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General Chaos / Re: Best of Youtube
« on: October 09, 2009, 04:42:36 AM »Tim and Eric = win.
The Feel Good movie of the year:
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RPGs / Re: pee pee doo doo 4E is a bad game
« on: August 24, 2009, 02:30:06 PM »
Yeah my statements were made without knowledge of the item sets. Now I think its pretty obvious, if not riddiculous. Not to say Im unhappy with the idea - thats one of the things I did always like about WoW - the idea of personal achievement resulting in a very personal reward - the item sets.
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General Chaos / Re: Lessons Learned at RPPR
« on: August 20, 2009, 01:44:34 PM »
I really , really got into the theme of World War 1, and actually ended up learning a huge amount about the horrors of trench warfare.
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RPGs / Re: What would you think
« on: August 19, 2009, 01:47:12 PM »
Excellent feedback , greatly appreciated
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RPGs / Re: What would you think
« on: August 19, 2009, 01:29:06 PM »
I guess what my intention was to allow people to play one of the corporations or one of the guerilla groups attemtping to reinstitute a goverment. My first thought would be to give the corporation players increased numbers , while the guerilla groups would have superior equipment ( based on the idea that the guerillas would take much better care and put far more time in their machines) in the battles. Of course this allows for some skirmishes where the guerillas inflitrate the research and development centers of the corporations. I was also thinking that down the road perhaps an alien intellect could support these guerillas for there own nefarious ends- but honestly Im a ways off from that.
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RPGs / Re: What would you think
« on: August 19, 2009, 10:07:17 AM »
Yeah in retrospect it is and is offer my apology for that. I'm also guilty of not only abusing the "post apocalyptic" theme, but generally using it incorrectly. Perhaps it would have been better stated such: In the 31st century man has searched beyond earth for desperately needed resources. Sadly only a handful of planets were found to contain usuable resources. The earths goverments long ago gave way to 4 private corporations which control vast "defensive" millitarys. At the beginning of the 31st century the "Division Compact" was signed by the ruling corporations, which basically states force will be used to achieve control of the off-worlds resources. The 4 corporations use advanced millitary weaponry each utilizing natural gas as a fuel source. This very fuel source is one of the precious resources sought after which serves to limit the number of units commited to a campaign. I am attempting to work in the harsh enviroments Herzog Zwei on a planet wide scale.
The people of earth now pay there taxes based on the results the corporation achieves: i.e.; corporation A loses 5 out of 7 battles and the public loses trust in thier ability to secure the resources which trickle down to each citizen, and the cost of the losing corporations production increases. In a sense I wanted to show a sort of capitalism gone over the top. I'm also thinking about the idea of govermentalist. That would be groups that wish return to the standard goverment systems of old and occasionally sabotage the corporations through captured technology.
To me there are elements that seem to have real potential. The thought of a group of people who recognise that raw unchecked capitalism is actually destroying the society as a whole is very interesting to me. I think we typically see things from the opposite perspective in real life.
Honestly this probably seems poorly thought out, and a bit all over the place, and to some extent it certainly is. I was merely wandering if anyone else thought this even remotely sounded interesting.
The people of earth now pay there taxes based on the results the corporation achieves: i.e.; corporation A loses 5 out of 7 battles and the public loses trust in thier ability to secure the resources which trickle down to each citizen, and the cost of the losing corporations production increases. In a sense I wanted to show a sort of capitalism gone over the top. I'm also thinking about the idea of govermentalist. That would be groups that wish return to the standard goverment systems of old and occasionally sabotage the corporations through captured technology.
To me there are elements that seem to have real potential. The thought of a group of people who recognise that raw unchecked capitalism is actually destroying the society as a whole is very interesting to me. I think we typically see things from the opposite perspective in real life.
Honestly this probably seems poorly thought out, and a bit all over the place, and to some extent it certainly is. I was merely wandering if anyone else thought this even remotely sounded interesting.
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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Would you be interested in a POD at cost version of the new world pdfs?
« on: August 19, 2009, 06:09:20 AM »
Absolutely, wonderful idea!
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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: New world campain
« on: August 19, 2009, 05:52:19 AM »
I am also really enjoying the New World campaign. Boyos just mentioned it , but this may well be my favorite AP with Tom. It really showcases his role playing ability being in the face of ideas and options which often collide with his characters moral code.
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RPGs / What would you think
« on: August 18, 2009, 09:12:30 PM »
I've been giving this idea a few years of thought and I believe I have come to a point where I'm going to go for it. I would like some feedback if you guys please.
First of all let me say I have never been a big fan of video game to table top conversions. That being said the fodder for this idea has always been special in my mind and thus deserved special attention. Some of you may have heard of the game , for those of you who havent - frankly you missed a gem in the rough. Herzog Zwei. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei
The wiki gives you an overview, but please trust me when I say it could be very very addictive. For its time it also had some of the coolest video game music ever http://gamesounds.holycrap.org/music/gen/midi/h/Herzog_Zwei.html
So basically my intention is to use the original Battletech ( pre-clan) rules to create a strategy game. The basic premise being a fight for limited resources in a psuedo apocolyptic world. I'm not going to waste everyones time going into each individual nuance I have in my head for mechanics , im just curious what everyone thinks of the overall premise.
First of all let me say I have never been a big fan of video game to table top conversions. That being said the fodder for this idea has always been special in my mind and thus deserved special attention. Some of you may have heard of the game , for those of you who havent - frankly you missed a gem in the rough. Herzog Zwei. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei
The wiki gives you an overview, but please trust me when I say it could be very very addictive. For its time it also had some of the coolest video game music ever http://gamesounds.holycrap.org/music/gen/midi/h/Herzog_Zwei.html
So basically my intention is to use the original Battletech ( pre-clan) rules to create a strategy game. The basic premise being a fight for limited resources in a psuedo apocolyptic world. I'm not going to waste everyones time going into each individual nuance I have in my head for mechanics , im just curious what everyone thinks of the overall premise.
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RPGs / Re: pee pee doo doo 4E is a bad game
« on: August 18, 2009, 01:07:15 PM »
You know though there is almost something to be said for the very rift 4E has created. that is to say; bad press , is better than no press. For me I had in my mind early on that they wern't going to do anything with Dragonlance so I figured why bother with 4e all together. But man after so much pissing and moaning I felt obligated to at least see what the problem was. After some examination I discovered it really wasnt ( to me) worth all the bitching I had heard, but also was a pretty far deviation from what I was used to. I tell you the truth I played World of Warcraft since its beta , only recently getting off that hamster wheel , and while I know this has been said many times before about 4e - it really , really , really reminds me of WoW. I'm sure as a buisness strategy that is probably a good thing. To me its going to be a lot easier to get my wow friends into gaming with 4E then it maybe would be with say- CoC ( this is more a statment of my friends childlike attention span than any statement of CoC) and hopefully that will parlay itself into a larger gaming group.
I'm looking into pathfinder currently , just sort of a glancing overview to see if it would be easier to change my DL stuff into the small conversion into pathfinder , or if the system sucks and I need to do it in 4E. I'm a guy who thinks 3/3.5 e's issues dealt with the plethora of books one had to own as a dm in order to run again. Some jackass always seemed to have some book you didnt have which always stated " yes , yes he can do that" , and that got a little old- so If pathfinder goes that route im not terribly interested either.
I'm looking into pathfinder currently , just sort of a glancing overview to see if it would be easier to change my DL stuff into the small conversion into pathfinder , or if the system sucks and I need to do it in 4E. I'm a guy who thinks 3/3.5 e's issues dealt with the plethora of books one had to own as a dm in order to run again. Some jackass always seemed to have some book you didnt have which always stated " yes , yes he can do that" , and that got a little old- so If pathfinder goes that route im not terribly interested either.
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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Cody Fan Club
« on: August 18, 2009, 12:46:18 PM »to your sig. i had a buddoe at 3 am tell me he was watching an infomercial about the monsterballeds and was going to pray to a dark god to give him streangth to resist the temptation of ordering now!
......( announcer voice) ....because every bad boy has his soft side....
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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Cody Fan Club
« on: August 17, 2009, 04:08:34 AM »
"Guys, don't worry about it, I got nothing else to live for because I got Hepititus C."
This is like the ultimate running joke with me and my friends. Now obviously in reality Hepatitus C is nothing to joke about, and case point being one of my friends who is an EMT. Apparently he was watching an annual training video ( produced in 1979 according to him) and at one point the narrator actually says " it may seem that you have nothing to live for " needless to say he had to take a bathroom break at this point. At the end he was asked to fill out a form detailing what he took from the video , what he would have liked to learn more about etc. He wrote " The Narrator....Ernie Hudson I believe was really enlighting in regard to the dangers of hepatitus"
This is like the ultimate running joke with me and my friends. Now obviously in reality Hepatitus C is nothing to joke about, and case point being one of my friends who is an EMT. Apparently he was watching an annual training video ( produced in 1979 according to him) and at one point the narrator actually says " it may seem that you have nothing to live for " needless to say he had to take a bathroom break at this point. At the end he was asked to fill out a form detailing what he took from the video , what he would have liked to learn more about etc. He wrote " The Narrator....Ernie Hudson I believe was really enlighting in regard to the dangers of hepatitus"
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