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Agreed. If you want to play just a dungeon crawl, go pick up a copy of Descent: Journey's In the Dark. It's that with all the miniatures you need included.
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I realize Kickstarter RPG is 99% dominated by the alphabet alliance these days, but here's something that might be worth a look see for some of you fellow OSR players:
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If you've played Mork Borg - and fucked if I know how, because I'm still not sure if that's a game or some kind of spergy avant-garde experiment - it's a cyberpunk setting made by the same crew. Combining the two could be the OSR answer to "Shadowrun without having to buy every Yahtzee set in a 10 mile radius and applying calculus to each roll."
CY_BORG
Nano-infested doomsday RPG about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate hell.
If you've played Mork Borg - and fucked if I know how, because I'm still not sure if that's a game or some kind of spergy avant-garde experiment - it's a cyberpunk setting made by the same crew. Combining the two could be the OSR answer to "Shadowrun without having to buy every Yahtzee set in a 10 mile radius and applying calculus to each roll."
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The new DragonLance novel summary was leaked online from Amazon:
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D&D General - New Summary and Release Date for 'Dragons of Deceit'
There's a new Amazon Kindle page for Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's new Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Deceit with a release date of August 9, 2022. There has been an older Amazon page for the book for a while, with a now-expired release date of July 2021. The existence of the new trilogy...
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Kender.... start the bonfires lads, time for bookburning!The new DragonLance novel summary was leaked online from Amazon:
D&D General - New Summary and Release Date for 'Dragons of Deceit'
There's a new Amazon Kindle page for Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's new Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Deceit with a release date of August 9, 2022. There has been an older Amazon page for the book for a while, with a now-expired release date of July 2021. The existence of the new trilogy...
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Not jazzed at first glance, but as a Cyberpunk 2020 vet, I'm at least willing to do some homework on it. Surprised that it's not getting "REEEE ANTIFA SIMULATOR!" reactions.I realize Kickstarter RPG is 99% dominated by the alphabet alliance these days, but here's something that might be worth a look see for some of you fellow OSR players:
CY_BORG
Nano-infested doomsday RPG about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate hell.
If you've played Mork Borg - and fucked if I know how, because I'm still not sure if that's a game or some kind of spergy avant-garde experiment - it's a cyberpunk setting made by the same crew. Combining the two could be the OSR answer to "Shadowrun without having to buy every Yahtzee set in a 10 mile radius and applying calculus to each roll."
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>kenderThe new DragonLance novel summary was leaked online from Amazon:
D&D General - New Summary and Release Date for 'Dragons of Deceit'
There's a new Amazon Kindle page for Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's new Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Deceit with a release date of August 9, 2022. There has been an older Amazon page for the book for a while, with a now-expired release date of July 2021. The existence of the new trilogy...
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Here's hoping they undo all the garbage of Dragons of Summer Flame and beyond. But I know they won't.
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It wasn't all bad, but 90% of the problems were the writing/books. Tinker gnomes minus the retarded culture had a more unique feel than just "wood elves but small". Draconians are cool. Dragonlances are a cool weapon. Minotaur pirates are cool. Ogres being a fallen race with oni/ogre mages being a rare kind of throwback are cool. A setting where a disaster has occurred and all the pieces are still being picked up and a lot of maps being outdated or with large swathes of unexplored/unknown territory is also cool. It's just a shame that most of this potential was wasted.You can't undo damage when the setting was broken from the start
In all seriousness; never liked Krynn. Never bothered with the books because of that.
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It seems that this time travelling plot will be used exactly for that. Soft reboot.
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I'm having a thing happening at my main table where whenever I have a male NPC be nice to a male PC niggas will think the dude's gay and some will say that I'm "queerbaiting" them. Can't niggas just be friendly with other niggas? Can't a dude be like "I'm sorry people were dicks to you, you're a good lad, I'll buy you a drink sometime" without wanting to suck the other guys cock?
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No, because they're touch starved porn addicts who think every bond or nice act is a road to getting their dick sucked.
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Not to these people. You cannot like someone's company without wanting to coom in them; Unless you are asexual.
So when they accuse you of queerbating just call them bigots for erasing Demisexual people. Or fire the Fujo players who are thirsting for manlove, either way.
They are such deeply unhappy and insecure people the only reason they can fathom for people spending time with them is to coom. They are so shallow and coom-obsessed narcissists they cannot fathom spending time with anyone else unless the end result/goal is cooming.
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Just start posting coomer memes or use woman on woman and then act like them and accuse yourself of lesbianbaiting or whatever to show how dumb they are.
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Shitty Tumblrinas and fuckwits completely screwed up the male platonic relationship.
Sure, we all laughed at 'bromance', but I think that was the start. 'Oh no, it can't just be friends, it must be something DEEPER uwu.'
Sure, we all laughed at 'bromance', but I think that was the start. 'Oh no, it can't just be friends, it must be something DEEPER uwu.'
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The more I hear about the people y'all have to put up with, the more grateful for my group I become. We all get along and have holiday get togethers and even working relationships with one another. We have several couples but none of the drama that comes with it. Four of us are capable of running games with two of the new guys showing interest. If someone new gets introduced and tries X-card type nonsense, they get laughed away. I love my mates.
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Agreed. Most of my current group has been together for over 10 years now, despite a few of us moving across the country, and while we've fragmented a bit in taste of the game we like (there's a big 5e vs non-5e argument among us, so the DMs have split on what games we run), no one's a fucking weirdo. While I'd like to add a new player or two, there's no way I'd go into it blind. The worst problem we've had was a... I guess if I was using Ghostse's term for the CR crowd, maybe you'd call him a Theater Minor; he wanted that type of game and hated any amount of inter-party conflict. He just wanted everyone to skip along, holding hands and having adventures with a happy every after at the end. He didn't make a big deal about it, though, it was just what he expected out of gaming when he started and it's still his ideal game.
Having a long term group also highlights one of my problems with the X card, oddly enough. One of my players lost his parents about a year ago and still hasn't recovered from it. In one of the last games I ran, his backstory included that his father was a great warrior who died defending their village, and he wanted to live up to that. Me, unthinking, had a villain talk smack during combat and say something like "and you'll die just like your father did!" It messed him up a bit to the point he had to walk away from the table for the night. Obviously I didn't mean for that to happen; he's my friend, we've all had a laugh at those silly "what will you allow in a game?" questionnaires. But even if we did have an X card, the damage was already done. It's all performative bullshit, like trigger warnings on social media when people post the pictures right below.
Having a long term group also highlights one of my problems with the X card, oddly enough. One of my players lost his parents about a year ago and still hasn't recovered from it. In one of the last games I ran, his backstory included that his father was a great warrior who died defending their village, and he wanted to live up to that. Me, unthinking, had a villain talk smack during combat and say something like "and you'll die just like your father did!" It messed him up a bit to the point he had to walk away from the table for the night. Obviously I didn't mean for that to happen; he's my friend, we've all had a laugh at those silly "what will you allow in a game?" questionnaires. But even if we did have an X card, the damage was already done. It's all performative bullshit, like trigger warnings on social media when people post the pictures right below.
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What is the point of the x-card anyway? Can't you just talk with the DM if there is something you don't want in game? Why make a system for this?
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I skipped those because I don't really see anything woke with it, one is basically "don't be an ass, don't let others be an ass" (common sense but again spelled out), the other one options how you could make disabilities work as a GM, but nowhere near flying combat wheelchair shit. first one is even so ambiguous I'd consider non-stop whining snowflakes more affected by that than anyone else.
how often does that happen tho in reality? people who would bring up page numbers with "papa paizo said you have to let me play" will be filtered out like the other crappy players you probably screen for anyway, because they're the same type of ppl most don't want at their table to begin with. and I don't think it will create bad players/GMs, because after all it's mostly common sense stuff and experience will do the rest. shit GMs will run shit tables because (among other things) they let shit players play how they want, that has always been the case and always will be, but it might give them a better start and you gotta start somewhere.
that's why I don't think it's a big of a deal (at least worthy an explanation than just a sticker), but then I'm not recruiting out of the wokest parts of the country which might color my judgement. it also helps that the CR crowd doesn't play anything else than dnd5, same for woke attention whores because it's the most popular, so they already filter themselves.
new descent is a bit eh, not as bad as expected (gameplay even has some surprisingly good parts imo), but totally overpriced for what it is. app-driven gameplay is also a bit divisive. 2e is OOP and will fetch a hefty sum.
just grab something like dungeoneers if you got all the materials for a rpg anyway (there are more but that's the first one that came to mind):
ironically for me it's the other way around, the setting and characters are fun to read about, but less fun to play in or with. sure you can move out of the main area where all the stuff happens, but if you do your own thing in the middle of nowhere in no relevance to the setting might as well do your own thing/play something else.
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The only argument for it I've seen that makes sense is that it's for use in con games where you don't know the other players and don't want to explain your traumas to them because they're strangers.