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[Pathfinder & Other Tabletop RPGs] 1d6 Dragons Fall, Everyone Fries

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    well, that's sorta nightmarish, Rachel

    it scares me more that they aren't undead

    http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-dnd-modron.php?page=4

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    "Race" becomes a touchy term when you look at the human races in the elder scrolls
    Like, why are Reguards all that different from Nords and Imperials (Breton's have a strong elven influence, but it's still a bit awkward)
    when it comes to the various elf types, it becomes easier to grasp because elves are different than people, so it can more easily be excused by most


    but then you get to Orcs
    which are technically elves, but have diverged quite a bit

    and then Argonians and Khajiit
    which, weirdly enough, have plenty of variations within their own species yet they are all contained with the same designation

    "argonian" as a definition is comparable to "human" (man) or "elf" (mer)

    what I'm getting at, is that think I ruined TES non-beast race choices for myself
    thanks, Dubh

    the silly bit is that humans can impregnate elves

    which means they're technically the same species

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    each monster manual in AD&D just gets meaner and dumber.

    "so you think you figured this game out eh? well, here is some new fucked up shit"

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    I adore the AD&D monster manual II, had it when I was growing up for whatever reason and read it so many times


    how can you hate a book that has a monster like the executioner's hood

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Dragons are cool.

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    the nazis ain't got shit on that

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Well, they tried to mount artillery cannons on them. but then that game was terrible.

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Turok had raptors with plasma cannons for arms

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    The lizardmen are best because they are dinosaurs riding bigger dinosaurs.

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    they should really make a new turok when a new generation comes out.

    Or just a new fighting dinosaurs game.

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Turok Rage Wars 2

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    fucking rage wars. i was so disappointed when i rented that game.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Turok 2 was the best.

    Shorty
  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    I'm pretty sure something was broken in me

    because I enjoyed the hell out of it, Melding

    I know it's an awful game

    but I can't stop myself

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    the first Turok is the best because after that is when you realize that Dinosaur hunter isn't actually the main thing Turok is about.

    I think what i really want is Red Dead Turok. Dinosaurs aren't the main draw, but they're there, ever present, and you can go off on hunting missions and sometimes come across a rampaging t-rex and of fuck use the fusion cannon!

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    But!

    The Cerebral Bore!

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I like how the first Turok has a character on the cover who isn't even in the fucking game

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    "Race" becomes a touchy term when you look at the human races in the elder scrolls
    Like, why are Reguards all that different from Nords and Imperials (Breton's have a strong elven influence, but it's still a bit awkward)
    when it comes to the various elf types, it becomes easier to grasp because elves are different than people, so it can more easily be excused by most


    but then you get to Orcs
    which are technically elves, but have diverged quite a bit

    and then Argonians and Khajiit
    which, weirdly enough, have plenty of variations within their own species yet they are all contained with the same designation

    "argonian" as a definition is comparable to "human" (man) or "elf" (mer)

    what I'm getting at, is that think I ruined TES non-beast race choices for myself
    thanks, Dubh

    the silly bit is that humans can impregnate elves

    which means they're technically the same species

    I'm super rusty on my anthropology, because there's a term for this sort of thing

    if their offspring was infertile then they would officially be different species

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure something was broken in me

    because I enjoyed the hell out of it, Melding

    I know it's an awful game

    but I can't stop myself

    hey, i love all kinds of bad games. I legitimately like Superman Returns: The Game.

    It's just i didn't know it was arena combat when i rented it, so about 30 minutes in i realize the single player is all bot matches. And i didn't have enough people around at the time to actually get it four players. and they all wanted to do golden eye when they were around, and i was so fucking tired of golden eye.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    they should really make a new turok when a new generation comes out.

    Or just a new fighting dinosaurs game.

    I love dinosaurs.

    But for a first person shooter, they're just so hard to use as an enemy.

    I mean they're hard to just stick guns on and if they aren't armed they're just fast moving animals or big slow meat shields.

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Well, you're talking to someone that spent three different summers dedicated to botting perfect dark

    I was a lonely child

    but I was fucking incredible at that game
    some of the shit I pulled was unbelievable

    and I've been unable to demonstrate that level of skill in any game since

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Melding wrote: »
    they should really make a new turok when a new generation comes out.

    Or just a new fighting dinosaurs game.

    I love dinosaurs.

    But for a first person shooter, they're just so hard to use as an enemy.

    I mean they're hard to just stick guns on and if they aren't armed they're just fast moving animals or big slow meat shields.

    right, that's why i changed the idea to like red dead, where like they can be used as attack animals or you can go off the quest path and hunt them, but you're still manshooting for the most part.

    the last one tried that, but the man shoot part was bad. and so was the rest of it.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    I never get really good at videogames...

    :(

    Except MW1 and to a smaller extent 2.

    Because that MP5 with silencer was overpowered as shit with the UAV jammer.

    Tallahasseeriel on
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I played the demo for the 360 Turok.

    I thought the demo was good! Reviews pretty much universally panned it though.

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    after years of pondering "leet skills"

    I finally realized that to be good at a video game

    you have to pay attention to everything you do in it
    and play it way way way too much

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    Well, you're talking to someone that spent three different summers dedicated to botting perfect dark

    I was a lonely child

    but I was fucking incredible at that game
    some of the shit I pulled was unbelievable

    and I've been unable to demonstrate that level of skill in any game since

    i never got into perfect dark. I played the single player, mucked around with the one person plays as a bad guy mode, but the multiplayer was too golden eye.

    I can't stress how much i ended up hating golden eye's multiplayer.

    It's a fine enough game for what it was, but the peopel i played it with were way much better then me, because they owned it and i didn't so they played it a lot more then i did, adn they would use every cheap trick they knew, because why not?

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Or find a cheesy fucking way to exploit the stupidity of other players.

    Like Modern Warfare 1 was way too fucking easy.

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    I played the demo for the 360 Turok.

    I thought the demo was good! Reviews pretty much universally panned it though.

    the demo was literally the best part of the game.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Dubh wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    "Race" becomes a touchy term when you look at the human races in the elder scrolls
    Like, why are Reguards all that different from Nords and Imperials (Breton's have a strong elven influence, but it's still a bit awkward)
    when it comes to the various elf types, it becomes easier to grasp because elves are different than people, so it can more easily be excused by most


    but then you get to Orcs
    which are technically elves, but have diverged quite a bit

    and then Argonians and Khajiit
    which, weirdly enough, have plenty of variations within their own species yet they are all contained with the same designation

    "argonian" as a definition is comparable to "human" (man) or "elf" (mer)

    what I'm getting at, is that think I ruined TES non-beast race choices for myself
    thanks, Dubh

    the silly bit is that humans can impregnate elves

    which means they're technically the same species
    I'm super rusty on my anthropology, because there's a term for this sort of thing

    if their offspring was infertile then they would officially be different species
    The offspring will either never be born, be sterile, or have some kind of breakdown in fitness that makes it unlikely to survive.

    Hybrid inviability is one of them.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I was like the worst of our friends when it came to goldeneye. Still loved the shit of it. Except for complex. I was ok at it the game I thought.

    Few years later at another group of friend's place they decided to pull out the old 64 for an old game. It was me and three other guys, two of them was all watch out, Cameron's really good, thought goodo, and went to my options and turned off auto aim.

    I thought they may not be that good when they thought I was weird when I turned autoaim off.

    First round was a free for all. First to twenty. I won that and the next closest score was eight.

    They were a bit annoyed. I suggested they could do 3 vs 1 if I got to choose the weapon and turned on fast movement.

    I chose lasers, their response were lasers were super weak.

    They were unaware that a headshot with a laser was an auto kill and negated armour.

    I won that round twenty to four.

    Then it was decided that we aren't going to play anymore.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    My brother and I would play Perfect Dark against a bunch of Slappers Only bots. We'd be huddled in a corner with our tear-stained shotguns.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    I would regularly ace the enemy team several times in a single TDM in MW1.

    It was just way too easy.

    I would come up behind them all and pop them each in the head three times I believe, because it took a few shots to kill someone with the MP5.

    So at the end of a match I was often 20 kills at least ahead of the next guy.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    Dubh wrote: »
    "Race" becomes a touchy term when you look at the human races in the elder scrolls
    Like, why are Reguards all that different from Nords and Imperials (Breton's have a strong elven influence, but it's still a bit awkward)
    when it comes to the various elf types, it becomes easier to grasp because elves are different than people, so it can more easily be excused by most


    but then you get to Orcs
    which are technically elves, but have diverged quite a bit

    and then Argonians and Khajiit
    which, weirdly enough, have plenty of variations within their own species yet they are all contained with the same designation

    "argonian" as a definition is comparable to "human" (man) or "elf" (mer)

    what I'm getting at, is that think I ruined TES non-beast race choices for myself
    thanks, Dubh

    the silly bit is that humans can impregnate elves

    which means they're technically the same species

    I'm super rusty on my anthropology, because there's a term for this sort of thing

    if their offspring was infertile then they would officially be different species

    indeed

    but I think in TES they are fertile, otherwise I don't think the Emperor wouldn't have had a problem with the fact that he sired a sired a bastard with Barenziah

    and I'm almost certain half-elves are also fertile in the various D&D settings

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    man

    it fucking weirds me out to find out how many gamma world monsters are from old versions of D&D

    froghemoths, garbugs, vegepygmies

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    My brother and I would play Perfect Dark against a bunch of Slappers Only bots. We'd be huddled in a corner with our tear-stained shotguns.

    DarkSim will make you suffer

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    man

    it fucking weirds me out to find out how many gamma world monsters are from old versions of D&D

    froghemoths, garbugs, vegepygmies

    Not me.

    Old D&D had some perfectly weird little monsters.

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    the thing is, the monsters picked fit gamma world's setting perfectly

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    but, realistically, it's kind of silly to force modern biology into fantasy settings because then technically dragons are the same species as damn near everything, so what the fuck

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