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RPGs / Re: I Drawed D&D Characturs

« on: October 13, 2010, 04:07:07 PM »

A Human Paladin of Heironious(European)
A Half Black Dragon Human Bard /w a Cello (European)
An Elven Cleric of Heironious
A Human Drunken Master(European)
A Human Samurai (Asian)
A Female Human Shaman (Asian)
A Vanaran Rogue (4 1/2 foot tall monkey-man)
  
If your not in the mood I understand but consider this my humble request as I am so impressed with your above work I figured I would throw it out there.

I'll see about getting around to this maybe in a week or two? I've got an art project I need to finish this week so I can get a useless fine art degree.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The RPPR AP podcast site is now up

« on: October 05, 2010, 09:35:08 PM »

Poor lonely Slender Man in his film and video city.

Actually, wait a second; does this mean he can summon PORN?

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General Chaos / Re: Everyone Betrays Me!: The Room Tribute Thread

« on: October 05, 2010, 09:19:35 PM »

So, was Donnie retarded?

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: October 05, 2010, 09:19:02 PM »

"We're in HAWAIIIII!"

Hee hee!

Here's some serious hardcore bunny action:

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Listen carefully to the background dialog on the TV. Its cognitively dissonant or something arty like that. But mainly - bunnies!

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The RPPR AP podcast site is now up

« on: October 01, 2010, 08:12:56 PM »

Best thing about your horror investigation games? Listening to a bunch of smart-asses freak out In Character.

There's something to playing "average" people in extraordinary circumstances that really seems to click.

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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?

« on: October 01, 2010, 08:03:21 PM »

Instead of working on my senior art project, I've been watching a lot of video game playthroughs. One of them was Amnesia: Dark Descent.

That shit is Scary. If you like Lovecrafty things and have a tolerance for slow-burn creepiness, I think its worth taking a look at it. I could never play it, though, 'cause I'm a pretty big puss about its particular brand of spookshow.

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: September 28, 2010, 10:28:07 PM »

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John Wayne, you can suck it.

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RPGs / Re: I Drawed D&D Characturs

« on: September 28, 2010, 07:27:58 PM »

Coloring in that ink sketch...

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RPGs / Re: D&D Essentials

« on: September 24, 2010, 03:32:01 PM »

My tabletop D&D group features at least two players who can barely remember what their own powers are between sessions, so I think some simplification as an option is worthwhile. I also like the idea of making different roles (Striker) available for the Fighter class, though I know a lot of people think that muddies the conceptual waters too much.

Can't afford it yet, but chances are pick it and/or the Rules Compendium up at some point.

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: September 24, 2010, 03:23:13 PM »

Amazing. Terrifying also. Way too many shots of random strafing runs on buildings and boats clearly not military.

I remember seeing these gun camera films in an old movie about American fighter pilots. It had this kind of creepy detached narration by an actor pretending to be the flier. During a scene of him strafing some unknown person in a field, he said something like: "Wonder who this guy is? Well, no friend of mine."

BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA.

It may have been used for propaganda or was just reflective of post-war attitudes, but that footage was apparently pretty popular. I always think its strange to see things like that used as stock footage in older films; even stuff that's not remotely related to the respective real world wars. Its like cutting to Faces of Death clips in the middle of your action film. The crappy Japanese kids sci-fi movie Invasion of the Neptune Men used what I think is stock footage taken from the London Blitz AND American planes bombing Japanese targets. And the Hitler Building, of course.

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RPGs / Re: I Drawed D&D Characturs

« on: September 23, 2010, 02:33:35 AM »

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: September 21, 2010, 06:47:57 PM »

why do fans insist on making everything as GRIMDARK as possible

If your adaptation of a cartoon made for foreign children features mindblowing deconstruction of the subject matter and other depressing shit, suddenly you have artistic legitimacy. This is the same reason the live-action Dragonball movie was such a powerful and much-lauded cultural sensation.

...Right?

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RPGs / Re: Campaigns You Would Run If You Had The Time And Players And Energy

« on: September 21, 2010, 06:40:55 PM »

Or to re-de-rail it back to MST3K, they're in a taxi driven by a guy high on crack, who rams them into a giant tree at high speed, yet they wake up out of site from the wreck and apparently without a scratch, except no one can seem to hear them, and a huge guy in a black trench coat is hunting them down.  Bullets can't stop him (although golf clubs work), and he just keeps coming, finding them wherever they go, he has the ability to take any form he wishes, and can fire sharpened metallic acorns he has stashed in his prodigious cheeks at high velocity.  The players must evade the unstoppable big-faced doom bringer while uncovering the secret of the car wreck.

"Oh, Z'no!"

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The RPPR AP podcast site is now up

« on: September 20, 2010, 10:40:49 PM »

The new AP has pretty much sold me on A Dirty World. When I get some money, anyway. You guys have a really good handle on the dark corners of the gaming universe, and hardboiled crime stories is apparently no exception.

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RPGs / Re: Campaigns You Would Run If You Had The Time And Players And Energy

« on: September 20, 2010, 10:36:42 PM »

Before I saw those photos, I always imagined that Sandy Frank was a cherubic fat man who liked silk satin dressing gowns and collecting Precious Moments figurines. The MST3K song about him "gadding about all day" probably had something to do with it.

Now I cannot think of him without questioning the existence of God.

Here's what wikipedia had to say about Mr. Frank:

Five of the Gamera films, as well as Frank's Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, Time of the Apes, Mighty Jack, Legend of the Dinosaurs and Humanoid Woman, were lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000 twice (originally from KTMA, then to Season 3), except for Legend of the Dinosaurs and Humanoid Woman. During the remakes in Season 3, the crew of Mst3k ripped on Frank so much during some of the host segments and theater segments that they even made a song directed to him called "The Sandy Frank Song" in 306 - Time of the Apes, which said that Frank was "the source of all our pain" and implied that he was too lazy to make his own films. Because of this, when the rights to all the films expired in 1996 and could not be renewed, a rumor went around saying that Frank was "intensely displeased" by the mockery directed at him, and he refused to allow the shows to be rebroadcast or commercially released because of that. [1] A few years later, the rumor was later confirmed false when Kevin Murphy said that Frank was not offended, but just wanted a lot of money because of Mst3k's success, but at the same time lost the rights to all the films anyway and all reverted back to their original owners, but to some of which made the distribution rights even more complicated (an example is Kadokawa Pictures, who were horrified at what Mst3k did to their Gamera films that they refused to let them be commercially released, according to Brian Ward, one of the members of Shout! Factory, who even stated in his own words that "The Japanese just aren't into their man-in-suit flicks being parodied or mocked in any way." [2]). It is currently unknown about the status on how Tsuburaya Productions feels about Mst3k's treatment to Mighty Jack, Saru No Gundan (Time of the Apes), and Star Wolf (the two Fugitive Alien films), along with Toei Company's feelings to Mst3k's treatment to Legend of the Dinosaurs, and Gorky Film Studio's feelings to Mst3k's treatment to Per Aspera Ad Astra (Humanoid Woman).

In addition to Japanese imports, Frank is known in game show circles for producing and distributing two music game shows in the 1980s: Name That Tune and Face the Music. Frank also owns the rights to You Asked For It, last seen in the United States in 2000.

Apologies for this digression from the campaign ideas.

Here's a quickie: the PCs are walking down the street when they are hit by a truck. It'd be a one shot.