Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Second Missing Primarch]

I thought the left hated showgirls after the director admitted the movie had a anti-porn message?

"Life of a Showgirl" is the title of Taylor Swift's new album. It's a shameless attempt to piggyback off that hype.

 

[The Bogwater Flows On]

A friend showed me a copy of the Mork Borg rulebook a few days ago, and man! What an unusable piece of shit! You could barely tell what the book is about because there is so much art shit on every page. I own multiple books of RPG art and even some original pieces, but I hated this thing because the art is clearly being used to pad out a zine-sized OSR game printed in an outrageously overpriced hardcover.

Mork Borg fucking sucks.

 

[AnOminous]

Mork Borg fucking sucks.

That name is fucking retarded. I couldn't take it seriously just because of that retarded name.

Nanu nanu. Resistance is futile.

 

[The Bogwater Flows On]

That name is fucking retarded. I couldn't take it seriously just because of that retarded name.
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Nanu nanu. Resistance is futile.

It's a stupid, stupid name. I only played it because "Oh cybernetic stuff can be neat" during a RPG meetup and it was not fun at all. Admittedly, our GM wasn't good, but the system was so flawed I don't think many good GMs could do it well.

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

Bruh. even in the dialup AOL days. You don't remember?
"on AOL, The men are real men. The women are real men. The girls are real men. And the boys are FBI agents."

Don't tell me you've forgotten "G.I.R.L - Guy in Real Life".

They were just normal straight chasing faggots, not disgusting troons.

Oh sure they existed, but I was finding local women even then. Unless they were doing some kind of non-euclidean tuck to create a puzzle vagina, in which case I'd have to say hats off to them for fooling me.

 

[The Ugly One]

God I hate Niggers of the Coast. Remember when this is what we got?
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Genuinely not old enough. I know i saw D&D art in comic book ads in the 1980s as a little guy, but the first book I know I encountered was this one:


Thought it was pretty badass. Still do.

 

[LovisXVI]

Oh sure they existed, but I was finding local women even then. Unless they were doing some kind of non-euclidean tuck to create a puzzle vagina, in which case I'd have to say hats off to them for fooling me.

Don't think I read that Lovecraft short story, but it would make a good CoC adventure.

 

[Booger1488]

Now that is one niggerdly nigger.

Technically it's not a nigger but a Brazilian, which some might even say is worse

 

[Judge Dredd]

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Make it stop.

Clownfish TV made an interesting point. Remember the first thing wokescolds went after 10 years ago? It was bikini armour. Now we have dnd art about women is feather skirts, bikini tops, and high heels.

That name is fucking retarded. I couldn't take it seriously just because of that retarded name.

From what I understand, the name was a couple of swedish thing that, in English, sounds like Mork Borg. It makes me wonder if Pirate Borg and Cy Borg are less stupid in swedish, or if they're leaning into the western meme.

What an unusable piece of shit! You could barely tell what the book is about because there is so much art shit on every page.

I've had the unpopular opinion for a while that a lot of RPG products are never meant to be played.

Thought it was pretty badass. Still do.

B-b-but, the OSR community and DnD grognards insist true DnD art was peasants dying in horrible ways.

 

[The Bogwater Flows On]

I've had the unpopular opinion for a while that a lot of RPG products are never meant to be played.

Mork Borg is absolutely one that fits into this, but I've noticed so many flavor of the month RPGs are made with "One Shots" in mind. I have played Shadow Dark several times and enjoyed it, but fuck me if I do not really know how it works for a long term campaign.

I only played Mothership before actually looking into the books and seeing how gay they were ... makes me sad. I really enjoyed the one shots I played, but again IDC how you make a campaign out of that system.

I hear the new Aliens RPG is similar: Good for one shots/short campaigns meh for long term ones. Which might be fitting for the setting, but it still adds to my opinion.

I feel these "Indie" RPGs know there are a lot of groups that meetup to run things not DND and just want to put their stuff out so someone picks it up to run at these one shot meetings and hope others also buy them. That or they're too lazy to make a system that can support more than 6 sessions.

 

[Red Dragon]

I've had the unpopular opinion for a while that a lot of RPG products are never meant to be played.

My theory is that these "games" are made by people that don't play RPGs, but love to talk about RPGs. Basically, nu-/tg/ people grifting and power tripping. I first felt that while reading Fabula Ultima; it does have all the elements from old Final Fantasy videogames and is very pretty, but the system by itself seems boring and lacks challenge - it looked like you simply can't lose. It may work for a one-shot or a short campaign, but I highly doubt it can be entertaining for a long time.

 

[Judge Dredd]

My theory is that these "games" are made by people that don't play RPGs, but love to talk about RPGs.

That covers most RPG people imo. DMs that have shelves and shelves of books, None of which ever get to the table.

For a long time before I got to play RPGs, and even now, there are people who like to talk how they'd give their right testicle just to get one more RPG, but when proposed a game, suddenly it was excuses. It was so bad I was of the opinion that no one really played RPGs. Especially when their war stories turned out to be pulled from 4chan and spoony episodes.

I've also noticed groups have 2-3 games they play. DnD, an alternate game for a different setting like CoC, Star Wars, or RuneQuest, and maybe a third esoteric system for special occasions.

I think this explains why so many common opinions about RPGs are anti-fun that I can't grasp, and are inherently contradictory.

I've noticed so many flavor of the month RPGs are made with "One Shots" in mind.

I don't mind this tbh.

I run a lot of one shots or small campaigns. Adults don't have the time to commit to campaigns most of the time.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

I've had the unpopular opinion for a while that a lot of RPG products are never meant to be played.

Absolutely 100%. Kickstarter has made a killing off of pointless novelty games like this Dead by Daylight ripoff (the hardcover is only $55!)

 

[Henri Barbusse]

I feel these "Indie" RPGs know there are a lot of groups that meetup to run things not DND and just want to put their stuff out so someone picks it up to run at these one shot meetings and hope others also buy them. That or they're too lazy to make a system that can support more than 6 sessions.

That's how most Japanese RPGs work and it works fine. (If you read a bunch of Japanese RPGs, you'll notice that the character advancement mechanics are usually pretty barebones) It's a byproduct of culture where you usually have to rent space to play and where work demands mean that even a stable group can't be sure who shows up any given week, not a result of indie faggot shitting out a 20 page PDF so he can call himself a game designer and then asking people pay 30 dollars for it on itch.io.

 

[Gingervitis]

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Make it stop.

I know I’m two days late (I haven’t been on KF for a while, you HOARS), but it irks me that we get this shit while Japan gets actually good art a couple days later.


Even the tiefling looks like an oni instead of a walking pride parade (admittedly a cool touch), and the firbolg looks like a firbolg instead of an uwu keanu chungus cow man.

 

[The Ugly One]

I know I’m two days late (I haven’t been on KF for a while, you HOARS), but it irks me that we get this shit while Japan gets actually good art a couple days later.

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Even the tiefling looks like an oni instead of a walking pride parade (admittedly a cool touch), and the firbolg looks like a firbolg instead of an uwu keanu chungus cow man.

No niggers, too.

 

[The Bogwater Flows On]

I don't mind this tbh.

I do mind because a game should be able to do BOTH.

That's how most Japanese RPGs work and it works fine.

Interesting. So Japan strikes again!

it irks me that we get this shit while Japan gets actually good art a couple days late

Oh shit, Japan strikes ANOTHER TIME.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

NGL the Japanese versions almost make me wanna throw my hat into D&D again............almost.

 

[Allied-Mastercomputer]

NGL the Japanese versions almost make me wanna throw my hat into D&D again............almost.

That’s a bold move by WOTC with the English release of Sword World right around the corner.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Clownfish TV made an interesting point. Remember the first thing wokescolds went after 10 years ago? It was bikini armour. Now we have dnd art about women is feather skirts, bikini tops, and high heels.

Even the tiefling looks like an oni instead of a walking pride parade (admittedly a cool touch)

NGL the Japanese versions almost make me wanna throw my hat into D&D agai

New D&D art is corporate fat tranny art that doesn’t appeal to women or fags. A good example is how K-pop demon hunters appeal to both women and gays in the West, but Pixar's Elio and MCU's The Marvels do not. Women and male homosexual individuals generally don’t like to watch portrayals of ugly and fat people. Most faggots individuals and women prefer fit Korean boy bands over superhero movies about twinks and ugly dykes. Western animation and Hollywood don’t know how to make movies about beautiful people anymore.