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- Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953935
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
Two big reasons: 1. Not everyone is a player character and you definitely want to mechanically support the difference between the Evil Empire's Royal Guard, the local rabble and the local rabble after they've gone through a training montage led by the player characters. It's fine if the disposable p...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:42 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Move Based Deterministic Narrative Fighting Game
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4344
Re: Move Based Deterministic Narrative Fighting Game
this games sounds fun just because I'd be 1000% in on the theme but also feels like it'd be the single greatest way to demonstrate that I can't actually handle the most basic logic in the moment rather than in chargen.
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 5:18 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8270
- Views: 927464
Re: Video Games
I don't completely hate Starfield (but I have shit talked it elsewhere) but I can't stress enough how much of that is based on the fact that I already had game pass for other reasons and therefore I don't have to sit there resenting the $70 fuckmothering dollars they charge for it. The best I have h...
- Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Best Edition of Shadowrun?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7330
Re: Best Edition of Shadowrun?
I prefer 4e over anniversary since it doesn't introduce a minor divide by zero error for no good reason. With that said the differences are minor. Common pitfalls to be aware of and potentially houserule: 1. Character creation & advancement features an arbitrage minigame for those who wish to mi...
- Thu Feb 10, 2022 11:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Let's Read] Freedom City: Every Edition!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6704
Re: [Let's Read] Freedom City: Every Edition!
I'll have to add yet one more term borrowed from City of Heroes back in the day: Earth Prime. DC was operating on a multiverse concept for decades and has used the term Earth Prime for Earth-33 before, which is our earth as opposed to the Earths where most DC comics take place like Earth 1. That st...
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:17 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Chrono Cross is still one of the worst games ever.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11287
Re: Chrono Cross is still one of the worst games ever.
Yeah, most of the choices in Suikoden 1 are basically just window dressing and have minimal impact on the ending; some characters may or may not be wandering around in the epilogue and that's about it. I consider that a plus, btw. I find Suikoden 2 to be a skosh overrated but I'm fond of the interpr...
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:33 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Chrono Cross is still one of the worst games ever.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11287
Re: Re:
I really like the music, and some character designs, and some of the areas, but man did the massive party system really screw over any chance at characterization for anybody besides Harle and Kid. Yep. Every once in a while you come across Chrono Cross apologists who insist it was better than Chron...
- Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:59 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Chrono Cross is still one of the worst games ever.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11287
Re: Chrono Cross is still one of the worst games ever.
One of the things I hate most about the rise of apps and targeted advertising is that an article titled "Why Chrono Cross deserves an HD remake" keeps popping up in my phone feed and it won't let me post "This game is comparable to cholera" in the comments section without getting...
- Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:23 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Project Triangle Strategy
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4006
Re: Project Triangle Strategy
The funny thing about this Octopoop being a caster game is that this is the diametric opposite of the ol' FF Tactics, where Knight/Ninjas dual wielding legendary swords, Monk (attack power and evasion rates scale with level, oddly), and Thieves (Charm at will, anyone? Yoink their weapon right out o...
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is Chamomile a self-publisher?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2406
Re: Is Chamomile a self-publisher?
I think it says a lot about your professionalism that the totally free Mr Vampire thing that didn't quite work out is still one of the better (albeit short) forum gaming experiences I've had and really I blame myself for letting that peter out more than anyone else. It's a format I've never gotten t...
- Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Arguing about Pokemon Tabletop Evolution (WIP)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 55173
Re: Arguing about Pokemon Tabletop Evolution (WIP)
Will do, might take me a bit though since work is trying its damndest to cram the business we should have had last year into a 3 month window.
- Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:19 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Horrible evil corrupt Cuomo might finally face consequences
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6939
Re: Horrible evil corrupt Cuomo might finally face consequences
Why do people keep voting for assholes on the grounds that he's "our" asshole, again? It always seems like the setup to a Leopards Eating People's Faces Party meme.
- Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Vampire 5th Edition is Bad: The Movie
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5006
Re: Vampire 5th Edition is Bad: The Movie
Kanye dipped into weird urban survivalist shtick often enough that people also dragged out the Derelicte joke for his Adidas lookbook. It's dumb but it makes sense to me that out of touch people trying to update an dead property would end up emulating a rapper that's been washed for a decade. I thin...
- Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953935
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
Whether something is alive or not doesn't actually matter to me unless it's actively trying to make itself noticed or manages to break contact with the Veiling creature. I'm totally fine with the bogeyman using his sleep powers and the Veil to kidnap naughty children.
- Mon May 31, 2021 3:50 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 494206
Re: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
One of the many, many things that bothers me about anti-SJW reactionaries is how quick they are to presume expertise and insist that anything less than their own head canon is filthy revisionism. For example, it annoys me that the Mount & Blade franchise in particular has sub communities that ar...
- Mon May 31, 2021 3:16 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8270
- Views: 927464
Re: Video Games
Yeah, I feel like they leaned too hard on trying to have a story in place from day 1 and the result left me feeling penned in.
- Mon May 31, 2021 4:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Vampire 5th Edition is Bad: The Movie
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5006
Re: Vampire 5th Edition is Bad: The Movie
This fashion designer I've been shitting on actually nailed the Ventrue. This is the one set of fashion plates you wouldn't mistake for a Toreador. They look like Cruella DeVille types and dudes with five-figure-a-night coke habits. These authors definitely favor the high society vampires. I ended ...
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 10:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 962567
- Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [High 5e] Beowulf: Age of Heroes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1434
Re: [High 5e] Beowulf: Age of Heroes
This seems fairly cool. As always my biggest mark against it is you know, 5e. Fundamentally it's just not a great edition for really differentiating between the bad asses and the nerds who can't hang when Grendel shows up.
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is DnD the most popular because of ease?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6148
Re: Is DnD the most popular because of ease?
Built-in opposition is a biggie, yeah. It's why I actually considered the Quantum Bears thing to be one of my smaller problems with Bear World and many other rules lite games. For all of SIlva's faffing about how themes, setting and expectations need to be clear Apocalypse World still expected you t...
- Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is DnD the most popular because of ease?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6148
Re: Is DnD the most popular because of ease?
Beyond that, Star Wars hasn't been presented primarily as an RPG setting for several decades. Once upon a time D&D was the only game in town and they had to do a lot of heavy lifting to establish themselves. But now the field has already been tilled and they've been the big fish in a very small ...
- Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is DnD the most popular because of ease?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6148
Re: Is DnD the most popular because of ease?
It's all about consensus reality. In the real world life just marches on and you can't plead your case against gravity about whether or not you should take full fall damage. RPGs depend on consensus, however, and sometimes we want it to feel self-explanatory to people that badgers can be magical eno...
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What were Gygax & Arneson & pals looking at for early D&D?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4965
Re: What were Gygax & Arneson & pals looking at for early D&D?
I think another big reason many campaigns fail to feature anything but Tolkien skinned mayhem is that DMs sorta give up and get into this lazy mindset where player characters are seen as really the only part of the game that matters. I understand how people get there--nobody likes spotlight stealing...
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the least bad version of the "Storyteller System"?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1930
Re: What is the least bad version of the "Storyteller System"?
I would unironically suggest you could sit at a table with the MET rules and do pretty OK. Either way you're not really playing Vampire with normies in 2021.
- Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the least bad version of the "Storyteller System"?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1930
Re: What is the least bad version of the "Storyteller System"?
oWoD MET rules.
It's shit, but it's short shit, you don't need props and your character sheet is smol. Such features handily crush V5 virtually by default.
It's shit, but it's short shit, you don't need props and your character sheet is smol. Such features handily crush V5 virtually by default.