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Bros, Lord Rocket might be from Fagelaide but let's not hold that against him.
I still love you, Rocket-BRO.
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I still love you, Rocket-BRO.
:brofist:
Hoaxmetal said:visions said:latexmonkeys said:Wouldn't you guys say that pnp gaming is primarily a male dominated hobby? That's your first clue to the origin of the stigma.
Most hobbies are p. much male dominated, also the "cool" ones like sports.
What the fuck do womyn do anyway :/
He doesn't even know that almost everyone talks shit about women. He probably never leaves his sweaty nerd basement, so he can't know that the outside world isn't composed exclusively of nerds and jocks.Sceptic said:TBH it's pretty retarded to confuse nerd and grognard, or to think that grognard = old nerd (though I'm not going to put you on ignore just for that). Aside from the fact that the mean age is about 30 years apart, the only real point they have in common is the level to which they take their stuff seriously, but if you're gonna hinge everything on this then jocks and nerds are the same too. Which... well, that would be just weird.Lord Rocket said:congratulations on thinking there's any significant difference between grognards and nerds. The level of pedantry required to distinguish between 'nerd' and 'old nerd' is truly... nerdy.
octavius said:So how many here read CRPG Addict's blog?
I saw your comment about the BG games being even more faithful to D&D than POR. Not impressed.octavius said:So how many here read CRPG Addict's blog?
Sceptic said:I saw your comment about the BG games being even more faithful to D&D than POR. Not impressed.octavius said:So how many here read CRPG Addict's blog?
IT'S REAL TIME FFS.
Zeus said:Konjad said:Does he know about existence of rpgcodex anyway?
He has to. I mean, if The Vede knows about RPG Watch, there's no way Mr. Oldschool RPG hasn't heard of RPGCodex yet.
But here's the difference between the two: in Dragon Age, most of the time, I have no idea what the #&*$ is going on. Seriously. Combat begins. My party members go into their tactics. I select one of the foes for my lead character to fight. I start using his special attacks. Meanwhile, there's a cacophony of sound as friends and foes meet each other and cast spells. Color streak across the screen. My character starts sparkling for reasons I don't understand--am I being affected by an offensive spell, or did one of my party members cast a buffing spell? Sten starts calling for healing but then suddenly he's at full health even though I didn't heal him. Liliana starts saying "trap, trap, trap" even though we're in combat and it's unrealistic to disarm traps. My character is suddenly paralyzed and I don't know why. The screen shakes and I go sprawling against at tree--what hit me? Then, all at once, it's over, and apparently we're all alive.
Oh, look, honey, it's 10:00 p.m.! You toddle off to bed while I head over to my computer and enjoy the relative tranquility of turn-based tactical combat.
Come back CRPG Addict, all is forgiven
Which is better? If you automatically choose left, you're probably on the wrong blog.
Still, there are features of Wizard's Crown and Eternal dagger that would have improved the Gold Box games. It's just that they had to stick to AD&D rules for obvious reasons.DaveO said:At least he had the decency to correctly note that the Gold Box engine is an evolution of the Wizard's Crown and Eternal Dagger tactical combat. The Addict also wrote that saving is for the weak.
Sceptic said:But here's the difference between the two: in Dragon Age, most of the time, I have no idea what the #&*$ is going on. Seriously. Combat begins. My party members go into their tactics. I select one of the foes for my lead character to fight. I start using his special attacks. Meanwhile, there's a cacophony of sound as friends and foes meet each other and cast spells. Color streak across the screen. My character starts sparkling for reasons I don't understand--am I being affected by an offensive spell, or did one of my party members cast a buffing spell? Sten starts calling for healing but then suddenly he's at full health even though I didn't heal him. Liliana starts saying "trap, trap, trap" even though we're in combat and it's unrealistic to disarm traps. My character is suddenly paralyzed and I don't know why. The screen shakes and I go sprawling against at tree--what hit me? Then, all at once, it's over, and apparently we're all alive.
Oh, look, honey, it's 10:00 p.m.! You toddle off to bed while I head over to my computer and enjoy the relative tranquility of turn-based tactical combat.
And even better:
Come back CRPG Addict, all is forgiven
Which is better? If you automatically choose left, you're probably on the wrong blog.
Sceptic said:TBH it's pretty retarded to confuse nerd and grognard, or to think that grognard = old nerd (though I'm not going to put you on ignore just for that). Aside from the fact that the mean age is about 30 years apart, the only real point they have in common is the level to which they take their stuff seriously, but if you're gonna hinge everything on this then jocks and nerds are the same too. Which... well, that would be just weird.Lord Rocket said:congratulations on thinking there's any significant difference between grognards and nerds. The level of pedantry required to distinguish between 'nerd' and 'old nerd' is truly... nerdy.
I think it started when P&P started to get mixed up with LARPing.
Zomg said:I'd rather get caught masturbating to the monster manual than let someone think I listen to metal