"Murder-hobos"

Rincewind1 · February 28, 2012, 06:12:40 PM

Quote from: jibbajibba;517741That stuff... Kingdom of the Blind is a one off on an alternate Batman called The Private Eye. I think I have an original page from it somewhere actually (the wife tends to get dibs on what goes up on the wall unless I stick to fine art travel prints)

Sounds interesting - since Judge Dreadd and Hellblazer, I love British comics. But I still stand by the fact that

A) Waynes aren't too bright
or

B) Wayne Senior was probably planning this all along - did not want to settle on the divorce, and was tired of that damned brat, and Wayne Senior did not actually die, but faked his death. He now lives in Bahamas, thanks to the money on a secret Switz account, drinking cocktails and boning easy girls.

Edit: Reading that thread now.

Internet connection: 20$ per month
A few books for DnD: 100$
Pizza, Drinks and Snacks For the Game: 15$
Comparing slaughter of orcs in a fantasy game to Hutu and Tutsi: Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard.

Benoist · February 28, 2012, 06:47:28 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;517736But that's flaccid purple you say, people here wouldn't claim that.

O'Rly?

That thread was one of the biggest clusterfuck we had on the board for a looong time indeed.

Rincewind1 · February 28, 2012, 06:49:13 PM

Quote from: Benoist;517753That thread was one of the biggest clusterfuck we had on the board for a looong time indeed.

It does read as something Krueger bookmarked, to unleash as Ultimate Trollbomb in time of great need.

edit: Delving thought that thread...seriously, everybody that's avert to slaughter of monstrous families? I remember my gnomish samurai from Lantan exterminated every kobold he could, preferably by using his flamethrower - less kobolds now, less to worry later.

Although he was not good, no - no.

Peregrin · February 28, 2012, 07:26:43 PM

Quote from: Justin Alexander;517376Largely because no one has ever managed to develop an interesting game structure for resolving social conflicts. Efforts in that direction have either been (a) mechanically non-interesting or (b) heavily dissociated to the point where the result is no longer a roleplaying game.

Have you tried Burning Wheel's Duel of Wits? While you could say the volley structure is a bit abstract (and potentially constraining), I've found that the resolution is more satisfying than most social combat systems because most of the time it produces results that are not binary, since the final "tallying up" of everything involves figuring how many compromises each side has to make, which actually feeds back into creating cool situations in the game.

crkrueger · February 28, 2012, 09:22:23 PM

Quote from: Aos;517742I missed that thread the first time, and I'm going to go right on missing it.

Since you missed it, here's one of the more entertaining posts...

Quote from: FrankTrollman;478035That's charmingly naive, but here are the old Ral Partha Orcs:

Yes, there has been a concerted movement to make them the "Greenskins" that are no longer associated with any human ethnic group. But let's be honest here: in the old days Orcs were Black people and you were supposed to kill their females and young when you found their villages.

Lots of similar good stuff in that thread.

Although to cross this thread with the discussion of fantasy teats...my barbarian would be so up in that hot orc on the right. Apparently he has Jungle Fever.

Rincewind1 · February 28, 2012, 09:26:05 PM

So Obould Many-Arrows is a metaphor of Malcolm X or what?

crkrueger · February 28, 2012, 09:30:57 PM

The thing that pissed me off about that picture is you'll never find a real Zulu figure half as fucking cool as that damn orc.

Rincewind1 · February 28, 2012, 10:15:34 PM

Heh. Such is life.

I must admit that this thread (the terminology aside) makes me want to use Devil's Gulch BRP setting with Wild Bunch characters.

misterguignol · February 28, 2012, 10:54:32 PM

Quote from: Rincewind1;517823So Obould Many-Arrows is a metaphor of Malcolm X or what?

We didn't land on Mithrall Hall; Mithrall Hall landed on us!

Elfdart · March 03, 2012, 02:18:12 PM

Quote from: jibbajibba;517562Holding PCs responsible for their actions would never work in most RPGs.

Most campaigns are too ad hoc for it to work without the game turning into a GM power trip of the sort that no one wants to play. No blue bolts from the heavens for me, thank you very much!

Elfdart · March 03, 2012, 02:23:13 PM

Quote from: jibbajibba;517578A number of comics have investigated it The Watchman most obviously but even if you have a 'Civil War' style superhero registration and enforcement program how are you going to cover stuff like the cost to repair the road you trashed, the lambpost you used to hit Seagullman with the class action lawsuit that the people on the city bus will take out on you even though you actually did protect them from Red Lightning's death bolts.

You end up with Superhero Insurance and the bill is like $1M a day for minimal coverage

Many years ago (about the time of the Rodney King beating) it was pointed out that a major expense for the LAPD (i.e. taxpayers) was the millions of dollars in court settlements for police brutality and destruction of property. So the taxpayers are already footing the bill.

Elfdart · March 03, 2012, 04:44:36 PM

Quote from: beejazz;517720See also: Fantasy Vietnam.

I prefer Fantasy Huston or Fantasy Peckinpah.

Benoist · March 03, 2012, 04:53:57 PM

I like the smell of corn dog in the morning.

J Arcane · March 03, 2012, 11:11:46 PM

http://berinkinsman.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/homicidal-transients-the-roleplaying-game/

Rincewind1 · March 04, 2012, 08:57:16 PM

Quote from: J Arcane;519087http://berinkinsman.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/homicidal-transients-the-roleplaying-game/

GOND DAMMIT!

I thought of writing exactly such a game as a joke, to one up the "Indie Crowd" and their love of transgressive content.