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I was just watching the Disney Shorts film on Netflix, and the first short was a musical adaptation of the story of John Henry. Now, I know there are steampunk stories set in the United States during and after the Civil War, but most of them mix fantasy things like dragons or zombies into what would otherwise be a type of sci-fi, and they often don't use steampunk for anything other than introducing modern technology into a fantasy setting. More importantly, stories like John Henry portray the industrialization brought about by steam as an evil thing, crushing the human spirit or, in the adaptation, takin' yer jahbs.
Are there any stories, settings, or other where the industrialization brought about by steam is actually portrayed as a positive, like it was during the actual Industrial Revolution?
Are there any steampunk settings that are set in America and involve entrepreneuers using steam to make themselves fabulously wealthy, aside fromTicket to Ride?
And are there any steampunk works where the actual engineering is given even a modicum of development and the world isn't just instantly turned into rusting, pipe-covered shantytowns?
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While not quite steampunk Bioshock Infinite is pretty cool and seems really nice and positivetill it turns out the whole thing is run by fanatical racists 5 min in
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Well that's more just Hollywood doing its best to be as reactionary as possible.
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I guess technically Valkyria Chronicles fits? Though it's more like magitek than dieselpunk.
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A very abstract question.
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The four powers of Chaos:
To live is to die.
To fight is to live.
To live is to struggle.
To live is to feel.
Where does Undivided fall within this pantheon of motivations? Is it to be subjugated by ones own emotions, or is it the aspiration to rise above them? Taking this further, with a more specific example: Countless thralls flock to Nurgle to save them, only to die by the pestilent gifts they so ignorantly asked for, but isn't the alternative and endless, slavish servitude as a daemon?
Does it just boil down to how much you value your own life (or the base emotions of the pantheon)? I mean, atleast among the traitor Astartes, if it is truly just immortality that they seek would it not be better to simply hunker down in a fortress world for all eternity?
An Astartes would live long enough to grow board of life (hell, for many plague marines death is their ultimate reward), and perhaps that's what drives some of the traitors out to seek war, while for many others I'm sure simple zealousness for their patron is sufficient.
My thoughts are convoluted on the matter. What do you think?
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Like pretty much all things about Chaos, what Undivided means depends on the context of who is using it.
The Word Bearers believe that Chaos is a singular entity spread into four distinct fragments, and believe that by furthering the various causes of Chaos that they will bring about the Primordial Truth and learn the secrets of the universe. A Word Bearer must study and understand the concept and basic intricacies of each God, and practice certain rituals to each one all the time in order to continue their understanding. However, while they believe they perform the will of the Gods, they are also not willing to completely subject themselves to a single God, as they believe doing so removes you from the path of Enlightenment and sends you spiraling into oblivion as you descend in to total madness. This discipline and controlled approach to Chaos is why so many Word Bearers retain their intellect and purpose better than most other Chaos Marines of a similar age.
If you're in the Black Legion school of thought, Chaos Undivided is simply using the various powers of Chaos to further your own ambitions and goals. A follower of Chaos Undivided is not picky about who his patron is or how he serves the Chaos Gods - only that he is able to accomplish his mission. While they value purity of purpose much like the Word Bearers, their end game is not the ascension of Chaos and the destruction of the Galaxy but the overthrow of the Imperium and to be installed as its new rulers, and bring their version of order to the galaxy. Chaos is the most valuable weapon in their arsenal to accomplish this goal - while you are encouraged to understand it, and eventually becoming devoted to a single God is more than tolerated (even rewarded), you must still be willing to use the gifts that the Gods give you to further the grand design of your Legion/Warband. Common to these types of Warbands/Legions is a council of Marked Advisers of each God to an undivided Lord.
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Nice to see an informed post now and then.
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Very interesting point matey,
But degenration into nutters isvery much a threat to even those who follow undivided. I guess its the whole nature thing with chaos with whatever does not kill you makes you stronger.
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Your non-halfling character's shoes have worn out, your walking speed has been reduced by 25% and your running speed has been reduced 50%. Every 50 meters you run now incurs you one hit point in damage. This will persist until a new pair of shoes is obtained.
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Can I get myself some high heels then?
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If you'd like and you can find them.
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>I ask our knight for an extra pair of his loafers
>He's made sure he always has a few pairs on him just in case
>They might be a bit big/small but it's better than nothing
>Will buy my own pair and give our knight an extra bit of cash for a rental fee.
Alternatively, in our Modern Game
>I go to Target
>Get some weird looks as I am barefoot or just in socks
>I buy new shoes
>I leave Target
Good work, GM.
Anyone played this game? I read through the rulebook and I'm pretty excited about it. What do you guys think of it?
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My friends and I play it pretty often
Have not won a game yet as a group, but the traitor has a couple of times
Never trust the fucking dog
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How varied are the traitor cards and how similar are they to the normal objectives? Like after a few games will you easily be able to figure out who the betrayed is and what their objective is?
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There's quite a few, and it's by random draw. It's actually pretty difficult to figure out most of the time.
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Due to a weird genetic mutation your children will be immortal and will effectively stop ageing at 35.
You are not immortal and none of your grandchildren will be either.
How do you prepare your children for this? What would you do if you knew this was going to happen?
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Adopt.
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Donate shit tons of sperm.
Impregnate as many women as possible.
Create a new race of immortal super humans that will inherit the earth.
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Seeing as it is a weird and random genetic mutation, we would have absolutely no way of knowing until our first child turned 35, and even then for a few years after when we realize that they aren't aging.
So there is absolutely no way we could prepare for it, and we could not reasonably know it was happening.
I've been thinking about this for the past couple of weeks. Is there any way that something like a deck of cards can be used in RPGs without it being just another poor RNG? The key factors we're looking at here is how, if you draw a card from a deck, you know you won't draw it again, and that a deck can run out.
I already know about some of the systems that have used cards in the past, and they didn't seem to specifically look at those two aspects. A good direction, I think, is to make sure the cards aren't used as higher = better, because that leads to people shifting gears halfway based on what they've already drawn. This is why I moved on to looking at dominoes instead, because drawing bridges with them doesn't give any particular preference to any number.
tl;dr Only using dice is too mainstream.
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Shonen Final Burst does a lot of weird stuff using suits and straights.
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>Image of dominions.
Anyone want talk about noumenon?
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Only interesting mechanic is that drawing cards removes them from the pool of future outcomes.
Otherwise shuffling and drawing is significantly slower than rolling dice.
Just straight up use gambling games in your RPGs. Pretty sure Deadlands used Blackjack for magic.
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Why is our hobby stereotyped with foul body odor?
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Because sadly people who tend to play traditional games tend to be introverted people or shut-ins, who tend to have poor concepts of hygiene.
It's not even a conscious thing, I think some people just really don't know that they smell, especially if they're not around people much.
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People tend to pick our the worst quality of the worst person associated with what they are stereotyping. I can think of things worse than odor, but most people cringe at bad smells, and don't want to be associated with that.
And there are lots of smelly people who are into /tg/ related stuff. A game store I used to go to had, I kid you not, posters reminding the gamers to bathe properly.
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Positive correlation.
Also big gaming venues aren't picked for ventilation or fragrance but price and number of wall sockets.
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What do you guys think is the best TCG other than Magic right now?
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I haven't looked too much at it since it isn't really played much.
I like the art style because I'm a fucking weeaboo, but the mechanics always seem kinda...parasitic.
Like in that card you just posted it calls to draw another SPECIFIC card. And I'm hoping the whole Cthulu Resonator thing is more like tribes in mtg or that's just compounding the parasitism.
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Force of Will is a very fun game. Much happier with it than I am of magic these last few years. Currently trying to finish my Bloody Snow White deck, missing some commons :\
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It seems somewhat interesting, but much like Yu-Gi-Oh, the cluttered cards put me off of the game somewhat. Tiny text is annoying to read, and unless the game is fabulous, it's going to be tiresome to deal with. Plus, I look at this card and really wonder if 600/600 is necessary. Why not just 6/6? Do you really need increments of 50? Why not 5 then, for a 60/60 creature? Just seems like big numbers for no real reason.
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Someone has just deposited £150 into my bank account, or about $225. I want to get a really nice, miniatures-based game akin to the old game HeroQuest. Something for 1+ players that has good replayability.
Preferably it wouldn't JUST be combat-focused, though I know that's asking a lot. Some non-combat skill checks and interactions would be cool. As close to a fully-fledged RPG as possible, yet an all-in-one-box experience with miniatures and a lot of visual appeal? Can it be done?
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Descent or Imperial Assault wouldn't be terrible choices.
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Space Hulk
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Checking them out now. I played Space Hulk on the computer about 18 years ago, it'll be interesting to see the actual board game.
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Sup /tg/
Was in a RL Random Encounters thread a few days ago, had a lot of fun tellin stories. Was just gonna wait for a new one to pop up, but just had a good one, as well as remembering a few other ones. Figured id start one up, if theres any interest?
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I'll start up with one from a few years ago
>Goin to renaissance faire for the first time
>Goin with a friend
>Hes Link from Legend of Zelda, im a shitty Assassin thing
>Go to the tourney grounds
>Too rainy for jousting, but theyre gonna do hand to hand
>Sounds good to me
>Guys split into their groups, 2 v 2
>Before they start, they look in our direction
>Look next to us
>Holy fuck its Jesus
>He'd literally appeared out of nowhere
>They start talking to Jesus
>He just nods and raises the Holy Grail at them
>Fight commences
>General ren faire fighting
>The good guy beats one of the bad guys
>Bad guy is on the ground
>"Do you yield?"
>Bad guy says yes
>Good guy turns his back on him
>Bad guy "Stabs" him
>Good guy "Dies"
>All the good guys gather around
>"Hey jesus? What do you think?"
>Jesus gives the thumbs up
>Dead man returns to life
>Audience loses their shit
>All the good guys gather around
>"Hey Jesus! You're our guy!"
>Jesus raises the Graille
>After the match going to get a picture with jesus
>He says hes glad its raining, cause free wine
>Girl gets her picture taken with him
>She says holy shit for some reason
>He just glares at her
Fuckin Jesus man
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bumpin with classics till i know ive got some other dudes in here
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https://youtu.be/qE6Gmy2t-Es
Wow that was verypathetic
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For a free video series it isn't too pathetic. I wouldn't pay for this stuff at all though.
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Someone should have given James a copy of Philip K Dick's Eye in the Sky. It's basically this but far more coherent. The characters in Eye in the Sky travel from world to world where each character takes turn as the "god" of that world. Every time the "god" gets knocked out or killed they all move on to the next world.
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I found pathetic he trying to hard to explain things that nobody cared for in first place and saying he dont want to spoil some things. James, nobody cares.
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Dark Adventure Modalvania Edition House Civ Quest 3 2015-12-09 02:32:14 Post No.44067029
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You have some terrible luck tonight. First you got interrupted so you went on a walk. Then you got lost and stumbled upon a sight you REALLY shouldn't have seen. Finally just as you attempt to hide from the trouble you heard coming your way. Suddenly could feel a plated gauntlet grab your shoulder from behind you. You rather regret looking behind you to see the Vampire Knight whom earlier you realized you had missed.
That was when you heard it speak for the first time.
"Nice try."
Just as around the corner came the the two parties you had seen earlier. Except...well those two were now much MUCH more hands on with each other until the knight sees you freeze. While the vampire noticed and looked over being shouting.
"YOU AGAIN!"
...well shit your rather fucked now aren't you?
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Did we just run into the Mage vamp or the multi armed bitch/pansy duo?
Doesn't matter
>Shove, run, and yell +fate point
It doesn't seem like we have much of a chance to survive here.
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Luckily just as the vampire knight was drawing his sword. No don't to run you through with it. The other knight spoke up even as the miss vampire approached licking her lips.
"HOLD IT! He is the Baroness Ezra's guy!"
"So what? She could afford to lose one," stated the vampire as she approached.
"Problem is she is fond of him and if she finds out..."
That made both vampires stop in their tracks.
"Why THIS guy though," asks the female vampire confused.
"I could ask the same thing about loverboy over there," deadpanned the Knight Vampire.
"uhh...well he is different."
"He is food."
"We knew each other before i got turned damn it!"
"Why not turn him and stay together forever then?"
"...Well uh I'm working on that."
"I do not appreciate that thought," mentions the knight whom they were discussing. "Besides not my fault your turning of her failed at stopping her love."
"Normally that just results in said loves ones ALSO getting turned or you know getting killed by them," explains the vampire knight.
"Well good thing she is above such thing isn't it?"
The vampire knight merely shakes his head before stating, "This is why I hate those borne with the best blood. So difficult to deal with...fucking babysitting duty."
"So wait what do we do with him then," asks the female vampire.
"...well uh I'll hm...I don't think the lady will appreciate anything happening to him...at the same time I doubt she'll like this too. Shit."
"What if we turn him," asks the vampire.
"No. I don't think she is into necrophilia."
"Coming from the necrophiliac..." mutters the vampire knight.
"Oh shut up already."
"Coming from the person who fucks her food..."
"I am suddenly beginning to understand why you hate him so much," says the Knight towards the female vampire.
"oh you have NO idea love...well I guess we can like uh...how MUCH does she like him?"
"Honestly I don't know. Why?"
"We'll make it her problem."
"...She is going to hate that."
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No they are speaking with us. We have a chance to pull a fantasy master mind and talk our way out of this.
I'm just waiting to see what else might be posted.
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If a game other than D&D could dominate the market for RPGs, which one would you want it to be? For whatever reasons.
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Anything besides Warhammer 40k.
But let's be honest, it would be Warhammer 40k.
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I'd still pick D&D
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There's is something wrong with just how butthurt people are about D&D.
Is it the best brand? That's actually not too bold of a statement, and it's certainly not a bad group of games by any measure.
Just because your favorite game isn't by far the most popular doesn't mean that you need to whine about all the little problems you have with it that are mostly a matter of preference.
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(Don't take any of this bullshit seriously, this is just for keks)
Hello there, pull up a shotgun and prepare yourself for a cringy one-shot adventure.
You Anons represent the inner thoughts/subconscious of Janon, a poor newbie who has fallen into the spiders web. I am The Whizzard, and I will be your pseudo-GM tonight. You will be subjugated to the many cruel fetishes that this GM has prepared.
The only way you can save Janon from perishing in this terrible game is to give him commands, and hopefully he'll be able to hear you.
Janon is playing a stereotypical fighter, and he has no other allies at this table.
Without further ado, let us descend into madness.
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The GM adjusts his glasses and gives Janon a friendly look.
"Alright J, your character sheet is all set and all the players are gathered."
Janon seemed slightly surprised, after all, he was the only other player there. However, he had little knowledge of DnD, so for all he knew, this was normal.
"You are located directly outside of a tavern. Inside is where your quest can begin. Are you ready?"
>wat do?
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No. Run in the opposite direction
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So, what can I do? I can do whatever I want right?
So I can go into the Tavern and order food?
What are we trying to do anyways? What is the quest?
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I gotta wake up early tomorrowtodayand I can't sleep, so lets do this until I can't anymore.
I'm a fairly slow "writer" so be warned.
After a truly dreadful journey you finally arrived at the Bainsmarket train station. You where suspicious, but now the reason of the exaggerated for the undisclosed security job started making sense to you. If the Farrows are only half as aggressive on your next train ride as the one you just had, then probably only because they'll fear that Bogrin or other nasties might have the same target.
The weekly pay of 70 gc with food and lodging thrown in is pretty sweet though and its not like you'll back down from a challenge so you make your way to the branch office of "Sigmurs Transport" to register.
You are:
Male.Yes the only option sry /d/
Human
The by far predominant race in the Iron Kingdoms.
Dwarf
Or Rhulfolk, are a short but sturdy and steadfast people. Living in Rhul some seek adventure in the Iron Kingdoms as mercenaries and traders.
Nyss(Elves)
Tribal people who where recently almost wiped out. A rugged race that hail from the frozen north and the chosen race of the winter god Nyssor. Sorcerers are common among them.
Ogrun
Ogrun are fierce-looking, formidable creatures who tower over most other races and are capable of remarkable feats of strength. After the Clockwork Revolution Ogrun adapted to city life as laborers and mercenaries. They cannot wield Magic.
Trollkin
Trollkin are large and physically imposing, with distinctive skin whose hue may range from dark blue to blue-green. Divided between the wilderness kriels, who are often at odds with human civilization, and those who have integrated into the cities as citizens of the Iron Kingdoms.
Also specify what kind of character you want to be. There are lots of choices in Iron Kingdoms for that. Warrior wearing a steam powered Armor (ironheads), Sorcerer, Gun mage....
If we don't get a consensus after 30 mins or smth I'll chose.
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>but now the reason of the exaggerated for the undisclosed security
exaggerated pay
Slow and tired
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Warrior dwarf.Don't know shit about Iron Kingdoms
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Human