in my life wanted to play a game less than this, and I've read FATAL.High Magic Lowlives wrote:Unlike any RPG you've ever played before* you can get paid for livestreaming your fight against the jack-o-lantern queen of zabraxas. Your companions would probably prefer you help them survive the fight, but they'll forgive you when you capture their critical hit for all to see.
This could be one of the most mechanically sound TTRPGs ever released and I would never touch it out of that one paragraph by itself.
oh god there's hashtags too
Except my idea was just the concept of a rogue that did unboxing videos when opening treasure chests and shit like that.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Why? It's just a character with a sidegig. And if you actually act it out more than once, that's more to do with your DM...
I think it'd be a kinda cool little fluff thing in an urban fantasy setting
I think it'd be a kinda cool little fluff thing in an urban fantasy setting
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Dude, it's a weird form of entertainment, to be sure, but it is a form of entertainment. I don't get watching sports, but I don't fantasize about killing sports fans (well...).The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Unboxing shills fill me with a chimpanzee rage that makes me want to take someone's face off.
Also, the unboxing is sort of more of a framing device for a parasocial relationship that's the actual source of the entertainment.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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I might if I weren't poor.
Anyone want to take a look at a Christmas-y mini rpg I wrote the other night and give me some feedback?
Anyone want to take a look at a Christmas-y mini rpg I wrote the other night and give me some feedback?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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It's possible that I will get promoted this year, which would give me some disposable income. I've been considering the idea of hiring a writer to work on an RPG project, but I'm not sure what the best place to start would be if that happens.
Frank and AncientHistory have posted about what freelancers get paid in the past, but that's usually in the context of awful exploitative Catalyst Games Labs stuff. And it's also been a few years since then, time for markets to shift and evolve. Does anyone have advice on where I should start looking? Probably wouldn't be doing anything until May, but it seems prudent to start thinking about this early.
Frank and AncientHistory have posted about what freelancers get paid in the past, but that's usually in the context of awful exploitative Catalyst Games Labs stuff. And it's also been a few years since then, time for markets to shift and evolve. Does anyone have advice on where I should start looking? Probably wouldn't be doing anything until May, but it seems prudent to start thinking about this early.
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Blades in the Dark was inspired by Apocalypse World but is not part of the Apocalypse game line. It is substantially different and, in my opinion, substantially better. I joined a weekly game of Blades in the Dark a few months ago, then started my own weekly game, and have over a dozen sessions now as both player and GM. I was skeptical about it at first, but I was pleasantly surprised at how well it holds together.
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When you have your disposable income, you should first talk to a lawyer about creating a company that will hire the freelancers. When your business loses money (and it will!) you may be able to avoid taxes and a lot of personal liability stuff. It'll also be easier to have ownership of the RPG stuff exist in a separate entity if things go well and you turn into TSR. And then, if things get bad again (like TSR) you're STILL protected.Avoraciopoctules wrote:It's possible that I will get promoted this year, which would give me some disposable income. I've been considering the idea of hiring a writer to work on an RPG project, but I'm not sure what the best place to start would be if that happens.
Frank and AncientHistory have posted about what freelancers get paid in the past, but that's usually in the context of awful exploitative Catalyst Games Labs stuff. And it's also been a few years since then, time for markets to shift and evolve. Does anyone have advice on where I should start looking? Probably wouldn't be doing anything until May, but it seems prudent to start thinking about this early.