Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)
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1. I love how "fans" is in quotation marks, as if, by the structure of D&D, you must be a far-left crank to be a real fan.
2. So, rules more sophisticated than "I smack it with my sword" and more than 10 pages of lore are "gatekeeping"? I know guys with actual ADHD who can go on for hours about the minutiae of the Imperium's 10,000-year history or how the collapse of the Chelish empire was a boon to Hell in the Pathfinder campaign setting: unless you're severely dyslexic or retarded, there's no excuse.
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I'd expect this shit from Onyx Path or even Paizo, but the fact it's Wizards of the Coast that's spewing this bullshit is honestly surprising.
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Quick question about this Mike guy:
Mainly because I get the vibe he's just some no-name who probably at best just made some garbage 3rd party splat for DnD who will be dumped the moment that he proves the addage that "SJWs don't buy shit and SJW made shit don't sell". I anticipate this given that if he did play tabletop he'd know that DnD is actually pretty easy rules wise, and this isn't the fucking 90s anymore.
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Quick question about this Mike guy:
Mainly because I get the vibe he's just some no-name who probably at best just made some garbage 3rd party splat for DnD who will be dumped the moment that he proves the addage that "SJWs don't buy shit and SJW made shit don't sell". I anticipate this given that if he did play tabletop he'd know that DnD is actually pretty easy rules wise, and this isn't the fucking 90s anymore.
perhaps but maybe 3rd edition is all he knows? Grognards are a thing after all, especially in tabletop gaming
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I'm almost suspecting that he only vaguely is aware of DnD at best, though he most likely played AD&D if he was a Grognard; 3.0 was rather quickly patched into 3.5 after all. Might explain his fake anger, given AD&D, mainly 1E had -4 STR for the ladies.
He really comes off like he never played DnD though based on his sobbing, but maybe had some rounds of VtM at best. At worse, he's just pretending like this is his hobby so he can dictate garbage splats and wouldn't be caught dead doing anything outside of a shitty RP on a forum.
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Quick question about this Mike guy:
Mainly because I get the vibe he's just some no-name who probably at best just made some garbage 3rd party splat for DnD who will be dumped the moment that he proves the addage that "SJWs don't buy shit and SJW made shit don't sell". I anticipate this given that if he did play tabletop he'd know that DnD is actually pretty easy rules wise, and this isn't the fucking 90s anymore.
Mike Mearls is one of the co-authors for 5e, along with Jeremy Crawford.
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I get the vibe that he was one of the lesser writers then, and probably only for the fluff components at best.
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It's not that hard to learn. I didn't know the rules or the lore when I started, they lent me the players handbook and I read it. It's really not that complicated if you try to learn the rules at all. Sure I still didn't know the lore so I made a barbarian and just went with the group as I learned the rules and setting. I still dislike far realms though. This one guy I know is dyslexic and he can tell me everything about the history of the Imperium and taught everyone how to play dark heresy. The rules for 5e are not even that bad I found them pretty streamlined.
Also it's completely reasonable to expect a new player to make an effort to learn the game and fit in, it's not gate keeping to assume they will be a team player or focus on having fun instead of trying to make the game about themselves.
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Unfortunately, reasonable and well thought out opinions don't go viral.
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Oh well, Dungeons and Dragons hasn't been good since 2nd Edition. Took a third party to make 3rd Edition playable and everything since then was and is a lost cause.
Also a photo of Mike
I doubt he's even been with a woman that wasn't a relative.
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so about the game design merit badge adventure. The scout master I presented it to, liked it though I will have to write up a plan for the merit badge as I start focusing on irl and writing stuff of mine so I won't be as active on here as I normally do. I'll still give people on here updates on the game design merit badge adventure along with the lesson plan, once it's fully complete
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I think it'd be hilarious if tons of others left too for other systems but, it's doubtful that will happen.
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There's enough options out there for a game for just about any group, and many of them are free, or at least cheaper than D&D. D&D has name-brand recognition going for it, which admittedly counts for a lot.
Either you like things or you don't. Why try to force something you don't like to be something you think you would like? Especially at the expense of the people who already like it. Isn't that just manifestly selfish?
Instead the consensus seems to be that liking something and wanting it to stay the way you like is selfish. At least, that seems to be the case for all the stereotypical cis white male things I like. Somehow I doubt knitting is under pressure to change to allow more men and/or people of color in. I've never seen a hashtag about how exclusionary "stitch and bitch" sessions are, where women quite proudly and vocally form a knitting circle with the express intent of complaining about men. Sometimes when I play poker with my buddies, the topic of women comes up, and more often than not, they complain about their wives or girlfriends. Real people realize the genders are different, this produces friction, and people need to let off steam.
It's just the selective scrutiny from the usual social justice types that drives me nuts. This perspective where all male spaces need to be policed for wrong-think. *cough*RPGNet*cough*
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So something awesome happened. The makers of Achtung! Cthulhu got off their asses and are kickstarting their promised John Carter tabletop game. It's already clocking in at a ridiculous 180k bucks and is like 600% over their initial goal, and a Quickstart Rulebook is out now too.
I'm actually pretty fucking hyped for this, and it's been a long while since I've felt that way about something.
I'm actually pretty fucking hyped for this, and it's been a long while since I've felt that way about something.
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I've been reading my copy of Beckett's Jyhad Diary and I've gotten through the first chapter. It's really good stuff and it gives you updates on what is going on with some of the older stories. It's got a big nostalgia factor for me, its well writen and there's no annoying SJW crap in it.
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Normally I am not a fan of the metaplot, but I might check out Beckett's Jyhad Diary just to get a feel for what New White Wolf has planned for Vampire 5th Edition.
Especially if there's no SJW bullshit involved.
Overall, I'm cautiously optimistic for V5. While I don't like the idea of continuing the metaplot and some of the playtest material has been less than stellar, I do like the fact that they brought Mark Rein-Hagen on board as a consultant (and not Justin Achilli, which is also a bonus for me) and there's the fact that unlike CCP, Paradox Interactive seems to actually care about White Wolf and they're showing actual enthusiasm about this project.
The downsides are that the metaplot is being resumed (though I have heard they are modifying some of the more drastic metaplot changes that Revised made) and that New World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness is now solely in the hands of the hacks at Onyx Path, whose output for CofD has been rather unappealing in my opinion.
But the good thing is that we're going to see White Wolf products in actual bookstores again!
Overall, based on what I've seen, this new edition of Vampire will be either really good or really bad and I'd say it's a 50/50 shot of going in either direction.
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Been playing 2nd edition with my friends, and we had 14 dwarven guards chase us in a mansion. The guards split into two groups of seven, where one group took 30 minutes to maul seven of the dwarfs, while the group I was in ran up the stairs, greased the stairs, and then lit the grease on fire, which had all the dwarfs burning. My character and another player's character even took the time to cook dinner with the fire from the flaming dwarfs.
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I've recently been re-reading my Dad's old copies of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, both the First and Second Editions. Second Edition is my Dad's favorite version of D&D, and I can see why. It's a solid edition in the old-school style with a plethora of great settings published for it. Including Ravenloft, my favorite published setting overall.
I like First Edition AD&D slightly more because it isn't bowdlerized in regards to Demons and Devils, and includes the Assassin and Monk classes as well.
But as a lot of people in the OSR movement have pointed out, 1E and 2E are nearly backwards compatible, and it's easy to back-port the stuff from 1E that was cut out back into 2E.
I'd have to say that AD&D is one of my favorite editions of D&D, both 1E and 2E. That being said, 3.5/Pathfinder and 5e are also awesome as well, but for different reasons.
Oddly enough, if I had to pick a favorite edition, it would be Original D&D from the 1970's. It's so weird and open-ended compared to later editions and there is a certain charm to its rough edges and overall weirdness.
I like First Edition AD&D slightly more because it isn't bowdlerized in regards to Demons and Devils, and includes the Assassin and Monk classes as well.
But as a lot of people in the OSR movement have pointed out, 1E and 2E are nearly backwards compatible, and it's easy to back-port the stuff from 1E that was cut out back into 2E.
I'd have to say that AD&D is one of my favorite editions of D&D, both 1E and 2E. That being said, 3.5/Pathfinder and 5e are also awesome as well, but for different reasons.
Oddly enough, if I had to pick a favorite edition, it would be Original D&D from the 1970's. It's so weird and open-ended compared to later editions and there is a certain charm to its rough edges and overall weirdness.
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I should have the game design merit badge lesson plan ready by tomorrow. I also might have some gaming stuff for people on here to play test if they are curious, though I can find playtesters elsewhere if no one is interested