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Welcome to the TG September chat thread! The chat thread is:
Last month was here.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:23 |
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# ? Apr 24, 2024 09:24 |
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Just to repost my question because it was two posts before August Thread closed: Any impressions people have on One Last Job?
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:26 |
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How many of you can I bribe to attend Gen-Con 2015?
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:29 |
Okay I admit it. Im the lurker. I lurk in the shadows and watch conversations. Its was me all along. I was the lurker.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:31 |
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Ah, simple and elegant. Just the way to start a new thread.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:33 |
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I'd like to go to GenCon 2015. Assuming I can get a room. And plane tickets. And probably a car rental. And friends to go with.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:34 |
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Gencon is less than a year away.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:39 |
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I have friends that go every year and apparently it's great. Be prepared for a whole mess of fat guys though.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:39 |
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Oh, I've been there before back in...'09, I think it was? I was just pretty much on my own the whole time and didn't do much because I didn't know what there was to do (and this was long before Games On Demand was really a thing).
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:42 |
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Reposting from last thread, cause i'm still interested in responses:Asymmetrikon posted:Apropos of nothing, I've a question for you all: what are your dream features for a virtual tabletop program (like MapTool or Roll20)? What would make your life easier as a DM or player? If you were to have a scriptable, moddable VTT, what would you want to be able to mess around with?
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:43 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'd like to go to GenCon 2015. Assuming I can get a room. And plane tickets. And probably a car rental. I wouldn't need a plane ticket (it's only one state away from here after all), but there's no way in hell I could afford to go considering I'm up to my eyeballs in bills. Well unless somebody is crazy enough to give me like four grand to pay off my dentists.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:45 |
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I have been invited to take part in a campaign set in "Zakhara", part of the Forgotten Realms that is apparently "Arabian" themed. So. On a scale of one to the republican party, exactly how racist should I expect this game to be?
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:47 |
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Asymmetrikon posted:Reposting from last thread, cause i'm still interested in responses: Right, personally ease of use would be number one for me, if I have to spend more than five minutes on program prep in addition to session prep I'll just call the whole thing off.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:51 |
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Asymmetrikon posted:Reposting from last thread, cause i'm still interested in responses: Robust and flexible support for card mechanics.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:51 |
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Judgement posted:I have been invited to take part in a campaign set in "Zakhara", part of the Forgotten Realms that is apparently "Arabian" themed. So. On a scale of one to the republican party, exactly how racist should I expect this game to be? Zakhara is based on Arabian Adventures/Al-Qadim. I haven't looked at it recently, but from what I remember it was surprisingly and pleasantly respectful to the subject matter. It had a very heavy 1001 Nights and Persian influence, despite the name. So the source material, while not perfect, isn't terrible. How your average group of nerds handles it, though...
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:53 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'd like to go to GenCon 2015. Assuming I can get a room. And plane tickets. And probably a car rental. Froghammer posted:I have friends that go every year and apparently it's great. ritorix posted:Gencon is less than a year away. Kwyndig posted:I wouldn't need a plane ticket (it's only one state away from here after all), but there's no way in hell I could afford to go considering I'm up to my eyeballs in bills. Well unless somebody is crazy enough to give me like four grand to pay off my dentists. You will find 1980s RPGs worth the sum of $4,000 behind the shed (which is to say, 2,500 RPGs)
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:53 |
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Judgement posted:I have been invited to take part in a campaign set in "Zakhara", part of the Forgotten Realms that is apparently "Arabian" themed. So. On a scale of one to the republican party, exactly how racist should I expect this game to be?
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 03:57 |
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Judgement posted:I have been invited to take part in a campaign set in "Zakhara", part of the Forgotten Realms that is apparently "Arabian" themed. So. On a scale of one to the republican party, exactly how racist should I expect this game to be? It's actually pretty ok. It's of course typical western fantasy take on Arabian fantasy, but I can't really think of anything racist or the like in it, just dumb things.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:02 |
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Okay, I am becoming slightly less worried about what I might be getting myself into. I only wish I had more familiarity with any potential source material so I had any idea what to play in such a setting.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:12 |
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Judgement posted:Okay, I am becoming slightly less worried about what I might be getting myself into. I only wish I had more familiarity with any potential source material so I had any idea what to play in such a setting. There's no Al-Qadim material up on D&D Classics so I can't link you to anything; but I can recommend just leaving everything you think you know about the FR behind. By and large, the "exotic" settings have little in common with the usual Realms and are best approached on their own merits.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:23 |
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Arivia posted:There's no Al-Qadim material up on D&D Classics so I can't link you to anything; but I can recommend just leaving everything you think you know about the FR behind. By and large, the "exotic" settings have little in common with the usual Realms and are best approached on their own merits. Yeah there is: http://www.dndclassics.com/browse.php?filters=0_0_44715&term=al-qadim
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:29 |
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I guess I probably count as a lurker, I only really post every couple of weeks, if that. And I'd really like to go to GenCon next year, but I don't know if I'll be in a position where I can. Also all of my friends usually start school around when it happens so I don't know if I'd be able to go with anyone, and kind of don't want to go alone.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:30 |
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Weird NONE of that showed up. Get the box set, Judgement.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:32 |
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Loki_XLII posted:I guess I probably count as a lurker, I only really post every couple of weeks, if that. Though Goons (at least con-going-Goons) are seemingly cool and welcoming and helpful without fail; even if your friends randomly start school in July you could probably find somebody to crash with who you would have fun hanging out with. Well, unless you only play the Bella Sera card game.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:36 |
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NorgLyle posted:(except for against yak men because gently caress yak men -- every campaign setting needs at least one designated 'always evil' group to murder)
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:44 |
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Judgement posted:I have been invited to take part in a campaign set in "Zakhara", part of the Forgotten Realms that is apparently "Arabian" themed. So. On a scale of one to the republican party, exactly how racist should I expect this game to be? I remember reading it and thinking it was a lot better than I expected, and rather liked it. From what I recall, it's no better or worse than something like Legend of the Five Rings, really.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 04:44 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:Just to repost my question because it was two posts before August Thread closed: Any impressions people have on One Last Job? I have run One Last Job within the last few months. It's a great system to run a one shot in and I'm keeping it in my stack because it's great system for times where I need something for a group to play but I haven't done any prep work at all. It seems to lend itself more towards the silly rather then serious. You introduce the boss and the first character, someone picks it and describes the second and so forth. Lots of insults flying back and forth. And while the players are discribing the characters they are also laying out the heist for you.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 06:05 |
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Thomamelas posted:I have run One Last Job within the last few months. It's a great system to run a one shot in and I'm keeping it in my stack because it's great system for times where I need something for a group to play but I haven't done any prep work at all. It seems to lend itself more towards the silly rather then serious. You introduce the boss and the first character, someone picks it and describes the second and so forth. Lots of insults flying back and forth. And while the players are discribing the characters they are also laying out the heist for you. Cool, I picked it up after listening to One Shot Podcast play it, and I was a bit curious if it naturally bent a bit less serious or if it was just falling prey to the tendency of One Shot to be goofy as hell.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 06:08 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:Cool, I picked it up after listening to One Shot Podcast play it, and I was a bit curious if it naturally bent a bit less serious or if it was just falling prey to the tendency of One Shot to be goofy as hell. It was less silly then the One Shot game, but it still lends itself more toward silly then serious depending on your group. But if you get enough player buy in you could run Heat with it. I did a Western with it and setting it up for that was a few minutes work. BTW, Pinkertons are great if you just need a quick villain that's super easy to hate. One of my players did a write up: quote:What's interesting about it is that you explicitly don't make your own character. The DM comes up with the job and then sets up a short scene between a DM character, the dude who is hiring the players, and the leader of the player group, who the DM also comes up with and describes and one player (player 1) volunteers to play. Then that character goes off to get the old gang back together, and player 1 describes their character going off to recruit the next member of the team and what that person is like, and someone (player 2) volunteers to play that character. And then player 2's dude goes off to recruit the third character. And so on, and so forth.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 06:37 |
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Judgement posted:Okay, I am becoming slightly less worried about what I might be getting myself into. I only wish I had more familiarity with any potential source material so I had any idea what to play in such a setting. Try this: http://bettermyths.com/being-a-fisherman-is-occasionally-lucrative/
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 08:53 |
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 08:56 |
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One of these years I will go to GenCon. When I can get organised enough to save up for the loving plane fare. And route via Dublin to avoid the hideous immigration bullshit. And arrange a hotel room. And set aside enough for a ticket. And set aside two weeks off when I don't have urgent deadlines to cover the con and the jet-lag. How Brookshaw manages it every year is beyond me.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 09:33 |
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Aaaaa I can't wait for this podcast.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 09:37 |
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TurninTrix posted:Aaaaa I can't wait for this podcast. I am probably going to take screenshots to get maximum use out of my roll20 map
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 09:44 |
What is 'grog', when'd Winson quit moddin' and who's this new dude?
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 10:51 |
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Anatharon posted:What is 'grog', when'd Winson quit moddin' and who's this new dude? Grog: Short for grognard. Charitably speaking, grognards are folks who don't like these new-fangled ways of pretending to be elves, and like how the games worked back in the day. Uncharitably speaking, a whole lot of people we call grognards are getting called that because they're actively hateful or bigoted people, who don't just prefer a different way, but will fight tooth and nail to make that the only way. Winson quit modding...Last month, I believe? That is, August. Which new dude? Ettin? Ettin's been around for a long time, just recently changed the avatar, is all.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 10:56 |
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Grog is also a hard drink of rum, water and lemon juice (a whole lot of lemon juice) named after Vice Admiral Edward "Old Grog" Vernon, so called because of the grogram coat he wore. Oh, and the word "grognard" means "grumbler" in French. Napoleon's elite Old Guard had the priviledge of being allowed to complain freely, and their grenadiers were called "les Grognards" because they would not stop kvetching. Siivola fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Sep 1, 2014 |
# ? Sep 1, 2014 11:30 |
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Siivola posted:Oh, and the word "grognard" means "grumbler" in French. Napoleon's elite Old Guard had the priviledge of being allowed to complain freely, and their grenadiers were called "les Grognards" because they would not stop kvetching. Early wargames were mostly Napoleonics, and wargamers jokingly adopted this term. This is how it became a trad games thing
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 11:43 |
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The grog tax is the greatest oppression in modern times.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 14:34 |
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# ? Apr 24, 2024 09:24 |
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Siivola posted:Oh, and the word "grognard" means "grumbler" in French. Napoleon's elite Old Guard had the priviledge of being allowed to complain freely, and their grenadiers were called "les Grognards" because they would not stop kvetching. I was unaware of this particular part of the origin of the word, and now I have a mental image of Statler and Waldorf as Napoleonic grenadiers and it's the greatest thing.
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# ? Sep 1, 2014 14:50 |