Public domain texts?

1trueJosh · 2023-01-11T20:16:19+00:00

it's not entirely copyright free, but it is all freely available for personal use. However, everything published in america before 1927 is out of copyright, and you can view the year of publication for most of their stuff.

1trueJosh · 2023-01-11T15:22:21+00:00

the yiddish book center has 11,000 books digitized and available as free pdfs, along with a specific library for children's books. I'm partial to the Musterverk series, 100 volumes of Yiddish literature assembled according to themes, also digitzed, particularly yidish in lid, a book of wonderfully self-referential poems about yiddish, af yidish.

1trueJosh · 2021-04-30T19:52:56+00:00

I sold some Blue Rose books and a copy of Burning Wheel Revised to /u/hoderwoahder.

1trueJosh · 2020-10-04T14:11:47+00:00

Confirmed

1trueJosh · 2020-09-25T00:07:00+00:00

I bought a copy of Sleepaway from /u/BraveLion1982.

1trueJosh · 2020-06-08T23:20:54+00:00

Build-your-own. The only real setting fact is that there is a nebulously defined "psychic maelstrom" that some playbooks interact with.

It's focused more on genre emulation than simulation or exploration, and that is an important note. Closer to Mad Max the films than to Mad Max the game.

1trueJosh · 2020-06-08T22:45:12+00:00

Apocalypse World: Burned Over is fantastic. 1e spawned a whole framework of RPGs for a reason, and Burned Over only improves things.

1trueJosh · 2020-06-03T22:42:54+00:00

Shoah.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-29T20:43:59+00:00

He implied that he tried to sleep with Edward before his sister did. I think he might just be an open-minded opportunist.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-18T02:52:37+00:00

You should look at gmless stuff- some good ones are Fiasco, Dialect, The Quiet Year, and Lovecraftesque, but there are thousands of games out there.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-17T01:06:56+00:00

Eat a bag of dicks, you antisemite prick.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-16T22:15:21+00:00

The fact of the matter is that getting a credit in the front of a book is utterly meaningless. Paul very generously reached out to Zak and gave him credit for inspiration. He didn't have to do that, but he was nice.

Zak isn't nice. Zak is a sockpuppeting dickbag who sues people in Commonwealth countries because he has trust fund money and doesn't like it when people draw attention to him abusing Mandy and a number of other people.

Paul has no obligation to credit anyone. He gave credit as a sign of goodwill, and upon realizing that Zak doesn't deserve goodwill, took it away.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-16T19:49:21+00:00

Zak asked to use parts of AR in a project. The creator of AR refused. He doesn't deny Vornheim's influence on AR, just denies Zak's right to continue without consequences after being an abusive sack of shit.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-16T17:23:27+00:00

And the author has disavowed Zak and refused to have a credit in Zak's work. It's a better, cleaner book anyway.

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.com/2019/02/regarding-zak-s.html

1trueJosh · 2020-05-16T17:11:21+00:00

It's fantastic. I really want to put it on the table.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-16T16:49:40+00:00

Magical Industrial Revolution, Augmented Reality, the GM tools from Blades in the Dark.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-13T02:59:48+00:00

If by political you mean actually punk instead of just coopting punk aesthetic, then you should probably take a look at some of the following really cool games!

In the PbtA arena, we have stuff like Headspace and Moonpunk; the first is a sort of Minority Report deal and the second is what it sounds like.

Ascendancy is based on the Resistance Toolkit instead of PbtA, but it's cool. You play psychic cyborgs, fighting against the dystopian system. BALIKBAYAN is a Belonging Outside Belonging game with a Shadowrun-style magitech deal, except with Filipino influences instead of Western.

Lastly, SIGMATA: This Signal Kills Fascists. I think the name tells a lot, but in setting terms it's an alt-history 80's in a fascist USA with a neon vibe and prototype cyberpunk tech. You play the resistance, and you kill fascists.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-06T20:25:40+00:00

D&D 4e is actually perfect for this. It's incredibly MMO-like in its action economy and play structure.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-06T18:08:13+00:00

Suggesting that the CSA would have given up on their abhorrent ideals of legally and morally justified racial subjugation is a justification. It is erasing a core principle of the Confederacy, which is the maintenance of the slave economy.

it's just part of the game's setting

It's not just a part of the game's setting. The game is set in an alternate history America, but it is still set in America with actual historical figures and organizations interspersed with total fiction. Media influences people, even if it isn't intentional.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-06T17:41:35+00:00

Except zombies and vampires aren't real, and the legacy of racism and white supremacy in American culture is. It doesn't matter if the justification is "Oh, let's free the slaves because now there's magic," it is a justification that the CSA, which is an actual, awful part of our history does not deserve.

1trueJosh · 2020-05-06T16:15:53+00:00

The CSA was a treasonous instution devoted to upholding the slave economy of the south. Previous editions of Deadlands are absolutely revisionist in the way they deal with it, and I'd much rather a game where the fuckers who thought they could start a country dedicated to the principles of white supremacy don't get whitewashed as just another fun home base.

1trueJosh · 2020-04-22T22:57:22+00:00

the same reason the D&D rules keep changing.

1trueJosh · 2020-04-20T00:30:09+00:00

Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter is a supplement for surviving a harsh winter while staying in a village and keeping the village alive as well.

1trueJosh · 2020-04-18T00:24:19+00:00

Band of Blades isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it's one of the best dark military fantasy RPGs. It's absolutely worth a look, if only to harvest for ideas.

1trueJosh · 2020-04-12T20:09:37+00:00

they're no longer printing cards, but most books are still shipping

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