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It's November, and that means it's almost Christmas! What are your favorite holiday gaming traditions? Will you be gaming with your friends and family?
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 11:26 |
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 12:44 |
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If my puppy dog eyes still work now that I am the third youngest member of the family, I might convince my relatives to play some board games once I go back home in December.
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 11:48 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:If my puppy dog eyes still work now that I am the third youngest member of the family, I might convince my relatives to play some board games once I go back home in December.
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 12:06 |
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I don't currently have any holiday gaming traditions but I'd love to start some! I could probably convince my siblings to try a game or two.
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 12:22 |
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Good board games I will recommend for families whose members maybe aren't as nerdy as you: -Codenames, recently released and awaiting a reprint. A game set up between two teams, each with a Spymaster attempting to guide his other team members into choosing the correct words on a 5x5 grid to reveal their team's agents while avoiding the other team's, innocent bystanders, and the Assassin...but they can only give out clues comprised of a single word (with some restrictions) and a number indicating how many words on the board that word relates to. Quick playing and entertaining either sober or drunk, plays up to 8 or 10. -Mysterium, similar in some respects to Codenames in that someone is giving out vague information to try and steer people towards answers, only this time it's fully cooperative. One player takes the role of a spirit trying to impart upon the other players details concerning their murder, but the only way they have to steer them towards the right people, places, and murder weapons are a deck of tarot-sized cards with abstract, dreamlike paintings on them. If the spirit can ultimately steer everyone towards the murderer by the end of seven rounds then they all win. Plays up to 7, one spirit and the rest playing as mediums. -Skull is poker distilled to its most basic form. You have a stack of four coaster-sized discs, three have flowers and one has a skull. Everyone antes a single disc of their choice, then go around the table either laying new discs onto their current ones one at a time or starting off bidding how many discs they'll attempt to flip without hitting a skull. The catch is that when you win the bid you have to begin with up to all of your own discs first, so if you laid a skull down yourself then you just shot yourself in the foot. Every time you hit a skull you lose one disc, lose all four and you're out. If you successfully win and complete two bids without hitting any skulls then you win the game.
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 12:51 |
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Is the Dracula Dossier available in PDF? I tried looking in Pelgrane's site but I just got confused. I need it for ... reasons
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 13:36 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is the Dracula Dossier available in PDF? I tried looking in Pelgrane's site but I just got confused. It should be. It went out to backers a few weeks ago or so, if it's not up for sale yet then it should be soon.
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 13:51 |
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One month closer to blades in the dark being done! That and getting a new set of dice as a christmas present, gotta find a real cool one somewhere online someone can order for me.
Fenarisk fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Nov 1, 2015 |
# ? Nov 1, 2015 14:51 |
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Fenarisk posted:One month closer to blades in the dark being done! That and getting a new set of dice as a chiestmas present, gotta find a real cool one somewhere online someone can order for me. I'd be a little surprised if it's done in time for Christmas. Do you have a birthday early in the year?
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 15:03 |
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I wish my vampire/wulin group wasn't so loving flaky. the GM is in the navy, so his schedule in continually the dumbest, most horrid thing imaginable; one player has a terrible sleep schedule and so she misses sessions from being randomly asleep, and another player has always seems to have something come up with his RL circle where he absolutely has to drive one of them somewhere or pick them up or something, so he shows up about half the time and half of that he's an hour+ late. I just want a group of relatively sane people who can show up to an IRC channel at the same time every week and pay attention for a few hours, I didn't think that was a lot to ask?
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 22:18 |
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Christmas Chat- I can't wait for Secret Santa this year. I'm going to find something truly terrifying for goons Sadly, I have no holiday gaming traditions.
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# ? Nov 1, 2015 23:10 |
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I'm very (notreally) sad that we skipped thanksgiving, I know a lot of y'all are foreign communists but thanksgiving is the most D&D of holidays where we celebrate invading a land and taking all the natives poo poo and pretending it was mutual.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 00:16 |
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Elfgames posted:I'm very (notreally) sad that we skipped thanksgiving, I know a lot of y'all are foreign communists but thanksgiving is the most D&D of holidays where we celebrate invading a land and taking all the natives poo poo and pretending it was mutual. I agree it's a fantastic holiday and you should be forced to eat turkey at gunpoint you filthy commie. Yams are good. Mmmmm.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 00:25 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:I agree it's a fantastic holiday and you should be forced to eat turkey at gunpoint you filthy commie. Yams are good. Mmmmm.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 00:26 |
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Ain't nothing wrong with a turkey dinner, but gently caress thanksgiving.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 00:58 |
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I don't really care for the decadent west
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 01:02 |
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Yawgmoth posted:If you don't like cranberry sauce you're basically Hitler. Um. Well. It's ok I guess. Anyway. Gaaaaaaaaaaaames. There is this game Ultimum that I stumbled across. It is a far future, optimistic post-apocalyptic scifi game. Although there is the ruins of two alien empires that invaded earth to explore and scavenging to do; the humans and the crocodile-men, ape-men, robot-men, wolf-bear-men (yes you read that right), elf-men, energy-men, and sort of dwarf-men all interact in a mostly harmonious fashion. This isn't fallout. To me the tone is more survival and exploration of a vaguely familiar world, rather than say an colony planet that is alien to all the players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TWrTc0d54E The tone of the beta rulebook is very much "Heroic, gently caress Yeah!" and it is rather endearing. For example: They had a kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409548667/ultimum The free beta rules (139 pages), character sheet and adventure are here: http://www.ultimumrpg.com/downloads.html The other major thrust of Ultimum is "online support". This is suppose to include smartphone app and a computer program of the Ultimum rules. From the website: quote:Concept The other novel feature of Ultimum is the acquisition of gear. Evidently money doesn't exist.* Every player has their own personal fabricator called a RFD. This fabricator scans the local area and teleports all the useful minerals from the area into its reserves. So populated areas have been "all mined out" and this is to foment exploration I guess? If you want to make a piece of gear like a SMG or medical thing you construct it based on what materials you have and you also roll randomly for quirks and features on a series of tables. At least that's the impression I'm getting from a very quick skim. It feels very video game like but that is not necessarily a bad thing in this case. *Money doesn't exist but you can barter mineral for goods and services so yes a common currency does essentially exist. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Nov 2, 2015 |
# ? Nov 2, 2015 01:03 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:Um. Well. That does look pretty neat actually
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 01:11 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:I agree it's a fantastic holiday and you should be forced to eat turkey at gunpoint you filthy commie. Yams are good. Mmmmm. We do eat turkey, only we do it at Christmas, like normal people. Capitalist pigs eating turkey early is what got America into the state it's in. I have no holiday gaming traditions, because most of my players spend that time with their families and it's a university city so those families are between two hundred and five thousand miles away.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 10:34 |
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My brother just got really big into boardgames, having bought Once Upon a Time, Coup, Love Letter, and Sheriff of Nottingham within the span of about a month. So while we don't have any holiday gaming traditions yet, we're definitely trying to get one started. For me, I think I'll need to get some RPGs in dead-tree form because it's easier to pitch a spontaneous "let's do that" with a physical book than with a PDF. If only international shipping wasn't so darned expensive.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 10:39 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is the Dracula Dossier available in PDF? I tried looking in Pelgrane's site but I just got confused. Ordering it in hardback gets you the PDFs as well, but Pelgrane typically wait a few weeks after releasing a physical book before making it available to buy as PDF only.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 11:45 |
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I've been bringing light board games the last few years. Acquire, Love Letter and Ticket to Ride have been popular.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 12:39 |
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As a somewhat secret santa I bought Strike!, so Jimbo, those 15 bux were from me to you. On a related note: it hasn't cured neither cancer nor AIDS, and its blowjobs are adequate at best (Strike! is awesome)
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 13:59 |
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Chances are I'll just be playing Scrabble, Love Letter, and/or Set with the family
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 16:28 |
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Rasamune posted:Chances are I'll just be playing Scrabble, Love Letter, and/or Set with the family
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 17:03 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:I got Set banned from a board game club because I was too good at it. Same, but from the Sucking Men's Off club.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 17:07 |
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Same, but from the Sucking Men's Off club. Well, yeah, a board game would be too distracting, you have too much of an agenda to deal with that.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 20:34 |
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There's a Bundle of Holding for The Esoterrorists up. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Esoterrorists It's not the best Gumshoe game (That'd be Night's Black Agents or Trail of Cthulhu, depending on which aesthetic you prefer) but it is a Good Game and a good introduction to that system. The Esoterror Summoning Guide and The Book of Unremitting Horror in particular are good reads, and are basically system-agnostic.
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 21:33 |
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what the poo poo is a "bundle of tentacles" also clearly the best festive holiday party game is
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 21:46 |
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Ningyou posted:what the poo poo is a "bundle of tentacles" It's my latest work, for sale next month on Comiket 89, don't miss it!
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# ? Nov 2, 2015 21:48 |
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Swagger Dagger posted:There's a Bundle of Holding for The Esoterrorists up. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Esoterrorists I used to be a pretty big fan of Gumshoe, but Pelgrane really hosed me over with Night's Black Agents, and I've never had a chance to play it. I was one of their backers, and I moved while the book was still in production. I sent an email attempting to change the address associated with my order, and got told they wouldn't change anything until they were ready to send things out and only contact them then. Which was annoying, but whatever, I waited and they sent out an email asking for address changes. I sent the address change again, and that should have been the end of it but nope, they never changed the address. I got no response from them and was pretty much ignored, while my book ended up sent to a different place. I was never able to get it, Royal Mail was of absolutely no help, and I was ignored by Pelgrane. I basically refuse to give Pelgrane any money at all.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 00:44 |
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The Tangled Cultural Roots of Dungeons and Dragons It's a review of Michael Wittwer's Empire of Imagination, which is a biography of Gary Gygax. Everything I've heard and read of the book itself makes it sound like a heavily dramatized and embellished work, but there are some interesting snippets in this article itself: quote:U.S. Army intelligence sent two agents to infiltrate Gygax’s war-gaming circle in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in the nineteen-seventies, believing that the group’s tabletop reënactments with miniature figures might be training sessions for would-be anti-government insurgents. Finding Gygax and his cohort to be harmless, they asked to join. quote:What was largely unknown or omitted from this brouhaha is that Gygax was an intermittently observant Jehovah’s Witness. This startling fact crops up about halfway through Witwer’s biography, when he notes that Gygax’s “controversial” game, along with his smoking and drinking, had led to a parting of the ways with the local congregation. Up until that point, the matter of Gygax’s faith had gone unmentioned in the biography, and it is barely discussed thereafter. (The book’s index does not have an entry for “Jehovah’s Witness” or “Gygax, Gary—religious beliefs.”) Given the furor that D. & D. caused, the absence of a deeper analysis of Gygax’s faith is a glaring omission. In a recent interview with Tobias Carroll, Witwer acknowledged that Gygax “was a practicing Jehovah’s Witness. He would go door-to-door and he would give out pamphlets. He was pretty outspoken about it, as a matter of fact.” The reason for almost completely excluding it from the biography, Witwer says, is that “I couldn’t find it [as] a huge driving force in his life.…I didn’t want to be too heavy-handed with that, because I’m not clear that, especially with his gaming work and even his home life, how big a factor that was on a day-to-day basis. But I do know he was practicing.” quote:Likewise, there are only passing mentions of Gygax’s years of work as an insurance underwriter. But one needs only to browse the Advanced D. & D. “Player’s Handbook” or the “Dungeon Master’s Guide” to see how similar the books’ numerous charts are to actuarial tables.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 13:40 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:This in particular stood out to me for putting context as to why D&D was designed with such a "realistic" bent to its "milieu", such as using stat requirements combined with stat rolls to generate an expected distribution of "how many Paladins per thousand PCs", which would then be emulated by games where you need to randomly roll for your race and you might only have a 1 in 100 chance of being an elf.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 16:15 |
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I ran a session of Masks on Sunday, playing fast-and-loose with the Halcyon City canon (that is, I haven't bothered looking at it, except when my players bring it up because they liked something they read). So I have a planetary elemental Nova who has more in common with the Delinquent playbook than she'd like to admit, Legacy with the "wrong" powerset (she inherited from her supervillain father instead of her superhero mother, which isn't good PR), and vlogger Outsider who likes to pretend she understands Earth culture less than she actually does, and I had "Captain Halcyon" hook them up with the old mothballed base he and his friends used when they were the Junior Freedom League back in the 80s. For their first mission, I sent them up against a teenage supervillain "Mister Mesmer", who had really discount-rate mind control, and they handily defeated him. But he turned out to have diplomatic immunity (son of the Ruritanian ambassador) so all that happened was he got deported. (Obviously he is going to come back later, with much stronger powers, in the season finale.) Next mission, I'm thinking of having the Junior Freedom League's "Danger Room" having woken up due to a Y2K bug and gotten very angry at being neglected for 15 years, so it harasses the team by meddling with their electronic records (school schedules, bank accounts, etc) and then traps them in the Danger Room.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 19:36 |
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inklesspen posted:I ran a session of Masks on Sunday, playing fast-and-loose with the Halcyon City canon (that is, I haven't bothered looking at it, except when my players bring it up because they liked something they read). So I have a planetary elemental Nova who has more in common with the Delinquent playbook than she'd like to admit, Legacy with the "wrong" powerset (she inherited from her supervillain father instead of her superhero mother, which isn't good PR), and vlogger Outsider who likes to pretend she understands Earth culture less than she actually does, and I had "Captain Halcyon" hook them up with the old mothballed base he and his friends used when they were the Junior Freedom League back in the 80s. A good game.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 21:28 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is the Dracula Dossier available in PDF? I tried looking in Pelgrane's site but I just got confused. On Twitter Pelgrane said that the PDF goes on sale on the 9th.
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# ? Nov 3, 2015 23:04 |
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What's the TRPG where I can have such a variety of skills?
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 00:14 |
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:What's the TRPG where I can have such a variety of skills? Promised Sands springs to mind.
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 00:31 |
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How often did you and the group stumble over "Mister Mesmer"?
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 00:35 |
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 12:44 |
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This looks cool so I'm posting it here as well as the kickstarter. quote:Editions Icare is proud to present a French role playing game with a truly original theme, already loved by players for the quality of its writing and its illustrations, now in English language for the first time ever. This funding campaign aims to back the professional translation of the work, and its distribution in the USA and the United Kingdom. Our publishing company, now eight years old, is specialized in publishing independent role-playing games with strong themes. We would therefore like to invite you to discover Würm, a role playing game that takes place at the very origins of humanity, which will surely strike a chord with both new and experienced players alike.
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# ? Nov 4, 2015 00:38 |