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Onyx Path not paying freelancers (so -that's- what the Exalted Dev turn over was for)

Started by san dee jota, June 08, 2017, 02:02:50 PM

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tenbones

#90
June 16, 2017, 03:50:28 PM
Quote from: Doc Sammy;969107Meh, TBP is largely run by Goths and Communists, such as Black Hat Matt and Darren MacLerran (who goes by a different username now).

When it comes to WoD, I say fuck the themes, fuck the canon, and above all else, FUCK THE GOTH SUBCULTURE!

Personal Horror sucks ass. Bring on the trenchcoats and katanas!

Anime Rules, Marvel and DC suck.

Goths and Punks fuck off!


Spoken like a true tribalist. Rock on with your furry, tentacle-clad self.

 I see a potential RPG here... Comic Clan vs. Goth Clan vs. Anime Waifu Clan all in a high-school. Toss in some pirates and ninja - maybe some devil-worshipping cultists. Maybe it's just my allegy meds talking...

Darrin Kelley

#91
June 16, 2017, 04:00:06 PM
Quote from: Doc Sammy;969107Personal Horror sucks ass.

I find the whole 'personal horror' thing to be intellectually dishonest to begin with.

The 'horror of turning into a monster' does not compare to the horror experienced by the victims of said monsters.

It's just more moral relativist garbage. In my opinion. Trying to elicit sympathy for the perpetrators of the horror. Instead of addressing the horror itself.
 

Nexus

#92
June 16, 2017, 04:36:06 PM
Quote from: tenbones;969112Spoken like a true tribalist. Rock on with your furry, tentacle-clad self.

 I see a potential RPG here... Comic Clan vs. Goth Clan vs. Anime Waifu Clan all in a high-school. Toss in some pirates and ninja - maybe some devil-worshipping cultists. Maybe it's just my allegy meds talking...


Maybe a Collectible Card Game. CON-frontation, maybe?
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."

kosmos1214

#93
June 16, 2017, 04:44:45 PM
Quote from: tenbones;969112Spoken like a true tribalist. Rock on with your furry, tentacle-clad self.

 I see a potential RPG here... Comic Clan vs. Goth Clan vs. Anime Waifu Clan all in a high-school. Toss in some pirates and ninja - maybe some devil-worshipping cultists. Maybe it's just my allegy meds talking...

No I'm with you on this I can see this as A pretty cool game along the goofy campy line.

jan paparazzi

#94
June 16, 2017, 04:56:53 PM
Quote from: Darrin Kelley;969098My general opinion of TBP is pretty low at this point. But it doesn't surprise me that they keep shutting down conversations that they don't like. They have done it to me in the past.

I will say this flat out. I believe TBP is anti-consumer. They do not want consumers having a voice there. The speech has to be flowery and positive. Or it doesn't get to exist at all.

My last ban there was due to standing up to a troll. And telling that troll in no uncertain terms. That they don't have the right to dictate what sort of opinions I am to have. That they aren't my thought police. And that I wouldn't just sit back and take that sort of treatment.

As for the cWoD. Well to be honest. A lot of it I consider it to be complete pile of hot garbage. The developers seem to believe that the stories of their characters are the most important thing. Instead of giving the tools to a storyteller up front to actually take and make the game their own.

The tools to do that have always been set aside in a drawn out manner through tons of sourcebooks. Where you would get tons of prose. And very sparse helpful information for actually running new aspects of the games they introduced.

So no. I don't believe they made competent rulebooks at all in the first place.

That's my opinion. Take it as you will.

Amen! This mentality was/is pretty much the same on the WW fora. The thought police is watching you. Dogpiling, closing topics and forum bans if you don't go with the flow.I also agree with you about the cWoD and to be frank nWoD is slightly more modular, but has the same problems. The setting isn't open enough and there are not enough tools to make it your own. I like it better if you either have a sandbox or rules to make your own sandbox. Well, maybe it's better not to open a can of wurms with that subject. I still think the games have a lot of potential and I don't want to be too hung up with the negative side of rpg's. It's supposed to be fun!
May I say that? Yes, I may say that!

Mordred Pendragon

#95
June 16, 2017, 05:16:18 PM
Quote from: tenbones;969112Spoken like a true tribalist. Rock on with your furry, tentacle-clad self.

 I see a potential RPG here... Comic Clan vs. Goth Clan vs. Anime Waifu Clan all in a high-school. Toss in some pirates and ninja - maybe some devil-worshipping cultists. Maybe it's just my allegy meds talking...

Either way, in a perfect world, the 1970's would have ended with Punk dying and Disco surviving.

To all you Goths and Punks at TBP and elsewhere, garlic and crosses may not repel you, but try disco, bitch!

DEATH BY STEREO!

[video=youtube;PwUQWamRNiY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUQWamRNiY[/youtube]
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Darrin Kelley

#96
June 16, 2017, 06:03:09 PM
Quote from: jan paparazzi;969130Amen! This mentality was/is pretty much the same on the WW fora. The thought police is watching you. Dogpiling, closing topics and forum bans if you don't go with the flow.I also agree with you about the cWoD and to be frank nWoD is slightly more modular, but has the same problems. The setting isn't open enough and there are not enough tools to make it your own. I like it better if you either have a sandbox or rules to make your own sandbox. Well, maybe it's better not to open a can of wurms with that subject. I still think the games have a lot of potential and I don't want to be too hung up with the negative side of rpg's. It's supposed to be fun!

I'm a big fan of CJ Carella's Witchcraft. I have all of the books for it. That is pretty much my 'go-to' for that subgenre of RPGs.

But I am also a fan of Urban Arcana. Which is a setting I think is vastly underrated.

I also have Nightbane. Which I loved from the outset.

For Urban Fantasy. That covers me. I'm good with those.

As for 'splatbooks'. I liked how they were done when they were introduced with AD&D 2nd Edition. None were essential to own. But they all brought a treasure trove of ideas on how to use things already present in the game in new ways. And they were not dominated by useless prose. They were actual sourcebooks.
 

Omega

#97
June 16, 2017, 10:57:06 PM
Quote from: Nexus;969124Maybe a Collectible Card Game. CON-frontation, maybe?

Ani-Mayhem? (1996)

Krimson

#98
June 16, 2017, 11:45:01 PM
Quote from: tenbones;969112Spoken like a true tribalist. Rock on with your furry, tentacle-clad self.

 I see a potential RPG here... Comic Clan vs. Goth Clan vs. Anime Waifu Clan all in a high-school. Toss in some pirates and ninja - maybe some devil-worshipping cultists. Maybe it's just my allegy meds talking...

The closest I ever came to that is a game I once ran called Maidenloft, which adapted MAID to Mutants and Masterminds 3e and was set in Castle Ravenloft with a Bishounen Strahd as the Master. I am not even joking. NPCs were made with 3D Custom Girl, and yet my map of Gothic Eastern Europe with inserted Dread Domains was made for this game. :D
"Anyways, I for one never felt like it had a worse \'yiff factor\' than any other system." -- RPGPundit

Warboss Squee

#99
June 16, 2017, 11:51:31 PM
Quote from: Krimson;969207The closest I ever came to that is a game I once ran called Maidenloft, which adapted MAID to Mutants and Masterminds 3e and was set in Castle Ravenloft with a Bishounen Strahd as the Master. I am not even joking. NPCs were made with 3D Custom Girl, and yet my map of Gothic Eastern Europe with inserted Dread Domains was made for this game. :D

I can see that working. If I squint.

Krimson

#100
June 17, 2017, 12:02:15 AM
Quote from: Warboss Squee;969208I can see that working. If I squint.

Most of the game was spent in a big kung fu battle, with Strahd's Maids playing castle defense fending off an angry crusade of Paladins, Clerics and Nuns with nunchucks.
"Anyways, I for one never felt like it had a worse \'yiff factor\' than any other system." -- RPGPundit

crkrueger

#101
June 17, 2017, 05:48:16 AM
Quote from: Doc Sammy;969135Either way, in a perfect world, the 1970's would have ended with Punk dying and Disco surviving.

To all you Goths and Punks at TBP and elsewhere, garlic and crosses may not repel you, but try disco, bitch!

DEATH BY STEREO!

[video=youtube;PwUQWamRNiY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUQWamRNiY[/youtube]

You'd probably get a lot closer to writing one of the 35 games you currently are designing if you spent less time venting against people who don't know you, aren't listening to you, and only have anything still to do with your life because you keep them there.
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

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

Nexus

#102
June 17, 2017, 07:51:06 AM
Quote from: Krimson;969207The closest I ever came to that is a game I once ran called Maidenloft, which adapted MAID to Mutants and Masterminds 3e and was set in Castle Ravenloft with a Bishounen Strahd as the Master. I am not even joking. NPCs were made with 3D Custom Girl, and yet my map of Gothic Eastern Europe with inserted Dread Domains was made for this game. :D

...

...

That... works.
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."

Mordred Pendragon

#103
June 17, 2017, 08:29:04 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;969239You'd probably get a lot closer to writing one of the 35 games you currently are designing if you spent less time venting against people who don't know you, aren't listening to you, and only have anything still to do with your life because you keep them there.


Fair point
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Omega

#104
June 18, 2017, 09:41:32 AM
Can we get back to the subject of gaming companies ripping off their designers or artists? Because for fucks sake this happens way too much and seems to be increasing. (I know it probably isnt. But the amount of reports is climbing.)

GOO, FFG, SJG, Atlas, Hasbro, FGU, WW, GW, and god knows how many little companies.
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