Yeah but you have to give good acting it's due, even for pretty boys. Every guy wanted to punch Brad Pitt's face in his Thelma and Louise days, but by the time 12 Monkeys came around, only the most jaded haters were still denying the dude could act.
I don't mind a little learning curve if I'm using something long-term. Anything considered "comprehensive" is it going to have at least a small learning curve by necessity. If I was using it to play 5th edition or something, I would certainly check out both. But I'm only using it to test my...
Haven't done fantasy grounds and I just messed around with R20 for the first time the other day. Super impressed with R20, and I'm a really, really picky GM when it comes to stuff like that. They did a great job of making it really easy and intuitive and they included all kinds of little small...
Exactly. The ST universe has always been "progressive" in the sense that started from a standpoint that humanity had already solved a lot of issues that were considered hot button at the time. Racial and gender inequality? Oh those haven't been issues for centuries. We would rather talk...
No way I could listen to 12 minutes of that dude's voice. Anyway, who the hell played EQ because of how it looked? I remember thinking the graphics were a little subpar but manageable when I first played EQ. Even if you were a fan of EQ's art style (which I was) nobody who first logged in was...
Finally got around to seeing this. Two Thumbs Up for sure. While it does parallel both Dexter and Get Shorty (tv show), it's enough of its own animal to easily brush aside any claims of being iterative. Top 5 show for 2018. Really enjoyed it and looking forward to next season.
I've been happy with the things I've backed on Kickstarter, but I haven't backed many. The Shadowrun Returns games are the most recent thing I can think of that I backed. Kickstarter is like any other platform you use to spend your money-- it's caveat emptor. Do research, use common sense, and...
if you are somebody who does Homebrew campaigns anyway I don't think it would be too terrible. But if you're not a Homebrew kind of guy, then yeah, it would be a lot of work. Otherwise, you could just reskin a lot of the stuff that's already out there
A while back there was someone on here who showed off some really excellent character sheets that they had designed themselves. I thought it was in this thread, but I just scrolled through and couldn't find it. Anybody remember who designed those char sheets or the thread they were posted in...
For profit game companies are not charities. They aren't your family, and they aren't even your friend.
If you want to give to charity, that's great. But find an actual charity.
You could argue that a lot of EQ's features came from the fact that the game wasn't over-engineered. So much of the game's flexibility came from the early devs not really knowing what to expect. They just threw a lot of features out there without really anticipating all the creative ways...
Didn't run mines as a DM, only played it. It's possible the GM just fucked the campaign up and I came away with a bad taste for the adventure itself. What I remember from it was mind numbingly predictable with tons of hackneyed tropes and conventions stuffed into it at every turn. I remember...
I can't fathom anyone raving about that adventure. At most I can see see people defending it as "not that bad." Who knows? Maybe you'll love it. Let us know
I'll say I thought Lost Mine was one of the worst retail adventures I've ever played. Most purchased adventures are pretty bad, but this one was particularly terrible.
That said, 5e is the cleanest, best designed system I've seen. Played PF for many years and it filled a gap that D&D wasn't...
The lack of competition might give them a boost in exposure, but it's not going to give them a "win" by itself. People don't need to play MMOs. If the game sucks it won't win even if it was the only mmo on the planet. If Pantheon sucks, people will just play games that aren't MMOs. I haven't...
People only lose interest if you've made the mistake of hyping your game while it was still a collection of sketches on bar napkins. Approaching investors with vague ideas and sales pitches is one thing, but trying to turn a potential audience into your investors with the digital equivalent of...
Trying not to get any spoilers at all (even small ones), so forgive me if this has been stated already-
Did the big "fix shit" patch go through and is this thing finally worth starting?
To be fair you could apply that definition of 'finished' to most PC games these days. I stopped buying most PC games until after the first big 'fix most of the broken shit' patch.
Two thumbs down on the Arden Movie/TV Scale. :emoji_thumbsdown::emoji_thumbsdown: Overwritten, underacted, with plot holes you can drive a mack truck through. I actually like kiernan shipka and think she's a pretty good actress, but this show is a good example of how poor direction and...
Doing "show and tell" demos for the general public takes a surprising amount of time and effort. They would be smarter to focus 100% of their time and resources on the game itself. If the game is good when you are ready for alpha and beta, that's all the hype and press you need. If it isn't...
What if it was a group of NPC thieves instead of just one? And the tower is surrounded by guards and militia but instead of the civilians inside the tower having fled, what if they are being held hostage? You could have the PCs outgunned and outnumbered so they have to use wits and subterfuge...
Yeah, sounds like your former players played evil alignments. I'm ok with running evil campaigns, but I've found players rarely survive long if the campaign is run right. Few players are actually cunning and ruthless enough to survive a legitimately evil campaign. Those campaigns usually turn...
Was waiting for the fixes to buy this game, but the idea of 10 second loads every 2-3 minutes and especially several times per minute just kills my enthusiasm.
From what I gather it was the seafurries dropping way more plat than they should. Kind of a gray area as to if it's "exploiting" by just killing a mob and looting what it drops. You could argue that they thought that's just how this server/client works. You could also argue that they should...
My understanding was that a bug that was exploited for quite a while flooded the economy with plat, devaluing currency altogether. It's been fixed but a lot of the higher level players have a ton of money and consequently haven't needed to sell items. There isn't much for sale and when there...
If the other server is really a Kegz server you don't want to play on it. No offense to the guy, but he has shown he doesn't have the temperament to run a server. Emu is full of guys like that, and you can waste a lot of time investing in characters just to have them lose their shit and...