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Adventure Time RPG Review

                                                         The hypothetical taxes on these things are outrageous!

I have to say this is a well made game; being made using the 4th edition D&D rules makes the games combat fast and rewarding and the classes have been created in such a way that none seem to overshadow the others. And each have their role to fill and they fill them well. Warrior of course being an expy to the fighter is made to take damage and deal it out as well, thief I.E rogue sneakiest fool who is all about picking your pocket and stealing your purity, and finally the doctor who will patch up the fighter when a mimic starts eating that guys face and to buff and de-buff their allies in the midst of thrilling combat. There are about three more classes for an aspiring player to choose from. 

Well that may not seem like a classes to choose from; it totally is. It also has a booming sixteen playable races to choose from each with their own unique skill and trait bonuses. That is double the race count in the 4th edition player handbook. Oh snap did that just blow your mind!? 

Currently your character will max out at around five but the game has a bountiful selection of creatures and inhabitants of Ooh that will challenge your character. (And I'm sure with a little imagination players will be able to think of their own prestige classes, Roughhousing Marauder anyone?) Some creatures you will remember distinctly and others you might have to watch an episode or two to remember which just shows the attention of detail that the author put forward. Speaking of attention to detail the artwork for the game definitely reminds you that this is an Adventure Time inspired piece with the art style done right exactly right down to the noodley limbs! 

Unfortunately their does not seem to much to select from in equipment. There is also a distinct lack of magic items and enchantments, which to me seems especially jarring since Adventure Time is typically portrayed overflowing with magic. Also with a lack of equipment to buy then money becomes quite useless and it becomes hard to entice adventures with a hook if loot is not something you can bait the hook with. These are minor complaints though because despite these things when I did a quick session with a few players that had more than enough fun spanking the hams of a few wayward goblin highwaymen. 

Tips: use the online character creator it is a wonderful tool made to make your life easier. 

P.S. Blood Ghost is making their own game by the name Young Blood a game about kids, aliens, and drama bombs...Not really that last one. 

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I kind of thought that I would see M'aiq in the Soul Cairn. 

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Alright folks that want to get into the tabletop gaming scene (And really who doesn't?) I have already done a review of another game. Don't Rest Your Head, a surreal adventure into the depths of madness and insomnia but that game requires a lot of preparation to play. The kind of stuff that you just can't spontaneously sit down and play in the middle of a bank robbery. I will suggest to you a game that you can do just that!

Mutants and Masterminds by the brilliant folk at Green Ronin is a super hero game based on the D20 system and uses only that. It is simple to learn and easy to play simply because the D20 is the only dice that will be used. The character creation setup allows for a broad range of creativity limited to ones imagination and point total.

Each level called Power Level is decided by how many points you have and each level being 15 points. With these points you can buy a variety of things: Skills, increasing attributes, saves, feats and even powers themselves! Most book says that players should start at PL 10 which starts your character off at 150 points! This kind of power will set your character up as an already well established and powerful hero (Or villain because who does not want to play bad) Though the PL can either be raised or lowered in case the GM wishes the characters to start from nothing or want a gritty street campaign which is totally a thing.

The beauty of the system is that it is so unrestricted. It gives the player the freedom to design create any hero or heroin that they want. It can be as campy or gritty as one wants. I played a game where we had a paraplegic man who turned into a tiger that flew and shot rainbow fire and you know what we were perfectly okay with it. (Mainly because that is pretty bad ass and you are not going to boss around the twelve foot tiger man.)

Combat is designed that you can never instantly K.O. someone that is not a minion. They will accumulate a series of bruises (Or wounds if you are going lethal.) That will impose enough penalties that they will not be able to make their toughness save and eventually fall unconscious or die because you're evil or just serious about dolling out your justice.

So what I am basically saying is that if you want a quick and easy game or if you just want to ease yourself into the tabletop gaming world. Mutants and Masterminds is definitely the game to look at. It is fun and easy to learn and the grapple is just as confusing as Dungeons and Dragons so it will be easy to make the leap! If anything Mutants and Masterminds has easily become one of my favorite social games.

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Who is JOSEPH KONY?

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I don’t usually use my blog to promote causes, but this one seems pretty serious.

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Just watched this...It made more sense to me than Big-O. 

I mean to give an more in-depth review wouldn't really be fair because I've only on occasion dropped into the ani-mey woooorrld a few times. It was a pleasant place I suppose though not the kind of area that you would want to leave your door unlocked. I just like Fooly Cooly a lot because it is so fast paced and exciting. The dialogue is hilarious and the plot confusing but good. Best of all it gives us a satisfying ending which is both bad and good. 

It is good because it knows when to end. Instead of other things which seem to drag on forever forgetting what ending even means. 

It is bad because fuck I want more. I want more episodes but that is a silly notion and I'm just slammin' down this commotion 

Headin' off the rails full hell fire locomotion 

Loco crazy as a mo'fucker and damnation. 

Once again what? 

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My friends think I take the bus......The fools. 

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SERIOUS CARD GAMES.

Have I mentioned that I play Magic: The Gathering, probably because that is a serious thing that serious people play. I've seen people lose fingers over a mythic rare and I've seen people flip over tables arguing about rules and then everything boils down to a fight club in a parking lot. Like I said serious business. 

Magic: The Gathering is based on a strategy of who can be the biggest dick and how frequently they can wave around that over sized metaphor around and how effectively they can prod and make uncomfortable the other player. Now recently I've been trying to build a zombie deck and with the release of Dark Ascension this is probably the best time to do it.  I want to make a zombie token deck which in itself is pretty simple to do with two cards,  Endless Ranks of the Dead and Army of the Damned and don't worry about mana cost because with a few Dark Rituals, Lake of the Dead, and finally Culling of the Weak At this point you should have enough Swamps to cast anything you might need  but this isn't all there is to this strategy because  all you really have is just an enormous horde of 2/2 zombies flopping about. Don't you wish you could make them into something a little bit scarier? 

Death Baron and Lord of the Undead  not to forget Diregraf Captain  put two or three of these guys into your deck and you are rocking with some 4/4 zombies with death touch so now you have a formidable army doubling nearly every round but you just can't seem to get through their defenses (Kind of impossible with Death Touch but let's just ignore that for now!) Death Baron is down and you're feeling pretty fucked. You have a nice army but you're practically on the defense now and you need a way to win fast. Gempalm Polluter you've just won the game because of your obscene amount of dead people everywhere. Now let's say you're fighting against someone who has a token deck and using it hard. This ass hole has a huge horde of 1/1 dicks that you just can't seem to get through. Curse of Death's Hold should solve that and if it isn't working combine that with four Nefashu and you're killing everything with a pulse or at least before it can even block. 

Now these last couple of cards because we've already establish a strategy are just useful things and I know there are a lot of cracks in this deck (I'm just too lazy to fill them.) So let's roll out the carpet for: 

Quest for the Grave Lord

Grave Titan

Lich Lord of Unx

Lashwrithe

Horobi, Death's Wail

And finally the card to look out for: Sever the Bloodline

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When you get so excited that you beat box all the way home. 

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Peeps I am going to lay it flat out like a pancake slathered in butter and submerged in an ocean of syrup. I have been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, I love horror things if I haven't demonstrated before and I am an absolute harlot for post apocalyptic (or in this case fucked up place called the zone practically the same thing.) I could go on and tell you about how cool it is and tell you this shit is off the chain, that it broke the chain and is now using it as a garrote to strangle you to death. I could but I won't because this game is old and I don't want to say hard but you will die a fucking lot, if your body stayed after you died the amount of your corpses they would be taking away from the zone would be equivalent of the ten of the trucks carrying you in the beginning without all the exploding. Also there is a place called the Brain scorch zone and there are STALKERS walking around after visiting there...They are zombies now...We don't talk about them. 

I cannot play this game because I have absolutely no idea what I am supposed to be doing, probably because I'm dumb and I usually have no clue what I am supposed to be doing anywhere at anytime in any setting. I spent my first time playing this game in a two hour long shoot out with a patrol of bandits and it was mostly hiding from their automatic fire while I took wild shots at them from behind a tree, I can only assume that what I was doing was a legitimate thing and that I am a god damn master of combat for this tactic of taking cover. Also don't expect yourself to be incredibly accurate, I tend not to be the best at the pew pew but I fancy I know how to pop a cap in an ass when I am standing in front of a punk, ya heard dawg? Then I get shot in the face and get to reload, which is great because you can save in the middle of a fire fight and when you start dying because you'll be doing it a lot! (See a call back, literary genius.) You'll get to do it all over again. Did I mention that everyone can die? Because they can and most of the time you'll end up scavenging your info from a handy PDA because the guy you were supposed to talk to is currently in a game of tug O' war between two mutant dogs and he's the rope. I could tell you about the anomalies (basically shit that wrecks your day when you walk into them and you'd do it a lot if it weren't for the visual cues and the fact that your game tells your dumb ass that your day is about to get fucking wrecked bro.) Or the mutants, you know what fuck it, I'll just show you

and finally the emissions which is pretty much the equivalent of a radiation storm  

It's an incredible game though like a gritty Ukraine Fallout except...So much worse. 

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Alright folks I tend not to update because I am a serious guy getting down with some serious sleeping and then some serious reading and then more serious sleeping. Few things interrupt this cycle. Shit be set in stone and laminated. 

I don't know if it's because I read H.P. Lovecraft or because I spend most of time frolicking  in the strange geography of High Octane Nightmare Fuel where there is no sky only darkness eternal staring back at you waiting until the moment where you inevitably blink and dragging you to a dark oblivion. Now in my strolls through nightmare plane I happened upon a nice Tabletop game that shamefully not many know about. Don't Rest Your Head from the disturbed minds at Evil Hat Productions. The concept of the game is quite simple, you're an insomniac who has been up so long reality breaks and you get hurled into the Mad City where shit positively gets real. Never go to the roofs, always check whats on the menu before entering restaurant, and never go out on the 13th hour. This place is populated with living nightmares and they don't like you and you have a good chance of becoming one. 

Everything about the game is a surreal experiment; from the one word title of your Madness power and even your skill. I like a game that lets me say "breaking stuff." Is a skill and you are a god damned master of it. Madness abilities don't even get me started about that shit because I am already going to talk about it, I'm already started and there is no way to stop me. Madness is the little power you get that allows you to bend reality to whatever your power may do. And there are no set powers! (With the exception of the excellently written and very punny Don't Lose Your Mind) As a player you get to create your own power, using one word. 

That is the kind of imagination use that makes you get a headache because suddenly your brain is too full of ideas and so you start blurting things out to make sure your head doesn't explode! And Explode could be a power! I mean sure you could make them just explode physically, or you could make them have a severe emotional outburst for no reason! Well there is a reason and you better make sure that it was a good one. 

So, when it comes to game mechanics the dice are D6 and you will be using fifteen of them. Three Discipline, Six Exhaustion and finally Six Madness. A player using a full fifteen dice can do some horrendously god like things but also lose their shit in the most extreme way possible. Fucking radical. Before we go down that dark path let's discuss how the dice works: Discipline is basically you character's capacity of remaining calm and collected, these are the three dice you will be using all the time or hopefully you'll be using them all the time. Exhaustion is physical exhaustion or emotional at any point you can add exhaustion dice to your roll to help that odds that you will be successful but if Exhaustion wins out over Discipline you can count yourself being one step closer to falling asleep in a game called Don't Rest Your Head. Finally we get to Madness, this is used basically whenever you want to use your power and then more dice you add to it the more powerful the manifestation of your power at six dice you could probably change half the city or erase a prominent figure from history. There is also Pain, that dice is reserved for the Gm. She sets the challenge, she is the reason why you would resort to using madness to win, to gamble with your very life. If Pain wins out, be sure that the GM is about to stir a whole heaping spoonful of suck into your life. 

So you ask, "Well no I get all the wind dang zippy dees in the garbage disposal when do I turn it on to get my baby back?" 

I think you have the wrong number, so we get back to the rules. So how do we decide which one of these three defining dice wins out on top when we use them? We simply see which one of the dice rolled the highest and this isn't considered a successful roll we're just deciding which is dominant, a die is only considered successful on a roll of three or less, so you better hope that you only roll one high and the rest low. The GM will tell you how many dice she is using, say in this scenario that she is using four. So, you the player with only three discipline dice do not like those odds so you say you are going to add three exhaustion dice to your total bumping up your chances of rolling more successful die but also risking a higher chance that Exhaustion could be the dominant aspect.

I suppose I could go on, tell you how significant the character creation process is to the story or how there is an optional set of rules that lets a player narrate that scene if they win the dice roll. It isn't much of an action game, with every dice roll that could seriously alter the character. This game isn't meant to be much of a long term campaign, the Awake are big bright stars in the sky burning hot but dying young. Although not every adventure ends in disaster and you can win! 

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Oh goodness, a second post on this demanding thing? I beginning to think my life is spiraling down the internet drain but it doesn't matter because that shit is already clogged as hell. 

Magic: The Gathering time again because why not. 

Recently I got the pleasure of playing with a tournament player and I can say now because I a serious guy. FUCK. THAT. There was nothing to do with the cards I got and this guy by turn four had as many cards on the field as the eye could see. IT WAS RAINING CARDS ON HIS SIDE OF THE TABLE AND I GOT THE DUST BOWL ON MY SIDE. 

I digress though, I really want to tell you of a devious strategy I thought up with a few cards. You're going to want a couple of cards, two Mythic Rares and a rare card. 

Prince of Thralls

Massacre Wurm

Living Plane

This simple strategy you effectively take the other player's land, killing any low level blockers, and if they don't want you owning everything you just killed then they have to pay three life for it. Combine that with invigorating falls which gives you health based on how many creatures are in the graveyard and you still come out on top. (The most they can keep you from taking is five if they don't have more than twenty health.) ((Also tell me if this is wrong or against the rules I just started playing so I don't even know what is happening half the time, I just like fluff text.)) 

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I don't even know what this-Wait I know what this could be! This could be an anything that catches my fancy blog! Magic: The Gathering because cards games are serious business and I am a serious guy. 

Also this: 

Really fantastic.