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"Hey you, get your drat healing surges off of her."
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# ? Jan 11, 2015 23:45 |
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"We can now play D&D while we eat dinner!" "Do you have D&D, Marty?" "Yeah, I have 4e." "Come on, there is no 4e."
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# ? Jan 11, 2015 23:46 |
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"Now, if my calculations are correct, when this kobold hits level 12, you're going to see some serious poo poo."
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 00:00 |
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:"Now, if my calculations are correct, when this kobold hits level 12, you're going to see some serious poo poo." Lmao
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 00:47 |
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If the GM sees my character sheet in your handwriting, he's gonna kick me out of the game!
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 02:10 |
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Since you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break today. So why don't you make like a treant and get outta here?
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 02:25 |
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Kai Tave posted:Since you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break today. So why don't you make like a treant and get outta here? And we have a winner.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 03:19 |
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I'm sorry, Ettin, but I saw the movie, so I have immunity.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 03:24 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:And we have a winner. I thought of that but was like "no way am I posting that, it's awful".
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 04:47 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I thought of that but was like "no way am I posting that, it's awful". And that's why you're not a winner.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 05:05 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:And that's why you're not a winner. I'm surprisingly cool with this.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 05:09 |
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Nobody...calls me...an Owlbear.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:14 |
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I'm sure that in 2015, story games are available in every corner drugstore, but in 1985, they're a little hard to come by.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:20 |
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*Rolls 2d6 for Arcane Art and gets a 10+, the group stares uncomprehendingly* "I, uh...I guess you're not ready for that yet...but uh...your kids are gonna love it."
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:25 |
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Um...uh... "Oh, my God. They found me. I don't know how, but they found me. Run for it, Marty!" "Who? Who?" "Who do you think?! THE GROGNARDS!"
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:33 |
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I have no idea what's even going on right now
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:41 |
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Wait, character gen is less complex than a differential equation? That's a baby's game!
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:41 |
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"What about all that talk about removing caster supremacy? The action economy?" "Well, I figured, what the hell?"
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:45 |
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Thief asks what the best way to get into the city undetected is. GM responds: "Sneak, McFly!"
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 07:48 |
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The party Wizard casts a Knock spell on a locked door. "Hello! Anybody home!?"
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 08:08 |
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NachtSieger posted:I have no idea what's even going on right now SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS NOT SEEN BTTF!!!!!! (Points at NachSieger and screams an unearthly scream 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers style.) EDIT For effect. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Jan 12, 2015 |
# ? Jan 12, 2015 10:10 |
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Yes, one of the kids from my RPG club came to me today telling me his parents had gotten him Myrskyn sankarit (a Finnish RPG aimed specifically at kids that's sold in pretty much all the toy stores in Finland) for his birthday. Supposedly he'd told his parents how much he'd enjoyed playing elfgames at my club and they thought he might like the game. My plan to turn these kids into the next generation of Finnish RPG geeks is working perfectly.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 15:27 |
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I've been reading through HeroQuest on the suggestion of a few posters and the central conceit of a single global Difficulty Check that becomes more difficult as the players start scoring more successes and easier as they keep failing just sounds so brilliant that I wonder if anybody'd notice if I tried pulling it off in any other system.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:08 |
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Ratpick posted:Yes, one of the kids from my RPG club came to me today telling me his parents had gotten him Myrskyn sankarit (a Finnish RPG aimed specifically at kids that's sold in pretty much all the toy stores in Finland) for his birthday. So I did a google search for it and turned up this picture: Is that a weasel with a mustache? Tell me more about this game.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:51 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:So I did a google search for it and turned up this picture: I'm not intimately familiar with the game and thus don't know what role the mustached weaselguy plays in the game, but here's a short synopsis: the game is pretty much a simple fantasy RPG aimed especially at kids. It's set in a fairy tale-like fantasy setting (which would explain the above dapper individual) where there's an evil empire and the players play members of a rebellion against the evil emperor. The game was originally crowdfunded, and apparently there was another campaign to release it in English. If you're looking for more information on it, I suggest checking out the page for the IndieGoGo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/age-of-the-tempest-roleplaying-for-kids-and-beginners
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 22:40 |
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Hello, what's the cool new DnD-like out there? I'm getting a little weary of Dungeon World.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:31 |
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TurninTrix posted:Hello, what's the cool new DnD-like out there? I'm getting a little weary of Dungeon World. It most closely resembles 3.5, but with a lot less math thanks to the advantage/disadvantage (roll 2d20, take better/worst) replacing +X modifiers for most things. Caster supremacy is in full effect. Martials do not get cool things and the ones they do are kind of screwed by encounter powers being replaced with "per quick rest" powers since quick rests now take an hour. The math is pretty wonky, but number stays low. Combat is fast, but can get long at high levels. Save or dies are back. Rules are at an odd middle ground between abstract and exact. All in all, it's ok, but just suffers a bit from a "been there, done that" perspective and not matching most goons (myself included) playstyle.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:38 |
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Covok posted:All in all, it's ok, but just suffers a bit from a "been there, done that" perspective and not matching most goons (myself included) playstyle. TurninTrix meant whatever D&D-like game is currently big, not the new edition of D&D, which I think everyone knows by now is a lovely failure.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:45 |
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Besides 13th Age (eh) and assorted retroclones if those are your bag, I don't think there've been any recent "like D&D but not" games lately. I suppose there's always Pathfinder Unchained to look forward to.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:49 |
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Torchbearer's amazing.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:53 |
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Just play Atomic Robo, but rename the modes Fighting-Person, Magic-User, Cleric and Thief.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:57 |
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Kai Tave posted:I suppose there's always Pathfinder Unchained to look forward to. What is Pathfinder Unchained, exactly? I don't know if it's just that title specifically, or just Paizo as a company, or the TRPG industry in general, but trying to find a "preview" of it has not been easy.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:58 |
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When I want to scratch that D&D-like itch, I usually take a look at my Fantasy Craft PDFs, I rather like the system. Spellbound's coming up soon, I'm pretty excited. gradenko_2000 posted:What is Pathfinder Unchained, exactly? I don't know if it's just that title specifically, or just Paizo as a company, or the TRPG industry in general, but trying to find a "preview" of it has not been easy.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 09:59 |
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If low fantasy is your bag, I have a rule set for Fate that could do with some playtesting
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 10:07 |
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Siivola posted:Just play Atomic Robo, but rename the modes Fighting-Person, Magic-User, Cleric and Thief. Bluh, not feeling Fate either. Just had a dumb idea of doing a DnD campaign set in superficially fantasy world that's actually a ruined worldship in space Arthur Clark'd with high-tech artifacts and nanotechnology for spells. Or Might and Magic, basically.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 10:09 |
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^^^Honestly, I might go ask people in the Retroclone/Old-School D&D thread for some advice, because there are some legitimately interesting retro-hacks out there that do more than slavishly recreate OD&D down to the crappy art, there might be something there worth investigating.NachtSieger posted:When I want to scratch that D&D-like itch, I usually take a look at my Fantasy Craft PDFs, I rather like the system. FantasyCraft is a very solid game, certainly much moreso than the D&D it's based on, but you have to really, really, really be in the market for "like 3.X, but better, but also approximately 1.5 times as fiddly and with interlocking parts and modifiers and flipping back and forth between chapters to figure out how it all fits together." The *Craft games are generally some of the better high-crunch third party implementations of d20, but they are definitely high crunch with all that entails. In an objective sense I dig things like the list of various hacks and mods that come pre baked-in so that you can select which ones you want to use and it gives you XP/action point modifiers for each of them, or SpyCraft's dramatic challenge systems that cover like a dozen different not-combat challenges with various types of cat-and-mouse interactions, but I can't ever see myself sitting down and really jonesing to play them. They keep talking about releasing a new edition of SpyCraft that's more streamlined and less dense but given Crafty Games' glacial pace I'm expecting that to debut sometime in the 2030's. Kai Tave fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Jan 13, 2015 |
# ? Jan 13, 2015 10:31 |
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TurninTrix posted:Bluh, not feeling Fate either. This is a pretty awesome idea. If you're not averse to old-school games, run it with Labyrinth Lord. The art-free version is free and it's got a sister game called Mutant Future which is basically a Gamma World clone. You can easily run the campaign using Labyrinth Lord to give it a superficially fantasy appearance and then throw gadgets from Mutant Future as loot as "ancient artifacts." poo poo, now I want to run this game.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 10:36 |
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Ratpick posted:This is a pretty awesome idea. If you're not averse to old-school games, run it with Labyrinth Lord. The art-free version is free and it's got a sister game called Mutant Future which is basically a Gamma World clone. You can easily run the campaign using Labyrinth Lord to give it a superficially fantasy appearance and then throw gadgets from Mutant Future as loot as "ancient artifacts." Make it a PBP and I'm down.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 10:37 |
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Ratpick posted:This is a pretty awesome idea. If you're not averse to old-school games, run it with Labyrinth Lord. The art-free version is free and it's got a sister game called Mutant Future which is basically a Gamma World clone. You can easily run the campaign using Labyrinth Lord to give it a superficially fantasy appearance and then throw gadgets from Mutant Future as loot as "ancient artifacts." If you do run that, I'm game. Gonna read these either way, thanks!
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 10:51 |
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TurninTrix posted:If you do run that, I'm game. I'll definitely consider it and if I do you're in (ditto Kai Tave) but truth be told I've got all kinds of poo poo going on IRL that would hinder my posting in a PbP actively. Once things normalize a bit I'll get back to you. Edit: But yeah, dwarves and elves with laser guns and vibro axes is definitely my poo poo.
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