Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2024, 01:07:42 PMQuote from: Omega on May 13, 2024, 01:35:07 AMQuoteI never understood classifying Darkman as a superhero movie. It's like saying Evil Dead 2 is a superhero movie. Kinda, sorta, maybe if you squint and broaden the definitions to their maximum.
er. The Darkman movie about the scientist who is disfigured and fights crime using synthetic skin to disguise himself as different people?
Thats like claiming Batman isnt a superhero because he has no superpowers?
Darkman is a deranged psychopath. He doesn't fight crime. He wants cruel and bloody revenge on the specific criminals who caused his situation. Even at their worst, "dark and gritty" superheroes like Batman or Punisher still have some kind of code of morals and a goal to help people. Darkman is just some poor guy's ID run rampant. If anything, he has a lot more in common with supervillians.
Quote from: HappyDaze on May 14, 2024, 12:33:50 AMQuote from: Zelen on May 13, 2024, 09:22:41 PMMy stance is that lore is incredibly important, but anyone who cares about lore at this point should see the writing on the wall for Battletech.What part of the Battletech story/setting has been subverted? How has it been subverted, and what do you believe is the "writing on the wall" and anyone should see?
It's a lot less damaging for "the lore" to accept a spin-off with renamed factions + characters that keeps the underlying themes, tone, style, than to continue on supporting a game/IP which is compromised by malicious actors whose expressed goals are to subvert that story/setting.
Quote from: HappyDaze on May 14, 2024, 12:31:43 AMQuote from: GeekyBugle on May 13, 2024, 10:50:04 PMIf it's free from IRL politics, then why would it matter who it's made by?Quote from: Zelen on May 13, 2024, 09:22:41 PMMy stance is that lore is incredibly important, but anyone who cares about lore at this point should see the writing on the wall for Battletech.
It's a lot less damaging for "the lore" to accept a spin-off with renamed factions + characters that keeps the underlying themes, tone, style, than to continue on supporting a game/IP which is compromised by malicious actors whose expressed goals are to subvert that story/setting.
100% Let Catalyst and it's IP burn, make a new thing or embrace an existing one, if possible one that (while keeping the game free from IRL politics) is made by explicitly anti-woke people.
Quote from: yosemitemike on May 11, 2024, 05:43:49 AMThe SJW crowd can't seem to decide if sex work is empowering and sex workers must be respected or whether it's exploitation and bad. Their outrage or lack of it seems highly instrumental.
Quote from: Exploderwizard on March 20, 2024, 01:23:19 PMWhat 0 level character gets 10 HP? A man at arms has 4-7 and non-fighter types have less than that.
Quote from: Votan on May 13, 2024, 08:36:17 PMQuote from: RPGPundit on May 09, 2024, 07:01:56 PMWotC (and Wizkids) are full of people for whom the word "truth" means something totally different from what that word means to normal people.
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I think the red box fighter thing was just trolling for attention. Tenkar's video on it led me to notice (after decades!) that it is the same fighter on the cover of all of the BECMI editions. There is also an action figure.
So clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?
Quote from: Lurkndog on May 13, 2024, 11:19:00 PMOne problem with stealth is that there are a lot of different levels of stealth, and they don't always work together.Good post. Thank you.
You have your ninja/sniper/scout/thief level of stealth, which is a small number of people hiding and sneaking around, and probably doing most of their movement under cover of darkness, or slowly creeping into a contested area.
But there are also stealth aspects to modern regular infantry operating with night vision.
Thirdly, stealth is also present at the level of an entire army maneuvering for tactical surprise. They're not going to sneak up on Ninja Guy, but they can sneak up on another army.
Likewise, there is a strong element of stealth in tank warfare. Tanks can and do sneak up on other tanks, even though they will rarely sneak up on alert infantry.
Then you have stealth among fighter aircraft, both actual stealth fighters and regular fighters using stealthy tactics like attacking out of the sun or flying below radar.
There is stealth in submarine warfare, and in space warfare modeled on submarine warfare.
In all of these situations, too, the non-stealthy operators can combat the stealth units, either with dedicated antistealth units like antisubmarine aircraft or satellites or spotters or scouts, or with tactics like sweeps of areas and skirmish lines, and artillery strikes on sniper positions, or even just good intelligence work.
Making a single system that can model all of these things seems like it would be difficult. And you might not even want to. If your characters are Army infantry, you don't need submarine warfare rules. But to get to the point where you can simplify your rules set, you need to make good campaign design choices.
Lastly, yes, I am aware that I overthink things.
Quote from: Zelen on May 13, 2024, 09:22:41 PMMy stance is that lore is incredibly important, but anyone who cares about lore at this point should see the writing on the wall for Battletech.What part of the Battletech story/setting has been subverted? How has it been subverted, and what do you believe is the "writing on the wall" and anyone should see?
It's a lot less damaging for "the lore" to accept a spin-off with renamed factions + characters that keeps the underlying themes, tone, style, than to continue on supporting a game/IP which is compromised by malicious actors whose expressed goals are to subvert that story/setting.