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I don't think I've had the chance yet to stop into this thread and reserve my place on the Caleb fan wagon. Andrew's Fortune, Know Evil, Bryson Springs--all were fantastic games. I just finished re-listening to Wages of Sin and The Dangers of Fraternization in order to prepare myself for Attempt #2 at running A Dirty World, and if I do half as well as Caleb, I'll consider the session a success.

Keep up the good work, sir, and be sure to keep us all posted on how we can give you our money for your Kickstarter project.

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RPGs / Re: Eclipse Phase
« on: May 10, 2012, 12:20:03 AM »
I bought the PDFs myself. Been thinking about buying the actual books, but I'm practically glued to my iPad anyway, so reading them in iBooks isn't as much of a pain as you'd think it'd be. Gotta agree though, they do look pretty sweet. My friend who's been Running our EP games bought the sourcebook and a copy of the GM screen. There's a buttload of production value behind that as well.

Also, who else can't wait for Rimward to come out? I've been checking the EP forums once or twice a week for updates on that one. Mostly I want to see what kind of crazy shit the authors have to say about the Jovians. (They renamed one of Jupiter's moons Pinochet! What kind of society does that?!)

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General Chaos / Re: mansions of madness is really fucking shitty
« on: June 02, 2011, 09:37:54 PM »
Gotta agree with Ross on this one. Mansions of Madness is seriously broken in favor of the Keeper. I've played as an Investigator twice, and we didn't even come close to winning either time. The second time we played, the Keeper was able to bring out two Shoggoths by the time we had moved our Investigators into the second room, and he put them right between us and all the clues we needed to find. The worst part was that there weren't any fucking weapons in the scenario! We had to fight off a Shoggoth with a revolver and a battered old six-string guitar. I think one of our characters may have actually punched it at some point.

Don't play this game unless you enjoy losing difficult games.

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I've got a friend who's a raging brony--he writes fanfic and everything. I think that he mentioned something about a community adaptation for the Pathfinder system. Lemme see if I can find a link...

Yep! Here we go! The great god Google has smiled upon me.

Here goes: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/traditional-game-ponyfinder.html

I've never played Pathfinder myself, but apparently those who do can now make a pegasus / earth pony / unicorn class character for their My Little Pony chronicles.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: RPPR Community AP Podcast site
« on: April 16, 2011, 11:40:20 AM »
It's been another good long while, folks, but I've got another Fiasco for the community podcast.

I uploaded RPPR-CP-Fiasco-Bonds_of_Brotherhood.mp3 just now.

Hope everyone enjoys it!

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: RPPR Community AP Podcast site
« on: December 20, 2010, 12:32:02 PM »
Hi all! It's been a while, hasn't it? My group hasn't been gaming much lately, but we're getting back into it now, so I should hopefully have some new content to post soon.

I just uploaded RPPR-CP-Fiasco-News_at_Noon.mp3.

By the way, the new site banner looks awesome!

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General Chaos / Re: CREEPY THREAD OF DOOM
« on: October 21, 2010, 10:59:10 PM »
This is the creepiest bug I've seen in any videogame ever.

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That has got to be close to the most unsettling thing I've ever seen.

::applies brain bleach liberally::

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General Chaos / Re: Minecraftian Stories
« on: October 21, 2010, 10:54:08 PM »
Ooooooh, Sean-o-tron is using a pretty texture package. I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet.

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General Chaos / Re: The RPPR radio.
« on: October 21, 2010, 10:46:11 PM »
Squirrel Nut Zippers? Seriously, Squirrel Nut Zippers...

Do you have something against my nostalgia for the swing revival of the late '90s? At least I didn't link to Hell. That song was everywhere.

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General Chaos / Re: The RPPR radio.
« on: October 21, 2010, 02:07:01 PM »
I've got a pretty good swing/blues/weird station going on Pandora. It gave me the following:

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General Chaos / Re: Minecraftian Stories
« on: October 06, 2010, 02:32:31 AM »
I paid Notch for the privilege of playing his wonderful game shortly after Penny Arcade did a couple of strips about it. The game is electronic crack, the best / worst kind of habit-forming drug since WoW, and a lot cheaper.

The first world I played in, I built myself a tower. A fucking tower. It rose gracefully into the sky, higher and higher with each passing day. But every morning, there were creepers waiting on my front lawn--giant, green, exploding cocks with faces, for Christ's sake--just waiting to destroy my stronghold. At least two of them every morning. Eventually, I grew tired of filling in the craters and repairing the damage, so I built myself a perimeter fence and grew quite adept at killing the motherfuckers while standing well behind it. I eventually drove the bastards away, but the game had a cruel twist of fate in mind for me: as I was mining out a stone cliff face for more cobblestone with which to build my ziggurat, Minecraft froze, and when I restarted it, it spawned me inside of the solid rock I'd just spent most of an hour demolishing. I tried to dig my way out, but digging was futile. When I died, all my gear was left inside the mountain. If some forgiving quirk in the game physics forced it out, I was never able to find it.

And the sick part is? That only made me want to play more!

and playability

I mean - you can just pick up minecraft and start playing

whereas DF requires a unix style manual

I suppose.  I kinda forgot about that after I memorized the DF controls, but yeah that's a major problem too.  I kinda wonder what the turndown rate is on DF.  Probably something like Graphics > Controls > HOW DO I BUILD A GODDAMN BED > Death and mayhem.

Agreed. I tried to pick up Dwarf Fortress a while back, but I realized ten episodes into a fifty video plus length YouTube tutorial that I had no idea what the hell I was doing. It wasn't just the ASCII graphics that soured me on DF; I could have gotten past that if the game's learning curve wasn't quite so steep.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: RPPR Community AP Podcast site
« on: September 01, 2010, 02:41:16 AM »
Anybody else notice that we're getting inundated with spam comments? I think I trashed four of them in the last two days.

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RPGs / Re: Character Bad Ideas
« on: September 01, 2010, 02:37:23 AM »
I think that may just be my favorite MST3K episode.

I went ahead and added it to my Instant Queue. It looks fantastic.

My story involves a character in the last campaign I ran. My PCs had all started out as decent people who were tempted to serve a demon in exchange for the fulfillment of their deepest desires. Over the course of ten or fifteen games, many of them had devolved into remorseless killers, and there was a serious PVP situation brewing as each of the corrupted characters angled for power against the others. A friend of mine who had been away at college during the bulk of these games came home long enough to attend a session or two, so I suggested that he play a character who was similar to the people that my regular PCs had been before they dabbled with infernalism, a sort of benchmark character who could serve as a reference point to illustrate how far the group had fallen. He dreamed up Charlie Webb, a NYC detective who was sort of a Monk ripoff in that he was looking for his dead wife's killer. He was a good person with a chink in his armor: he would give anything to learn the identity of the man who killed his wife. The character sounded pretty solid--at least enough for a two-session appearance--but when I tried to introduce him to the game, we had to retcon a whopping five times to prevent the other PCs from killing him almost the moment they laid eyes on him. Part of the problem was the way the player handled the roleplaying, as his character was very pushy about nosing his way into the PCs' affairs and refused to back down when they threatened his life, but in hindsight, introducing a character like that was a terrible idea. It proved my point, but it wasn't fun for anybody involved.

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General Chaos / Re: Top Ten Movies
« on: August 26, 2010, 02:11:28 AM »
I can't ever get over how beautiful Grace Kelly is in this. Jimmy Stewart's reluctance to marry her verges on science fiction.

And that full-scale apartment block set!

Yeah, Jimmy Stewart's character had a lot more wrong with him than just a broken leg. She's perfect in every way.

  • The Producers (1968) - Very funny and I love to watch Gene Wilder act

One of Mel Brooks' best, and his directorial debut, I believe. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder > Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.

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General Chaos / Re: Top Ten Movies
« on: August 23, 2010, 09:30:24 PM »
In no particular order:

Paths of Glory: My favorite Kubrick film for two reasons: 1-Kirk Douglas and 2-the intense climax. Much more sentimental than Full Metal Jacket, but Kubrick also makes a point of examining that sentiment in the final scene.
Into the Wild: Beautifully photographed and acted. This character study is an excellent adaptation of the original non-fiction book about a college grad who burns all of his money, ditches his car, and lives the life of a tramp, wandering across the American northwest and Alaska.
M: Peter Lorre steals the show. A fan-freaking-tastic performance that actually garners sympathy for a child murderer.
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Woody Allen gets massive kudos from me for comparing, contrasting, and inverting comedy and tragedy in this film. Screenwriting at its finest.
Rear Window: John Michael Hayes manages to gloss over Hitchcock's misanthropy (just a bit) with some warm, engaging characters. Also, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, and Princess Grace.
Vertigo: Like someone took Rear Window and kicked the crap out of its soul. Dark and haunting, visually striking, Vertigo is Hitchcock at the top of his game.
Short Cuts: I almost put MASH on here, but Short Cuts deserves to be on this list much more. The best Altman film that I've seen, and an interesting adaptation of many of Raymond Carver's short stories.
Days of Heaven: Oh my God, there's not a single frame of this movie that isn't beautiful.
Straw Dogs: In Sam Peckinpah's world, sexual tension and inferiority lead to rape and violence. This movie is so brutal that it's hard to watch, and that's what I like about it.
Last Tango in Paris: For all its fucked-upedness, Brando blew his acting wad making this picture (in more ways than one). His monologue at the casket of his dead wife makes me cry almost every time I see it.

I'd also give out honorable mentions to Spirited Away, Barton Fink, Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, and The Shawshank Redemption.

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