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Hipster (or TBP) D&D

Started by dungeon crawler, August 06, 2015, 12:06:35 PM

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#90
August 16, 2015, 01:01:37 AM
Quote from: Bren;848580The pipe also fits with the hipster vibe. Face it, you are a hipster. ;)

True, but I was smoking pipes since before it was cool.
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#91
August 16, 2015, 01:19:12 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;849145True, but I was smoking pipes since before it was cool.

No one believes you're that old

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#92
August 16, 2015, 01:34:38 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;849154No one believes you're that old
Exactly.
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#93
August 16, 2015, 07:17:34 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;849145True, but I was smoking pipes since before it was cool.

I was saying "I did this before it was cool" before it was cool.
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#94
August 16, 2015, 07:40:34 PM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;849297I was saying "I did this before it was cool" before it was cool.

  You predate just about everything, including the concept of 'cool', Old One. :)

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#95
August 16, 2015, 08:18:21 PM
Quote from: TristramEvans;849154No one believes you're that old

I heard Rpgpundit had homeroom with Methuselah.
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#96
August 16, 2015, 08:48:43 PM
Quote from: Nexus;849310I heard Rpgpundit had homeroom with Methuselah.

I heard that RPGPundit was a consultant on the 10 Commandments, but disavowed the final draft.

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#97
August 17, 2015, 06:16:56 AM
But I thought Pundit doesn't like Vampire the Masquearade? Is it too close to home? Rötschreck enducing bad memories of dance and chamber music class?
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#98
August 17, 2015, 07:54:26 AM
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;848820What an intriguing idea. :D I know this can only be anecdotal, but I'd like to ask anyone else reading this thread if this matches their general experience; do twists outnumber straight deliveries?

Anyone who doesn't spend time generating a world and just plays D&D out of the box is playing generic European faux medieval/ren fair D&D
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#99
August 19, 2015, 02:13:36 PM
Quote from: jibbajibba;849398Anyone who doesn't spend time generating a world and just plays D&D out of the box is playing generic European faux medieval/ren fair D&D

I would argue they aren't, simply because there are too many setting assumptions, not to mention that most people want avoid the 'cliches' because they assume everyone ELSE uses them.
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#100
August 19, 2015, 07:07:05 PM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;849920I would argue they aren't, simply because there are too many setting assumptions, not to mention that most people want avoid the 'cliches' because they assume everyone ELSE uses them.

I agree that they aren't as well. Playing D&D out of the box with no world-building gives you a straight dungeon crawl gold rush campaign that I can't really line up with anything medieval, of either the historical or ren fair variety. D&D is just its own weird thing. It takes effort to make it medieval.

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#101
August 19, 2015, 10:19:05 PM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;849920I would argue they aren't, simply because there are too many setting assumptions, not to mention that most people want avoid the 'cliches' because they assume everyone ELSE uses them.

Quote from: BaulderstoneIt takes effort to make it medieval.

Almost makes you feel a perverse desire to run it straight so that someone is doing it, damn it! :p

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#102
August 20, 2015, 02:20:29 AM
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;850026Almost makes you feel a perverse desire to run it straight so that someone is doing it, damn it! :p

As I pointed out in another thread, there was a Playstation 3 game, called Dragon's Dogma felt so much more D&D than anything I had ever run or played.

It had a castle town (as the main hub) it's 'dungeons' that I can remember involved an old mine, at least three full on keeps, some of which were ruins, you fought Goblins, Harpies, wolves, bandits and then monsters like Griffons, Ogre like creatures and Cyclops.  The main bad guy was a full on, oh my Gods, it's a FREAKING 747 sized DRAGON.  It had some politics, an unfortunately muddled story, but you can fill in your own blanks (kinda like D&D, ne?)  The threat felt big and world shaking, but at the end of the day, it only affected ONE tiny Dukedom in potentially the entire world.

It FELT medieval, without it being obviously based on any European analog, past some fantasy England or France.  And the DLC had a multi-layer dungeon which was very D&D too.

...I miss my PS3...

And that's a high fantasy setting I want to run.
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#103
August 24, 2015, 10:33:13 AM
Quote from: TristramEvans;849154No one believes you're that old

Before it once again fell into fashion, then.
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#104
August 24, 2015, 07:31:17 PM
Quote from: Haffrung;847108Then I went to the Chicago. The trendy, hipster part of Chicago. And I was surrounded by thousands of them. And far, far more hipster than the people in the video. These were pure strain hipsters in their core habitat. You couldn't swing a stick without knocking four bearded, neck-tatooed, and spectacled dudes off their fixed-gear bikes and into organic pizzerias that had 15 brands of pale ale on tap. The stereotypes were surpassed beyond all belief.

Sounds like North London. I play an occasional game in Camden, hipster central. It's scary up there. :eek:
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