Posts made by Ghost

@Sparks Choose your poison. You're either keeping the great RP behind a wall where no one can see OR you're risking spoilers and metagaming.

Personally, I think the answer may be to create a spoiler tag for log entries and then double down on keeping an eye out for metagaming.

For example: Log32222 shows that CHARBIT found a secret temple hidden underneath a path of hills that no one would really bother to go to unless they had a treasure map, which CHARBIT did. They entered the hidden temple by pushing on one particular rock on a hillside.

CHARBIT2 suddenly just la-Dee-dahs out to said random hillside and decides to practice hitting a baseball bat against every rock on that particular hillside because it would be totally on accident that they'd hit the right one and oops their way into a hiddle temple they knew about OOCly.

It's a risk, but enforcing good/fair RP would protect against it.

Chef: It's called "Diablo Shrimp". It's spicy.

Me: "PFFFFFT whatevs."

Five minutes later...

Me: "HolyFuckMyLifeWTF..."

Strongbad Mux

With commands like:
+punchfaces
+papers (instead of sheet)
+tothelimit
+makemansbetter (healing)
+comeonreally? (staff complaint function)
+populationtire (+who)

All PBs are memes of the actor.

Characterbit=Heygurl
PB=Ryan Gosling "Hey Girl..." Meme.

@Meg said in New moderator.:

ok, but like, when are you guys going to make me a mod. i was voted 'most likely to be a funny mod 2018'.

1. that was 2018.
2. You backed me up like...twice on some things.

TFW you have a family member (parent) who defends racists with white supremecist ties but is horrified at the idea of someone finding out they have a family member who was doxxed for overt white nationalism/Neo Naziism.

But they are totally totally totally not racist. Really. Not at all. Fake people are my faaaaave.

what.

@Bobotron Horrid Reality is my big concern. It was craaaazy operpowered.

@Bobotron said in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (VtM 5E):

Ravnos and Tzimisce will be in the PG.

Ravnos, huh?

I thought they all died, or was it just the illusion of death? We're gonna find out. My SO loves the Ravnos, so she'll be happy to hear this.

Me, I hate the Ravnos until they uncheese Chimerstry.

@Rinel said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

Squenix just announced they have no plans to release the FFVII remake on any console other than PlayStation.

Suck it, Microsoft.

Wait wait wait wait wait

does that mean PC is off the table?

Article I saw from 2 days ago said it's ps4 only. No plans for PC or Xbox.

@Bad-at-Lurking What's interesting to me is that Modiphius got V5/WoD from Paradox, and there doesn't seem to be an IP that Modiphius doesnt like printing. They seem to be gobbling up product lines these days and have an existing relationship with Paradox.

So you're probably right that Paradox sold BESM rights back to the original owner. It's probably also right that Modiphus didnt want it OR it's low enough priority of an item that selling the IP back was probably deemed more profitable than attempting to continue the line.

@Bad-at-Lurking ^^^^^this.

IIRC weren't there people who paid for preorders of Game of Thrones content that lost their money when Guardians disappeared/shut down? I can't remember, but I remember hearing some anger about preorders when it happened.

Squenix just announced they have no plans to release the FFVII remake on any console other than PlayStation.

Suck it, Microsoft.

@Rinel I liked Road of Heaven a lot, because it made vampires feel very Kingdom of Heaven, which I think is a very underrated movie. It brought out a lot of deep thought into some characters. I love the idea of a Holy Knight continuing his search for Heaven even while living as a creature cursed by God.

Still, I think the newer systems where you define those things Meatloaf will NOT DO FOR LOVE allows for a path/road more personalized to the player/character's desires. Kind of like how some paths might be great on 6-7 of the tenets, but three felt weird?

@Rinel Personally, from what I've seen of your ethics/personality, V5 might actually be better a game for you than you know.

V5 has done away with defining what morality is. It's not the first vampire system to do it, but it encourages the group to determine x-card type content and then the moral tenets for the game itself. The group defines what face morality takes in the ongoing story, and then each character further defines their own morality.

It would be very easy to run a game/coterie (coterie is the V:tM term for a collective group of vampires who are their own team, so to speak) that all have similar morals and derive strength from following the path to humanity.

Also, despite bad press they've updated the theme to break up some of the canon boys club misogyny. It's now canon that a woman broke free of the male-dominated Thelema-styled Tremere Council and is forming a sect of Intersectional and experimental Tremere blood mages seeking to work together. They're hunted, but they're growing and have support.

Also, they introduced a Gangrel canon character named "Rudy". Gangrel are often chased out of cities (they're the animalistic-feral type clan), and in the new canon are outlawed in some domains. Rudy, in canon, has taken this to be similar to the treatment of minority vampires (not just gender, race, or sexuality, but also trash vampires shunned by the Camarilla, namely Gangrel, thin bloods whose vampire blood makes them weak but also daywalkers, and clanless Caitiffs) in some cities and is a canon "vampire civil rights" leader.

Plenty of good stuff to chew on.

@Bobotron I'm curious about this organized play. If they're going the D&D adventure league route and you can take your league-approved vampire from game to game I think it's an intriguing idea.

For a game that focuses on global events, I can see where some real-time events would be neat.

@Bobotron Goooooood shit all around. Fall of London will be a sweet campaign setting, Players Guides will likely answer a lot of clan questions like "Where are the Giovanni?", and the 2nd Inquisition book will have a lot of tasty treats to help define how dangerous it is to BE a vampire in the V5 setting. Love it.

Anyone excited for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3?

I don't think this falls under Fringe/Weird, but definitely under OSR/Indie:

I highly recommend checking out Diogo Nogueira's work. I picked up a new game of his this weekend, and I'm a fan of the OSR approach, yet with minimalist systems.

Solar Swords and Cosmic Spells is a cool system that scratches that 70's acid sci-fi itch. Make your own Flash Gordon vs the Zombie Wolves of Venus kind of stuff.

Diogo also makes Sharp Swords and Sinister Spells (More classic fantasy) as well as Dark Streets and Darker Secrets (Noir, crime, etc)

Found it! It's another Alan Bahr Tiny d6 game, but it's not on Drive thru anymore. Going to have to nudge him to see if I can still get a copy.

God, I didn't know about half of these. I knew about Kobolds Ate My Baby (KING TORG) because it is from the same source as Ninja Burger.

Thanks for giving me games to hunt down for my collection. I love these weird indie games so much.