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

Since someone mentioned Battletech RPGs, I did an entire breakdown of the RPG in the Battletech thread. I'll just quote it here for posterity:
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The actual supported Battletech TTRPG game is the Mechwarrior RPG. The original RPG by FASA is simply known as the Mechwarrior RPG and there are three editions: MechWarrior: The BattleTech Role Playing Game, MechWarrior: The BattleTech Role Playing Game, Second Edition, and MechWarrior, Third Edition. Some quirks to note about the earlier editions: the First edition only goes up to the Third Succession War era while the Second Edition introduced the clans. Both of the first two editions outright expected you to be familiar with the rules of whatever the (then) most current edition of Battletech was if you wanted to do large battles and use mechs, which meant that you needed to buy yet more books and be familiar with multiple rulesets, and the First Edition was meant to be compatible with Battletroops for squad based combat. The first edition was almost entirely geared towards creating mechwarriors, in fact, to the detriment of every other potential character type and playstyle. The second edition was also criticized for allowing you to create elite mechwarriors without using any experience points. The third edition, the last edition FASA made, was an attempt to rectify all of these issues; it explicitly did not require you to be familiar with Battletech to play, you could make more than just mechwarriors, and mechwarriors could no longer be made without experience points. It used a character creation system that was identical to the one FASA original Star Trek roleplaying game employed. It was explicitly designed to fix many of Second Edition's issues. The main criticism is that its character creation is somewhat random, along with some apparent balancing issues.

After FASA lost the rights to WizKids, the latter company farmed out the rights to publish Battletech books to FanPro. It was FanPro who published the Classic Battletech RPG. This rpg is not a new edition of Mechwarrior, but is just a reprint of Third Edition, renamed so as not to be confused with WizKids other game line, Mechwarrior: Dark Age. The Battletech game itself was also renamed to Classic Battletech. The Classic Battletech RPG is basically interchangeable with Third Edition, with only the errata being different.

When Catalyst Game Labs (CGL) took over, they effectively rebooted the entire Battletech license with their Total Warfare rulebook. After that book, they released a series of core rulebooks to go along with it, one of which is A Time of War, which is essentially Mechwarrior, Fourth Edition under a new name (some fans still call it that). Its the newest version, with the newest ruleset and covering all eras up till the Jihad era (it doesn't technically cover the Dark Ages in the corebook, though that era is mentioned, and it shouldn't be hard to run a game in that era). A Time of War is extremely complex to run (character creation alone is right hard mess to follow), but it doesn't need you to be familiar with Battletech to run. you are probably better following @Corn Flakes advice and just running your own system and using the books to set the setting and design ships and mechs and such.
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Just thought i'd add to this with my favorite trap from Return to the Tomb Of Horrors. It's very simple and can be very nasty
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I once tried to get a party together for a Tomb of Horrors sequel, but the players were all people who had been along on the first. Responses: "No I am not going back there." "Eat a dick." "Fuck you."

It didn't happen.
 
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Anyone remember 1d4chan? I think the site's gone down for good; something about the author "not wanting to contaminate the younger generations with outdated memes", or some shit.
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Huh. Yeah, actually, I just tried to follow a link there yesterday off... I don't remember where, some discussion of Blood Raven 40k lore minutia somewhere, and it was dead. I hadn't thought about that place in a while until then, I guess I wasn't exactly shocked, but... Kinda also, yeah, just in that whole "the internet is forever" sort of way.
 
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Huh. Yeah, actually, I just tried to follow a link there yesterday off... I don't remember where, some discussion of Blood Raven 40k lore minutia somewhere, and it was dead. I hadn't thought about that place in a while until then, I guess I wasn't exactly shocked, but... Kinda also, yeah, just in that whole "the internet is forever" sort of way.
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The Wayback Machine's still got a bunch of the old pages; not all of them were up to date, exactly, but it's something.
 
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I'm surprised nobody itt posted about this, because this shit is retarded

‘Magic: The Gathering’ publisher Wizards of the Coast sent the Pinkertons after a leaker​

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When a highly anticipated set of Magic: The Gathering cards leaked on YouTube last week, it’s hard to imagine anyone would have guessed the incident would end with the involvement of one of the most infamous private security firms in the world. But that’s exactly what happened after YouTuber Oldschoolmtg uploaded an unboxing video featuring a collection of March of the Machine: The Aftermath booster packs.

If you’re not familiar, Aftermath is an upcoming 50-card Magic: The Gathering set Wizards of the Coast will release on May 12th. It’s billed as a supplement to the game’s current March of the Machine expansion, which has been available since April 21st. Predictably, Oldschoolmtg’s unboxing video was all anyone in the Magic: The Gathering community could talk about in recent days. Based on Wizards of the Coast’s reaction, it’s safe to say the video also irked the Hasbro-owned publisher.

Over the weekend, Oldchoolmtg uploaded another video, this time titled “The Aftermath of The Aftermath… Everything is Gone!” In the clip, the YouTuber says Pinkerton agents showed up at his home on Saturday morning and began demanding he hand over the “stolen” product. “I got up and recorded some videos,” Oldschoolmtg states. “Right after I got done with the video, dogs started barking because somebody is at the door. I come out and the wife’s answering the door and it was the Pinkertons.”

If you live in the US, the Pinkertons need no introduction. The company is one of the country’s oldest private security firms, with its original incarnation, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, dating back to 1850. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Pinkertons made a name for themselves with their anti-union operations, a job they continue to do in the 21st century.

Oldschoolmtg speculates the person he bought the unreleased cards from likely didn’t know they sent him an unreleased set. “Somebody screwed up and sent out the wrong cases to the gentlemen that I bought the boxes off of, because when he sold me the stuff he said he was selling me March of the Machine collector’s boxes — not Aftermath.”

After recovering the leaked Magic: The Gathering set, including the empty boxes and wrappers, the Pinkertons put Oldschoolmtg in touch with a Wizards of the Coast representative, who was “very apologetic about making my wife cry first thing in the morning by sending these heavy-duty lawmen.”

A Wizards of the Coast spokesperson confirmed to Polygon and Kotaku that the company sent the private security firm to Oldschoolmtg as “part of their investigation” into the leak. The YouTuber says the contact they spoke to at Wizards of the Coast offered to send them free products as compensation for what had happened. For what it’s worth, his YouTube viewership has also doubled since the original video went up.
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I'm surprised nobody itt posted about this, because this shit is retarded

‘Magic: The Gathering’ publisher Wizards of the Coast sent the Pinkertons after a leaker​

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On one hand, those twitter faggots are being histronic. Pinkertons were likely hired because they are nation-wide, unlike many other investigative firms. A PI making empty threats against spineless empty-sackers is absolutely nothing new and LOL at the Youtube Faggot for giving in and letting the PI inside their house, let alone allowing them to take their stuff.

On the other: ahahahhahaahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAhahahahah WOTC hiring the Pinkertons is like the NAACP hiring the Pagans. Talk about the true colors coming out when the chips are down. He leaked some shit two weeks early you coastie niggers. The video's up on Youtube. Why even bother trying to claw shit back? Just figure out who he bought the shit from and go full vendor contract on thier ass, not the millenial faggot.
 
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On the other: ahahahhahaahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAhahahahah WOTC hiring the Pinkertons is like the NAACP hiring the Pagans. Talk about the true colors coming out when the chips are down. He leaked some shit two weeks early you coastie niggers. The video's up on Youtube. Why even bother trying to claw shit back? Just figure out who he bought the shit from and go full vendor contract on thier ass, not the millenial faggot.
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Some limp-dick at WOTC was probably on a power trip. Not even Disney sends goons to someone's fucking house.
 
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Anyone got good advice for a 3.5 Greyhawk Pally build?
 
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Some limp-dick at WOTC was probably on a power trip. Not even Disney sends goons to someone's fucking house.
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I think WOTC gave the Pinkertons bad directions. I can see how this shit went down.

They thought the Youtube guy was some leaker probably with a palette of stolen product ready to resell, and WOTC said they wanted all their unauthorized product back. The Pinkerton's actions make perfect sense when you are raiding some Ebay reseller. They make zero fucking sense when its a Youtuber reviewing your product - literally getting people excited for next product.

Pinkerton guy isn't going to give a fuck, he doesn't care about some gay card game for children that's obsessed over by fat men. He was told "secure all product" and he did just that.

Hiring the Pinkertons makes sense - find out who leaked, how they leaked, and then you can excise them from your network. Not telling them to just let the people who bought a single copy keep their shit while you chase down the scalper is utterly fucking retarded.

And Disney just uses the real cops or their lawyers.

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Anyone got good advice for a 3.5 Greyhawk Pally build?
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Don't. Make a wizard, embrace caster supremacy.
 
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Someone who's setting off internal alarms might come to my next game session. Lists her pronouns as he/him despite probably being a woman, won't give her name, writes like she lives on Twitter, and had to have everything explained to her on the Discord server because she didn't bother reading anything before clicking on the invite link. She didn't even know what system we were using, she assumed that we were running a 5e game.

Her internet addict vibes suggest to me that she won't actually show up to an IRL game, but anything's possible. If she spergs out or is unable to tear herself away from her phone, she'll be told not to come back. I'm a nice guy and want to give everyone a chance since this community is and always has been saturated with spergs and retards, but I am not conflict averse, either, and have no problem with looking someone in the eye and telling them that I don't want them around.
 
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