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We're super excited to share that we're currently working on a new RPG called "When We Die," and it's now in Beta testing. We would absolutely love to hear your feedback, so please feel free to download the ruleset for free from DriveThruRPG. Thanks a bunch!



WHEN WE DIE
The world changed forever when LPS-B22 arrived. A bacterial infection that swept across the globe and killed 4 out of 5 of the world's population. Any of those infected who didn't die straight away were left in a mindless, shambling state, terrifyingly similar to the classic "zombie" of folklore. The media, and those survivors who avoided infection, called these zombies "vectors" (after the term "infection vector"), but quickly they became known just as vecks. Before long, people were calling LPS-B22 the Vector Plague.

The Vector Plague was the deadliest pandemic in human history. Despite all the government efforts to contain the outbreak, every measure they took failed. Nobody did what they were supposed to do. Total denial, refusal to take it seriously. Panic and chaos. Law and order vanished overnight.

GAME MECHANICS
When We Die uses a tactical narrative system that places success or failure directly in your hands. With a unique Resilience-based dice system, you decide whether it's worth using up your physical and emotional resources to ensure success; resources you may well need to survive the days ahead.

The core mechanics uses a pool of dice based on a character's abilities, with the player trying to roll as many 6's as possible. Didn't roll enough? That's OK – just spend Resilience and results of 4 and 5 can count as 6's. Just don't spend too freely... when you run out of Resilience, it tends to hurt!

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Quote from: SHARK on May 22, 2024, 06:25:36 AMGreetings!

*Laughing* Well, you see, unlike you, I take the Scriptures seriously. The "Sensible Christians" that you speak of are not typically "Sensible" at all--nor are they genuine, Bible-believing Christians. They are wicked, degenerate rebels that hate God. They hate righteousness and truth. They hate sound doctrine. The Scriptures talk about these kinds of "Sensible Christians." They are actually of the world, and enemies to Christ. They go after seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. They eagerly seek to have their ears tickled. They stand in the gate, and rejoice in the approval and favour of THE WORLD. They not only seek to wallow in their own depravity, and exalt their own pride, sin, and wickedness, but they also heartily approve of others that are even more depraved and degenerate than they themselves. They scorn righteousness and sound doctrine, preferring lies and corruption. We can see this everywhere in society today--"They shall call what is Good, Evil, and what is Evil, Good. They are heretics, and they are doomed to be judged in wrath and fire, unless they repent of their sin and throw themselves at Christ's feet and beg forgiveness.

Going down rabbit holes? *Laughing* Well, that is far better than going down the road to Hell, like these heretics. The worldly, all-accepting, spineless, inoffensive heretic "Christian" that has gained the praise and approval of the World are rebels against God, and God shall judge them in wrath, fire, and vengeance. Revelations discusses the heretic churches--just like all of these fake, heretic "Christians" that reject sound doctrine and Biblical truth, as they exalt women as priestesses, promote abortion, celebrate divorce and feminism, and LGBTQ+alphebet soup agendas. This is clearly seen with the Methodists in America. Or the Unitarians. They are all corrupt heretics, and will be damned by God's wrath and judgment. The fake, heretic churches in the Letters to the Churches are where their sins and wickedness is exposed. One of these kinds of corrupt, heretic churches, is the church that exalts "Love". It is not true love, and they reject God's discipline, wrath, and justice. "Love is Love!" and "All is LOVE!"--such expressions are actually heresy, and mocking God's truth. Such ideologies and doctrines promoted by these corrupt, heretic churches are distortions and evil, seeking to twist and contort God's Word into being a sweet thing that is acceptable and approved of by the World. So, these "Sensible Christians" are not truly Christians at all, but are heretics. They are fools, thinking themselves wise, but they are doomed to the fires of Hell.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Refresh yourself on scripture. Read Romans 14: 10-13 and recognize that your false pride is not a good thing.

Greetings!

Yes, Romans 14: 10-13 concerns various attributes of fellow Christians, whether some observe various festival days, the eating of different meats, and so on. There is liberty in Christ. The verses of Romans do not support fellow Christians to embrace heresy, and doctrines of seducing spirits and demons. As several excellent preachers have described such heretic, fake "Christians" as "Preaching a different Gospel," and of "Following after a different Christ." The Scriptures, as I alluded to several, strongly condemn such heretics.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: Omega on May 22, 2024, 05:59:00 AMCouple of art sites have in the last few months flipped out and declared -anything- that looks underage is verboten! That includes hobbits, halflings, probably anything shorter than 6ft because there is no limit to how insane the woke can get.

We call them Antis (as in Anti-shippers) and they are, 100%, fucking insane. Like drooling on themselves, shit-flinging retarded, straight up Flavor-Aid drinking cultists. And there are a LOT of fucking groomers/pedophiles hiding in their ranks because a lot of Antis are minors. We have a running thread of these assholes who've attack us over the years and then been outed as pedophiles. It's why you'll see threads on Twitter with these imbeciles and one or more of us will chime in with 'Start the Clock' or variants thereof. I wish to fucking God it wasn't this way because I remember when anime fandom was fun and we loved our racy weird Japanese toons. Now the merest hint of anime tiddy will sent these mouth breathing shitstains into paroxysms of apoplexy.

Quote from: Exploderwizard on May 22, 2024, 10:29:02 AMThose who can get you to believe absurdities can force you to commit atrocities.

There's today's dose of irony, folks!

Quote from: Thor's Nads on May 21, 2024, 08:38:06 PMI, for one, am looking forward to WotC rebooting The Scourge of the Slavelords in the Greyhawk setting, from a woke perspective.

TSR's first reboot was bad enough. WotCs will have all the slaves be natives from the Amedio Jungle and Hepmonaland. And the Commander of the Hill Fort (A2), Icar, will be made a white man cause 'black men cannot be slavers'.

Quote from: jhkim on May 21, 2024, 09:29:16 PMThanks, Venka. I did not expect that I would be arguing over whether "The Last White Man" is racist. It seems clear to me from reading it.

There's room for reasonable disagreement over a lot of things regarding race. I genuinely thought this one wasn't controversial to call.

Can you, for once, not be a disingenuous fuck?

Quote from: SHARK on May 22, 2024, 06:25:36 AMGreetings!

*Laughing* Well, you see, unlike you, I take the Scriptures seriously. The "Sensible Christians" that you speak of are not typically "Sensible" at all--nor are they genuine, Bible-believing Christians. They are wicked, degenerate rebels that hate God. They hate righteousness and truth. They hate sound doctrine. The Scriptures talk about these kinds of "Sensible Christians." They are actually of the world, and enemies to Christ. They go after seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. They eagerly seek to have their ears tickled. They stand in the gate, and rejoice in the approval and favour of THE WORLD. They not only seek to wallow in their own depravity, and exalt their own pride, sin, and wickedness, but they also heartily approve of others that are even more depraved and degenerate than they themselves. They scorn righteousness and sound doctrine, preferring lies and corruption. We can see this everywhere in society today--"They shall call what is Good, Evil, and what is Evil, Good. They are heretics, and they are doomed to be judged in wrath and fire, unless they repent of their sin and throw themselves at Christ's feet and beg forgiveness.

Going down rabbit holes? *Laughing* Well, that is far better than going down the road to Hell, like these heretics. The worldly, all-accepting, spineless, inoffensive heretic "Christian" that has gained the praise and approval of the World are rebels against God, and God shall judge them in wrath, fire, and vengeance. Revelations discusses the heretic churches--just like all of these fake, heretic "Christians" that reject sound doctrine and Biblical truth, as they exalt women as priestesses, promote abortion, celebrate divorce and feminism, and LGBTQ+alphebet soup agendas. This is clearly seen with the Methodists in America. Or the Unitarians. They are all corrupt heretics, and will be damned by God's wrath and judgment. The fake, heretic churches in the Letters to the Churches are where their sins and wickedness is exposed. One of these kinds of corrupt, heretic churches, is the church that exalts "Love". It is not true love, and they reject God's discipline, wrath, and justice. "Love is Love!" and "All is LOVE!"--such expressions are actually heresy, and mocking God's truth. Such ideologies and doctrines promoted by these corrupt, heretic churches are distortions and evil, seeking to twist and contort God's Word into being a sweet thing that is acceptable and approved of by the World. So, these "Sensible Christians" are not truly Christians at all, but are heretics. They are fools, thinking themselves wise, but they are doomed to the fires of Hell.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Refresh yourself on scripture. Read Romans 14: 10-13 and recognize that your false pride is not a good thing.

Quote from: Brad on May 22, 2024, 08:59:45 AM

Quote from: Omega on May 22, 2024, 05:14:17 AMYou must be new here kid. Stick around. You'll see him jump through some of the most ass backwards mental jymnastics that would make a contortionist weep.

I think he needs to be on everyone's ignore list as all he does is derail any legitimate discussion. His obsession with calling dudes who've been dead for 100+ years racist is about the most pathetic attempt at virtue signaling possible.

Also, who gives a fuck if REH was racist? Does it even matter? Does it have any material impact on anyone currently alive?

Calling attention to such things, in the deranged mind of a leftist, justifies their endless war on Western culture and civilization. The idea in painting historical literary giants as racists is to label YOU as a racist if you enjoy and appreciate their work and contribution to Western culture. The exact same playbook is being used by WOTC to tear down Gygax and Arneson. You can see the same playbook being used by these drones over and over because none of them have an original thought. Clear thinking people don't abandon their love for great literature due to a pathetic attempt at label shaming.

Those who can get you to believe absurdities can force you to commit atrocities.

My players only loosely pay attention to their alignment. Basically its a guide on how to treat prisoners. Passions seems like a fun idea to read about but I doubt it'd be used much in practice, at least not by my set of players.

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