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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The RPPR Catchphrase, In-joke, and Obscure Reference Appreciation Station

« on: April 26, 2013, 05:32:45 PM »

Okay, here's one that I'm curious about:

"I like this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it!"

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Ghostbusters. Is there any quote that did not come from that movie.

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General Chaos / Re: Kickstarting for a kickstarter

« on: April 26, 2013, 04:18:46 PM »

I would certainly toss a few of dollars at this idea if for no other reason than the meta idea of a kickstarter to fund a different kickstarter. Getting to eventually receive a No Evil PDF is gravy at that point. Delicious transhuman gravy.

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General Chaos / Re: Image Thread

« on: April 25, 2013, 08:48:35 PM »

In the spirit of full disclose a friend of mine does the art for this but I find the last image quite creepy.



http://pizzagun.com/

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The RPPR Catchphrase, In-joke, and Obscure Reference Appreciation Station

« on: April 23, 2013, 06:23:54 PM »

The best part of The Prisoner is the last episode when he decides to detonate the nuclear reactor underneath the facility. In the 60s, everything could be solved by nuclear blasts.

Now the kids are all solving their problems with Nano this and Nano that. Guess it is still better than those poor folks in the 90s having to solve their issues with Cyber Everything.

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: April 23, 2013, 01:40:52 PM »

This has been making it around so likely all have seen it but is very good if painful as it might be too close to home.

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Crap - I knew I saw this somewhere first and where I saw it first was on a different thread in the RPPR forum which was posted by our own resident terrible monster. I even responded to the post. How will I ever live down this shame?

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: April 19, 2013, 04:07:03 PM »

This has been making it around so likely all have seen it but is very good if painful as it might be too close to home.

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General Chaos / Re: Image Thread

« on: April 18, 2013, 08:25:15 PM »

After viewing this picture I feel as though all those years of reading, playing, and watching TMNT taught me nothing but lies.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Pericles's Twitter Account.

« on: April 18, 2013, 12:14:39 AM »

I just ousted @HoBot as the mayor of Justice on @foursquare!

PRed my EvilDoer knockout. 7 with one blow! Getting so swole.

Just split this epic sandwich with @eagleofjustice It wants to be in my mouth.  <instagram picture of a sad looking sandwich - possibly subway>

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Upcoming RPPR One Shot games

« on: April 18, 2013, 12:04:52 AM »

Viewing that I can only conclude that perhaps Tom and Mr Oswald related.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Wow... The Backlog

« on: April 12, 2013, 07:24:57 PM »

I actually did not listen to iron heros since I listen to them as a walk each night and if I burn through them when they do show up I don't have anything to listen to.

That being said as much as I have liked Know Evil and I am fine with Heros but the super hero genre is not my cup of tea I do actually like the one shots or very small arc games. Hoping you have a lot of those in the hopper for consumption.

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RPGs / Re: Help Scare My Players! (D&D Horror Ideas)

« on: April 11, 2013, 08:12:38 PM »

massive chamber (undeground valley/rift) filled with THOUSANDS of monsters/undead/nasty things, walking on a sea of corpses. There's a giant monster too - a big ass thing too scary to fight.

I do like the image of a corpse sea with monsters rising out of the depths. Maybe the PCs have to create a raft of animated corpses to take them across the sea and fight off the various creature that 'live' in this strange ecosystem.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Horror

« on: April 11, 2013, 02:21:05 PM »

There is no greater horror than that experienced by the GM as the psychopath horde of PCs interact with his carefully constructed world.


"Wait you want to do what now? Burn down the orange grove."

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RPGs / Re: BaseRaiders

« on: April 10, 2013, 11:19:51 AM »

If you are looking for a snappy subtitle might I suggest:

"Those bases are not going to raid themselves."

Or of course the classic which studies have shown will enhance your chances of getting laid with arty types with their glasses and book learning:

"Climbing a rope of sand."

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Horror

« on: April 09, 2013, 11:52:08 PM »

I honestly think it is hard to do horror with a group of players. You can hit creepy and unsettling but I am not sure you can get to horror and true scares. This is especially true as people will fall back on humor to break the tension. If you look at a movie like The Shining or Prince of Darkness (very different movies but both good examples of horror, at least I think so) the tension never really lets up. There maybe some comic moments but there is always the underlying tension that it is all heading to a terrible conclusion. So much of good horror requires isolation and/or alienation and when you are at a table with a group of your friends those two things are hard to get to even with committed role players.

For me I want to touch some buttons and see if I can disturb some people but it is as far as I end up going. I also personally shoot for very small scale horror in my games. The cosmic world ending horror does not interest me because I think it has no connection to peoples lives. If you can take something people have some knowledge or connection to I think you have a shot at hitting home.

Perhaps it is because I am not a great GM (I am a OK GM at best) or I have players who are not wanting to do that in our games but it is not something I have been able to pull off in the past.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The RPPR Catchphrase, In-joke, and Obscure Reference Appreciation Station

« on: April 07, 2013, 02:33:49 PM »

I have always been fond of "take that" <insert interest group whom you had just offended>