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legionofmyth · 2 months

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Mutants in Orbit - (for the Rifts setting)

Explore the cosmos in 'Rifts' with 'Mutants in Orbit'! Our video dives deep into this essential sourcebook, linking earth to the stars. Don't miss out on this cosmic adventure. #RiftsRPG #MutantsInOrbit

Rifts Ultimate Edition Mutants in Orbit Embark on a cosmic adventure with ‘Mutants in Orbit’, a pivotal adventure and sourcebook for the ‘Rifts’ universe by Palladium Books. This video delves into the fusion of high-tech and mutation in the orbitals of Earth, serving as a bridge between the ‘Rifts’ and ‘After the Bomb’ series. Discover new gear, dangerous locales, and the rich lore that ties the…

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oldschoolfrp · 8 months

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In 1989 Mayfair released a 2nd edition of their DC Heroes Role-Playing Game (top), and a 2nd ed Batman Sourcebook by Mike Stackpole (middle). The same year they also released a separate Batman Role-Playing Game (bottom) based on the DC Heroes rules, focused on Batman, his allies, and his classic villains.

#Batman #DC Heroes #Batman Role-Playing Game #Batman RPG #DC Comics #Mike Stackpole #Batman Sourcebook #Batman roleplaying game #Superman #Mayfair Games #superheroes #1980s #superhero gaming #superhero

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inficetegodwottery · 9 months

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So. Werewolf 5th Edition.

Werewolf 5th edition sucks. A lot.

Edit- I made some errors in my initial edit of this post that were fuelled entirely by being underinformed and almost insensible with anger, disappointment, and anxiety.

Some very informative responses have been made that I intend to incorporate into a much better and less rambling post with those updates and corrections. I'll probably delete this one soon as I type that one together, so folks only see the updated version.

Sorry for any mistakes I made on this old version, again, I was in an extremely poor place mentally and thoroughly dispirited by the total butchering of what was supposed to be a less shitty and mean-spirited version of a setting I care deeply for despite its foundational flaws and 30+ year history of exactly this thing happening.

I'm still very, very angry. But it's important to be angry and correct. This post was not made by someone informed of all the facts, and I intend to correct that.

Paradox Interactive has made the brave decision to reboot the controversial Werewolf the Apocalypse setting entirely rather than try and fix it, and have somehow done a worse job than the games studio that released an RPG book titled an ethnic slur.

It's taken me almost a month since this came out to be anywhere near mentally prepared enough to even collect my thoughts on it.

Man, it is rare to see an edition of ANYTHING that pisses off old players, new players, players who want to keep the lore the same, players who want to change the lore, conservative players, radical players, and even powergamers.

How do you set out with the intention of making an infamously dated and poorly researched/outreached setting LESS uncomfortable and racist from a modern perspective.... and end up with something EVEN MORE racist and uncomfortable, but also suffocatingly tonedeaf, insincere, and deeply sinister and corporate in its erasure of existing issues rather than addressing them whatsoever.

We made the Get of Fenris irredeemably evil because some of them in the past were nazis and also nazis like Germanic mythology, so the viking werewolves are all nazis now.

Okay, I understand why you did that from a modern political perspective even if its kind of heavy hand-

The Native American werewolf tribes have been removed entirely and replaced with American Murican werewolf tribes. Renaming and rewriting them to be more respectful was just too much work! Now they're more inclusive. :)

The Irish werewolf tribe is now the Nature Werewolves tribe, like every other tribe of Werewolves also is, but also stripped completely of celtic origins.

The Red Talons are openly genocidal ecofascist malthusians and somehow NOT IRREDEEMABLY EVIL like the Get of Fenris are.

Also the feminist all women werewolves are no longer all women or even feminist. AND ALSO SOME OF THEM ARE SOCIAL DARWINISTS AND THATS SUPPOSED TO BE A GOOD THING!?!

Also we entirely dropped the themes about how forcing children to be a part of a war they barely understand while also lying to them about the crimes their ancestors committed that led to the current crisis is fucked up and evil.

Now its actually awesome to be a child soldier born into a repressive apocalyptic death cult with a siege mentality and everything is cool about that actually, you're the Good Guys, and no amount of covered-up historic genocides or internal/external bigotry will ever change that! :)

Also we solved the way people were uncomfortable with the idea that werewolf society is transitioning messily from being horrible ableist assholes that discriminated for centuries against those they view as deformed, disabled, or sexual deviants to new generations that don't care about that stuff, by removing disabled werewolves entirely! Problem solved! No more discomfort or moral conundrums! We are the liberal-est!

There's just something so unbelievably fucked up and suspicious about erasing entire minorities from a fictional universe because they were handled poorly in the first edition, rather than talking to writers and outreach specialists FROM the real world equivalents to those minorities to try and rewrite them.

Don't worry, we removed the group the setting was bigoted against! Problem solved! Just remove the minority!

I've written my own post on why the Metis/Crinos-born should be renamed and probably rewritten, but as a severely disabled individual with multiple hereditary disabilities that severely impact my QoL, outright removing disabled characters in a work of fiction because the prejudice other characters showed them in-universe made people uncomfortable makes me want to tear out someone's throat with my teeth.

Sure, completely remove my ability to play disabled a character fighting back against prejudice and bigotry, rather than rewrite the most uncomfortable aspects of YOUR FUCKING PORTRAYAL OF THOSE CHARACTERS to make it more clear who the sympathetic one is supposed to be.

It's just so unbelievably cowardly and whinging and wretched.

So fuck it, I guess!

Fuck the deeply applicable themes of being born into a well-intentioned but deeply flawed and bigoted society, and trying to create the better world your parents always told you your ancestors fought for, while dealing with the fact that your world is built on mass graves those ancestors helped fill.

Fuck a game that deals with intergenerational trauma and the ethical hellscape that is a highly religious society devoted to the very same ideals it often violates just to win fights against the enemies it created through its own arrogance and prejudice.

Fuck a game that lets you play someone born different, born strange and sickly, bouncing constantly between people who pity you and people who view you as subhuman, before finally finding the people, the family who love and accept and fight alongside you for a world that has never accepted you, but WILL FUCKING KNOW YOUR NAME.

That's not relevant to the real world at all!

There are no kids born in deeply flawed and hypocritical societies, who grew up on stories of the glorious future their society would create, forced then to reconcile the hopeful dreams of a better world with the comprehensive list of horrific things done in the name of that future.

There are no children born confused and alone in their navigation of the maze that is past atrocities, ethnic conflicts, religious prejudice and dogma, or modern propaganda attempting to erase the histories of all of those things.

There are no disabled teens who spent their lives believing they didn't belong in the world, kept going only by the connections they forged with other outsiders and people who fought back against the kind of wretched bigotry that suffocates children to death, who found homes and families they could trust outside the pissant communities they were born into.

Apparently those people don't need a game! They don't need to explore those feelings!

Just throw some more nazis in, so we can pretend we care about social issues or understand the redeeming threads of a deeply flawed gameline, ostensibly so we market it to leftist youngsters, but while we also erase the entire point of a game WHICH IS ALL ABOUT BEING PUNKASS YOUNGSTERS DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIND THE REDEEMING THREADS OF A DEEPLY FLAWED AND PREJUDICED SOCIETY THAT CONSTRAINS THEM, FINDING A WAY TO REBEL AGAINST BOTH THE EVILS OF THE RACIST BASTARDS WHO RAISED THEM AND THE POMPOUS SHITHEADS WHO WANT TO DESTROY THE WORLD OUT OF GREED.

No! We want a squeaky clean, sterile white game that AmericanTM parents can be proud of their kids for playing! A marketable game, that advertisers will gladly pay Revenue to put their products in! Play the good guys, everyone! You're the good guys! Be a big werewolf UwU!

Don't worry about historical atrocities or the flaws of the society that raised you! That's Pentex propaganda!

Fighting bad guys means you can't do anything bad yourself! The Emperor told me so! Deus Gaia Vult!

A hollow, performative, offensive jizzstain that should've been scrapped in its crib. I have no idea how this edition got past a quality assurance team.

Hell I have no idea how it got past a legal team, given the number of real peoples' likenesses they used without permission.

Devoid of artistic integrity or merit.

#werewolf the apocalypse #W5 #wta #owod #world of darkness #I'm just so tired man #putting most of this under a TLDR so I don't flashbang people with tabletop rpg drama #I genuinely thought the new writers would be better at this stuff than the old White Wolf #Nope.#turns out they're just as bad #I shouldn't have expected anything more from them after the V5 Chechnya bullshit #but I guess I just had the dumb notion of hoping they'd gotten better #how the fuck do you do worse than a company that wrote a sourcebook about the Holocaust???!?

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comfortfoodcontent · 22 days

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Mayfair Games DC Comics The Apokolips Sourcebook Cover Art by Mike Mignola

#the apokolips sourcebook #new gods #darkseid #mayfair #mayfair games #rpg #rpgs #role playing games #dc #dc comics #mike mignola #mignola #fourth world #jack kirby's fourth world #comics #comic art

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civilization-illstayrighthere · 2 years

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ROCKERBOY: A CYBERPUNK 2013 SOURCEBOOK (1989)

#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #cp 2077 #johnny silverhand #cp 2013 #cyberpunk 2013 #I will post the interview w kerry soon but i really liked this little ‘ad’ for johnny’s album #I love these rpg sourcebooks tho. Very 80s. Reminds me of when i read the forgotten realms series as a kid

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it-is-i-zim · 1 year

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Got an old DC RPG book from 1988. I bought it because the back mentioned it would have a map of Belle Reve and that Captain Boomerang was in it. It's called DC Heroes: The Belle Reve Sourcebook. It's out of print so if you want a copy good luck finding one for cheap.

But here's a little thing that has on Captain Boomerang under his Psychology Profile

#suicide squad #dc heroes rpg #the belle reve sourcebook #captain boomerang #george harkness #digger harkness

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vintagerpg · 2 years

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Second edition D&D gets a lot of crap (rightly) for book bloat. One of the biggest recipients of the criticism is the brown leatherette line of player option books, the Complete Fighter and so on. Those books generally suck, but I think their suckiness has unwittingly tarnished the legacy of the DM equivalents, the blue leatherette DMGR series of books, the first of which is Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide (1990).

It is wild how keen and insightful this book is, not just about D&D, but the hobby as a whole. It is less a rulebook and more a book of advice for GMs, but also a kind of high level musing on both how and what we play. The bulk of it, the sourcebook, was written by Jennell Jaquays for the 2e DM Guide, but was cut for length. William W. Connors appended the dungeon material at the back to bring it up to a proper book length and there you go.

Reading this book was the first time I encountered ideas like “the Monty Haul campaign” or the concept of a rules lawyer. I had met them, of course, but I hadn’t thought critically about them. Jaquays also identifies the idea of railroading and defines the sandbox campaign — she uses different terminology but the analysis is dead on. She also encourages kindness around the table, which is both a contrast to the hobby’s past and a crystal ball into its future. Connors’ dungeon stuff is good too, giving a selection of neat examples (I love the beehive fort) accompanied by lovely isometric maps. It is sort of a leaner, less tedious Dungeoneer’s Survival Guide, and gets philosophical about our favorite subterranean locales.

Nice Tom Baxa art throughout, but my favorite is that George Barr dungeon entrance. I think it is recycled, but haven’t a clue from where, so I’m OK with it.

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #Roleplaying Game #D&D #dungeons & dragons #TSR #Campaign Sourcebook #Catacomb Guide #Jennell Jaquays

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doublestormryu · 6 months

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Sneak preview! Stats for one of the sample foes in CrossRoad. I'm getting really excited to share the whole work, but I just couldn't help myself with this one.

When I played SLARPG, I loved it pretty much instantly. So, when I needed example enemies, I decided to ask Ponett for permission to use one of the more iconic ones and she graciously gave it! So, y'know, if there are any fans out there who want to run a campaign set in Reverie....

#tabletop rpgs #crossroad rpg #SLARPG #hell I might just write a Reverie sourcebook for it myself

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nakanotamu · 1 year

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I could not tell you why (maybe all the talk about the OpenGL lately?) but I got hit HARD by the urge to read TTRPG sourcebooks last weekend like it’s a totally normal thing to just go hey what if I read every single thing Paizo has ever published that’s normal right?? Normal and doable???? But anyway there’s something so comfortable about reading like an adventure path or something like even just a low-level one. Your guys are in the WOODS! They can’t do shit! What’s a tough fight for them? Some DOGS! Like idk I just think it’s cool that there’s all these stories and lore and everything out there with these systems around them for you to play around in

#I'm also gonna start throwing the Star Wars RPG sourcebooks into my rotation eventually #but for now I'm alternating Paizo releases and the Critical Role sourcebooks

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queenlua · 1 year

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#i love rpg sourcebooks

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coolyo294 · 2 years

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in one month at my new job i’ve done more work than i did in ten months at my last one

#literally at APG i clocked in a half hour late left an hour early and read RPG sourcebooks the entire time i was on the clock

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legionofmyth · 2 months

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Mutants in Orbit - (for the After the Bomb setting)

🚀 Elevate your 'After the Bomb' experience with 'Mutants in Orbit'! Discover new adventures and challenges in our latest video overview. Perfect for Palladium fans seeking the ultimate space saga. #AfterTheBomb #MutantsInOrbit

After the Bomb Mutants in Orbit Dive into the void with ‘Mutants in Orbit’, the essential adventure and sourcebook for the ‘After the Bomb’ series by Palladium Books. This video offers a comprehensive look at life in the post-apocalyptic heavens, where mutants and technology converge in orbit around a ravaged Earth. Explore the intricacies of space habitats, advanced gear, and the unique…

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oldschoolfrp · 1 year

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A heavy recovery vehicle attached to Hell’s Hammers, an elite armor unit of the Empire (Joe Johnston concept art for what became the AT-AT in The Empire Strikes Back, from the Imperial Sourcebook for Star Wars the Roleplaying Game by Greg Gordon, West End Games, 1989) WEG’s writers used previously unseen art from the files of Lucasfilm, Ltd, as the basis of many new additions to the Star Wars expanded universe. Hell’s Hammers are mentioned again in Imperial Entanglements (1996) in a scenario for Star Wars Miniatures Battles featuring a recovery crew on foot attempting to retrieve an immobilized repulsortank.

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byterogue · 2 years

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“c-can I have.. ur Cellular Mini Phone number?”

👉👈

#cyberpunk #cyberpunk 2020 #tabletop rpg #rpg #sourcebooks #illustration #old tech #retro tech #netrunner #byterogue

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daily-glup-shitto · 10 months

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reading through the order of battle section in the imperial sourcebook and i just know someone had a great time listing out each formation's crew, equipment, and support personnel down to the last head and rivet

its a shame they don't seem to have talked to any the people who wrote the equipment section, because none of these match up in the slightest. what is a "light transport vehicle"? it's described as being served by a crew of 4: a mechanic, a driver, a sensor officer, and a gunner. there are no vehicles in the vehicle section of the book that match that description.

the hoverscout comes close, but it has three gunners (fun fact: this thing is actually a bonafide air-cushion hovercraft, not a repulsorlift vehicle. not really relevant, but it's neat)

the chariot LAV crews 3 which makes sense if the mechanic stays back at base, except for the fact that it's explicitly described as being modified as a command vehicle

the best guess i have is that its basically a less-armored version of the LAV

this means that if i want my players to encounter a repulsorlift squad, then i have to either just use the lav stats, or brew up something myself

that said the imperial sourcebook is amazing highly recommend for anyone who wants a 133-page infodump on every detail of the imperial military, intelligence, and governance apparatus

#not exactly a glup shitto but sorta #star wars #star wars rpg #west end games #imperial sourcebook

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ghost-of-books · 10 months

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#book blog #books and reading #new books #rpg #role playing games #sourcebooks

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