Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

If I'm actually paying for a prepackaged module, it very well may be it was because I wanted to get right to the game without much preparation of my own. Basically "lmao just do our job that you paid us to do yourself."

At least the Curse of Strahd module isn't quite as bad as Rime of The Frostmaiden, which is basically just three or four 2e modules that have been poorly Mengele'd together with little to know actual connective tissue between them and also does the CoS thing where it tells you to eat shit and figure it out yourself for large portions of the module where it doesn't have a specific dungeon for the players to do.

 

[Ghostse]

The biggest issue with d20 is the OpenSRD which flooded the market with terrible dogshit games in the nineties and the endless attempts to cludge 5e into a working system. Were it not for that I think that d20's reputation wouldn't be as in the gutter as it is.

Big time disagee. OpenSRD is why d20 is as common as it is instead of some sort of Xd6 system.
OpenSRD is why there is a largely universal mind set in the d20 space I agree.

 

[Brain Problems]

The 5e Curse of Strahd module is absolute garbage, btw. Every 5e module is but CoS gets it especially bad since there are large swathes of the campaign outline where it basically just throws its hands up and goes "Do whatever, lol. Figure it out, DM." and then leaves you swinging in the breeze.

Not sure I follow what you're saying here. The module is a sandbox designed around the tarokka reading to send PCs in whatever directions to acquire the monstrous mcguffins necessary to take strahd on. You could argue that depending on where the clues send them that whole areas might be missed or ignored but I never found the line of progress that confusing. If anything I preferred the fact that module is happy to let players go somewhere way too dangerous (bonegrinder mill) and let them just get fucked if they cannot reconigse how dangerous the situation is and are used to kindly DMs just saying, oh it's okay, I won't TPK my party that'd be mean...

It's not a perfect module by any stretch but I think it's the best of the bunch of the 5e ones I've ever played but I am biased as a dyed-in-the-wool take-no-prisoners horrorfag.

 

[Kyria the Great]

I'm of two minds as likely Dark Sun will never be revisited as its anti magic setting was quite different with mind powers being your might with metals being quite rare.

On the other hand thank God for Dark Sun's subject matter being too taboo for this current era of tabletop as it will prevent it from being touched.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

I'd be surprised if there wasn't some kind of 5e compatible ersatz Dark Sun sourcebook from a third party publisher out there.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

I'm of two minds as likely Dark Sun will never be revisited as its anti magic setting was quite different with mind powers being your might with metals being quite rare.

On the other hand thank God for Dark Sun's subject matter being too taboo for this current era of tabletop as it will prevent it from being touched.

Tim Cain did a video a while back discussing why there will probably never be a sequel to Arcanum. He said whoever owned it likely wrote it off on their taxes as a loss and would need to pay the back taxes to use the IP again. If I had to guess I'd say Hasbro has already done this with Dark Sun because the last release was when 4e was in a nose dive and I bet it sold like shit.

Dark Sun itself is interesting because the setting evolved directly with the novelizations. Borys the Dragon was killed by Rikus in the books and Rajaat was sealed away forever and I think that's just canon? Sort of placed a book end in a lot of the setting.

Anyway, Rajaat did nothing wrong. Poor guy died trying to dump a bunch of water on the planet because that half elf bitch didn't want a bunch of dysgenic retards to die. I'm not even a halfling and I think that's a shame.

 

[anti SJW]

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

It's not a perfect module by any stretch but I think it's the best of the bunch of the 5e ones I've ever played but I am biased as a dyed-in-the-wool take-no-prisoners horrorfag.

That's actually what I've heard about the Curse book myself; as someone who hasn't done much of anything with Ravenloft myself as of yet, I figured it would be a good opportunity to jump in. Better than Horrors Within at any rate, though that's not a very high bar to clear.

I'm of two minds as likely Dark Sun will never be revisited as its anti magic setting was quite different with mind powers being your might with metals being quite rare.

On the other hand thank God for Dark Sun's subject matter being too taboo for this current era of tabletop as it will prevent it from being touched.

Let's see... magic being taboo, meaning all the neopagan fetishists can't cast their favorite spells willy-nilly? The world being a brutal and unforgiving place that doesn't cater to random fags? Horrific shit such as slavery being the norm? Yeah, no fag would ever touch the game... unless they try to do a "remake" of it akin to how they butchered Ravenloft.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Let's see... magic being taboo, meaning all the neopagan fetishists can't cast their favorite spells willy-nilly? The world being a brutal and unforgiving place that doesn't cater to random fags? Horrific shit such as slavery being the norm? Yeah, no fag would ever touch the game... unless they try to do a "remake" of it akin to how they butchered Ravenloft

Dark Sun did something that DND really needed, it made magic actually come with a real cost. We need more of that where being a mage it's tantamount to being a selfish fag. Plus being a psionic Artificer sounds awesome

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Dark Sun did something that DND really needed, it made magic actually come with a real cost. We need more of that where being a mage it's tantamount to being a selfish fag. Plus being a psionic Artificer sounds awesome

I believe this meme is relevant:



As for the Artificer bit... I dunno, I think I prefer just being a Fighter or Ranger - something simple. I don't care about fancy magic, especially after all of the current year bullshit in DND these days. Even when I'm supposed to be playing a magic class like Druid or something, I find myself preferring just to drop all the fancy spells and just start smashing people's faces in Yakuza-style. Or shooting them with a gun; ran a few gun builds in DND 5E and D20 Modern, should really try to figure a build in older editions...

 

[MazonLabs Recruitment Rep]

I believe this meme is relevant:

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As for the Artificer bit... I dunno, I think I prefer just being a Fighter or Ranger - something simple. I don't care about fancy magic, especially after all of the current year bullshit in DND these days. Even when I'm supposed to be playing a magic class like Druid or something, I find myself preferring just to drop all the fancy spells and just start smashing people's faces in Yakuza-style. Or shooting them with a gun; ran a few gun builds in DND 5E and D20 Modern, should really try to figure a build in older editions...

Aside from Archivist (which didn't get an official port from 3.5, bastards), Martial classes 4 lyfe.

 

[Manly_Brony]

I'm of two minds as likely Dark Sun will never be revisited as its anti magic setting was quite different with mind powers being your might with metals being quite rare.

On the other hand thank God for Dark Sun's subject matter being too taboo for this current era of tabletop as it will prevent it from being touched.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they've been on a mission to reframe it as a green and leftist TTRPG for almost a year:

https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/return-to-dark-sun

 

[Aib Ld]

Got into a funny situation. Two of my players want to fuck two NPCs. Not a problem for one pair (one female PC, male NPC), but the other would get a rude awakening on the reveals. Both of the NPCs are under suits of armors, but the male PC wants to fuck the second one... who's a male too.

Campaign is going pretty swell too and it makes being a GM surprisingly fun, other than the party going off the rails a bit because I accidentally left out a detail for their mystery mission. It was funny seeing them try to look over everything which also gave me another option to slide in the accidentally-left-out hint somewhere else.

This campaign was night and day difference from a previous campaign that fell apart because a couple in the group refused to play, pay attention, and slowed down everyone else.

 

[The Ugly One]

"Do whatever, lol. Figure it out, DM."

Unfathomably based. Filters the true DMs out from the chaff.

Where the fuck is the D20’s reputation in the gutter besides you speds in this thread? It’s a fucking die that’s broadly in use across the entire RPG industry?

The d20, as in the 20-sided die, is a venerable institution. The d20 System, the structure of feats and sliding scales that WotC shat out in the 00s, has a pretty bad reputation. 5e is not technically a d20 System game, although it shares many similarities.

 

[Kyria the Great]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they've been on a mission to reframe it as a green and leftist TTRPG for almost a year:

https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/return-to-dark-sun

The whole point is that Arthas is a dead world ruled by depraved sorcerer kings attempting to become gods themselves and the only thing you might be able to achieve is enough power to kill one of them unless you attempt to supplant them.

 

[ColonelCadaver]

The d20, as in the 20-sided die, is a venerable institution.

TBH, the original (2ed from what i've read) doesn't look all that venerable.. Separate initiatives every turn, surprise roll as substitute for stealth, d20 roll-over for attack, d20 roll-under for NWPs and ability checks... d100 used more than d20. It's called "subsystem hell" for a reason. (if it isn't - i'm gonna call it that). Feels too dirty, as if you're in control of a submarine.

 

[FK009]

I don't have the book just yet, have to rely on some YouTuber for the review for right now. Again, I'm pretty sure the Lupin are legit the only semi-balanced thing in this book (mostly due to being a remixed Leonin), and even then their Howl ability is decently

Need a PDF?

 

[Ghostse]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they've been on a mission to reframe it as a green and leftist TTRPG for almost a year:

https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/return-to-dark-sun

The whole point is that Arthas is a dead world ruled by depraved sorcerer kings attempting to become gods themselves and the only thing you might be able to achieve is enough power to kill one of them unless you attempt to supplant them.

Dying world run by a select, deprave few lording over the enslaved masses.

Sounds like a world where the Greens/Lefties have taken over to be sure.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Aside from Archivist (which didn't get an official port from 3.5, bastards), Martial classes 4 lyfe.

I enjoy hitting things, I admit; planning on running a Battlemaster Fighter for a future campaign with my group. In fact, it's actually something I wanted to vent about... maybe later.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they've been on a mission to reframe it as a green and leftist TTRPG for almost a year:

https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/return-to-dark-sun

Exhibit A. You guys need to remember; the woke can't stand the idea of ANYTHING that doesn't cater to their ideas. That, and they can't stand the thought of anyone outside of their cult actually enjoying anything; everything must be fagged to them, or else it shouldn't exist.

Side note: when you said "green", my mind legitimately first thought they switched the world of Arthas from a desert to a radioactive overgrown area, like in Pripyat.

Need a PDF?

Eh, should be good for right now; the video goes over just about everything I need it to anyways, main problem on my end is just getting enough time/focus down to actually write the damn review.

That, and prepping for another DND campaign, this one coming in August; we'll be officially starting up a long-term story, assuming things go well, so I'm spending a decent chunk of my free time figuring out a character for it. Already got a class, that being the aforementioned Battlemaster, but the race is giving me more issues than you'd think - relying on 4E for ideas and all that.

 

[robobobo]

As per usual the retards have no core knowledge of the thing they're trying to usurp. Athas is fucked. You aren't going to overthrow the heckin Trumperino dragon kings and turn the world into a paradise full of gay bistros. The dragon kings aren't special Captain Planet villains, they're just high-level wizards. Magic itself destroys the world, it's a simple and inescapable fact. The world and everyone on it are doomed. The brutality, slavery, cannibalism, everything, are reflections of the fact that the people are desperate and have abandoned any sense of morality in their need to survive. The problematic cannibal halflings aren't cannibals for fun, they're cannibals because not doing so would mean they'll starve. You aren't fixing this with your appeals to the proletariat and a class war to redistribute wealth; your new socialist community is going to run out of food and water at exactly the same rate as everyone else.