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dwarf74 posted:... Why? Is there something I'm missing winson is like that bird in the advertisements for the chocolate cereal except for instead of chocolate cereal it's talislanta and instead of a bird it's a dad
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Quarex posted:Unrelated in every possible way, I know a guy who is trying to run a Game-of-Thrones-style game (because this guy can be counted on to try to run "current cultural zeitgeist" games every 5 years) but for some reason has decided it should be a D20 game. This ... this has to be the wrong system in every possible way for a game mostly about political intrigue and a little bit about sex and murder, right? System doesn't matter.
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Tollymain posted:winson is like that bird in the advertisements for the chocolate cereal except for instead of chocolate cereal it's talislanta and instead of a bird it's a dad  Honestly, it looks really solid to my 39-year-old eyes in a way it didn't when I was 15. I'm digging it a lot more than D&D 5e anyway.
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zachol posted:System doesn't matter.  Fine, I will tell him he has to use Fantasy HERO and leave it at that. No, wait; Ninja HERO.
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Quarex posted:That is not what this subforum has been trying to get me to believe for years Marvel Heroic Roleplay, but all the superpowers are social based.
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Ironic comedy option: Houses of the Blooded.
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FATAL. Roll for Jon's anal circumference.  edit: This assumes that system doesn't matter. I mean, why would it? Darwinism fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Quarex posted:I saw my first 5th Edition starter set in the wild today, and I do not think it is a coincidence that the only bookstore in the small town I was in that had a copy was the only one where the clerk had a 1970s mustache. Yet he looked to be about 20 years old. It's not such a great system, but the Green Ronin ASOIAF RPG I thought did an admirable job of trying to evoke the right themes with the system it had. He should really try using that. The Guardians of Order GoT RPG was a pretty bog standard "gritty" d20 iteration with a huge, daunting mess of setting details piled on top of it. I can't imagine him doing better than that; not because GoO was so hot, but because d20 just doesn't seem like a good fit. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Quarex posted:That is not what this subforum has been trying to get me to believe for years Have you considered Fiasco?
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potatocubed posted:Have you considered Fiasco? Sometimes playing a session of Fiasco and starting out characters from the survivors is the right way to go.
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If there isn't already a Game Of Thrones playset for Fiasco then something is very, very wrong with the world.
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dwarf74 posted:Nope! I have been a die hard Tal fan for ages, and occasionaly beat the drum for it around here. 4E is probably the most solid book they ever did, honestly the only thing 5E did was dial back the timeline (so people could play through the events they skipped) and add chargen. As a learning book 4e is certainly better, since the BIG BLUE was a one stop shop. Folks interest in talislanta, btw, can get it all for free at https://www.talislanta.com - the author got tired of the RPG bullshit and just released his creation into the wild following a massive fan effort to scan all the old materials. What are you looking to ask about? I am a font of lore.
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Quarex posted:I saw my first 5th Edition starter set in the wild today, and I do not think it is a coincidence that the only bookstore in the small town I was in that had a copy was the only one where the clerk had a 1970s mustache. Yet he looked to be about 20 years old. Robin Laws' HILLFOLK would do GoT style gaming pretty well.
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Winson_Paine posted:I have been a die hard Tal fan for ages, and occasionaly beat the drum for it around here. 4E is probably the most solid book they ever did, honestly the only thing 5E did was dial back the timeline (so people could play through the events they skipped) and add chargen. As a learning book 4e is certainly better, since the BIG BLUE was a one stop shop. I'm also kind of a mechanics guy, and I'm not sure how (if) the archetypes are balanced at all or even whether or not it matters. Other than this Weight of Water thing, are there any adventures for it? Published, fan-made, whatever. If I want to run it in the future, I'd like to make things easy on myself. Really, though, on a read-through, I'm very impressed. It's slick and light, and seems like it'd work a lot better out of the box than oldschool D&D ever did. It's also a lot better at explaining the game than the old 2e book (the one with the ... Thrall? ... on the cover with the greatsword) did.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Apparently today is Gary Gygax Day. It sure is! Happy Gary Gygax Day!
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Thanks for the suggestions for Game of Thrones Game [of Thrones] everyone. I will pass them along and he will reject them out of hand because he ignores all help anyone tries to give him. Also regarding Gary Gygax Day, it makes me wonder if there is any way to actually know what kind of progress has been made on the memorial. I really kind of figured they would have hit $300,000 by now ...
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Quarex posted:Thanks for the suggestions for Game of Thrones Game [of Thrones] everyone. I will pass them along and he will reject them out of hand because he ignores all help anyone tries to give him. This is the latest official development I could find.
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Wow, thanks! And for as awesome as I thought the memorial looked when it was first unveiled at Gary Con III, I have to say I like this design even more. Ooh, and it mentions over $200,000 having been raised before April 8, 2014. That is promising. If it were like "we are hoping to break $50,000 this year!" I would give up hope. I am buying the poo poo out of some of those bricks. One for each D&D character I have lost 
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Gygax worship is so weird and it's sad that all this attention is lavished on the dude while people basically ignore Arneson. It's probably because Gygax remained a figurehead in the tabletop scene for a lot longer than Arneson, but still.
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Quick someone turn this clip into a Gygax Day thing before it's over! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YqehGlg6m8
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Libertad! posted:It sure is! Happy Gary Gygax Day! I hope you've all been keeping your polearm collections in good shape
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Darwinism posted:Gygax worship is so weird and it's sad that all this attention is lavished on the dude while people basically ignore Arneson. Gary would have wanted it that way.
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Libertad! posted:It sure is! Happy Gary Gygax Day! I'm going to celebrate by being dead and irrelevant
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Ettin posted:I'm going to celebrate by being dead and irrelevant
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anybody know any role-playing games good for diplomacy and intrigue something that could be hacked to make an alpha centauri game, for instance
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Tollymain posted:anybody know any role-playing games good for diplomacy and intrigue Monsterhearts, replace sex moves with "social maneuvering" moves.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Apparently today is Gary Gygax Day. I bought the kid foam polyhedrals to celebrate, she took them to the park and her little pals all played with them.
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Darwinism posted:Gygax worship is so weird and it's sad that all this attention is lavished on the dude while people basically ignore Arneson. It's probably because Gygax remained a figurehead in the tabletop scene for a lot longer than Arneson, but still. This, mind you, does not demand that you treat Gary Gygax with any sort of reverence, but I think Arneson being acknowledged as the "co-creator" and Gary Gygax being usually credited as the "creator" is pretty accurate, contradictions and all. Actually if anything I think Jeff Perren and Dave Wesely are the people really being cheated out of a legacy, given that Arneson's Blackmoor would not have existed without Perren and Gygax's collaboration on Chainmail, nor would it exist without Wesely's Braunstein showing Arneson how awesome "create a scenario and tell people to do what they feel like" could be. For that matter, Perren and Wesely are still alive and, as far as I know, fairly accessible. Indeed Wesely has been running recreations of his Braunstein campaigns at Gen-Con the past few years, and I have no idea how I have managed to fail to try to get into one yet.
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Winson_Paine posted:I bought the kid foam polyhedrals to celebrate, she took them to the park and her little pals all played with them. Did you take pictures?
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Okay, seriously though, who else celebrated?Winson_Paine posted:I bought the kid foam polyhedrals to celebrate, she took them to the park and her little pals all played with them. This is perfect 
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Tollymain posted:anybody know any role-playing games good for diplomacy and intrigue Diplomacy
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Ettin posted:
Strictly speaking it is coincidence, we were out and about and swung by the FLGS and they had them so I got em. At three they qualify as a learning toy, she was counting on them and stuff. Dagon posted:Diplomacy I thought about this, and yeah if you are doing a PVP style alpha centauri you basically need something like Diplomacy.
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Winson_Paine posted:I have been a die hard Tal fan for ages, and occasionaly beat the drum for it around here. 4E is probably the most solid book they ever did, honestly the only thing 5E did was dial back the timeline (so people could play through the events they skipped) and add chargen. As a learning book 4e is certainly better, since the BIG BLUE was a one stop shop. Wait. Winson_Paine posted:add chargen What?
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Before then you didn't really make characters, you just imagined them in the theater of your mind and the DM would make rulings as to what happened. It was a glorious time, before chargen turned everything into a videogame.
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Mors Rattus posted:Wait. For like, 25+ years tal chargen was picking a template or archetype off a tree and making very slight mods to it. 5e added real chargen, the tal grogs HATED IT.
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That's hilarious. "What is this 'making characters' bullshit? Talislanta 5E is nothing but Ultima Online on paper!"
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