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Replicant Sasquatch said:
I will never understand people who think F.A.T.A.L is somehow a good game for even a joke session. Memes about anal circumference aside, the game is mechanically unplayable. It simply does not work on any level.
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Apparently it took something like 30 minutes to resolve a single combat action.
And we ended up raping each other to death because we got a bunch of random magic items that cause us to become gibbering rapists.
It was actually kind of fun in a "holy shit what is wrong with this game" kind of way.
But then again, I wasn't GMing.
 
That was where Dyn tried to attack an armoured bandit with a whip.

He died, said "I won" in the response post.

No-one disagreed IIRC.
 
Wallace said:
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What do you get when you mix an RPG with group therapy for nu-males? The Watch, where all of the cis-men have been corrupted by evil, so it’s up to the women and non-binary people to put aside their differences and fight the darkness.

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Oh, so it’s not men who are evil, it’s the concept of masculinity. Gotcha.

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"I'm not saying that men are evil, it's just that men who act stereotypically masculine are evil. Act effeminate and you can have the honor of going evil a little later than the rest of your penis-having brethren."

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And by fight, we of course mean share group-hugs and high-fives about how cool our gender is, because solving problems through violence is masculine/bad!

The good news is that the Kickstarter for this project isn’t doing well, and normally games with the PbtA ruleset sell like hotcakes. If the authors had been able to come up with a better definition of evil than “masculine”, I might actually be interested. Just another cool thing that social justice bullshit has ruined for the rest of us.
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tbh I don't know what's worse. The fact there's a cool game ruined by a hamfisted gender politics message, or if it's really obvious this game is probably just the devs' fetish.
 
That sort of thing happens fairly often to be honest (though it's more often that heavyhanded political things are usually shit because they are).

I think another example might be Ironclaw maybe (???). I hear the naval combat's pretty neat but...
 
Adamska said:
And speaking of tabletop genders:
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I feel a weird urge to defend Numenera since I recently started playing Torment and have played the actual tabletop game itself and what they're saying about genders does make a little bit of sense since the setting is eons in the future. Also the numenera/tech just fucks with the natural progress of humanity in general since it has unexpected outcomes. (Like the people who had to adapt men into being the birth givers) It seems a bit social justice-y, I know, but given the circumstances of the setting and the sheer amount of biological advancement, it feels like the note is more to let people know they can have a wide spectrum of characters. If I saw this in a semi realistic RP setting, I'd totally call SJW BS on that note, of course.

That said, in Toment the actual game there are just mostly men and women as NPC's (And you only get two gender choices for your character) but you get cases of the Changing God who has hopped body from body so no real gender label defines them as such since they're mostly an entity more than anything. There's also some monogender aliens and such. BUT it's really is a good game, though. If you're an old school isorpg fan it's perfect.

Sorry, sperg done. Felt like I should add in some context for that numenera page.
 
I feel tempted to run a one-shot session of Black Tokyo as an ironic joke, but first I need to acquire a copy of it. Which is embarrassing in and of itself.

I think I'll just stick to D&D for now.
 
I've always wanted to play AFMBE, but that's because I'm an unoriginal hack that still likes zombie things.
 
krautkid said:
I feel a weird urge to defend Numenera since I recently started playing Torment and have played the actual tabletop game itself and what they're saying about genders does make a little bit of sense since the setting is eons in the future. Also the numenera/tech just fucks with the natural progress of humanity in general since it has unexpected outcomes. (Like the people who had to adapt men into being the birth givers) It seems a bit social justice-y, I know, but given the circumstances of the setting and the sheer amount of biological advancement, it feels like the note is more to let people know they can have a wide spectrum of characters. If I saw this in a semi realistic RP setting, I'd totally call SJW BS on that note, of course.

That said, in Toment the actual game there are just mostly men and women as NPC's (And you only get two gender choices for your character) but you get cases of the Changing God who has hopped body from body so no real gender label defines them as such since they're mostly an entity more than anything. There's also some monogender aliens and such. BUT it's really is a good game, though. If you're an old school isorpg fan it's perfect.

Sorry, sperg done. Felt like I should add in some context for that numenera page.
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Those are all excuses and you know it. I came up with different variations while shittalking this with a friend that they could have done for this using actual historical cultures and factoring in their magic/tech, and it is still blatant SJW "muh genders" shit. Example: if these guys can force men to be able to give birth, then they could have made flesh golems or made a sex swap thing instead. Example: Instead of a vague non-gendered ritual, they could've pulled a cult thing like if you join the fertility gods you have to walk a mile in the opposite gender's shoes, or you cast yourself out from your own culture by joining say another cult. Example: the Three genders element could have actual basis in real cultures, which includes men doing men jobs, women doing women jobs, and those who do the opposite gender's jobs.

It's all SJW trash, sorry to break it to you.
 
If Black Tokyo had some better artwork I'd be tempted to sit down one day and fix up some issues with it, but having to not only rework rules and change the artwork it would just be too much work for a game that would probably only ever be a one off one-shot.
 
Oh no, I get it since my friend likes the setting too. He's just calling it as it is; that entire section is SJW trash. Hell, I do this sort of thing to 40k all the time since it regularly goes into Grimderp.
 
Grimderp is a good way to describe WH40k at times. I have to admit when my ex-bf brought out his little blue space marines and tried to explain the setting to me, I had to suppress the biggest of eyerolls because power armor buff dudes just doesn't do it for me. But then he gave me Eishenhorn to read and I became totally onboard with the setting after that.

But it's weird. The rest of the Numenera book doesn't read badly like the gender section so I don't know if they thought maybe we need to go back and put some stuff in or what? And re-reading that paragraph, it is kind of annoying they pointed out that 'other rpgs don't give you a choice'. Well, no, because male and female is pretty much the norm in all settings.
 
One could say anything from Matt Ward could be Grimderp. That man just enjoys destroying Warhammer 40k with how shitty his fluff is and his usually unbalanced crunch.

Isn't Numenera made by Monte Cook? Really, that's all one needs to know about that setting. He's been a piece of shit in the RPG community after he shit on Dungeons and Dragons 3.x back in what? 2001 or 2002? He gets by today in tabletop games because he helped make 3.0. Like fuck, his wikipedia page screams "I wrote this myself". The man is full of himself.
 
Legatus Lanius said:
I always wanted to try my hand at D&D...
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I'm sure there are other kiwis who would like to learn. If people are interested I would be willing to run a beginners game and teach a group of 5 the game from scratch.
 
Vitriol said:
I'm sure there are other kiwis who would like to learn. If people are interested I would be willing to run a beginners game and teach a group of 5 the game from scratch.
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I'm on board!
 
Vitriol said:
I'm sure there are other kiwis who would like to learn. If people are interested I would be willing to run a beginners game and teach a group of 5 the game from scratch.
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I'd like to know a bit more about 5E. Maybe make it something like a fantasy WWE game?
 
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