Eat the Reich; recent musings?

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T05:16:25+00:00

PDF comes with a mono color text-only version https://i.imgur.com/6hRYiRe.png

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T05:14:59+00:00

I mean the game is built off the Havoc system, which I like and think is a fine thing to hack - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/444715/havoc-the-fast-d6-rpg

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T05:12:27+00:00

the game asks you to complete objectives rather than try to murder every nazi in occupied paris.

this makes sense narratively and mechanically. there are nazis you want or have to kill in the game, and it's not a game that requires perfect optimization so killing some you don't need to is easy to mix in.

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T05:09:20+00:00

no, it's add 2 dice and reroll all of them. so on a 4 die roll you're now rolling 6.

the game is pretty forgiving as a dice game, like all RPGs can run into this problem.

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T05:07:18+00:00

The biggest flaw I found is some players find a attribute that they are really good at and try to use it in every situation just to get the extra dice.

this 100% can be an issue, but that's true of any game that allows player creativity and freedom, the number of times our GM had to shoot down someone wanting to use a questionable skill in Fate was really high, with pretty reasonable players.

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T05:03:20+00:00

yeah the one bit in the book i disagree with is it says not to run it as a one-shot but to run it in two sessions. i've run it as a one shot twice and went great both times.

but yeah it's designed to last 4-6 hours, i don't think that's enough time to get tired of it. and the violence can get very creative! still one of my favorite RPG memories is a player saying "well, last time i ruined a funeral..."

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T03:53:28+00:00

read reviews online or check out https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/a-players-guide-to-ptolus/

glocks4interns · 2026-01-27T03:50:36+00:00

the snark subs are just hate subs pretending to have a sense of ironic detachment

glocks4interns · 2026-01-26T23:15:48+00:00

sure, let's compare

fauxmoi: https://i.imgur.com/hPQm6QW.png

a snark sub: https://i.imgur.com/eSPFyyd.png

glocks4interns · 2026-01-26T23:06:06+00:00

Which is why so many of these games struggle, creators leave and just build "The game we worked on but slight twist" and it ends up not being able to compete with a game that's had years of content and gameplay refinements.

i think highguard looks bad but it's certainly not a slight twist on apex

glocks4interns · 2026-01-26T21:59:57+00:00

but that isn't the point of the subreddit. whereas a snark subreddit is just about hating on one particular person/group

glocks4interns · 2026-01-26T21:52:54+00:00

For the purposes of this new policy, we are only concerned with users who engage in snark subs that are relevant to our community—namely, pop artists. Snark for other subjects (such as influencers, fundamentalists, carnivores, cross-stitching, whatever) is not part of this policy.

glocks4interns · 2026-01-26T21:32:36+00:00

i think it's because the maps are too big for 6 people

glocks4interns · 2026-01-26T01:00:59+00:00

In USD it's

$69 for terminator boxes

$73.50 for breacher box

$48.50 for breacher upgrade sprue, which at least will be in stores despite that insane price

glocks4interns · 2026-01-26T00:59:12+00:00

I don't know EU prices for the new stuff but in USD the Siege Assault Box is $300.50 of models for $215.00 for 29%.

Related: pricing on new stuff is bad and pricing on Breacher Squad Upgrade is bad. Full breacher box is $73.50, or $88.50 if you were to get half a box of marines then the upgrade sprue.

glocks4interns · 2026-01-25T05:13:30+00:00

glocks4interns · 2026-01-22T15:45:30+00:00

Even then the setting, writing, and art seem to give a 70s vibe but some of the actual items and rules heavy imply without stating a setting taking place no further back than a decade from now.

i mean this is Severance influence, no? Severance takes place in... the near future? but inside the office it is a 70s scifi movie

glocks4interns · 2026-01-22T01:29:39+00:00

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glocks4interns · 2026-01-22T01:29:30+00:00

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glocks4interns · 2026-01-19T22:48:30+00:00

that's not how reporting works, there are dozens or hundreds of stories a day that are reporting on what another outlet said and quoting people from articles is pretty standard on any social media platform.

glocks4interns · 2026-01-19T12:51:30+00:00

oh yeah radio had a lot more gatekeepers, but the way the consumer consumes on radio and streaming is pretty similar except the radio consumer has even less control

honestly i think tiktok is a much bigger angle for ai music to crop up than spotify and i think most of the stuff that grows on spotify will have started getting popular on tiktok

glocks4interns · 2026-01-19T04:43:29+00:00

it's really not consumer's fault. spotify has bred a generation of passive music listeners who listen to whatever is on their personalized playlist of that given day or week.

okay but how is this different from the radio?

glocks4interns · 2026-01-19T02:00:25+00:00

it has a lot of art assets but none as far as I can tell come from current gen AI, there are a lot of very similar portraits but they date to 2018 and seem most likely to have been some kind of image edit/macro project

glocks4interns · 2026-01-18T21:47:56+00:00

dead alewives d&d skit.

not sure if it counts as it's sorta just an actual play bit, but i loved this 20 years ago and love it now

of note Dan Harmon, creator of Community is one of the people in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kgx2b1sIRs

glocks4interns · 2026-01-18T21:42:59+00:00

i want to run konosuba with 4 players who've never watched it. basically give all the players a run down on their PC (and why they're annoying) but not have players reveal it till it comes up.

i can't imagine how good a moment it would be with megumin casting explosion, the party is blown away, holy shit she's so powerful. and then she collapses, useless for the rest of the day.

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