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Exalted 3 - What the hell?

Started by DisgruntleFairy, February 24, 2014, 01:51:28 AM

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Dodger

#285
May 09, 2014, 08:41:20 PM
Quote from: Axiomatic;747379He couldn't afford to go to the doctor and basically resigned himself to dying. Yes, he was a bit insane. People eventually managed to convince him to go anyway and he got enough money from the internet to, you know, afford medicine.
He should have done an anti-Kickstarter - got people to pay for Exalted 3 to not be released.

I'd've anti'd up good money for that shit.
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Nexus

#286
May 09, 2014, 09:12:51 PM Last Edit: May 09, 2014, 09:21:14 PM by Nexus
Eh, never mind
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Snowman0147

#287
May 10, 2014, 12:16:24 PM
Quote from: Kiero;748014I don't consider regurgitating old shit as something worthy of praise. How much effort is really required to reprint something? It's milking a cash cow, nothing more.

True, but you won't believe how many people do end up praising them just because they are reprinting the old world of darkness again.

Warthur

#288
May 10, 2014, 06:58:26 PM
Quote from: Snowman0147;748329True, but you won't believe how many people do end up praising them just because they are reprinting the old world of darkness again.
To be fair, the 20th anniversary editions aren't just straight reprints of the old core books, they strip out all the fiction and cram them to the gills with information from the old core books plus the supplements so you have the cream of the old game line all in one big fat book which is filled cover to cover with useful, gameable material. If anything, I'd say OWoD's better now than it was when it originally came out, not least because it doesn't assume you'll follow the metaplot.
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Snowman0147

#289
May 10, 2014, 08:00:58 PM
Until those players expect you to follow the meta plot.  Some people wanted me to run werewolf which I told them I only have v20 version.  They informed that wasn't enough and I have to read a whole series of books just to catch up.

Ladybird

#290
May 10, 2014, 08:13:33 PM
Quote from: Snowman0147;748404Until those players expect you to follow the meta plot.  Some people wanted me to run werewolf which I told them I only have v20 version.  They informed that wasn't enough and I have to read a whole series of books just to catch up.

...so I hoped you told them to go do one and run it themselves if they wanted that campaign, right? Because that sounds like a player issue, rather than a game issue.
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BarefootGaijin

#291
May 10, 2014, 10:14:04 PM
Quote from: Snowman0147;748404Until those players expect you to follow the meta plot.  Some people wanted me to run werewolf which I told them I only have v20 version.  They informed that wasn't enough and I have to read a whole series of books just to catch up.

Tell me about it....

Some people wanted me to run Forgotten Realms which I told them I only have the Grey Box version.  They informed that wasn't enough and I have to read a whole series of books, novels, and edition changes just to catch up.

/humour
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Snowman0147

#292
May 10, 2014, 11:41:26 PM
Yeah I wish these game companies will just wise up and say those novels and extra things are just legends.  They could be canon if you want them to be, but they could also be made up stories which makes them non-canon.  That way the guy with the core stuff isn't screwed.

J Arcane

#293
May 11, 2014, 02:41:34 AM
Quote from: Snowman0147;748404Until those players expect you to follow the meta plot.  Some people wanted me to run werewolf which I told them I only have v20 version.  They informed that wasn't enough and I have to read a whole series of books just to catch up.

I believe the correct response to that request is "Go fuck yourself with a rusty spork."

As Ladybird said: that's a player issue, to be handled through social means.
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#294
May 11, 2014, 09:38:00 AM Last Edit: May 11, 2014, 09:40:21 AM by The Butcher
Quote from: J Arcane;748468I believe the correct response to that request is "Go fuck yourself with a rusty spork."

Come on now J, that's rude and uncalled for. I favor a more thoughtful approach with a dash of humor but also a firm and unmistakable rejection, e.g. "Ha ha, no, fuck you." ;)

Every time I hear one of these stories I thank my lucky stars for my players and also lament for the sorry state of gamerdom, in thrall to IP-building, novel-cranking corporate interests, to the point of placing adherence to canon above game-table-usefulness.

Nexus

#295
May 11, 2014, 10:22:32 AM
Novels and other tie ins appeal to the near OCD level completist, collection and consistency urges in the Geek psyche. All those stupid alternate, holographic, scratch and sniff, whatever, comic books covers were/are considered so valuable though its the same damn issue between them.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Ladybird

#296
May 11, 2014, 12:36:53 PM
Quote from: Nexus;748511Novels and other tie ins appeal to the near OCD level completist, collection and consistency urges in the Geek psyche.

Or people who just want to get some more of their favorite setting.
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Nexus

#297
May 11, 2014, 12:46:28 PM Last Edit: May 11, 2014, 12:51:28 PM by Nexus
Quote from: Ladybird;748543Or people who just want to get some more of their favorite setting.

I don't think it can be denied that we geeks are often completists and pretty compulsive about getting "everything" associated with our particular passion. Hell, I've wasted enough money on pointless things for the feeling of collection It's not a pejorative, but an observation anymore than saying super fans like to collect memorabilia associated with their team. If I was being insulting, I'm insulting myself as well.

Besides, those that just want to read the books for more of their favorite settings probably aren't the canon nazis that insist that they all be included at the table, which is what I thought we were talking about.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Ladybird

#298
May 11, 2014, 01:52:39 PM
Quote from: Nexus;748545If I was being insulting, I'm insulting myself as well.

Besides, those that just want to read the books for more of their favorite settings probably aren't the canon nazis that insist that they all be included at the table, which is what I thought we were talking about.

It's cool. I've read comic books before and then rushed out and bought the entire series in one go, so I can hardly claim to be any better.

I just feel that canon-nazism has nothing to do with the setting material itself; it's a symptom of the person being both obsessive and a twat. Playing in the up-to-date version of a setting is fine, playing something vaguely near and not sweating the details is fine, it's insisting on only playing in that version and NOTHING ELSE IS ACCEPTABLE that's being a twat.

(Of course, authors should try and keep in agreement with the other established details of a setting. But they're being paid to do that, which is a bit different...)
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Nexus

#299
May 18, 2014, 12:02:22 PM
I do wonder if the secrecy will backfire at some point. Playing everything close to their chest does prevent some unwarranted speculation (not all...) but the constant hype on top of that could create some very unrealistic expectations.

Not that the expectations for Exalted have ever been very realistic.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."
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