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- Sat May 04, 2019 3:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
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The people who make replica swords from literature seem to think that Heron Marked Swords look like this: Heron Marked Sword Which is not really a katana, and more like an infantry sabre. Which means that yes, to the extent that Heron-Marked Swords were influenced by Katanas, that's more similar to...
- Sat May 04, 2019 7:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
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- Sat May 04, 2019 3:44 am
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: Tomb of Xagyg: Solo Dungeon & Dragons Adventure
- Replies: 399
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- Sat May 04, 2019 3:29 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30759
This armchair generaling on how one needs to make a perfectly moral product has very little connection to reality. Everyone here has played some mix of WoD and Shadowrun and CoC and L5R. No one, not one person refused to play those games for the reasons we're pretending would be deal breakers here....
- Sat May 04, 2019 12:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
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The only safe bet is to avoid real EVERYTHING. I mean, people talk about how the Klingons are maybe the Russians in WWII, but they don't say it very loudly because almost nothing matches, most notably their name not matching an identifiable real culture. As the franchise evolved and more stories wer...
- Thu May 02, 2019 10:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30759
- Thu May 02, 2019 2:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30759
- Wed May 01, 2019 3:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30759
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 3:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
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Eclipse's Charm stealing is honestly kind of nonsensical. The charmset in Exalted is explicitly not a final set and you are encouraged to make your own. So there's no actual in-game reason to buy foreign charms at a markup instead of saying you invent a new charm that is also better because you are...
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
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I don't think Frank and I are going to do a wrap-up, so here are the bits I consider useful from a game design standpoint: The Yozi Infernals takes the Yozi from the base game and converts them from bog-standard villains into a really interesting RPG NPC character and a very interesting inspiration ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
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So you want a game where your choices of stats and Charms doesn't mean that you can't win? Honestly, I may have misinterpreted this, the double negative made it confusing. Longes said the social combat minigame is deterministic, meaning if I have a 9 and you have a 10 then my loss is inevitable, ev...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:30 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
Exalted is worse than Vampire because every single one of its mechanics is dysfunctional. Literally, anything you can bring Exalted mechanics in for makes your session worse than just MTPing it. Unlike Vampire where it's only mostly the case. At least in Vampire you can make a social check without ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
Exalted is worse than Vampire because every single one of its mechanics is dysfunctional. Literally, anything you can bring Exalted mechanics in for makes your session worse than just MTPing it. Unlike Vampire where it's only mostly the case. At least in Vampire you can make a social check without ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 7:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
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Mechanically, Exalted is as badly designed as Vampire. Nah, Exalted is worse. It's tempting to say that Vampire plays smoother just because of the fact that the World of Darkness is low fantasy - that most of the world is our world and that you can look outside or look on Wikipedia to fill in setti...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
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This whole line of argumentation (in defense of Exalted) strikes me as very lazy, and typical of defenses for bad games in general. Yeah, maybe it doesn't make any difference and we can all just have a tea party - so why the hell are we filling excel spreadsheets full of ki powers and jade swords a...
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 4:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:29 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
Here's a “Charm Cloud” from a different book: http://pre05.deviantart.net/cd1b/th/pre/i/2015/301/3/3/exalted___charm_tree___athletics_by_beachfox-d9en2rt.png I'm almost afraid to ask 1) Um... the charms with in-degree 0, which are what you have to take first (?), are in a cross around the title of ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
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Is the non-combat stuff in Exalted any good? Like, I know Celestial Circle sorcery can summon demons; can you summon an army of demons? Can an army of demons wear down a high-level solar exalted? For my sins, I tried to figure out how the various superpowers in Amber Diceless interacted. If you hav...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
Exalted is a very rules-heavy game. Most of those rules are for combat and activities directly tied to combat, like movement and stealth. Heck, until 2E subsystems for anything else hardly even existed and in 2E swords explicitly trumped words. Combat is not very interesting to roll through for any...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
2E: Run a combo each round and perfect defend everything, because passive defenses are pretty much 100% non-viable in the Solar league, your manapool is your health bar. 2.5E: Passive defenses are semi-viable, so use them by default and if your passive defense fails to filter out an incoming attack...
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 7:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22785
So he is (according to the interwebs, anyway): https://thirdexalt.fandom.com/wiki/Ligier please don't explain what in fuck FETICH SOUL OF MALFEAS means. The demons are all part of a respective Yozi as components of thier soul. Think of the fetich soul as a lich's phylactery, except it's also a pers...
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 3:44 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9019