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My thoughts are that it's not for me, but I'm an adult, so I don't froth at the mouth about other sites.

One thing I do find odd about it is that it often only seems to take one minority opinion to hi-jack an entire thread. Not anything offensive or aggressive since the mods will ban that sort of thing but just an opinion about rpgs which the majority of people on the board disagree with. When it happens a lot of the time it seems to result in the entire thread becoming about everyone criticizing that one poster and them arguing back with no further discussion on the original topic.

>>48195430
So just like /tg/ then

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>>48158620
No set of mechanics is going to make up for simply roleplaying these things correctly. In fact, they'd probably just get in the way, or be reduced to min-maxing calculations like everything else.

>>48158620
I'm also interested in this.

As for being in a fight, yes. Got punched in the head until he broke his hand, hit him a few times in the stomach, then his friend drew a knife and well fuck that shit. Highschool was pretty ehh.

>>48158649
I don't know, surely you could do something. I don't see altering stats up and down being the answer though. Maybe something with altering initiative based on actions? Like if you're cool and calm you're more likely to go first, but if you give into the adrenaline you go more often? Might work best with one of those weird ass tick down initiative systems.

There is always delayed damage effects? Like you tick off the amount of health/wounds you take, but you suffer no ill effects until the next turn or two? Maybe keep it blind (would require a lot of book keeping, could probably limit it to the players themselves, since they'd be able to see the damage on an opponent but not necessarily themselves), so that you know you got hit, but you have no idea if you're hurt.

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>>48158649
It really takes a dedicate role-player to act out things that harm the character's tactical position. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it isn't likely to happen in a game. You might as well remove HP and just play out damage. No, this requires mechanics.

Rules getting in the way or being reduced to min maxing shenanigans is always an issue. Sometimes making the rules better helps. But generally if you have players who are so inclined, change groups. Or embrace the spirit and never worry about realism or immersion.

ITS ALIVE!

>>48199754
NO

IT IS UNDEAD

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>>48199724
Welcome back to Death Among the Stars Quest! We return from hiatus today to a special thread focusing on the wayward Disciple.

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The Voidknight Disciple was part of the team overseeing the experiment in combining Skip and Void Drive capabilities. Due to an unexpected energy surge the frigate, and the cavern surrounding it, were flung into a distant portion of the galaxy. So far that it takes dedicated concentration from the Deep Rot itself to link with the Think Tanks brought along with the ship.

Their ship damaged and lacking proper fuel for any long term travel they approached the nearby system. Discovering a jovian world they stopped briefly to harvest fuel for the necrotic ship before traveling to a dark world hiding in the shadow of the asteroid belt. Protected by twin moons the planet was covered in dark ocean, the land jagged mountains, burning volcanoes and swamplands.

The lights of cities and smog of factories marked civilizations hold on the world. Knowing the need for a Cauldron to repair the ship and bolster their meager crew they descended through the clouds and discovered a world of hellish corruption. The Disciple could feel the presences of powerful necrotic energy, a beacon of profane power shining unseen through the storms.

I suppose it depends on the game.

In MTG I'm all for it.

Counterfeits only harm the secondary market (i.e. KikeCityGames) not Wizards themselves. If anything, counterfeits are good for the game since they lower the entry barrier.

My Legacy deck uses counterfeit duals and nobody has ever noticed.

Well-made counterfeits benefit the players at the expense of the secondary market and the credibility of the manufacturer.

I'm willing to embrace it if the company has no regards for the players ability to play the game.

>>48189969
Two things:

1) The only thing more pathetic than collecting cardboard and paying money for it, is to pay money for fake cardboard in order to pretend it's real cardboard to fool people who spent real money on their real cardboard.

2) In 40k I'm all for recasts. Seriously, fuck games workshop. If I want a Craterhoof Behemoth, I can politely ask my flgs to order me one from wherever, or trade another player for it. If I want a named unique unit, I have to slurp games workshop's dick and order it through them. Fuck that jazz.

I'm not sure, anon. I've heard good things, and also heard that it's a shitty system by a stupid hipster who doesn't know how to design good games.
But the folks who liked it seemed to know what they the system really well, whereas the guy who shit on it could give no specifics, so take that as you will.

>>48188175
All I know right now is some interesting mechanics involves with the matching of dice and the like. Haven't seen how it plays though.

Given the art, and what I've seen on the free supplementary things, I can also see the the latter. A lot of odd different for difference sake thing. Maybe? Dunno that's why I'm asking.

The dice seems neat, but it's just never discussed.

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>>48188129
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Metahuman%20Renaissance%20Quest

This quest in addition to being pretty cool is run using a slightly modified version of the ORE and Wild Talents in particular and a few anons questions about the system where answered in the various threads
I would check it out if you're interested in the system

>>48180175
Horribly complex.

>>48180308
Until you learn it proper, then is extremely easy.

>>48180580
The same could be said of 3.5, so that's not exactly a positive.

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>>48202692
Here's your faggot, (You).

>>48202702
oh so it's bait to mention 3.5 with anything but revulsion or were you just looking for an opportunity to post that image

>>48202931
Reddit and Memey is tumblr-tier reddit sexist reddit capeshit!

Literally in the prologue.

>>48201666
how, satan?

>>48201666
You can't do that Snake. You'll create a time paradox!

>>48199805
Start writing and recording and come back when you have something minor to show if you want people to become invested in an amateur project.

Also if anyone knows of any similar movies I could watch I'd love some recommendations. I rememebr watching "the gamers" and stuff but it just seemed like basic D&D stereotypes for a lot of the jokes so it was kinda funny but it was the same basic humor we get at our table every week. It was okay but not what I wanted.

We were talking about BBT and how disappointed in it we were, I wanted a show where they were all literally r9k-tier kissless virgins who acted wicked autistic around women. Just because i think it has far more humor potential than any of these other shows. I like the IT crowd more but it was a completely different kind of humor and too surrealist. I want something like the Office except I want people to not know whether to laugh or cry and either feel sorry for the main characters or completely hate them (like Scott in Zero Charisma, or Miles, and by the end of that movie I liked Scott far more than Miles).

There was an animated show like this. Can't remember it's name. Something like a town or something.

It was terrible.

If you're trying to bring back the "sad loser" stereotype for comedy purposes, you're alienating your main audience. Even just sprinkling a lame sitcom with geek references is a better idea, and that idea is terrible.

>>48199714
What's the problem OP, everyone knows that GW is greedy, but hey, at least the release boxedgames were you can get a mass of minis cheap...

>>48199714
Get away with what?

Releasing high quality products in good value bundles?

>>48199714
>Betrayal at Calth
so what your saying is I should just buy like 3 of those bundles and be rolling in mini's for days?

>>48198872
I ask GM what's the usual chargen process for the system he's going to run and work from there.

When I GM, it's 3d6 in order. When it's the other GM's turn, it's always point-buy.

>>48198872
For D&D/Clones?
2d6+4 strait, players may exchange any two one time. 2d6+3 if I want it a little more low-key.

>>48198711
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I made a couple things in a flight of fancy. Big ups if you can tell what they are based off without using google.

>>48198711
What is the size/dimensions of the newly upgrade RhineHawk?

>>48198711
Good to see you wong. Still haven't finished up The Dutchman, though it's more figuring out what sort of weaponry I want the melee and range variations to have since it can hold 30 cp of weaponry. It even has cool modifiers.
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I'll bump with the few similar stories I have on hand but then I'll let the thread die.

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Gonna post a multi part story but that'll be the last of the bumps.

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>>48198388
If you can come up with a single sentence that makes me instantly want to suck your dick I will let you make this roll.

Tell me what is your character doing

>>48198432
I have poisoned your drink, and guess what's the antidote.

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>>48198369
>"go back to the shadows!"

uhm, yeah I live here, how about you fuck off yourself, old man

>>48198369
It's sort of like if Clint Eastwood would have shot the chinks to pieces the moment they got on his lawn in that movie, no warnings given, plus his house was invisible and nobody knew the neglected lawn belonged to anyone.

>>48198369

I dunno, OP. Why exactly do so many edgy faggots on /tg/ constantly post about how plainly malevolent entities and characters did nothing wrong?

The world may never know.