Here's one I was just reminded of:
Very few things turn off my interest in playing with/under someone like the phrase "Resurrection magic does not exist in my games".
I agree with that.
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I've never played--and never will play--WoW.
I hated all the Transformers movies. CGI robots fighting other CGI robots, punctuated by gratuitous fanservice... *yawn* *snore*
I don't mind boobplate, chainmail bikinis, etc. I am downright OK with cheesecake in fantasy art. Doesn't have to be BROM style cheesecake, either... see, for instance, diTerlizzi's cat lord or tiefling from the 2E Planescape MC Appendices.
Not a fan of Doctor Who.
I'm kind of over Monty Python.
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Here's one I was just reminded of:
Very few things turn off my interest in playing with/under someone like the phrase "Resurrection magic does not exist in my games".
*Quietly exits room and hopes no on notices*
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I don't like bacon...
Ah who am I kidding. I love it. But I don't understand the hooplah it has gotten on the internet lately. It's good, but it isn't the godsend food. That, my friends, is what Oreos are.
I know what would get me not only shunned, but hated, by much of the internet and gamers (more so than saying "I don't like bacon"): Admitting being a furry. *hides behind a +5 tower shield of greater fire resistance*
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I'm alright with furries. Hate me for my acceptance of other human beings!
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Doesn't have to be BROM style cheesecake, either... see, for instance, diTerlizzi's cat lord or tiefling from the 2E Planescape MC Appendices.
I consider DiTerlizzi the best artist D&D has ever had, nay, one of the best artists EVER, right up there with Monet, Waterhouse, and DaVinci.
And those two cheesecake pieces are still favorites of mine, despite how absurdly proportioned they are.
I know what would get me not only shunned, but hated, by much of the internet and gamers (more so than saying "I don't like bacon"): Admitting being a furry. *hides behind a +5 tower shield of greater fire resistance*
I gamed with a furry for a couple years. His favorite rpg wasn't quite my cup of tea, but he brought incredible homemade snacks to every game day!
I know what would get me not only shunned, but hated, by much of the internet and gamers (more so than saying "I don't like bacon"): Admitting being a furry. *hides behind a +5 tower shield of greater fire resistance*
One of my online friends identifies as one. He's a pretty good artist. We're working on a webcomic together, I'm writing and he's drawing.
I know what would get me not only shunned, but hated, by much of the internet and gamers (more so than saying "I don't like bacon"): Admitting being a furry. *hides behind a +5 tower shield of greater fire resistance*
I'm a huge naruto fan, you're a furry, and someone on the last page wanted to be a magical little anime girl. We shall join forces, and be dubbed the evil league of evil and become so shunned the world forgets we exist. Once that happens, we will be able to do whatever we want, and then just remind people what monstrosities we are, and they will instantly forget us, and only know shame. Which continent do you want? I call Australia!
Well hey, at least it's easier than getting someone to throw their pre-conceived notions away and actually accept someone for liking a certain artstyle, I mean, whattyagondo?
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I only read Naruto due to inertia now.
At least it's better than Bleach at this point.
You read the comic? Are you trying to outdo me or something?!
Yeah?!
WELL I PREFER THE ENGLISH DUB. THERE. I SAID IT. Do you hate me now, world?!
BELIEVE IT!
you...write...a web comic?, *shudder* the shunning has begun
In the process. Nothing's up yet - the artist is military so we haven't been able to coordinate schedules well yet.
I'm a huge naruto fan, you're a furry, and someone on the last page wanted to be a magical little anime girl.
I know what would get me not only shunned, but hated, by much of the internet and gamers (more so than saying "I don't like bacon"): Admitting being a furry. *hides behind a +5 tower shield of greater fire resistance*
Confession: I have several character concepts just in case I ever play an anime-esque game. One of them is a magical guy with a lion motif. and I've made 2 versions of him using pathfinder rules.
I'd join you, but we'll have to fight to the death over Australia. I love how it gets its own section on the 'everything trying to kill you' section of tv tropes too much. Its larger than some of the genres!
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sushi is fine, you just have to cook it properly to bring out the flavor.
I find most anime to be an eye-rolling exercise in exploiting the most egregious stereotypes imaginable.
The complex and subtle interweave and lyrical allure of Rap music totally escapes me.
I think that in general when something is extremely popular and has been so for a long period of time, it's probably really pretty good stuff (classic books, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, etc.) and many people claim to dislike those things simply because they actually express disdain of popular culture as a means to trumpet their own special uniqueness.
On a related note, I sometimes really enjoy a good Whopper, and think McDonalds has the best french fries on the planet.
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and think McDonalds has the best french fries on the planet.
It's a tough choice between those and Arby's curly fries. Really tough.
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"I want an MMORPG that will delete your character from your account upon his/her first death. Otherwise, what's the point?"
Man, was I stared at.
Update: This was eventually followed by the question: "What if you got disconnected or lag resulted in you getting killed." I answered: "S*** happens." Then: "Even if you're at max level with epic gear?" I nodded.
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I'm a huge naruto fan, you're a furry, and someone on the last page wanted to be a magical little anime girl.
I know what would get me not only shunned, but hated, by much of the internet and gamers (more so than saying "I don't like bacon"): Admitting being a furry. *hides behind a +5 tower shield of greater fire resistance*Confession: I have several character concepts just in case I ever play an anime-esque game. One of them is a magical guy with a lion motif. and I've made 2 versions of him using pathfinder rules.
I'd join you, but we'll have to fight to the death over Australia. I love how it gets its own section on the 'everything trying to kill you' section of tv tropes too much. Its larger than some of the genres!
I have big plans for Australia that involve pillow forts made of cement, a observatory, and my boyfriend's washing machine that eventually leads to me ruling the world from the moon and getting a hundred dollars. It ONLY works in Australia! I MUST HAVE IT
I only read Naruto due to inertia now.
At least it's better than Bleach at this point.
You read the comic? Are you trying to outdo me or something?!
Yeah?!
WELL I PREFER THE ENGLISH DUB. THERE. I SAID IT. Do you hate me now, world?!
yes.
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If Risk has taught me anything, is that it is tough to control Asia. Therefor, I shall take North America. Or maybe Europe. Not sure which.
If Risk has taught me anything, is that it is tough to control Asia. Therefor, I shall take North America. Or maybe Europe. Not sure which.
Totally have to shun you for this. Asia is the key to winning the game. The very thing that makes it hard to defend, makes it the best to attack from.
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Ah, Risk...
I've rage-quit very few things in my life, but a failed conquest of Asia from my Americas-backed European powerhouse, despite all the odds in my favour, resulted in my most violent (and shameful) rage-quit.
I moved out over 20 years ago, but my dad keeps finding Risk pieces under old furniture...
and think McDonalds has the best french fries on the planet.It's a tough choice between those and Arby's curly fries. Really tough.
I loved McD's fries when I was a kid; they were cheap, salty, and crisp. Now they're overpriced, bland, and spongy. I honestly don't know if they changed, or I did.
The only fries I eat anymore are those heavily fried and heavily spiced. Without those things, it's just not worth it.
I loved McD's fries when I was a kid; they were cheap, salty, and crisp. Now they're overpriced, bland, and spongy. I honestly don't know if they changed, or I did.and think McDonalds has the best french fries on the planet.It's a tough choice between those and Arby's curly fries. Really tough.
Might just be your location. The one down the road from my house they almost always come out nice and crisp. The one close to work they're more meh.
If Risk has taught me anything, is that it is tough to control Asia. Therefor, I shall take North America. Or maybe Europe. Not sure which.Totally have to shun you for this. Asia is the key to winning the game. The very thing that makes it hard to defend, makes it the best to attack from.
Noobs. ;)
The order of strategic value is: Australia, S America, N America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. I've been told that you can win by simply dicking around in Asia -- don't try to conquer it, just take one territory per turn for the card -- but I've never seen Asia work out, so I remain skeptical.
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More shunning:
I like R.A. Salvatore, and I like Drizzt. (As if the name weren't an obvious giveaway.) Say what you will, it introduced me to the game we all love and it's always going to hold a special place in my heart because I can't read it without remembering that sense of wonder 13-year-old me felt when I read The Dark Elf Trilogy for the first time. No book before that captured me the way it did, and no book since has. Of course that has a lot more to do with adulthood than anything else.
Forgotten Realms > Dragonlance > Greyhawk > Golarion > Eberron. Eberron is WAY, WAY overrated. But I do love Golarion's gods.
Wizards of the Coast gets way too much flack. I don't like all of their decisions as a gamer, but from a financial perspective, I get it. They're running a business.
I totally allow evil characters at my table. And I play evil whenever I get the opportunity. I get frustrated when it's banned.
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I don't think Paladins should be anything other than lawful good.
If Risk has taught me anything, is that it is tough to control Asia. Therefor, I shall take North America. Or maybe Europe. Not sure which.Totally have to shun you for this. Asia is the key to winning the game. The very thing that makes it hard to defend, makes it the best to attack from.Noobs. ;)
The order of strategic value is: Australia, S America, N America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. I've been told that you can win by simply dicking around in Asia -- don't try to conquer it, just take one territory per turn for the card -- but I've never seen Asia work out, so I remain skeptical.
This order of strategic importance assumes a "hunker down" strategy where Australia and South America allow you to build while you bottleneck their limited access points.
Yeah, it works, but it's like playing Risk in "easy mode" and it makes the games long. Play Asia right and you'll kick everyone's butt before the pizza arrives.
I don't think Paladins should be anything other than lawful good.
I've never really "got" this. It seems like all those chaotic evil gods are MORE likely to have holy (or in this case, unholy) warriors than a lawful good god.
Yeah, but they aren't Paladins.
Yeah, but they aren't Paladins.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Paladins as in the pathfinder class doesn't fit the definition of Paladin either.
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For example: I don't like Battlestar Galactica. At all. Either version. I could never understand why it was so popular while it was on. Never liked Lost either.
I tried really hard to like it, all my friends liked it, but I am with you. It was a really bad space soap opera with heavy handed religious undertones.
Lost I liked up to the moment they opened the hatch. Then I realized they had no plan and were just pulling it all out of nothing as they went.
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I don't think Paladins should be anything other than lawful good.I've never really "got" this. It seems like all those chaotic evil gods are MORE likely to have holy (or in this case, unholy) warriors than a lawful good god.
I dunno, I like to envision the Paladin as something more than a warrior with a cause and a crusader for a (good) religion. It's an old fashion ideal (in terms of RPGs), and perhaps that the marriage of a class with a unique paradigm is outdated, but that's how I like it.
That's not to say that Chaotic Evil characters cannot be more than warriors with an (evil) cause and crusaders for an (evil) cult or religion, but then I'd rather them have their own, exclusive class instead.
More shunning:
I like R.A. Salvatore, and I like Drizzt. (As if the name weren't an obvious giveaway.) Say what you will, it introduced me to the game we all love and it's always going to hold a special place in my heart because I can't read it without remembering that sense of wonder 13-year-old me felt when I read The Dark Elf Trilogy for the first time. No book before that captured me the way it did, and no book since has. Of course that has a lot more to do with adulthood than anything else.
Forgotten Realms > Dragonlance > Greyhawk > Golarion > Eberron. Eberron is WAY, WAY overrated. But I do love Golarion's gods.
Wizards of the Coast gets way too much flack. I don't like all of their decisions as a gamer, but from a financial perspective, I get it. They're running a business.
I totally allow evil characters at my table. And I play evil whenever I get the opportunity. I get frustrated when it's banned.
My problem with Drizzt isn't Drizzt himself, it's all those horrible horrendously bad clones people have made over the years.
I like aspects of Eberron, but I wouldn't want to actually play in Eberron (many of the things I just do not like at all). But I still place it above Forgotten Realms. The best thing about Dungeons And Dragons Online was that it was NOT set in the Forgotten Realms. So tired of all the Forgotten Realms computer games. Though I did enjoy the first Baldur's Gate, which I find so much more fun than Baldur's Gate 2.
Which brings me to my next shunnable offense: Baldur's Gate 1 is much much greater than Baldur's Gate 2, and Boo had to be the worst thing ever.
I have two all-time favorite PCs I've ran. My Drizzt clone is one of them. That game last for 4 years, from level 1-14 in 2nd Ed AD&D.
Hella fun.
I don't think Paladins should be anything other than lawful good.I've never really "got" this. It seems like all those chaotic evil gods are MORE likely to have holy (or in this case, unholy) warriors than a lawful good god.I dunno, I like to envision the Paladin as something more than a warrior with a cause and a crusader for a (good) religion. It's an old fashion ideal (in terms of RPGs), and perhaps that the marriage of a class with a unique paradigm is outdated, but that's how I like it.
That's not to say that Chaotic Evil characters cannot be more than warriors with an (evil) cause and crusaders for an (evil) cult or religion, but then I'd rather them have their own, exclusive class instead.
I definitely wouldn't mind calling them something different, (and not "antipaladin" which is really dumb) and maybe different powers to match their alignment.
Just weird that the only gods who would give powers to someone who can swing a sword half-decent are lawful good ones
I don't think Paladins should be anything other than lawful good.I've never really "got" this. It seems like all those chaotic evil gods are MORE likely to have holy (or in this case, unholy) warriors than a lawful good god.I dunno, I like to envision the Paladin as something more than a warrior with a cause and a crusader for a (good) religion. It's an old fashion ideal (in terms of RPGs), and perhaps that the marriage of a class with a unique paradigm is outdated, but that's how I like it.
That's not to say that Chaotic Evil characters cannot be more than warriors with an (evil) cause and crusaders for an (evil) cult or religion, but then I'd rather them have their own, exclusive class instead.
I definitely wouldn't mind calling them something different, (and not "antipaladin" which is really dumb) and maybe different powers to match their alignment.
Just weird that the only gods who would give powers to someone who can swing a sword half-decent are lawful good ones
Agreed. In theory, there are three perfectly agreeable solutions to the "My player wants to play a non-LG paladin" problem:
1. Discard the paladin's alignment restriction.
2. Tell him/her to play a ToB crusader.
3. Homebrew lots of unique 'holy warrior' classes, each with its own special snowflake set of powers.
But IME in practice, option 3 never happens because it requires the DM to actually sit down and design something from scratch, which most don't have the time/confidence to do. Option 2 is often disallowed because "No weeboo fightan magic anime crap in my game!" and/or "ToB is OP!!!" And of course option 1 is frequently ignored because non-LG paladins give many DMs an icky feeling.
Which in practice means that too many DMs effectively squelch all paladin character concepts that don't cleave to the traditionally narrow Galahad concept.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and there're the UA paladin variants, but a player is SOL if s/he doesn't want to play an extremist alignment. And I've never seen them allowed in play anyway.
"I want an MMORPG that will delete your character from your account upon his/her first death. Otherwise, what's the point?"
Man, was I stared at.
Shaiya has a mode like that. Bonus points for the only way to GET max level and the best gear is to play in this mode.
Update: This was eventually followed by the question: "What if you got disconnected or lag resulted in you getting killed." I answered: "S*** happens." Then: "Even if you're at max level with epic gear?" I nodded.
I get the feeling you don't actually play video games, just think about them.
Because this is the sort of attitude that survives all of one run-in with this issue.
I generally prefer 2 or 3 myself. Crusader is awesome and I've seen several non-LG Paladin alternate classes ideas on various parts of these forums, usually in Homebrew, though there was a really nice CG Paladin Archetype in the last Superstar that my group has been using a lot, the Green Knight.
Yup, those are all the things I expected to be shunned for.
Update: This was eventually followed by the question: "What if you got disconnected or lag resulted in you getting killed." I answered: "S*** happens." Then: "Even if you're at max level with epic gear?" I nodded.I get the feeling you don't actually play video games, just think about them.
Because this is the sort of attitude that survives all of one run-in with this issue.
Given how many people played on Neverwinter Nights servers with permadeath implemented, you might be surprised to find it's far more popular than you think. (Even better, a lot of these had you drop everything you were carrying when you died, meaning whoever killed you - or if a monster did, whoever stumbled across your corpse first - could loot your body.)
I never understood it myself, but it is out there.
Yup, those are all the things I expected to be shunned for.
Well I'm with you at least =)
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Update: This was eventually followed by the question: "What if you got disconnected or lag resulted in you getting killed." I answered: "S*** happens." Then: "Even if you're at max level with epic gear?" I nodded.I get the feeling you don't actually play video games, just think about them.
Because this is the sort of attitude that survives all of one run-in with this issue.
Given how many people played on Neverwinter Nights servers with permadeath implemented, you might be surprised to find it's far more popular than you think.
I never understood it myself, but it is out there.
Some people like to be an actual bad ass.
Some people just want to pretend they are a bad ass, but not actually take the risk of failing.
The possibility of failure is what makes success valued.
YMMV.
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Yeah, I'm not getting into that argument, beyond to say I subscribe to the belief that "death is not the only definition of failure in a game".