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  1. Arden

    The D&D thread

    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...
  2. Arden

    Star Trek: Discovery

    Haven't seen that episode apparently, but... Yes?
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    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...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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...
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    Barry

    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.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    "Looking back on my life, I realize I must have spent half my money on booze, gambling, and wild women. The other half I just wasted."
  8. Arden

    Pathfinder v. DnD 5e

    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
  9. Arden

    Pathfinder v. DnD 5e

    You mean 5th Ed dnd just set in Norrath? You could do that pretty easily yourself
  10. Arden

    The D&D thread

    Cool, thanks man. Loved your sheets (and yeah, that font rocks). In the process of making sheets for my own system and wanted some inspiration ;)
  11. Arden

    The D&D thread

    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...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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...
  14. Arden

    Pathfinder v. DnD 5e

    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...
  15. Arden

    Pathfinder v. DnD 5e

    Were they very new to pnp RPGs?
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    Pathfinder v. DnD 5e

    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
  17. Arden

    Pathfinder v. DnD 5e

    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...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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...
  20. Arden

    Pathfinder: Kingmaker

    Thanks for the heads up then. It's annoying they haven't fixed it yet, but I suppose it's more important that they get it right
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    Pathfinder: Kingmaker

    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?
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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.
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    Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

    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...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    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...
  25. Arden

    The D&D thread

    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...
  26. Arden

    Fantasy Football Advice

    Gotcha. Was going to say...
  27. Arden

    Fantasy Football Advice

    Funchess over Boyd and Thomas ..?
  28. Arden

    The D&D thread

    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...
  29. Arden

    Pathfinder: Kingmaker

    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.
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    Pathfinder: Kingmaker

    Doing work during load times? Holy Christ, how long are the load times? 10-15 seconds is about as long a load time as is reasonable these days.
  31. Arden

    Legacy of Norrath - Classic+ EQ Experience

    From what I've been told, focus item effects have been disabled
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    Legacy of Norrath - Classic+ EQ Experience

    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...
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    Legacy of Norrath - Classic+ EQ Experience

    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...
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    Legacy of Norrath - Classic+ EQ Experience

    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...
  35. Arden

    Mr. Mercedes

    Great show. Really well done in every sense. I'm really enjoying it.
  36. Arden

    Legacy of Norrath - Classic+ EQ Experience

    Explain please
  37. Arden

    Better Call Saul

    Can't fight stupid- you can only hope to educate.
  38. Arden

    Pathfinder: Kingmaker

    Trying to skim the thread without getting too many inadvertent spoilers- Is the consensus wait until after a major patch fixes a lot of bugs/balancing issues before starting this?
  39. Arden

    Better Call Saul

    The other two: Get Shorty Fargo It's hilarious how under the radar Get Shorty is. Easily one of the best shows in recent memory. Two things working against it: 1.They had to be annoying and put it on one of those à la carte networks (AT&T) 2. The name automatically reminds people of the...