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4e isn't even a game?

Started by Benoist, January 23, 2011, 09:25:15 PM

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Peregrin

#30
January 24, 2011, 12:33:49 AM
I really don't know why skill challenges get so much love from some.  I've always found them mechanically bland at best when run by a competent GM, and horribly stilted otherwise.
"In a way, the Lands of Dream are far more brutal than the worlds of most mainstream games. All of the games set there have a bittersweetness that I find much harder to take than the ridiculous adolescent posturing of so-called \'grittily realistic\' games. So maybe one reason I like them as a setting is because they are far more like the real world: colourful, crazy, full of strange creatures and people, eternal and yet changing, deeply beautiful and sometimes profoundly bitter."

jeff37923

#31
January 24, 2011, 01:14:52 AM
Quote from: Daedalus;434763I read this and thought "they cant be serious".  Glad to see they werent

If people were serious they would say that D&D 4E is not a role-playing game.
"Meh."

Doom

#32
January 24, 2011, 01:32:09 AM
4e is the best 4e version of 4e D&D!
(taken during hurricane winds)

A nice education blog.

David Johansen

#33
January 24, 2011, 01:36:58 AM
A ridiculous assertion.  Palladium Fantasy Roleplaying 1e is the best 4e version of 4e D&D and 95% of pedophile wookie hitlers think so.
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Benoist

#34
January 24, 2011, 01:38:20 AM
Quote from: Shazbot79;434741You're both wrong...

It's gaslight romance.
But with more gas, and no light at all. :D

Shazbot79

#35
January 24, 2011, 01:47:41 AM
Quote from: Peregrin;434786It's not a game.

It makes real dungeons, with spiked pits, and there's poison traps.

But the secret ingredient is fear, dammit!

Quote from: Benoist;434787Fear the skill challeeenge!

"Roll your goddamn athletics you fucking taffy ass glitterboi!"

"My what? Athletes? I don't...how do I even...?"

"Athletics! Roll it, nancy!"

"Roll it? Roll what??? Roll on the ground?"

"Roll your athletics! This is a motherfucking skill challenge and their are mother fucking spikes with motherfucking poison and you will motherfucking die! Now roll your fucking athletics!"

"There's been a mistake..ah-heh...I'm here for a spin class!"

"Athletics! Roll your athletics! What's wrong with you? Roll your athletics! Why in sweet cherry syrup fuck aren't you rolling your athletics??? Do you want to die???"

"Die? What? I'm just...I don't even know...look can I just leave?"

"Oh you know what...my bad...it's actually acrobatics."

"What?"

"DC 21"

"What's happening?"

"Acrobatics motherfucker!"
Your superior intellect is no match for our primitive weapons!

Shazbot79

#36
January 24, 2011, 01:48:23 AM
Quote from: Benoist;434797But with more gas, and no light at all. :D

Depends on where's you're holding the lighter.
Your superior intellect is no match for our primitive weapons!

crkrueger

#37
January 24, 2011, 02:07:30 AM
Quote from: Peregrin;434789I really don't know why skill challenges get so much love from some.  I've always found them mechanically bland at best when run by a competent GM, and horribly stilted otherwise.

Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

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Imperator

#38
January 24, 2011, 04:37:38 AM
Best thread of 2011 so far.
My name is Ramón Nogueras. Running now Vampire: the Masquerade (Giovanni Chronicles IV for just 3 players), and itching to resume my Call of Cthulhu campaign (The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man).

StormBringer

#39
January 24, 2011, 04:59:12 AM
Quote from: Benoist;434787Fear the skill challeeenge!
Blam.
If you read the above post, you owe me $20 for tutoring fees

\'Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I have no concern for it, but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.\'
- Thomas Paine
\'Everything doesn\'t need

StormBringer

#40
January 24, 2011, 05:02:14 AM
Quote from: Benoist;434769
If you read the above post, you owe me $20 for tutoring fees

\'Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I have no concern for it, but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.\'
- Thomas Paine
\'Everything doesn\'t need

Benoist

#41
January 24, 2011, 10:56:38 AM
Quote from: StormBringer;434821
:D LOL Hilarious. I too want a batmobile in Gamma World!

Peregrin

#42
January 24, 2011, 12:19:52 PM
Me too.

Our group ended up with a single beatup pickup and something like 5 fucking canoes.

Oh, and a horse.

But what are we going to do with FIVE FUCKING CANOES??
"In a way, the Lands of Dream are far more brutal than the worlds of most mainstream games. All of the games set there have a bittersweetness that I find much harder to take than the ridiculous adolescent posturing of so-called \'grittily realistic\' games. So maybe one reason I like them as a setting is because they are far more like the real world: colourful, crazy, full of strange creatures and people, eternal and yet changing, deeply beautiful and sometimes profoundly bitter."

kregmosier

#43
January 24, 2011, 12:39:57 PM
Quote from: Peregrin;434872Me too.

Our group ended up with a single beatup pickup and something like 5 fucking canoes.

Oh, and a horse.

But what are we going to do with FIVE FUCKING CANOES??

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barb/4258326255/#/  :D
-k
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Shazbot79

#44
January 24, 2011, 01:15:46 PM
Quote from: Peregrin;434872Me too.

Our group ended up with a single beatup pickup and something like 5 fucking canoes.

Oh, and a horse.

But what are we going to do with FIVE FUCKING CANOES??

Build a stronghold....attract followers. Injun' followers.
Your superior intellect is no match for our primitive weapons!
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