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 This is the June 2014 chat thread, bring all derails and shitposts here, etc. April thread was here! I feel like asking questions this time, so let's ask some questions. What are you guys running, reading and planning to run? Or playing if you're not a GM. 
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Jun 1, 2014 03:02
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That's not the Touhou RPG. One day I will finish rewriting the Touhou RPG. It'll be much better this time. I promise. Also, I am absolutely finishing Endless Adventures this month. So then I can go back to work on the Touhou RPG. (After The Ruined World, Base Circumstance, and Galvant! Space Hijinx.)
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Jun 1, 2014 03:06
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Running Monsterhearts, but as of this week that's on temporary hiatus for an Idigam Chronicle playtest game. Not currently playing anything, dammit.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:07
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Atomic Robo RPG sure has become popular, has it?
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Jun 1, 2014 03:08
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bahamut posted:That's not the Touhou RPG. One day I will finish rewriting the Touhou RPG. It'll be much better this time. I promise. Which of them? Danmaku Yuugi?
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Jun 1, 2014 03:08
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Waffleman_ posted:Atomic Robo RPG sure has become popular, has it? Gorbash is running a NyarlathoTech Atomic Robo hack. I always approve of people making games out of my setting. 
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Jun 1, 2014 03:09
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Which of them? Danmaku Yuugi? Tale of Phantasmal Land. The one where I changed the base mechanic from 2d6 to 1d6-1d6 at the last moment before making a public pdf and spectacularly hardcore hosed poo poo up in the process without somehow realizing it.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:10
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Still running AdEva, and applying to Destrado's Atomic Robo game.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:10
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Reading Atomic Robo and Dark Sun (the book about the atomic bomb, not the game setting). Running a Tianxia game I need to kick back into gear now that I'm back from vacation. Planning to run an NyarlathoTect game!
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Jun 1, 2014 03:11
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I'm still working out my anime as gently caress Dungeon World PbP because all the other anime as gently caress PbPs have been severely lacking in Matsumoto anime styling, aka the best animes.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:11
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Ettin posted:Gorbash is running a NyarlathoTech Atomic Robo hack. I always approve of people making games out of my setting. You should make a Nyarlathotech thing and sell it. And then hire me to write up a thing on Algol Extraterran Interests.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:12
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Currently playing in a TBZ PBP, reading Atomic Robo with an eye towards maybe doing an InCryptid hack, and getting ready to run a Feng Shui 2.0 playtest and play in a NWOD Changeling game, possibly.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:14
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Mors Rattus posted:You should make a Nyarlathotech thing and sell it. Retrocausality first, then Breakfast Cult 
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Jun 1, 2014 03:14
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Somebody please stop me from blowing my last batch of store credit before I quit this job on buying a Warhammer Fantasy battalion.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:15
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I was so excited that we were talking about the fundamentals of playing-yourself RPG campaigns that I did not think to check the date. Catastrophe.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:16
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Anyway, about what I'm running, prepping to do 13th Age (but set in Theros). Overall, I'm pretty happy with the system. It's not perfect, but it's decent. Less happy with some of the writing, which has lost a lot of the subtlety and, as a result, a lot of what I found really interesting about the more ambiguous Icons, but that's why I'm using a different setting.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:16
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Mors Rattus posted:You should make a Nyarlathotech thing and sell it. That's what I keep telling him. The whole PbP forum is full of stuff that could reasonably be monetized. As to the question...Lemme think...Monsterhearts, Apocalypse World, FATE Nyarlathotech, FATE Breakfast Cult, FATE Sigma Protocol, FATE Anime Changeling the Lost, FATE .hack, FATE Devil Survivor, a Technoir game, FATE mecha, GURPS Lost Highway, Double Cross, an experimental tanks game...and I've apped to another Dresden Files FATE game AND an Atomic Robo FATE game. And a game where I'm playing the Axis and getting my butt kicked in the LP forum. My god.  I have a problem.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:16
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Got a friend on the fence about GMing Esoterrorists. I hope he does run it, because I and another guy in the (usually) board game group are default GMs, and I know we're both looking for a chance to put on the player shoes and run. I've been eyeing up Fiasco because it looks spectacular, but I don't have the money to put towards it right now. My preorder 13th Age Bestiary should be here soon though, and I've got friends coming back into the area, so maybe that. Magical flying islands are always popular, right? Because they're always the eggs of god like beings from beyond the stars
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Jun 1, 2014 03:20
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It's not June for another hour and a half. Comrade Gorbash posted:Reading Atomic Robo and Dark Sun (the book about the atomic bomb, not the game setting). Running a Tianxia game I need to kick back into gear now that I'm back from vacation. Planning to run an NyarlathoTect game! How is Tianxia?
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Jun 1, 2014 03:29
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Last weekend my friends and I played Dungeon Crawl Classics for the first time, using the one published 0-level adventure, Sailors on the Starless Sea. In true DCC fashion, we started with 12 characters and ended with 6. Well, technically, we started with 12, 3 died in the first encounter, then they rescued some captured villagers and rolled up replacements, then another 6 died. It was great. Next week or so we're going to try a different adventure, Bride of the Black Manse, which is a timed level-3 adventure.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:32
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I think I'm officially past one whole year of running an almost weekly game of 13th Age. People's schedules are starting to get squirrely, but I'm hoping we can carry through all the way to the finale.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:38
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This is all I know about Jojo's Bizarre Adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZlQ1WSn5U
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Jun 1, 2014 03:47
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PublicOpinion posted:I think I'm officially past one whole year of running an almost weekly game of 13th Age. People's schedules are starting to get squirrely, but I'm hoping we can carry through all the way to the finale. That's impressive! My weekly 13th Age game broke down around level 6 (with them gaining a level every 2 sessions or so). We are still vowing to go back and formally end it, though.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:47
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's not June for another hour and a half. Beautiful book and the Martial Arts are quite clever. Even I (FATE Core hater) like how they implemented it.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:49
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Ettin posted:What are you guys running, reading and planning to run? Or playing if you're not a GM. I'm sitting on a pile of recently-acquired RPGs, none of which I've managed to read. I want to make a concerted effort to change that -- and I think I'll start with Corporia. With the D&D basic box coming in July, I've got a small group excited about giving it a shot, so I think that'll be the next non-one-shot game we play.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:52
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Spincut posted:That's impressive! My weekly 13th Age game broke down around level 6 (with them gaining a level every 2 sessions or so). We are still vowing to go back and formally end it, though. Even crazier, we've only lost two people who were officially part of the campaign. We've kept the same crew for what must be ten months now.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:52
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Ettin posted:I feel like asking questions this time, so let's ask some questions. What are you guys running, reading and planning to run? Or playing if you're not a GM. Running: Pendragon. Reading: just started a reread of the Leverage RPG I bought on a DriveThruRPG sale a while back. Planning to run: kind of toying with the idea of doing a Paragons campaign using Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, maybe with a Days of Future past twist where everyone superpowered was thought killed a long time, but new superhumans suddenly appear again. But what I really want is to see either a The Quiet Year or Dog Eat Dog game through to its conclusion.
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Jun 1, 2014 03:58
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homerlaw posted:This is all I know about Jojo's Bizarre Adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFR48-1mcBw So the group i play RPGs with, some of us watch Black Butler, and the aforementioned Jojo's. Looking back on many of our table top characters, holy poo poo on a cracker were a lot of them inspired by those two anime. I literally played an over excellent crazed butler in one of our Spirit of the Century campaigns. 
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Jun 1, 2014 04:03
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I'm nearing 1 year on my 2.5ishE Exalted Dragonblooded Campaign. Working with one PC to develop a custom Martial Arts style that's part Tron, part Speed Force. Is it normal as a GM or whatever to feel really excited about the finale and stuff even though you know it's awhile off because you think your players are going to really enjoy it?
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Jun 1, 2014 04:11
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Davin Valkri posted:That's what I keep telling him. The whole PbP forum is full of stuff that could reasonably be monetized. You can turn your brain-thoughts into upwards of tens of dollars.
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Jun 1, 2014 04:16
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Ettin posted:I feel like asking questions this time, so let's ask some questions. What are you guys running, reading and planning to run? Or playing if you're not a GM. I'm barely playing anything because I never get to play anything except Encounters. 
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Jun 1, 2014 04:34
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I'm coming to terms with my IRL Inverse World game coming apart. Nothing wrong with the content itself, it's just that we're all adults with busy schedules and I'm on the cusp of moving to a different state. I just joined a D&D Next pbp; despite all the dumb decisions, I guess I'm still brand-loyal enough to try it. Honestly, though, it's making me yearn for 4e combat. Enough that I'm thinking about running a thing for pbp or roll20. Back in our college days, we used to have this metagame called "Fight Monsters!!," where the DM just rolled up encounters randomly in the back of the 3e DMG, roll on the random treasure table if we beat it, and repeat until we got tired. We mainly did this whenever the usual DM couldn't run their game or whatever, so it didn't completely replace a campaign for us. When 4e came out, I wanted to do the same thing, but we all got busy, and I dedicated myself to running a regular game so I never go around to it. Point being, I think I'd like to try it now with better players. Maybe even have the peanut gallery (read "better 4e encounter designers than me") submit encounters to run. I'll probably get a recruit thread up in a week or two when I get the framework hammered out and have a free weekend. Oh, I'm also supposed to run some Edge of the Empire for another local group. And I'm running the 13th Age adventure for Free RPG Day.
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Jun 1, 2014 04:48
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RPZip posted:You can turn your brain-thoughts into upwards of tens of dollars. That's still more than most of my thoughts are worth. Yesterday marked the official end of the Shadowrun 4E game I was involved in over in TGR, called on account of GM health issues. Children overboard kicked things off on April 4th 2013 and it ran fairly steadily for a year or so before finally sailing into the west as all games do. In that time we rescued hostages, blew up an APC, set fire to a mega-mall as a distraction, jumped out of an elevated tram onto a building's rooftop, rescued a sasquatch, set a horde of angry devil rats against corporate security personnel, shot up Filipino vampires, boarded a high-security prison transport ship, emancipated an artificial intelligence, killed a super-powered insect spirit monster with naval artillery, hijacked an airplane, and generally lied, swindled, robbed, and schemed as much as possible. It was pretty swell. Things ended in the middle of an urban gunfight with Ares' version of a CIA wetworks squad, a bunch of humorless men and women in black sporting laser weapons against our group of miscreants and misfits. They had incoming air support, we had a nest of feral ghouls which we were kiting their way with a spirit acting as bait. You could say it was anybody's game but honestly I'm pretty sure those guys were hosed.
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Jun 1, 2014 05:01
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I am running a completely off the rails Savage Worlds/Realms of Cthulhu game that swings wildly between dark comedy and apocalyptic horror. Both because that is kind of how I roll and because we generally go six months without playing and then play a half-dozen times in three weeks, and all the built up insanity everyone has been thinking about tends to come out at once. I have been letting the group use the Adventure Deck to keep things interesting (particularly since everyone used to love playing TORG and it brings back memories), and I said that if anyone drew one of the blank cards he could draw up his own card as long as it was in the spirit of the game and I would let it ride. So at the climax of an expedition into the nightmare-occupied Philippines to try to find one guy's family, they end up running head-first into a returning villain they had eluded rather than defeated several games earlier, complete with a huge number of reinforcements. The dude with the blank card asked for a few minutes, and handed me a card reading "...Octopus?" with a Goonies logo and a drawing of a confused octopus, with the flavor text "A major scene is suddenly over, and only confused glances bear witness to the fact that it ever occurred." After I finished laughing, I narrated their triumphant escape on their ship: several of them bruised and bleeding but otherwise OK, one of them covered in yellow paint, and another patting the head of a friendly dog he had never seen before; all triumphantly exulting the genius behind their improbable victory. I want all games to come with a built-in "once per campaign" nuclear option like this, haha. It was so delightful.
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Jun 1, 2014 05:02
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This might sound weird, but does anyone ever wonder what Christopher Paolini is up to these days? It's like he fell off the face of the Earth after the Eragon fad died down.
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Jun 1, 2014 05:02
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Running a Pathfinder game, high Mythic high magic high fantasy. Starting another Pathfinder game set in the Pathfinder campaign setting. Reading? The Sten series. Back to an old friend while I do some work.
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Jun 1, 2014 05:29
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Libertad! posted:This might sound weird, but does anyone ever wonder what Christopher Paolini is up to these days? It's like he fell off the face of the Earth after the Eragon fad died down. No, because he sucked and his books sucked.
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Jun 1, 2014 05:38
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Evil Mastermind posted:How is Tianxia? Good! It's a very strong implementation of Fate Core concepts and emulates wuxia well.
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Jun 1, 2014 05:38
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bahamut posted:Tale of Phantasmal Land. The one where I changed the base mechanic from 2d6 to 1d6-1d6 at the last moment before making a public pdf and spectacularly hardcore hosed poo poo up in the process without somehow realizing it. ohhh i think i heard it before... I guess?
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Jun 1, 2014 05:51
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Playing: nWod Mortals, and two different MHRPG games, all here on the forums. Running: nope Reading: I'm finishing up my first read-through of Worm it fuckin owns.
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