Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Of course. You just spin in place.
And the main reason I left the Barbarian out was because she's too pedestrian. Every single one of these cripple products has a wheelchair barbarian with either one big axe or two smaller axes. The only thing that makes her stand out is her stupid rainbow hair.

So this cripple fetishist already jerked off to the combat wheelchair in 2022, and is now doing essentially the same grift again? Why?

It's a fetish. Certain leftists are obsessed with the idea of their special snowflake character indulging in dungeon crawling with a wheelchair that doesn't actually hinder them in any way because it's a fucking magitek wheelchair.

[Kugelfisch]

>fybromialgia
>wheelchair bound
>wheelchair bound due to vague feelings of very mild pain and uncomfortability

[ebin namefag]

I don't play games with cripples that I'm not going to fuck.

[wulfenlord]

Quadruple amputees make for the best fleshlights :3

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Quadruple amputees make for the best fleshlights :3

And the best barbarians :3

>wheelchair bound due to vague feelings of very mild pain and uncomfortability

He's got such an uncharacteristic case like you wouldn't believe. He's a medical mystery I swear.

[Kugelfisch]

Yea yeah, the docs can't figure out his special snowflake version of "too lazy to work".

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Warhammer Armies Project is kill.
The bloke behind this project first made a name for himself by homebrewing army books for Warhammer armies that have either been axed long ago (like the Amazons), only appeared in spinoffs like Warmaster (like Araby), or have never been featured anywhere outside of fluff (like Cathay or Nippon).
When Warhammer Fantasy Battles itself was axed, dude has just continued making his own 9th edition. Now he finally got a surprisingly nice Cease & Desist encouraging him to maybe stop copy-pasting images and fluff text from older army books. Until the dude can be bothered to make stripped-down versions of his books, he has removed any and all downloads.

And people - including this guy - thought 9th Age and One Page Rules were mad for changing the lore for their factions so much

[Kugelfisch]

Hardly surprising as The Old World is coming up and will likely feature Nippon.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Modiphius is getting weird.

So they do have a few original products in their catalogue (one will become slightly important in a bit), but what they're most famous for is releasing RPG adaptations of various IPs, all done with their in-house 2d20 system (basically a very limited dice pool system with quite a few influences from Fate, if that makes any sense).

• Conan? Used to be their flagship title, but the license has recently expired
• Dishonored? That's also a thing. Does anyone care about Dishonored these days?
• Dune? You bet they have it.
• Homeworld? Sure, why not at this point?
• Fallout? It even accurately emulated the tendency of Bethesda games to be broken at launch!
• Star Trek? Pretty alright, but they've kinda run out of good Trek to write about. I sure hope you like buying an entire hardcover book dedicated to Lower Fucking Decks.

Now recently they appear to be pushing for more original content, and what content it is.

Dreams and Machines

I can almost guarantee this started as a Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation before they failed to acquire the license, cause the general is pretty much the same (a post-apocalyptic setting where our diverse heroes are fighting against robot monsters or something).
I'm not sure there's enough interest for them to sell their super-deluxe preorder package. Who needs "equipment cards"? Gear in this 2d20 system doesn't really take up a whole of of space stats-wise.

Cohors Cthulhu

So this is a spinoff of their Acthung! Cthulhu line, some pulp RPG about shooting Nazis and Shoggoths. It's so old it originally started as a Savage Worlds settings (which is slightly weird since Savage Worlds has its own Weird War setting which does the same thing except with less copy-pasting from the public domain). Instead of being set in WWII, this is set during the Roman Empire.
Now this upcoming RPG raised a few alarm bells, since it was being touted as being "progressive".
So you have art of a black female legionary (legionarette?).
And example characters that have their pronouns listed (including a bard with the always helpful pronouns "they/he/she").
They are aware that the Romans, using modern sensibilities, are slavemongering colonizers, right?
Also I hope they will showcase the rich ethnical diversity of 200 AD Germania.

BrikWars

This is just bizarre, honestly.
In case you've never heard of BrikWars, it's a set of free wargaming rules for using Lego minifigs and vehicles built with legos. It has existed in one form or another for almost 30 years now.
But now they're aiming for a physical release, published by Modiphius. Are you trying to get sued by Lego or something?

[Kugelfisch]

I think I'll stick with legendary film epic and box office Wunderkind Morbius, thank you very much!



Gives me goosebumps every time!