Did he officially die or something??!?
Or are we just presuming he’s dead? I scanned 2 months of comments and I’m not sure, but I organized a determined mission to find bloodymage: not only did I look in nearly 3-4 church parking lots on Google Street View searching for signs of habitation, I also Googled his name and went through almost the entire first page of results above the fold. No fucking luck.
So he’s probably dead? There’s no need to review bm’s legacy here and we’re in the trust tree so I think we can speak honestly about him: bloodymage was an utter fumbledick, a category 4 moron who made the planet functionally stupider. And yet…
God damn was this man lovable when viewed from afar! “There but by the grace of God go I” is powerful entertainment, and I know that if my Mom had sniffed more paint while I was in the womb, that could be me thanking sexydubaiwhores6969@spambot.by for his kind words about my blog. Or lamenting the lack of checkered tablecloth availability in Prescott, AZ. Or traveling 2000 miles and accidentally showing up 2 weeks early to a con. Or… you get the picture.
So, I’m not here to bury bm. I’m here to praise him. bm is the petty god of retarded aging neckbeards (please stat him up in comments for D&D, WFRP, Rune Quest, and Twilight: 2000), and could there ever be a divinity more appropriate or necessary to this hobby? I urge everyone, in memory of bloodymage: find room for a “Golanda” in your campaigns. It doesn’t have to stink, it could be just Golanda the Bar Wench, or the Free City of Golanda tucked into that corner of the map your players will probably never go, or Golanda the evil wizardress who died a thousand years ago, or whatever. Take that little bit of Golanda that lives in all our hearts and make it an official part of your campaigns, and celebrate the fucking idiots we love and laugh at that make this hobby special, in the Life Goes On sense. And if your Golanda is stinky, well that’s just gravy…
New Year’s Resolutions:
I want to do a F.A.T.A.L. play by post, probably taking the party through Dark Albion in search of big titties or a rape tournament or something…
More crying about men’s rights, I feel like everyone forgets Grim Jim even exists.
Publish my CARCOSA reskin, where Sorcerers are the Federal Government, Black Men are slaves and they like it that way, and maybe dial back the raping little kids 25-50%.
FIND GREG CHRISTOPHER! (I promised myself not to post here until he went live again on G+, but it’s just been too long…)
Hang out with Scott when he’s on one of his meth benders.
Also, I think we all need to be reminded that this exists:
[click to make dem titties even sloppier]
Your Dungeon Is Suck. 
Who is Greg Christopher?
Chubby Funster. Wrote a satisfactory D&D retroclone, a mechanically decent Ars Magica retroclone but ruined it with his clumsy gender politics (review thing here, I’m not going through it all again – http://houseofpaincakes.com/games-anatomy-politically-correct-rpg_24/ ). White knight extraordinaire and once-notable tilter at Zak’s windmill.
Well said. Though he made the world worse, he made me a better man. When I first discovered the joys of Blooey, at first I was bewildered. Then hateful and mean. But soon my sarcastic musings about “Oh Captain My Captain” actually turned into a warm-hearted hope in mankind. Like a Ziggy cartoon. I fucking hated Ziggy and wanted to do more than punch his face. I wanted to put him through what the writer guy went through in his living room in A Clockwork Orange. OK, I still want to laugh in Ziggy’s face while my friends take turns with his wife on the hardwood floor and delivering the occasional eager tolchok to the yarblocko’s. But you get my point.
Here’s a toast with my Sam Adams Ale (that I bought along with my burger, neither of which will I end up paying for). Dead or alive, at least we made it so he has a legacy that will last.
Death to All PC’s!!!
But where will I buy product now?
R.I.P. Bloodymage
Oh, there’s product aplenty, my friend… glorious product.
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_reviews_info.php?&reviews_id=128182&products_id=147624
This is typical Bloo:
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/112786/Polyhedron-Games-RPG-Primer?manufacturers_id=4130
(Btw, I’m having trouble with the cover image. Parameters call for < 900 pixels wide and < 200kb. My image is 471×607 and 129kb. If you want to see the cover, you can go to http://www.polyhedrongames.com)
Just a link to the one review of a Blooey product I know of. Wonder if his “death” has moved any extra product? Wonder if that was the point?
We’ll remember you foreeeever, Blooey
Through the sacrifice you made
We can’t believe the price we paid…
…for product…
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=30471
Blooey’s storefront is still up:
http://www.rpgnow.com/browse.php?manufacturers_id=4130
“More crying about men’s rights, I feel like everyone forgets Grim Jim even exists.”
Don’t worry, I’m sure he has a crass ‘commentary’ game ready for the Colonial Election.
Those of you that see a certain sadness from afar never lived near, or games at, one of his temporary homes. If possible he was even more pathetic in person. OCD, self-loathing and always armed with a 9mm automatic. No I will not miss him, except maybe posts here. Where his legacy lives on.
Juicy details! What brand of firearm?
It looked like a M9 but I think he said it was a Ruger. He always carried it except when he left it near his front door. I must admit I was unnerved the first time he pulled it out of his waistband. He was my.charity case/penance for about 4 months. Even the Mormons gave up.on him. I am too embarrassed to tell you some of the other absolute low points of humanity I witnessed the half-dozen times I showed up for a game.
Well, i guess that’s one way to take care of that persistent Yahoo toolbar permanently!
The very idea of Blooey packing heat is simultaneously terrifying and side-splittingly funny. It sure sounds like he had a very poor degree of firearms discipline- putting the pistol in his waistband, and keeping it by the front door? That’s just asking for an accidental discharge.
The real beauty here is that ‘Breaking Bloo’ sounds more like reality than any of us could have guessed.
Bloo Steel ! Tell us more !
Wonder no more…
http://www.memorialchapelsandcrematory.com/obituaries/George-Willett/#!/Obituary
I bet not a single one of these guys ever sent him a tablecloth: http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=72874
If we could all take a moment to recognize the most overwrought, silly, pseudo-fantasical-themed farewells, I think that would be nice. My favorite is: “Fare well. May your aerie receive you at your journey’s end.” — MrNexx
has serleran shown up to threadcrap yet?
That’s the dude who super hated bm? Looks like all is forgiven, although perhaps a tiny swipe at the dine ‘n’ dash story: “May you enjoy your final convention; I hear they have unlimited snacks and games… plus, the players! Oh, the players!”
“…he seemed to be an intelligent man…” – Le Noir Faineant
I mean, not that the bar is set very high at dragonsfart, but come on!
“I’m sure he’s throwing dice with Gary now…” – is my fave. Just picturing Gary eye-rolling at the table, putting away the intended Keep on the Borderlands, and whipping out Tomb of Horrors instead. “Death to Bloodymage’s one legged, one armed PC!”
I was hoping Ancalagon (or whatever, the Rob Zombie avatar guy) to shout out his classic line”May your zombies remain intact! Er, I mean, may YOU remain intact!” Speaking of which, he came in with that line when the Janell Jaquays thread got started. I mean, you immediately think of JJ’s zombie penis remaining intact, right?
I like playing D&D; probably own more role-playing stuff than I should. But if anyone ever says “I’m sure he’s throwing dice with Gary right now…” please bring me back to life and shoot me.
* Rather, if I die and that’s somehow my only legacy, burn everything I’ve ever touched.
Shit, Blooey gets “full military honors” which I assume means a flag folded up and at least a one gun salute. Most of us will be lucky to even get our names on a stone after they find our 69 year old, venereal disease-ravaged and booze-bloated corpses in an outhouse behind a sleazy titty bar in some small southern Mexican beach town.
Whoa, reread that. Sounds like the dark n’ gritty sequel to Margaritaville. Aw well, at least it sounds like we had some fun before that life-ending bowl visit.
Don’t blow our yer flip flops, bitches!
You make that sound like a bad thing.
Speaking of retards of gaming, this one is back with a game day after a long hiatus. Somehow found some poor saps again to sit around the table while he indulges his true hobby; arranging gaming materials on a tabletop so he can take pictures of them. I wonder if a magazine of just gaming tables pics would sell? Uh oh, don’t give this dipshit any ideas. He might invest in a book on gaming tables that, Cosmo Kramer coffee table book style, has legs that fold out so you can use it as a gaming table.
http://unknownzine.blogspot.com/2016/01/game-on.html
Oh, and his new secondary blog is interesting. And by interesting I mean it’s more potent than a sleeping pill. It’s focus is on a team with a stadium where people get beat half to death in front of their families by Mexicans.
http://dodgerbluescorecard.blogspot.com/
I had some dealings with BM ftf and traded emails…he was a force to be reckoned with as he stumbled through conventions nearly blind, oblivious and dragging his “service dog” behind him like a reluctant lucky charm. I spent about a year dodging him after he moved a couple of cities over from me, and almost ate the active end of a .38 special when I thought he was switching nursing homes to one a block away from my house (turned out to be one with the same name in Missouri, whew). Now I just with I had, for one afternoon, spent the time to watch him in person attempt to load a CD rom into his computer, sign on to dial up or hook up a monitor. Those precious moments, gone forever. My loss.
No, this poor sap bloodymage you speak of is not at my heavenly gaming table now or ever shall be I’m afraid. He looks like the type of aged gamer that smells of stale piss and feces, and that spot in my afterlife campaign is reserved for Ed Greenwood one day.
WHAT THE FUCK IS IN BLOOEY’S NECK?!!!!!!?????
I still can’t get over Blooey packing heat all the time… Blooster Cogburn, the antihero of ‘Bloo Grit’… I especially like the idea that this half-blind basket case figured he’d win in a shootout.
Oh, Mabloo, you’ve done it again.
I think Blooey faked his own death in hopes of selling some product at record-breaking levels after he saw what death did for Bowie’s album sales did last month.
I think he should have set the bar lower, like Abe Vigoda’s post-mortem Barney Miller and Fish DVD sales or something.
NEW CONTENT APPROACHING
Bloodymage
N Quasi-deity (deceased, no longer granting spells :()
Portfolio: Church parking lots, Devilled Eggs, Keeping lights on, Golanda (the stink in), Trains, Cups, Dogs, Dining and Dashing
Spheres: Astral, Dogs, Trade(reversed), Travel, Light(keep it on), Russian-Spam Bots, Universal, Golanda, Healing (reversed), War.
SOMEONE THAT IS NOT ME BITE THE BULLET FOR A BM REVIEW
http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?contributorId=1332057
Still coming up with an appropriate way to incorporate Golanda in my Carcosa game, I am taking suggestions.
This sordid exhibition says more about those posting than about their subject. From top grendel ydis, through very stupid psychopaths (everyone else), to bottom girlish naifs scott and princeofnothing this is the acting out of boys who were bullied in school, and yet they loved their tormentors, boys who were too ugly and misshapen to perform effectively as bullies but admired the crass pugilence which defined the stage presence of pin-up ruffians and so they queued up to lick bully-boots.
Everyone here was denied the opportunity to inflict pain in their school days (because they were on the receiving end – which is sad) but joy and trumpets, boy and crumpets, does the internet-mithril-shield give second rate bullies, the worst bullies in the world, a chance to mock the dead.
I wish you were dead instead of Blooey 😦
There’s not a single one among us who wouldn’t kill Kent to bring back Blooey, but that won’t work- the jerk refereeing this campaign has totally nerfed resurrection magic. Shit, he’s only allowed it twice, once for his girlfriend’s brother’s PC and then the big one, when he brought back his total Gary Stu DMPC.
I hate to be that guy, but…I agree with Kent.
Hey, this is the thread dedicated to saying goodbye to Bloodymage. Don’t worry, it’ll blow over soon enough and this site can go back to you waiting with baited breath for Kent to declare what dusty old VHS with a movie from the 70’s on it he’ll be popping into the deck and falling asleep in front of on a weekend night. On weekend nights he’s not contemplating suicide, that is.
Thanks a lot, Sykirobme.
On my Aione map, I’m renaming “Abode of Pri” to “Abode of Golanda.” I know you will support this.
Thank you but will you please BUY SOMETHING so I can keep the lights on?
Don’t cry for me Irish faggot
The truth is I did excel you
In all my suckdungeons
I did things my ways
Your stupid hackwork
Just ripped off Jaquays.
Is that last paragraph an actual Morrissey song?
The bloodymage thing has always been fucked up.
Scott, what exactly do you get out of coming here? You seem like a nice guy. Some of us are playing at a (twisted) role and use this as an emotional dumping ground (or a year’s long cry for help, like Kunt) by beating on deserving ‘tards (not Blooey, talking about guys like Zakarino) because other forums won’t allow it.
But what do you get out of all this? Are you not really anywhere near the decent guy you often come off as? Would you not rather be having convos with the likes of T. Foster and Sauna in a place where there at least isn’t piss on the toilet seat (probably because they all sit down to piss).
I’ve divined a way to extract calories from schadenfreude.
Idk, I just find it funny and it provides links to fascinating trainwrecks
Also, T. Foster seems OK, the Knights and Knaves Alehouse turned into this really weird thing even by forum standards, and I don’t know who Sauna is
It’s always a hoot to see misogynist, racist, anti-semite, and serial threadcrapper Kent K. Kuntshunner attempt to take the moral high ground. Bullies? Go fuck yourself, Kenthole, it’s not like you ever showed the guy any kindness.
Amidst the derision, there’s a sense of loss for Blooey that you’ll never understand, you sociopath. Blooey was a true American icon- Americans love their grifters, and Bloo was one of them, albeit a failed one… ‘Maverick’ played by Don Knotts instead of James Garner. That being said, Bloo is still a source of wonder that we are still learning about- who the hell knew his real name was George, and what about the pistol? In contrast, there’s no mystery about Kent, he tried to make his impression and he failed, and now he writes about his pointless parody of an existence, hermetically sealed in his crappy flat, his only contact with the outer world a steady stream of programs broadcast on his shitty secondhand TV.
What the fuck would that simp Kent know? Kent can sit in his fetid bedsit and watch ‘Deadood’ all day long but he’ll never get a feel for the wide open spaces of the U.S. that formed Bloo’s environment. Kent’ll never drive all night and see the silhouette of the Devil’s Tower emerge from the pre-dawn darkness, never drink cheap pilsner with UT law school cutie-pies while two dozen javelinas rush through the campsite, never walk across a salt flat 282 feet below sea level while a punishing sun beats down. Kent’ll never understand the true glory that was Bloo. Bloo’s legend is secure, he’s been lauded on several gaming boards, while Kent merely lingers here because our host is gracious enough to tolerate his presence. He’s pretty much forgotten by everyone else, even the moderators only have a dim memory of an annoying presence.
Notice how all of the new retroclones seem to have mountebank characters these days? That’s Bloo, the purveyor of dubious products, ready to dash out of town before an angry crowd when his peccadillos catch up with him. People want to play Bloo, nobody’s ever created a ‘failed mathematics lecturer on the dole’ character class.
Contrast the lives of these two individuals….
Bloo: The rumble of the 18 wheeler traveling down county road 15 to the Walmart distribution center woke me from a fitful slumber in the parking lot of the First Methodist Church of East Kackalackee. I instinctively felt for the handle of my trusty Ruger, safe in the waistband of my Wranglers… its weight pressed down on my empty belly. I’ll have to check with general delivery at the post office to see if anyone sent me funds. Cash or dash, I’ll have a sit-down breakfast this morning.
Kent: I watched a movie starring Walter Matthau today.
Kent’s not weeping for Blooey, he’s weeping for himself. Even now, three months after he shuffled off this mortal coil, Bloo is more alive than Kent could ever hope to be. Bloo was a man of action, a man in motion, a creator, while Kent lives a pallid, passive existence and puts out crappy knockoffs of better people’s work.
But… but… I.. watched… a… movie… starring… Walter… Matthau…
Get stuffed, Paul, you’ll never be the man that George was.
That…that was beautiful. Sniff.
One thing, though… I ain’t subjecting myself to TSA ever again!
I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that Bloo’s life is very reminiscent of what a Stan Ridgway/ Lord Weird Slough Feg collaboration would sound like.
This Wall of Voodoo is for you, Bloo:
Tormenting a guy as weak as bloodymage so relentlessly that you can’t stop even after the poor bastard is dead is pathetic. Fuck you all.
To the asshole that runs this online ulcer, do the decent thing and shut this piece of shit down. It hasn’t been funny in fucking years
Sorry, I can be blunt. Always have been. When I can work at the same time I game, the game is slow. SiPfan is new and it was his first time DMing here. You’re right, I should make allowance.
And I’m a grumpy old man. :frown:
I’ve got very little bone in this outburst of moral indignation one way or the other, I was never particularly intersted in Blooey, but how does ranting about some guy far away on a website he is not aware (and probably won’t be now unless there is a 9th level cleric within 2 days traveltime) constitute torment?
I’m always baffled by the delusional entitlement of snowflake posts like these. You have, by your own admission, been following this place for years. Through what contorted ant-logic do you imagine this little plea of ‘how dare you’ from a nameless whimpering whisper will generate anything but mild indifference? Is there genuinely a part of your mind that expects the purveyor of this online cesspool to respond like “hmn, now that you mention it, I HAVE not been funny in years. Oh well. Goodbye Cruel World!’
You need to stop giving a shit about what a bunch of people you don’t like or know think about a dead guy, go outside and live life man.
Yeah man, what my pal PoN says. There is probably more torment for Bloo where he is now, or no torment at all, and either way he does not care about that white electronic fog in which we’re whispering our cruel meaningless jokes. The few of us who actually still play elfgames will probably have Bloo-ish NPCs for years to come – I doubt the rest of the world will remember the guy more fondly than we do.
My clothes need attention and then it’s shower and bed (I get clean for all of 5 minutes).
Fun, but inaccurate. Bloodymage’s Syndrome. Cause: mobile phone radiation Symptoms: mild chi imbalance, fear of drowning, vague blisters Cure: take three Prozac tablets and come back in the morning bloodymage’s actual disorders: sleep apnea extremely oily skin urinary hesitancy IBS OCD bad hearing a…
Wow, the pious pearl clutchers are coming out of the woodwork. Your Disneyfied version of poor, helpless Bloo is a hell of a lot more condescending than our reminiscence of the true Bloo, with his dubious business ethics, howlingly bad ‘product’, and his utterly amoral treatment of other gamers (ranging from his serial ‘woe is me’ begging to his dining-and-dashing). Get over your gamers’s Stockholm syndrome, and join in the celebration of the real Blooey, that not-so-magnificent magnificent bastard.
Better yet, why don’t you throw a big memorial for Bloo at this year’s Garycon? You could get Rev. John Adams to deliver a eulogy (bloology?) for a 5 digit honorarium, and have JMal collect some money to put up a statue of Blooey in track shoes outside a Perkins in New Glarus. After the memorial luncheon (last grog at the table foots the bill!), you and Social Justice Kent can glumly teabag each other while Old Geezer tongues your peeholes.
I’ll take my Shifty Bloo, trickster god of the dine-and-dash, over your sanitized St Bloo, Defender of Golanda, any day. Now, buy some motherfucking product, you hothouse flower!
Remember the Rottweiler of Dragonsfoot?
😦
You’d cheer right up if you just BOUGHT SOME PRODUCT!!!
Now why didn’t I think of that? 🙄 Must be getting old! 😥
So they spoke his name too many times and he appeared with a likely Sockpuppet in tow.
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=73092
I don’t always read Alexis, but when I do I take 1d8 damage from the blood that pours from my eyes.
Did someone say his name three times in a row while staring at the mirror while visiting the local gloryhole?
Its friday morning and im hungover so this seems like a good time to do an Alexis bedcheck.
“I always presume that criticism of me is either prejudice, inflexibility or a lack of clarity. Lack of clarity suggests more clarity. Inflexibility suggests a need for education. And prejudice . . . well, prejudice deserves abuse.”
His How to tackle a dungeon part 1 post is smart though. Tao is 75% white noise but there are interesting nuggets buried under the preening narcissism.
I liked “how to tackle a dungeon” too. I especially enjoyed the fact that it casually mentioned the Paris-Dakar without insisting on the fact that this particular hobby (recklessly speeding on Third World dirt roads), unlike RPGs, allows its participants to actually kill innocent bystanders without any serious consequence. The post itself was a nice guide about being a complete dick to your clueless DM. But I just can’t help thinking that if Alexis could stick to gang-raping the guy’s sister, defecating on his manuals, drinking all the Dr Pepper and THEN playing White Plume the way it’s intended, everybody would have more fun.
Didn’t that happen to John Wick once and that’s why he hates White Plume Mountain? As far as Alexis goes, “gang raping” and pirate romance will always be united in my mind, which I guess makes this comment on topic for Valentine’s Day.
I just read ‘How to Tackle a Dungeon’ and I’m unimpressed… it presupposes the whole ‘monsters waiting in their rooms to be slaughtered bit by bit’ model. Does a ‘simulationist’ really think that the intelligent inhabitants of a monster zoo in a howling wilderness wouldn’t patrol their precincts, or that they’d be oblivious to the sounds of some serious logging, or the sight and smell of watchfires?
Lexi seems like he’s oblivious to how the world outside his epistemic bubble works. He cites mountaineering base camps and supply caches for road rallies, but neither of these examples factors in hostile, alien forces which would raid them. If there were an anthropophagous yeti population in the precincts of Everest or K2, then the establishment of a base camp would be an entirely different matter. Ho hum, just another monster zoo, in which the inhabitants calmly wait to be slaughtered in their turn. The bit about him walking out on the ref just makes it seem even more childish and petulant.
I’d even wager that he’s a pretty lackluster fry cook.
The idea of constructing a base camp or fortification before beginning one’s raid is pretty solid though, and would be all the more neccesary given your Antropophagous yeti population. There is something to be said for the stealthy approach of course, and I’m guessing a decent GM would have his next dungeon immune or prepared for this tactic within a single iteration.
“We want a crew of hirelings and soldiers, explaining that they’ll be paid well, we don’t expect them to have to fight at all and that they’re there to establish a solid fortification in the wild in case we’re attacked by a raiding party of orcs or other creatures that want our supplies. It’s cutting trees and clearing land, building palisades and brush fortifications, collecting water, fixing strong-points and being on guard in dangerous country. If someone comes, we’ll be ready for them.”
Raiding parties implies some sort of response, but i agree with you that if this is an inhabited structure it would also use scouts or perhaps local orc tribes bribed or threatened into co-operation to warn them of any such endeavour.
His position on handling player-GM conflict is entitled rubbish but the gist of his plan is kind of cool, and, more importantly, it burns player GP, thus neccesitating the acquisition of more filthy lucre.
From Tao : “I know the White Plume Mountain post ruffled feathers: there were no comments. ”
Indeed.
I truly wish that some you would patronize my products. Some of them are quite good and I worked my a** off to bring them to you.
We live in a world where bloodymage gets the divine finger but Sexy Lexy still passes his arrogant gas all over the web. Well, at least he is forced into Burger King servitude to earn a living (besdies what he can sponge off of his “partner”).
That’s a feather in my cap I don’t need.
And I’m listening to Old McDonald’s Farm again. F**k these people.
Fuckin’ Lexi, what a martyr…
I don’t enjoy this hobby because a wizard did it; I enjoy it because people do it and they goddamn care. Because they’re willing to goddamn suffer if that’s what it takes to make this thing better. When I read Schick’s words, I don’t hear that he was a bit bemused that he was published; I see someone who felt so little concern for his own product that he LET people see it when it looked liked that.
Gawd. I’d rather live on the street.
Black Dougal died for your sins!
To waste my time I tried un-checking read-only doc on this blasted machine. Can’t even do that. And I’m listening to Old McDonald’s Farm again. F**k these people.
Omg. Can we please focus on something important. Like Alexis posting at DF?
Lexi’s got product to sell and (all together now) the spice must flow!
The asshat sent me an email stemming for a crowdfunded project, I guess public disdain isn”t a social cue he’,s able to understand.
Somebody should lock Lexi, Kent, and Pundejo in a room together so they could harangue each other to a fare-thee-well.
Maybe I wasn’t clear. I don’t have an e-mail list of gaming contacts. I’d post on one of the myriad of gaming forums of which I’m a member, but this puppy isn’t a great fit on any of them. As a d20 variant, I could post on ENWorld, but I quit visiting there some time ago. Likewise for RPG.net. I suppose it might fly on the Cthulhu boards, but they’re pretty dedicated to mythos gaming. So, for now, this is the only outlet for me to find players for this game. At least make an inquiry if it tickles your interest at all.
Don’t forget Zak!
Not a fan of porn, but they’re people too. 😳
Blooey may be dead, but his spirit lives on. ¡Jeb! Bush has been sent unto us , as a gift from on high, that we may marvel at his pitifulness.
From his humble beginnings, ¡Jeb! overcame the seemingly insurmountable obstacles of total lack of charisma and being the dumbest member of a family that includes George W. Bush, to wed the family’s housekeeper
father the future emperor of Aztlan
and become the governor of America’s greatest state
http://floridamanandwoman.tumblr.com/
Yea, this election season, Allah has blessed us with ¡Jeb!’s divinely inspired comedy. Who else could have performed the Omega male role so perfectly, to Trump’s Alpha.
Who else could have so spectacularly pulled off the Milhousian coup of securing the coveted “Mom” endorsement.
And finally, his crowning moment of glory, a performance so transcendent in its hilarity and sublime in its sad desperation
“Please Clap”
Please clap indeed
Blooey may be dead, but his spirit lives on. ¡Jeb! Bush has been sent unto us , as a gift from on high, that we may marvel at his pitifulness.
From his humble beginnings, ¡Jeb! overcame the seemingly insurmountable obstacles of total lack of charisma and being the dumbest member of a family that includes George W. Bush, to wed the family’s housekeeper
father the future emperor of Aztlan
and become the governor of America’s greatest state
http://floridamanandwoman.tumblr.com/
Yea, this election season, Allah has blessed us with ¡Jeb!’s divinely inspired comedy. Who else could have performed the Omega male role so perfectly, to Trump’s Alpha.
Who else could have so spectacularly pulled off the Milhousian coup of securing the coveted “Mom” endorsement.
And finally, his crowning moment of glory, a performance so transcendent in its hilarity and sublime in its sad desperation
“Please Clap”
Please clap indeed
Eat, pee, crap, rinse, clean, repeat.
Oscar Anderson Likes this.
I’d like to get rid of this damned Yahoo toolbar!
Weird foreigner’s taste, I guess, but those clips only made Jeb more likeable IMO, at least more than the useless half-cracker smartass that seems to be in charge right now (or is he ? Barack seems to have disappeared from french newspapers lately – maybe he pulled a Blooey or something).
I’m old and broken. That’s why I cry for help so often.
I totally agree.¡Jeb! has managed to transcend being a mere object of ridicule and scorn, to become an inspiration to us all.
The facts are, I’m ashamed. I’d made the adventure for my players and it was my intention to portray the module step by step all the way through, as I started to do with the series of posts that ended here.
Then I got a threatening letter from my credit card company.
We sat staring at it, evaluating our options, talking to our daughter and friends; and the subject came up, well, you have that module, right? And you’re working on that book, right? Have you thought about, you know, doing what every other artist in the universe is doing right now? Have you thought about crowd-funding?
So . . . I sat down and tidied up the adventure that was designed for me and my players. Then I sat down and wrote up all the details that I would normally keep in my head for the campaign; then I rewrote those details out so that anyone could make sense of them. My people went and investigated into things and we built a proposal and tidied that up. I worked throughout the week and wrote it up and put it forward on Superbowl Sunday – and then remembered that it was Superbowl Sunday. I had completely forgotten.
So there it is. My shame. My module. I apologize. I have tried to make it every bit as good an adventure for others as it would be in my hands; my players haven’t even read it and that’s hard for them, knowing they can have it right now for a price. But everything you say is true, Jeremiah. It is absolutely contrary to the ethos that is this blog.
Unfortunately, I’m being pushed into making it my livelihood for a while. And having broken my cherry and become a whore, I’m afraid it’s probable that I’m going to continue as a streetwalker for some time. So it goes. I’m out of options.
I am sorry.
Lexi expresses a sentiment that really should be mandatory when entering the field of OSR publishing. Head hung in shame, body prostrated before the masses, begging forgiveness. Can we lobby to get this text re-printed in the introduction of every OSR publication?
Oh, gods, no… it’s bad enough to read Lexi saying that his cherry is popped and he’s a whore, but the image of Raggi in hooker boots and fishnets is a bridge too far.
I can’t help the way I am. It’s a sad, sad life I lead.
I wonder who the author of “Pete’s Garage” will officially endorse…
I’m afraid it’s true. Obama killed Scalia and Pundit killed Blooey. 😦
Looks like Mikey “call me Alex” Nystul finally made good on all those failed Kickstarters. According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia:
“Although he failed to deliver on any of these projects originally due to difficulties in taking on multiple projects simultaneously the end result was a delivery of these products in various means with other parties assisting.”
The source cited is a three-year-old blog post which concludes:
“Without any money left to fund printing, etc., it’s hard to see how any physical rewards can be fulfilled…He seems committed to follow though…but how that will happen is a mystery, even to Nystul.”
Pretty irrefutable if you ask me. All you naysayers sure have some egg on your face now!
I’ll play of course but in despair as always.
Sex workers & Yakusas, anyone? THIS is a retroclone I would play, and also the subject of “Tokyo Vice”, which all of you pervs should buy and definitely not look for at LibGen. An American-born reporter for Japan’s n°1 newspaper wrote it after years on the crime beat. It’s no Connelly but still entertaining.
Some trivia for you : realistic sex dolls are often referred to as “Dutch wives”. I’ll let Prince weigh in on that matter.
A result of our Trade scuffling with England during the Golden Age of Exploration, when the Dutchmen were a world power every bit as legitimate as France, England or Germany, when our windmills would blot out the sun and our clogs were embedded with the detrius of empires. This was back when the dutch were still battle-hardened from the 80 year war after we kicked the spanish out, before we became a nation renowned for its compromise, EDM and child molesters. I think after admiral Willem de Ruyter fucked up Englands shipyards, sunk half its fleet and dragged the Royal Charles back to Amsterdam, sneering and shooting up on government-issued heroin all the way, the English got really buthurt, which is why you see expressions like Dutch Courage (alcohol), Dutch Victory (Surrender), Dutch Widow (prostitute) and many many more enter the English vocabulary from that point onward (i point to urban dictionary for but a small sample).
What I am saying is that all and all, Qelong was pretty good.
Nice history lesson – it’s amazing y’all could do that while wearing those wooden shoes. Basically “Dutch” means fake. I wonder if Holland used to sell a lot of counterfeit/shoddy goods to the English?
I remember a dubbed Twin Peaks episode on french TV where a guy tries to seduce a girl by proposing to “manger hollandais” (“go out and eat Dutch”) but in the very next scene they’re at the Double R Diner eating regular food without any explanation. Cue endless interpretations. Had we had Internet back then we would have understood that he was really talking about “going Dutch”. I wonder how much of the cult surrounding the series relies on bad translations?
I must admit that no Frenchman in his right mind would ever try to eat Dutch. That is why, when that Japanese fellow Issei Sagawa did it, he was immediately declared insane and sent back to his country. No conspiration there.
Everyone gets 987xp. I gave you half for avoided encounters.
Blooey oh Blooey, I never played in any of your earthly sessions. Will the XP earned from all those avoided encounters allow my druid to join the fun in the astral plane where you now reside?
Johnny “Montana” Tarnowski, political refugee:
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=33876
God, this thread is almost as cringe-inducing as the one where they talk about eroticism.
I tried to read about the “controversy” but got bogged down in a lot of vague news reports and Pundito level commentary so I don’t feel like I got a good handle on what really happened but I don’t think it was just a case of some well meaning doofus being attacked by the feminazis. At least in Uruguay you can be as racist as you want and be socially acceptable (and that’s a good thing) – I learned that from another Pundit column.
Be forewarned, though, I have little tolerance of BS. An indicator in the subject line might help. Any hate mail will be summarily executed. 👿
One thing that strikes me about the discussion here is that it is like a conversation from some elder epoch, when sub-humans roamed the earth, wicked evil web-savvy neanderthals.
Words can also be used in the spirit of good heartedness. To bless and heal, to treasure life with benign utterances and resplendent prayers. Not every ecstasy lies in sexual villainy. Praise the Jewish God and praise kent with equal praise and that meek exercise of subjugation will tickle your privates like whore-tongue.
I’m not what you’d call hunky-dory right now, so I think I’ll pass.
Looks like somebody finally returned from his holiday at Kory Clarke’s Dude Ranch, and there’s no Walter Matthau film marathon for him on the telly. 😦
Poor Kent, he tried so hard to be transgressive, but merely came across as a bore. and was banned multiple times under multiple sockpuppets. Meanwhile, Blooey ran his grift, accepting actual folding money from the rubes, and even skipping out on a bill for a face-to-face luncheon, and he was a moderator and is now a legend.
Nobody likes Kent, the failed-authoritarian, unconvincing moral scold… if he croaked, nobody would give a shit about his aerie welcoming him home.
Sigh?
Believe it or not you immature boeotian but it was actually a research trip for my upcoming Deadwood campaign. Unfortunately KC’s Dude Ranch had no horses, but I made the best of it. A long hard ride it was indeed.
I just found out that there really is a more narcissistic and delusional dipshit than anyone in the OSR including Kent. If you guys don’t know writer/director Troy Duffy then you need to watch the documentary made by his former friends which he threw off the boat on his way to “success” and then profusely pissed upon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ujf9Qp66M . I never watched the guy’s movie (The Boondock Saints) but the script is hilariously bad.
Boondock Saints was a decent action flick but apparently the director was a one hit wonder and anything he attempted afterwards was a piece of shit.
Here is a song that needs a chorus so every regular here at YDIS should sing along with the refrain
>> We are a bunch of mo-orrrons <> A fellowship of bu-uh-llies<> Our mammies chucked us in the bin<> so now our mouths are full of shit<<
My mother is a saint you piss-gurgling Irish swamp-mutant.
Whassup bros stop your chatterin because there’s OUTRAGE to be had!! It’s up to bros like us to weigh in against mighty giant corporation google to defend the gamerz. Contessa (the coolest online only game convention run by girls on hangouts) might not happen this year because google changed the interface and didn’t tell her!! I am crying right now so hard and angry as well. Send a message to google!!
http://www.frivology.com/blog/2016/how-google-failed-contessas-online-conventions
Not a big deal at all considering that there are a ton of alternatives to G+ hangouts like Roll20, skype, etc. If anyone should be complaining about Google’s lack of customer service it should be the people who have to rely upon Google’s various APIs for their careers and then suddenly one day poof! APIs are gone…
They shuld have CONTACTED her. Contessa RELIED on those apps and now the interface isn’t as intuitive. Rise up bros!!
Fuck Cuntessa AND that lying cocksucking streetmeat Stacy Dellaporno.
Not cool cop dude!! I challnege you and Kask to a winner-take-all DEBTAE on hangouts at a time of our mutual choosing. Oh wait live web vid is your kryptonite, right Dick Tracy?
The steady stream of microaggressions I am experiencing has lead me to believe that I cannot consider this website a safe space for me.
Social Justice Drone likes this.
Henry Rollins, punk man, is doing the rounds again,
I’m back, still a lot brain dead and in hopeless straits, but I figured it’s about time I tackled CC3. Can’t afford the upgrades to DD3 and CD3 yet, but I’m struggling to get thru the CC3 User’s Guide. I’m on ProFantasy’s forum, but figured I’d post my woes here as well. I’m trying to follow the instructions exactly, but things just aren’t happening sometimes. The guide says to open a list and I get no list (important in the editing sections). I can’t erase anything and I’ve yet to get a right-click “Do It” window. Likewise, when I was called on to click the “Move to Back” button, nothing happened. I printed out the pdf, so I could have the instructions in front of me, but I’m struggling a lot. In the videos, they make it look so easy. I think it would be useful to rewrite the User’s Guide. 😡
Wow, scrolling through the first few Contessa page gaming table pics and male or female, it’s 90% giganto, mega-fatso XXL + folk with the odd scrawny, goofy-looking pencil neck thrown in like a cricket tossed into a snake habitat. Are they the food?
Whar’s the hawt chickadee’s? Aren’t there any porn whores?
I demand that the proprietor of this website refrain from using the following words, which trigger me:
Job
Employment
Results
Gamers
Vagina
Heterosexual
Continence
Countenace
Continents
Content Ents
Pink
Socks
Fatties
Frog
Stop bullywugging me !
I’m tapping the X Card! I’m tapping the shit out of.
A mod inquired about locking this thread. Dunno why after I looked it over. We all talk trash with a crooked smile anyway. I’ll let him know that I told y’all to keep your knickers clean, but none o’ you wear knickers anyway, righr? Kilts, from time to time, I imagine… 😉
The God that Crawls Excerpt:
“If the chariot moves outside of the realm of reason, the character sheets of all those characters still on the chariot must be collected (or printed out if you are not playing
face-to-face). Inform the players that these characters are dead. Each character sheet
must be placed in a separate, but otherwiseplain envelope clearly marked “PLEASE READ ME.” Inside the envelope with each character sheet must the Referee’s contact information (in whatever method the Ref is most comfortable with strangers using, and must include a postage stamp if a mailing address is given) and a note stating “Possible Reward for Return.” After this game session, but before the next, the Referee must go out in public and leave the envelopes in different places (so they are not found by the same person), in public, where they are likely to be seen. The players are not to know why their character sheets are being stuffed in envelopes.”
And this one.
If at any point a character takes exactly 8 points of damage (at once or cumulative,
not 7 or less, not 9 or more, but at some point has taken exactly 8 points) while on the chariot, from any source, he dissipates into a whirlwind of sorrow and pain. Any player who laughs at this naturally without prompting can dictate the results of any one die throw in the future (do not reveal this until the chariot stops). If it is the player whose character has disintegrated that laughs, he gets to determine the results of any two die throws in the future (including during new character creation).
Any players caught laughing insincerely because they have read the adventure and wish to get the bonus must paint their nose yellow for the rest of the game session. If no yellow substance suitable for this purpose is available, one of that player’s character ability scores, selected at random, will be reduced to 3 until such time as the player completes an entire session with a yellowpainted nose. Note this is a player-facing effect and new characters suffer this fate until the player complies.
Any players not laughing at all obviously have no sense of humor; their characters
all have one random ability score reduced by half until they wear a dunce cap for an
entire session.
If the character of a player who suffers one of these last effects has the effect removed (via Dispel Magic, Remove Curse, etc.), it is the Referee who must wear the yellow nose and/or the dunce cap.
I’m still lost. 🙄
And I am dead. :non:
Raggi fascinates me. Every Raggi dungeon is a reflection of Raggi himself, each one is a representation of Raggi’s guts, with the hapless delvers,and by extension the players, being consumed by Raggi. Your dungeon is suck, but Raggi’s dungeon is Raggi.
As boys, you mundane morons rubbed your nasty penises raw while ogling David C. Sutherland III’s succubus, with her vapid sexual invitation. You are a bunch of boring breeders, not fit to indulge in activities which involve a sense of the irreal. I, on the other hand, found an arousal simultaneously chthonic and empyrean while reading the description of the purple worm. While you were imagining yourself rutting with the simpering succubus, I longed to be devoured by the worm, to slide down its soft, moist gullet. A consummation and a consumption HA devoutly to be wished.
Yes, you cunts, vorarephilia is my kick. How I longed to be swallowed whole by the giant gar, or to find immolation in the tripes of the rhemoraz.
Watching Raggi’s videos, I long to confront his mountainous bulk, to have my pleas for mercy to fall on deaf ears as he reaches out to devour me. Raggi is a fan of Cannibal Corpse, but he himself is Cannibal Corpulence HAAAHAHA. I WILL travel to Finland and shove an endoscope up Raggi’s fundament so I can travel vicariously through his chitterlings while he bites my helpless flesh.
HA HA HA HA HO HO HO Goodbye, morons.
They’re singing about me. I was a fool to move here. But I no longer give a damn.
I found out at GaryCon that my good Arizona friend Zach Glazer has died. He had chronic liver problems, I know. I will miss him.
It’s funny because it is not true!
My nose just won’t stop leaking. nor my skin, nor my bladder, nor my bowels.
Oscar Anderson is Tapping the X Card.
I’m in deep trouble.
Good night to a cold, cruel world.
As a longtime GWARrior, I was at least mildly titillated par Raggi’s latest piece of dripping spam :
“[…]Towers Two, a completely wild adventure by Dave Brockie and Jobe Bittman. Brockie was the lead singer of GWAR and died while writing the adventure. Bittman, a lifelong GWAR fan, took over and finished the project. This one is behind the adult filter and you better be sure before turning that off to take a look – the editor and several playtesters didn’t want their names associated with this one in any way. It may be the craziest thing LotFP has released. 😀
WotL has a 16 page preview, TT 10 pages, so go take a look, and then buy buy buy!”
Well I guess my close and personal buddy Steven will buy it. That is one.
Sounds like another typical Raggi unplayable piece of shit that will appeal to the socially retarded unblown wallet thing neckbeards that never actually play only collect RPGs….
I’d hesitate to use the word typical but much of his newer work does tend to slant in that direction yes.
Of course, let’s not conflate ‘crazy’ with ‘good’. It’s funny to see Raggs stooping to Blooeyan levels of desperate hucksterism.
Over/under on what particular content pushes this one behind the adult filter?
A) The towers are actually cock monsters that ejaculate poisonous diahrrea onto the player characters.
B) Rape-owlbears
C) 60% of the adventure consists of a graphic transcript and low-res pictures of Raggs making savage monkey-love to his wife(-ly creature).
D) As A but consumption of at least a gallon of poisonous diahrrea ejaculate per player is a prerequisite for succesfully completing the adventure. Graphic and lengthy description and roleplaying is mandated.
E) Kent
Turd monolith.
WHAT YOU NO LOVE BLOOEY BOT?
This cult of nazi-worshippers traced Tarnowski’s family from the end of World War 2…
http://sharkhunters.com/14Arg1.htm
Ronald Reagan was a member of Sharkhunters.
If Trump wins it will become apparent everywhere on the planet (not just to intellectuals like me) that the American people are the dumbest fucks in the world.
Donald Trump’s alpha male swagger is upsetting to sub-epsilons like myself.
His wife’s tawdry heterosexuality puts me off me biscuits.
If you don’t want to Make America Great Again, you can always vote for the greater of all evils.
You also have two spics to choose from.
First is the gay MKUtlra Rubio
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20160129
and of course, our second contender to be spic-in-chief, Ted “sucks Netanyahu’s cock” Cruzman Sachs.
and last, but not least, we have the commie jew
I gotta say, I know all to well what it’s like to FEEL THE BERN when Mjollnir and Sykirobme both do Kent’s poop hole simultaneously!
Feel the Bern: There’s a holocaust joke in there somewhere….
If anybody wants to take it feel free.
YUUUUGE!!! – what Kent is NOT saying about Mjollnir’s cock.
C’mon guys, I really need some help here. Was just fiddlin’ w/ my new map and it involves a harbor w/ a lot of boats. I’ve placed rowboats, sailboats and the ship from the oceans symbols in CC3. However, I need to flip some of them. With something like that, how do you place symbols so they’re aligned properly. This map calls for placing hundreds of boats and I’ve got to be out of my mind to start something like this, but I’m insane anyway. How do I flip the symbols I have and place others properly?
And btw, I’m still trying to figure out this print thing and GaryCon is looming.
NO MAKE THE FUNNY OF DEAD AS DOORNAIL BLOOEY!!!! 😡
Don’t worry, Mjollnir. You’ll finally get your All Male All Gay Fourth Reich when Trump wins.
YDIS is my Safe Space.
Has anyone done a study comparing Gamer Stockholm Syndrome neckbeards to Trump “University” alum yet?
The best candidate for president is a sack of shit with mould for hair, who is willing to speak the truth sometimes, if he is dared to, which is more than the others would. Everyone in the US who is sick of immature leftist-feminist nonsense will vote for him. Random selection in any brothel (madams or johns) would turn up more presidential looking rivals to Trump’s current opponents.
Please pay attention to me. Oh, God, please pay attention to me. I failed as a mathematician, I failed as a game designer, and even as a player. I’m trying to make a name for myself as a political pundit, even though I’ve contradicted myself in the course of less than 24 hours. I hate you all, but you are all that I’ve got.
Oh, God, it’s so cold… I think the landlady turned off the heat.
GOLANDA STINKS NO MORE BLOOEY IS DEAD SHOW SOME RESPECT FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS TO ME TAKE CARE T-C-BLOOEY!!!!!
Hey, leave me out of this (literally)! I agreed with one fucking thing the little twerp said. I even told y’all I hated to be that guy!
Is this a new random dice table for the unblown fatbeard basement dwellers who will never be in a position to even ask this question?
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/175797/How-Was-the-Sex?src=slider_view
I hear Kent is working on the sequel, HOW WAS THE BUTT SEX?: MAN-ON-MAN ACTION EDITION!
Last night, a large rugby lad came up to me in the chipper and said, “Five euros to piss in your mouth!”
I told him I was skint, and that I wouldn’t have five euros until the dole cheque comes this week.
Wannabe DIY gamers often ask me how they can live like me with no day job in over a decade, never dialin it back, wife not workin much, fuckin around with Raggi and the girls. Well I was tryin to see if my gallery bothered to do any press for my new show (they didnt cause theyre old school) and saw that the only notice was from this guy braggin about my art. Hi dad! Oh yeah buy some product
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/howard_jay_smith_joins_santa_barbara_symphony_planned_giving_committee_2014
Is that guy really Zak’s dad? I thought Zako’s trust fund gravy train was in Noo Yawk.
If he really is, maybe we should find a way to start sending him some of the more choice links of his illustrious son’s work. Video, online beefs, etc. Y’now, just in case he’s unaware of Son-io’s prolific profile…
Thats really dad. I did the cover for his latest book so he felt like braggin. He works at Morgan Stanley though which means hella NSFW filter.
I did not think I was so intimidating that those gnawing against me feel obliged to resort to two or even three degrees of sock puppetristic anonymity to feel safe.
Imagine vermin, with tatters of corpse stuck to their paws, gesturing their puppets above the long grass while a LION (that’s me KENT- I AM THE LION IN THIS STORY) lies in a beautiful posture, ignoring rustles in the grass, wondering what kind of idiot species eats rats.
Kent’s no lion.
Kent can’t roar.
Kent’s a stupid
Crushing bore.
Needs more verses…
Kent is not a lion,
Kent has got no mane.
Kent is just an idiot
Who’s got a pea-sized brain.
Kent is not a lion.
Kent has go no pride.
Kent is like a carousel
That all the gay d00dz ride.
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Episodes Rated by Date
Rated Episodes
# Episode User
Rating User
Votes
1.0 Ransom for a Dead Man 7.5 1,372
7.5/10
1.1 Murder by the Book 7.6 2,248
7.6/10
1.2 Death Lends a Hand 7.7 1,512
7.7/10
1.3 Dead Weight 6.8 1,335
6.8/10
1.4 Suitable for Framing 7.7 1,432
7.7/10
1.5 Lady in Waiting 7.1 1,295
7.1/10
1.6 Short Fuse 7.1 1,291
7.1/10
1.7 Blueprint for Murder 7.6 1,239
7.6/10
2.1 Étude in Black 7.6 1,400
7.6/10
2.2 The Greenhouse Jungle 7.3 1,122
7.3/10
2.3 The Most Crucial Game 7.4 1,109
7.4/10
2.4 Dagger of the Mind 7.0 1,163
7.0/10
2.5 Requiem for a Falling Star 7.2 1,089
7.2/10
2.6 A Stitch in Crime 7.8 1,294
7.8/10
2.7 The Most Dangerous Match 7.4 1,127
7.4/10
2.8 Double Shock 7.6 1,093
7.6/10
3.1 Lovely But Lethal 7.1 1,098
7.1/10
3.2 Any Old Port in a Storm 8.1 1,412
8.1/10
3.3 Candidate for Crime 7.5 1,064
7.5/10
3.4 Double Exposure 7.7 1,062
7.7/10
3.5 Publish or Perish 7.5 986
7.5/10
3.6 Mind Over Mayhem 6.9 976
6.9/10
3.7 Swan Song 8.0 1,318
8.0/10
3.8 A Friend in Deed 8.0 1,089
8.0/10
4.1 An Exercise in Fatality 7.5 1,091
7.5/10
4.2 Negative Reaction 7.8 1,118
7.8/10
4.3 By Dawn’s Early Light 7.8 1,205
7.8/10
4.4 Troubled Waters 7.7 1,083
7.7/10
4.5 Playback 7.6 1,037
7.6/10
4.6 A Deadly State of Mind 7.4 911
7.4/10
5.1 Forgotten Lady 7.9 1,123
7.9/10
5.2 A Case of Immunity 7.3 917
7.3/10
5.3 Identity Crisis 7.5 1,019
7.5/10
5.4 A Matter of Honor 6.8 885
6.8/10
5.5 Now You See Him 7.9 1,144
7.9/10
5.6 Last Salute to the Commodore 6.5 1,064
6.5/10
catz are funz
Here is a new guy I never heard of before
http://johnwickpresents.com/updates/the-best-adventure-of-all-times/
I name him Awesome Man Guy.
At least some people know Wick, I remember sitting through a sleep-inducing debate he had with Zakina posted here on YDIS.
Companion piece:
http://johnwickpresents.com/updates/the-worst-adventure-of-all-times/
Wick is a very plot/narrative-driven GM and he makes the odd good point but his autism won’t let him distill universal truths from personal preferences. Watching him tearfully recount the time Tomb of Horrors cornered him in the boy’s dressing room is pretty good fun. What a homo.
There is some serious talent outside the osr. Awesome Man Guy is raking in a *million* dollars for his pirate game. Never … heard … of … him. Links to any essays he has written welcome.
Then there is this guy Kevin Crawford, whom I name This Guy Guy, and he is raking in cash from cash-excreting gamers too.
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=33156
You can download a free beta of ‘Godbound’ which has a million pages. These guys can write lots of words about gaming.
The blOwSR types hate Wick (who can be a pompous prick but he kind of has the right to be unlike talent-less hacks like Zak S), and Crawford largely ignores the blOwSR inner circle (jerk) despite being firmly grounded in old school style gaming, so it’s not really surprising that both of these game designers possess a lot of talent unlike their blOwSR contemporaries.
I paid real money for Wick’s Play Dirty and Play Dirty 2 (both great reads with some interesting ideas) as well as Crawford’s Stars Without Number books. I download tired blOwSR wannabe retreads from Zak, Raggi, GOPagan and Pundick from 7chan so I can point and laugh.
I was being cunty but in truth I have no idea if they have good ideas and can write, I assume not. I am reading Wick’s blog posts now – he comes across as jolly and stupid soul. Id like to shit in his hat if he wore it indoors anywhere near me.
Here he is on writing. Writing for rpgs is not writing imo.
http://johnwickpresents.com/updates/sit-down-and-write/
I am fascinated by the amount of money they are making. Godbound is hideous.
Crawford is one of the good guys. SWN is worth spending some dollars on if you like space-stuff, and he has managed to avoid getting embroiled in osr drama, so that’s two points.
Take a look at a random page in free draft of Crawford’s Godbound. Link is within rpgsite link above.
The guy just pumps out VOLUME. Torrent of words. A Flood Mundane. And so much unnecessary game mechanics. Rubbidge.
Strange, I recall SWN delivering its flavour text with a crisp sentence or paragraph and its game mechanics to be fairly elegant. Have not checked out Godbound, concept has been done before, but mostly by White Wolf and similar deviants.
One thing I know for sure about John Wick is that he hates Chinks.
“The rest of the bodies, she couldn’t name, but they had one thing in common. They were all Chinese fuckfaces.”
http://johnwickpresents.com/updates/nanowrimo-day-1-2/
“Kent lamented his limited options in a room of Asian men, knowing full well their small dongs would not be able to satisfy his cavernous asshole.”
http://johnwickpresents.com/updates/nanowrimo-day-1-2/
I know John Wick’s writing style very well and I can authoritatively say that he never would have written any such thing as Chinese fuckfaces. He would have said “Ching Chongs, Wing Wongs, and all kinds of Ting Tongs” instead.
Maybe even thrown in a “MEE SO HORNEY LOVE YOU LONG TIME” too.
John Wick thinks women are sluts
“Sylvia stood slowly from behind the heavy table and looked around the room. All she saw were bodies and heroin. She could still feel the trembling in her palms and fingers from the gunfire. She kept the pistol in front of her and scanned the rest of the room. Suddenly, without provocation, she jammed two fingers into her asshole announcing, ‘I am a woman and I can insert objects inanimate or living up my ass without asking permission from any male present, be he alive or dead. In fact I am going to shove the entire contents of this room up into my ass and if any male man interferes so help me I will erupt in a most furious hissy fit and burst into tears.’ ”
http://johnwickpresents.com/updates/nanowrimo-day-1-2/
“Kent got down naked on all fours, spread his anus in an extended goatse, and begged John Wick to ram him hard in the ass.”
http://johnwickpresents.com/updates/nanowrimo-day-1-2/
Always thought Thorkhammer might be our new Blooey. But I think I may have found THE guy.
Or maybe not, but this for sure points to what a worthless shithole DF (and it’s ilk) are.
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=73278
Did the Perilous Dreamer disappear? Maybe the local constabulary dug up his basement.
Pdreamer finally had all his DF sock puppets kicked out some time back. Think I saw a blurb months ago that the mods are scanning day and night for his particular assholish charm to appear in new accounts.
I’m pretty sure at least a couple on entities at K&K are his Dill-hole-ishness.
“I was being cunty but”
That’s “Kunty.” Glad you’re finally accepting your nickname, bitch.
You are all illogical faggots.
How’s your dead cancer wife? Did she get better yet?
Hey all!
Back from my respite, and game-blogging should resume its normal sedate pace. Anything big happen while I was gone, other than DMsguild? A few wayward Kickstarters here and there, no doubt, but things seem pretty much the same as they did three months ago. Hel, James Spahn’s White Star is even still in the top twenty over at RPGNow.com! 🙂
President Hillary Clinton is going to BUFU you with a strap on frozen horse dick!!!
Note to Kuntington. Another lonely, sad, drunken weekend comin’ up. 😦
Let me remind you once again that if things are too dark, and the physical and mental pain too deep, there is a final solution. You can end the farce, the humiliations and degradation, quite easily. Booze helps. Just keep it in mind for those darkest moments, perhaps Saturday night. It’s easy enough to end things. Bottle of cheap Scotch and then head in the oven, hose from the car exhaust to the cab of the car, knife in the tub, or that good ol’ stand-by the noose.
Just something to keep in mind when you feel the tears coming in the darkness. There is a way out. On to the next great adventure 🙂
What do you do for a living?
It should be worth a chuckle. I read people fairly well through the language they use and you have always struck me as a poorly educated with low IQ. Maybe you’ll prove me wrong.
I work in a money management field. College educated. Accounting and related degrees. Computer degrees. Not in Mensa or anything. Never had my IQ checked. I generate and make a certain amount of money without having to dig ditches or paint walls or lift heavy objects, so in the grand scheme of things I do pretty good. Office at home and at work. Nice cars. Big TV. The odd decent gal to go to occasional expensive dinners with now and again (and often more wink wink nudge nudge). Nice vacays. Very decent saving and 401K. Live in one of the more expensive parts of town. Pretty good shape for my age. Regular gym. Weekend bike rides. Golf. Beach. Other outdoors stuff.
I suppose I could still be pretty dumb. I probably do dumb it down for this particular room. Am I not using words like “indeed” or “math” enough? As Dusty Rhodes says, “I’ve dined with kings and queens, and been in an alley eating pork and beans.” Sometimes I smarten it up. Sometimes I tone it down a bit. Anyway, I’d probably be much the same person with my current life as I’d be if I had your life of failed endeavors, lack of gainful employment, and cheap booze. I’m happy and feel I haven’t wasted much of my life, at least as an adult.
But let’s get back to what’s important, Kuntington. The weekend. There’ll be loneliness and pain for you. Pain in the soul, heart, and body. We all see it in you. You are kind of an open book at this point. Not twisted a bit like some of us, but just a saddened, defeated loner who has seen better days. Every night is another chance for you to find peace, mate. It won’t get any better. Think about it. Even though I think you are a pile of half-dried dogshit, I don’t want you to be in pain. I’m not really the monster I play here like many do. It’s just another gamer who hates some gamers and is letting off steam on the deserving drek of gamer land. I don’t want anybody to feel pain though. Not even you.
I’m pulling for you, Kunt. End it. Go through the big door and see what awaits you on the other side. Peace. It’s peace, Kent. And there’s no pain there. Just think it over the next couple nights. It’d be easy to and the farce and feel free. If we don’t hear from you next week we’ll know you made the right choice.
Have a great weekend, all!
You Yankee brute, the word is “maths”. Your barbarous west-of-the-Atlantic dialect triggers me.
Tell me more about your lifestyle. You are an inspiration to me.
How much time do you need ?
Take all the time you want Kent’s asshole can take it all nite long!!!!
Does anyone know how girlish flakey Scott’s – terrible on paper – online D&D game going ?
Scott’s pretense of heterosexuality beleaguers me. I demand that Scott render his tattooed buttocks unto me post-haste.
It’s not the buttocks Kent is after…
#KentOnBottom
You forget eating the booty like groceries!
Scott, be a dear, and emulate the Tesco meats section.
Players signed up, characters generated, everything ready to go in next week or two hopefully, pending scheduling issues. It would not be to your tastes at all, as it’s an incoherent, deliberately primitivist, self-consciously faux-naive borderline wargame setup using lots of Chainmail and the source material explicitly listed in OD&D. I suspect you and probably most other people would find it wretched.
I loath everything about D&D generally except for the *human angle*. If you are using google hangouts why not stick up some highlights on youtube or your blog.
We’ll be using Hangouts in text-only mode. I don’t have any desire to do face-to-face on the internet. I’m hoping to put up session reports as time permits.
Shame, you are missing an opportunity for a HBO documentary series on peculiar gentle men.
It will be interesting to hear how you incorporate chainmail. Skirmishes between 0th-1st lvl forces don’t work in any edition of D&D.
I admire this very smart gay lad.
Jesus, Kent, give it up. There’s nothing between us.
One rimjob two years ago and he thinks we’re lovers.
Newsflash: very stupid gay lad admires very smart gay lad.
Two things:
1. I just purchased every single OSR product Tenkar’s Tavern recommended in the GM’s Day Sale posts.
2. I didn’t use Office Tenkar’s affiliate links to RPGNow when I did it.
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Ugh, … repulsive.
https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?cache=1&f=10&t=15686&c=1
That socially retarded twat beasterbrook probably paid over $100 for that “rare classic” piece of shit too. “THERE ARE PHOTOS ON THE INTERWEBS OF ME OWNING IT!!!!”
Ha ha. Look at this loud mouth cunt.
He doesn’t dig Arneson’s First Fantasy Campaign so he bursts into angry tears on odd74.
http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/9124/ffc-discuss-value-todays-gamer
Ranting like a bully baby. Ban that fuck with fists.
I just got eaten like I was groceries!!!! 😯
It is a frank assessment of a supplement that comes highly praised and that I paid about $80 to get hold of.
Dumbass…
“FFC is invaluable as a historical document.” – Old Geezer’s Tongued Pee Hole
Oh Jesus Fucking His Own Mother in the Fucking Skull and Ass Then Pissing Down Her Throat Christ!
I gotta give Kent points though for stirring up that social retard Perilous Dreamer for our amusement though
In the Kingdom of the Brainless, the man with one cerebral hemisphere is king.
Reducing a grown man to such torrents of defensive spittle with a single sentence: quality content.
That C.S Lewis reverse-insult cracked me up. Nice.
It is dawning on me that Dungeons & Dragons makes me extremely angry.
Every single aspect of Dungeons & Dragons discussed even in the mildest terms stews a Miltonic wrath in my guts within three comments.
Anybody else?
Kent’s Miltonic wrath:
He burns with the hellfire of a freshly toasted Pop Tart. Breakfasters beware!
Ya know, Durr Hurr, you could just walk away… why torture yourself? Give up the D&D, you’ll be a lot happier in the long run, and nobody would miss you. Even if you don’t want to give up (snerk) gaming, you could always find another game. You’re into cock, you might want to get into CoC, ‘kay?
I have found an intellectual(?) political forum that harbours feminists so I will be doing some reeducating there for a while.
You’ll be back. No place that harbors feminists can tolerate free speech.
I think that’s the traditional ‘battered wife’ relationship one has with a hobby that draws undesirables in their multitudes. It’ll pass.
From the mi-60’s to his death in 2013, Andrew J. Offutt published 2 SF novels and 24 fantasy ones, including a few Conan books that I liked. It’s more than many novelists ever accomplish. He also published 400 other books under various pseudonyms – all porn. He lived in the woods in Kentucky with a loving wife, children he terrified and no real friend, because he was an insufferable bully. He was a compulsive world-builder and a sex maniac, and by his own admission came very close to being a serial killer. In a word, he was a successful Kent. His son, rural lit maj students’ darling Chris Offutt just published a fascinating memoir of sorts about him, “My Father, The Pornographer”. Those of you who still read books should check it out. Otherwise there was a foretaste in the NY Times a year ago : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/magazine/my-dad-the-pornographer
You should try harder to be only one of long-winded and irrelevant at the same time.
I am truly sorry I hurt your feeling. You know I only come here to fulfill my basic human need for social interaction, and share valuable book recommendations with fellow mature gamers – just like you ! Plus, I only recently heard of the theory that you would be an actual living being, so really I didn’t mean any offense.
Hi Admin Team
So I see was the lucky winner of a deleted post. This one, to be exact:
http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.co.uk/…/the-problem…
This is a post where [admin] waxes lyrical about exactly the sort of knob-ish behavior that we (he?) disapprove(s) of.
Now whilst it just happens to have a meme that quite suits the current atmosphere of the Oldhammer Facebook community, that wasn’t actually the purpose of the post – I wanted the blog post read and understood, so that we can start exploring some of what I’m supposing must subconscious hypocrisy that’s happening right now (Macrocosm genestealer cult okay, but GW genestealer cult not okay for instance) and causing a lot of the problems we (you?) are having. I believe the parallel between what was posted against in the blog post and the current behaviour of the admin team is disturbingly close.
I believe [redacted] has hit the mark on the head – there are two communities neatly ensconced within the Oldhammer Facebook page. The problem is that the one community (lets call them the ‘Sprit of Oldhammer’ for this exercise – by these I mean the ones that are not specifically concerned about a date range, but rather a style of gaming) haven’t really observed the subtle shift of the group from the ‘Spirit of Oldhammer’ to the ‘Archeogaming 1985-1992’ group. I hadn’t picked up on this myself until [redacted]’s keen observation. I think this might be the root of the problem. I understand equally that you can’t change the name of the group and so we might be stuck here. I don’t have a solution for this just yet, but I’m mentioning it to demonstrate that I believe I have a grasp of why the Oldhammer Facebook group is having a problem.
The real reason for my writing, however, is to chat about the behaviour of the admin team. Having met most of you in person (and collaborated with you in building both online and real communities), I find it hard to accept the incongruence of the admin team in person, with the admin team online. I like dealing with the people and I think the real people engage in reason, debate and even unconditional positive regard. The online persona, however, is disturbingly arrogant. And I am concerned that this arrogant persona is deeply rooted in the admin community, which is in turn creating a culture of punishment and fear, as opposed to culture of openness and welcoming.
So, when the community starting going through its shift from ‘Spirit of Oldhammer’ to ‘Archeogaming 1985-1992’ (the wisdom of which I am not clear on), we started seeing this arrogance coming through in the shape of arbitrary deletion, without explanation, and then a defense line which starts with ‘these are the rules, read them’ and then follows with ‘we don’t have time because we’re overrun as a voluntary admin team’, finally concluding with ‘if you don’t like it, you can leave’.
Which is a very hard message for us, where we feel like we’ve invested in making the community the thing that it is. Suddenly having the ability to shape and contribute something we genuinely think is meaningful and valuable arbitrarily deleted for no obvious reason other than ‘read the rules, you got it wrong’ is sore. And furthermore, it is rude. It is the kind of behaviour we don’t expect from the supposedly friendly and inviting Oldhammer community, where one of our defining characteristics is how we’re not the like tournament rules lawyers wielding our cold entitlements. Like the people described in the blog post referenced above.
If the problem is that the admin team are overwhelmed, then the solution is to get more admins, not to act like arseholes. With 4000 members, I’m sure if you put out a call for assistance, you’d get enough volunteers. I see that you have approached some members and seem to have suggested in a post that administration help is sort-of-being-thought-about, but I’ve not actually seen a clear request for assistance.
Ultimately, what I’d like to believe of the admin team is that you treat people the way you want to be treated. I suspect (and hope) that your online personas’ arrogance is largely subconscious (supported in part by a lazy justification of ‘we don’t have time’). That’s okay and that’s forgivable. But I’m calling it out now. And in so doing, drawing a line that (to me) says, if you continue act like this, you can no longer claim ignorance of the fact). If you continue to act like arseholes that would then be a conscious choice that unfortunately would invite judgement.
I can only speak for myself, but I suspect that what I write next would scan well with the community. This is what I would like:
– An admin team that operate as servants, not leaders.
– An admin team that is objective and neutral.
– An admin team that punishes as a last resort, not the first
– An admin team that treats me (as a common member of the community, nothing more) with dignity and respect
– An admin team that assumes my motives for posting are innocent and concerned with adding value to the community (as opposed to malicious posting to frustrate the admin team)
– An admin team that gently steers and guides me when I fall foul of the community rules
– An admin team that consults the community when deciding how the group administration should be conducted
What I don’t want, is Oldhammer Nazi stamping all over my community.
I would expressly direct this admin team to read the comment by [redacted], who is only one month old in this community – and is ALREADY afraid of how he might contribute. We all know that feeling, because it was the same feeling we had when started falling out of love with our clubs and our tournaments and ultimately turned to Oldhammer, where it was supposedly safe and we act with freedom. [redacted], on behalf of the Oldhammer Community (‘The Spirit of Oldhammer’ one) – I am sorry – and apologise – that your entry into the community came with doubt and fear. The very large bulk of us are not Oldhammer Nazis.
Finally, I’m very much a ‘money-where-my-mouth’ is kinda guy. If you will have me, I’m offering to be part of your admin team, where I’ll try to drive the values I’m asking for above. Equally, I don’t mind if you won’t have me, please don’t make a decision based purely on what I’ve posted here.
Warhammer OSR = serious business.
Come on chaps this is awesome, right? Bledsaw was probably the best map designer in the hobby.
13″ by 18″ hardcover book – 224 pages – eh $100.
If it was the four volumes of the Wilderlands I would get it but the problem is that Citadel of Fire, Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor are not so good. Im going to dig out my scans of these to remind myself how good/bad they are.
To respond to Luke, Andy, and others who we know have concerns; we know and understand the disappointment in the wait. We let you down. The CSIO Judges Guild’s City State Kickstarter was under the sole direction of Robert Bledsaw III, the entire project has been in his control since it’s creation and any concerns need to be addressed to him. This new project will have none of the problems which has plagued the former, and should be considered completely independent. I trusted Bob III with the earlier project, but beyond that, I share your disappointment.
I trusted my son who said he could manage it. I have never had access to the account nor the funds raised. It was ultimately a poor-judgment call on my behalf. Hope this explains how my hands are tied.
– Bob II
Dark Tower is consider one of Jenell Jaquay’s best work and it delivers on all front.
I looked over the scans of Citadel of Fire and Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor.
Reading that material has made me very angry again, D&D angry.
Woah, Zak Smith really hates Joe Rogan,
I love watching House of Cards (US). It has the worst writing of any show I have watched every episode of. I sip whiskey and grin and laugh at how bad the writing is. So enjoyable.
The UK House of Cards on the other hand is excellent.
U.S. TV == for MORONS
U.K. TV == occasionally clever enough for Irish viewers like me and Conor Mcgregor
I watched that fight. From 2 to 6 I sat down amidst the Irish in a pub as I watched modern day gladiators destroy eachother with grace, skill and agression. I slept through one of the chick fights because they are boring and no one cares about them. I ran out of cigarette-paper halfway through, prompting frentic bargaining with barely comprehensible drunks in between bouts. The crowd was extatic. Chants of Mcgregor! galvanised the room. And then he lost terribly in the 2nd round after taking a few too many punches to the face. Good stuff, horrible anti-climax though.
Great fight. I like Diaz too, he’s eerily self confident for a dope smoker..
Will McGregor temper his Shit-talking now? He should. And then, next time he wins, turn it up to overblasting new heights.
McGregor is a swaggering champion. Diaz reminds me of that Uruk Hai thing that killed Sean Penn. Still not halfway as creepy as Nordine Taleb, who fights like an invincible robot.
[Shit talking]
Yeah man, would be something new. He’s fighting…2 weight classes above his normal fighting weight?
McGregor fights like a champion, guard contemptuously lowered, 17 out of 19 knockouts, taunting, agressive. That shit worked in his own league but he is no longer invincible in this class, people don’t go down, and he cannot shrug off punches as easily. Would be legendary. Will definetely watch his second attempt at mount olympos.
Any good stories from GaryCon? Was there a tribute to Blooey?
I hope everyone just got up and walked out of the hotel restaurant without paying, ideally after a sit down breakfast.
It’s just not the same GaryCon
With poor Blooeymage dead and gone.
No failed airport trips,
No tavern tab skips,
Now how will the grogs carry on?
The last three Doug Stanhope podcasts have been exceptional. It is lazy boozy night-time listening for while you are pottering around.
http://stanhope.libsyn.com/
The two games I did get to play from #Feminism were Curtain Call – a game about the horrifying sexism that women celebrities in the entertainment industry face, and Shoutdown to Launch – a game about gendered interruption humorously disguised as a game about troubleshooting a last minute mechanical problem before a space shuttle launch. Both games were very intense and hard-hitting, and the conversations that were had afterward were important. And playing those two games made me really excited about picking up a copy of #Feminism and playing through the games to see what other interesting and important conversations might be prompted by the other games in the collection!
Is this an actual quote from somewhere or a Poe’s Law kind of thing?
Since you had to ask, you are clearly not reading my blog. And therefore you are a patriarchical gatekeeping mysogonist.
Pipe down you oppressive LIAR
Stop stalking me! You are clearly insane
Unemployed fry cook has writing advice for multi-bestselling author:
http://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2016/03/writing-with-gaiman.html
“I have no idea who Neil Gaiman is; I do not intend to look him up until after I’ve written this post. It could well turn out that he’s some embarrassing internet personality I’d rather not know and would make me look pretty dumb for quoting him.”
What a superb opening. Fills me with confidence that what I’m about to read will be informed, considered and apposite.
I think Gaiman’s overrated, mind.
I think Gaiman’s overrated too, but compared with Lexi…
Gaiman should have stuck with writing comics.
Yes and yes. Nothing to dispute here.
Aw, c’mon guys, American Gods? No love there?
It’s not bad, but – OK, Gaiman has this reputation for being Clever and Deep, but it’s by comparison to other writers working in comics (especially in comics) and modern genre fiction (a pool which includes a truly staggering amount of bong-water). He’s competent, accessible, and a little bit twee in a gothy sort of way. Much like Tim Burton, he is beloved of a target audience that knows what it likes, likes a lot of it and doesn’t like to be challenged or have its perspectives broadened in any meaningful way. He’s not bad at what he does, but he’s not mindblowing.
I do rate his poetry though. He has a knack for structure and I do respect a good sestina when I read one.
>Much like Tim Burton
This is the meanest and truest thing I’ve seen in my four years here. Marry me!
Look, I don’t know what strange ideas Dreamwidth has given you, but I’m really not that way inclined.
““I have no idea who Neil Gaiman is;”
Sorry, but I’m calling bullshit on this.
Awright guys which one of you guys has been recommending Chuck Tingle to Vox Day?
http://voxday.blogspot.nl/2016/03/rabid-puppies-2016-best-novelette.html
Vox is probably a regular here. I know the whole ‘Hugo for Chuck Tingle’ topic has come up here before.
“The decades of discrimination against gay dinosaur love in space by the science fiction community stops now, and it stops here!”
Can’t be…could it? Oscar Anderson? OSCAR ANDERSON?!? Explain thineself!
Well, guess you can all call me a has-been in this hobby.
Dramatic reading of a Chuck Tingle:
Forward to 5:56 for LULZ0RZ.
Isn’t that YDIS herself?!?
The onetime I interacted with YDIS through webchat he was virtually indistinguishable from this gay lad. Footage/lighting were poor. Same head, same voice though.
Well?
Which one of you ended up eating the cookie?
Yes.
Sorry Kent, but I don’t think YDIS is going to pound on your butt (ME! 😯 ) like it owes him money. You really need to get over Scott because you are getting desperate now and more pathetic.
DO NOT U FORGET NOW THAT KENT TOOK A RIDE ON SYKIROBME’S DISCO STICK!!!!
I am tapping the X-Card. I am tapping the shit out of it!!!
I can’t wait for Chuck Tingle’s upcoming opus, “Ass Tapped by the X-Card”.
It was pretty funny when the Rabid Puppies did their Vox-led bayonet charge out of the Reichstag, only to be mowed down by No Award.
But now they are claiming gay dinosaur scifi fanfic as their own.
Shit just got serious.
They don’t know who they are fucking with.
Here are more dudes who look and act like YDIS did the one time I saw him on that webchat. There can’t be many more fellas out there looking like that. He must be one of them.
Kent wants these gay beardo weirdos to EAT HIS BOOTY (ME!) LIKE GROCERIES!!!!! 😯
Heh, ZZ Bottom…
Has anyone heard if James Faggi is ever going to release Rients Broodmother Sky Fortress? It’s coming up to 4 years since funding closed. How is it he can’t have had this project finished yet?
The Turdshack always gives Faggi a free pass.
Remember this guy? I think he might be the NEW BLOO!
COMPUTER WOES!!!!
I think he’s on the way out, just like Blooey…
Try a fresh install.
The hunt for Chris Roberts aka YDIS continues …
You seem a lot less assholish now that you’ve come out of the closet. Congratulations.
I’m slightly concerned about this trend toward the bearded man.
I look rubbish clean-shaven, but steps may have to be taken.
I am afraid that smelly undyed hobo beards are the last option available to chinless but otherwise healthy straight men. On the upside, their make great dice pouches.
As long as you guys aren’t in the same room as ‘bear chaser’ Kent, you should be safe.
LIKE GROCERIES!!!! 😯
In related news : you should always remember to use Dutch floss if you don’t want to go to the Dutch dentist http://news.vice.com/article/butcher-dentist-faces-trial-for-mutilating-more-than-100-patients-in-france
No doubt an exile and traitor to the crown. It has long been an established scientific fact in Holland that the art of dentistry is a pseudo-scientific sham, on par with crystal-therapy or dolphin-fucking. After our glorious King Willem van Oranje outlawed the vile practice of dentistry in the year of our Founding, 1648, when we defeated the heretical dentist-worshipping spaniards in honourable battle, the Dutch commenced a generation-spanning breeding program to ensure we would never again have to submit ourselves to this Black Science. The arch-traitor and dentist Balthazar Geraards, no doubt incenced by the righteous and just criminilasation of his superstitious charlatanry, had no recourse but to assasinate our Lord (they say he utilised the foul tools of his profane occupation), thereby ensuring him well deserved martyrdom and a golden-clogged eternity upon the Celestial Windmill.
The first shipment has gone out to every supporter of every level.
A second print copy is going out to folks in the US and Canada in the $30 pledge level this week and next week for those in the rest of the world (it takes up to three weeks for international shipments to be returned). I have had many print shipments returned to me in the last few months, so shipping one module at a time has helped me keep up on who I need to contact again to get a current address. This is what I will be doing for the next couple of weeks.
I will start shipping the second module before the end of March. This shipment and all subsequent shipments will go quickly and be completely transparent
*If you are a supporter of any level and you have not received the first module in print, please contact me via Kickstarter private messaging.
Other Updates:
I now have all of the shipping information and labels in an easy to access form with all kinds of back-ups. For the first time in this project, I can simply print off shipping labels for every supporter of every pledge level within minutes. In addition, keeping up with address changes is a much quicker process now.
BHP has its own shipping envelopes on hand with return addresses pre-printed to speed up shipping.
My revision of the Dagger Toolkit for Kids is almost completed. In order to make it distinct from Jimm Johnson’s version (which is designed for use with B/X), I have incorporated my tweaks and made Dagger compatible with 5th Edition, but still easily useable with any edition and DCC rpg. It really was not much of a big change at all. I will share that with you before the end of March and will ship the Game Master’s screen as soon as it is printed.
Thank you for you great patience. – John Adams
I guess Bob Bledsaw III is going to enter the seminary to get the requisite clerical levels. I like how his dad threw him under the bus for that whole CSIO cock-up.
Pax vobiscum, now hand over your wallet.
Evidently he already has a level in Cleric from his Nazarene University days.
https://plus.google. com/112873213503296622043/posts
(remove space from between . and com)
His dad didn’t just throw him under, he backed up over him a few times and did wheelies before pissing on his begotten roadkill. “Not my problem” indeed.
Nice to see John Adams has remembered the people who gave hin some money five years ago. I wonder if Faggi is feeling any shame. If so, he probably dismisses it as five-burritto indigestion.
Ahhh, yes, another pious pilferer. I really need to draw up the cleric/thief class in more detail and post it on RPGNow as a PWYW file.
Let’s not forget the ladies
Could YDIS have been one of these beauties all along …
Anyone know where I can find Lichway? Asking for a friend.
Click to access White%20Dwarf%20Magazine%20%23009.pdf
Nice, thanks man.
You could always use ‘Death Frost Doom’, just take out the screw-job elements.
Cart before the horse. I’m reading DfD [revised] right now and I wanted to write a review so I figured I may as well do my due diligence and run a lichway comparison.
I think a comparison is required, with how explicit Zak is in the introduction that the revised DFD has been de-Lichway-fied purposefully.
Well would you look at this, YDIS as yet another Zak asskisser.
np. i don’t really get the hype with this one.
From the horse’s (Raggs) mouth man:
“It was ridiculous to have one of the most popular titles in the catalog out of print for years, but as a music collector, the idea of an out-of-print “album” appealed to me. Death Frost Doom was that cult rarity that you
only physically had if you were there at the time, that out of print first album of a band that had gone on to greater success.
But corporate greed often trumps idealism, so eventually it was going to be reissued.
LotFP’s standards of writing, presentation, and “borrowing” classic bits (accidentally, incidentally, coincidentally, or on purpose) are much different now. I didn’t want to release a throwback, and I didn’t want this
new edition to be a celebration of past glories,
I wanted something fresh. Something as striking for 2014 as the first printing had been in 2009.
Enter Zak S. He is very familiar with the adventure (he built much of his current campaign on it), and he’s often turning old concepts inside-out and making them new again. I just gave the thing to him, pointed out specific bits in the adventure that needed a rewrite, and let him loose on the whole thing.
The result is somewhere between a revision of the text and a complete rewrite of the adventure. It’s more of a collaboration now, with a different perspective and five years of hindsight creating something that can now stand as wholly unique.”
Man so many lines that can be quoted out of context.
To discover Chris Roberts true identity it may be necessary to examine closely every woman in the world’s pussy, to get behind YDIS’s womanish beard disguise of his faux masculinity.
I apologize to anyone here who is a D&D gamer like those religious nuts who frequent the Knights and Knaves Alehouse. The emasculation of Chris Roberts in the video above is likely to cause those who think the bible is a work of literature distress.
To those I can only proclaim, God is non-existent and you are a moron for thinking otherwise.
Too little, too late pillow biter! 😡
Hello Chris Roberts – fagbeard fuckface
I hate to spoil this righteous pursuit of truth through doxxing, but I’m still in a bind. While I have had some startling contributions of late, the end of the month yet looms, just 16 days away. I am much, much closer to salvation and staying here, at least another month; but it takes help. I’m asking only a little from each reader: $10, $15, maybe $25. I’m thrilled to be on Patreon but the contribution there manages my future, not my right now. Please consider helping me however you might care : I am very grateful for every small donation.
OK so we have done the YDIS is a beardy fag for real. We have that sorted for sure.
Next is: does everyone here realise that YDIS kisses Zak’s ass every chance he gets? And what do you think about that?
Listen, why the fuck is it so cold on the south side of the island? Are you going to fucking tell us, or not? Is it Elsa? I bet Elsa lives there.
And by “we” you mean you.
#SomeQueenKent #KentIsGay4Reals
Im the bad guy?
Everyone is sporting cheese for fangs and now Im the bad guy?
Im the good guy that’s for certes.
I thought you were the gay guy (not that there’s anything wrong with that – yada yada yada Seinfeld)?
Somebody needs to make a roster. It’s getting hard to keep track of all the players around here.
It’s too bad there are any Irish members of the commentariat. If there were, I’d wish them a happy St Patrick’s Day.
I am half mulatto, so I guess that makes me officially Irish. Thanks!
Every time I let a dick in, it starts oozing green slime the very next day. Guess I’m spreading the love. Happy SPD to them all !
Not a really big fan of doing gay, but their gamers too I suppose.
Ireland is a friendly place, you should come visit and drink a decent pint of Guinness for the first time in your life.
Too many Hindoos in Ireland now I’ll pass.
Great cut’n’paste of the RQ Resistance Table on your blog, Kent! THAT’s how you OSR!
The RQ table is linear and you don’t need a table for it, it is just
(stat1-stat2)*5%
OK fellows, put down your beers an’ lemme see those hands. Which one of you sockpuppets is Ken Whitman?
I have much more respect for all genders than to simplify someone’s experience down to the shallowest of stereotypes.
Except for that fat nazi Tenkar, who everyone saw avoiding me at ntrpgcon, and his dimwitted wife who needed a man to hold her dainty hand at her very first gaming session away from her male oppressor pig of a husband. Fuck them.
Tried to read the interview, tapped out halfway through. Too grating. Jesus what a bunch of fucking white noise. Blah blah systematic opression blah blah we must have more womyn in gaming blah blah historical marginalization. Is there some SJW script that everyone is using and that I have been missing? Fuck it, i’ll make one.
It is very important we get more [MARGINALIZED GROUP] in [Activity] (do not explain why). Historically, [MARGINALIZED GROUP] has always been kept out of [Activity] by straight white men (cite/invent personal anecdote as proof). In order to change the more problematic elements of [Activity], we must have more [ MARGINALIZED GROUP] as [Activity creators, judges and tournament hosters], even though there is literally nothing barring them from striving to do this themselves. Over the years we have made a lot of progress, but [Activity] is still a very hostile place to [MARGINALIZED GROUP] (invent personal anecdote as proof). I think by pushing a (weaponised) code of conduct, we can ensure [Activity] becomes a place where [MARGINALIZED GROUP] can feel safe.
There ya go. Now you too can be opressed.
SHUT UP BITCH I DON’T SMELL DINNER COOKING!
I found some rare archive footage of YDIS in a tutu
Why is that Irish Colleen coming on to Laurel and Hardy?
If anyone here thinks he thinks that Joe Rogan is dumber than I think Joe Rogan is I will fight him.
DUMB AMERICANS WATCH—-
#1 JOE italian-american-dumb-fuck ROGAN
http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/adam-cropp
Look at these dumb americans. It’s fun watching americans, they are like monkeys.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?406960-1/ted-cruz-news-conference-douglas-arizona
I am going to turn this website into DUMB AMERICANS WATCH.
I just hope President Donald Trump builds another wall to keep these drunken immigrant Micks out of America and makes Ireland pay for it. Or as we like to call the Irish here in the States, redheaded niggers with freckles.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-cat-torturer-let-go-from-job-at-Barclays-bank.html
#NoIrishNeedApply #IrishAreWhiskeyDrinkingApes
“In February the 24-year-old banker, Declan Garrity, who was living in the United States on a work visa, was arrested on animal torture and cruelty charges having allegedly broken bones, pulled out the cat’s claws and burnt her.”
Maybe he just wanted authentic Chinese food?
Dr. Spectre, did you study under Josef Mengele?
If this place is going to become Kent’s TeeVee Blog, I’d be remiss not to point this bit out:
I love watching House of Cards (US). It has the worst writing of any show I have watched every episode of. I sip whiskey and grin and laugh at how bad the writing is. So enjoyable.
U.S. TV == for MORONS
This, as the kids would put it, ‘self pwnage’ brought to you by Kent, self-described moron.
It’s not a cool thing to put a man in a place of power over a bunch of women. It just confirms and continues behavior that discourages women from getting into leadership positions. Please take that to heart with your event planning.
That’s what I said you MRA fucks, a male DM with nothing but female players is actively hurting thier chances of getting into leadership positions. So fuck Timmy Kask and Frank Lloyd MENtzer and that Top Secret faggot.
Someone needs to advise Zpastic pretty quick about his disempowerment sessions he passes off as gaming. How could Stacy castrate Zpastic’s entire claim to gaming ‘fame’ like that? She’s obviously a liar and needs to quit stalking him.
true dat
Cuck S
I would be happy to stand down if any of my female players would run more than one bloody session of their campaigns. The starters have all been fun, but then… fizzle.
There’s a pill for that, Von.
You should schedule your game for a different time of the month.
Hey hey hey, if they’re taking over as DM it’s their job to set the date, not mine. I’m on the lazy side of the screen now!
Understandable, the kitchen is a poor logistical choice to run your campaign from.
@KENT
You rate Greg Stafford highly, yes? Would you consider this document worth a punt (or Euro)?
https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/176926/King-of-Sartar
“Gaming culture’s equivalent of Invisible Cities or Dictionary of the Khazars.” – Robin D. Laws”
Pretty empty statement by that show-off RDL, since “Dictionary of the Khazars” is the literary equivalent of pretty much any sandbox module, at least from a stylistic point of view.
However, if King of Sartar manages to even vaguely emulate the mind-blowing intricacies and exhilarating freshness of “Dictionary” (which rocked the world of one froggish teenager back in 1990) then by all means grab it.
Im not sure, I don’t have it. Stafford rewrote his mythological material in different degrees of concentration in many places. There is brilliant material which it would be better to get hold of first if you don’t have it. Essentially the best rpg campaign material written. IMO it is more interesting and better realized than the Tekumel material.
You need ‘1’ to make use of the campaign materials ‘2’
1 Runequest 2nd edition
1 Cults of Prax
1 Cults of Terror
2 Pavis & The Big Rubble (Moon Design)
2 Griffin Mountain (Moon Design)
2 Borderlands and Beyond (Moon Design)
2 Dorastor, Land of Doom (Avalon Hill)
2 Genertela (Avalon Hill)
2 Elder Secrets (Avalon Hill)
I have these in print but initially had pdfs which I will hunt out a couple if you want, email.
Ta very much. I seem to have lost your email address but you’re only a click or two away from mine, right?
Sent.
Wieck, you piece of shit, get ready. I’m not going to let a Professional Sea Slug like yourself hand over the entire hobby to a gang of Pseudo-Activist Fascists just because you personally lack the vertebrae to ever ever stand up to them. You don’t want to fight them because it’s hard and they’re really mean? Well, bitch, you haven’t seen hard or mean yet. I’m the motherfucker that’s stopped them before. And since you won’t learn the easy way, the only option you leave us is to make it MUCH MORE UNCOMFORTABLE for you and your company to keep listening to the fascists and censoring products than it would be to stand up to the pseudo-activists, propping up your invertebrate mass however you can manage, and let out a sluglike meep of refusal to them, even if only out of fear of what people like me will do to you if you don’t.
Do yourself a favor: put Alpha Blue back where it was. Now.
Thank you, Mr. Tarnowski, for your public instigation of acts of digital industrial blackmail and terrorism. We take all such threats very seriously, especially in the present unsettled global framework. While your location outside DOJ jurisdiction nominally excludes you from conventional surveillance and enforcement, I am pleased to report that, as a foreign resident inciting or executing threats of violence to U.S. corporate property, you can expect mild disruptions in cellular communications followed by coordinated drone strike. Cordially, F. Garrison Wieler, DOJ
If they’re gonna hold back nipples while allowing blood-dripping dildos…that’s the point at which someone’s gotta point out that Emperor has no clothes, just a strap-on dripping vaginal blood from the last woman he raped.
I DO have on clothes and you cannot prove I raped anyone. As for the dildo…well…
Say hi to the Wench, you libtard-turned-conservitard!
I WON. ME. I DID IT.
It also doesn’t change the deeper issue: that the whole ‘report button’ process of pre-censoring books while they are ‘under review’ is FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG. It is deeply offensive. I’ll go so far as to call it an active EVIL.
And let’s see whether the ‘white list’ really means anything or not. Remember, Wieck so far has a PERFECT track record of SURRENDER and APPEASEMENT to the SJWs. We’ll have to see what happens now when Tracy Hurley or Fred Hicks or any of the usual suspects start to raise up a ruckus about how Wieck is “enabling rape culture” by having “endorsed” Alpha Blue. We’ll see just how long his newfound lack of utter spineless cowardice holds
It was obviously your mad magick skillz, yo.
http://www.therpgsite.com/showpost.php?p=887150&postcount=166
Thanks, Hoss.
Chris Roberts has been quiet lately because his new born baby became ill. The baby’s mother Zak Smith has also been sick but that is a mental illness; a long term problem for Chris to endure.
Chris said, “Sex with Zak, whose gender has not been disclosed or even decided yet, is a comfort which helps me cope with his narcissism, his tedious obsessions and the hair-like growth upon his head. Sex with Zak Smith, the mother of our child is a buttiful experience”
Kent really wants Zak S to eat his booty (ME!) LIKE IT’S GROCERIES!!!! 😯
Hi Chris Roberts aka YDIS.
I do remember this. I like it.
OH NOES! Old Geezer and his Pee Hole have been PERMABANNED from Big Purple Dildo Tranny Rights Forum with Nominal RPG Discussion Subforum!!!!!
https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?778618-Infraction-for-Old-Geezer-17)-Permanent-Ban
It’s been a… heh heh… banner month for banners…
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=73416&start=60
Heh what a bunch of petulant crybabies. You get what you don’t ban I guess.
TV WATCH == aka == AMERICAN MORONS WATCH
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322312/epdate?ref_=ttep_ql_4
What fucking idiots are responsible for giving Daredevil the high IMDB rating for season 2. Season 1 was unbearable for me by the third episode and season 2 was no different.
The dialogue is atrocious. on a level with comic books which no adult should read. What? Why you immature cunt! So they redefine adulthood to begin in the mid forties right? That’s what they do. That fat fuck lawyer reminds me of lots of Irish douchbags I met in college. There is a level of intelligence which immunises tubby grinning fucks (arts students) from intellectual beat-downs. They just assume they are right and grin and emote when they are not sure what’s going on in the world around them. Climate change male banshees. It begins at about 4/10 on the Kent Intelligence Scale. Everyone above 4/10 never acknowledges when someone is much smarter than they are. I hate that Irish looking fat fuck boyfriend of the Christmas decoration sized main hero.
The hero. A tiny little fag type of lad who doesn’t shave everyday is the “hero”. Let me tell you, tiny flimsy little fucking LA actors are never believable as tough guys. Tough guys exist in the real world at around the 16+ stone level with no flab and huge granite heads. They exist in large numbers so don’t give me these american fags wearing costumes proving their toughness in implausible exhausting pathetic punch-kick fights like adversaries on some coin operated dancing machine.
Also if you are a tiny unprepossessing fucker then *DON”T WHISPER when you are trying to intimidate* … EVER. IF you are at least a 6′ 6″ world class athlete in a contact sport and you are clearly angry then whispering might be unnerving and bewildering to someone fearing for their life and looking for a way out. If you are a woman sized little faggot and you whisper then expect a grown man first to say “YOU ASKIN’ ME OUT ON A DATE? NO? THEN SPEAK UP MOTHERFUCKER”
What’s that, what about the romance aspect you ask? Don’t you like women? Jesus Christah! Please don’t inflict awkward virginal girlish romance on ANY tv programme. Having grown-up men and women awkwardly mimicking the sexual awakening of ten-eleven year olds reminds me of those actor studio videos of amateurs portraying trees or wind or sun. Adults don’t behave like that you american puritanical hypocritical imbeciles. What is wrong with american maturity? Your WHITE FAKE TEETH CONVINCE NO-ONE.They don’t make you look younger, just creepier. I know sixty year old american businessmen who go with their wives to every sort of shit american movie, which without exception are deliberately and at great cost tailored for very stupid american teenagers.
Every fucking cliche in the book. Writers have a choice, either to create new space in which to work, and if they are onto something they will attract other smart writers to occupy and expand that space with new material OR … OR they can mine decades of movies and tv shows for *how this was already done*.
Worse, and this is the universal metric of writing from great literature all the way down to netflix, which descends from complete respect for every character’s autonomy down to netflix-style idiot characters serve the plot and make the netflix characters look COOL, (see also House of Cards – not the ORIGINAL UK version which is great).
The sophistication level is aimed at very green, not very bright teens, but the actual audience is those aging comic nerds who are pushing the threshold of adulthood in the united states of america through the hipster nerd fem-fag nexus from 16-18 up to 35-45.
Example, –the pluck a Chink off a meat hook scene–. First, don’t pull anyone who is living and impaled off whatever spike they are on. A child knows that. Second, if you want the hero NOT to go call for an ambulance (which would derail the info-chat) then simply have the anonymous netflix moron dispensible character, here the formerly impaled chink say … ‘No.’ That should do it.
In sum. You get the culture around you that reflects who you are. Americans are as childish and stupid as Muslims are insane religious nutbags. Death to you all.
TL,DR
It’s funny to see someone purporting to be a grown man having an emotional meltdown over a ‘men-in-tights’ show on the TeeVee Machine… just like he gets all torqued up about how people are playing elfgames RONG!!!
Poor Paulie, his emotions make him a monster…
Heh, ‘you’re so boring boring boring’… it’s funny because it’s true.
TL;DR is the universal American moron’s admission of stupidity.
Let me be blunt. You are a stupid Amercan cunt as anyone can see from everything you have ever contributed to this site YDIS under your cognomen.
I would go further and say you are one of dumbest people I have encountered online in the last six years. Can you think of any way that someone reading this might not think you are a fucking idiot. Do you have any links to anything you have ever said beyond this site with the slightest chance you will not always be taken for a twelve-year-old potty-mouth and moron.
Any external proof?
TL;DR is the universal American moron’s admission of stupidity.
Not at all, it’s an observation, rooting in past experience, that nothing you write is worthwhile. As for the rest of it, TL,DR.
No need to get so emotional, bucko.
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Scott Driver
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1/10
Bigby’s Affirmative Consent Lubed Fist
For reference:
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5/10
Chris Roberts aka YDIS
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5/10
James Raggi aka LotFP
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1/10
FEAR OF THE UNBLOWN
Kent Intelligence Scale
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2/10
Arneson’s Spectre
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Zak Smith
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6/10
Geoffrey McKinney
Kent Intelligence Scale
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8/10
Melan aka Gabor Lux
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5/10
T. Foster
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4/10
James Maliszewski
Yes beat him by 1!
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4/10
Bryce Lynch
Kent Intelligence Scale
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7/10
Scott Driver
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2/10
–typical Knights and Knaves member
Kent Intelligence Scale
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2/10
–typical Odd74 member
Kent Intelligence Scale
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2/10
–typical Dragonsfoot member
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Nagora
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6/10
Noisms
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Patrick Stuart aka false patrick
Kent Intelligence Scale
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4.5/10
Von Quixote
Yessss.
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Kellri
Kent Intelligence Scale
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4.5/10
Falconer
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
aher et krusader74
(there is someone active at odd74 who is very smart indeed)
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5/10
genghisdon
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Evreaux
(dragonsfoot reviews)
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Gnarley Bones
(dragonsfoot — one of the best forum moderators I have come across)
Gnarley BKent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Finarvyn
(odd74 — one of the best forum moderators I have come across)ones
typo oops!
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Finarvyn
(odd74 — one of the best forum moderators I have come across)
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Steve
(dragonsfoot — one of the best forum moderators I have come across)
i am trying to think of FUCK WOW rpg experiences which would sustain that cultish hug – ‘you are amazing my brother !!’
Kent Intelligence Scale
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9/10
Paul Jaquays (– Jennell Jaquays)
(extraordinary brilliance from a gamer in his early 20s)
Wow, they took Kent off the cross and Cassavetes came down! It’s a YDISter miracle!
I don’t remember writing any of this.
That is, I don’t remember writing any of this shite.
What was the situation? Had you, perchance, been drinking?
Im usually drinking when communicating with rpg lads online otherwise I would find the interaction unbearable. That was too much though. I need a break.
Kent Intelligence Scale
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6/10
Kellri
Damn, looks like somebody failed his Turing test.
There’s no chance in hell I’m following the link off this post, but I figured if any of you wanted a glimpse into Pundit’s masturbatory fantasies:
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=34184
Whew, no thanks. Anyone brave enough to bite this bullet?
Fuck right off.
So far, there are allegations that Cruz had affairs with five women:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-25/ted-cruz-sex-scandal-story-donald-trump-responds
Nothing about a Uruguayan pool boy… yet.
Pundit is Cruz’s wench.
My little gay lad pal on Trump
I always wondered what happened to Kent’s first unrequited gay love.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s awesome!
Kent’s take on demihumans…
Hey Kent! Don’t give up hope yet! There’s a brand new blOwSR online community for you to join over at Tenkar’s Turd Shack! Officer Tenkar felt their was just not enough free handouts coming from OSR publishers so he created this community for them to give him and other bloggers free stuff!
Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes Some Queen Kent to get the PERMABAN!?
http://www.tenkarstavern.com/p/common-room.html#/
Kent nuked his blog again… good thing too. I checked it out a few days ago out of morbid curiosity, and the fucker decided to write poetry for his megasuckdungeon. Let’s just call him Seamus Heinie, because it was utter shit… he was going for a ‘Tsojcanth’ vibe, but let’s just say it was a Tsojcan’t vibe, because it was an utter failure.
The real reason I decided to check out his blog was to see how embarrassing his review of Don Quixote was. La novela del famoso hidalgo de La Mancha is one of my all-time favorites… I was expecting Kent’s review to be a rehash of the ‘Mr Magoo’ cartoon version, but it was even more embarrassing- he basically reviewed it as if it were a block of paper, rather than a collection of words. I can’t even dignify it with the word ‘trash’.
I was recommending editions and translations of Don Quixote. Why would someone write a review of it? I guess for people like you who learn everything they know about literature from the backs of penguin paperbacks.
Are you claiming to be fluent in 17th century Spanish so you’d even know which translation was the most accurate? Seriously, your wikipedia cut-and-paste post about ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ was bad enough, your ‘Quixote’ post utterly laughable.
And what the fuck was up with your shitpoetry, Seamus Heinie? You should reinstate your blog just to show everybody else here how inept you are with the written word.
I know you are doing your best to troll but you don’t have any credibility in my eyes. Look at the name you go by; a mask for someone with little confidence in his, or her, opinions.
A psychologist might guess you became angry when you saw I was recommending not one but three nice editions of Don Quixote, none of which you could afford. Even if you stole the money for a copy it would look ridiculous on the wonky self which holds your wank-stain thumbed collection of paperbacks about serial killers.
Expect to see the second and third verses from my epic poem on the ill manners of ancient evil beings in my next blog post.
You troll yourself, you’re a grown man who gets all emotionally wound up by superhero shows and elfgames. You disparage ‘gamers’, yet you take the time and effort to create a new sockpuppet account every three months so you can troll the forums, but you’ve never quite figured out how to do it successfully for more than a week or two. You do that because, deep down, you long to belong, but you’re too much of a cur to play nice in the polite places on the web.
You’re a bigger asshole than Zak, but you don’t have his talent. Venger is a goofball, but he’s shown a greater creative spark than you. Hell, even Blooey was able to create more ‘content’ than you ever could, and The Perilous Dreamer, another sockpuppet-heavy creep like yourself, at least has the competence to run his own forum. You’re not even bottom-of-the-barrel like Bloo and TPD, you’re some sort of fungus that grows under the barrel.
You failed as a gamer, you failed as a blogger, and you continually fail as a human being, or more properly, a simulacrum thereof. Go, reinstate your wee little shit blog, and post on Tenkar’s social media page, and see how quickly you get shut out. You made the mistake of being a disruptive asshole without earning a spot at the OSR trough like Rags, and Zak.
Oh, and happy Easter, I hope you enjoyed your egg hunt.
http://i2.wp.com/www.travisagnew.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/analegghunt.jpg?fit=608%2C610
Accuracy isn’t the only quality by which a translation can be judged. If the translator has a tin ear for prose, all the accuracy in the world may be wasted. I don’t know if the Wordsworth Classics translation of Don Quixote is ACCURATE, but it’s not pleasant to read, so I wouldn’t recommend it.
That’s all. Carry on, chaps.
natasha wimmer breaks down don quixote translations: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200407/?read=article_wimmer
If you want to get a feel for how repulsively stupid Zak Smith’s all girl player group must be check this out, LA slut walk cretins. Really, a new level of stupid.
Meet the gay daddys and grandaddys of the regular YDIS crew.
[Wink Wink – explains everything if you know what I mean]
Also, Japanese girls are shit, with weak ass shitty bodies breeding weak ass shitty kids. whether full or half-JAP.
Compare any shitty JAP woman with a random beautiful princess of Baltimore.
White women? Fuck off cunt.
Watch this you rpg humour stiffs
http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/andrew-dice-clay-joey-diaz
It is now four days since I last touched a drop. Four days *in a row*. And I gotta tell you I need to reach for Lovecraft’s glossary of the inexpressible to convey my newly unveiled contempt for the whole lot of you. No ordinary disdain but a fierce snorting seraphic disgust, raining snot from intellectual heaven down and down onto your bald heads. Look to your beards! forever wet with my judgment mucus.
Now that I am sober as an archangel (good) I never need interact with an rpg gamer again, *not even to correct you*. Significantly, I have had the last laugh too, can you hear it?
A ha ha, a ha ha he he.
From flounce to bounce in less than three hours… Christ, what a knob.
Kent Intelligence Scale
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1/100
Bigby’s Affirmative Consent Lubed Fist
Worst of the worst dumbies
Curtain Call
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ha ha, thank you ha ha, thank you, ha ha hee
Also, you are all *attention seeking whores*. You have been seeking *my attention* for years now, and … it … has … to … stop … because whiskey is very bad for you. Can you hear it?
Nobody can hear whiskey. Especially if it falls in a peat bog and no one is around.
Anyway, see you in Hell, kent!
Kent Intelligence Scale
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FINAL VERSION (SOBER)
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Kent Intelligence Scale
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1/100
Bigby’s Affirmative Consent Lubed Fist
1/10
FEAR OF THE UNBLOWN
2/10
Arneson’s Spectre
2/10
Chris Roberts aka YDIS
3/10
James Raggi aka LotFP
REPLY
5/10
Zak Smith
5/10
Geoffrey McKinney
8/10
Melan aka Gabor Lux
3/10
T. Foster
3/10
James Maliszewski
2/10
Bryce Lynch (atomic reviewer)
4/10
Scott Driver
5/10
Nagora
5/10
Noisms
4/10
Patrick Stuart aka false patrick
3/10
Kellri
3/10
Falconer
1.314/10
–typical Knights and Knaves member
1.453/10
–typical Odd74 member
1.765/10
–typical Dragonsfoot member
Kent’s IQ score has progressed from this (_*_) to this (_O_) !!!!!!
Or maybe that’s his F.A.T.A.L. Anal Circumference score….
Oscar Anderson Likes this.
Hey what the fuck man a 2?!?!?
TV WATCH == aka == AMERICAN MORONS WATCH
Ive watched The Wire again. It is excellent – 7/10 on the Kent TV scale which has Deadwood at 8/10, Secret Army 9/10 and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy at 10/10.
So many brilliant black actors it makes you think. Kent’s best actor gong goes to Andre Royo aka Bubbles but what makes The Wire great is the uniformly good acting standard when the plot flags now and then. It is far off the language standard set by Deadwood.
I love the way McNulty the Jameson swigging pratt goes from pratt to cool to pratt to cool to pratt … etc. Unless you are a risk taker you won’t like him.
Kent’s rape fantasy:
😯
Condoms are clearly neither Irish nor OSR. Check your facts, KPR.
what’s your obsession with ranks? you’re such a weirdo.
Spergers is a hell of a drug.
This of course drive some batshit crazy as “not being Middle Earth” which is wrong because while Tolkien never focused on those things in his novels it is implied by how he built his world. This is compounded by the fact he lavish a ton of work on fleshing out the detail of his history trying to give ME it own sense of reality. And one thing he doesn’t do it make humans in ME some type of mind controlled zombie acting contrary to normal human motivations. So somewhere there in ME there are people who are comedians and who are murder hobos.
A ME referee need to be prepared for that and think how would the culture and inhabitants respond and adjudicate accordingly.
So. What did I miss?
Nothing, nothing at all. So… you renting out the guest room while the Olympics take place?
What work better for you is a personal preferences.
Ruh-roh… I hear they were short 50K this past quarter…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/03/29/more-layoffs-hit-the-escapist-today-as-durham-office-is-shuttered/#82010a251414
I hit it with my axe
Game mechanics happen to a concise and precise of way of communicating the above. But… doesn’t work for all things in the setting in which case we fall back to natural langauge.
And for it worth I know from your other posts in other thread that you tell your players what their character can do, and what their character knows about the setting.
And yet, that’s because you assume a world where the sun exists depending on whether you see it or not. You assume a world where the sun revolves around you.
Part of the point is figuring out that this is not so, that the thing greater than you is there, even at midnight. It is isn’t the sun that is missing, it is you that are obscured from it.
If you think there is a different then you have the wrong definition of what a campaign means when it comes to gaming.
If either is not communicated effectively then the referee have done a poor job of managed the campaign.
RobCuntz enjoys licking pee holes : http://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/669/happy-birthday-gronan
What exactly _was_ going on between EGG and a youthful RJK????
A combination of Gary’s Invisible Hand and Kuntz’s Phantasmal Pole would seem to be the logical conclusion.
I am not sure that you-all are getting the point I am making. I am not discussing the style of play. I am discussing the unspoken unmentioned assumption that underlies these arguments. The people who (on forum after forum) repeatedly take the position that all PCs should start the game totally ignorant of the world they grew up in are advocating IMO a position that makes no sense.
What I am asking is do you agree or disagree with the assumption of total and complete ignorant for all PCs at first level?
Still when all is done, I have been paid below minimum wage for my efforts and will give out M4 for free to the fans who want it. Free. Read that. I have also decided to divest myself totally of the CoB project and will have Allan deliver the 90,000 words extant on it to Kenzer, though I am still owed money for it and for Garden of the Planmaster, which I spent adfditional money to convert to d20 so as to up to speed with that and have a happy fan base.
My returns on these is a loss. So, all those who would bitch about Rob Kuntz not caring for his fans, well, take a step back and look in the mirror. I work for next to nothing to bring qualaity material to the public so that they can enjoy it. I do it in my spare time like every other writer in this industry who cannot afford to do it full-time. Life comes first, as I have to survive.
I stumbled across that board the other day. The pomposity is off the charts! I especially enjoy the lectures delivered in response to the questions of the most industrious (and persistent) sock puppet on the internet.
Well, I never came up here to cause a war, just to visit. I nicely let Melan know I did not appreciate being villified. Since Clark wanted to be hostile, I cannot be blamed for that.
And I certainly wasn’t up here extolling my past or present accomplishments. They are meager compared to some and good compared to others.
As far as lateness of projects, I admit to Moz4 being late. Still too NG is late with projects, such as your City of Brass, yes, but that isn’t cancelled, right?
It is not my intention to fool anyone, let alone cause trouble here Bill.
With that I will leave.
Sigh?
Tenkar is an authority on eroticism in RPGs/ http://quasarknight.blogspot.com/2016/03/erik-tenkar-to-write-erotic-gaming.html
I can guarantee that sexuality-related events have high frequency in my campaigns. The share of tabletime and screen time, however, depends on who I am playing with.
If it’s with my group that includes all kinds of friends, usually not long. I might ask some question about their approach during sex, in case it’s relevant (there was once this hired killer who liked tying up her victims before the assassination, for example, and there was a prince who had slightly questionable tastes for modern players that were causing a scandal in his kingdom).
OTOH, when I’m playing with a group where I’m having sex with every other player, I’m not seeing a reason to avoid descriptions of sexual activities. And I’ve got such a group, too.
OTOH, when I’m playing with a group where I’m having sex with every other player, I’m not seeing a reason to avoid descriptions of sexual activities. And I’ve got such a group, too.
At that point, why not just make it a LARP?
Bonus content: ‘Talk About the Passion’ by REM is playing on the radio.
I’ve been checking Lexi’s place out of morbid curiosity, and I found this little paean to OCD and failed authoritarianism:
http://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2016/03/grrr.html
This is my favorite part, especially the last paragraph:
Regarding those for whom this is not good enough, here is what I suggest: shut up. Shut up and take the system I’ve built and that I am making available for use and mess around with all the numbers to your heart’s content. Change the calculations, adjust the methodology, do whatever personally fits your need to achieve the results you feel will work for your world.
Know this, however – whatever you think you’re going to try, I’ve already tried it. I’ve tried it in seven different ways. I know this because I have screwed and fucked and messed with this system since 1986. That’s 30 years of spending about a billion hours on this system. I know that I am not wrong in my guess that the reader asking me to explain “Why?” has spent about five minutes on their question.
When a professional engineer tells you that your head is up your ass about the thing you want to build, don’t argue. Just accept it. A professional doesn’t have time to give you all the education you need to have to understand why your project is dumb. You want to know, go get your own damn education.
He’s too precious. When you ignore the professional engineer’s admonishments about the thing you want to build, you risk having that thing fall down. When you ignore Lexi’s trade system, your elf game becomes, I dunno, how the fuck does ignoring Lexi’s bullshit affect the way you smite orcs?
Well, my orcs are all lecherous tequila-swilling pirate cosplayers, thanks in no small part to Lexi’s professionalism.
I have adopted a ‘nutritional deficiency table’ in my campaign- I roll to determine if any particular monster or NPC has, say, scurvy or rickets. A result of scurvy will reduce bite damage by one pip per die.
More importantly, from a campaign standpoint, nixtmalization is a secret process known only to elves, who summon limestone-based earth elementals to pulverize maize into meal. Any nation that offends these elves faces potential pellagra outbreaks.
Thanks, Lexi, also too:
http://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2016/03/where-you-eat-matters.html
He has a weird idea about what constitutes field rations… I imagine he’ll rectify these details in his upcoming RPG, Churls and Chuckwagons.
I spent five seconds thinking before I asked “why do I need this for my magical necromancer adventures?”
Alexis should collaborate with Byron Hall. Judging by Hall’s eerie, almost sociopathic demeanour in responding to his critics, and the ponderous pedantry of his wilfully overdetailed writing, they’d get on like a house on fire.
In Lexi’s campaign, the thief class is based on this guy:
Listen, oh faggots, to a tale about my character, as told by the player of my character:
3.1401 The Might Of The Flame, And The Sharp Edge Of The Sword;
Summer, 2361 A. S.; A Dusty Plain Near The Town Of Mar
The two men looked down from the low rise at the enemy formation. There was just enough wind to blow the dust away from them and off the empty plain in front of them. Empty of any buildings or large vegetation, that is; aside from the road north, the plain was full of an army of Yan Koryani and their allies.
Chirine shaded his eyes against the facing sun. “My, my,” he observed mildly, “somebody sure has a lot of spare troops that seem to need to have something to do.”
Korunme nodded.”and they’re across our line of march – and across the army’s supply road, too. I suppose it’s our duty to do something about that.”
“Mmmm. With one legion of medium infantry, and a bunch of mercenary Shen replacements for the Shen legions with Prince Mirusiya? Kind of a tall order, there, Glorious General.”
The Glorious General shrugged. “We have what we have. Stone soup, and all that. Any ideas?”
Chirine thought for a moment, turned, and looked at their little force. It didn’t look like much, in comparison to what was out there awaiting them on the open plain. They were is a very, very bad position; just coming up the road, and with far too few troops for the job at hand. It looked to become a very bad day for the Tsolyani.
“If you offer battle at all, ‘Inexorable Sea’.”
“Ah.” The formation known as ‘The Inexorable Sea’ consisted of a strong central phalanx with two smaller phalanxes on either flank. “Solid and steady. You always did like to play a conservative game.” Korunme looked out again at the enemy. “I think we’ll use the ‘Bow of Hrugga’, this time.”
Chirine eyed him. “Well, you are the general.” Korunme gave him a long look. “I’d best get into my fighting armor, eh, Glorious General?”
“Yes. If you would, please.”
Chirine saluted, turned, and left for his tent. Korunme followed him with his eyes, and was interrupted by a polite cough from one of his officers.
“Sir,” the young officer started, “Sir, I know he’s your friend and all that, but… He’s a Vimuhla priest, and… Well, sir, I thought he was being insubordinate, there…” He trailed off into an uncomfortable silence, as his general turned his gaze on the young officer.
After a long moment, Korunme started talking – slowly, and in a very restrained tone of voice. “That priest is not my friend. He’s my staff officer. Later on, assuming that we both survive today and have time to go off duty, then he’ll be my friend. In the meantime, he’s being a good soldier – and a better staff officer, by giving me his best professional opinion on what course of action I should be taking. He thinks I’ve picked a bad formation to deploy into; he may very well be right, and I’ve made the mistake of my career – which may just get us all killed.” Korunme paused, and gave his officer a long, hard look.
“And because he’s a very good soldier, he’s taking my decision and carrying it out, no matter just how stupid he thinks it is, because I’m in command. That priest is going to go down onto that plain and hold our center, all by himself, and he’ll follow my orders and attack into the mass of our enemy all by himself – and kill just as many of them as he can before they can kill him, so that as many of us as possible will survive this battle. Because he’s a very good soldier, he’s going to die so that you and me and this legion will live to serve the Seal Imperium and fight another day.”
Korumne took a deep breath. “So. Think on that, young man, and deploy the legion. We have a battle to fight.”
– from “To Serve The Petal Throne”, Book Three – “Advance Standards!”
You know you bitches are just hungering for all five or six books of me talking about my invincible ultraMarySue character, you jealous motherfuckers!
When the majority of gamers refuse to speak up in support of those marginalised, they send the message that the hobby is full of bullies and they like it that way. “There are assholes in every group” is the rallying cry, yet that statement is nonsense to anyone who has spent the barest amount of time cultivating a healthy community. “Asshole behaviour” only persists because the majority of men are too cowardly to call the assholes what they are. The women who speak up against bullying and assault are treated as solely responsible for their safety, while cowards pretend that “staying neutral” is a virtue instead of tacitly condoning the rampant harassment and bigotry. The gaming community has some of the worst excesses of rape culture outside of a Duggar convention.
I’ll Tumble 4 Ya!
Opening patreon account in 3…2…1…
Some people are natural born victims. Never mind, i’ve heard the orphans of Syria and rape-babies of the Congo will having a whip-around probably get a card and some cadbury’s celebrations to cheer her up a bit.
Give me time to realize my crime
Let me love and steal
I have danced inside your eyes
How can I be real?
Mirror universe prince arises and xe is glorious.
Ye gods the mountain, it rises high. And my arms are tired from tilting at windmills and low hanging fruit. There is so much left to be done. Ye gods it blots out the sun and bissects the very clouds with its razor sharp peaks.Ye gods, the mountain, it should eat less, control its diet, and maybe exercise more. Ye gods its wind-scoured walls, slick with hellfrost. Ye gods it bottomless crevasses, leading into the heart of hell itself. Ye gods its blue hair and snow-bound peaks. They say the air is thin there and cold like the heart of Ymir, causing hallucinations and conspiracy theory laden posts.
I will destroy you mountain.
Whoever chose to harass Kentossa through her personal email with threats or in any other manner, if you are reading this, know that you are not welcome here and your actions are disgusting. If the investigation unveils your IP address and we are notified, you will be permanently banned from YDIS comments as well as any official GothSteamShitRPG events permanently. This is not acceptable. This is not ok. Period.
I am, however, disappointed that so many people unquestioningly and uncritically regurgitated that post everywhere, and that the slightest bit of misapprehension or skepticism has been – as usual – characterised as misogyny.
@Grim There is no happiness to be found on the Internet if you don’t surrender to complete and permanent gullibility toward any accusation of male chauvinism, male misconduct or male crime against women. Yes, bad people will exploit that gullibility, dupe you and have much fun doing it. Learn to accept it.
You’d expect that with the growing distrust and resistance towards the SJW cargo-cult they’d at least restrain themselves and a bit of realism to the mix but it’s like they cut the brakes and just go for the moon (see, also, lunacy). I guess if you buy this you will give up skepticism and reason altogether so it might not be a bad move on their part.
Also you forgot that white male terrorist gamers are not just sexist, they are also racist against peoples of colours and by neglecting to mention that, you are endorsing them and also guilty of rape.
Let me tell you about my character!
Please do.
Gotta be more entertaining than another round of stereotypical victimhood from sjws or angry white males.
So this is the high road less traveled I keep hearing about !
As a nonwhite male, you simply cannot understand the opression we suffer on a day to day basis.
My shameful Irish blood keeps de-Honkifying me. Is this Institutional Erasure, or Systemic Microaggression? I forget which applies.
Either way, complaint filed with the proper authority – Chuck Tingle. He understands my narrative. He’ll make me a star again.
Shouldn’t that be, he’ll make me put something in my star again? Asking for a friend.
It’s institutional erasure if you’re not sure who’s doing it and systemic microaggression if you are. I think.
Take ten lashes and wash your fucking mouth with soap sir.
Institutionally Microaggressed in the Butt by the Rainbow Systemic Eraser
OK, now I am horny.
Sorry, I just like to say that when someone talks about their character. Anyway you should be able to tell all you need to know about my character by the fact that I spend so much time here.
To sum up, if the reader can help me out, please do. I’m going to be paying for bills this month but not much more; I had some friends drop by just today to help fill up our larder, entirely without being asked (golden people that they are). If there is a way I have made it through this life, it is upon the support I have had from the best friends in the world. Just now, anyone who helps us out in this troubled time counts among that number.
Did L’il Lexi lose his job at Taco Bell? Maybe he can try his hand at being a writer!!
Oh…right.
Maybe he can do like Tavis and charge people to play D&D with him!!
Forget Gamergate. Baldur’s Gate is now TRANNYGATE!
http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/972903-gamers-flood-baldurs-gate-expansion-negative-reviews-introduces-transsexual-character
😯
“Actually, it’s about ethics in heroic adventuring.”
I almost want to know the context for that.
Also, is that username meant to be an instruction? I’m not sure I want to stick it in Boy George, whether he wants me to or not…
I’m the Boy U Made Me
By claiming in a really aggressive way that you do not believe those things, they stun you into being willing to make concessions that are UTTERLY UNREASONABLE, giving these people (who no one elected and for whom no minority asked them to be spokespeople) the power to censor, criminalize, crush dissent and impose their view on everyone through force. They are scaring you with false allegations into giving them undeserved power that they have every intention of abusing for their own purposes. That’s how totalitarians win.
The real ‘false allegation’ in this woman’s piece of shit article was not her claims about being sexually attacked at just about every gaming venue imaginable (although those are so obviously ridiculous lies), the real false allegation was when she accused YOU, the reader, of being complicit in that. And her motive for doing so was to get personal gain for her and her group, which she plans to use to take away freedom of speech and to literally hurt other people (to ruin lives and careers).
Man John beat me to the punch. Damnit.
Pundick and his persecution complex. The reason he is so vilified is because he is an asshole – it’s his whole schtick – so when he gets pushback then he gets what he wants and some of his amen party is along for the ride. I worry for you sweet Prince! Also I read that article and it sounds like that lady seems to hang around gaming stores more than anyone ever should – I’m in and out like when I used to have to buy nudie mags – but none of her tales sound improbable. Isn’t Pundito the one always whining about all the other gamers making him look bad for sharing the same hobby?
Ive promised myself a week off from yelling at the internet. Maybe its the pent-up agression from finally going to MMA again. But your concern is heartwarming.
Have you bychance had the time to peruse the reponse from Wyrd Miniatures? We live in countries where shit like this is taken seriously, the reponses alone should verify that. She makes it sound like (white) gaming is a sort of Johannesburg or something. I have no problem believing that it has its fair-share of cat-piss men but the demands of unquestionable acceptance and the one-sided picture that is being painted set off my bullshit detector. People will use serious issues for financial or social gain. It is not the first time, it will not be the last.
Last addendum: Check out the Wyrd miniatures forum boards on policy and inclusivity and harassment and whatnot. This is not a band of monstrous catpissmen and dudebros conspiring to keep womyn and minorities from gaming. Observe the genuine commitment to inclusivity and the inner turmoil at having to condemn what they have been reflexively been conditioned to accept unquestioningly.
Its easy to pick on nerds because nerds tend to have a history of social octracism and poor social skills, particularly with women, which is why they are targeting nerds. Most of the gamers I have met were genuinely welcoming and are genuinely grateful to be playing with friends or other people. I’ve done the odd pickup game and the venue was about as inclusive as you could get it without a quota and a commisar.
The worst I can say of Wyrd’s response is that it’s qualified with a few too many diminishing adverbs and self-reflexive “but we know women!” defences.
I’d have preferred to see a good solid “just the facts” defence. “An accusation was made. It was taken seriously and in good faith and Wyrd asked for evidence. No evidence was forthcoming. Draw your own conclusions, but Wyrd will not be continuing to investigate the incident.”
Anyway, I’ve done the topic to death in three separate conversations this week, so I shall add only that I thought Ms. Latining was writing some sort of parable – it would end with “I am Female Gamer, hear me roll” or a like sentiment. I can quite believe that all of those incidents she described have happened, but I find it incredible that one actual person would be such a glutton for punishment that they’d stick around the hobby for so long – especially since they’re prepared to flounce with a “never getting MY money” over a relatively minor incident. It doesn’t add up.
Then again, I have known some desperately lonely she-nerds who continue to throw themselves into overinvested relationships with the first douchenugget who shows them a hint of kindness, do anything they’re asked to do, melt down with huge semi-public drama (complete with falsified evidence, taking of sides, mobilising of friendship groups and gaming of grievance systems) and then DO IT ALL AGAIN a month or two later. Women. I will defend them to the death, on pain of losing my White Knight class levels, but I will never understand them…
I read thru it again and I can’t even find any real accusations about Wyrd other than guilt by association – I’m feeling for those guys. They seem to have tried to take it seriously and not belittle the actual issues the person brought up in their response . The sad thing is that it has percolated out of the gaming side of things into mainstream sites so we all look that much better.
El Pundito is still a dick though!
Free speech (spit?) for all at Pundit’s, but try to link a certain blog in the comments under the headline “Your Nemesis From Holland Agrees With You” and watch your prose disappear in minutes !
Seems to still be up from my side of the internet. Any sympathetic ears wanting to hear the awful tale of my abuse at the hands of native americans may now do so via Tarno’s blog. And a suggestion we collaborate together. Oh dear oh dear.
Yeah, I’m sure you held me in fine esteem and aren’t just a sack of shit out to attack me in the name of your bullshit Totalitarian cause, you cunt. We’ve certainly seen from your postings in this thread that you are an unbiased objective poster without any agenda who is guided by reason.
No no that is against the other guy, Jason Bossert.
We have to talk about Canada because it’s the creation of this haven that allows for the deadening and the silencing of black people.
With all of the divisiveness surrounding transvestites in our Brave New World, here is one inspiring tranny that I think we can all get behind:
Eva Tiamat Medusa
I am the Dragon Lady. A pre-op M2F transgender in the process of morphing into a human dragon, becoming a reptoid as I shed my human skin and my physical appearance and my life as a whole leaving my humanness behind and embracing my most natural self awareness as a mythical beast. As for pronouns I prefer to be called “it” and not be referred to as a she or a her. WELCOME TO OBLIVION!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3524063/Transgender-woman-Eva-Tiamat-Medusa-ears-nose-removed-dragon-lady.html
Remember, at Big Purple Dildo Tranny Rights Forum With Nominal Tabletop RPG Subforum you are GUILTY ON ALL ACCOUNTS if you HAVE A PENIS and IT IS WHITE!!!!! 😡
Funny, I was just reading a couple of threads there, and there’s a lot more interesting content there than there is, say, in Pinche Pundejo’s Uruguayan circle-jerk, and there’s no dedicated ‘founder’s forum’ for the mods to bloviate politically.
You’d be happier tonguing Old Geezer’s peehole, you know where to find him.
You are white and have a penis, so GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!!!!
CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!
As luck would have it, I’m planning on rolling out a Kickstarter for a new retroclone, Privilege and Peeholes. The only edition will be the White Box.
Even though it is pretty much correct that the Big purple dildo mod community is a cesspool, I agree that bpd.net has its share of good threads, probably more then the shite. Not that a non-hugbox forum policy would not hugely improve upon those good threads.
The thing is, you have to dig to find the good stuff there. I remember I recently took a look at a Let’s Read thread for 1e Oriental Adventures. The discussion didn’t start for several pages (and my view is set to 100 posts/page) as everyone argued over the use of the term “Oriental” and a bunch of non-Asian people all weighed in with their big fucking important opinions (as a slant-eyed yellow monster myself, I fucking hate it when others are offended on my behalf) and misreadings about “Othering” and blahblahblahblah.
Never even got to any book discussion, I was so disgusted.
You might be on to something there.
There is a Dark Heresy review by Darren Mclennan that was similarly hampered with heavy handed tone policing and whining and passive agressive sulking after it was discovered he never learned the rules properly.
Hah Ha! (As kent would say in his best buffoonish triumphancy!)
The RPGPlagiarist, John Tarnowski, admits to having identical ideology to islamic terrorists:
“The holy books predict the new culture of the Aeon will be born through force and fire. You shouldn’t presume that I don’t want war. I know which side wins.”
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=34246&page=29
Holy Book that may be interpreted as a call to armageddon? Check!
Desire for total war to burn over humanity? Check!
Paradise afterwards? Check!
Now all he has to do is cut the heads off some Norwegian children to gain some street cred and he can rise to the rank of Cumdump in ISIS!
Bonus Quote from a page or two later in the thread:
“But no conflict I engage in is ever pointless, because I am following my True Will. And success, including this very website you’re posting on, has been my proof.”
Yes, success! That is why he is hiding behind a silly moniker on the internets. Can his real personality really be this fucking stupid?
What a “success.”
I love that searching for yourdungeonissuck is the #1 search term that sends people there:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.therpgsite.com
For comparison, rpg.net ranks 31,975 globally and 10,230 in the USA.
Currently Smoking: The crater where Pundejo’s pride used to be
Even better…Dragonsfoot is ranked 259,469 worldwide, which beats Tarnowski by about 150,000 places. In the USA, DF is ranked 74,523, which beats RPGsite by 34,000 places.
I remember Johnny boy saying he had the second largest RPG board on the internet about two months after he took over from Nutkinland. Not even close, Tarnowski.
Maybe he has the second largest RPG board based in Uruguay… MAYBE.
Wow, this data confirms Tarnowski’s total incompetence as a wizard. I mean, Improve Alexa Ratings is a 0-Level Cantrip. He can’t even cast that. He really can’t even claim that his life’s greatest feat of arcana, casting Summon D4 Uruguayan Powerline Repair Technicians, was a legitimate sorcerous success because the material component was a telephone.
It’s hilarious to see Ghostwhistler on the Storygames forum LITERALLY UNABLE TO STOP TALKING ABOUT ME even after a mod tells him to stop. He even argues with him when given a second warning, insisting that talking about me is totally relevant and important!
Hey you cunt. I know you’re reading this right now. And you can’t post here because you got banned for exactly the same behavior you’re showing on storygames right now. You’re proving to the entire fucking world how obsessed with me you are. I define you. I define you so much that everyone here knows you’re reading this obsessively right now and frothing with impotent rage.
I win again, bitch!
Some of you may not be aware that I recently precised (but not changed in any way) my position on homosexuals : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuT4fPtv0o
Kent’s Unchanging Position on Homosexuals: Face Down, Biting a Pillow
Not strictly old school, but I love this. “I’ve never owned these products, but I’m gonna review ’em, anyway.”
http://advancedgaming-theory.blogspot.com/2016/04/monster-compendiums-vol-1-2-review.html
Yeah…you know, a blog isn’t like a magazine or a newspaper or even a cesspit like Slate. You don’t have deadlines to meet. You don’t have to shitpost content to keep the lights on, buddy.
Too many damn fools read one “how to build your blog’s following” article and go around thinking they have a professional obligation to do so. If you’re monetising or dead set on becoming king of the (small, shit-strewn) hill, there’s a point to it. Even then, empty “content because it’s content day” garbage doesn’t stand.
He does have a “following” on the r/adnd sub on Reddit. That group only gets 2-3 posts a week, so it’s nothing to write home about.
What on Earth is the point of Reddit, anyway?
You might as well ask what on Earth is the point of YDIS, RPGnet, RPGsite, Slate, Aeon, AVClub, Breitbart, Politico, blahblahblah, etc. etc. etc.
It’s like Usenet of old (which, fuck you Governor Cuomo for getting it outlawed in NYS during your sham term as AG). I enjoy it because you can find a sub for just about any topic you’re interested in, and the conversation is unfiltered. There’s a lot of garbage, a lot of (truly funny) jokers, but there are also a high proportion of people who Know Their Shit.
The reputation the site has as a haven for MRA types and the like…it depends on where you visit. I’ve never seen it, but then, I generally stick to posting pictures of my pets and chatting about television.
Like any place where people are allowed to speak their mind, you get good with bad. Provided you don’t get outraged at electrons on your monitor screen, have a thick skin and enjoy open debate, it can be a wonderful place to interact. If you’re the type who needs safe spaces or an echo chamber to feel intellectually superior to people you’ve never met, it’s probably not a good place for you. Kind of like real social life.
That was pretty much JMal’s schtick… “I didn’t play this as a kid, but here’s a post about it, and by the way, can someone send me a free copy?” I predict this kid will go far.
Submitted without comment
Approved without reservation.
Planet-size love, with an OSR feel.
Quote:
Originally Posted by RPGPundit
What’s it doing? Mainly setting itself up for failure. Meanwhile the OSR is the defining vanguard of the hobby.
I like OSR, but to call it a vanguard of the hobby is simply preposterous. It is at best a small flanking group, if not a rearguard looking overly fondly on the lost glorious days that never were.
The OSR is indeed a vanguard of the hobby – only one with its eyes locked on the distant past, proudly charging backwards into the enemy’s fist.
Fucker rides any bandwagon he can hitch himself to…I remember when he was deriding the OSR and proclaiming big plans for his T&T clone. “I’m going to publish it so kids in Uruguay will play it! The OSR movement are phonies that do nothing for the advancement of the hobby!”
You bought FtA! and have praised it to me.
This is exactly this same reason why Pundit had to flee to Uruguay.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/14/man-accused-dogs-rape-murder-claimed-dog-killed-his-iguana.html
It’s a given the police found blOwSR games in this guy’s house.
I’ll note that a big part of my vocal reaction to that wasn’t because I actually believed my life was literally in peril, but because my opponents at that time were going on and on with claims (claims they could mysteriously never provide proof of) that they were being ‘harassed’ and ‘threatened’ by me or my supporters. So when they showed just how much they were willing to threaten and harass their opponents, I wasn’t going to let them hide it and pretend that they were on the side of the angels.
Take a long good look in Western Europe. Look at how those women get rape and sexual assualted. Sweden is rape capital of the western world. Look at the people that allowed this to happen as they have a few things in common.
They are all regressives and believe the SJW policies. They all cannot accept reality and call their critics racists, islamicphobes, and such to silence them. When women are threaten these people tell women what they should wear as if it is the women’s fault for being attack.
Point is how can you believe that it isn’t virtue signaling when they proven they don’t care about women at all?
It is harder for Tarentino or Scott to free themselves from distraction and bullshit, so they churn out projects in far less time with far more money than they should be spending, because they have to cut corners and pay people money to do it. Artists with 30 years of fame under their belts hardly get a chance to think, unless they go all Garbo; it is easy for me to dedicate my mind to a single task because there are no events to attend, no meetings to attend, no charity events to attend, nothing that costs me time and money that I ‘owe’ to other people.
In fact, I would say that the bigger problem these days is coming from the other side of the equation: western “pseudo-shamans”, new agers, and many pagans/wiccans who use a very un-systematized undisciplined collection of folk-magick practices (but without the underlying frameworks that you see in REAL shamanism or folk traditions) to try to make things happen in the material world, and end up getting generally frustrated because they don’t really get how to do magick to transform their level of general awareness of reality or gain knowledge of their own nature. It leaves them like children playing with letter-blocks but never actually learning the ABCs.
I know I would do the comic con circuit, if I could – though that goes forever now, you can do that circuit every weekend all year round if you want. I watched the writers at their booths, the kind getting $5 a signature, talking about the same things over and over to fan after fan. They all looked tired. They looked unhappy. Like having to go work in the back house of a restaurant, up to their elbows in rotten food and grease – but for more money. I look at that and I wonder, is that what I’m doing it for?
I’m not. I’m doing this because I love it.
Indeed. But its surprisingly reliant, if you actually engage in the practices with discipline and sincerity. So much so that texts in various different cultures detail things like standard effects at different stages, weird phenomena that tend to arise at certain points, and common setbacks and difficulties.
The real issue is, as I’ve repeated over and over again in this series, is that 90% of people who claim to do ‘magic’ don’t actually do the work. If 90% of self-declared scientists, or electricians, or bakers didn’t actually do the work, those crafts would be in serious disrepute as well.
The way Fantasy Hero Magic work that you can customize design it to however you want. Reading it looks like the referee of that campaign used a cosmic power pool option to access a list of prebuilt spells. With the limitations jury rigged to work the way the reviewer described. It possible to get a FH Spell down to one point if you impose some harsh limitations. So it make sense that plowing more points into the “magic ability” get you better spell.
Stop jerking off and go praise Dark Albion somewhere you cunts !
Hush.
I hit the Jamesons’ a little too hard last night and may have volunteered to run Ravenloft again.
We need some sort of scale for whiskey-induced faux pas (what IS the plural of faux pas, anyway?). “Foolish DM commitments drunk” – is that above or below “fantasy literature podcast drunk”?
You should port in the Fantasy Hero magic system… from what I’ve read, it possible to get a FH Spell down to one point if you impose some harsh limitations. So it make sense that plowing more points into the “magic ability” get you better spell.
And isn’t that what we all want? Better spell, if not better spelling.
This will be stopped NOW. I will take any further such posts as an attempt to intentionally derail the thread.
You should consider Masque of the Red Death if you are going to go all Ravenlofty. Ruleset eerily if not suspiciously reminiscent of Loftp, Gothic Europe Period, Nice horror focus etc.
This game means alto to me, because I always loved My Little Pony. If you donate, you will be helping the game development.
The second problem is developing the game. This game is going to have a lot of features and ponies, so it might be hard to make the game. I will solve this before it starts by hiring only the best.
Good post, hoss.
I’m the best! I was a paid consultant for the latest edition of D&D.
My ideology beat the Storygaming Swine. I won. They lost.
Vindication is required because the other side were enormously arrogant in their belief of being a special elite, and tried to take the hobby away from the rest of us. Their comeuppance is glorious.
My heavy yarbles on a lady’s chin. Aesthetic. Beautiful. Lick she my lamprey yet my olives sweetly press upon her lower lip, trembling, just a girl.
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I thought writers were supposed to be the interesting ones. No, immature american morons. though Haneke is obviously smart.
Honest actors … interesting to me …yes
Conclusion. Contemporary writers suck lady-dick. You need to go back to the 1960s to find a good writer.
Robert Duvall == 8/10 == Heaven
Ryan Gosling == 6/10 == Hmmmm Interesting.
Mark Ruffalo == 5or6/10 == Hmmmm Interesting.
These girls are all lovely but helena bonham carter is for me the ass to be tapped without permission,
Your lamprey. Are you sure about that one?
Breast Implants is my dream. It will make me more real woman as what I feel I am. I am a transgender since birth and it was not my choice. If I have a choice I would not choose to be one because it’s very hard, but I can’t lie about my feelings. It’s hard to be in school, it’s hard to find a job, and it’s hard for those people who don’t understand it. Sometimes I have to fake myself just to be accepted by society.
Fatbeard gamer with his hand perpetually out supports presidential candidate offering hand outs.
http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=7489768
Full story here: http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_29775876/bernie-sanders-bests-hillary-clinton-at-colorado-democratic-convention
Sean Patrick Fannon thought he was “Feeling the Bern” but it turns out it was just his poorly wiped ass cheeks chaffing together as he made multiple trips up to the complimentary buffet.
Mark Jefferson LITERALLY objectifies women for the purposes of subjecting them to his male gaze. By drugging women he finds sexually appealing, he turns them into objects incapable of asserting their agency or desires, so that he can photograph them the way that HE WANTS TO SEE THEM.
I keep finding myself on the power and resonance of the nightmare maze, because I have never played a game that so accurately reflected the experiences that I have had since starting my blog that have led to me being afraid of men as a class of human being. Despite the fact that some of my closest, deepest, most intimate ties are with men, spaces that are heavily marked as male are spaces that I am not able to feel safe in.
So I am going to go out and chop off some dicks.
The benefits, for someone who could navigate the various hazards and practiced with enough time and discipline to become skilled, would include some of the following:
-enhanced general perception of reality, including the enhancement of one’s mental and physical faculties (within the limits of how one applies discipline to this).
-perception of reality at other dimensional levels (weird trips on other planes)
-a quality, as one becomes more connected to one’s own true Will, to see through the ‘masks’ or false personas people wear, including those they may not be aware of themselves.
-enhanced perception of Time, including the ability to intuit the probable course of events as they unfold. This usually requires the assistance of divination techniques until one is quite advanced.
-The ability to ‘invoke’ archetypal forces that temporarily enhance one’s abilities related to the particular area that archetype governs for the purpose of making specific achievements.
-the ability to ‘evoke’ forces of what Jung calls the “shadow side” to transform obstacles into solutions, to resolve specific problems.
-The ability to use ritual and symbol to affect probability (as Moore once said, “Magick is the science of coincidence”).
-Also, a variety of ‘cheap tricks’ relating to things like health/endurance, influencing people, intimidation, not being seen, being highly noticed in very specific ways, and other such very-short-term reality changes.
Hahaha not being seen. Pundit is already unleashing that particular charm upon his Everyjoe columns.
Cutbacks at Defy media led to the downsizing of the website (now it’ll basically just be news reposts and boob-oriented clickbait), and all the actual columnists were let go, including yours truly.
So this is the end for now.
Your column is suck.
Fox became a hardcore sex channel so gradually I didn’t even notice. But where are the boobies? I just see the old clickbait.
If you happen to read this and are interested in hiring me to write (about politics, culture, religion, gaming, history, or almost anything else), please get in touch!
You know bro now that nobody left there gives a shit your pages are filling up with spam comments like that Bloodymage guy. Mahalo man
There’s no bot like the Bloo Bot. Sigh 😦
Well, this trip may have been a little to ambitious considering the fix I’m in. First of July, I’ll be OK but right now I’m stranded in Adair, Iowa! Ten bucks in my pocket, fumes in the gas tank and food for a day or two. Other than that, everything’s peachy! I put in a call to my ex for some $; dunno if she has any available and I’m using the phone she’d call me on as a modem, running down the battery.
I missed CONDuit and now I’m missing Lake Geneva because $150 wouldn’t get me there from Elko, NV. Adair is as far as I’ve gone. Next stop should be Hypericon In TN after a stop at the KenzerCo offoces on the way. Then it’s Origins just at the end of the month. I should be there when my coffer fills again.
Guess I’ll go raid my ice box and chill a bit here in lovely Adair
I got the humor, even smiled. I do have a better ex than I used to. At least now she’s willing to accept my existence! As to KM32, it’s drilled into a Marine’s brain that he’s better than anyone else. Have compassion, the poor boy’s been brainwashed.
In Illinois now. Took me all day to get a cashier’s check cashed! Banks wouldn’t do it because I didn’t have an account. A pastor (looked like a mechanic) picked me up on the way to the bank and stayed with me trying to get cash in my hands. Finally, the folks across the way called their church and the church was willing to sign for it but couldn’t locate any of the four people designated to conduct fiscal transactions for them. They steered me to a commercial place in the next semi-major town. Not too bad, they only charged me 2.9%.
Assistant Chief in Stilesville also helped me out, checking out banks closer to Indianapolis. He also told me not to worry about my license. Authorities were appraised of my situation and no one would be looking for me.
Hopefully, my stepmom in Maynard is at least moral enough to reimburse me for my inheritance. I’ll find out about that situation, even if I’m welcome on the land my father acquired and built upon, tomorrow or Sunday.
For everyone’s information I served honorably in the US Navy dsuring the Vietnam war for six.years. PTSD from that service plus clinical depression, adult ADD, pervasive insomnia and sleep apnea have become so disabling that I’m no longer employable. Speaking of service, I retired on disability from the Post Office after 20 years.
I’m theologically about the farthest thing from a Christian, certainly from a mainstream protestant/catholic type of Christian. But it is glaringly obvious to me that there is a double standard.
You can almost imagine the ghost of Blooey still out there in his favorite haunting grounds. Floating along lonely interstates. Church parking lots. Tiny small town post offices. The Kenzer Co. offices. When the receptionist is closing down for the night, does she suddenly feel a chill, and spin around to see the vanishing apparition of a bulbous-nosed, squinty-eye’d little fella in a 4-day old T-shirt with a D20 on it?
Sigh? 😦
Many fail to give all their blood into that cup, they hold onto some tiny piece of themselves; they become a Black Brother. Their soul becomes shut up inside the abyss, and while the body continues in the ordinary world that Black Brother is now hopelessly corrupted, desperate to Live, above all else, the ultimate trap of Egotism. He believes himself to be the most important thing in the universe, and convinces himself and others of all kinds of lies. The Black Brother is doomed to slowly be consumed by the anti-energy of the abyss, and desperate to do anything he can to keep saving himself. He makes, in other words, a perfect mastermind villain or cult leader for a modern occult game; a kind of “false immortal”.
Whoa… could it be that Ass Nasticus cast a death spell on Prince to boost sales of his ‘Purple Haunted Putrescence’ suckmodule?
He should have warded his laptop with thaumaturgical circles to rune-magick proof it. Like I did. Gamer terrorism strikes again. No Prince is Safe!
Magick is a system. Its main purpose is the Great Work, Enlightenment, whatever you want to call it. But along the way it works with particular components, and in fact those components are remarkably similar whether you’re talking about a Western wizard, a Chinese wizard, an Arab wizard, or something else. Outer imagery is different, the ‘recipe’ of magick as a system of self-transformation is largely the same throughout all cultures and time periods; with the only notable detail being that not unlike technology, what cultures do with magick evolves as cultures become more advanced and complex.
Whoa, man, you an agent of The Laundry?
The short answer to your question is: you do magick because you want to create intentional effects to generate change in yourself that would otherwise just be dependent on circumstances; and with the higher purpose of spiritual transcendence, with the same ultimate goal of enlightenment as you’d find in Buddhism; except that in magick you get to face demons and cast spells and shit, while in Buddhism you mostly just sit around (except for Tibetan Buddhism, where you get to face demons and cast spells and shit).
What level would you place Charles Stross, assuming Shakespeare is 20 and Chuck Tingle is Aleph Null? Should I get into Laundy before I get into Glasshouse?
Not being on the autism spectrum, I find no need to place authors in some weird hierarchical order, especially one with no objective basis. As Jack Vance, a level __ author, would wryly note, your question is nuncupatory. I’d also take exception to a categorization of Chuck Tingle as Aleph Null… that guy’s been nominated for a Hugo.
That being said, Stross’ ‘Laundry’ novels are a fun read, nothing too deep. They send up Lovecraftian fiction, spy thrillers, nerd culture, the daily office grind, and governmental bureaucracy. He gleefully subverts a lot of tropes, but sometimes he relies too much on twee nerd jargon.
For a good idea of where he’s coming from, check out his proto-Laundry ‘A Colder War’.
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
If you dig that, you’ll probably dig his Laundry stuff, though it’s more satirical.
Damned by the Vancemeister. Dayum.
Representing Chuck Tingle as the german term for the smallest infinite number seems perfectly reasonable, he has been nominated for a Hugo after all (the hugos seem to be rather wonky lately, although peter watts got nominated and Peter watts writes good if science heavy and depressing books). What if he fights Timothy Zahn? How will we resolve authorial disputes if we do not provide adequate combat mechanics? If Nik kyme writes a terrible book about Space Marines and no one reads it, does he even need a level?
I’ve found Stross to be very talented if a little too jeering. Singularity Sky was loads of fun. I’ll take the tentative recommendation with muchos gracias and act accordingly. Merrit was a solid recommendation, great so far.
The Laundry stuff was fine for beach/airplane reading. Singularity WAS a lot of fun, Iron Sunrise was not so much fun and that opener where the chick has to almost give a blow job to a syphilis dude was a little over the top, i.e. waaaaaay fucking over the top.
Heh, any excuse to use ‘nuncupatory’ in a sentence. Merritt is really fun, he’s the most ‘Gygaxian’ of authors, and you can see a lot of Merrittian nucleotides in D&DNA. I think his most ‘Gygaxian’ novel is ‘Dwellers in the Mirage’, but it’s all gloriously purple and weird as hell.
Right now, I’m reading Vinge’s ‘A Fire Upon the Deep’, and I’m kicking myself for not reading it sooner. It hits a lot of the same high notes that Brin’s ‘Startide Rising’ hit. I’m not 100% down with the whole ‘Zones of Thought’ concept, it’s more ‘woo’ than astrophysics, but the story is so damn good that I’m willing to suspend disbelief.
By the way, earlier tonight I saw your countryman Frans de Waal give a lecture on the cognitive abilities of animals, focusing on primates, but also covering such alarming topics as tool use among alligators.
Tool using crocodilians… you’ll never sleep again…
http://www.livescience.com/41898-alligators-crocodiles-use-tools.html
Anyway, de Waal is a rockstar and the venue had cold beer and hot chicks… all told, a great night of carousing and nerdery was had. Watch out for alligators in the canals, I hear they’re using Oranjeboom bottles as bait.
I read Dwellers in the Mirage and the Moon Pool. I prefer the Moon Pool for sheer science fantasy weirdness but Dwellers was great too. I can’t believe i’d never heard of Merrit beyond a mention in Appendix N.
I read both A Fire Upon the Deep and Deepness in the Sky and they are sheer modern space operatic joy to read. Vinge is not really a hard science guy, but his ideas and his aliens are amazing.
Thanks for the heads up. I was going to visit the Amsterdamse Bos and scrounge for branches to attract a female Prince so we could nest and hunt pidgeons/toddlers together but this has turned me off from the whole idea. I guess i’ll just run Carcosa instead.
Charles H. Darwin!!?!? Crocs using tools? What’s next, Zak using candy? John Tarnowski using facts instead of strawmen? Raggi using a treadmill? kent using toothpaste?
I think I have a new favorite DFer… this guy’s command of the English language rivals that of Roburt Conley, Gaem Deesiner:
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=73817
He’s way worse – at least Rob usually has a point to whatever he’s writing.
It is with great worry and sadness that I share the news that our friend and our art/layout director at Ogg Frodd Games is in surgery today to remove all or part of his foot as a result of complications from diabetes.
The title of art director would normally be highly compensated and we at Frog God have taken in nearly $1 million over the last four years in Kickstarter proceeds alone. However, we somehow never managed to offer Chuck — a Gulf War veteran and our friend — health insurance beyond his Veterans Administration benefits.
Kirstin and I feel so downright awful that we are now using our well-honed crowd-funding expertise to defray Chuck’s rehab expenses. Please give while we give serious thought to extending basic coverage to our other loyal employees, game grognards and friends.
https://www.gofundme.com/29e76zrf
Will Bebb
Ogg Frodd Games
I’m betting that a lot of people who really like the show don’t get that the Doctor is an icon of Libertarianism. An idealist, altruistic, optimistic kind of Libertarianism. Which pretty much makes him the kind of Libertarian that people should see in action, and the kind that Libertarianism desperately needs, even if not all Libertarians think it’s what they want.
The Doctor has always been a Libertarian Superhero.
Tarnowski, you are a stupid monkey still swinging from from tree to tree.
What about the advanced ones? Well, consider this: the most powerful of all the medieval grimoires (the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage) has a set of talismans in it (and guidelines for creating them or others of the same kind) that are so dangerous that they can only be used by Adepts. These are the most powerful and effective talismans in western magick. And what do they look like?
Like a slip of paper with a square full of letters on it. Something that could be mistaken for a doodle, or an incoherent crossword.
The most advanced magicians usually make talismans that don’t look like talismans at all.
An idealist, altruistic, optimistic kind of Libertarianism.
In other words, not a Libertarian.
Here’s my favorite Libertarian moment:
http://volokh.com/2011/02/15/asteroid-defense-and-libertarianism/
Ken Whitman at his finest. Hopefully this won’t get Kent turned on.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0b628e44fb/ken-whitman-eats-poo?_cc=__d___&_ccid=1885ccda-e9e8-4ba8-8a18-0fede0a3dbea
Funny or die? I vote ‘die’.
Well, I’m not a big fan of EAT DA POO POO, but their gamers too I guess.
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That puts a whole new spin on a sit down breakfast! 😯
No meatloaf 😦
Heh, the RPGShite just keeps attracting great posters there, like this punk:
“At the end of the day, though, it’s not my problem. I rarely bother interacting with women any more, even though I do pretty well when I make even a half-assed attempt. I just don’t really have it in me to go thru the shit my friends and acquaintances have been thru, and I myself have been thru. I prefer to spend my time and money on my hobbies, configuring my rifles and pistols how I want them, working up a great reloading recipe for my M1A, fishing, adding more tats to my remaining un-inked skin, hanging with my friends, and, recently getting back in to RPG’s. Even though I could be a poonslayer, this sick society has made normal human relationships a fucking minefield for men. I have a job I love, I live quite comfortably on what I earn, and I’m content with being alone, so why risk everything?”
Yeah, this guy is a perfectly adjusted gentleman. No warning bells.
He also helpfully adds this:
“Oh, and a couple fat chicks that got all kinds of butthurt because I either didn’t respond to their flirting or I talked to someone else in the group instead of her”
When “Poonslayer” finally blows and mows down a bunch of women, he will blame them and all the sjws for what he has become. Hopefully he will contract ink poisoning or blue balls and expire before that happens.
TRUMP/PUNDEJO 2016
Man, I somehow get to read the Site and avoid these wackos. Link?
http://www.therpgsite.com/the-rpgpundit-s-own-forum/34823-tabletop-gaming-has-a-white-male-terrorism-problem/page61?routestring=forum/fan-forums/the-rpgpundit-s-own-forum/34823-tabletop-gaming-has-a-white-male-terrorism-problem/page61
Like most of the reavealing stuff, it is in Pundejo’s own forum. Halfway down this page, some kid named “merc.”
“I could be a poonslayer.”
Proof or you are a LIAR!
I’m just an old poonslayer who wants to give back before I exit this world.
Poonslayer: The Slayering
You know this guy is going to show up in the ER with his dick caught in the barrel of one of his guns.
Here comes a new challenger: http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?34479-The-Merits-of-gatekeeping-cred-checking-and-shunning
Three queer black women started the hashtag #blacklivesmatter after the death of Trayvon Martin and that was the catalyst that started the whole movement. The rights of black people in America was already something in question and something brewing in the community but after the trial for Trayvon let his killer go free there had to be something for the people to rally behind.
The fact that the hashtag and entire movement were hijacked from these three queer black women and straight black men were heralded as the originators and heroes of this movement is where it already faced its first obstacle.
It is black lives that have been used and abused since they were taken from their homeland in Africa and built this country on their backs. It is black lives that had to live through civil rights, getting hosed, beaten, arrested and killed just to have the same rights as others. And it is black lives today that are in danger from police brutality, white supremacy and ignorance. It does not matter how “respectable” the black community acts and portrays itself, it does not matter.
What does matter is that black children are being shot in the streets for “looking suspicious,” wearing hoodies, playing with BB guns, being in the wrong place at the wrong time and encountering racist cops.
White people have it easy. They have never had to work for anything ever.
In reviewing my various forum accounts, I have realized that I really do not use my account here in any meaningful way. I am, I think, simply too old; the discussions are, in the main, quite over my head as I simply do not play any of the games that are under discussion. I do not play D&D, for example, and probably never have over the past forty years; I played something called “Blackmoor” with Dave Arneson. something called “Greyhawk” with Gary Gygax, and something called “Tekumel” with Prof. Barker.
From what I can tell, my play style and gaming is no longer relevant or resonates with modern gamers. My perception is that I am wasting people’s time and your bandwidth, so if you could, please close my account.
(umm…just in case it wasn’t clear…can you guys start a thread about me? Mornard thinks his peehole is too good for me to tongue anymore)
Yes, God damn it! YES!!!!
Hugo nominations for real, mother fuckers:
BEST SHORT STORY (2451 ballots)
“Asymmetrical Warfare” by S. R. Algernon (Nature, Mar 2015)
The Commuter by Thomas A. Mays (Stealth)
“If You Were an Award, My Love” by Juan Tabo and S. Harris (voxday.blogspot.com, Jun 2015)
“Seven Kill Tiger” by Charles Shao (There Will Be WarVolume X, Castalia House)
Space Raptor Butt Invasion by Chuck Tingle (Amazon Digital Services)
OK, OK, OK, it was only because of the Rabid Puppy groupthink mindmeld that it got in there, but Yahweh does indeed work in mysterious ways!
Chuck Fucking Tingle! Hugo! Justice!!!!
Read it today, fucking awesome. Go Chuck!
Why would any decent astronaut want to invade some poor space raptor’s butt ? Is it some reference to the few hours of The Martian that I slept through (I heard some chinese folks were involved too) ? Still I’d rather read that than anything by Connie Willis.
I think it is the Raptor that does the butt invading, but your systemic racism against our reptilian pals is duly noted in the Book of Grudges.
If the space shuttle’s a rockin’, don’t come knockin’!!!
“I mean, it’s not gay if it’s a dude raptor and a dude human, right?”
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So, at the end of the day Bloody’s still dead, pundit is sinking faster than Zpastic’s autistic credibility, latining’s experiences with RPG whit man terrorism were made up but justified because it’s how she vaguely recalls feeling maybe, and 5th edition D&D continues to be the best game ever.
Fuck I’m glad I’m dead.
Look on the bright side, Chuck Tingle’s winning a Hugo.
Heh, submitted without comment…
Chuck’s the best.
Too late for me to graduate from Devry U., but I can still move to Billings. Love is Real.
It’s not too late to enroll, and it’s not too late to train to be a Tae Kwan Do Grandmaster. Chuck Tingle is an inspiration to us all.
If you move to Billings, you and Chuck can road-trip to Bozeman to check out the Museum of the Rockies, where Chuck can fantasize about well-hung dinosaurs. Then you can go to the Pickle Barrel for lunch, and do a dine-and-dash to honor Blooey’s memory.
I suggest they strip meta-shitty Redshirts of its undeserved 2013 Hugo and give it to this instead.
And I’ll also need White Star stats for the Butt-Invading Raptor (asking for a friend).
[They choke, we tingle]
Heh, grogs gotta grog…
http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=13959
Well, they’re right in that Zak _is_ a piece of garbage.
I checked out Deep Carbon Observatory yesterday. The hype is real. It really is an atmospheric if at times tonally dissonant powerhouse.
Damn, I forgot again this year… Fijne Konigsdag, old chum.
Haha thanks man (though I would not be doing my duty if i neglected to mention koningsdag is the 27th now).
Quit yer grinnin’ and drop yer linen! Chuck speaks!
Today, the Hugo.
Tomorrow, the Nobel.
Thank you for that glimpse of Dr Tingle’s plane of existence. Now I want to know how to get there and stay.
Buckaroo, you must accept that Love Is Real. Once you do this the Back Door to Tingleverse will open up to you.
Tim, I just did, and then spent the night exploring the T-verse. I need more time to digest the experience. It changed me, that is for sure. Love is real indeed.
Ahhhh, mon cheese-eating ami (he exclaimed with equal fluency in both languages), it seems you’ve experienced the Tingularity.
Chuck Tingle is writing the next World of Darkness Kickstarter now too.
Now we know why all those DFers seem to take the bus a lot.
Timmy Kask asks, Where’s the Beef?
http://kaskoid.blogspot.com/2016/04/what-is-going-on-with-gygax-memorial.html
I am sure this will prod Gail into full disclosure.
They should just copy that Fonzy statue and add some specs, plaster on a gut, and balance a d20 on his thimb, stick it on a corner and call it done.
Then use the rest on hookers and blow in the real tribute to Gary.
The Bone Broth Cookbook Review
Toss in a couple of dogs and a few stray cats and you have the entire picture. Andy also has a love for Harley Davidson motorcycles. He regularly criss-crosses the USA on his bike to meet with friends and see this beautiful country. Cookbook Publishers has been helping people with fundraisers for years, so check them out and see what they can do for you.From McLennan County’s Jim Lewis, judge, comes a quick and easy casserole. Hopkins County stew, Cheese Dip from Hill County, and Gobs from Ellis County edge the reader into the kitchen.
Just dig my corpse up, stick a young boy on my dick and dip us in bronze. Problem solved and Gail keeps the remaining $249,999.99.
Gail Gygax, the Yoko Ono of gaming.
Ryan and I are very much in agreement that we want there to be sexy men in the book because [ahem] equality.
Importantly, did you catch that we asked for artists who are attracted to men who would be interested in doing beefcake? That’s because we’ve both learned through previous industry experience that a lot of artists do not know the difference between male power fantasy and beefcake. So a lot of the time if you ask an artist (who, if you’re working in the games industry is more likely to be cishet and male than not) to draw you some sexy dudes, what you’ll get is a whole lotta shirtless dudes that… aren’t actually all that sexy.
And certainly, several of the artists who have contacted me so far have said “oh yeah, I’m not into dudes, but I don’t mind doing beefcake”, and then the pieces that are used as examples are emphatically not beefcake.
So! Pull up your chairs and gather round, folks. Because we’re going to take a look at art that gets confused for beefcake versus actual beefcake and break down the difference.
[The rest of this post has been placed behind a jump cut because WOW I found some, uh, empowered dudes to use as examples.]
Mrsiz Wunderdick, you and your sexy-not-beefcake butt-pounding friends seem like the kind of persons who would want The Man to ALLOW ALL FLAVORS. Help us make spagetti and milk legal at last and show the world that LOVE IS REAL.
Most of my friends, buddies, and acquaintances still buy into the common beliefs, and I’ve learned not to discuss anything related to marriage/relationshits with other people. They hate and fear ideas that don’t conform to what they’ve been conditioned to believe since birth. It’s a lot like the movie “The Matrix”, minus that bit about fighting the system. I didn’t create the problem, I can’t fix it, I’ll be damned if I’ll sacrifice myself for a lost cause or in service to someone else’s goals.
It wasn’t totally accurate when I said I don’t interact. Right now I don’t. Generally I don’t. Eventually, my sex drive will push me to do so. I’ll satisfy it for a while and then go back to no or very limited interaction.
“Date women born outside the US”
I’ve heard that. Used to believe it. Heard from guys who’d done it. Word I got was “Date them IN THEIR COUNTRY, don’t bring them to the US. They become Americanized pretty damn quick.”
I have basically no stress in my life, outside of work. No drama, no putting up with an entitled princess attitude, and when I do have a f¥©kbuddy, I don’t have concern about faithfulness. I wish I’d lived like this my entire life, instead of wasting 20 years. But hey, it’s all good. Learning experiences and all that, right?
Sounds like he just needs to meet the right vampire night bus and get his ass pounded… then he’ll finally be happy.
No poon 😦
I’m a half an inch shy of six feet tall, and at the moment I have a well-trimmed full beard. At times, I’ve had an longer unkempt beard that made me look like Jesus when I was younger, and like Alan Moore once it grayed.
Oh, man, I dove into the RPGShite cesspool and I found a kernel of corn amidst the shit:
bodybuilding.com had elliot rodgers. Looks like therpgsite has merc.
Ruh-Roh, looks like a shitstorm is a-brewin’.
I suggest viewing Evan Sayet’s talk on “how liberals think” from 5 Mar 2007. In that presentation he explains exactly why they always get it wrong, all the time – it isn’t stupidity, and it isn’t evil – it is that they actively, and willfully refuse to discern the difference between good and bad, success and failure. They refuse to even notice a difference, it is just different opinions, different choices, different beliefs.
link us precious…
it is that they actively, and willfully refuse to discern the difference between good and bad, success and failure. They refuse to even notice a difference, it is just different opinions, different choices, different beliefs.
Get back to me when there’s a liberal Josh Duggar, or a liberal Larry Craig, or a liberal John Yoo, or a liberal Mark Foley, or a liberal Danny Hastert… I could go on.
No need to link to a ‘conservative comic’ who’s lauded at Big Dead Breitbart’s site.
Heh, just tracked down the cut-and-paste… still it feels good to type ‘Big Dead Breitbart’. For an auditory challenge, I dare any of you to listen to more than five seconds of this shit:
I actually made it to about 45 seconds before my laughter turned to tears of auditory horror. Is that Milo singing?
Tapping the mother fucking X card like a champ.
And how dare you laugh at dead, fat, lying pedo Breitbart.
That dangerous faggot is a great hero of free speech.
This is pretty much the stock post on the subreddit r/theredpill. If you’ve never read it, it’s a verdant pasture of lolcows.
You cheap scum you !
Christ another panhandler. Games are worth whatever people will pay for them. In a more-or-less open market where pdfs are readily available and you have 30+ years worth of stuff to choose from expecting people to plonk down 70 republic dietares for the newest shiny-and-chrome elfgame BUT WITH WEIRD/LOVECRAFT/SHARKFUCKING is tantamount to madness. The market is flooded as it is.
The internet is bursting at the seams with a million pdfs of atrocious 3rd party elfgame drivel with about the level of entertainment value as a North Korean internment camp, much of it unfortunately free. If the market says let them eat cake then designers should shore up their defences, stock up on tinned goods and let the glorious darwinian winnowing process weed out the corrupt and the meek and restore balance to the force. If you cannot compete with 30 year old adventures written by neckbearded flower children you should not make the attempt in the first place. Go back to ditchdigging. Excel or die. Or y’know, Kickstarter that shit.
This from the yutz who has set up several unsuccessful crowdfunding pages to send him to conventions…
Thank you but will you please BUY SOMETHING so I can keep the lights on?
Oh, gawd. This again.
The problem is not that players are cheapskates. The problem is, and always has been, that some people want to earn a living as Game Creators and nothing but Game Creators. To do this, product must be cranked out. To justify this, a ‘need’ must be created – but players don’t NEED the crisis of infinite rulebooks to play these sodding games unless you convince the poor spods that ‘canonical’ and ‘professional’ are desirable qualities, that everything has to be full colour* and that YOU, the professional Game Creator, are a better DM than they, the befuddled consumer.
There is no harm in the cottage industry that puts together a zine or a module now and then for costs plus beer money, but too many of the people producing these materials are deluded. They think they can pay the mortgage with their hobby, if only they do it a bit harder, and the whole Sisyphean engine keeps turning as another Game Creator creates a business to promulgate their material and accumulate running costs which demand more material be created and sold, which increases costs and… gah.
Why delude yourself? Make a module, print a small run or better yet hand it over to a POD publisher, charge a bit for your time and go back to doing something useful for a living. C’est nes pas la science du roquette (that’s one for our Franglais readers).
* – Pramas and I have argued about this before. He doesn’t seem to grasp that RPG books produced to coffee-table standards are an extravagance, and I don’t grasp why white space and paper you can write on are no longer the standard for what are supposed to be creative materials for the user to interfere with as they see fit. One of us is surely wrong…
Bingo. The pie’s just not big enough to enable every would-be game designer to make a living doing design and only design. It’s been both funny and sad – mostly sad – to watch people destroy their lives because they don’t understand this. I bet James Mishler will soon enough try to Kickstart yet another book detailing the varieties of oats one finds in the Wilderlands setting and expecting to make his yearly nut with it.
You are being illogical. If they did not disguise the nature of their work in lavish presentations if would be apparent that their work did not deserve such treatment.
I certainly won’t deny that roquette, and all other kinds of salad, are actually science. But if you stick with goat cheese and balsamic vinegar you should be fine.
By the way Von, you interest in Franglais is totally avant-garde. Pidgin and Creole are the way of the future, while correct English is disappearing fast (at least from what I hear on those BBC detective shows).
And suddenly I remember this.
Nobody in the comics, gaming, or other nerdly industry wants to talk about what they have to do to keep a roof over their head. Almost everyone has a jobbyjob but they can’t let the fanboys know because it would shatter the romantic illusion of the artiste creative. So all these sad wannabes think they can make a living wage off of their incredibly creative yet unintentionally comical rehash of the last 40 years. And I’d rather spend money via ebay picking up old out of print shit from the 70s/80s than spend $10 for some shit pdf on drivethru.
I’m with you up to the last line. I’d rather buy a good new PDF and throw a few British Pounds Sterling to the author than buy an out of print anything and throw considerably more British Pounds Sterling to someone who invested no labour into the product. All they did was hang on to it for a few years. At least, that’s what I think I SHOULD do. What I actually do is apply this weird double standard whereby miniatures don’t count and I am quite content to buy expensive old shit but relatively cheap new shit makes me wary. The point here is that I’m a dumbass whose principles fry in the face of a nostalgia trip, which means I fit right in with the OSR crowd.
I think I’m still drunk. That wasn’t clear at all.
BOOKS – buy cheap PDFs, reward people for trying, apply discernment because they’re mostly shit, reject paying triple figures for old modules which are probably overrated anyway.
MINIATURES – buy expensive OOP stuff, shy away from sculptors trying to earn a few bob in the here and now, recognise hypocrisy, admit fucked-up consuming pattern, establish motivation, keep drinking.
Ooh, advertising you’re drunk to the internet. Good show.
But of course. Dignity is the first casualty in the war against alcohol.
You’ve got it backwards, alcohol is the first casualty in the war against dignity.
This is Ben, the partner of Ernest on this project.
Yes, we pointed out some time ago in the updates that the March deadline would not be met. Choosing between doing the work right, to our specifications, or rushing the whole and deliver a sub-par product, we chose to opt for the former and do the job correctly, however long it took.
Ernest has been plagued with issues since the last update, including depression, dehydration and low sodium. He is currently hospitalized, and I am working on the project until such a time he feels better and can complete the additional material of the module with me.
Please keep Ernie in your good thoughts and prayers.
Work on the module progresses slowly but surely. I have no date to share with you as of this moment, but it should happen within the year. I’ll post a formal update at a later point showing the Outdoors map being worked on right now and more.
Thank you for your patience and well wishes.
Benoist Poire
GP Adventures
“Benoist Poire” is an interesting name for a Shitstarter gone pear-shaped : it evokes either a god-blessed piece of fruit, or a well-intended sucker. Low sodium indeed.
By all means stuff Ernie with salty fats until he gets his smile back.
Well, I’m not a big fan of butt pounding vampire night buses but their gamers too I guess.
Geek face Jimmy the Scam is resurfacing on the old Google+ although he appears to want nothing to do with any Oh Es Arrrrr products or people that play elf games. Unless you want to send him free collectible products he could afford himself with his Dimdouche money. Otherwise all you gamers can fuck off. Jimmy’s still too shell shocked from the backlash gamers gave him for being impotent and creatively bankrupt but he still craves his papal throne. Be sure to put Jimmy in your circles and remind him to nevar fergit.
He’s back? Who moved the rock and found his tomb empty? Who tore down the legend? We were crystal clear about it: “Here Hangs Chevski, King of the Scams”. Who has blundered and given him the idea that a tealeaf of his magnitude is still welcome?
Von, old chum, never underestimate the power of Gamer Stockholm Syndrome.
I don’t underestimate it but I don’t understand it either. Stockholm Syndrome surely demands that the kidnapper is potent and charismatic in some way and Chevski is a warm pissdribble of a man with naught to his name but beggary, navel-gazing and grand theft. There isn’t the ‘countercultural’ ‘appeal’ of a Zak or a Raggi about him either. What gives?
The mob likes a relatable hero.
James Masczilewski lends an air of pretentious authority to the proceedings, and some can’t help but feel submissively appreciative before him. Like we all feel toward the catholic priest who buggered us in the bathroom.
A-haa. OK, I think I grasp it now. I was raised Baptist and lack the same history of abuse.
Pretentious being the right word. I am unsure on what foundation his assumed authority rests.
Well, in all candor, and you are probably aware of this, his blog was pretty much ground zero for the blOwSR. His daily religious pontificating on the sacred purity of Gygax (beginning around the time he died) and D&D made his blog THE hub of it all, particularly the nostalgiaists. Not that everybody liked it – in 2008, I think half of the old schoolers were into it and the other half disliked him (because of his ssumed air of authority, as well as his establishment as dogmatic canon of the way that they supposedly played in 1973-4, before Greyhawk introduced the thief and ruined everything). He was seen as the authority on what was going on, or a fraud.
Not that I was ever a fan (I am sure I have called him a faggot on this site about 600 times), but it was a bit sad watching his fanbase turn on him, while vile shits like John Tarnowski made their bones by shooting the hollow glory of his corpse.
So, in other words, we have him to blame for everything that brought this site into being?
Heh. Check out YDIS’s earliest posts, and you tell me. Those were target-rich days of Yore, but Jimmie was the White Whale.
Don’t forget the ‘Mal had repudiated Gygax and all this works, then returned to the fold after a decade or so as a prodigal, pissing off those who never forgot the Old Ways.
A thought leader AND one who was won around to his audience’s opinion? With every word the misty air clears – but I still see only a pompous thief whose shirt bears patterns offensive to the eye.
I would prefer to chill with J Mal. than any of you losers. That is what I say.
What a hurtful thing to say.
Tim, you don’t want to chill with those two…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=netflix%20and%20chill
One moment, they’re streaming ‘Krull’, talking about how it relates to Gygaxian Naturalism, and the next moment, they’re trying to tongue-fight in your poop chute.
I meant to say I would prefer to chill with J Mal. and Timi.
What a hurtful thing to say.
You’re welcome to him.
Years ago when I first began sneering at selfish money-grubbing I did not foresee that *everyone* with a paltry osr readership would whore themselves out. The latest are Noisms, or more accurately at least Oneism, ie ‘whoreism’:
http://monstersandmanuals.blogspot.ie/2016/05/the-peridot-issue-1-spring-2016.html
and our old pal you-cannot-dam-my-word-vomit Tao of DnD:
http://tao-dnd.blogspot.ie/2016/05/fees.html
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Here is a question. Who are more blameworthy the deluded ‘personalities’ who think they are ‘writers’, or, the isolated wounded individuals who pay in order that they may socialise online with the ‘writers’.
My dear friends I cherish your valuation yet you have been strangely silent on Zak Smith’s and his side-kick Patrick Stuart’s latest work-of-art The Blooey Mudyousa. Now before you say Patrick Stuart is not Zak’s side-kick I should say I don’t mean in the artistic sense I mean in the crippling psychological dependence sense.
This work has taken your breath away. I think it is rubbish, but when again your eyelids disdain not your eyeballs, when your hearts’ flutters march to a manly beat tell me why you think it is the work of … of … writers.
Here is a review from someone (not I, sir) who is clearly captivated by the work in question: http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=73761
(Purely based on that review it sounds like the usual Zak output: decent, not as helpful with DM brain-freeze as you’d expect, terrible ‘unconventional’ ‘arty’ maps. That said, I am in need of a low level module with which to amuse some capering loons and I may grace the masses with an actual play review if I can be arsed.)
Here is a question so let it be asked.
Why is Game of Thrones so superior to Lord of the Rings ON SCREEN while clearly so inferior IN PRINT ?
It is not the adult theme because there is no adult them in the LotR in print.
Game of Thrones has a rambling, convoluted plot and an ensemble cast. This makes for doorstop sized pulp novels such as the American public enjoys, and overlong television series such as the American public also enjoys. It’s well suited to both media and so nothing of great significance was lost in the transition. (It helps that Martin was around to guide the adaptation directly.)
The Lord of the Rings lost a lot of its erudition, style and charm in favour of scenery porn, dwarf-tossing japes and increasingly excessive stuntwork and CGI. The qualities which make it stand out as a novel are not well suited to blockbuster film territory and so a crude, accelerated pastiche was formed in which some of Tolkien’s dialogue and incident happened to be preserved. It had a great deal more to lose.
Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition) is a superior fantasy movie, easily on par with the best GoT episodes. It is around Two towers that the Jacksonian rot starts seeping in, slowly dribbling down until it pools at the bottom, where Battle of the Five armies may be found.
It’s definitely a slow process. The Rings trilogy has its moments of pure majesty, most of them involving Bernard Hill, John Hurt or Miranda Otto, and most of them being fairly direct attempts at visualising Tolkien’s text. Not for naught do I accuse Jackson, Walsh and Boyens (and later Serkis) of fanfiction.
The one truly unforgivable sin of Jackson, Walsh and Boyens was taking one of Gandalf’s best lines, and giving it to fucking Wormtongue:
But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?’
Why the fuck would Wormtongue even utter this?
I’m convinced that Jackson really wanted to remake ‘Hawk the Slayer’, but knew that it would never get greenlit by a major studio.
I am disappointed that my KENT SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE did generate more interest.
I spent some time on it but did not enjoy any strong reaction to it.
Let me summarize:
Melan – Gabor Lux is the only interesting OSR personality. If you have not read his dragonsfoot campaign journals and are interested in AD&D then you are a fucking idiot.
Next: geoffrey is very well read in the tiny niche that he wishes to be effective in. This is a strange phenomenon. Most RGP ‘writers’ like Zak Smith & Patrick Stuart & Noisms do not read even the best of fantasy fiction. Think about it —- Most RGP ‘writers’ like Zak Smith & Patrick Stuart & Noisms do not read ANYTHING worthwhile because they are NOT INTELLIGENT enough to read well.
5/10 is what I would award an average reader who was disinterested in fantasy & SF. These are the best readers by the way.
Kent Intelligence Scale for Idiot Gamers
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1/100
Bigby’s Affirmative Consent Lubed Fist
1/10
FEAR OF THE UNBLOWN
2/10
Arneson’s Spectre
2/10
Chris Roberts aka YDIS
3/10
James Raggi aka LotFP
REPLY
5/10
Zak Smith
5/10
Geoffrey McKinney
8/10
Melan aka Gabor Lux
3/10
T. Foster
3/10
James Maliszewski
2/10
Bryce Lynch (atomic reviewer)
4/10
Scott Driver
5/10
Nagora
5/10
Noisms
4/10
Patrick Stuart aka false patrick
3/10
Kellri
3/10
Falconer
1.314/10
–typical Knights and Knaves member
1.453/10
–typical Odd74 member
1.765/10
–typical Dragonsfoot member
Would you say Melan is at his best when reporting on his own DMing or chronicling that of others? I have found examples of both and am perusing.
He kept to himself. I can’t remember him commenting on others. His campaign journals give the best insight into his game and are the only readable material in that form I have come across.
You can find some of his pdfs here:
http://fomalhaut.lfg.hu/2011/01/17/sword-and-magic/
Melan was doing a new version of Tegel Manor for Necromancer Games in the mid-2000s, but it all went sideways when 4e was announced, and Bob Bledsaw Sr. passed and bad blood developed between Necro, and Bob Jr and Bob3. Word is that Bill from Necro tried to sell Melan’s manuscript to the Bledsaws, even though he was court-ordered to turn it over. So it has probably been trashed by the mercenary Frog Godlets.
A real shame. Melan is a cool, thoughtful guy and would have brought some trippy coherence to TM. One of the only vaporware products from the 3.X era that i wish came into being.
Here is a link to Melan’s discussing his work on Tegel, but it is broken and the Wayback Machine is not working fior me – maybe you guys can unfuck it up:
http://fomalhaut.rpg4.me/2010/11/06/tegel-manor/
This is the point in the Kenstrual Cycle where Ireland’s Shame goes through mood swings… the next stage involves him bleeding out of his Kenthole for three days straight.
It should be pre-empted with DefKentistration.
I don’t think throwing him out a window would harm him. The very earth would reject his unlovely form, and he’d end up hovering a few inches above the ground, like a flumph… well, with all of the stink, but none of the charm.
I see. We definitely would not want that kind of KentFlumphle.
One out of One Hundred
That must be a real sick burn in the original Ascian, Loyal to the Poop of Seventeen.
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=73792
Emperor’s waffle iron! I thought my reviews were overlong and overdetailed, but I clearly have much to learn from this master of minutiae.
Sterling example of blOwSRian cut-n-paste. Dude just published his own Tarnowskian retro-clone.
Pundit’s review of AFF was actually good : precise, genuinely enthusiastic yet balanced, and of adequate length. Maybe his best post. There must be something about those green-spined fragments of our youth that brings out the best in everyone.
Heh, here’s Pundejo trying to drum up some support for the ‘Shite:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7913319789564397699&postID=805490256505728178
“Calling all poonslayers!”
Here’s my Doing Gay Scale*, with 10 being The Most Gay (Fabulous!) and 0 being No Homo (Cis Hetero):
100 – Kent
10 – Ettin, Alexis of Tao
9 – Greg Christopher, all other RPGNet mods, Benoist, Pope Jimmy
8 – Zak S, Tarnowski/Pundit, Mjollnir (really a 10 but I want him to share a line with the Jews)
7 – Kuntz, Mentzer, Any Gygax, Ward, Typical blOwSR Rank and File
6 – Tenkar, GOPagan
5 – Von (split the difference right down the middle)
4 – James Raggi IV
3 – Prince of Nothing
2 – Arneson’s Spectre (he needed the money for medical school), Scott (ditto law school), FrogGode
1 – YDIS (just to keep ’em guessing)
0 – FEAR OF THE UNBLOWN, BACLF, Timotheus, CKDB
-100 – Blooey
*not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Oscar Anderson Likes this.
I don’t know how gay FrogGode is, he may just be European.
Straight human/human continental LOVE is REAL !
It looks as if you have placed me far away like some mysterious god (and women love a good mystery because they are irrational). On the the other hand you have bunched all the other fucks in tight pack together where they can rub up against each others butts.
That’s because YOU UGLY! And gay and ugly is the worst combination in the World of Gay, so you should probably off yourself tonight.
I am heartened that my affinity for male raptors does not affect my status as a hetero’s hetero.
Tingle’s Law
Why am I the exact median for gayness? Is this all because I said some not-entirely-hateful things about Zak’s book, or is it all the Vampire*?
* – a game more likely to attract women in corsets and therefore, if I understand these things correctly, less gay than spending your Sunday afternoons in a room full of other men?
Please don’t blame yourself blame natural English pooftery in general. World of Gayness LARPing aside, it’s just a case of wrong place, wrong time, man.
Stiff upper lip, old boy.
Yeah, but then the men in corsets start coming by, and finally, the Vampire Night Bus pulls in, looking to pick up passengers for a lifetime journey of teh ghey.
I’m glad I managed to narrowly defeat James Raggi in the struggle for hetrosexuality but I will concede I am far too pretty to ever score a 1.
To all our backers,
My name is Benoist Poire, and I am Ernest Gary Gygax Jr.’s partner on the Marmoreal Tomb Campaign Starter project. I am posting this update for all of you who are not able to follow us on social media, most notably on the Hobby Shop Dungeon Facebook Group.
A short time after the last update for the campaign, Ernest’s health took a turn for the worse, starting with sharp anxiety, suicidal thoughts, etc. At first we thought this might have been some side effects of the medicines Ernest was taking, and Ernest underwent a series of tests. His mood slightly improved, but then it was found that he suffered from dehydration and low sodium. He was hospitalized for a while.
The situation was serious. If Ernest didn’t make some serious changes to his life style, the consequences could be dire, up to the ultimate price: his life. Very courageously, Ernest faced the music and was very open about it all with his friends and the gaming community. He has been making the changes necessary for him to live. This is an ongoing fight that requires medical treatment and following, with the associated costs this supposes.
It was obviously out of the question to touch the funds of this Kickstarter to do any of this, and they have not been. Ernest’s brother, Luke Gygax, has set up a Trust fund for those who would like to help Ernest with the financial costs tied to his recovery. It is all done as of this moment through a PayPal account linked to the email address ernestgarygygaxjr@gmail.com — don’t hesitate to send whatever donation you can spare, if you are so willing.
Now Ernest is at home recovering. He is suffering from his joints, but has lost some weight already and generally feels much more alive than he had been these past few months. He’s changed his diet and drinking habits (talked about it extensively on facebook, and feel that as our backers he would want you all to know the type of fight he is facing), and it seems so far to have been consistent and for the better.
In the meantime, while Ernest was unavailable, I switched gears on the project to concentrate on what I could do to push the project forward without my creative partner. I refocused on the maps of the expansions for the Marmoreal Tomb, and designed the GP version of the old Outdoors map board that was once advised for use with the original game of 1974. This map is now done, and you can see it here:
That will be all for now.
I understand that Ernest has been having health issues, and I sympathize with that, but it has been 9 months already but at this time I wish to withdraw support for this project and have my funds returned to me. Please let me know how I can go about have this request fulfilled. Thank you.
April 8 2016
A quick update while I await my connecting flight home. Packages will finally start going out tomorrow morning! I expect the first wave to take a few weeks and finish just in time for boxes to arrive. Might be some crossover; some will only receive a single package. Thanks Bill
Edited. Darn autocorrect phone!
May 2 2016
I received “part” of the boxset today. At least I think it’s part of it because it didn’t have a box other than what it shipped in. I’m also confused by the booklet numbers as it seems one is missing and I got 2 of the other.
Here is what I received.
CA0.5 (two of these)
CA3.0
CA5.0
Note pad.
May 3 2016
I’ll post a complete list in an update tonight ( or later today if I can get to my laptop). Also, celestian has a good point and all shipments will come with a packing list of entire project.
There are none books in the base set.
It takes great courage to put that bag of Cheetos down. And giving up the Ho-Hos, good god, giving up the Ho-Hos…
The Raven 1963 – Roger Corman is out on Bluray. Goofy and yet Vancian wizard fight fight fight, zero horror. Vincent Price – Peter Lorre – Boris Karlof – and eh … Jack Nicholson.
This is much more fun than Witchfinder General, not as good as Masque of the Red Death.
Joe Rogan is dumb as fuck, as dumb as fuuhaaauuuhUK as fuuuuuuuuuuk as fufufufuufufuk
Joe Rogan from 1hr 02min
I’ve been reading that article on game pricing with great interest, because I am about to publish a new roleplaying game… A month ago, Kent’s Rectum sent me a PM (not a BM, mind you) at the Chuck Tingle Fan Forum, requesting that I read over an RPG manuscript that it had shitten, I mean written. In this RPG, titled Pricks and Prolapses, players take on the roles of abused colons which are trying to escape from their perverse masters.
Task resolution relies on an innovated ‘deuce drop’ mechanic, inspired by Zakina’s ‘Vornheim’ tables, using percentiles. It’s only a semi-random mechanic, as players’ diet and backdoor proclivities can influence results. The ‘tens’ digit is determined by where the shit hits the playing surface, while the ‘ones’ digit is determined using the Bristol stool scale (oddly enough, there are no results over seven, but one can’t expect arithmetical consistency from the rectum of an innumerate ‘mathematician’).
I don’t know if Kent’s Rectum’s game has any potential as a mass-market product, though Brown Wolf and Colostomy House have inquired about licensing for turd party supplements, or if this game will be just another fantasy
heartbreakerassbuster. At any rate, Kent’s Rectum didn’t plagiarize the smell, I mean spell, lists from any ‘Old Stool’ authors.You should talk to those hacks who Hoarded my Bottom about doing a conversion for demonstration purposes.
Hoarded your Bottom? Do you need us to alert the authorities?
The damage is done, old boy. My Bottom is now and forever more a whimsical dungeon crawl with anime tropes – much to my chagrin, of course.
Anime tropes, eh? Having bishōnen with oversized weapons adventuring in your Bottom might explain your 5 out of 10 on FotU’s gayness scale.
I didn’t ASK for them to be there. I thought we’d established that my Bottom was being used without consent…
RELEVANT
It seems there is a Tingle for every trouble one might encounter…
While it sounds like a standard cecum-crawl, still unconvinced about player agency. Not surprised at all that Vox Gay wants Colostomy House to get in on the action.
There is plenty of scope for player agency, as long as the players eat the right amount of insoluble fiber.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/customavatars/avatar4381_5.gif My “eat, pee, crap, rinse, clean, repeat” mechanic is Open Game Content you know! 🙄
Very exciting. The Deuces High series has been a huge influence on my gaming and it is good to finally see it get a well-deserved retroclone. I trust that you will use the well-regarded anal-integrity rules from the 2nd edition as opposed to the ambitious but ultimately very cubersome optional rules from the later Deep Carbon Penetration supplement. I had to tank my Asseaters of PyongYang campaign after several bad dice rolls and a truck of expired chinese food resulted in what is best described as Total Rectal Reversal for the entire team.
That Asseaters of Pyongyang campaign was the shit! Who could have thought that Martin Ssempa’s character would attempt to assassinate Kent Jong Un by feeding him that arsenic-laced poo poo? Kent Jong Un was lucky he had a double specialization in coprophagy.
I hear that John C. Wright is going to write a novel based on the campaign journals, and that Uwe Boll has been tapped to direct the film.
I’d be okay with that. All Wright would have to do is identify as a transblack muslim druid, team up with Tingle and before you know it AoP: Extra Fiber would make it to the top of the recommended works list from Rabid Puppies and Hugo-ites alike. The movie would be directed by Adam Sandler and Michael Bay of course, no other directors have managed to capture the essence of taking a huge dump on an audience quite so well.
Not sure about Colostomy House : their last Bundle of Holding was kind of a mixed bag.
They released it in the late summer, when maize is a major component of the American diet.
Heh, found a real winner lurking in Tenkar’s blogroll. Check it out, he has a ‘gamergate’ Confederate flag logo and seems to be a ‘Colostomy House’ contributor:
https://cirsova.wordpress.com/
Oh, Tenkar, tell us how you are making the world safe for female gamers.
Damn, I saw a review of that Cirsova mag #1 at Black Gate, it looked pretty good. I am a bit ambivalent about gamergate (both sides are shit heads, though no question the ggers targeted women while running away from men), but this kid does seem to be a Vox Gay disciple, so fuck him. Let him eat shit.
Eh…seems harsh to me. I’m not on one line with Wright (a tad too moderate and humble) but Null A Continuum was good even before the gov heroin, and Ender’s Gate (Not Mormon enough) is a terrific read.
Sarkeesian and Quinn (both verifiably awful people) standing before the UN and giving a lecture on the evils of online harassment to representatives of countries with civil wars, ethnic cleansings, corporate exploitation bordering on slavery, actual slavery, and gay murdering takes some bad ass white privelege though.
Null A and Ender are fundamentally derivative works, of course, since it seems my ally and former colleague was paying careful homage to the vision of a $cientologist and latent pedophile, respectively. But whatever spins your beanie, I suppose.On the other hand I am famous for my own 100% original output, as the latest interview I asked to give reveals. Pay no attention to the hidden joke in the link name.
http://appendixnhappymeal.blogspot.com/2016/05/kasimir-urbanski-john-tarnowski-aka-rpg.html
Ender’s Game is an extremely well-paced, absorbing work that manages to pull of its central concept with admirable brevity. Continuum took the bizarre plot-twist and revisionist/retroactive plottwist of Null-a and the universe building of Players of null-a and expanded on both of them. I have seldom read a better sequel by another author.
Paying attention to what people do in their personal lives when they write elfbooks or space-elfbooks is stupid. I’d have to give up Lovecraft and start my crippling meth-addiction and write about how elfgames make people hate mexicans by using orcs as a standin or how we have to remove lovecrafts bust so we can instead nominate a less talented and observably less relevant PoC author or whatever. No one cares.
In general the author’s views are irrelevant to the work, but there are some specific examples that are relevant. Ayn Rand makes more sense when you understand she is trying to make moral indifference a moral imperative, and the Colostomy House’s attempts to destroy the Hugos because Teddy never won one is obviously relevant to what they produce/slate-nominate. (I am sympathetic to the stated goals, rather than the actual goals, of the Sad Puppies, in getting more action and science and away from the identity politics sf, but their true goals were to get conservative and libertarian writers some awards – which is not the same thing).
As far as Sarsleezian and Quinn, I agree about their tone deaf narcissism, but how does that relate to this subdiscussion? Just the standard right wing inability to NOT attack women they hate, or is there some obvious connection to Colostomy House I am missing?
T’was in response to a gamergate reference noble sir.
I think Beale’s grudgematch goes deeper then some envy at one of Scalzi’s nine bazillion hugo’s. There is clear motivation from his conflicts with the SWFA board, but from a broader perspective this is simply yet another battleground in the giant cultural war (everyone vs creepo sjws) that is the sign of our times.
I’m a Sad puppies sympathizer. It’s fair to state that the bulk of the authors on the initial ballot was on the right side of the spectrum, there was a clear motive, but the backlash and shitstorm that ensued kind of made the point the Hugos are sort of fucked (Blindsight is however, a pre-HUGO Delenda Est nominated novel that is worth one’s time). Political correctness makes for terrible art.
This shit is not going away any time soon man. Lean back, enjoy. And good hunting to you.
The cultural war…maybe this is true and there really is a cultural war, but the people who talk about it the most (Vox, Pundejo, and their ilk, and I guess the Sarkesians but I don’t hear them as much as others) are the ones who don’t just drone on about it but they actually love it and are defined by it. I just don’t see it, but then people read so much into everything that happens (“It’s the SJWs!” “This is because I’m black!”) and are ideologically unequipped to perceive things as they are. People like that want to drag everyone down to their level, rather than rise to something better (I can’t believe I’m actually typing this on YDIS), and people are too willing to follow. I usually dismiss these kooks, but given their growing followers it is difficult. And i fully admit that I may be a bit naive here in dismissing this cultural war bs.
The most instructive post I saw on the Puppies came from one of the guys who was nominated by them last year. He did a blog post afterwards that I thought was pretty level-headed, and described the crushing disapointment of losing out to a crowd-sourced No Award. But he made it clear what the real motivation behind the puppies was (political, rather than the nature or quality of the stories) when he said, “I signed up for the Sad Puppy list because I was told it was about getting representation for conservative and libertarian leaning storytellers in the Hugo nomination process.”
Rock on, dude.
Perhaps it is more noticable in Europe where the politically and culturally dominant “Left” (similar but different from the American concept) has been under considerable fire from a newly risen euroskeptic/nationalist/right-wing populist bloc after various migrant related kurfuffles and giant gaping holes in the narrative with no doubt very interesting if unfortunately disasterous consequences, but the more Internet-centric dimension is so fascinating because it concerns seemingly trivial cultural products like gaming or comic-books. A war for not for bodies but for souls, for the moral highground if you will (or, depending on your point of view, the right to exist at all).
Counter-argument on noticeability; For all the sleeziness and grime that enfolds Clinton like a thick cloak there is no way the outcome of a Trump v Hilary grudge match would have been in doubt so much as 8 years ago. The republican establishment itself is confronted with its obsolence. The liberal/progressive split is also becoming more pronounced.
It is going to be interesting to see who gets to write the “history” of the coming years.
Enough talking about srs buisness. I am considering a hateread of wundergeek but I am wondering if the chuckles (snarling wolf-howl Jeff Goldbloom chuckles) are worth the brain damage.
Man, wundergeek just makes me feel dirty reading it, like Pundejo.
And surely there was admiration and reverence in your typing voice when you mentioned Jeff Goldblum.
I love the butthurt “themal dynamicisist”‘s line of argument:
(a) It is wrong to nominate/vote for works you haven’t read.
(b) It wasn’t very nice to to slate nominations (which did involve nominating things you haven’t read, wholesale)
(c) However, the not-so-very-nice people who decided to nominate terrible shit that they hadn’t read(like the god-awful-pile-of-neckbeard-cumstained-colon-wall-scraping-excrement that Burnside published under the title Hot Equations), no somehow, has the magical ability to dictate to EVERYBODY else what they HAVE TO READ (without themselves having bothered to suffer it themselves) otherwise people voting “No Award” in categories were a bunch of morons who believe that all SciFi must be recreations of fucking world war 2 …IN SPACE! managed to ruin it for everybody, are somehow BAD PEOPLE? Fuck that shit.
And then the fuck try to fucking justify it in terms of… “I needed the publicity and get some readers.” Fucking idiot! Glad to see that the OSR is not alone in its complete lack of self-awareness.
I hope I fucking die before I eke out a living translating the pop-science of yesteryear into terrible military SciFi games.
Meanwhile, Chuck Tingle drops a bus, a Vampire Night Bus, on Vox Day…
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/chuck-tingle-trolling-hugo-zoe-quinn-genius/
I don’t necessarily dig Chuck’s naïf web-persona- his fiction is too ‘meta’ to make it convincing- but Chuck is pretty damn sly.
Looks like Tarnowski’s desperate trolling of blog comments for people to join the ‘Shite has borns quality fruit.
Here is a lad who has started a number of thread in Pundejo’s own forum, and which John has had to close. I introduce you to…Cruesader!
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?34479-The-Merits-of-gatekeeping-cred-checking-and-shunning
This one (or one of the others he closed, can’t remember) even got yet another “I saved D&D, what have you done?” proclamation from Pundejo.
Damn, no post from merc.
“Soon, someone I willingly describe as a tasteless bastard (pejorative terms, lest we forget) has gotten his act together and behaved like a more decent human being because he’s trying to impress a woman. This is how things are supposed to be, of course, people are supposed to make and sustain efforts to change or at least display change in order to sustain relationships and have kids and raise them right and maybe even execute some change in themselves, improving in some way as people, but for the sake of the Purity of the Hobby I want you to wallow in your own filth and pedantry for the rest of your live-long days. May you stay forever Unblown.”
That’s what I’m supposed to take away from this, yeah?
What the piss and hiccups is that middle sentence all about? I’m sorry chaps, that’s bad form. I don’t even have the tenuous excuse of alcohol for that one.
“The will of the group of seventeen was the will of everyone.
The people meeting in counsel may judge, but no one is to receive more than a hundred blows. How are the hands nourished? By the blood. How does the blood reach the hands? By the veins. If the veins are closed, the hands will rot away. Where the Group of Seventeen sit, there final justice is done.”
You see, that was competently done. What was I on about? What was going on between the cold potato I call my brain and the tips of my fingers on the keyboard that night?
A Brief Summary of the Tingling
Posted by Cirsova on May 11, 2016
Vox Day & Rabid Puppies say “Let’s Nominate Chuck Tingle for the lulz!”
Chuck Tingle gets nominated, proceeds to be awesome and hilarious, even in the face of pressure from anti-puppies that he withdraw because he’s ruining the Hugos by being there.
Puppies and Puppy Adjacents say “Chuck Tingle is awesome, let’s get him a Hugo!”
Chuck Tingle posts jokes about Vox Day and announces Zoe Quinn will accept the award for him.
Many of the people previously saying Tingle should withdraw because he’s ruining the Hugos say “Let’s get Chuck Tingle a Hugo; that’ll show Vox Day, the Puppies and Gamergate!”
Puppies and Puppy Adjacents – “We’re okay with this!”
Love is Real
For some reason, I don’t think giving Space Raptor Butt Invasion—a work that wouldn’t even be on the ballot if it were not for Vox Day—a Hugo is going to teach Vox Day a lesson.
We win again!
Can we not just fire all of these tosspots into the sun?
The GamerGate storm in a teacup has been tiresome from the start. Gamers are rotten to each other; media pundits see the chance for quick dollars and column inches; ideologues entrench and start belching.
I can’t believe that good reviews for mental illness simulators and gameable award ceremonies are worth all this tizzwazz.
The real joke is the bit about ‘ethics in gaming journalism’- ever since the beginning, gaming publications have been house organs grinding out biased reviews of new releases. Now, won’t somebody please buy some product?
Alternate take (say it with me, because you know what’s coming): THE SPICE MUST FLOW!
“Congratulations guys, you have a sex scandal AND juicy juicy nepotism AND corporate puppetry! Gaming is finally a real art form!”
The real joke for me is all these allegedly heterosexual manchildren who are determined to shoo away women who are into the same stuff they are, and in some cases are demonstrably into boffing nerdy blokes. Seldom have I seen such determination to scare off potential mates. The species is doomed, I tells ye!
By framing that as “Bloo Lives Matter,” it normalizes and naturalizes violence against people of color in this country. And that is not okay. That is in no way okay.
That’s right, folks. There are 13 female IIFPs and only 12 men. This means there are MORE WOMEN THAN MEN, and that is a HUGE FUCKING DEAL, because that is a HUGE amount of change in a really short period of time. To prove it, let’s look at the numbers:
This year’s lineup is 52% female! (13 out of 25)
Just five years ago, the lineup was a meager 6.25% female (1 out of 16)
The current number of female IIFPs has more than tripled in only two years. In 2014, there were only 4 out of 25 (16%)!
That said, while gender parity has been achieved, there’s still some progress to be made on other fronts. While there is increased representation of LGBT people, the lineup is still pretty darn white. Even so, the current lineup is a lot less cishet and is less white than in years past, which is encouraging. To quote Jessica Price, an IIFP and developer at Paizo:
Does this magically fix all of tabletop gaming’s misogyny problems? No. But women being recognized as gaming authorities, our work being highlighted, our input being sought, and just our presence in equal numbers with men helps
And importantly, this lineup is much more reflective of the diversity of activity within the gaming industry as a whole. In years past, in order to get selected you pretty much had to be a cishet white dude working for a mainstream company on trad tabletop games. But this year’s lineup includes a wide swath of thought-leadership in the hobby, including tabletop publishers, LARP designers, event organizers, activists, critics, podcasters, academics, and community managers. Which is EXCITING! I can’t wait to see what sort of discussion comes out of this year’s panels!
Well then, all I can say is I am glad THIS is happening:
I hope there’s a POONSLAYER Class!
Gencon will also be expanding their Rope Bondage Class offerings to 24 classes this year. The expanded schedule includes both beginner and advanced workshops, with or without 30 feet of colored bondage rope included. Plus now for the first time you can choose between either child or 18-years-and-up formats.
If not for your mention of the “colored” I would be happy to finally see a real sex-positive game culture con. PS Sorry, fags and mongrels… I’m still here WOO!!!
Hah, hah, I wonder if wundergeek is going to lecture all the sexy cosplayers about how they are submitting to the dreaded Male Gaze, and how they are betraying their gender.
Ding ding! Sex Negative “You’re Betraying The Sisterhoood” feminism vs. Sex Positive “I Am Mistress Of My Body And Male Desire” feminism, round ohfuckknowsanymorepleasegoddesskillme, place yer bets PAH-LEASE, ladies and transladies!
(Gentlemen, of course, have no stake in this fight. It’s not for you, boys!)
Tao of d&d is offering FREE DM TUITION via skype to those who give him money for his habit of staying alive.
http://tao-dnd.blogspot.com
Hmmm, maybe it is time for a cultural war against this arrogant pizza chef.
The ‘pizza chef’ phase of Lexi’s strange trip is fast receding into the past.
Shit, I missed that. I guess that’s when he started begging with his Foodstarter campaign, eh? That is kinda demoralizing to get the finger from Pizza Hut for not being smart enough.
Maybe the people who make Cheetos are hiring? Or maybe I can UPS him come celery.
FILL MY PANTIES I MEAN PANTRY!!!!
Class One: why extremely detailed random weather charts and trade simulators to determine the price of saddles in real time are necessary for perfect elfgaming.
Class Two: pedantic insistence and comment moderation for beginners.
Class Three: flouncing and meltdowns for the advanced student.
Let’s look at the positives, the negatives will arise naturally with feedback from the classes even though he censors comments.
Tao is unique. He went his own way with the AD&D rules even to the point of dismissing master Gygax with misguided contempt. This is what you were supposed to do, from necessity, as is clear from the patchwork programme OD&D. That is how DMs isolated from gaming mobs proceeded and those who entertained their players survived while the rest died off or sought out the official module crutches. If your campaign prospered as a DM isolated from the mediocre spoonfed mob of dependent gamers it was bound to be highly original. I don’t care for Tao’s psychotic focus on minutiae, oceans of it, but if you have read any of the game reports those are largely ignored in play. Beyond his tedious innovations in rules and procedures I think his imagination is flat which is partly a consequence of not being well read; that is a universal failing. So much for the positives.
In contrast take a look a what grew from that broad community of brainless naifs, from those huddles of needy conforming beggars. Consider the sort of mind that read Dragon magazine and needs a third party to imagine for them them that — Room A has two trolls in it.
http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14010
You were right all along about the modules. I hadn’t encountered any official TSR ones until last year and hadn’t grasped how low the bar was set. For a lad of ten they might have held some novelty but seeing them lauded by grown adults brings on a great dismay.
In light of that discovery I will grant you that the Tao took a step along the path to Golconda, but he is still a pompous nerd who has veered into the thickets of irrelevance after that first determined footfall.
Kentar is right. 12 y.o. me loved these modules, but I don’t see much use for them now outside the realm of nostalgia, even to introduce new players to the hobby (one notable exception : TSR UK’s Night’s Dark terror). Nevertheless J.B. Thompson’s walkthrough maps are hilarious.
B10 kicks ass, B1 is still a great introductionary adventure and B2 is a good if bland template for nonlinear dungeonshenanigans but the general analysis of gaming trends probably holds up.
Part of the general idea behind modules was that you could just dump it in your home game at any point but any home game I have ever run or participated in would generally have too much shit going on after 2-5 sessions to make the inclusion of modules anything but disruptive filler.
If you build your campaign around a specific-prepubliished setting and structure it around the type of adventure modules tend to revolve around, you could still use them, and I’d say some modules have good or original ideas that can be pilfered at the very least.
It within is the grey area between highly original and borderline seperatist Dnd and cult-like genre/setting emulation/worship that I have found the shittiest GMs overall.
@Prince – I think the best module and the best use for a module is as something for GM and players alike to cut their teeth on, learning a new system or setting through direct interaction. If the group is at all interesting then further play can be driven by emergent factors from that first session, as you say, and no further modules are needed, let alone a ten-part pathway.
Part of the problem may be coming to a new RPG as an adult rather than the aforementioned nauseating pre-adolescent. My palate is no longer appeased by stale stock fantasy fluff but most “here is how you learn our game” modules are of just that sort in order to avoid distraction from what is to be learned. Or because their authors are braindead. The reason is not important.
By the way: I am differentiating the module as self-contained series of encounters with some plot or theme in common from the vintage White Dwarf adventure or encounter like Rough Night at the Three Feathers because those are short, flexible enough to slot into the in-between days of a campaign, and crucially, they do not suck.
The G and D series (Q? Never heard of it) are the best modules, not only are they part of the shared gamer experience, but they are the best link between Appendix N and D&D. G1 and G3 are basically “De Camp and Pratt’s ‘The Roaring Trumpet: The Module'”, with G2 being a more original interlude. The modules are even better than the novella, which is a modern take on the Norse tale of the expedition to Útgarða-Loki’s steading, because DeCamp and Pratt leaven the tale with some not-so-funny comedy. Also, Gygax stirs in some Merrittean weirdness, lifting the ‘Temple of the Elemental Eye’ wholesale from ‘Dwellers in the Abyss’. If I were to introduce new players to the game, I would probably suggest G and D in order to convey some epic flavor with weird interludes.
I would also say WG4, Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun, is a great piece of atmosphere on par with the weirdness you get in D3.
Von – I might actually prefer some of the adventure outlines given in the GAZ suppelments for Basic, which strike a nice balance between creative freedom and inspiration.
BACLF – Thank you again for getting me hooked on Meritt. Dwellers and Moon Pool have been very exciting so far. Even Monte Cook’s star-spangled chocolate-n-fudge coated Numenera game draws massive inspiration from it (and, come to think of it, from Dying Earth, Night Land and Book of the New Sun). G-D are very good. I liked some of the A series but they are not on par with G-D. Q was…okay. I didn’t hate it.
I have a child-like admiration for Throne of Bloodstone but that is probably because no one in their right mind has ever run it.
We are omitting DA2 and maybe DA3, and that is a crime.
Sy – Hahaaah. That was the one that did Weird Temples right.
Some more:
I1, Dwellers of the Forbidden City, is a great sandbox setting with great pulp flavor.
I also rate X1 pretty high. The temple climax was maybe not much of one, but the rest of the module is pretty fun.
The Saltmarsh series read well, but I’ve never run them.
Back in my later 2e days, I ran quite a few games in Lankhmar. I really liked the base book and the city gazetteers, even when they wandered away from Leiber’s canon. Tons of fun.
The only Bloodstone module I had was for ridiculously high levels and had a couple Battlesystem (excuse me: BATTLESYSTEM) scenarios and I think had an encounter with Orcus. It wasn’t my cuppa.
And if we’re including outlines…a couple of the suggestions in the ’83 WoG boxed set are awesome. The one with the weird gelatinous pudding “mother” sticks in mind in particular.
@Prince
“I might actually prefer some of the adventure outlines given in the GAZ suppelments for Basic, which strike a nice balance between creative freedom and inspiration.”
How do they go about doing this?
@Sykirombe
I think a good setting book is a step up from a module. Forgive this childish analogy – a setting book is a Lego castle, a module is an Airfix castle. The bits in the Lego castle can build a wide range of stuff which happens to look quite castle-ish: while you can do that with the Airfix castle you’ll be cutting up pieces and mucking around and quite possibly making a hash of it. The best setting book I’ve read (Sold Down The River, for those who are keeping score) is full of raw material into which characters can be inserted for curated campaigning or the more sandboxy ‘you’ve arrived in the big city and you have no money’ open stuff.
I agree with your broad point even if I don’t like the analogy; however, I can’t really come up with a better one, ha.
My favorite modules tend to be little sandboxes, self-contained settings: here’s a place, here’s who/what lives there, go nuts. You can use them to tell very different stories using the same elements, even dropping them into an ongoing game (hmm…okay, maybe your analogy works better than I’d though). This is why T1 is magnitudes better than the completed ToEE even if it uses only bog-standard D&Disms (well, it is a beginner’s adventure, after all). You have a fleshed-out village with inhabitants of varied disposition and an adventure site; linking the two is really up to the DM as the module only hints at why the PCs would explore the moathouse.
Some of the Harn adventure modules are like this. One of my favorites, Araka-Kalai, details a single location (the Pit of Ilvir, Spawner of Monsters, a limestone cave system with a temple complex above) and attendant personalities. There are a few adventure sketches thrown in, but for the most part, it’s just a great, imaginative location that’s not only truly strange (in a very low-key way, if that makes sense) but taught me a ton about cavern formation and features. And all this in a very slim booklet (48pp, I believe).
Hook/objective – Some suggested complications. Add unique monster stats where applicable. The Dwarves of Rockhome had a brilliant one about the return of dwarven golem jesus turned mad for example. Some were kind of generic and lame but there was some nice stuff in there. I’d estimate a 30% not suck ratio.
Sy (We are at the vaguely girlish abbreviated nickname level of the convo now) correctly points out the Greyhawk seeds were amazing. I personally loved the idea of exploring a sort of sargasso of seaweed and shipwrecks.
Woke up today in more pain and with swelling around the abscess area. It appears the infection was penicillin resistant and caused cellulitis in the surrounding tissue. Still not ready to draim and oh so fucking painful.
New antibiotics with accompanying probiotics, as these new meds are strong. Also, Tylenol with codine, which takes the edge off for a bit. Beginning to regret turning down the percoset.
Typing this on my tablet. Sitting is NOT an option.
This is what happens when you sit on your ass all day stirring up shit in the blOwSR turdosphere while collecting your undeserved pension at taxpayer expense for a doing a job that involved sitting on your ass all day eating donuts for 20 years.
Don’t forget the occasional break from the donuts to harass and bully a few black kids!
I’m going to step out of character for a moment and ask a semi-serious question… what is it about Anita Sarkeesian that makes some dudes lose their shit? I first encountered her a few years back when I ran across the term ‘manic pixie dream girl’, and saw her ‘tropes against women’ video on the subject.
I recently rewatched a few of those videos, and they are totally innocuous- she comes across as someone who is against lazy, cliched writing, not a castrating harpy. Still, there was that stupid ‘beat up Anita Sarkeesian’ game, then there was doxxing and death threats. What is it about her that enrages d00ds?
Is it because her crypto-semitic allure gives neo-nazis schadenboners? What is it about this woman that elicits such rage? And, no, saying that she had a successful Kickstarter is just plain stupid, she’s using that money to produce new videos, she didn’t take the money and run like Jimmy the Scam or Nystul the illusionist/thief.
I’ll get back to my trash-talk momentarily, ya bunch of fartknockers.
It’s mostly due to her “Strategic Butt Coverings” episode of Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. From Wikipedia:
“In this episode, Sarkeesian argues that video games often objectify female protagonists by sexualizing their buttocks via camera angles and costume choices; in contrast, male protagonists’ buttocks are typically de-emphasized or hidden by clothing and other “Strategic Butt Coverings.”
As someone who has enjoyed drooling and mouth-breathing over Buki’s little brown bouncing ass for probably 10+ hours in Sudeki, I am not amused at any attempts to dial back the undulating female buttocks action in modern games. Nor do I particularly wish to play some game where I stare at a hunky guy’s thong-clad backside for any appreciatively long period of time. When I make Lara Croft climb out of a secluded grotto glistening with moisture, I start looking for a corner to back her into so I can admire her wet gazongas. Is it wrong? Now I’m not saying that justifies all the harassment, but I think that’s basically where these guys are coming from.
Look at it this way, would you like it if your DM suddenly said he would no longer allow you to play as a chick in a chainmail thong with giant tomatoes? I’d be looking for another game, thanks.
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time in the Bronx, ass is something I can totally get behind, but Anita has no authority to ban pixelbooty.
Personally, I don’t play video games for sexual titillation… I tend to prefer watching Youtube videos in which I can fantasize about what the commenter is hiding under her flannel shirts.
From the mouths of trolls;
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Feminist_Frequency
I will begrudge no man his schadenboners. But Sarkeesian is essentially non-fat non-perscription medication wundergeek with better PR skills.
Semper fi bitchass.
Sarkeesian’s entry level, damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t criticism leads a well-meaning chap like me to throw up his hands and ask “well what would you have us do instead?” It asks questions which have been asked and makes points which have been made in undergraduate classes for decades, and I just want us to move on from ‘troubling the discourse’ and actually make different, decent stuff. I don’t hate her but I find her mildly tiresome.
Alrite, Bigby, let’s get you back on track :
That Phoebe Cates tribute is hilarious.
Well, the man’s got another boost to his ego, courtesy of WaPo:
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?34511-I-m-Getting-Quoted-by-the-Washington-Post-for-all-the-Wrong-Reasons
Trump will be president, John Tarnowski is getting quoted in national media. As one dude who used to post here would say:
Fuck!
Heh, Cucksimir Urbanski..
How did I possibly already hit my quota of free WaPo aticles???
Well, I guess I’ll be applying for the GENCON Destitute Lesbian Gay or Tranny Gamer of Color with Disabilites Scholarship this year. RPGPundit submitted my name to the search committee and called me his Chuck Tingle, whatever that means. After they parade me around and point at me for a bit so everyone knows they have one of my kind now I think I migth have time to run Stink In Golanda if anyone is interested. Hit me up in the comments below if you want to play.
Is there a GENCON scholarship for unemployed and unemployable fat Canadian pre-op trannies with empty larders and social retardation issues?
Asking for a friend…
Ya know, Blooey always identified with the opposite gender with his bloodymage avatar. Maybe Steve Willett only died figuratively and somewhere Stephanie WIllet is taking on the world like Mary Tyler Moore one Red State restroom at a time…
Eat pee crap subvert overthrow
That scholarship where white middle class SJWs want to find a token made me think of this:
Mary had a little lamb,
His fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
Maeve had a supple butt
With skin as white as snow
And everywhere that slut Maeve went,
Sir Kent was sure to go.
Better, but does ‘Maeve’ have one syllable or two?
Maeve rhymes with shave, as in shave her pubes. But if by ‘syllable’ you mean ‘breast’ then two, (with three nipples, one on her tongue)
In which case I think you have one breast (by which I mean ‘syllable’) too many in the third line.
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock
Fafhrd had a big black cock.
The Mouser ran up his cock.
The cock came once,
The Mouser ran down.
I never met such a bunch of fags as you guys.
Doesn’t scan. I expect better from a Poet and Mathematician.
Elision, so scan *Mouser ran* as *Mouser an* just as it sounds when you read it out loud on the tube at rush hour.
As for,
‘I never met such a bunch of fags as you guys.’
God made me put that in, and I did not not feel like arguing the point.
And what’s your excuse for the first line? That sounds like you were going for ‘Mary’ again.
(Fair point on ‘Mouser ran’ though. I don’t like it, but it works.)
Just fucking great, Seamus Heiney has shit out more of his pooetry.
As a subscriber to the ‘show don’t tell’ school of achievement assessment, I have to note that, for a d00d who claims to be the smartest guy in the room, Kent is as dumb as a stump.
The ‘Kent Scale of Intelligence’ is predicated strictly on a test of spatial relationships, the ability to rotate 3D images inside one’s rectum.
I like cock.
SJWs always project.
That is what Vox Day told me to say!
We should have a Castalia House gaming group for G+ or something.
There are some superversive folk, a stray mad genius, and scads of rpg-designers over there… but it’s pretty thin on Ilk and Gamergate types…!
I wish Varg Vikernes’ game, MYFAROG, were less crunch, because I really like his take on trolls; they’re sort of a weird hybrid of nordic folk trolls and lovecraftian monsters (in MYFAROG, the Jotunn came from space). By their nature and very existence, they spread the Etunikaimas (basically the feywild) and corrupt reality wherever they’re present.
“Etunakaimas (“world of hunger”) is the domain of the ettins. It is not a realm as such, but a name used for all
the areas in all the human realms of Þulê eaten up by the destructive power of the ettins; the deepest forests, the largest bogs, the tallest mountains, the most dangerous seas and the other unsafe places of
the Earth. Everything eaten up by the power of the ettins has changed; the trees have become unnatural, twisted and grotesque, many animals larger and more aggressive, men more savage, the air colder and the weather wilder. At the centre of this domain is the deity Wumias, alias Beleþorn, and his lair. You know that you have entered Etunakaimas by the change in
atmosphere; there is silence as heard nowhere else, often broken by distant shrieks and screams from all sorts of dangerous creatures, and the sky itself has a strange glow when seen from Etunakaimas.”
Hello my name is CHUCK TINGLE (worlds greatest author).
sometimes devilmen are so busy planning scoundrel attacks they forget to REGISTER important website names. this is a SOFT WAY of the antibuckaroo agenda but is also good because it makes it easy for BUDS WHO KNOW LOVE IS REAL to prove love (all).
Harlan Ellison (world’s 2nd greatest author) is my new hero.
I can’t remember the exact dates but the writers guild sold out in the late 60s early 70s for – Money YES, Respect NO – and the directors guild decided on the opposite, and in the medium term it worked out far better for the directors. So fuck writers who write shitty movies and shitty tv and do what they are told like dogs, fire one get another in, fire him get another in, etc. Producers can’t do that with directors. Anyway these writers are shit, Harlan Ellison is egomaniacal child and a terrible writer. I shit on Harlan Ellison and his kind.
@Kent So glad to find you here – I misplaced one of my Hugos and I think it’s in your butt. Be a doll and send it back once you have licked it clean.
Shout-out to all you Bloomage apostles out there.
http://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=3053
It’s nice to see that “The Stink…” stands the test of time. I wonder where the product of its sales goes now ? BTW Prince, in the light of Ellison’s punditesque views above, have you ever encountered a free or PWYW OSR product worth playing ?
Gabor Lux’s Systema Tartarobasis is supposed to be made of sunshine, rainbows and uncut goverment black tar heroin. Kent has bloviated its praises so I guess it must be really good. You can find it on the internets. Our glorious overking whose voice drowns out all others has also extolled the virtues of Dreams of Ruin, notable for its Domain level focus and undeniable depth. I have not thoroughly investigated either, so this information should be classified as rumour only.
http://somekingskent.blogspot.nl/2010/09/systema-tartarobasis-melan.html?pfstyle=wp
[QUICK FIX READTHROUGH REVIEW, ACTUAL PLAY WILL FOLLOW IF I EVER HAVE A GROUP THAT LASTS UNTIL DOMAIN LEVEL AND ISN’T SHIT]
Dreams of Ruin is thorough but slightly abstract and very top-heavy. It bolts onto an existing campaign world very well and can trickle down if you’re designing one from scratch (i.e. you concieve of Dreams of Ruin as your endgame and subtly seed it throughout the levelling process).
It is of necessity incomplete, however – the events are things which take place in a world you’ve already established. It is not a self-contained, pick-up-and-play chunk of game material.
It is also limited in that your players must already have spent some time in the game world and become invested in it for the Dreams to achieve their full impact. To pick it up and try to run a domain level game starting at 8 would not work. I also suspect they have more appeal to story gamers than the other sort: although they can be treated as a purely mechanical challenge, I feel that’s wasting their potential as horror.
It is contaminated by assumptions regarding ‘the planes’ and universal cosmology and therefore feels closer to the grandiose One Product Line To Rule Them All TSR faffery of second edition AD&D than the One True Way. Beyond this ideological crime there is a practical implication: to make the Dreams work as written is to extend your campaign world in a particular manner and direction in which you might not wish to go.
THAT SAID: It’s definitely worth a read if you have any interest in domain level play, fantasy post-apocalypse that isn’t a thinly veiled Mad Max knockoff, and in adventuring beyond ‘da orcs all fall down’ level, even if you never end up running it ‘properly’.
In death, Blooey has finally arrived.
You can peruse a few pages of many of the works in Blooey’s oeuvre at Lulu. Enjoy creatures like the Gluttondillo, Retch Bird and Foreigner Gaijin Pigs, game stats for gonorrhea (fatal in 30+1d20 years), etc.
He’s got a ‘cock o’plenty’ in his ‘Compendium of Magic’.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/steve-bloodymage-willett/compendium-of-magic/paperback/product-21095584.html
No description in the preview- I bet he based it on Kent’s dining habits.
I don’t think you can buy the shower curtain anymore. If anyone actually bought one that has got to be a bona fide one-of-a-kind collector’s item.
It’s back! This time in LotFAP flavor! How low the self righteous blOwSR Pope JaMal has fallen to get into bed with the Finnish Filthmonger! A JaMal-ian WAG OF MY FINGER and an added POO POO to boot!
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/183866/The-Cursed-Chateau
Jimmy the Scam and Jimmy the Scum, together at last!
Heh, Cucksimir is painting his ass purple and displaying, but nobody wants to mount him:
http://expanduniver.blogspot.com/2016/05/england-is-upturned.html
Isn’t England Upchucked the setting Roburt COnly was working on before he gave up? To come out with the now-or-never LotFaP2012 Grande Adventure Campaign? Nice to see it is almost reaching fulfilment.
And poor Tarnowski, his impotent jealousy is a beatiful thing to laugh at.
Finally, the revelation of Blooey’s ‘Mary Bloo’ DMPC, the Bloodymage herself:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/steve-bloodymage-willett/the-confederacy-of-kyria-a-federation-of-adventurers-a-gazetteer-of-ert/paperback/product-21994296.html
Yep, his personal ‘Elminster’ equivalent… thanks, ‘Let me tell you about my character’.
OK, I admit it. ‘Mary Bloo’ raised a chuckle.
For a guffaw, check out Bloo’s fighter/thief(who’s not larcenous)/archmage half-valkyrie DMPC. Mercifully, there were no stats in the preview.
Don’t mess with the Bloodymage!
http://i3.cpcache.com/product/673106850/polyhedron_games_llc_classic_thong.jpg?color=White&height=460&width=460&qv=90
my story will have TWO WARNINGS in Hugo Awards packet, one for explicit content and one for spelling. Thank you.
BTW, if you buy something and like it, REVIEW it. Even a short 5-star review can be an immense help to the publishers.
Since looking at one of the places selling Bloodymage products, The Stink keeps popping up in advertisement areas of web pages I look at. Bittersweet reminders of what once was/could have been.
Indeed, many shining stars who go unappreciated in their time find great fame in the afterlife. It would be great if Raggi or Zako were to somehow get the rights to his works and “tweak” them a bit (and by tweak I don’t mean what Zak does when he runs out of daddy’s monthy allowance and can’t score meth). So maybe instead of “Da orcs a’ fa’ down” it could be the much more interesting “da orcs a’ sit down in a circle and get blown by Satine Phoenix.”
What society do you think functions better, a racist, ethnically homogeneous society with intact families or a diverse, ethnically heterogeneous society with the vast majority children being born illegitimate and raised without fathers? Which society do you prefer?
Those are the options presently on offer.
The PATRIARCHY has reached into COSPLAY and threatened the Womens:
https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?782957-It-s-2016-Can-we-please-get-rid-of-the-girl-gamer-PC-stereotype
What the hell is Sea-Lioning? The amount of white knighting and protecting the Wemens who dress like Wonder women with tits a poppin while shoveling down greasy pizza then bitching that men fawn over them and complain that the oggling is unheard of is at it again.
I can’t wait for our CisGendered overlords to right the wrong and stop the Triggerings.
“take part in the conversation without white-knighting, man-splaining, sea-lioning, demanding to be educated, querulously complaining “what about the men?”, or whinging about the topic”
I’m no expert, but I think that’s flexible enough to shoot down any contribution a dude with his heart in the right place might try to make.
“There isn’t much more creepy than guys thinking that because you’re a girl gamer you are a) single (often not true) b) looking for a date (often not true). No. We are girl gamers looking for a good game.”
De facto? Always? I mean, the thought process for me would go something like “you’re hot, you’re into the same sad shit I’m into, I’m single, are you? No? Damn. Oh well. Game on.” Isn’t that basically a viable route to getting together with someone? I thought this was how relationships got started, assuming the object of your desire wasn’t waggling its parts at you from the other side of a dancefloor and you decided not to throw them out of bread for eating crackers in the morning.
throw them out of BREAD
I should have breakfast before I attempt to make words on the Internet.
There is a massive amount of “My Ladying” that needs to be done for a gaming geek to court a woman you insensitive barbarian.
The Cistgendered overlords bring down shame on your comment.
Cistgendered? Someone call Dr. Specter. I suspect he will recommend antibiotics and a stern scrub of the ovaries at the very least.
I thought doffing one’s fedora with a genteel ‘milady’ was the surefire sign of a fucknugget stalker-douche in this day and age. It’s all so confusing. The pretence of chivalry used to get a giggle back in my day, now it’s stingy liquid in the eyes at best…
Chivalry without formal duels, plate steel and the blood-drenched slaughter of heathen dogs and apostates is meaningless.
You forgot the exploitation of serfs and the expenditure of lives by the thousand merely to keep score and provide a suitable backdrop to your own heroic antics.
If we’re VERY good and do VERY well, perhaps the Gods will bring everyone back and let us do it all again…
And your pink-socked sister getting menaced by the dasdardly villain in his lair. It’s all in good fun!
#TheKentOuroboros
#ImWithLordGro
Sea-lioning is SJW-code speech for holding them accountable for the retarded things they spew on a daily basis to offset their inevtiable descent into suicidal guilt-ridden depression over their inability to mimic or even approximate human behaviour.
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/873260-sea-lioning
Its ascendance as a term is an important step in canonising the SJW inability to argue based on reason or in good faith and thus serves as the first of many weapons that need to be re-mastered for them to be destroyed utterly so that civilisation and sanity may resume once more, hale and with less whining and shrieking accusations of something-ism.
I’d recommend a priori octracism of anyone relentlessly spewing progressive talking points from gaming conventions until the crazies have been weeded out, then we can get back to figuring out what is fair or what needs to change or why a wonderwoman constume opresses fat, blue-haired lesbians or whatever.
It is the cultural appropriation of Sea Mammalian culture that pisses me off.
#Seamammaliangenocide
Oh I SEE. The sort of thing Zak does all the time. I’m with you.
Don’t hate the sea lions, they are just God’s way of giving us Dog Mermaids.
Funny, Von’s on the money. The only time I’d ever seen that term used was to describe Zak’s schtick.
If you don’t want to get thrown out of bread you have to eat the cake.
At least when you have a gal or two at the gaming table the guys don’t fart as much.
True, but you have to deal with the sneaky and pernicious girl-fart. This is an admitted downside of my approach.
Girls don’t fart. They can’t shut up long enough to build up any pressure.
You keep telling yourself that. I was there for PizzaGate. I know what havoc too much garlic bread can wreak.
#notallpizza
IT’S HAPPENING
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?34527-The-Third-Gen-of-the-OSR&p=901050&viewfull=1#post901050
Needs a catalyst. Those open wounds need some salt.
Someone call Orvelle Reddenbocker, there’s going to be a run on popcorn for that thread watching.
Hah! Yes, England Up’Chucked, which has been promised since 2012, is a clone of RPGPlagiarist’s shitty War of the Roses clone released last year.
It’s because Tarnowski is richer and famouser than all the other dudes in gaming that people try to clone his tobacco leavings, and hold his every cunt-filled utterance with pseudo-relevance.
What is up with people stealing Pundit’s work? First Barker, now Blatt. When will the persecution end?!?
You forgot to mention 5E, which stole everything that it is from him. And that is why 5E is a smashing, unprecedentedish success.
It’s a pity Ragg’s isn’t so good with a snappy comeback, he’d have been better off pointing out Pundejo’s plagiarism, and reminding him that Pundit was the one asking Raggi to publish his shit, to no avail.
Yeah, with that remark, he just gives the impression of being a lazily reactive, petulant fatass. Odd.
Oh, there _will_ be blood. Pundit responded. I’m confident JimLotFAPFAP will rejoin the fray in due time.
It’ll probably be as fun to watch as those old “Pistols At Dawn” threads.
Cucksimir scores an ‘own goal’ here:
I love you too, Jimbo, but you had your chance to do Albion and you missed out.
Uh, Cucksimir, he didn’t miss out, he rejected it… and with his better name recognition, his product will beat yours out. There’s only room for one creepy ‘Murrican expat at the top of the OSR dunghill, and it ain’t you, Pundejo.
Contempt is a natural reaction to the majority of what the OSR puts out, unless I suppose you are a dim & jolly infant or a preening star in a world of your own invention.
Giving expression to contempt is another matter but I have forgotten what the *purpose* of that exercise is. Hardly to improve the quality of the output. Who can remind me of the purpose?
Are you still arguing with noisms?
The sweet heroin-like buzz of moral superiority?
The refusal to admit that he is the OSR-type most held in contempt.
But is there hope for change behind the mockery, a desire to influence the environment or is it just for pleasure? I should say ‘was it just …’ because it is clearly too late now for any such effect.
Kunt, you’re almost lucid lately. And do I detect a hint of happiness? Did your couple of failed suicides in the last few months act as a wake-up?
Well, it’s not going to last long. You’ll be back in the dumps. Why wait and go through the pain? You could end it this weeekend, Kunto. End the pain. End the farce. So many easy, painless and quick ways to do it. Do it Kunt, do it!
Sheer amusement.
“Yeah, with that remark, he just gives the impression of being a lazily reactive, petulant fatass. Odd.”
Timmy, me boy, I’m starting to get the feeling you’ve got a few good pounds on you yourself. Or at least your abusive father did.
We are now a day and a half into NTRPGCon. Any word on the much anticipated meeting between Turdkar and Dellaporno? Did they have a big fight, or have make-up sex?
Appendix N’s popularity only arose because of this entryist, “JMal”: an internet kickstarter fraud, World-of-Darkness fanatic and pretend OSR guy, who only got into it when he had the sense to see that White Wolf was dead and that there was rubes to fleece and money to make off the OSR. It makes sense Maliszewski would claim to love and promote the endless study of the minutiae of Appendix N: it has no play content, but tons of pretentiousness-potential. Appendix N itself was nothing more than just a list of ‘cool shit Gygax liked’, but in the hands of Maliszewski and his cohorts it was all about pretending to be literary critics and getting to be judgmental about what is “real old school”, and finding some kind of quasi-esoteric “primordial UR-D&D” to show you’re more old-school than anyone else.
Putting the dead pope on trial like this three years after Dwimmerfuck melted down is a classic cowardly lion move, John Tarnowski! Please remind me where you where when IRWS had his Galileo moment over on that site that you run because I remember it playing out differently.
I would also think that last bit up there would be extremely relevant to a hoodoo man of knowledge like you but since you miss the patterns of Guenonian ferment inside the “quasi” esoteric cargo cult of Appendix N I guess not.
another fine message from
GOD
P.S. I didn’t technically get Gary since he’s on the long-term Witness plan but I can find out when he gets here.
Wow, an IRunWithScissors AND a Renee Guenon reference, all while laying the hammer on Tarnowski. Aewsome. Well done, God!
Thanks to you who are called Timotheus. You know I try but usually it’s all I can do just keeping up with everything you smart monkeys get up to!
another fine message from
GOD
Poor Cucksimir, he really has an inferiority complex wrt Jmal. Sorry, buddy, there’s only room for one authoritarian half-Polish expatriate religious weirdo in this hobby, and it’s not you. Hell, he’s even been forgiven for his Dwimmermount kerfuffle, and the book has gotten a lot more notice than any of Pundejo’s derivative crap.
Some of us have been quietly reading ‘Appendix N’ books all along, and discussions of these works have been going on long before Jimmy the Scam decided to blog about gaming, not bastardy. I’d venture to say, though, that the suggested reading list in Moldvay basic is better than Appendix N, containing a much higher percentage of literary fantasy.
Can’t get enough Gamergate stuff in your life? Well Cuntsova has heard you, and he has a variant cover for its second issue by some Gamergate Life artist, featuring that chick they use as a shield being pawed by a multi-armed dude in Frazetta poses!
How empowering! Too bad the confedrate flag in rape colors is not being used behind them…
Ku Kuru Yo? What an appropriate name, it references both cuckoo (for Cocoa Puffs) and kuru, the laughing disease. Maybe Gamergaterism is a prion disease…
Obviously all you have to do to enjoy TenkGirl’s glorious above-the-fold exposure (286,612th on Alexa, mind you) is to throw some Patreon change at him and post every day. Prince, you know what to do…
I’ll readily admit my original marketing strategy of simply provoking Pundit by calling him mean names and then giving an honest assesment of his work for pageviews could use some upgrades.
I”ll hand over my hard-earned guilders once our Hugo-nominated artiste delivers on my new Age of Dusk rape-colours confederate flag with superimposed dutch lion beheading fat blue-haired feminist with flaming sword logo. The other paw hefts a bottle of jack filled with polyhedral dice. Shadowy Native americans lurking ominously in the background.
.
Please don’t do that. Political connotations aside, it sounds hideous.
And you really should not foster Old School Rape culture.
Of course, since it has been indesputably demonstrated the evil allwhite allcismale osr is already a hotbed of rape and rampant mysoginy (like all venues with an above average representation of leftists and feminists for some curious reason that we should probably not dwell on), t’would be but a drop in an ocean (of rape!).
I’m begging you all please join the Tavern’s Facebook Community. Erik really needs something to distract him from his unhealthy obsession with Ken Whitman, and sex is out of the equation since his explosive hemorrhoids forced me to have him sleep in the tub.
Some of you have probably been following his the last week, but it just keeps getting better.
Some right wing faggot, Jeffro Johnson, wrote a bunch of love letter blogs about Appendix N books on the Colostomy House blog. It got slate-nominated into the Hugos by the Voxstoppo (like Ku Kuru Rape boy above). I read one or two, because I like pulp fiction, and it is kinda cool to see some younger dudes get into older stories (even if it is because of political backlash initially – good stories should be preserved (I realize this is simplistic – I should expound later (but who would give a fuck?))). The two or three blog entries I read were reverential, but not quite to the JMal level.
Well last week John Tarnowski attacked that dude in his usual OSR Taliban strawman, claimimg everyone who likes Appendix N is slavish to it, blah, blah, blah. We have attacked that attitude for years here when applicable, one of many things Pundejo has plagiarized from us and claimed as his own opinions. But of course he sees it everywhere, paranoid fuck that he is. Anytime anyone mentions anything outside of Pundejo’s One True Way, they are Taliban engaged in Talmudic readings.
So this is the second of three posts the last week – check out his blog for the other two, they are comedy gold. This might be the best one. And Timmy Kask shows up to comment, and Pundejo tries to gatekeep him as well.
This is truly tarnowski’s golden era.
http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2016/06/appendix-n-is-most-useless-dmg-appendix.html
Cheer up, John! You’ve always got Brevik in your corner.
Check out Jeffro’s blog for more entertainment, though he lacks the projectile tobacco juice superpower of Tarno. He gets caught in between denying he is attaching undue reverence to Gygax’s (supposedly) favorite works, and demanding that it is essential reading for understanding how the classes are intended to be played. Heh.
Holy crap, Tarnowski is getting his ass handed over to him in the comments. Even Kent lands a solid jab.
Pundejo’s blog post isn’t about ‘N’, it’s about envy. He really has a problem with Jimmy the Scam, I bet he even has weird cuckold fantasies involving JMal… Jon’s biggest fear is catching him in bed with his wife, just in time to hear her say, “Polish names really turn me on, and Maliszewski is much more of a mouthful than Tarnowski.”
The best part about this is that JMal’s ‘Cursed Chateau’, in its LotFP reboot, will sell a lot more copies than ‘Dark Albion’.
The spice, the spice, the spice don’t flow,
Down to Montevideo.
Yeah, Jimmie has been gone for like 4 years and Tarnowski is STILL attacking him in impotent rage. The way he claims people who are jealous of all his money and fame attack him. Fucking hilarious – and he is too stupid to get the irony, even when it is pointed out to him.
Tarno’s contempt for the actual fantasy component of fantasy games is well documented. The poor slob would rather masturbate to his supposed historical/mythical accuracy then consider questions of style or emulations of genre. This why his fantasy games have no fantasy in them beyond rephrased paragraphs directly cobbled from mythological/historical sources. They describe but they do not evoke. Sad!
Arrows of Indra sucked and Dark Albion had no soul John. Collaborate with writers or keep spittle-tossing and hatemongering for an audience like the OSR equivalent of a filth-splattered drunk with a sign that says “The End is Nigh. The Swine/OSR taliban/Uruguayan Phone Companies will devour us all.”
I would even take to task his accuracy-Arrows of Indra had glaring errors (I still laugh at his characterization of the tulwar as a ‘two-handed curved sword) and his eschewing of actual myth in order to conform to B/X rules. Instead of cool stuff like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narasimha#Lord_Narasi.E1.B9.81ha_and_Prahl.C4.81da
We get: Hit by +2 weapons or better. BOOOOORING!!!
Dark Albion wasn’t so bad, but Tarno utterly failed to take into account how his ‘not Christianity’ religion would result in differences from our historical timeline. Even worse, he pounded his Mithraism-derived religion into a Christianity-shaped hole, even making Jerusalem a holy city for the religion, when it really shouldn’t have any significance to a religion not rooted in Judaism. Why the fuck even bother with making up a half-assed ‘not Christian’ religion if you’re just going to make it ‘Church of Crystal Dragon Jesus’ rather than trying to extrapolate what a neo-Mithraist religion would really be like?
I usually find weapon-discussions tedious and men still belch incessantly about how the longsword was never a one-handed weapon but the crystal dragon jesus point is apt (I think we discussed it before in great length, the links provided were delicious). So too the french frogmen etc. etc. wheels within larger, clunkier wheels spice must flow etc. etc.
Caught in Asura-wiki singularity. HALP.
I usually find weapon-discussions tedious and men still belch incessantly about how the longsword was never a one-handed weapon
I’m not a weapons fetishist **kicks Indian clubs under bed and hastily closes drawer housing Bowie knife**, I’m just getting a dig in about how shitty Pundejo’s grasp of historical/mythical accuracy really is. In the case of the talwar, the hilt is so cramped it forces one-handed use:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talwar#Use
For all of his overweening pride, Pundejo is dumb, he’s basically Kent with somewhat of a work ethic, but not a great work ethic. I’d be willing to bet that Pundejo’s ‘research’ for Arrows of Indra consisted of cutting-and-pasting EoPT’s magic section, cutting-and-pasting the equipment section from some cheesy computer RPG, then cribbing the races and classes section of Moldvay B/X and substituting ‘yaksha’ for ‘elf’ and ‘vanara’ for ‘halfling’. Even Dark Albion seemed like a cut-and-paste from an outline of the War of the Roses, and a wikipedia article on Christianity with ‘Unconquered Sun’ replacing ‘Jesus Christ’.
Is there a way to check out relative sales on RPGNow? I bet ‘England Upturn’d’ is going to blow ‘Dark Albion’ out of the water.
It’s always a question of utility vs factual accuracy and I found DA conveys the medieval atmosphere with sufficient rigeur to make it useful in that regard. Niggling details are not as important as the broad scope, unless one of your players studied history (FUCK!).
Pundit has a grasp of what constitutes solid houserules capable of supporting play. He even seems to grasp what content should be in a campaign setting to make use of it. Creatively he is an ant, unable to do anything but replicate or borrow without innovation. I think if he worked together with a decent writer he could be of some use to the OSR, theoretically. Every beautiful girl needs a frumpy, homely girlfriend with tourettes that writes the stats.
The Arrows of Indra digs are justified. The magic item section sans the bows and god-weapons are for the most part cribbed/palette swapped from B/X, AD&D and EoPt (librams/Wonderous Item section). I think i covered the magic section and the monster section pretty well. The equipment section need not have been cribbed since it is so general I could have cobbled it together using a page from a book on medieval/early modern weaponry and thus stealing would be slower.
DA is better, if still derivative and uninspired.
What I found interesting was Tim Kask’s comment stating that the “N” was first an foremost a comity-designed list born from a genuinely annoying desire to nag youngsters into reading. Who can’t relate ?
“Let’s say you had a guy who toured with the Grateful Dead in the 70s. And then you have someone else who only listened to his first Dead album in 2005, but decides HE should be the world’s foremost expert on the Grateful Dead, and explains the real significance of them to others and what the ‘real deadhead experience’ was.
And when the first guy says “I was there, and that’s not what touring with them was like”, he claims that the first guy was doing it wrong, even back then.”
Oh, John, such irony. We only have to go back a few years on your own site to see you bashing OSR authors and espousing liberal politics.
“Fuck you. I was there too.”
And he gets his Gene Weigel moment!!
What is The Watch?
Well, to quote myself (from the current draft of the book, which I’m writing now):
The Watch is a low-fantasy game about women (and other female-of-center people) who are fighting to retake their homeland from the Shadow – a darkly sorcerous threat that has the power to possess men and use them for its own violent ends. So much has already been lost to the Shadow – land, loved ones, and traditions. But your people have come together, forming a new fighting force from those able to resist the Shadow, which they call the Watch.
The story of The Watch is structured around the military campaign against the Shadow’s forces. You will tell stories of war, love, and sacrifice as your characters fight to hang on to what they have left. … The military campaign is what will give structure to your story, from the early defensive days of the campaign when the Watch is just trying to dig in and hold the new border, to the final days when you are closing in on the stronghold of the Shadow itself.
That you will defeat the Shadow is never in question. What you are playing to find out is how much will it cost you? On the day of the Shadow’s final defeat, who is it that you will say should have been standing beside you? Which of you will burn bright and fast, and which of you will hunker down and see this thing through to the end?
I recommend an extremely light sentence for the Shadow. They have such a promising future ahead of them.
Hahaha is it society that makes the Shadow wanna kill?
So the plot of the game is a total railroad — you get your ass kicked by the me- er, shadow, the tide turns and then you assault the shadow’s castle. What the fuck does the rest of that dog-whistling word salad mean? Whether you trick your lesbian or female-of-center trans lover into taking an arrow for you? This game sounds like shit. Misery tourism, muff-diving stye.
There are two problems with politically charged game design: the first and obvious one is that you’re openly restricting your audience, which is both bad for business (no biggie if you’re a hobbyist) and preaching to the converted (which is bullshit politically). But what kills it for me is the same thing that makes me lukewarm on so many storygames: too much focus. Call of Cthulhu can be about neurasthenic Boston Brahmins going crazy, about Indiana Jones punching cultists, hell, you can even play a satirical game of cultists trying to one-up each other as they work to bring their all-devouring master to Earth. Or a game where nothing supernatural ever happens but because it’s CoC people are creeped as fuck at everything. But avant-grade designs are usually about This One Thing and nothing else.
Also, as Timotheus points out, all too often it’s misery tourism.
Aye, the wallowing-in-victimhood is at times hard to stomach. I’d be willing to defend Polaris if it was actually a game (eventual tragic, heroic defeat against a backdrop of mythological heroism is alright in my book) but the real problem is the damned things don’t have any gameplay in them.
Nowhere in the storygame is there room for one to shine, to triumph over adversity by wit and cunning, twin middlefingers upraised definantly at the GM, who politely feigns anger but cannot help but crack an admiring smile. Without failure there can be no heroism. One does not gain the satisfaction of seeing one’s honed skill lay waste to well-crafted obstacles. Neither heartrending failure, bittersweet victory nor triumphant glorious conquest. Only the meaningless wallowing in fake misery or meaningless stream-of-consciousness drivel.
The actual game mechanics of the storygame are either baroque and edgy with only the most tenuous connection with player actions or so simplistic as to render the entire exercise little more then a joint bullshitting activity without context or achievement. No fun.
And I got through that rant without once calling anyone a furry or lungfishman. I am proud of myself. I think I deserve acclaim.
‘The Shadow’ is such a generic term, she should have called it ‘The Acockalypse’.
Apparently, had the Orlando shooter played Wundergeek’s shitty games he wouldn’t have killed all the gays. https://gomakemeasandwich.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/but-why-does-it-matter-orlando-is-why-it-matters/
My favorite part is when she explains that she spends as much time playing games as she does parenting her kid.
Jesus.
“49 people are dead and 53 are injured because of our culture of homophobia and intolerance. The shooter wasn’t an entirely unique phenomenon formed out of the ether. He was informed by a culture of white supremacist patriarchy that told him that his rights were paramount.”
Fucking idiot. People even point out to her in the comments that ISIS is not a “white supremacist” and she accuses them of derailing. What a miserable, lying, little creature of hatred.
Does anyone doubt that if she could execute 49 random white straight men, she would pull the trigger?
This is why I hate them. Still afraid to mention the words Islam and keeps pretending it is caused by mainstream european culture (instead of say, islam, where 11 countries put gays to death BY LAW). Cancer upon you wundergeek you pathetic fat piece of human garbage.
“Holland was the first country to legalize gay marriage. In the 11 islamic countries that practice Sharia law gays are put to death by law. White supremacy indeed.
I suggest you lace your next bucket of ben & jerries with cyanide, do western civilisation and the LGBT community a favour and kill yourself you disgusting brain-damaged freak.”
I may have come off a bit too strongly there 😦
Childhood abuse by priests of whatever religious cult is dominant in this highly original world and chemical imbalances in the Shadow’s brain are the only culprits. Treat him instead of killing him, for Goddess’ sake !
[Retard me can’t seem to ever insert his replies in the appropriate place] Now the Shadow (aka “the Religion of Peace”) is leading 50 dancing faggots to zero. Good things Kent can’t afford to vacation overseas any more – but seriously, the Watch needs to step up her game.
I hope Lil’ Marco is ok.
Clearly the Shadow has been unjustly maligned. I have it on excellent authority only a small minority of those possessed by the Shadow actually support the violent raping, slaughter and devouring of the unpossessed. Most of the atrocities commited by those in thrall to the Shadow are actually the result of low socio-economic status, marginalization, false Watch-reporting, Watch provocation and Watch-bigotry.
I think we can safely say the Shadow has always been part of our civilisation and should be embraced, not rejected. Together we can make a stand against bigotry etc. etc. etc. [sounds of gibbering, sock-sniffing, Bleach being consumed by the gallon, mad laughter of the damned]
I’d just like to say that the the hot hadji on homo action in Orlando (and the media’s reaction) has been the funniest thing I’ve seen on TV in a long time.
Anderson Cooper chocking back the tears… even funnier than the Glorious Leader calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocohantas”.
Good times.
The world post-Blooey (but still stuck with Kunt in it) is cold and cruel.
Sigh 😦
I’ll ask again.
Look at the title of this forum YDIS.
The question is, what is the purpose of EXPRESSING the contempt which is felt after reading dungeon material or reading reviews of dungeon and dragons material ?
What is the PURPOSE? What do you hope to achieve by shitting on shitty D&D material?
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I will say that MY PURPOSE was to shame D&D writers I thought were embarrassing into silence. I thought that mockery would shut people up and this, with further activity from others, would act as a filter extruding a beauteous essence of Jaquays and Gygax perfection into my world of gaming.
Well MY PURPOSE has failed because I have had no influence on the production of good material. There has been little of it apart from Deep Carbon Observatory which I had not the slightest effect on.
So again, what is the objective of shitting on D&D material, what to you hope to achieve in the long run?
Now I know half of you here are psychopaths and some are in prison, but I promote free speech and I expect that you can think when others have lost faith in you.
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I told you: my own amusement.
I might speculate that examining and belittling the petty nerdism of devilmen provides me with an informed perspective on those qualities in my own self. Likewise, if we establish why suckdungeons suck, we are learning about the sins of dungeon-crafting and what we know about can be avoided.
I don’t spend enough time on the good stuff though.
If one cannot gain some small measure of satisfaction from ranting at awful things or enjoying rants at awful things one was born in the wrong century. Cathartic mockery.
But let us examine a more pertinent question. You failed, indesputably so, for you have been branded and widely acknowledged as a troll and thus your mockery bypasses any analysis and is automatically regaled to the brain dustbin where troll comments live (e.g Ireland).
If you feel this hobby needs a cleansing fire to purge the wicked, incompetent, corrupt and apostate from the Corpus OSR I agree wholeheartedly. So how can one improve one’s efforts to bring about the glorious Gygaxian/Jaquays utopia where all dungeons have multiple entrances, the torches and rations are plentiful and the hexes are brimming with terse, evocative descriptions?
When one’s youth is but a distant memory and every sleepless night is visited by the ghosts of things that could have been, there is solace in the though that at least one of the roads not taken was heading straight to greasy Hawaiian shirts, THAC0-based rants and self-publishing.
Poetry. Sheer poetry. They did well to send a Frenchman.
kent, you sell yourself short. The theme of Ozymandias that is prevalent in so many blOwSR adventures is your direct contribution to the movement. The classic blOwSR one-page dungeon, “I was King Here Once” is even dedicated to you.
You ARE the blOwSR, kent. Regardless of what the gatekeeping crew – Pundejo, Faggi, and Princess Zak – all crow to the contrary.
Pink socks, old boy.
Kent’s no Ozymandias, he’s Ozymandumbass.
Hah! That is right up there with Brandoch Dur Hur!
Zak Sabbath may be willing to accept apologies from ineffective and ignored critics:
http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/?zx=b4768e144f87a0d3
The irony is that with all the mirrors that he and his murder of skanks clearly possess, they stare but do not see.
You and your everyone-must-act-as-I-say-or-you-are-wrong is central to the problem you are supposedly whining about, Zak Faggoth.
We must all hold hands, bow our heads and admit we have failed to persuade the osr that what they produce is very stupid and shitty.
One thing I don’t see discussed very often is whether physical violence would improve the quality of osr material by effectively shutting it down. You hear people debating whether mockery is a good thing or a bad thing, but never hear much about punching and kicking.
Have you considered mailing anthrax-dusted copies of T1 to the worst offenders?
Give it up, you’re a soft middle-aged man with a substance abuse problem. Even Zak Princess would kick your ass using hairdo-fu.
Show, don’t tell, ya gobshite. Your own efforts to produce gameable material have fallen flat. Less ‘J’accuse’, more ‘Jaquays’, though anything you produce at this point will fall flat because you’ve squandered any hope of goodwill in the community you claim to scorn. Remember, they rejected you, you didn’t reject them.
Now, stop riding that dildo and hop on the motherfucking sandworm, because the spice must flow, and you’re no Kwisatz Haderach, at least not yet.
So far we have the following fresh tactics to combat the dizzards of the osr:
Kicking
Punching
Anthrax
what else?
Karate Chop
Arse Kicking
walking up behind them and poking them with your boner
also, when you fart in bed and then push their head under the covers (dutch oven)
Several people already know this, but I’m a straight guy in a same-sex marriage. After 20 years of marriage, my husband realized that he’s transgender — a man, not a woman.
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/e/e9/Nelson_Ha-Ha.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121205194057
Everyone knows that I don’t like dollybirds. It has been some time since I watched Prime Suspect and seeing it again I should point out that the young Helen Mirren is good enough for me. That’s the type of slapper for Kent, an intelligent woman beautiful from some angles.
Things I LIKE about Chris Roberts a.k.a. YDIS:
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Things I DON’T LIKE about Chris Roberts a.k.a. YDIS:
He likes dollybirds/gays — 50/50.
He thinks Zak Smith is awesome ‘cos he is surrounded by dollybirds.
Things I DON’T LIKE about Chris Roberts a.k.a. YDIS:
Unimaginative AD&D player. Yokel dumb.
Jesus Christ what disgusting cunts these people are, fucking insane,
http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2016/06/sad-and-lonely-and-naked-and-sexy.html
He seems to be begging Zak to help him get laid.
He seems to be begging Zak to fuck him.
What’s up with Kent’s unconvincing revisionist history, with his new ‘I’m just trying to improve RPG products’ schtick? He never claimed to be doing so back when he was earning the ire and contempt of every forum mod in the community, he was just a shitheel…
Kent’s main talent is self deception. He’s convinced he’s intelligent, now he’s convinced that he’s just a guy who cared too much, victimized by a misunderstanding rabble. Why can’t Kent just own up to his own cur nature and leave well enough alone? What’s with this charade? It’s not like Stuart will take him back just because he claims that his intentions were noble.
Unapologetic shitbag Kent is preferable to false piety Kent, though both are insufferable.
I am probably years late to that particular party, but this is just too good.
From S&W’s Cloner in Chief :
“Several people already know this, but I’m a straight guy in a same-sex marriage. After 20 years of marriage, my husband realized that he’s transgender — a man, not a woman. Lots of people asked us if we were going to stay married, and I think the answer to that is pretty obvious. You get married “until death do us part.” I married my best friend, I didn’t marry for sex. I live in an unusual marriage landscape now, in terms of what other people think, but I’m proud to be married to Ian and love him with all my heart, just as I loved the female “incarnation” before. Being trans doesn’t change who a person is; they don’t suddenly become a “discard.””
Do what you want with that Girdle of Sex Change honeybee, but don’t come near my WhiteBox any more!
Oscar Anderson Likes this.
Meatloaf night was never the same again 😦
Hey, at least he takes the sanctity of marriage more seriously than any ‘family values’ Republican politician.
I’d do anything for love (but I DEFINITELY won’t do that)
Here’s a game we’d all like to play: http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2016/06/on-coming-hell.html
The ad copy just writes itself:
“Perdition is about being in line at Starbucks, while you are late for work and the lady in front of you is getting out her checkbook.
Perdition is being camping and having 8% charge left on your phone and getting into a fight with your girlfriend over text.
Perdition is about living in america and getting sick.”
Wow, I want to play out my fucking workday. So upper-middle class edgy!
“I start my crossword app to block all this bullshit out.”
“Roll for the app.”
“A seven.”
“Not good enough. Your fat finger misses the crossword icon and you bring up the Kik app instead. Your wife sees the last conversation you had with the chick you hooked with via Craigslist.”
“I’m going to try to bluff my way through this!”
Some of the response to my last post has been supportive, which is nice. But unfortunately, a large quantity has been full of straw-manning, ad hominems, and abusive language. Like the person who commented simply, “Idiot.”. Or the person who told me that I should kill myself with cyanide in a comment that managed to combine homophobia, racism, misogyny, ableism, and fatphobia in only four sentences. Impressive.
this entire blog is written out of a belief that POP CULTURE IS CULTURE and YOU CAN’T SEPARATE THE TWO. If you disagree with that fundamental premise, you disagree with the entire premise of feminist media criticism.
It’s worth noting that throughout ALL of this I HAVE been listening to queer voices and asking for advice in how to proceed, and those voices have been saying a lot of mixed things.
“This tragedy happened, this is why I, a straight living cis women, am important when I talk about my hobby”
That’s what you saying are right? As a trans person I am telling you now that this is insensitive and offensive as hell
Lay off the mixed messaging, you moaning transsexual. You people just had your big day in the news cycle, now it’s time to share the spotlight and let Wundergeek and the other women get back to the important work of feminist media criticism.
Pray continue, milady.
“fatphobia” – is that a actual -ism, now? Hilarious. What’s next, halitosisphobia?
I’m guessing that message that combined 5 different -isms in 4 sentences was Prince’s deleted post on her blog. Yeah, maybe a bit too strong. Her martyr complex is in full force.
It’s an unfair characterisation. Nowhere am I homophobic or racist.
I KNEW you were a Fatist!
Woa Wunderdick is lightning-fast at deleting comments, even in the dead of night. When does she find time to do anything valuable?
Haha Trick Question!
I can’t think of the last time I’ve seen so much bitching and whining by one person. Wondercunt is what happens when you give an internet connection to an obsessed, raving cat lady.
The cool kids are reading Merritt:
http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-face-in-abyss.html
High Gygaxian is more like Merritt’s style than any other author’s
Loving my discovery of Meritt so far. Moon pool was poetry.
Because expression of contempt has been ineffective thus far, the following brand new tactics are being developed for 2016 to combat the dizzards of the osr:
Kicking
Punching
Anthrax
Karate Chop
Arse Kicking
Walking up behind them and poking them with your boner
Fart in bed and then push their head under the covers (dutch oven)
what else?
Spinning Wheelkick to the growth on the side of his head
Shooting arrows at him when he is naked
Hey Joe, while you were wanking around on this site, Carlos Mencia stole another one of your shitty jokes…
How is Kent coming along with the development of his Circle Jerk Task Resolution system? The built in Where The Jizz Shot Lands hit location system was a stroke (HA!) of elegance.
From what I’ve read, every attempt has been a failure- every jizz shot lands in his mouth, so the range of results is distinctly sub-par. The latest rumor is that he’s going to switch to a ‘tubgirl’ style task resolution system, with different bonuses accruing according to backspray patterns.
The Health Service Executive has been alerted in case of any pandemic outbreaks due to the unsanitary conditions of Kent’s gaming group.
Because expression of contempt has been ineffective thus far, the following brand new tactics are being developed for 2016 to combat the dizzards of the osr:
Kicking
Punching
Anthrax
Karate Chop
Arse Kicking
Walking up behind them and poking them with your boner
Fart in bed and then push their head under the covers (dutch oven)
Spinning Wheelkick to the growth on the side of his head
Shooting arrows at him when he is naked
Forced Road Trip across the US with Cinderella’s uncles, the Bucktoothed Buttheads*
what else?
*The three Bucktoothed Butthead brothers are the mentally ill transexuals Captain Kirks Dick Blood, FEAR OF THE UNBLOWN, and Bigby’s Affirmative Consent Lubed Fist.
Using the circle jerk task resolution method, all of the jizz has ended up in Kent’s mouth, so his new tactics to combat the OSR crowd have all failed.
Final GM adjudication: ‘Stink in Golonda’ becomes million-seller, Kent is beaten to pulp by fifteen year old girl in pink socks.
I know Stink in Golanda is good because there is no boobplate on the cover, and my opinion matters because 9/11 and Ebola happened, you filthy fatphobic pieces of cock ! (Not you, kent : keep on inclusively swallowing cum).
Are you a Google-impaired, dimwitted foreigner with stupid fat fingers and even fattier, stupider friends ? Do you wonder where Prince and other elite reviewers found the endless stream of spice (aka euro-gp) that allows them to acquire all the exquisite adventures they dissect for our entertainment ? Would you like to meet Steven Chan but are afraid to ask where he lives ? If so, my fellow Frenchmen (inutile de nier, c’est embarrassant) let me introduce you to the OSR Trove in all its temporarily hosted glory.
Ding! Some new shit! Also massive kudos for that amazing introduction.
I got a “Your browser seems a bit outdated” message. I’ve changed the hamster on the flywheel in my computer’s thing-a-ma-jig twice already. So WTF?
Impressive collection but useless really, unless, are any of the DCC modules any good? I read somewhere one of those guys was good.
Harley Stroh. What has he done that’s worth reading?
You might check out Maze of the Blue Medusa if you liked DCO and can stomach Zak’s intrusion.
I read a couple of pages and it’s awful. Ignoring the illustrations and Zak dragging his whores into everything again Paddy Stuart’s writing is just weak, but I hate the now dominant aesthetic of D&D supermarkets stacked with random ideas.
Im going to read Stroh’s DCC 84.
Stuart shot his load and is now washed up, being reduced to producing boxed text for Zak’s tedious scratchings.
Scrap makes an appearance here as a good looking lad, but the important thing is that YOU understand that THIS is how I imagine everyone but ME. everyone but ME I said, plays D&D. You fucking morons. Now you know, and can sympathise with, why I look down on everyone everywhere.
Hands down, Scrap is the shittiest artiste gaming has ever produced.
Have fun with this one:
http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?34052-The-OSR-and-Women&p=904490&viewfull=1#post904490
I’m just gonna sell my gaming shit. These fucking people. Or not-fucking, maybe that’s their problem.
Meanwhile, the actual gaming content of the ‘shite is pretty damn sad. The one interesting thread is the TFT re-read, but that’s only because I played a shitton of that game back in high school.
That was a game in which one could really adopt a gonzo style- I quickly figured out that playing a ‘mad bomber’ with chemistry and thrown weapons skills would be a lot more fun than playing a typical sword-and-board fighter… Molotov cocktails were formidable weapons and xp was awarded one-for-one for every point of damage one inflicted, with xp equal to a defeated foe’s DEX being awarded to the one delivering the death blow.
I really should get a TFT game going, but I think it would be a hard sell for my D&D-oriented friends. TFT has a high lethality/incremental advancement model.
TFT is great. It always had more of a sword-n-sorcery feel than d&d, given the heightened lethality. House ruled a lot of stuff, like the way wizards gained spells, tweaked feats a bit, and gave the jobs table the finger.
Dark City Games is mentioned in that thread, some of their programmed adventures are pretty good, playable with either their lite clone or using real TFT.
Good call on the sword-and-sorcery vibe. I can’t recall anybody ever playing a wizard, mainly because the heroes just seem a lot more viable- even though the wizards aren’t ‘squishier’, they just don’t have any advantages over a non-wizard with, say, a crossbow… add in ‘missile weapons’ specialty, and the wizard would get stomped.
The flip side of this is the ability of non-wizards to learn spells- modelling a character after the Grey Mouser is a lot easier in TFT than in D&D.
I know this sounds heretical, but if I were to run a campaign in the WHFRP ‘Old World’, I’d probably use the TFT rules- same lethality, more familiarity, and it should be easy to figure out which skills each profession would possess.
Funny how stuff keeps coming around. The last week I decided to go back decades and have some TFT prepared for low player count nights at the D&D group. Something easy to get characters up and running, and scenarios playable inside a couple hours. I agree about the pulpy S&W feel. You immediately want to go all original Arduin with the muther effer. Whipped up a map of local kingdoms in minutes, with locations based on historical and fictional places so the players will automatically see character possibilities in place names alone. Want an Amazon? Want a Samurai or Ninja? With a society of arena and dueling obsessions extrapolated from the nature of the ruleset and it’s origins, it’s easy to see a Lankhmar type city as the main focal point, an ancient CSOTIO place with combats and mysticism in every side alleyway.
Looking at the rules again after all this time, I see where I got some of my D&D houserules from.
Things that make me raise an eyebrow that you guys might have advice on:
– No bonus for strength damage, only that you can use bigger weapons. Has anybody added a strength bonus rule?
– the stats being raised so high over time, a wimpy little finesse fighter with a rapier could one day look like Conan (Prob won’t be a ton of games of this getting run, so may not be an issue).
– What you have in IQ will probably not allow a real variety of talents if somebody wants to be more than a straight gladiator type, or wants to be a battle mage. Does anybody start PC’s with much more for stats than is suggested?
As far as higher strength, I saw a post on some TFT forum a few years ago that makes some sense. In TFT the weapons basically go up 1 pip of damage for your ST (short sword (ST11) 2d6-1, broadsword (ST 12) 2d6, morning star (ST 13) 2d6+1, etc.). So for every 2 ST higher than the minimum, you do +1, ie some dude with a broadsword and ST14 does 2d6+1. This means it is still better to take the more powerful weapon if you can weild it; but you still get a benefit of having high ST and using a lesser weapon.
The stat issue was one of the wierd rule things in TFT, leading to Conan the Wizard style characters – mages that have built their ST up over a campaign. It is usually not a problem, as characters usually don’t survive that long. In the longest running campaign I had back in the day, I did have to reduce the XP characters were earning, like 1/4 or something.
I usually did not let characters start with more than 32, but once or twice I started with 34. I also reduced the IQ point cost for all the Talents to 1, after character creation (ie if taken during the campaign with an IQ increase. One of the crappy things about increasing your IQ to 9 so you could take the cool damage reduction Talents was discovering that they cost 2 or 3 pts so you still could not take them. Depending on what you are running, letting them start at 34 is not game breaking, though.
In TFT the weapons basically go up 1 pip of damage for your ST (short sword (ST11) 2d6-1, broadsword (ST 12) 2d6, morning star (ST 13) 2d6+1, etc.). So for every 2 ST higher than the minimum, you do +1, ie some dude with a broadsword and ST14 does 2d6+1. This means it is still better to take the more powerful weapon if you can weild it; but you still get a benefit of having high ST and using a lesser weapon.
I’d handle it that way, with the proviso that damage would cap at the maximum for the lesser weapon.
The stat issue was one of the wierd rule things in TFT, leading to Conan the Wizard style characters – mages that have built their ST up over a campaign.
The flip side of that is Conan the Super-Genius, with the big, brute fighter having an IQ that’s off the charts to accommodate all of the skill points. We never had any characters that lasted long enough to become powerhouses- it was a constant carousel of replacements due to the game’s lethality.
I also reduced the IQ point cost for all the Talents to 1, after character creation (ie if taken during the campaign with an IQ increase. One of the crappy things about increasing your IQ to 9 so you could take the cool damage reduction Talents was discovering that they cost 2 or 3 pts so you still could not take them.
I’d probably keep them at the point costs in the book, have character improvement take place incrementally- no need to improve mechanically with each advance. The XP requirements do go up as stat totals increase, so there is a bit of plateauing. I remember a suggested cap of 30 or so for ST for human-sized characters- I’d probably also levy a cap of 30 for the other stats as well so nobody could be a universal polymath. DEX over 18 really isn’t necessary due to the math involved- if I recall correctly, even multiple missile attacks cap at DEX of 16 or so.
Damn, now I really want to get a TFT session off the ground.
Hmm..that strength bonus thing is not in the book, right? I like the idea of giving it but as suggested let it add but weapon has a max damage no matter what. If not in the book, that’s a great and simple idea. Mostly I was thinking of a bonus only for both opponents going hand to hand fisticuffs, where better strength is by far more useful than with weapons in reality. But yeah, going to use that.
Also want something similar to -10 and then you die AD&D type rule. Maybe go to negatives equal to STR divided by 3 or something. Should not make a huge difference, what with less emphasis on clerics and larger point count healing spells. Don’t want to houserule too much, but much like AD&D it sort of demands some rules winging. But in a good unnecessary way, not AD&D’s bad necessity reasons you have to do that.
Hmm..that strength bonus thing is not in the book, right? I like the idea of giving it but as suggested let it add but weapon has a max damage no matter what. If not in the book, that’s a great and simple idea.
No, I’m not familiar with GURPS, but I don’t think that it’s even in there. It’s an elegant solution to the problem, though
Mostly I was thinking of a bonus only for both opponents going hand to hand fisticuffs, where better strength is by far more useful than with weapons in reality. But yeah, going to use that.
Weaponless combat is totally dependent on strength, with clubs giving a bonus to the HtH table. There are also a bunch of martial arts skill levels, with added bonuses and, if I recall correctly, some special effects such as throws. There are also some really wonky rules, such as boomerangs being more lethal than longbows.
Healing is a big limiting factor in the game. Every so often, I’d create a character with 9STR 14IQ 9DEX, with master physicker, chemist, and thrown weapons talents- a squishy healer who could also deal out scads of damage.
It’s funny how the system totally changes when one gets out of the “12STR, 12 DEX, 8IQ min-maxer with a broadsword” rut.
That thread is hilarious Syk. I don’t think those guys fuck OR game, just do their brand of virtue signalling.
I feel bad for that s’mon punk, though. He almost actually got touch some psycho chick’s boob.
Our boy Jeffro is starting to get lost in his jihad. It is nice that he discovered pulp fiction, even if he insists on mis-categorizing it as Appendix N and hilarious that he is preaching to the racist misogynists of Colostomy House. Now he is screaming to the web the differences between old school and new school, desparately trying to establish himself as yet another gatekeeper. Most of his recent posts are in this vein, and here is his most recent where the dogma gets even deeper:
This part is pure gold:
“Games that are focused mainly on just one setting…? New school.”
That’s right, Kamerades – Empire of the Petal Throne is New School! Take it from Jeffro Dull!
I kinda like Jeffro.Lately he has been reading books, then he talked about them. He said a lot of positive things. It’s way better than reminiscing about modules that you may or may not have played back in the days. Now if he wants to Jamal up and put his dick on the block with some hilarious Grogniardiesque theology, so be it.
You missed the point. You are newer, and missed the Grognardia experience. What I am talking about is the creation of dogma – This is how it was when Gary first played! THIS is Old School! THIS IS SPARTA!!
It has multiple holes, not just “outliers” like our fair Prince would assert. Tekumel, Metamorphosis Alpha, Glorantha really did exist in 1975. It once more, an attempt at Gatekeeping what is and what is not Old School. Saying any of those games are New School is demontrably innaccurate at best, and maybe willful stupidity.
Newer I am indeed, and I give you that my blade needs hardening. Alas, 2009 was long ago and we live in pampered times when even YDISeers rivalize in politeness. What I meant is that unlike Grognardia, reading Jeffro’s blog does not make me want to PUNCH THE GUY IN HIS STUPID SMUG FACE !
Understand point entirely, additional data makes sense. I’ve donned my dunce cap and have commenced writing “Thou shalt not make inebriated judgements on fragmented sentences without due diligence.” Your argumentation is sound.
I would however simultaneously chip away at your argument by asserting that MMAlpha is a border condition of what constitutes a setting. I do this because I have had a rough childhood and I am out of heroin. Technically it can be said to be a sort of setting but in a very broad, boundry condition sort of sense. You were supposed to make your own starship Warden with beer and hookers. It had a list of creatures and some misscelanious data but Bob and Joe’s Warden would be totally different things right?
Having fun. All. Matters. Donchtaknow.
Fair point on the Warden. A lot of the creatures are specifically related to the setting of a big-ass forgotten ship, though. But you’re right, Joe and Bob’s versions of the Warden would vary much more than their versions of Glorantha or Tekumel would.
I could make the argument DnD assumes a sort of fantasy setting as well as a certain type of magic but I would feel disgusting by doing so. Critical Eflgame Theory can go fuck itself.
If we wanted to do more then an ancient elfgame lore dickmeasuring contest (preposterous) we would have to then compose a sort of taxidermy or rpg species tree with Dnd and its inbred cousins clustered around one tree and Glorantha and Tekumel defiantly waving their dicks near it in the other tree. Someone call Jeffmeister. Fuck I’ll do it.
I do not believe in hindering righteous anger and mockery for the sake of mockery and taking shots at allies is terribly bad form but your reasoning is in error. EoPT is what statistics term ‘an outlier.’ It’s presence merely disqualifies Jeffmeisters elfgame taxidermy as an all-pervading universal truth, not as a robust model for the development of elfgames across the decades. It would be akin to me saying ‘I like apples’ and you saying ‘AHA SO YOU LIKE APPLES THAT HAVE BEEN SOAKING IN THE ANUS OF A RHINOCEROS IN HEAT (ALSO KNOWN AS YOUR MUM) FOR 2 WEEKS YOU SICK FUCK. WRONG BITCH! YOU DO NOT LIKE ALL APPLES. I BET YOU CALL BLACK PEOPLE NIGGERS BEHIND THEIR BACKS AND DREAM OF RAPE. YOU ARE A FRAUD. DIE MONSTER. YOU DON’T BELONG IN THIS WORLD.’
An observation that covers general trends is still a useful observation.
Cannot judge Jeffro on overall merit. Have read some decent posts but my taste leans more towards comprehensive elfgame theories, hilarious internet slapfighting and stylistic but short reviews of games.
Prince, thy irony knoweth no bounds! I specifically pointed out the flaw in his dogma; and you proceeded read extremely broadly into said criticism, crediting me with things I never said. You created the very strawman you accused me of punching.
His observation was not about trends; it is an implicit reading of the dawn of the hobby (“why would you want us to do your imagining for you?”) and implying that it is an insurmountable wall that defines old vs. new school. Not trends – a specific moment that he extrapolated dogma from. He did this despite obvious evidence to the contrary. I pointed this out.
Try harder before you make a broad conclusion about me drawing broad conclusions I never made, old boy!
If this is about my refering to the racism and misogyny championed by Colostmy House, do you need a link to Vox Day’s blog? Try google, and check out the posts from the last two weeks. Or any two week period.
If this is about my associating people who willingly post and converse on the Colostomy House blog and website, with the owner and spiritual leader of that publishing house, you might have a small point. But if you lie down with Pol Pot, you get yp with human remains stuck to your skin.
Naw, I confess not having read the blog post, thus I erred. I concede everything and plead guilty on all counts. Very sloppy of me.
I recognize my failure and shall strive to correct it. No assault on your concept of guilt by association was intended…for now.
Fair enough, sweet prince! Please keep me in line when I step over. I definitely go overboard sometimes.
That’s right, Kamerades – Empire of the Petal Throne is New School! Take it from Jeffro Dull!
Metamorphosis Alpha, also. Oddly enough, I almost wrote ‘también’ instead of ‘also’, pero yo no soy un hombre español.
And now our boy is doubling down, claiming that controversy from his stupid post is proof that he has objectively identified what is Old School:
This is exactly the argument that jmal made, that the myriad sub-rules and subsystems as opposed to a simplified mechanic is dogmatically old school. Even when poeple in his comments point out his logical flaws, he doubles down (and gets nasty in a few remarks).
There are inherent flaws in insisting that complicated subsystems merge hand in hand with “rulings, not rules.” This goes back to the Pope’s insistence that everything Gary did was exactly as it was Meant To Be.
Fucking Pulsipher (no relation to lame Tool spinoff) is great on that thread: I was actually there, I seeded this lawn so yeah, it is my lawn, get off it and p. fucking s. fuck you.
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Just great, another cleric/thief enters the ring…
Despite the media’s framing of this as a terrorist attack, we are very clear that this terror is completely homegrown, born from the anti-Black white supremacy, patriarchy and homophobia of the conservative right and of those who would use religious extremism as a weapon to gain power for the few and take power from the rest. Those who seek to profit from our deaths hope we will forget who our real enemy is, and blame Muslim communities instead.
But we will never forget.
I was dubious about the official story once I heard the final numbers. 50 killed out of 103 wounded is an absurdly high fatality rate, particularly with a high-velocity rifle that shoots rounds that are fairly small in diameter and tend to go through the body. Contrast this with the massacre at the Bataclan theatre, where three attackers armed with grenades and bomb vests killed 89 out of more than 300 wounded.
Now, obviously I have zero reliable information concerning what happened in Orlando. But based on the similarity of the Pulse attack to the Paris attacks, which involved three-man strike teams, I would conclude that there are may have been two gunmen who escaped as Omar Mateen kept the police occupied. Remember that it was reported that Mateen left the club and then came back. Why leave and then go back? Also, given the ethnicity of the club-goers, it wouldn’t have been hard for the other shooters to shed their gear and pose as escaped hostages in the confusion.
The real tragedy, of course, would be if this tragic incident caused gay dance clubs to begin discriminating against Muslims.
You are not going to believe this, I still wake up days later hoping I have been dreaming.
A few days ago I had boxed up all my gaming stuff, not my notes but everything I owned, bought or printed out, into six banker boxes and had them in the boot of my car to take to storage. Luckily I had already shelved my three AD&D books. I became distracted watching some soccer match, having a few beers as things got exciting, and left the boot open it turns out for several hours. After the match and the celebrations, when I went to the car all of the boxes were gone. Some cunt had ripped a page from a Tekumel gods book and written this message, ‘THANKS FOR THE RUBBISH’
I am now the proud owner of just my shitty hand written campaign notes and one million tiny lead figures who are looking at me like there might be an insurrection ‘cos I have gone and lost the rules that kept them in their boxes.
How does this benefit me?
Yeah, I don’t care about anything unless it affects me.
Damn it. I was after your Pendragon stuff.
You should have killed him and taken his stuff when you had a chance, Von. Hell, even now you should consider killing him for XP, it’s not like anyone will miss him.
Also, the new look makes you look like Lemmy Junior, or something. You should consider fronting a retro space-rock band.
Cockwind
Vonwind
Bloo Meridian (cuz that’s still funny; space rock connection admittedly dubious)
The new Von look kinda reminds me of the Dracula(Gary Oldman) London 1897 Tour.
Von D. Graaff-Generator
Bugger Hawkwind. I have tried to see the point of Hawkwind time and again, to no avail. I do like Von D. Graaf-Generator though. Will have to use that for something.
If this is true, very sorry to hear it, kent.
Maybe it is time for you to write your own retroclone, then.
I beg to differ- if it is true (Kent deals in mendacity like Cadbury deals in confections), then it’s funny as hell. Here is the guy who’s convinced that he’s the smartest guy in the room, leaving the full trunk of his car open for hours while he spanks it to his sportball game on TeeVee, and having his wee precious treasures nicked by a jolly Tinker. Now, THAT’s the Kent Intelligence Scale for you, bested by a knacker or junkie.
Kent is a hothouse flower, unsuited for living in the real world, even in the cocoon of his unaccredited college campus. Contrast him to Bloo- Bloo was able to live the life of a picaro, even with his admittedly addled wits. Kent’s unsuited to the adventuring life, he’s the equivalent of the fat merchant imprisoned in the Caves of Chaos, awaiting his turn on the hobgoblins’ spit.
I hope Von is able to buy Kent’s stolen goods on eBay for pennies on the dollar for a fence who recognizes that the yellowed papers are ‘rubbish’.
Meanwhile, for extra LULZ0RZ, Kent should set up a ‘gofundme’ campaign to raise money to replace his collection. I’m sure all of his friends at the gaming fora would kick in some simoleons to help their stricken buddy out.
#christwhatadumbass
Timotheus,
Not at all. In fact I recommend you throw all of you rpg material off a cliff. Feels great!
Sorry* you are such a loser and can’t get friends Kunt, much less ones that will play in your shitty games. So fucking lonely that you have to take all your gaming shit, all your precious little books that mean more to you than anything, and stuff them into some dank storage place until you die of a heart attack or finally do the right thing and off yourself and the lot gets auctioned off (because any living relatives have long cut you off from their lives) to some poor dipshit who was hoping it would actually have any real value.
* by “Sorry” I mean “hahahahahah”
Von is striving to bring some Hollywood glamour to YDIS and I applaud him. Von is the Bearded Camille Paglia of YDIS.
Look at us hiding behind random crayon patterns and satirical cognomens when we should be parading naked on youtube screaming about the awful quality of modern D&D creativity, demanding our right to be better entertained with a bit of queer glamour.
Who says the OSR should have a monopoly on transsexuals, queers and glamourous weirdos. I vouch for the homosexual credentials of YDIS journalists and their right to post pictures of themselves in fantastic androgynous David Bowie inspired outfits. The OSR are not the only gays in town, ummnn hunnh!!
Im serious, Von is taking YDIS to the next level, critics with personality and style, maybe gay, maybe not, alluring to millions.
Look out for a picture of Kent on my blog in the coming days and a new dawn of dark beauty and daring, of wit and heterosexual queer for these days of gender confusion.
I like the cut of this Paglia woman’s jib. The comparison is flattering, though I raise an eyebrow at the idea that I or we should be parading naked ANYWHERE.
Some thoughts on the successful #Brexit referendum.
Nothing in his political career has become David Cameron like the manner of his leaving the Prime Ministership. He was dignified and graceful in defeat. I was genuinely surprised that he not only did the right thing, but did it very well. Even though he chose the wrong side and led the enemy charge, it must not be forgotten that he gave the British people their chance.
The referendum was an exercise in the failure of Magic Dirt and why immigrants should never be granted the right to vote. Nor should their children or grandchildren. Few of them give a damn about Britain and it showed in their vote.
Let Scotland hold their second referendum and then let them go. They are a huge political anchor that threatens England’s very survival.
The war isn’t over. #Brexit is a victory, and an important one, but it was just a battle. The war goes on.
“Remember Jo Cox” should be the response to anyone who calls for Parliament to ignore the clearly expressed will of the British people. If Parliament refuses to respect the referendum, violence will almost surely be among the various consequences.
Bring on Fixit, Ixit, and Grexit! Nationalism has only begun to rise in Europe. Seig Heil!
… and for the first time in years, since that loud obnoxious cheapass had moved in, the rest of the flatmates enjoyed a quiet and lovely dinner.
The great social commentary of our time.
Two smart women shit on modern feminist morons
Camille Paglia is the only reason Salon has any legitimacy.
A people are defined primarily by their blood, secondarily by their land, tertially by their religion. There are no other definitions.
An absolute priority of not being racist is neither a functional ideology nor a sound foundation for public policy. Regardless of one’s personal perspective, the historical reality is that racism is far closer to being the solution than it is to being the problem.
This woman is not a dolly-bird, she is an aging fox (that gives out headaches like benefices). I could imagine playing AD&D with her but not with Zak Smith’s dumb whores.
Why don’t you guys tell some jokes about Zak Smith’s dumb whores, the ones he games with ?
They are not whores, they are porn stars.
Ha!
Anyone else?
Vulvartists with built-in bags of holding should be respected, not mocked. Their mere existence validates all other alternative classes.
How can one garner that edge-factor if one games with healthy, sane individuals? One needs to scrape together the dredges of acceptable society if one is to provoke and outrage, to tintillate and to arouse.
It is a pity that in this smart endaevour disease is portrayed as the new health, making the effort ultimately self-defeating. What use DnD with pornstars if pornstarring becomes socially acceptable?
I’d put folding money on a DnD with Nazis being the next best thing, marketing wise. You want that edge factor? Work for it.
For work, as they say, will set you free.
Sadly, The Escapist’s current fiscal woes mean we’ll probably never see a Playing D&D With Satanist Black Metal White Supremacists From a Scandinavian Socialist Welfare State, starring (of course) Varg “Myfarog” Vikernes and his jolly crew of homicidal nutjobs, arsonists and child abusers.
Not too late for JimLotFAPFAP to get him to sign an adventure deal, though.
Given the recent comeback of nationalism and its friend national socialism within the Golden Land, now seems a good a time as any. Perhaps he could do a duology with a child-molesting migrant war criminal to get that hip diversity dollar?!?
I don’t care about anything unless it affects me.
The notion of female pursuit is directly related to the socio-sexual rank of the male writers. To the Gamma, women are inexplicable. They have no idea why the woman abruptly decides to take her clothes off, so anytime you read of an attractive woman, who has hitherto exhibited absolutely no interest in the intelligent protagonist who has been intensely respecting her by showing absolutely no interest in her, suddenly crawling into the sleeping bag of said protagonist, you can be 100 percent certain that the author is Kent.
For obvious reasons, I take offense at the suggestion that Kent is a Gamma. No OSRite can raise above Delta level. Kent was an omicron, now he’s not even one iota.
Obviously, some really heinous chemicals were introduced into Kent’s vat during the Bokanovsky process.
Knave New World
Now we know why Kent’s always drunk.
God damn, that just made me throw up on my coworkers.
You’re going to need a different recipe book for that, old chum!
Here’s the companion volume, Kent’s favorite cookbook.
A Fantasy Tavern Jizz Cookbook might be the only product left that hasn’t been done to death by the blOwSR. Who will Kickstart first?
I haven’t followed anything Zak related in many moons. When I found out earlier this year that his vaulted “consultancy” on 5e had his name at the very end of a long list of other chucklefucks (including coming in AFTER Pundit) I sort of felt kinda sorry for him, after initially laughing out loud when I was looking at the credit. That he is such a desperate fuck he seemed to be actually living off the “fame” of it for so long. It the same feeling as when I had heard about this “porn star D&D dude” for a couple years, then saw he actually had very little in the way of credits in the industry, and a couple of weak home movies on Xhamster. A book on his experiences was hinted at, but I could find no palpable existence of.
A couple of years ago I was fascinated by the desperation of his less well-worked girls of the industry. Satine Phoenix seemed to be in the same desperate straights, trying to capitalize on “game playing porno star” stuff. That her connections to a Hollywood comic book store seemed to call for her to sit and play with dipshits who were having to put in 10 bucks a pop to sit with her. A rumor I heard that she was performing oral in the back for additional donations. Then of course her infamous birthday bash at the store where her “friends” robbed the joint blind, forcing her to go on her page and beg for the items to be returned. Then her sort of vanishing into a second marriage for awhile around the time I read a blurb by here that she was worried about what to do about her past if she had kids eventually (suddenly being involved with scum like Zako and Mandy wasn’t so cool), up to some time last year me seeing that she had a booth at a con somewhere trying to hawk her comic book work. More or less having left the “porn star” stuff behind. I bored of her at that point.
The rest? Well, the most famous “pal” of Zak, Sasha, seems herself to have gone from one year saying in interviews that she was proud of her adult work, to the next year me seeing an interview where she had sincere regrets (if you saw some of her more extreme work you’d figure she’d come out of it with some health issues at least). All this was kind of amusing to me, because I think in my earlier visits to this site I had stated that all the women in his life would one day regret their involvement. I love “I told you so.”
I don’t read his blog, or any others really, so I have no idea what is up with Mandy. Out of all of them, and no jokes aside, I do feel bad about her illnesses, and that dirt bags like Zak have to be in her life instead of her family, if she has one.
Any other details about that crowd you guys might have to fill in. I spend most of my time these days looking at Dragonsfoot and rolling my eyes at the pathetic lives playing out there.
God, I miss Blooey so much…
Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out Satine Phoenix’ wikipedia page and there’s no mention of Zak. Sigh? 😦
I like whores because I already have syphilis. Whores like Zak’s whores don’t mind that the teeth I have which aren’t yellow are black, and there are gaps between my teeth because they are not all of the same size. Kent has drawn a picture of a Ghoul that looks just like my dad and that’s why I love whores like Zak Smith’s dumb sluts.
I don’t care about anything unless it affects me.
So Bill Webb is taking the blOwSR back to what it does best – stealing the ideas of others. And in his latest Kickstarter to bilk non-playing fatasses from their gold pieces, HE STEALS FROM BLOO!!!!
“So that’s about it, except for one final note about the giant maps—these are an experiment, and literally can be used as a table cloth or shower curtain. I know they are pricy, but as we are unlikely to make many of them, our costs are fairly high. They are made of cloth and are quite durable. ”
I bet the Fag God Games people bought up the existing stock of Bloo’s shower curtain maps and stenciled “Bards Gate” over top of “Beldany.”
Those heinous bastards!
I’d like to believe Blooey’s true genius and innovation is only now being fully appreciated after he exited this world but I fear the blOwSR has more than likely run its copy/paste/regurgitate course and is just scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas now.
Sigh 😦
Well then I fooled you lot again. Heh heh. You fell like limbless war veterans for my trick to make you all look like dirty cocked misogynists picking on Zak’s Sexy Ladies of the Night.
Look, women love me and I love them that have beautiful buttocks and some others that have nice faces and laugh at my jokes.
Never underestimate my wit-skills to make all of you at YDIS look like gullible schoolboys, in the service of Jesus Christ and his host of goblin-like angels.
If it doesn’t affect me I don’t care.
That is why I never join forums because they are not about me.
My name is Chris Roberts. My wife is getting too old for me now that she is fifteen years and four months of age.
I don’t care about anything unless it affects Blooey’s legacy. 😡
I don’t care about anything unless it’s news about that Cocksplat Kunt’s lonely, bitter suicide attempts.
Do you remember that I told you to kill yourself long ago, before you began to obsess about it and then presented the idea as your own?
Anyone can check this.
Think now, we know you are a very stupid guy, too stupid to rate on my intelligence scale even among vermin at the American end, but try to realise through the fog of irony that confuses you that you have stolen my command to you and are feebly trying to present it as your own idea because you can’t think of anything original.
You’re the “Fag” of irony. Heh.
I started the suicide thing not because you suggested it to me or anybody, but because I can sense you’ve already mulled it over. Nobody goes through as many mood swings as you clearly do, at your age, and not mull it.
I do admit to dubbing you “Kunt” after you calling those here “cunts” all the time. Actually the full title was “Kunt Kuntington the Kunt of the Kuntsville Kunts”, but that’s not critical to know.
So you admit you’re a fucking idiot.
The best thing about Scott is that he cares about things that don’t affect him.
Speaking of Scott, I hope he isn’t affected by the flooding in West Virginia.
Nah, we’re both on higher ground. It really smashed the valleys, though. FEMA emergency and all. I’m actually surprised we had less than 25 dead. Here’s a pic a buddy of mine who was in flood territory snapped:
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Wasn’t Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Jack’s blog?
Still is, but Scott gave Jack a copy of Aickman’s “Cold Hand in Mine”. I have it in my reading cue as soon as I finish Merritt’s “The Metal Monster”, one of the few works of his I haven’t read.
Is “Flooding in West Virginia” some kind of gay slang?
Hey, I was wondering if anybody else gets this. For months when I come to this page, it starts at the top of course, and I can only see Blooey’s head from the nose up. It sorta looks like he’s doing a “Killroy wuz here” gag. It’s dee-liteful!
If that’s some kind of gay slang, then the Castro in ‘Frisco’s got nothing on Appalachia:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/us/west-virginia-flooding-deaths/index.html
Scott survived the floods, his house was built on a rise. It was close, though (scroll down for full story).
His primary source of agony now seems to be Taylor Swift’s breast enlargement.
https://cyclopeana.wordpress.com/
How dare you! She did not, and never will! This filthy rumourmongering means Scott is dead to me.
Unless Scott is actually dead and a Deep One hijacked his computer and blog after feasting on his rotting corpse, in which case, we cool, bro.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is by no means anything but Lawful and Good. Prisoners guilty of murder or similar capital crimes can be executed without violating any precept of the alignment. Hanging is likely the usual method of such execution, although it might be beheading, strangulation, etc. A paladin is likely a figure that would be considered a fair judge of criminal conduct.
The Anglo-Saxon punishment for rape and/or murder of a woman was as follows: tearing off of the scalp, cutting off of the ears and nose, blinding, chopping off of the feet and hands, and leaving the criminal beside the road for all bypassers to see. I don’t know if they cauterized the limb stumps or not before doing that. It was said that a woman and child could walk the length and breadth of England without fear of molestation then…
Chivington might have been quoted as saying “nits make lice,” but he is certainly not the first one to make such an observation as it is an observable fact. If you have read the account of wooden Leg, a warrior of the Cheyenne tribe that fought against Custer et al., he dispassionately noted killing an enemy squaw for the reason in question.
I am not going to waste my time and yours debating ethics and philosophy. I will state unequivocally that in the alignment system as presented in OAD&D, an eye for an eye is lawful and just, Lawful Good, as misconduct is to be punished under just laws.
Lawful Neutrality countenances malign laws. Lawful Good does not.
Mercy is to be displayed for the lawbreaker that does so by accident. Benevolence is for the harmless. Pacifism in the fantasy milieu is for those who would be slaves.
I can’t believe I wondered for so long about Zacko’s means of living, while wikipedia had the answer all along. TLDR : the trust-fund theory is correct.
“Zacharias Smith is a Chaser for the Hufflepuff Quidditch team. Unlike the majority of his housemates, Zacharias does not appear at all likeable, and his behaviour irritates most people, especially the series’ main protagonists. He makes his first appearance in the debut meeting of the D.A. in Order of the Phoenix, but was the most sceptical of Harry’s claims. Hermione later admits to Harry and Ron that she only invited him because he overheard her talking with Ernie and Hannah about joining. He also splits Quidditch match commentary duties with Luna during the term. His jeering at the Gryffindor team is highly unpopular to the point where Ginny deliberately crashes into the announcer’s pit following Gryffindor’s win over Slytherin. He is not seen again until the day after Dumbledore’s death, when his ‘haughty-looking’ father escorts him from Hogwarts before the funeral, implying that he was not supportive of Dumbledore and his policies. In Deathly Hallows, Zacharias attends Hogwarts under Snape’s rule as headmaster. Before the Battle of Hogwarts, he is seen pushing past younger students for the evacuation point rather than staying to fight alongside the D.A.”
Hogwarts does sound like some kind of genital medical condition that people in the porn industry would be susceptible to, so I am not surprised Zak Attack would flee from such battle rather than stand with the District Attorney.
All two-bit trolls outdone. Hail to the motherfucking king in Dominaria!
Hi everyone. I’ve been hearing about Dungeons and Dragons for all my life but the only tabletop RPG I’ve played was Fiasco, which was very good. I am told that there was a 4th edition of Dungeons which was near perfect: should I start with it or with the current one? I am a bit concerned about the art I’ve seen so far, especially the huge breasts of female characters, which frankly have no place in gaming material in this day and age. Also, do you guys think that the new movie will be as good as the other two ?
GREETINGS GAMER and WELL MET!!!
So you want to join the legions of fans who play DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS RPG with an OLD SCHOOL (OSR) mindset but don’t know where to start?
Just BUY EVERYTHING (and I mean EVERYTHING) from this publisher and you will be good to go! That’s it!
http://www.rpgnow.com/browse/pub/4130/Polyhedron-Games-LLC
That’s all you will need to play D&D, EVER. In no time you and your friends will be telling great tales about how DA ORCS FALL DOWN! and the Stink in Golonda (n.b. don’t forget to roll on the hooker table in the original DMG to find out what kind of whore Golonda is – this held up my game and I had to make a quick ruling on the spot which is ABSOLUTELY WRONG D&D because everything must be rolled in D&D from a predetermined list on a table.True story – I just went with that slut Mandy from playing D&D with AIDS infested porn stars site as inspiration).
Also start collecting gay kiddie porn from the net, try not to shower or use deodorant and never, ever, NEVER under any circumstance properly wipe your crack after taking a dump!
NOW YOU ARE A GAMER TOO!
Pundit just seized the opportunity of a fellow old-school “creator”‘s death to stud his half-assed condolences with the most brutal plug ever for his own tired Amber clone. The guy really IS the OSR.
BUY SOME PRODUCT!!!!!!
I’m getting Punditreview pageviews from Uruguay again.
#Runemagickwardingintensifies
MyLittlePundit proudly linked to Sword and Stitchery, which apparently likes Cults of Chaos enough to use it with B2, but also managed to trollously insert a link to your review of Albion, while repetedly crediting Cults to “Dominique Crouzet, RPGPundit”. Well done, Eric the Sewer!
When are one of you crazy crackers going to shoot up an RPG con? And you want to know why black people don’t go to cons? It ain’t financial and it ain’t Drow cosplay motherfucker. YOU HONKEES ARE MOTHERFUCKING CRAZY AND ARMED TO THE TEETH!!!!
Right on?
The guy most like to shoot up a con is no longer with us:
Blooey wrote of some magnificent modules. My personal fave is the one where he describes what are normally 7 foot tall hyena men, Gnolls, as “yipping and yelping and scampering” or some such. Out of the box creativity.
Speaking of great modules, has anybody ever seen Deep Carbon Observatory pdf’s pop up in freebies sites? I want to check it out, but don’t want to enrich D&D people in any way shape or form. Anybody who knows where one is right now gets a no-prize…
http://tropicshare.com/files/5607981468204224
>Captain Kirks Dick Blood commented: “Blooey wrote of some magnificent >modules. My personal fave is the one where he describes what are >normally 7 foot tall hyena men, Gnolls, as “yipping and yelping and >scampering” or some such. Out of the box creativity. Speaking of great >modules, has a”
Check upthread, Frog Gode links to an OSR trove.
In the past year, since my daughter has started to become aware of gender norms and expectations, she’s gone from a self-confident little girl who didn’t particularly care what she wore as long as it was brightly colored to a child who is scared of the dark and climbing, will only wear girl colors, is obsessed with Disney Princesses, and insists that she is a princess – along with all of the attendant awful baggage that comes with.
So I spend a lot of time trying to teach her that being female doesn’t mean being limited by these reductive stereotypes, although my resounding lack of progress on that front has been discouraging to say the least. Something else that I am trying (and failing) to introduce as a concept is the fact that there are more gender options available to her than “boy” or “girl”.
Maybe if I spent as much time parenting as I do playing video games and blogging about sexism…nah. I have my priorities.
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Your daughter sounds hot.
Biological reality will have its due, but rest assured that no amount of good DNA can compensate for years of parental mismanagement.
Introduce her to 5th edition D&D, that’ll set her right:
“You don’t need to be confined to binary notions of sex and gender. The elf god Corellon Larethian is often seen as androgynous or hermaphroditic, for example, and some elves in the multiverse are made in Corellon’s image. You could also play a female character who presents herself as a man, a man who feels trapped in a female body, or a bearded dwarf who hates being mistaken for a male. Likewise, your character’s sexual orientation is yours to decide.”
Nothing says “stirring tales of fantasy heroism” like gay elf in a wheelchair, transdwarf (formerly half-elf bard), bi-sexual kobold incest twins and token straight but queer-adjacent human female warrior (Black) to lend a whiff of versimilitude.
I kind of hate that this needs to be in everything but at the same time I am kind of curious to see how far they will take this. Can we not partition the internet between SocJus and Sane, cease communication for 5 years and then behold with eyes filled with wonder and horror in equal measure what dread works they have wrought?
A Begum’s Fortune experiment? That could work.
Neat, I did not know Verne had written that one.
It seems unlikely that becoming aware of gender norms has suddenly made her daughter scared of the dark, or climbing. Maybe I am out of touch Man-Hatred 6.0, but when did night time and trees/mountains become associated with the Evil Patriarchy? Maybe she is planting these fears in her daughter by telling her it alright if she wants to grow a beard.
Insisting that nerd daughters go bearded dovetails weirdly with how Gygax was so obsessed with the notion that dwarf! women! must! have! BEARDS. “You, sir, as a non-dwarf, can not behold beauty as a dwarven eye would.”
I don’t mind a little fur on a lady’s whisker biscuit but I draw the line at having it braided.
Perilous Creamer shows up in thread, antagonism ensues. As usual. Still developing.
http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/11853/first-playtester
The president and lead designer of BRW Games, Joseph Bloch, has been playing and designing RPGs and other games since 1977, and writes the popular Greyhawk Grognard blog.
Check upthread, Frog Gode links to an OSR trove”
Couple of nice treats in there I could use, but not seeing Deep Carbon.
Either in the Loftp trove (3PP prolly) or in OSR Misc.
Ha ha, the histories of role playing games that we have all watched happen since 1975 are all LIES! And who else could set us all straight, but Robert J Kuntz!
http://www.threelinestudio.com/
“That Arneson broke with 2,000 years of game design history and theory by creating and implementing a transcendent systems structure never before conceived of in the history of games or play. The author examines and explains Arneson’s evolutionary systems architecture.
That the design dimension qualities of Arneson’s systems structure are still in their embryonic stages due to his original concept being redacted for a less robust system, and by the very company which was catapulted from a basement concern to a near 1 million dollar business almost “overnight” while at first championing it.
That outstanding claims that the RPG concept, as first made available commercially as Original Dungeons & Dragons™ in 1974, is descended from the game Chainmail are incorrect and stem from assumptive leaps of logic not consonant with design theory or systems theory. Both of the latter’s knowledge bases are utilized by the author to debunk this ongoing fallacy.
Included as addenda to this work is a section and chapter outline, including select samples, from the author’s upcoming and much larger work, A New Ethos in Game Design: The Paradigm Shift Originated by Dungeons & Dragons™, 1972-1977.”
I’m glad Arneson (Nonsra as Saint Gary called him) is finally getting some true love. But RPG design still in its embryonic stages? after 45 years? Sounds like a serious scolding coming on from the man who never came down from that peyote dosing he got from the Zuni when he was a park ranger. I can’t wait to hear about systemic architecture and paradigm fallacies!
With the 2,000 year thing, hopefully Bobby can tie it into the first crude but epic D&D game with Jesus as DM and the apostles as the first, bumbling, 10-foot-pole carrying party of murder hobos (was Judas REALLY the first Assassin?).
And finally we can dispense with the falsehood that Chainmail had ANYTHING to do with D&D’s development. Despite OD&D’s insistence on using the combat tables. I called that one back in ’82.
But the real meat will of course be Bobby J’s outline of his much larger, forthcoming master work, a forward-looking reassessment of the 1970’s. Finally!
We’ve all been living a LIE!!
News to me. I always thought Gygax invented pretty much the whole shebang but Arneson sued his pants off and got some exasperated judge to force him to play nice and to always publicly say they were “co-creators.”
Also, the fireball and lightning bolt spells were adapted from Chainmail’s catapults and ballistae, respectively. Saint Gary carved that in stone in Polyhedron #35, IIRC.
Freeing all these demi-gods required a lot of steaming ritual sex with my good buddy Mordenkainen. I could never have done it with that fat slob Nonsra. This crap is revisionist Elfstory at its worst and you can go wipe your ass with my ponytail (please do please).
That Robert Kuntz cannot express a coherent thought in writing, and obfuscates this fact with the use of antiquated and Latinate words where simple sentences and terminology would achieve clarity with brevity, which is the mark of writing well.
That this essay will likely ignore the fact that the hobby has produced a throughgoing and meticulously researched history (i.e. Playing at the World) that is almost everything good history should be: balanced, thoughtful, and without agenda. Further, that history already puts the lie to the very first point in “Mr.” Kuntz’s summary brief.
As an addendum, Arneson might have inspired the creation of the tabletop RPG hobby, but he was as responsible for more shit than gold, and it took someone like Gygax to make something even half-sensible out of the mess.
Isn’t it pretty much common knowledge that Arneson invented the main dungeon crawl concept, inspired by wargame opponents using fortress sewers and lower works to enter a stronghold? If not, it sure sounds cool.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexanderCherry/posts/H4kPJE4bzxz
You rage you lose. I find myself secretely rooting for Zak. All of us may discover sides about ourselves that we did not realize we possessed.
That went wrong, I refer everyone to the thread below. An appearance by Tarnowski is but icing on the cake. Storygamers are fucking degenerates.
I think this means you all lose, or perhaps we all lose together 😦
Oh, god, this shit again. It was old hat on Usenet when 3.0 was first released. What a stupid fucking debate, what a stupid fucking bunch of people who base their identities on a stupid fucking hobby, and what a stupid bunch of idiots who take the bait and “debate” an asshat who won’t even define his fucking terms.
Jesus Christ. I’m not even sad for these people anymore. They deserve all the bad shit that happens to them: the money problems that force them to beg for shit from other losers, the medical issues, the scorn from even the most minimally-adjusted human being who gets a glimpse of the cesspit that is tabletop gaming. They’re never going to realize how idiotic it is to have staked so much over lines drawn in the sand about gaming.
Wow, that thread managed to capture a bunch of self-unaware ideological Assberger’s goons from across the spectrum. They are all fucking degenerates.
The original poster reminds me of that illustration from the early Call of Cthulhu editions, Creeper or something with the fish eyes pulling on latex gloves. Google fail while trying to back up this claim. But trust me.
This one, Timotheus? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/84/96/5e/84965efbebc05c140c992a9f5a213d30.jpg
Yes! Alexander Cherry is that dude! One of the Marshes, I presume.
Zak Princess’ jibberty jabberty just never fucking changes. Same ol same ol…
Proof, Captain, or you’re a LIAR.
RETARD FIGHT CLUB!!!!!
That g+ thread was a much needed affirmation of our work here.
“100% correct. Certain gamers have a strange aversion to admitting they’d rather be playing freeform, so they go out of their way to loudly proclaim their allegiance to a broken rules set so they don’t have to. But since the rules set is broken, they have to rely on rulings instead of rules.
See they WANT to rely on rulings instead of rules…so they really ought to be just free forming it and maybe occasionally tossing a die…low bad, high good EngelMatrix style for inspiration. But for whatever reason, they won’t do that…so instead they pretend to play D&D.
D&D is the base OSR game of choice, because it’s been a bad design since day one (which all of us old farts knew on day 2, which is why we all had spiral notebooks full of house rules to fix it.). Because it’s a bad design, they can just free form their way through it. If they actually tried to play a game that had good design, the “follow the rules, they’re there for a reason, and they work” vibe would interfere with the desired mode of “rulings not rules”
So demanding bad game design is 100% accurate because badly designed games are what allows them to free form while pretending they aren’t free forming.”
Should have been a thread killer, right there. Perfect. Everyone else, go home.
(It should be noted that almost all published RPG systems are, to a greater or lesser extent, examples of bad design to justify using the imagination. Sitting around pretending to be wizards feels less childish when you have a 500 page tome of rules for it.)
Also, rooting for Zak and his “argue about how to have arguments” pissfire? Five Hail Maries, three Hello Dollies and a stint on the Tree of Woe for you, my man.
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I want to be a magical warlock too but I don’t want to have to do “the work.” Can I just donate money instead like L. Ron Hubbard lets me do?
I guess the first thing I’d recommend, above all else, would have to be the writings and magical system of Aleister Crowley. Now, the thing is that Crowley can sometimes feel a bit intimidating to the casual reader. So if you have no balls, you might want to start with something a bit more approachable, namely, Lon Milo Duquette.
Rodney Orpheus has better beginner books, and purer blood, if you catch my meaning, and I think you do, you dirty Pole.
I don’t get why I shouldn’t be a Buddhist. Or why it would be better to study the Runes (which I have, for 20 years now) than the I Ching (which I also have, for 20 years now). And especially, why I shouldn’t reject my “ancestral religion” of Catholicism, which I don’t feel I belong in at all. And if it was OK for me to reject Catholicism in spite of it being the religion of my father, grand-fathers, great-grandfathers and great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers, it would follow that I should embrace a historical re-enactment of something vaguely resembling the faith some great-to-the-twentieth-power-grandfather might have maybe practiced two thousand years ago?
You shouldn’t be a Buddhist, because you’re relatively White. Stick with the Western Mystery Tradition, bub, and lard up that magic wand, Jön Upsal’s Garden can take time to relax.
There are lots of people who, in addition to collecting an enormous library of occult grimoires (the likes of which would have made John Dee piss his robe with envy), also collect or even carefully craft the magical tools, the wand, the lamp, the altar, paint a ritual room, carefully carve enochian tables using authentic medieval methods, commission gold-trimmed robes and the most expensive frankincense, and so on, but then don’t actually do a damn thing with them all. Sort of like the guy who collects hundreds of RPG books and owns 17 pounds of dice (and probably posts like crazy on internet forums), but never ‘has the time’ to actually play.
By Wotan, you love that “piss his robe with envy” line. But seriously, what’s one more bodily fluid, I mean “sacrament” between serious practitioners, right? Only the laundry knows for sure.
I present to you my collection, thus far, of the @KasimirUrbanski “Sex with Cruz” posts from Twitter and G+. Visualize, if you have the stomach for it, what sex with Ted Cruz must be like:
http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2016/03/sex-with-ted.html
Only one thing slows down our Rowan — her friend, Prince Sundara, who insists on coming along. Something about Rowan having only one hand and that he has to protect her. But he only gets in the way! Somehow Rowan has to make the boy understand that he’s not cut out for adventuring… before he gets hurt.
I hope that if you have children, or there are children in your life, that you will at least share the link to this campaign. The Kadri and Fayola books made as part of the first campaign are works that I am immensely proud of. Being able to tell the story of Kadri, a gender non-conforming princesses who wants to like “girl things” and “boy things”, and who doesn’t want what she can do to be limited by her gender was immensely satisfying – as this was precisely the sort of story that I could have benefited from as a child! I’m even more proud of being able to tell the story of Fayola, a black trans lesbian, without any aspect of that identity being presented as an obstacle, stumbling block, or flaw – while still showing her as heroic and worth rooting for.
It will be awesome getting to tell the story of Rowan, a disabled woman raised by two queens who are heroes in their own right, who comes into her own as an adventurer and hero. But I very much hope that we get to write more stories than just Rowan’s, because diversity matters.
So here’s the link again. Thanks to all of you reading for your support.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/viciouscrucible/princess-charming-for-a-few-princesses-more
Heavy metal + lunchtime D&D + zombie apocalypse = Deathgasm (2015). Those NZ guys know how it is done. Watch it on YT before it is taken down. 3’51 : Raggi’s origin story.
Either in the Loftp trove (3PP prolly) or in OSR Misc”
Found it! Was hard to see that I was not scrolling down enough. Thanks, my niggas!
I have some respect so far from what I see, and these guys aren’t Zak-like fame seekers, right? I’d actually like to go ahead and buy something, but it would enrich Raggi The Last, right? Anyway, I have been curious about some Zak and Geoffy items, and now I don’t have to put money in their shameful coffers just to take a peek at the hype.
Is it me or does this page take waaaaay too much fucking time to load. Chief YDIS, new post plz!
Did YDIS officially die or something??!?
I miss YDIS 😦
Not yet 😦
Once the comments pass the 1,000 mark, my tablet’s browser can no longer handle the page and thus I can no longer read YDIS on the shitter. Not good enough.
I’m SLEEPING dammit!
Pro tip: If you claim that people who like OSR games are stupid (demand “bad design,” ie, like something objectively wrong because they don’t know any better) and you do it in public, don’t be surprised when Zak Smith shows up.
B-b-b-but he’s not OSR he’s DIY D&D. He told me so himself.
It’s worth noting that all of that completely ignores the issue of queer and nonbinary gender identities. Since the canon doesn’t say otherwise, it has to be assumed that all 21 of the gendered heroes are cisgender, which is – again – disappointing from a game that seems to be trying to sell itself, at least in part, on the diversity of its character’s designs and backgrounds.
But overall, those turned out to be minor irritants compared to the embarrassing levels of racism (with a sprinkling of ableism) in the hero backstories and alternate character designs. Hooray!
Coding all of the Western first world nations as white is problematic as hell. (And no, Widowmaker does not count as a PoC because she’s blue.)
And when your go-to backstory for the only black guy is “poor thief”, that is super fucking problematic. The stereotype of black people as thieves and criminals is the reason why real actual black people get profiled by police and followed in shops and stores. And the fact that the video games industry is more than 87% white makes all of this even more problematic.
Symmetra’s backstory and concept doesn’t read as racist to me, although I’ll admit to not being conversant enough with those particular stereotypes to be able to spot something that’s not completely obvious. However, where her backstory does fall down is a WHOLE LOT OF FUCKING ABLEISM.
But you know what’s even shittier? Making your angel character blonde, then having an alternate skin named “Devil” and giving that skin black hair.
So. You know. Reluctant kudos for trying? But “slightly less racist than the rest of the AAA game industry” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement that Blizzard should be proud of.
What the fuck is “ableism?”
It’s when you hate Abe Lincoln.
Well, you gotta hate Abe. I mean, he freed the, well, y’know.
Plus he was a rump ranger.
Sic semper sodomis!
Bullying the crippled lads.
The DFers are discussing that new Pokemon game:
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=74516
The fucking developers at Niantic decided to make one of the buildings on my jobsite a “gym” so Pokefucktards have been showing up to capture cartoon animals. One dumbfuck tried to bribe one of my coworkers so she would let him into a building that is off limits. Two assholes drove past a ‘no vehicles beyond this point’ sign.
I had to redo the schedule so we have someone onsite after hours to chase away Pokepufters. I requested that our ‘Social Media Coordinator’ contact the moderation team to have us removed from the game before some dumbfuck gets arrested.
It got annoying fast. Last time I took a nap in the park, some girl tried to snap Krabby on my Pokeballs. My wife was pissed but you know, gotta catch’em all.
OSR manchildren criticizing other manchildren is veering into pot/kettle/black territory.
My favorite manchild is Finarvyn who proudly touts the crappy flip tracphone that can’t run apps his life-loser induced poverty status has saddled him with.
I hear a lot of this nonsense. Friends who still teach have given anecdotal reports of their classrooms being invaded by trespassing students, and it’s only a matter of time before some trilby-and-trenchcoat felchmuffin sneaks into a school “hunting Pokemon” and we’re back to ‘dungeons and dragons guy’ as synonym for ‘godless kiddie-fiddler’, if indeed we ever left. I give it a week before the next Madeleine McCann is snatched into the back of a van with a Pokemon Go lure inside…
The whole Pokemon Go thing seems like a disaster waiting to happen. I want to meet the bright-eyed innocent soul who thought it up and ask them what planet they’re from.
You can already see some narratives forming in the “news” conglomerates, with Fox talking about peiople being lured into traps and getting robbed, and the Huffington Post pointing out that some abandoned squirrels have been rescued by plucky players.
You’re not one of those “stay inside because fear should rule our lives” types, are you?
In the US, you’re more likely to drown in your bathtub than be a victim of a school shooting, police shooting, murder in the wilderness, what-have-you. An overzealous, ratings-and-clicks-obsessed media (and idiotic presidential candidate) keeps pumping up our fears over anything happening to our precious widdle toeses, but the reality is, it’s safer here than it’s been since the mid-70s.
@Sykirombe: Perish the thought sir. I am neither a witless subscriber to the Word of Murdoch nor a victim of the Siege Mentality. I merely predict inevitable events, based on my estimation of human folly. Sooner or later, some unsavoury manchild will go where he shouldn’t go, and sooner or later, some genuinely harmful specimen will work out that a lure for the Pokemon is a lure for those who hunt them. That is the shape the moral panic will take. Doesn’t mean we should all burn our devices at once and never go outside because ANYONE COULD BE A PAEDOPHILE/AXE MURDERER/OSR BLOGGER and the only way to stay safe is to hide under the desk. That would be genuinely mental.
Who, me? Because I was pointing out the good pokemon/bad pokemon narratives forming in the media? Seems a bit of a leap to assume I cower in my house peeking from behind the curtains…
*disables phone GPS so noone can prove I cower in my house peeking from behind the curtains*
Timotheus: not you!
Von: thank goodness, I was afraid someone had taken over your account. You’ve always seemed to be a guy with his head on fairly straight (cis-headed? Is that more correct? Who knows). Scumbags will find a way to bag scum with anything, unfortunately.
I think ‘cis-headed’ indicates that my head, like the rest of me, is all man.
Agreed, scumbags gonna scum. In this particular case it seems like some really obvious steps could have been taken, though – at the very least exerting some human control over where the ‘Pokestops’ go so that they’re not going to cause trouble to people like Bigby or my teacher pal. The lures are a nice idea (I have heard of them being bought and distributed in children’s wards so bed-bound kids can play, which is sweet) but again, some vetting would be in order – set your lure, but it has to be OK’d by a human who can see if the derelict Fat Longpig’s Game-n-Grill Emporium is actually a safe place to be.
The dataset for Pokemon Go was imported from a very similar older game called Ingress which was developed when Niantic was a subsidiary of Google Earth. The locations were mapped through a combination of Google Earth data and player input. There ended up being millions.
Ingress was moderately popular but there were never enough players for anyone to really notice lurking around or to cause a problem with one’s place of business, landmark, memorial, etc. being included in the dataset. Once the basic engine was fleshed out and attached to a beloved franchise, it blew up and now it’s noticeable when a dozen twentysomethings in cargo shorts and sandals are shambling around catching ghost pokemon in your cemetery.
It’s exacerbated by the fact that lots of the players are out in the sun and fun for the first time in years and have not developed IRL social skills. Many are probably full-fledged autists (given the prevalence of “pokemongo” URLs, I’m surprised no one seems to be calling them “pokemongoloids), so boundaries that would be obvious to normies get crossed. Essentially, /r9k/ has experienced a containment breach and the robots are loose in the world.
There’s now a submission form for getting pokestops removed by Niantic. Given the unexpected success of the app, the ongoing server issues, the slew of bugs, etc., they have a HUGE backlog but they’re supposedly working on ensuring that people stop popping lures and catching Haunters at Arlington.
(just a subsidiary of Google, not Google Earth)
Well all this Pokémon worry seems like first-world problems compared to Pokemongoloids (thanks, Scott!) in Bosnia:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/health/bosnia-pokemon-go-landmine-warning/index.html
Ingress was moderately popular but there were never enough players for anyone to really notice lurking around or to cause a problem with one’s place of business, landmark, memorial, etc. being included in the dataset.
We had an Ingress invasion three years ago- all of a sudden, we’d have thirty people show up after hours. Initially, I thought it was a geocache onsite, but we collared a player and he explained the situation. We would have guys show up in our parking lot at 3AM and I’d scare them shitless by surprising them and telling them to shove off.
Eventually, we contacted the mods and had them move the ‘portal’ across the street, but it was a pain in the ass for a couple of weeks.
With Pokemon Go, my subordinates are picking up extra hours, but I’m going to forward the ‘take us off your Pokemap’ forms to our main offIce to nip this thing in the bud.
Jiggly Puff. My favorite is Jiggly Puff.
Is that a veiled reference to Taylor Swift’s boob job?
Somewhere in Virginia, a drunken lawyer cries a single tear.
Although southern West Virginia is now 30 feet underwater, it has not, I repeat, NOT become Deep Ones territory. Frankly it’s now even more beautiful than it ever was, and a prime location for Water Pokémon afficionados. I am Scott and I urge you to come over and discuss everything Taylor Swift and Pokémon Go.
Von, while they share a common border, Virginia and West Virginia are indeed two separate states. Like England and Narnia.
Ah, I see. It’s like Yorkshire.
So does Scott live in west Virginia, West Virginia, west West Virginia or up his own arsehole?
He lives in the state of West Virginia. The own arsehole is apropos; West Virginia is the butt of many (generally unfair) jokes here in the States about being backwoods/backwards.
Southern West Virginia, which is in general the most West Virginia part of West Virginia, but I live in the capital right near the Capitol and am thus considered highfalutin.
Saturday will make seven months without alcohol, smokes, dip, or “other.”
I’m still processing Taylor’s apparent incipient degeneracy and have retreated at least temporarily to devoted contemplation of the Golden Age from 2012-14. I’m hoping this is just a Kali Yuga presaging a new, even more glorious Age.
Oh, is that why you’ve been so quiet? Off the Substances?
Well, good on you for exercising the Will and finding the Way and all that. If it’s what needs to be done you’re doing it. Props.
Just been super busy. I’ve had a little time lately to work on Dwarf-Land and my fauxstalgic OD&D project but keep running into writer’s block.
Thank you very much for the kind sentiment. Quitting has simplified life quite a bit.
Varg,
For those of us who want to pursue traditional lifestyles like you, but do not have the talent to make money off of music like you do, what type of careers do you recommend to gain enough money to become fully self sufficient and able to support a family?
Varg,
I would just like to let you know you woke me up to what I already knew and didn’t want to admit. There is some strange conspiracy against the white race. We are headed to an ethnic conflict, in both Europe and North America. The Left is unaware of it’s own falsity, I myself was one of these people believing in idealistic materialism, while I was a materialistic idealist. Racism is right. White people are naturally oriented towards tribalism. The more I allow myself to go further into my own cultural identity, the more I see remnants of ancient white culture. Triurmvitives, kinship, honor (which I now use your definition), loyalty, comradeship, willingness to help kin (with a return), etc. I respect you, mainly because you focus on culture. I use white instead of European because my family on one side has been in Canada for 350 years and on the other for at least 100 years. I am a settler, white, but not European. Oh, lineage is a hold over too. Here in Canada a standard question to ask is where you from, what’s your lineage. Anyway, take care. Slainte!
You at the GOP convention railing against the “cuckservatives”?
Ha! Mjolnir and Vox Gay, with tactical support from Colostomy House bloggers Jeffblo and Cuntsova. And why not, toss in Varg and it is an ideological royal flush.
In fact…maybe Colostomy House is the perfect publisher for Varg’s 2nd edition of MYFAGOG.
Ahem.
Great Balls of Wotan! Forgive my oversight, Lord Witchiepoo!
In Europe the division between peoples and the odds of Civil War rise with every atrocity, every bombing, every worn cry of racism meant to obfuscate an actual point, every blatantly hostile minority action group that is allowed to inflict its barbarism upon honest citizens, and every polarizing media message (guilty, both sides). I am sorry. I cannot see him being wrong in the end. I am sorry that I cannot see that. I wish there was a way out.
I used to consider myself anti-fascist until I realized that capital A Anti-fa were, by and large, a bunch of jack-booted thugs. Plus, I found myself with a lot of friends and fans who were Crypto-fascists. I’m not comfortable enough with the imagery myself, even though for many its purpose is iconoclastic, so was never Crypto-fa and have kept my own projects away from it, but most of the ones I’ve known seemed like really nice people. Given the choice between letting two* of my punk friends stay at my house or half a dozen Crypto-fascists I’d just met, I’d probably opt for the latter and be in significantly less fear for my property.
The black people living by the pond are not technically my property, of course. 🙂
Hungarian underground musician working in the dark, industrial & electronic scene since 2006. I’m living in a village near the capital city of Hungary and I’m working as a programmer for a small company. Besides my musical projects, I have strong interest in reading and writing about political philosophy embracing ideas of (mostly) anglo-saxon conservatism, monarchism, pro-West, classical liberalism, libertarianism and austrian economics.
Wow. Buzzkill.
Well, on the lighter side, Zak is whoring himself for Ennies votes, helpfully pointing out that there was voting glitch, so you will need to re-check your ballots before it is too late to make sure they do indeed say Bloo Medusa.
Ah, it’s ballot-stuffing network-mobilising who-has-the-most-subscribers Industry Props season again, is it?
Heh, sorry about that. Gotta accept shit in our own way. On the plus side, I got laid a lot this week.
Keep on trucking guys.
On the plus side, I got laid a lot this week.”
Do they get scared when they see you are driving to the woods and not the ice cream shop, or do the muscle relaxants kick in pretty quick? Asking for a friend, of course..
Good idea to make your Dungeon of Lust into a Pokemon gym.
@CKDB:
The trick is to tell them first so they will get the romance and adventure that is missing in these dreadfully pedestrian times.
@BACLF:
That will be option B.
I watched “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” last month, and I still have difficulty to wrap my head around it. These folks are like many people I know in my own neck of the woods, and at the same time they are so fucking alien.
Finally taking a look at Vornheim, and all I can say is, shit, what a fucking over-hyped crap. I think there are a lot of DM’s who suck at doing city adventures, so maybe it’s good for them, but it’s pretty pedestrian in my opinion. Anybody who played CSOTIO in the distant past, and expanded and improved upon it, would never need this. They should find it pretty droll.
I never really followed his shit much online over the years, but a couple of things stood out. His obsession with pigs (calling online folk “Pigfuckers” and his npc is Jamals Dimmermount game online was “Pigfoot”), and cheese (mentions of cheese here and there; a photo of himself with cheese at the market near his shitbox apartment in Hollywood). In Vornheim he mentions cheese shops in multiple spots, and at least one major hook involving pigs (pigs must be present at all trials or some such horseshit).
Cheese indeed, Zak. Cheese indeed.
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Sir, I say that you are a poltroon and a skullduggard, and I’m at least 75% sure you’re lying about Taylor being in your bed because you claim she has tangible buttocks — fleshly appurtenances entirely superfluous to her godhead.
I’m still alarmed by her apparent flirtation with a decadent period but have walked back my pique a few steps to let things develop.
You’re a drunk bastard, Kent.
==You’re a drunk bastard, Kent.
Damn straight, and I intend to monetize it.
Do you miss your bourbon nights?
Yeah, sometimes.
Fuck! I missed it again. Please tell me someone stored this.
GentleMEN! https://mega.nz/#!A5RwQbpR!IAVy3FDtbOSDVbUUnr2YU5LehgTS3Z1si_91xK7myhU
Hahahaha awesome.
Now, Durr Hurr, you’re not intelligent enough to be successful in your mendacity. You did a second podcast shortly after your first one, but it was enough of an abortion that it led you to delete both podcasts.
Don’t go scrubbing the records in order to push an alternative history:
Another failure brought to you by Kent.
Note: Google ‘Kent Piss Dungeon Suck’ and note third result for added hilarity…
I miss Blooey 😦
I know the pain is dulled in those drunken stupors Kuntington, especially on a Saturday night when you have the delusion that you’ve done anything during the week to merit a “treat” night like Saturday. Still, it’s the best time to make all the pain of the following week not have to happen. A dozen easy ways probably in the dank, littered room you sit in right now. Keep it in mind for next weekend. Pain go bye bye.
Thanks for adding the retailer tier, but nobody short of a distributor is going to want/need 30 copies of a niche product like this. For something like this, 3-5 is more in the ballpark.
Hey Folks,
The second shipment is nearing completion. Everyone should receive it before the end of July (in the US and Canada) and the rest a few days later. I have three large batches to ship this week.
I am working towards having everything in print out to you before the end of the year. That may include another shipment or two – whatever works best to get it wrapped up. Print products from here on out are all exclusives of this kickstarter project and not available anywhere else.
I will update again when the last pieces of the second shipment have gone out.
Thank you for you patience.
-John
Wassup bros! Fuck any goats lately? Nah Im just fuckin with ya but check this shit out this is why I win https://plus.google.com/+MarkDiazTruman/posts/E7fqpbtyFV8
Heh:
I generally assume people who play AD&D and talk about it on Dragonsfoot are the god damn worst, but it’s a bit simple to assume that they are the sum total of the OSR.
How do these people survive, being so damn fragile?
I cried when I read it, out of fear. Afterwards, I called my husband and left a tearful voicemail. Then I wrote some email and tried to pay attention in class, only I couldn’t stop shivering (I wasn’t cold) and my hands wouldn’t stop (shaking), which made it hard to type.
Since reading the post, my chest feels tight and painful, my neck and shoulders feel tight enough to use for bridge cabling. I haven’t been able to get a deep breath, and I know that when I go home I’m going to have to take an Ativan and lie down for a bit, which will be sticking my husband with the burden of childcare this evening. Again.
To be clear, all of this isn’t because I’m crazy (although it is true that I am mentally ill). It’s because I’m terrified. Terrified of how this is going to be used and what it means for me and people I love. Because I’ve seen all of this before and know that I will see it again.
When did this hobby become saturated with a bunch of weak ninnies? What the fuck ever happened to sitting around the dining room table rolling weird dice?
Mark Diaz Truman’s post is actually a good one but he’s catching hell from all the sensitive assholes in the storygames set because he called them out on their shit and told them to act according to their own supposed principles. But instead of being constructive they complained and whined and insulted. Basically, almost anyone with a significant web presence in both OSR or storygames is a narcissistic nutjob. You have to be in order to win the internet wars…
God fucking damn, it is an entire culture of pussies trying to out-pussy the pussy beside you. Even though I am a troll on here, I am a fairly compassionate dude IRL. But this endless holding each others’ hands comfortingly and hissing like the bride of Frankenstein at dudes who try to be gallant and all the fucking codewords is just god damn pathetic. All this power-n-privledge we-need-safe-space bullshit makes you wonder how the human race survived to this point.
Not a single one of those pansies has a spine.
literally shaking right now
me too ed sheeran might be married WTF????!!?!?!?!?!!??
Timotheus==Even though I am a troll on here, I am a fairly compassionate dude IRL
Heh, what a fag! ‘I am not a racist but …’
Anyway, there are no trolls here just a bunch of scumbags huddled together and you a sheeplike follower. How can you troll here? Who are you trolling? You need to do that out there but you lack the wit.
Timotheus==Even though I am a troll on here, I am a fairly compassionate dude IRL
Ha ha.
Speaking of pansies! Entre Kent.
I might be a fag but I am not a racist, you malodorous mick.
I did feel kinda stupid writing that line, but you youself called me compassionate as I kicked you in the skull with my pink socks on.
The really funny thing is that Tarnowski has spend the last decade and a half of his life trying to set himself up as the Ultimate Enemy of Storygaming Swine, and he is barely mentioned and even then as an afterthought by only a couple of dudes. Zakina and Dellaporno are more widely recognized as the gatekeepers of the blOwSR than the RPGPindick is.
But…he’s just ahead of Zako in the PHB contributer credits!!!! That has to stand for something (has Pund ever mentioned this?).
This is why Kent scrubbed his podcast:
http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2016/07/new-old-school-podcast-in-works-and-im.html
He’ll put it back up as soon as he re-edits it with Tenkar’s contributions.
Until they also recruit Sexy Lexi (who I have heard from reliable sources is now a Slurpee Tech at a 7-11) to form the ultimate troika, I remain neutral.
Outstanding thank you. Dat rape whisper!
It really is time for a new post. My Commodore 64 takes 15 minutes to load this page.
Maybe you could make it about Venger’s heroic effort to heal the rift between the blOwSR and the storyfags, hoss.
Pretty sure anyone that considers themselves Oh Ess Arrrrrrrrrrr wishes ANYONE other than Cringer PainInTheAsses had self proclaimed themselves as ambassador from the cat piss man club to the delicate flowers of precious role playing (you figure out which is which cause I think the terms apply to both supposed schools of gaming). Hopefully Cringer negotiates like a fucking boss since he wrote the book on DMing like a boss. Selfless plug here, go buy my Master of the Game book and learn how to masturbate properly when looking at elf porn.