Various role-playing RPG game stuff not deserving its own thread

[Rand]

Should have linked the tweet instead of a screencap, useless ******.

I had a reason to do it that way instead.

[rusty_shackleford]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

[rusty_shackleford]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

wait no not like that

[logincrash]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

You can tame bears as a Ranger in Guild Wars 2 if I recall correctly.

[wndrbr]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

wait no not like that

too late Mr. Halsin Enjoyer.

[DagothGeas5]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

The only one that comes to mind (aside pretending Morrigan is a bear with no human form in Dragon Age Origins) is World of Warcraft by playing as a Hunter and taming one. Wrath of the Lich King or earlier is best in my opinion for this as it has also the feeding and arrows/ammo systems, which were removed after Cataclysm that I recall.

[Roderick]

And since I'm on the topic, I strongly disagree with a lot of Tim Cain's claims that "fallout was always woke", @Roguey
He didn't write or design much of the original Fallouts, Scott Campbell did. Even if we take both of the games together, Campbell probably did more than any other single person. He's obviously trying to reinterpret his past thru his fudge packed tinted lenses.
He can discuss the original ideas of Fallout, but he's obviously claiming **** that isn't true. Yeah, the ultra woke game where you convince a wife to **** you so you'll help her husband, play as a female and get drugged then raped, then go lose an arm wrestling match and get raped up the *** by a super mutant.

Being shocking and offensive just to be shocking and offensive is the opposite of 'woke'. It wasn't pushing any agenda except perhaps **** censors. They lost the GURPS license because it was too violent, Tim Cain aligns 100% with SJ(w) games now.

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[Roderick]

I like his seethe at Fallout 2 video makes it much better.

[rusty_shackleford]

And since I'm on the topic, I strongly disagree with a lot of Tim Cain's claims that "fallout was always woke", @Roguey
He didn't write or design much of the original Fallouts, Scott Campbell did. Even if we take both of the games together, Campbell probably did more than any other single person. He's obviously trying to reinterpret his past thru his fudge packed tinted lenses.
He can discuss the original ideas of Fallout, but he's obviously claiming **** that isn't true. Yeah, the ultra woke game where you convince a wife to **** you so you'll help her husband, play as a female and get drugged then raped, then go lose an arm wrestling match and get raped up the *** by a super mutant.

Being shocking and offensive just to be shocking and offensive is the opposite of 'woke'. It wasn't pushing any agenda except perhaps **** censors. They lost the GURPS license because it was too violent, Tim Cain aligns 100% with SJ(w) games now.

I guarantee he was laughing right with them

[rusty_shackleford]

Anyone played this? Maybe @Roguey?

[Roguey]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

Mask of the Betrayer.

Anyone played this? Maybe @Roguey?

Nope, don't have the EE.

[Hyborian]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

Wilson in BGII:EE.

[Rand]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

I assume you already know about Pillars of Eternity.
Done correctly, you can rampage around the maps as a literal party of bears.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

In The Banner Saga 2, one of the party members Erik only if he is not transferred out of the caravan heading to the capital of Arberrang can get a controllable bear companion who exceeds the 6 party member limit. Because the bear takes up 2x1 space (as opposed to the 1x1 space of a human), he is good at being a roadblock to control enemy movement/restrict the number of enemies who can attack your party members.

[Rand]

And since I'm on the topic, I strongly disagree with a lot of Tim Cain's claims that "fallout was always woke", @Roguey
He didn't write or design much of the original Fallouts, Scott Campbell did. Even if we take both of the games together, Campbell probably did more than any other single person. He's obviously trying to reinterpret his past thru his fudge packed tinted lenses.
He can discuss the original ideas of Fallout, but he's obviously claiming **** that isn't true. Yeah, the ultra woke game where you convince a wife to **** you so you'll help her husband, play as a female and get drugged then raped, then go lose an arm wrestling match and get raped up the *** by a super mutant.

Being shocking and offensive just to be shocking and offensive is the opposite of 'woke'. It wasn't pushing any agenda except perhaps **** censors. They lost the GURPS license because it was too violent, Tim Cain aligns 100% with SJ(w) games now.

I like how, to homos, "homophobia" is hetero people not wanting to see homo stuff, which they find gross and off-putting, in their entertainment media. As if that's strange or unacceptable for some reason.
I don't HAVE to agree with or look at you, Tim. I am just legally bound to not physically assault and/or kill you. That's the limit imposed by society. (Or it was.)

Homophobia is not necessarily the fear of something. In science, a phobia can be an aversion to something, like a hydrophobic material that is averse to interacting with water, for example.
And if I don't want to interact with something I find gross, who the **** are you to demand I do and harangue me if I won't?

[Gunnar]

what are some RPGs where I can get a bear companion?

Warcraft 3, the “rpg” map where you play as the barbarian with the bear companion is the best representation of a bear pet. Theres even some cool dialogue with the bear.

[Finarfin]

It's Rexxar and Misha, ******* ***.

[rusty_shackleford]

Mask of the Betrayer.

Doesn't really count.

Wilson in BGII:EE.

Good one, one of the few EE additions I liked.

[rusty_shackleford]

Wartales lets you tame a bear. I found one in prison, I thought it was the game being lazy but the recruitment message said something along the lines of "how the hell did a bear get in here?"

[rusty_shackleford]

Anyone played this? Maybe @Roguey?

No idea why they don't allow anyone to publish modules for sale after a quality control test tbh.

[rusty_shackleford]

https://github.com/davemoore22/sorcery

An open source remake/remaster of the classic CRPG Wizardry, Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.

Neat.

[Statesman]

Anyone played this? Maybe @Roguey?

No idea why they don't allow anyone to publish modules for sale after a quality control test tbh.

Because they just don't want to be bothered to do quality control tests for each module that might be submitted. A lot of campaigns might be near-professional (or above) quality-wise, but lack enough polish to be an official release and/or use content/references/materials they might not be legally allowed to use for profit.

[UltraFan123]

I think you can have a bear animal companion in Owlcat's Pathfinder games if you're a druid with the animal companion trait or a cleric with the animal domain.

[Acrux]

Druids and rangers can get a bear in TOEE

[rusty_shackleford]

These are all examples from Fallout 2

He worked on it for half of its entire development cycle, he was replying to posts in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg as late as February 1998.

And since Tim Cain likes to play the "I was such a great guy and advocated for everyone!" shtick,

It's Christmas! Fallout was released in October, and Interplay does not give
a week off for Halloween. Interplay really is on vacation. I was in my office
a few days ago, and no one else was in (well, two of the Fallout II people
were in, but only because I threatened to beat them).

What would be the media response to a project leader even joking about that now?
"haha, things were different, I shouldn't get judged by the same standards!"
I hate ******* who do this.

Oh, and they'd be raked over the coals for this now:
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/NcRenesc.msg

{620}{}{Why do you think it's called Vault THIRTEEN, spearchucker? What, was your tribe short on brains or do you just perform ritual lobotomies to cleanse the tiny voice of reason that speaks in your head?}

[rusty_shackleford]

Love this kind of unabated real-time dungeon crawling with little to no time wasted on story.

Depending on how old of games you're willing to play, Dungeon Master started its own lineage of real-time dungeon crawlers that traces all the way to Legend of Grimrock & the games that also inspired.

Also, https://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/
Not all of them are real-time.

@Valter

I just remembered this game exists


I think @Tweed has played it, but I don't know if it's good

[Faceless_Sentinel]

These are all examples from Fallout 2

He worked on it for half of its entire development cycle, he was replying to posts in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg as late as February 1998.

How does that invalidate Roguey's argument?

[Roguey]

He worked on it for half of its entire development cycle, he was replying to posts in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg as late as February 1998.

Still had no control over the final product.

Chris Avellone fumed over how Fallout 2 turned out, continues to say it was worse than anything Bethesda ever did.

[Tweed]

Love this kind of unabated real-time dungeon crawling with little to no time wasted on story.

Depending on how old of games you're willing to play, Dungeon Master started its own lineage of real-time dungeon crawlers that traces all the way to Legend of Grimrock & the games that also inspired.

Also, https://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/
Not all of them are real-time.

@Valter I just remembered this game exists


I think @Tweed has played it, but I don't know if it's good

I liked it quite a bit, a blend of King's Field and roguelike. One of those kinds of games where when you figure out how to play you can start kicking ***, has several different modes that get really hard. Has masculine/feminine ******** I didn't notice before though, raked the dev over the coals about it on the codex and he claims it was to capitulate to the west. He's some azn dude. Also has FURRY and SCALIE races which is literally the human portrait with a bad fur or scale texture and cat ears or reptile eyes on it.

[Oyster Sauce]

Why don't necromancers just use animals? A necromancer who works on a farm has access to a bunch of animals with skeletons bigger and tougher than that of a human, plus he can make money on the side. I'd be much more frightened of a 7 foot tall undead horse than a little human skeleton I can crush with one punch.