I don't care if you don't know the first thing about TRPGs. You need this dramatic reading of an intro to an 80s sourcebook for a game called World of Synnibar in your life.
It will only take eleven minutes.
wow this is surprisingly straightforward and well thought out
"Horror does not necessarily express itself as a malevolent universe. It can be an indifferent one, and often is. In David Lynch’s Twin Peaks evil has no intrinsic nature, nor any motivation beyond survival. It has a discrete body, and swims through people like a virus. As an adolescent awake in raw, disorganized hours I could not begin to apprehend the horror I felt at the idea of the Loc-Nar. It was the senselessness of it, the idea that people despite their goodness or badness could become enraptured and unwoven by its gleam. Criticisms I’ve read of Heavy Metal tend to characterize a mindlessness animating the film, but this mindlessness is crucial to the way evil operates in the movie. It’s arbitrary and accidental as fate; people can just dissolve into nothing, for no reason, without a trace. Trying to understand this, trying to hold it in one’s mind is like assimilating antimatter.”
This is a surprising amount of thought put into a movie about John Candy: Barbarian Hero and rockin' cartoon tits
hopefully not all indie developers are this thin skinned...then again, I've seen tantrums like this in OSS communities before many times, so I'm probably hoping for a lot.
(*the joke is that Phil usedsuses a picture of Andy as his twitter icon so many who have never seen Andy before think that that's a picture of Phil, just fyi*)
Rule Zero of every role-playing game is supposed to be "The GM is always right," right? Not so in the World of Synnibarr! The GM is required to write his adventure notes down before the game begins, and then show them to the players after the adventure is over — and if the players can show that the GM deviated from his written notes, the GM is required to award them bonus experience points.
(*the joke is that Phil usedsuses a picture of Andy as his twitter icon so many who have never seen Andy before think that that's a picture of Phil, just fyi*)
I know!
But the actual physical resemblance does make it somewhat funnier.
Rule Zero of every role-playing game is supposed to be "The GM is always right," right? Not so in the World of Synnibarr! The GM is required to write his adventure notes down before the game begins, and then show them to the players after the adventure is over — and if the players can show that the GM deviated from his written notes, the GM is required to award them bonus experience points.
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this really is a prototype for every half-baked role playing system
The character classes are, uh, McCrackenesque, for lack of a better word. Alchemists, Psielfs, Golden, Scarlet and Mage Tigers, Flymen, Armored Mantises, Amazons, B.S.Cs, Gnomes and so forth. Every last one of them has some massively twinky hoo-hah to go with it; Alchemists, for example, get a Star Bolt and a Starfire Shield, whereas Gnomes are Pure Practicioners of the Art with earthpower - which means, I think, that they get access to earth spells.
The Amazon, by contrast, gets a healing hand - which becomes resurrection at level ten - can call and banish spirits, have telekinesis, telepath, the ability to feign death, temporarily triple their strength, add on a layer of protection, two extra attacks, and a radar jammer, EMP device, and an extra couse of study that basically gives them another twinky ability, like a breath weapon or a death touch or an energy shield. This is, of course, all at first level. To call it power gaming gives power gaming a bad name. The Bio-Syntha Cyborg are much the same, although you'll be glad to know that at the fortieth level, they get a Midnight Sunstone Bazooka. Trust McCracken to come up with power names that sound like bad seventies bands.
One of the others was Hybrid, and that was less a game than a tangled web of arcane math and pop culture references. I know I couldn't make any sense of it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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that was my reaction to the whole thing
someone said miami
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
lol owned
This... is a David Cage game... sacre bleu...