Various tabletop stuff not deserving its own thread

[Tweed]

I have a fren that, over the years, backed at least half a dozen KS and adjacent projects + frequently scours comics conventions and such to procure weird, obscure gayme systems. We talked about trying a few of them, over the years, we actually only played one, for 4-5 sessions or so.

The only thing I disagree with is the intention part. Most really, really, REALLY want to play the weird le proud ****: 8-bit system, issue is normal people prefer to play a thematic D&D/PF campaign to a memetic RPG set in the donutsteal setting written by someone that probably has less than a thousand hours of actual tabletop play.

I could get behind wanting to find and play weird, off-beat systems, but a lot of this stuff is all style and no substance. Looking at comments on kikestarter and BGG shows that these things aren't tested at all and have poor documentation. It's all about collectables, art, and feelies.

[J-12]

[Yankee Zulu]

boardgames & tabletop RPGs get insane money on crowdfunding platforms to the point where it has become a significant source of Steve Jackson Games income strategy — they're the #2 most profitable tabletop RPG company AFAIK.
Outside of crowdfunding, barely any money is moving at all tho. I don't get it, maybe the kind of people who play these are really gullible?

I have no idea what's going on: money laundering? idiots? people who get off on the idea of playing a game they'll never play? Who knows.
remember, sales outside of kikestarter are incredibly low.

I think it's just that the market has shifted. Sharing pdfs is so trivial people don't even think of it as piracy. There's basically no taboo around copying game books. However, the GURPS fanbase wants to keep the game alive since they know it barely makes SJGames any money, and for some reason people still get hyped about new systems and creators, so there are a lot of people willing to crowdfund them. The standards of quality the typical tabletop """player""" has for an RPG system are very, very low.

we came to the conclusion in chat that people are buying these as display pieces with zero intention to play them, and I agree with that

I suppose you can say that regarding video games as well. Some people just buy them left and right and then say smth like this 'Why do I have this in my library? Oh my god my backlig is SO big!'
I watched some dude playing TW3. He had like 4 different campaigns started. He was playing Slaanesh, then quit to the main menu, started a new campaign for Ogres, skipped everything intro, right clicked on the dwarven army at the starting point and clicked autoresolve.

[UltraFan123]

Its like these cocksuckers know that orcs are *******.

Layered social programming. Thing is, they aren't sly about it anymore and they are applying it in a time where many are becoming aware of what they are doing.

Sometimes I am unsure if it is a campaign to demoralize or if it is simply the fact that these people are so inept they can't read the room so to speak.

What I have seen as sort of a deflect argument everytime you point out to the leftards that they always think of minorities when they see a monster usually goes "is not us who think that orcs are black, is a strawman argument made by you bigots who want to keep validating your derogatory stereotypes!"

Yeah if that isn't projection then I don't know what it is. I would say that the demoralization campaign was partially successful in the sense that it worked on the leftards, and now it's these leftards who are super inept and can't recognize their incompetence.

[WhiteShark]

Didn't watch the video, but my grandparents had this game (probably for my uncle) and I enjoyed playing it as a kid. I loved the virus voice. "You human scum!" "I am terminaaaated."

[UltraFan123]

Moved to the proper thread, something about Musk. kek

EDIT: Oh wait this is the tabletop thread, not the videogames one. lol

EDIT 2: Moved it to the proper thread cuz I'm a doofus.

[J-12]

Are there actually any 40k themed tabletop roleplay games like d&d? Aimed at around 3-5 players plus DM, narrative-driven, customizable characters, all that stuff? I feel this would have been fun to play, at least for me, back when i was dead-tired of 5e.

[rusty_shackleford]

Are there actually any 40k themed tabletop roleplay games like d&d? Aimed at around 3-5 players plus DM, narrative-driven, customizable characters, all that stuff? I feel this would have been fun to play, at least for me, back when i was dead-tired of 5e.

Yep, there was an entire line of them made by FFG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000_Roleplay
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Warha ... 0_Roleplay

The rogue trader CRPG is loosely based on them

There's also a more recent one that I know nothing of: https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Wrath_&_Glory

[J-12]

Are there actually any 40k themed tabletop roleplay games like d&d? Aimed at around 3-5 players plus DM, narrative-driven, customizable characters, all that stuff? I feel this would have been fun to play, at least for me, back when i was dead-tired of 5e.

Yep, there was an entire line of them made by FFG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000_Roleplay
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Warha ... 0_Roleplay

The rogue trader CRPG is loosely based on them

There's also a more recent one that I know nothing of: https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Wrath_&_Glory

Sounds cool, now if only there was someone to play this with...

[UltraFan123]

You know, at this point I have to commend ******* of the Coast for being 100% committed to dying on the intersectionality hill they decided to bury themselves in.

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https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/dung ... ew-dungeon
Basically, this new guideline has instructions telling the DMs to ask the players what "triggers" them before the game starts, and even tells them how to "forcefully brake" a campaign that makes a player "feel offended", as if the brainrotted leftards who infected tabletop weren't already doing that. lol

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

You know, at this point I have to commend ******* of the Coast for being 100% committed to dying on the intersectionality hill they decided to bury themselves in.
Screenshot 2024-10-22 132021.png
https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/dung ... ew-dungeon
Basically, this new guideline has instructions telling the DMs to ask the players what "triggers" them before the game starts, and even tells them how to "forcefully brake" a campaign that makes a player "feel offended", as if the brainrotted leftards who infected tabletop weren't already doing that. lol

Well in there mind financial solvency is white supremacy

[Trickster]

You know, at this point I have to commend ******* of the Coast for being 100% committed to dying on the intersectionality hill they decided to bury themselves in.
Screenshot 2024-10-22 132021.png
https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/dung ... ew-dungeon
Basically, this new guideline has instructions telling the DMs to ask the players what "triggers" them before the game starts, and even tells them how to "forcefully brake" a campaign that makes a player "feel offended", as if the brainrotted leftards who infected tabletop weren't already doing that. lol

So are they for "fetish-party" or not? Because real fun degeneracy is not compatible with acting like a pathetic reddit snowflake, insecure snob and being offended over various things in fantasy that are part of our real life.

[Rand]

Read to the end.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I’m really annoyed looking at Mage Victorian supplement and its reviews for Mage Ascension 20th ed that it has quite a bit of historical revisionism. If you’re going to base your fiction on real life history I expect you to do basic research to make sure it adheres to that time period.

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[Boontaker]

I have been reading Matt Colvilles Draw Steel backer packet, so far it's good stuff. I'll be playing it next Sunday, I'll let you guys know what I think if you are interested

[UltraFan123]

I’m really annoyed looking at Mage Victorian supplement and its reviews for Mage Ascension 20th ed that it has quite a bit of historical revisionism. If you’re going to base your fiction on real life history I expect you to do basic research to make sure it adheres to that time period.

I too am getting tired of the "but its a fantasy setting simply inspired by real history!"

Part of the reason why I am currently brewing a fantasy setting inspired by medieval Western Africa where the main character is a White guy. lol

[logincrash]

@wndrbr, we can test out the dice roller here.

It works!

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I too am getting tired of the "but its a fantasy setting simply inspired by real history!"

As much as like dislike this commonly trout out phrase at least it can be said its own your fantasy setting and not tied to real world history . But WOD TTRPG games are actually based on our IRL history so I’m far mor harsher when such blatant deviations are taken.

Part of the reason why I am currently brewing a fantasy setting inspired by medieval Western Africa where the main character is a White guy. lol

I hope that project does well. Is it hombrew or you making your own ruleset from scratch?

[UltraFan123]

I hope that project does well. Is it hombrew or you making your own ruleset from scratch?

The ruleset is mainly an amalgamation of 3.5 DnD and 1e Pathfinder, and I'm also sprinkling some stuff from other settings like the [Martial Arts] that the fighters of the Overlord Japanese novel use.

[rusty_shackleford]

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[RangerBoo]

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/new- ... supplement
Yes you must keep an open mind to the demon spawn and demon worshipping gnolls that in lore are said to see the world as one giant hunting ground and also see all living things as pieces of meat to be slaughtered and devoured. You just know that a liberal white woman in Seattle with blue hair and a nose ring wrote that.

[UltraFan123]

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/new- ... supplement
Yes you must keep an open mind to the demon spawn and demon worshipping gnolls that in lore are said to see the world as one giant hunting ground and also see all living things as pieces of meat to be slaughtered and devoured. You just know that a liberal white woman in Seattle with blue hair and a nose ring wrote that.

I'm also curious about just what "anticolonial" means in their context.

Would it be reversing whatever progress - both cultural and technological - that the conquered lands were enjoying in order to regress its native people back to the state where it was inferior to whatever power colonized it in the first place?

History shows that de-colonization always ends in a worse quality of life for the "liberated" people who usually ends up begging their "oppressive conquerors" to return. lmfao

[RangerBoo]

I'm also curious about just what "anticolonial" means in their context.

Would it be reversing whatever progress - both cultural and technological - that the conquered lands were enjoying in order to regress its native people back to the state where it was inferior to whatever power colonized it in the first place?

History shows that de-colonization always ends in a worse quality of life for the "liberated" people who usually ends up begging their "oppressive conquerors" to return. lmfao

You think these libshits, especially the libshit women, care? All they care about is feeling good about themselves. So what if the "liberated people" are worse off than they were under colonial rule. So long as some vapid feminist **** and beta soyboy **** in the ******* of America known as Seattle feel good about themselves then that is all that matters. Feelings before facts my man. That is the motto of the people who live in this shithole of a state.

[Tweed]

Woah guys, gnolls are people too!

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[Acrux]

Woah guys, gnolls are people too!

What about kobolds?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

You just know that a liberal white woman in Seattle with blue hair and a nose ring wrote that.

Sadly this insane "stop treating monsters as monsters! Let's all get along!" mentality has been creeping into Japanese games too. Final Fantasy XIV turned to it over the last few years with the apologism for the savage beast tribes and demonization of humans defending against them, and then scrubbing the "beast" noun and just calling them all "tribes". Just this last week, I was playing through the new Granblue Fantasy story event which was about "awww, maneating goblins are ackshually people too and just want to get along!"

[logincrash]

You just know that a liberal white woman in Seattle with blue hair and a nose ring wrote that.

Sadly this insane "stop treating monsters as monsters! Let's all get along!" mentality has been creeping into Japanese games too. Final Fantasy XIV turned to it over the last few years with the apologism for the savage beast tribes and demonization of humans defending against them, and then scrubbing the "beast" noun and just calling them all "tribes". Just this last week, I was playing through the new Granblue Fantasy story event which was about "awww, maneating goblins are ackshually people too and just want to get along!"

The innovative goblin still has the ******* baby skulls on his belt.

[RangerBoo]

Sadly this insane "stop treating monsters as monsters! Let's all get along!" mentality has been creeping into Japanese games too. Final Fantasy XIV turned to it over the last few years with the apologism for the savage beast tribes and demonization of humans defending against them, and then scrubbing the "beast" noun and just calling them all "tribes". Just this last week, I was playing through the new Granblue Fantasy story event which was about "awww, maneating goblins are ackshually people too and just want to get along!"

This is why they all freak the **** out over Frieren. They can not compered that some races and cultures are just unrepentantly evil. How dare the elf character genocide the demons that nearly killed off her kind and just see humans as playthings to be toyed with and devoured. In their mind it is the demons, not the elves, who are the true victims of that story. This is what happens when we raise a generation of children to believe that evil is just subjective. It is no wonder that the West is being destroyed from within by invaders.

[UltraFan123]

This is what happens when we raise a generation of children to believe that evil is just subjective.

What I personally find even funnier is the fact that the "evil is subjective" phrase is itself a lie according to the ones who genuinely believe that - or claim to believe at least - because they have no issue with believing that we the ones who advocate for normalcy are 100% pure unrepentant evil and actively refuse to empathize with us or see things from our perspective, which in their view makes us objectively evil which in turn means that their so-called subjective ideology must be false.

EDIT: Our poor mentally disturbed redditor here gives us a glimpse inside the mind of the ones who unironically say "good and evil are subjective".

[RangerBoo]

This is what happens when we raise a generation of children to believe that evil is just subjective.

What I personally find even funnier is the fact that the "evil is subjective" phrase is itself a lie according to the ones who genuinely believe that - or claim to believe at least - because they have no issue with believing that we the ones who advocate for normalcy are 100% pure unrepentant evil and actively refuse to empathize with us or see things from our perspective, which in their view makes us objectively evil which in turn means that their so-called subjective ideology must be false.

EDIT: Our poor mentally disturbed redditor here gives us a glimpse inside the mind of the ones who unironically say "good and evil are subjective".

Correction, they don't want their own morality to be seen as evil. For these progressive types if such a thing like good and evil exists then that means that they would have to reflect on their own morality and come to the shocking conclusion that some of their own morality and beliefs can be considered evil. You have to understand that a lot of these fuckers have "Main Character Syndrome". As the "main character" they are always on the side of right and good. No way can some of their beliefs and actions be evil. It is all just subjective. This is just wretched people trying to excuses their own terrible morality or lack thereof.