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[Laz Sundays]

^Reading be like

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

You only need 3 books for Ad&D 1e or 2e. PHB, DMG, MM

B/X moldvay you can get by on 1 or 2. Basic & Expert setting.

BECMI (just get Rules Encyclopedia). You want immortal because you cry rivers not having the Gold Box? Get Wrath of the immortals,

You want just 1 set? Get the original 3 LBB that Gary & crew started. Fuck the later editions and ALL THE SPLAT BOOKS.
FUCK ADVENTURE MODULES!

Just make shit up if you have an imagination? My first grid combat board as a grade schooler (1st/2nd grade) was a checkers board and I used all sorts of shit for figurines and tactical combat. 1 became 2 became 4 and eventually drawing grids on cut out huge cardboard boxes from large appliances i found in cardboard recycling bins.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Redfall's failure and acknowledgement as a shit game is just the latest in a trend that Arkane started with Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (aka the Adventures of Sir Kicksalot) and more recently proved again with Deathloop. It's nice to see journos start to acknowledge how shit their games are.

 

[ind33d]

Saying D&D system is great is like saying WH40k is an elegant strategy game or that MtG is a good card game.
It means that either it was your first one and you are blinded by nostalgia, or you have never played anything else.

Interesting. Care to elaborate?

All three are supbar systems technically, although for different reasons. D&D is outdated... alignment charts

I don't even like D&D, but imagine thinking that the real problem with Dungeons and Dragons is a belief in objective good and evil

 

[Hag]

I don't even like D&D, but imagine thinking that the real problem with Dungeons and Dragons is a belief in objective good and evil

So what is its real problem in your opinion ?

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

The Outer Worlds is objetively a better Fallout game than New Vegas.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I don't even like D&D, but imagine thinking that the real problem with Dungeons and Dragons is a belief in objective good and evil

So what is its real problem in your opinion ?

The Patriarchy.

 

[Hagashager]

The debate on alignment charts is a touchy subject to me. I don't think alignments are that great. Most PnP systems don't have them, the few that do, are mechanical in nature (Star Wars).

DnD was unique in its Roleplay through alignment concept, but it was always rigid and controversial. The "Chaotic Evil Orc Baby" debate is as old as DnD itself. Our political climate brought that tension to a head.

That all said, in conceding alignments and intrinsic morality, suddenly WOTC seems hellbent on just axing every facet of the game and it's settings.

The "Half-Elves are racist" bit is deeply disturbing to me. There's an implication there that's coming uncomfortably close to the ideas of racial purity and all being couched in feel-good language.

 

[ind33d]

The debate on alignment charts is a touchy subject to me. I don't think alignments are that great. Most PnP systems don't have them, the few that do, are mechanical in nature (Star Wars).

DnD was unique in its Roleplay through alignment concept, but it was always rigid and controversial. The "Chaotic Evil Orc Baby" debate is as old as DnD itself. Our political climate brought that tension to a head.

That all said, in conceding alignments and intrinsic morality, suddenly WOTC seems hellbent on just axing every facet of the game and it's settings.

The "Half-Elves are racist" bit is deeply disturbing to me. There's an implication there that's coming uncomfortably close to the ideas of racial purity and all being couched in feel-good language.

Tanis Half-Elven was my favorite character as a kid. It's amazing how WOTC finds a new way to molest my childhood every day

 

[Hag]

Tomb Raider has tank controls, therefore it is a blobber, therefore it is a RPG.

 

[quixotic]

I spend more time playing video games then I do complaining about them.

 

[__scribbles__]

I spend more time playing video games then I do complaining about them.

How about complaining about games you haven’t played?

 

[Chippy]

I have a solution to all woke content in games: make it mandatory for all developers to insert a Greta Thunberg character as a party member in all RPGs. Then make her everything woke. She will be completely useless of course, but simultaneously mandatory, and immune to all forms of death and cheat rage. When she isn't standing there, wagging her finger in disapproval, she will have the power to break the 4th wall and lecture you on climate change as it pertains to the game.

Play the RPG for too long and she will have the power to shut off your PC, and instigate a password to reuse it based on a question from the climate science you should have learned from the game previously.

Your entire gameplay style and C&C decisions will be logged and sent for algorithm review by the WEF. Those scoring enough points will automatically beat the game. Points will be deducted for obviously obsolete decisions: playing a Paladin, male, straight, etc and not indulging in furry sex with any and all enemies.

There will be a positive bonus ending for those who attempt to romance Greta. And a secondary one with real-world rewards for those who worship her.

 

[Skorpion]

I spend more time playing video games then I do complaining about them.

How about complaining about games you haven’t played?

Shit bro thats half the posters/posts on this forum!
Hell half is a very kind estimate.

 

[Hagashager]

I have a solution to all woke content in games: make it mandatory for all developers to insert a Greta Thunberg character as a party member in all RPGs. Then make her everything woke. She will be completely useless of course, but simultaneously mandatory, and immune to all forms of death and cheat rage. When she isn't standing there, wagging her finger in disapproval, she will have the power to break the 4th wall and lecture you on climate change as it pertains to the game.

Play the RPG for too long and she will have the power to shut off your PC, and instigate a password to reuse it based on a question from the climate science you should have learned from the game previously.

Your entire gameplay style and C&C decisions will be logged and sent for algorithm review by the WEF. Those scoring enough points will automatically beat the game. Points will be deducted for obviously obsolete decisions: playing a Paladin, male, straight, etc and not indulging in furry sex with any and all enemies.

There will be a positive bonus ending for those who attempt to romance Greta. And a secondary one with real-world rewards for those who worship her.

Use this as a prelude to a social credit score. Call it the "Life High Score" so no one thinks there's anything wrong. If you get too low a score you get killed, but they play the Mario death theme at your execution.

 

[Maxie]

Whoever mods in full party control to Persona 3 or chooses to play Portable just for this is someone you shouldn't respect

 

[__scribbles__]

Shit bro thats half the posters/posts on this forum!
Hell half is a very kind estimate.

It's a necessary evil to keep GRPGD alive

 

[laclongquan]

O Bethesda~ Please make an Ultrawide HD graphical remaster of Fallout and Fallout 2 soon.

We need to play them on our wide flat screen

 

[Reinhardt]

O Bethesda~ Please make an Ultrawide HD graphical remaster of Fallout and Fallout 2 soon.

We need to play them on our wide flat screen

but why? they are shit.

 

[ds]

Steam/GOG/etc. versions of Fallout 1 and 2 already come with the High Resolution patch which supports ultrawide resolutions.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Wear your fallout 76 powerhelm. It is ubercool.

 

[laclongquan]

Steam/GOG/etc. versions of Fallout 1 and 2 already come with the High Resolution patch which supports ultrawide resolutions.

There is a big difference between an intentional upscale HD graphic, with a software resizing. We dont actually want a rectangle pixel the size of a fingertip on the screen. we want some smooth art assets.

 

[Butter]

What game in this legendary RPG series was made a decade after its predecessors? By a completely new group of developers? With a dubious move from 2D to 3D? And introduced level scaling? And is the normie's favourite entry in the series?

That's right! Wizardry 8!

 

[Ryzer]

By a completely new group of developers?

That group made Jagged Alliance 2.

What game in this legendary RPG series was made a decade after its predecessors? By a completely new group of developers? With a dubious move from 2D to 3D? And introduced level scaling? And is the normie's favourite entry in the series?

That's right! Wizardry 8!

Fallout 3

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I don't play games. I just hoard them.