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AnOminous said:
Neuromancer also had one of the best opening lines of any novel.

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Now, this may not be surprising now, considering how many fucking inferior writers have basically stolen the entire concept, but if you read it at the time, when it came out, this was a mind-blowing opener.
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And now, zoomers think the sky was this color:

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>people genuinely jerking off Neuromancer in this thread

Guess how I can tell none of you have read it in the past decade, if at all. Go ahead, take off your rose colored glasses, open it up again, and read it. Neuromancer falls right the fuck apart after the first heist and proceeds to limp along for the rest of it. It's Gibson's first novel and holy shit does it show.
 
Pendulous Dong said:
>people genuinely jerking off Neuromancer in this thread

Guess how I can tell none of you have read it in the past decade, if at all. Go ahead, take off your rose colored glasses, open it up again, and read it. Neuromancer falls right the fuck apart after the first heist and proceeds to limp along for the rest of it. It's Gibson's first novel and holy shit does it show.
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Cyberpunk as a genre is defined in large part by style over substance to begin with, and Neuromancer did a lot to establish the tone and style of the genre early on.

You're right that it's not a very well-told story, though. I've read it again last year: the setting was still interesting in that quaint bleak near-futurism of the 80s, but man, does it fall apart as a story fairly quickly.
 
Quote from tonight's Delta Green game:

Handler: "Now, which of your characters could best pass as a homosexual?"
 
Corn Flakes said:
Cyberpunk as a genre is defined in large part by style over substance to begin with
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nah, alongside the genre comes stuff like transhumanism, corporatocracy, "tech noir", it's a dystopian setting which is inherently thunk-provoking (unless you're some troon working for CDPR thinking it means you can dilate in public or something).
it can be shallow or stupid, just like every other genre, maybe even more so given the more immediate or "realistic" problems it deals with. I'm aware that sounds pretentious as fuck but "dangers of technology and progress" does hit different (when done right) compared to some abstract feudalism etc. in a fantasy setting.

Adamska said:
Oh, I should mention they wasted over a third of the run time tarding on about this Swedish lite RPG called "Tales of the Loop" rather than the fucking setting they use as the title.
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why the fuck am I not surprised.
the little I've seen about it (since it's also published by free league), it looks like it's literally "stranger things: swedish edition" :story:

Adamska said:
Anyways, I've read more into One Ring, and I have more complaints.
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some of it doesn't really bother me tbh (not being the biggest LOTR nerd anyway). for example it being limited to free people and the third age, that's what most people associate with lord of the rings imo. it's like publishing for 5e, it's simply the largest possible demographic. but I'm more of the type "I wanna do x, what fits?" instead trying to force a square peg into a round hole, since I'm too lazy for that. what I mean I wouldn't pick it for an "evil" campaign or anything before/after to begin with. but if someone just read the books (lol) watched the movies and is really eager to play "something LOTR" that's what I'd put on the table and be done with it. still interesting to read a second opinion from someone more into LOTR tho.

as for the names that's probably down to branding and license stuff. since "dungeon master" is a protected dnd term afaik I'm used to other systems pick their own for whatever reason.

Adamska said:
I also dislike their naming of downtime to "fellowship mode".
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well, you could call it brojob time, but...
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ZMOT said:
some of it doesn't really bother me tbh (not being the biggest LOTR nerd anyway). for example it being limited to free people and the third age, that's what most people associate with lord of the rings imo. it's like publishing for 5e, it's simply the largest possible demographic. but I'm more of the type "I wanna do x, what fits?" instead trying to force a square peg into a round hole, since I'm too lazy for that. what I mean I wouldn't pick it for an "evil" campaign or anything before/after to begin with. but if someone just read the books (lol) watched the movies and is really eager to play "something LOTR" that's what I'd put on the table and be done with it. still interesting to read a second opinion from someone more into LOTR tho.
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It's more because I legit just finished reading MERP, which has the benefit of having a lot more stuff out there for it since it lasted longer. That alone makes TOR somewhat for the worse, especially if you are familiar with D% systems already. However TOR does have the benefit of simplicity.

Also I will state that it does mechanically work fine for the most part, though you're going to have to work them through the different stances you adopt in combat. Also for some retarded reason opposed rolls require both a Test Number and a competition to see who did better.

A damning thing no matter what is this: it has fuck all for Gondor or Harad content. This is supposed to be in the same time period as Aragorn's wild ride as Thorongil, Mercenary Captain and one of Gondor's greatest generals. That is genuinely trash, let's be fair.
 
This is an RPG, theoretically
Tomb Raider the TTRPG.jpg

I could post about it, or post a link to the teej thread, but I'll just say it's by Evil Hat Productions (PBTA)
 
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Agent of Z.O.G. said:
This is an RPG, theoretically
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I could post about it, or post a link to the teej thread, but I'll just say it's by Evil Hat Productions (PBTA)
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I'm not enough of a boomer to have any nostalgia for Tomb Raider, and Evil Hat has never put out a good product. However, I'm interested in the idea of team mechanics, if only to steal them and put them in other games.

On that note, what games have the best party/team mechanics? The only really in-depth one I've seen is the patron system from Imperium Maledictum, in which the party gets a number of boons and banes depending on who's sponsoring them.
 
I love everything about OSE but those friggin undead will kick your ass, man. Getting bad touched by a random wight, losing 12000 experience points and suddenly forgetting how to ride a horse will never not suck.

Is it fair thst the energy drain extends to projectiles fired by undead too? How the hell does that work?
 
BlueCandles said:
I love everything about OSE but those friggin undead will kick your ass, man. Getting bad touched by a random wight, losing 12000 experience points and suddenly forgetting how to ride a horse will never not suck.

Is it fair thst the energy drain extends to projectiles fired by undead too? How the hell does that work?
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I guess you guys… wighted out.

Have you guys tried playing a cleric?
 
Pendulous Dong said:
>people genuinely jerking off Neuromancer in this thread

Guess how I can tell none of you have read it in the past decade, if at all. Go ahead, take off your rose colored glasses, open it up again, and read it. Neuromancer falls right the fuck apart after the first heist and proceeds to limp along for the rest of it. It's Gibson's first novel and holy shit does it show.
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I just listened to the audiobook of it this past weekend. It's got some cool concepts but god DAMN does it feel schizophrenic.
Was it just me or were there jump-cuts to new scenes in the middle of conversations? Because that's what it felt like.
 
BlueCandles said:
I love everything about OSE but those friggin undead will kick your ass, man. Getting bad touched by a random wight, losing 12000 experience points and suddenly forgetting how to ride a horse will never not suck.

Is it fair thst the energy drain extends to projectiles fired by undead too? How the hell does that work?
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I mean, RAW it doesn't. Your GM is probably a dick.
And by RAW, I mean specifically that they only have a touch attack. While the energy drain is technically on a successful hit, the stat block makes no mention of weapons.
 
BlueCandles said:
I love everything about OSE but those friggin undead will kick your ass, man. Getting bad touched by a random wight, losing 12000 experience points and suddenly forgetting how to ride a horse will never not suck.

Is it fair thst the energy drain extends to projectiles fired by undead too? How the hell does that work?
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In my OSE game, I house ruled the energy drain to be stat drains after finding an alternate online:

Alternative Undead draining rules:
  • Wights, wraiths and other lesser undead drain 1d6 Constitution.
  • Spectres, vampires and other greater undead drain 2d4 Constitution.
  • Shadows drain 1d6 Strength.
  • Scores recover at a rate of 1 per day.
  • A character drained to 0 in a score is lost, and becomes an undead of the given type.
I just don't tell the players how long the drain lasts. Also, I can always use the level drain for a really powerful undead.
 
Forget about worse tabletop role-playing game podcast. This might be the worst podcast I have ever found. GURPS episode is 30 minutes long. It's around 9:55 when they actually talked about GURPS. They don't talk about the gameplay. Just the different GURPS books and licensed GURPS books. If that. They talked about Hellboy, Troma movies and American Cape shit. Around 24:00 they just stopped talking about GURPS all together to talk about some random board game. There are bad takes. They are just wasting time.
 
Battlefield2142EU said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zFlor8ZqLR4Forget about worse tabletop role-playing game podcast. This might be the worst podcast I have ever found. GURPS episode is 30 minutes long. It's around 9:55 when they actually talked about GURPS. They don't talk about the gameplay. Just the different GURPS books and licensed GURPS books. If that. They talked about Hellboy, Troma movies and American Cape shit. Around 24:00 they just stopped talking about GURPS all together to talk about some random board game. There are bad takes. They are just wasting time.
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Podcasts answered two questions: are there enough topics to constantly cover, and do you need any talent or interesting traits to do so?
The answers in order are no, and fuck yes.
 
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