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Basements and Skeletons, a PnP Thread Without Alliteration
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This is a basement.
This is a Skeleton
We explore one, to kill the other in this game.
similar topics include
tunnels and trolls
Dungeons and Dragons
but those have alliterations, so let's talk about
Shadowrun
GammaWorld
Which do not.
Or whatever else.
I hear that Star wars dog fighting game eats money, let's rap about that.
This is a Skeleton
We explore one, to kill the other in this game.
similar topics include
tunnels and trolls
Dungeons and Dragons
but those have alliterations, so let's talk about
Shadowrun
GammaWorld
Which do not.
Or whatever else.
I hear that Star wars dog fighting game eats money, let's rap about that.
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So hopefully they figure out what people want and start doing it.
It's good video games Hasbro, that's what people want out of DnD.
Why don't they try selling like, print on demand stuff and PDFs of every D&D edition and module ever for a while.
you can actually buy books of just about every edition currently. like i have the player's handbook and unearthed arcana from ADnD that were printed in the past couple years.
I don't know why they're so afraid of PDFs, they seem to be the salvation of a lot of games. i guess because like the master version of the 4e books got out so early that they don't trust their supply line or something. but as someone who owns a physical copy of the main boks of 5e i would buy pdfs as well.
PDFs are real useful.
I just think they should make it a more central part of their business I guess rather than trying to make newer versions when they have such a wealth of material for the older ones and using the internet more potential than ever to reach new audiences with that material.
I'd buy me some old D&D books, that's for sure. And I have some of the ones they do sell as PDFs but their store is hard to navigate and their PDFs often aren't formatted well.
I wasn't happy with my current Shadowrun dice, as they are red casino-esque dice from my last character who grew up on the Vegas Strip in the first Dwarf-only cabaret. Now I've bought a batch of ivory-coloured spot dice for my avuncular English aristocrat; not ostentatious, but with a well-worn feel suggesting a valuable D6 that's been well looked after.
and there's so many fantasy games out there right now, start offering the licence to people that aren't atari. you could start advertising screenshots of a unity based crpg made by a guy who worked on a game people liked and some indies inside of like 6 months saying the game will be out in 12 months and you'd have so much buzz right now.
Also, Action figures! 8 inch Dritz Do'urden with a free digital copy of Ice-T reading that short story 20 bucks, make money hand over fist.
RIP in peace Snails.
You can buy through Drive-Thru RPG which is easier to navigate.
The lack of a 4e video game wasn't on Wizards, it was because Atari sat on the exclusive rights to the license to make D&D video games and did nothing with it other than the Neverwinter MMO.
Yeah I wish someone good could have gotten the license.
What has atari even done recently?
The cruellest irony for an edition that was plagued with "They've made D&D into a video game!" arguments.
Also you should really watch the other DnD movies. the second one is actually pretty alright in the context it was a syfy original, but the effects are passable the acting isn't the worst and it actually follows some on the original movie.
The third one is all kinds of bad, but it's hilarious and the evil druid in it is aces.
http://i.imgur.com/wmsHpLS.png
that is a man who loves his job. also over the size limit i guess.
gone out of business, again, i beleive.
Apparently so, there's going to be another one this year to tie in with 5e's Elemental Evil plotline.
And the D&D side basically bullshitted their way up to a projection of that magnitude but as it became clear that it wasn't going to happen all support has been removed.
IIRC, the money from D&D video games doesn't count towards D&D's target revenues, either.
They did a couple other things. There was a Live Arcade game of some sort that was really a tech demo for that MMO in ways. Nothing worth bothering with.
Yup.
Essentially D&D the brand name is worth owning. Actually making D&D in pretty much any form is not worth doing for Hasbro. So, too small a market for them to bother with but too powerful a brand for them to sell for a reasonable amount of money. Business!
Whatever, I was a bit bitter but at this point them bowing out of the actual game market leaves more room for the Heinsoo and Tweets to make a decent living on their indie stuff and hopefully Mearls can stop, just stop.
The Neverwinter MMO felt like it cribbed a bunch of ideas about how to turn 4th in an actiony RPG from what I saw of Daggerfall. At least that was my impression on booting up the MMO for the first time.
No idea where they got ideas for Daggerdale, other than a bad place.
Same devs were set to make a Gamma World game, and then they stopped developing console games to go to mobile and then died.
yeah I completely changed the tone of the whole thing, it's all tons of mooks and giant bosses and acrobatics checks and the soundtrack is alternating between buttrock and chiptunes
On more general RPG stuff, The Spoony One came out with another good Counter Monkey episode recently in which he makes a solid argument for playing a Lawful Good character as well as explaining why he doesn't like Chaotic Neutral characters.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
The Realm Defenses were blood attuned to the Archmage and the Emperor. The Big Bad was a sorceress daughter of the Diabolist and the Archmage, and one player is the daughter of the Emperor and the Elf Queen. So basically, in my campaign, every male Icon is a massive horndog with more bastards than a British court.
Of course, when the Big Bad died midway through corrupting the Realm Defenses, the player stepped in...and the entire North has been "corrupted" with the Influence of the Elf Queen. Sylvan glades, romping deer. Just sickening.
So now we have a forming Icon war when the Elf Queen claims her due...the entire north of the empire. If the Legionnaires can't even protect it from kobolds, clearly the Emperor doesn't deserve it.
And in the background is that Banished demon, undying, patient. Waiting. She was a queen once, and she'll be a queen again. Cause ain't nobody seed chaos and opportunity like a gang of player characters. They only need a few nudges in the right direction...
Pendragon really is great
Mostly my skills are based around being literate and well read, being good at stewardship and the ways of ruling, and being a good military leader
Which is good, because the rest of my group are not those things at all
they are in fact mental
In my country, we call such a man a title of high honor and great responsibility.
We call him the Baah'beh'seetar.
Although they all rely on me these days
One player has rolled up a woman who is disguised as a knight
her family trait was +10 Appearance (!) and she is Size 18 (!!!) and she has basically decided that in her social persona as a courtly lady she's going to marry the shit out of my guy because he's the only Knight she knows who is not going to clearly die from a surplus of mindless zeal.
"Charging blindly and gloriously on" is their modus operandi, which is why I almost instantly was put in the position of "you're in charge because you can actually read"
It's quickly becoming very obvious that this is an Urban horror campaign. Except we're the horrors.
Our current gang is a high-class Necromancer, a 1/14th-part deep one DJ who is an Oracle of the Deep, a Mirrordemon and a shapeshifting girl with a split personality who can reshape her fingers into knives.
Our little band of misfits is working for a fallen angel named Herr Morgenstein.
It can only go downhill from here.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden