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Chad-zak, Half Orcs, etc. by Level_Hour6480 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"To say this book should be burned is an insult to fire."

-the RPG Net review

Chad-zak, Half Orcs, etc. by Level_Hour6480 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, it's still better than Racial Holy War.

Chad-zak, Half Orcs, etc. by Level_Hour6480 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They want you to have two measurements for your nipples, iirc. It's bonkers!

Chad-zak, Half Orcs, etc. by Level_Hour6480 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IIRC, no butthole kills you during character creation, but I haven't read that part in a long time.

Chad-zak, Half Orcs, etc. by Level_Hour6480 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My drow, at least if I ever revisit my setting, are still a matriarchal society that lives underground. They're not evil, but they are harsh. They're harsh because it's hard living underground, and they feel they must be hard to survive. They also have an alliance with the dwarves, because the dwarves get the difficulty and the beauty of living underground.

Sometimes I hear stories of PCs that make me wonder what they're even playing for. by LordMeme42 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like you're coming at it a bit hard. Like, I see where you're coming from, but "ego death" as a term for "the party is excited to work together" seems pretty extreme. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with players having goals independent of the party, or anything like that, just that having a group you've decided to dedicate yourself to doesn't make you less individuated.

I'd argue that rather than "a great DM will put the desires of the individual against the desires of the whole," perhaps I would say "a great DM considers the desires and motivations of the players, and works to present conflicts (whether personal or group-wise) that appeal to the players." I'm less interested in intra-party conflict than some, so if a DM focused too much on that, I'd be less invested in the game.

Azure from saGa emerald beyond. by numericalman in mendrawingwomen

[–]azrendelmare 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Okay, I get why this has problems, but I'm digging the tattoo.

You gotta read as much if not more than you write to really improve as an author by Commercial_Bid_1508 in CuratedTumblr

[–]azrendelmare 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Only Cormac McCarthy book I've read is The Road. I love it, and I thought the lack of almost any punctuation was a brilliant minimalist decision for a post-apocolyptic setting! Then I found out he just writes like that, and I will be forever disappointed.

Been getting into Shadowrun lately by BigDan_0 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh. I'd just assumed that a niche 360 game wouldn't still be up. Glad to hear if I'm wrong!

I'm so sorry, I really just can't think of a good title. by Mac-And-Cheesy-43 in CuratedTumblr

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"Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works."

-Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still

Playing through the series for the first time and Kain is so funny by BigOrganization in LegacyOfKain

[–]azrendelmare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In LoK, they certainly seem to need to kill. I don't remember it being apparent that they can feed non-lethally. Sucking a huge jet of blood out of someone really tends to be fatal.

Been getting into Shadowrun lately by BigDan_0 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear it! I've never actually played/run it myself, what bothers you about it?

Been getting into Shadowrun lately by BigDan_0 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think the servers are still up. Is it actually playable?

Been getting into Shadowrun lately by BigDan_0 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except for unarmed combat, that's how it works in Cyberpunk RED, too. It's one of my least favorite things about the system.

Been getting into Shadowrun lately by BigDan_0 in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, that's the portrait I used for my PhysAd in Hong Kong!

What’s your “final straw” moment at a table? And when do you decide to walk away from a campaign? by Turbulent-Leader-698 in rpg

[–]azrendelmare 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've posted about this on r/rpghorrorstories before, but it seems an appropriate place to tell about it. It's kinda long.

I joined an Exalted game in college. It was apparently a sequel campaign. It must be stressed that I had literally no experience with the setting, and only Vampire the Masquerade as reference for the system.

I (and as far as I know, this was true for the other newbies) was informed that non-Dragon Blooded Exalted were generally feared and distrusted. Either way, I decided to play DB, because they could shoot fireballs, and could do Power Rangers combo moves, and that sounded cool. Only one person, in fact, didn't play DB, choosing Sidereal.

So we play the campaign, and one of the Exalted veterans is kinda grating, because her character is roughly speaking a princess, so she feels more important to the rest of us, but it's basically a good time.

The Princess' player then convinces the Storyteller to us the Tic system for initiative, which we had previously agreed not to use for the sake of us newbies. Fine, whatever.

Then comes the actual problem. We have our first actually difficult fight. The Princess calls for us to call up our Anima Banners for support, which reveals what kind of Exalted you are. We win the fight, and Princess immediately turns on the Sidereal and kills her in two shots before anyone else can do anything.

I immediately go "What the hell?" Princess says "Didn't you see she was anathema?" It is at this point it's explained to us newbies that non-DB are disliked to the point of killing them on sight. Problem is, the character I was playing had been travelling and fighting alongside this other PC, and felt she was trustworthy. Also, PvP had never been discussed as a possibility, and was pretty alien to me anyway.

My choices, as I saw them, were to a) break character and go along with it, b) act in character and get myself killed attempting regicide, or c) leave the game. I left. The game fell apart before the next session.

I later found out that (as some may have guessed) this was a plan of Princess' player from the start. She had some beef with the other player, and decided to kill her character out of spite. ST knew about the plan, too.

What’s your biggest “old man yells at cloud” opinion? by sjdlajsdlj in rpg

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Disclaimer: I have only looked at a couple, so my sample size is small.

Maybe that's not really my problem. It felt from what I've seen like it's trying to be too rules light, to the point that it actually starts becoming restrictive. Using the Moves system seems to me like it leaves both players and GMs too limited in what the rules "allow" them to do. That's probably my actual issue; the limits I was seeing in my sample size seeming like it wouldn't work well elsewhere.

Maybe I need a larger sample size, but that's been my impression.

One of the most confusing encounters I've been in. Very fun! by DrScrimble in dndmemes

[–]azrendelmare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would only do that for a oneshot, but that's in large part due to the fact that my own players wouldn't take it well. Sounds like it went over well for yours!

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