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

[Ghostse]

Paizo has released a draft of the ORC License for public comment. Surprisingly, the creative director wasn't prevaricating: there isn't the faintest whiff of a morality clause.

Some interesting points:

• The license has no controlling organization explicitly so that it cannot be politicized.
• The license cannot be revised, amended, or revoked.
• The license is designed to discourage litigation.

IANAL quick skim analysis:
tl;dr: Company agnositic OGL with some QOL improvements. Longer, but not overly so. More legalese but still rather reasonable. More precise.

Takeaways:
- License is registered as a copyrighted product, so it'll be on file with the copyright office. It cannot be revised or amended. They state they are public domaining it, but it means this is on file with the gubmint and easy produce an original copy in case of litagation. This is a pretty novel solution.
- Attribution chain is mandatory but very simple. Includes you listing your work's attribution so downstreamers can just C&P.
- You can also call out specific things that would be covered content for inclusion 'downstream' without licensing the entire work; You can also call out specific parts of your work as explicitly NOT transfered by ORC. That's why no CC-BY - no option for downstream to reserve rights.
- Includes inventory destruction is not required for violators who breech but then correct. Whew lads. this is likely to make it unpalatable to any big boys, but consider that a sniff test.
- There is some EU mandated GPDR faggotry I couldn't parse.

It is longer and slightly less 'normie readable' than OGL but doesn't waste words and isn't overly lawyer-speak.
Makes it easier for you to create derivatives with permissive IP without giving away all your rights.

 

[AnOminous]

In the books that are popular with women they tend to like stories where men take charge, are courageous, roguish, protective and have a bit of a soft and vulnerable side to them.

Have any of these faggots and hairy bull-dykes seen the covers of erotic books women actually read, like the Harlequin Romance types? They do not have etiolated fags on the cover. They generally have bodice-ripping muscular dudes doing what would be considered rape if the women didn't want it.

 

[Hijo de Dang Woodchucks!]

Have any of these faggots and hairy bull-dykes seen the covers of erotic books women actually read, like the Harlequin Romance types? They do not have etiolated fags on the cover. They generally have bodice-ripping muscular dudes doing what would be considered rape if the women didn't want it.

And sometimes it's still rape, depending on alignment.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

someone on teeg found this so as a good polposter I have to show it to other people. Note the first line.
It's Regency Cthulhu, a splat about whose tagline is "The Mythos Comes to Jane Austen’s England!" and looks to be a first party chaosium product.

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[Ghostse]

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someone on teeg found this so as a good polposter I have to show it to other people. Note the first line.
It's Regency Cthulhu, a splat about whose tagline is "The Mythos Comes to Jane Austen’s England!" and looks to be a first party chaosium product.

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What the ever loving fuck is this gay shit.

You were getting beaten and hanged for being a fag during those times. There was no hormones. And if you married a nigger you were both tossed out your ear - the Indian halfsies were treated like niggers if they couldn't pass the paper bag test.

 

[AnOminous]

You were getting beaten and hanged for being a fag during those times. There was no hormones. And if you married a nigger you were both tossed out your ear - the Indian halfsies were treated like niggers if they couldn't pass the paper bag test.

The niggo thing is right but seriously, the fag thing isn't. This is how men dressed in that period:

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Going back to the magic wheelchair because I really don't want to address that comic nonsense.

David Eddings provided a way for any class in D&D (more or less) to manage with being unable to walk. In one of his book series there's such a fellow who compensates by simply getting on horseback for his military needs. Given the people he leads are pretty much all-in on cavalry combat it makes little to no difference to his ability to lead in combat and that impressive feat is doable in D&D by anyone who can pick up the Ride skill and afford a pony (or war dog for the shorter races). Sure it has problems for dungeon crawling but that's what war goats are for!

 

[Hikaru86]

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someone on teeg found this so as a good polposter I have to show it to other people. Note the first line.
It's Regency Cthulhu, a splat about whose tagline is "The Mythos Comes to Jane Austen’s England!" and looks to be a first party chaosium product.

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I only read the first line and give up. Pathetic, i know.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

The niggo thing is right but seriously, the fag thing isn't. This is how men dressed in that period:
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A dude dressed like that in the 17th Century would bury a fucking hatchet in your head then rape every female member of your family while chortling.

He's also "Lord Foppington" from the play "The Relapse".

Don't judge books by their covers.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

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someone on teeg found this so as a good polposter I have to show it to other people. Note the first line.
It's Regency Cthulhu, a splat about whose tagline is "The Mythos Comes to Jane Austen’s England!" and looks to be a first party chaosium product.

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This falls under the "roughly correct, but strips out any nuance to make the conclusions as faggot-friendly as possible". Except until the very end where it claims interracial marriage was ok among the working classes which I'm 100% sure is bullshit. At least it admits that you could get away with more if you had money and social status.

What the ever loving fuck is this gay shit.

You were getting beaten and hanged for being a fag during those times. There was no hormones. And if you married a nigger you were both tossed out your ear - the Indian halfsies were treated like niggers if they couldn't pass the paper bag test.

It's impressive in how it implies that every woman who dressed as a man to get employment etc. was actually transgender. And also the claim that people of color were found in every social class followed by listing almost every single upper class black or Asian (British meaning) we know about. Yes, there were upper class mixed-race people and they were so vanishingly rare that you could count them on your fingers and we know about pretty much every single one of them. (And it kind of skims over the fact that they were usually a child of a white slaveowner fucking a black slave, which should count as rape by most standards.)

(As an aside, I wish I could remember the name of the 17th century Dutch black doctor of theology who argued that it's okay to enslave Christians. (Probably because he knew that if enslaving Christians wasn't allowed, people would just stop baptizing their slaves.))

 

[Ghostse]

It's impressive in how it implies that every woman who dressed as a man to get employment etc. was actually transgender. And also the claim that people of color were found in every social class followed by listing almost every single upper class black or Asian (British meaning) we know about. Yes, there were upper class mixed-race people and they were so vanishingly rare that you could count them on your fingers and we know about pretty much every single one of them. (And it kind of skims over the fact that they were usually a child of a white slaveowner fucking a black slave, which should count as rape by most standards.)

(As an aside, I wish I could remember the name of the 17th century Dutch black doctor of theology who argued that it's okay to enslave Christians. (Probably because he knew that if enslaving Christians wasn't allowed, people would just stop baptizing their slaves.))

They could have just gone "Look, Georgian England was what we'd consider super white. Southern Italians were considered swarthy niggers. They didn't see much difference between the Irish and a Moor - both were mud people, and marrying one wasn't going to get you cast of society but your family was probably going to disown you & your mixed-blood offspring. Out and out faggots were burned at the stake, but people generally had too much else going to care and if you were discreetly gaying it up, no one was going to come lynch you.

Your game doesn't need to reflect that, and you can add in a wide range of characters of different races and sexualities. London was a global hub, and neither Nigger, Chink, Dune Coon, Wop, Wog, Injun, or German was going to really attract all that much attention and would be valid races for PCs." but instead waste two pages trying to rewrite history.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

Swerving from kulturwar stuff.
Anyone know a system with a decent semi-abstract downtime system?
I'm running a certain edgy cyberpunk setting and I want there to be mechanics for doing stuff like repairing your gear, doing stuff with contacts and having fun™ between missions.
Ideally something where the party has a reason to do other stuff besides go straight for another mission once their gear is all fixed up. i.e I don't want something like Shadowrun downtime where you have daily or hourly rolls for stuff nor do I want something like BITD where you do two things during downtime and time is completely abstract.

 

[Shidoen]

What are some good silly names for a paladin? I need something highly ironic and some advice on a type of gimmick that isn’t just goody two shoes.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

Swerving from kulturwar stuff.
Anyone know a system with a decent semi-abstract downtime system?
I'm running a certain edgy cyberpunk setting and I want there to be mechanics for doing stuff like repairing your gear, doing stuff with contacts and having fun™ between missions.
Ideally something where the party has a reason to do other stuff besides go straight for another mission once their gear is all fixed up. i.e I don't want something like Shadowrun downtime where you have daily or hourly rolls for stuff nor do I want something like BITD where you do two things during downtime and time is completely abstract.

Ars Magica has a good downtime system, since it's where the real game happens, but I don't think it'd be easy to adapt in another system. If you really want players to want downtime, you need a timescale, a system for long-time projects, and some sort of reward (either the result of those projects or xp if you spend the time training).

What are some good silly names for a paladin? I need something highly ironic and some advice on a type of gimmick that isn’t just goody two shoes.

I won't help you with names, but there's two Arthurian knights you might want to look at. Sir Bedivere is one of the three knights who find the Holy Grail. Unlike Galahad who is the descendant of Jesus and thus naturally a saint or Percivale who is innocent and oblivious to evil, Bedivere stops to think about what is the right way to act and reasons his way into moral purity. The other knight worth thinking about is Sir Gawaine. He is not a good person. He is violent and lustful and he knows it and uses his knightly oaths to keep himself in check. But since he's a bad person, he keeps strictly to his oath and does not go out of his way to be better than what is required of him.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

If you really want players to want downtime, you need a timescale, a system for long-time projects, and some sort of reward (either the result of those projects or xp if you spend the time training).

Well yes, something that works with those requirements is what I'm looking for.

Another tangential question, what's the next best AI tool that can turn an image into another image? I'm worried it'll take forever for Midjourney to open up the free trials again and I'm missing the ability to give every random NPC a unique portrait.

 

[Fathomless Eminence]

What are some good silly names for a paladin? I need something highly ironic and some advice on a type of gimmick that isn’t just goody two shoes.

Oathbreaker paladin named Brother Benedict (Or Brother Arnold.) Never directly betray the party, always be outwardly helpful, give heals and resurrections freely, be friendly and useful, but also pass the DM a lot of empty or nonsense notes and act supremely shady. Sometimes be brutal towards your enemies and brush off any concerns the party has with nonsense religious quotes. Make mention of how you will stay in a separate inn than the party when you are in town (also a good time for nonsense note passing) When it's your turn to keep watch pass more notes. Pick up the skilled, prodigy or similar skill/tool granting feat at level 4 or 1 with Variant Human and take stuff like Stealth or Sleight of Hand, have good dexterity and be friendly with the party's rogue type.

I played a trickery cleric with a similar premise, gaslighting your friends makes for a great session.

 

[Ghostse]

Oathbreaker paladin named Brother Benedict (Or Brother Arnold.) Never directly betray the party, always be outwardly helpful, give heals and resurrections freely, be friendly and useful, but also pass the DM a lot of empty or nonsense notes and act supremely shady. Sometimes be brutal towards your enemies and brush off any concerns the party has with nonsense religious quotes. Make mention of how you will stay in a separate inn than the party when you are in town (also a good time for nonsense note passing) When it's your turn to keep watch pass more notes. Pick up the skilled, prodigy or similar skill/tool granting feat at level 4 or 1 with Variant Human and take stuff like Stealth or Sleight of Hand, have good dexterity and be friendly with the party's rogue type.

I played a trickery cleric with a similar premise, gaslighting your friends makes for a great session.

I ran a multi-shot where the party were prisoners, and at the start drew a "traitor" card to figure out if they were the traitor or not. No one was a traitor. There was no traitor card. But that did not stop the accusations. Holding up your card that said "Not a Traitor" just meant you were a well-disciplined traitor.

 

[Snekposter]

I ran a multi-shot where the party were prisoners, and at the start drew a "traitor" card to figure out if they were the traitor or not. No one was a traitor. There was no traitor card. But that did not stop the accusations. Holding up your card that said "Not a Traitor" just meant you were a well-disciplined traitor.

The inverse of that is the Deathwatch campaign where all the PC's were Alpha Legion infiltrators on a mission to kill everyone else, all blissfully unaware the others were also AL infiltrators. As you can probably imagine, every single Alpha Legionary succeeded in their mission. Not that it was difficult since TPK's are the natural end result of intense paranoia, such as that caused by thinking you're the only traitor Marine in the whole group.

 

[anti SJW]

 

[The Ugly One]

David Eddings provided a way for any class in D&D (more or less) to manage with being unable to walk.

We have a perfectly good system at my table for adventurers that get crippled by injuries. They retire. Dungeons are no place for the weak.