Quote from: Warboss Squee;632473I'd like to assume that this is a troll the mob style game, but I really really doubt it.

I don't think so either.  The other day, I met a few new people at my FLGS about finding a new group, and one of them asked, "Have you ever played MAID?"  And honest to god, he actually had this creepy perv smile when he said it.

Ugh.  Seriously?

Quote from: Sacrosanct;632451The other day I was reading a review of Conan The Barbarian in an issue of Dragon magazine, and it was quite interesting.  The reviewer lambasted the movie as horrible and not worth your time.


I guess he didn't know it would go on to be a loved and iconic fantasy movie of all time.

That was a...weird review, yeah.

I mean beside Being a cult classic and probably my fave fantasy Movie, I'd say it had a rather strong stylistic influence on 80s fantasy...especially armor, weapons, look.

People tend to forget over the years. The movie was disliked by many upon release and generally rejected by hardcore Conan fans.

Myself, liked the music but wasn't impressed otherwise. A few of my friends however really liked it.

Quote from: GrimGent;632474"A parody roleplaying game conceived by accident by the /tg/ forum a while back that snowballed a bit. Original concept by an anonymous poster on 4chan. Early development by a cabal of anonymous posters. Development and finishing work (such as it is) by Burrowing Owl Publications staff."

I prefered it when you wouldn't shut up about Nobilis.

FWIW as of 1988 Gary Gygax was still expounding at passionate length about how much he hated the Conan movie (mostly, IIRC, because Schwarzenegger wasn't black-haired and blue-eyed the way Howard described Conan). I'd bet he maintained his dislike for that movie until the day he died.

Quote from: One Horse Town;632487I prefered it when you wouldn't shut up about Nobilis.

Wait a while. There'll no doubt be plenty of WoD talk this year.

Quote from: GrimGent;632472Well... Speaking of stats for female characters in obscure RPGs, this is what the PCs in the presently Kickstarted Busty Barbarian Bimbos have.

I can appreciate a comical parody game, even a politically incorrect one but this doesn't seem like the creators have a clue.

I mean if you're gonna make a game about the busty barbarian chick meme at least make it clever and worthy of a laugh.

T&T fingered my childhood

Quote from: Exploderwizard;632508I can appreciate a comical parody game, even a politically incorrect one but this doesn't seem like the creators have a clue.

I mean if you're gonna make a game about the busty barbarian chick meme at least make it clever and worthy of a laugh.

The game literally started out with someone on 4chan wanting to play an "awesome bimbo" with stats that spell out SLUT, which should explain quite a bit. The rest grew from there, until a fellow by the name of John Fitzgerald eventually developed a full homebrew PDF out of the brainstorming, "meant to be a fun PG-13 adventure game" with "a lot of innuendo and fifth-grade humor" for "snickering adolescents".

Granted, my main problem with the older version is that especially some of the NPC types from the bestiary just aren't funny. But then that's the section which this officially published book is supposed to revise most heavily, so who knows?

(The "math is hard" joke also repeats a little too often in the PDF, although that is a decent gimmick for a game system.)

Quote from: T. Foster;632493I'd bet he maintained his dislike for that movie until the day he died.

In re-reading Gary's articles in Dragon, he often comes off like a nutball. If he posted his rants on this forum (let alone ENworld or RPG.net), he'd be thrashed for being a whiny little bitch.

Quote from: TristramEvans;632511T&T fingered my childhood

I guess that sends "Take That You Fiend" to a whole 'nother level.

Quote from: Spinachcat;632542In re-reading Gary's articles in Dragon, he often comes off like a nutball. If he posted his rants on this forum (let alone ENworld or RPG.net), he'd be thrashed for being a whiny little bitch.

If you ever heard him rant about politics or religion on his email list he came off like a nutball too. Pretty safe to say, in fact, that he was a nutball. Still wrote (and co-wrote) a few pretty good games, though

Quote from: T. Foster;632636Pretty safe to say, in fact, that he was a nutball. Still wrote (and co-wrote) a few pretty good games, though

I agree. But in his last few years he showed a lot of character in his forum postings, where he was unfailing kind and gentlemanly, refusing to say a bad word about anyone, and keeping his political and religious ideas separate from his gaming. He really redeemed himself in my view.

Quote from: Killfuck Soulshitter;632703He really redeemed himself in my view.

Maybe there's hope for the rest of us bastards!!!

eh, he was still saying nasty things about Arduin.

Quote from: Spinachcat;632710Maybe there's hope for the rest of us bastards!!!

Try harder.