(For oblivious readers: Edward and Alphonse Elric, a couple of young kids and brothers, attempted some serious juju alchemy that was way beyond them. It backfired terribly. At the end of it, Edward was missing his right arm and the lower half of his left leg, and Alphonse's soul was bonded to a suit of armor. His body was entirely lost.)
(the jokes are now explained, COMMENCE LAUGHING HEARTILY)
A while back I read a blog that I think was by Clevinger, about how he didn't have Hellboy in mind when he made Robo, and he mentioned some of what DID inspire him.
Btw, from the LoE OSW : - 2 "Book Horse" - 1 "Purple Smart" - 1 "Best Pony" - 3+ "Princess Twilight" .... but we didn't have a Flutterlight or Twilyshy. I blame @Pixie and @trogdor for not joining. ;_;
Also, they don't reference characters or story element (the only direct reference is in the fact that there is a room that is an exact replica of the Twilight room from Winter Wrap Up, down to the hanging checklist on the wall)
Actually - the bad thing is that Hasbro doesn't realize that if they where to actually produce such game themselves they would earn tons of cash.
That, or a wii u Zelda like game with ponies amiibo.
Well, yep, I wasn't clear enough. I mean, hire the current developers and give them more devs, giving them right to the names and place and cash back with microtransactions and ads.
but that is something we won't ever see I fear. I would just love for them to find a way to keep the test servers always running instead of having open weekend events every 3-4 months
At least is not like Magic the Gathering card rules, who changes based on location, tournament, phase of the moon, card border color, what the referee had for breakfast, card conditions (mint/damaged) and so on.
> This system literally generates outcomes like, “Moderate success with something vaguely good, but also something vaguely better than vaguely good, but also something seriously bad in a vague way.”
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20 past midnight here but ok, good morning to you.
Hello @AshleyNunn, what brings you here?
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@Zachiel I've been lurking here on and off for a while now, because I like RPG stuff (been a while since I had my D&D group together, but I enjoyed it a lot) and I like the people here :)
@AshleyNunn Glad you like the place. Which D&D edition(s) did you play?
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@Zachiel I played 3.5. Been poking 5e with a stick (mostly reading through the books and stuff) because my boyfriend and some other people are debating maybe eventually getting people together to make fun stuff happen
@AshleyNunn I hear the best and the worst about 5e, but I'm not going to move away from 4e anytime soon, while I still play under 3.5e rules in some weird mass online chat games. Just so you know what I might be able to talk about.
Weird as in more theatre of the mind slice of life in a D&D setting than really D&D stuff happening.
Well it has its problems. No entry barrier for players (anyone including trolls can join and become part of the canon world), parties with varyng levels (like a leve 27 barbarian/fighter and a level 1 cleric fighting in the same battle), and then most people suspecting DMs make preferences. And yeah, last but not least the ruleset is tightly enforced so most of the freedom of D&D is lost (and it's more houseruled than RAW / read as written anyway). But it's fun, in the end, because of the stories you build together with other people. Let's say its fun despite the system not being designed f…
I know people who would say that D&D in general, even tabletop, is fun despite the system. Well let's say the authors aren't always fully aware of the consequences of their design choices, but it looks like they're (slowly) improving, while still being faithful to a RPG model that's dated.
While I still like D&D, Knowing about the variety of other RPGs out there helped me looking at everything with a critic look and a "what will this do to my game?" attitude. But at this point I'm ranting and I'd better stop.
@Ben I've heard several DMs claim they DMed lots of different games, but really they DMed very similar games with different resoltion mechanics. Being proficient in 4 different D&D esition, 6 or 7 World of Darkness derivatives, Shadowrun and other games which are all made similar by the same dynamics* is often what "40+ games" is.
*you ask the DM what you need to do to make something, he tells you you succeed, you fail or asks for a roll, then he proceeds to narrate failure/success of your act independently from the roll (e.g. you manage to open the chest, but the things you were looking for are not there)
My group's enjoyed a lot of games because of the system (and because of each other) - but we've also been choosing the right games for what we want to do.
@doppelgreener If we're looking to Twitter for plot developments in our game... Myka could get assigned to help the new IT guy learn the ropes at Amaterasu.
Im not sure the new IT guy knows what he is doing http://t.co/QzcQS40QrX
@doppelgreener I think there's no game system that makes me do what I really want to (because I want conflicting things) so I just fare better with systems whose flaws I'm more used to?
@Zachiel Sure, ok. I was mainly responding to the general notion of how people related to games.
@BESW This new guy has the potential to shut down all of Amaterasu's IT department.... because they're busy watching him getting frustrated with cables and going "awwwwww~"
@doppelgreener I agree with the group notion. My main group has been together for quite a while, and has many different games, in multiple systems. The games may not have been all that good, but we still had fun together :)
I have had other groups where it really was just a task to get along. Some people just wanted to play the game their own way, which really ruined it for the rest of us
@Ben I once had a player with the my guy syndrome who played a chaotic evil neutral halfling who robbed the party and whom the could not get rid of because he bribed the barbarian (with beer costing half of what he stole him)
@Zachiel Haha. We have a similar situation, our rogue is constantly trying to get extra money out of people. We might do it out of the goodness of our hearts -- "And 5 gold... each"
@Ben Then he tried spending two entire sessions to convince villagers of a random town near to an evil temple to sell him terrains. Once we defeat the temple, these terrains will sell for way more!
Once you defeat the temple, the campaign ends, that's what.
Ugh. "my guy" syndrome is a destructive and unfortunate condition
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@Ben This is why my original group got cut in half because we had that problem.
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So we went from 5 people+DM to 3+DM because 2 of the people were just using the game to work out some unresolved IRL romantic tension and to also like...be the OMG overblown heroes
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while the rest of us just wanted to tell a really cool story
We manage though. Organising our game on one night a week certainly helps. We play on Wednesdays, so everyone knows to keep that night free. It works :)
I'm also yet to figure out whether or not I can (or should) give him some minions, perhaps someone like soundwave for example
@trogdor yeeeaaahh.... We'll see. I'll show you when he's done, and see what you think. Optimus has taken a back seat. He's really not fitting the scope very well
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