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To those of you who like Betrayal, what do you feel is the optimal Haunt time? I played a few games and soured on it pretty quickly because it felt like either the Haunt happened so early that the players had no chance or so late that the villain had no chance.
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Wolery posted:To those of you who like Betrayal, what do you feel is the optimal Haunt time? I played a few games and soured on it pretty quickly because it felt like either the Haunt happened so early that the players had no chance or so late that the villain had no chance. I think someone said it earlier, but five or so turns seems to be a good Haunt time. I'm usually playing with a group of three though, so that might skew things slightly. Of course, a lot of our fun with the game is adding secondary layers of dumb story onto the basic game, like deciding that my character having their speed reduced to one by a cloud of smoke in the greenhouse really meant I just hotboxed the poo poo out of it. Actually winning/losing the game is secondary to our bizarre roleplaying.
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Jul 12, 2014 07:34
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Jefepato posted:I've only played Betrayal 2-3 times, but at an educated guess, it's less that there's too many omen rooms or anything, and more that the game has enough different variables going on that things can easily become unbalanced depending on how things are laid out and what haunt you get. I think you're thinking of the scenario where the house is falling into hell? And yeah, sometimes the traitor gets ultimate power through the scenario and stomps the heroes, and sometimes they don't and everything is already in place for a quick hero-win.
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Jul 12, 2014 12:59
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Green Intern posted:I think you're thinking of the scenario where the house is falling into hell? No, there's a scenario which involves a water level rising and you have to find a boat and get to the right room to escape. I had to endure that one once, but due to a misreading of the rules we had the water rise every turn instead of every round. Meaning that the house was underwater within one round, and we we were absolutely hosed right out the gate. I forget what it's called, but it's in there.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:28
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Fuego Fish posted:No, there's a scenario which involves a water level rising and you have to find a boat and get to the right room to escape. I had to endure that one once, but due to a misreading of the rules we had the water rise every turn instead of every round. Meaning that the house was underwater within one round, and we we were absolutely hosed right out the gate. I forget what it's called, but it's in there. Oh wait, poo poo, you're right. Played that scenario as a psychotic little girl with a spear and 8 strength. I put on my best Captain Ahab impersonation.
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Jul 12, 2014 21:49
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Wow. The haunt that just got revealed in the Betrayal thread sounds really drat difficult, unless I'm missing something?
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Jul 12, 2014 23:33
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The difficulty comes entirely from the fact that none of the required rooms have been found yet, and a couple of the heroes are dangerously close to the kill-zone pentagram chamber. It's likely to snowball pretty quickly in favor of the traitor. Edit: this kind of situation is really common in Betrayal, in my experience.
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Jul 12, 2014 23:45
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Green Intern posted:The difficulty comes entirely from the fact that none of the required rooms have been found yet, and a couple of the heroes are dangerously close to the kill-zone pentagram chamber. It's likely to snowball pretty quickly in favor of the traitor. Yeah, Betrayal is fun, but you can often call who's going to win at Haunt reveal given relative strengths. Of course, you can also end up with situations like one of my games, where the Track Star was kitted out in armor, revolver and had just forged the silver bullets, then failed at shooting the werewolf enough times to instead be killed. So sometimes bad luck can turn things on their head.
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Jul 13, 2014 00:16
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Waiting on paradoxGentleman to make his turn. I don't seem to be able to PM him, so I will try here.
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Jul 27, 2014 14:44
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So how the hell do you go about getting a new GM to take over for the one that left you at the altar? Bunch of us goons were pumped to be in an ascension game and after three pages the GM just vanishes, stops coming into IRC, and goes nuts in the Destiny beta thread. I know there's threads to get replacement players, but is there one for replacement GMs? 
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Jul 28, 2014 23:04
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John Dyne posted:So how the hell do you go about getting a new GM to take over for the one that left you at the altar? I was in the same boat with a dungeon world game (except our gm was cool and just had irl poo poo come up) what we did was just repost the recruit in the recruit thread looking for a gm, and we got one.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:10
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Error 404 posted:I was in the same boat with a dungeon world game (except our gm was cool and just had irl poo poo come up) what we did was just repost the recruit in the recruit thread looking for a gm, and we got one. Didn't even consider that, but after you mentioned it, I've gone and done it. Thanks.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:11
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Let me tell you a tale of a game called Renvin... Seriously, though, if your GM bailed but everyone else wants to continue, find a new one.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:16
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Fuego Fish posted:Let me tell you a tale of a game called Renvin... Oh my god I'm so sad this fell into archives.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:23
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Sion posted:Oh my god I'm so sad this fell into archives. Another junkie lives too fast
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Jul 29, 2014 07:19
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Sion posted:Oh my god I'm so sad this fell into archives. Do you think I'd let it fall into the archives? Hammer of Loki disappeared. I was the last player left in the thread. I'd keep posting in the thread except that a certain mod closed the thread because he decided it needed to end.
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Jul 29, 2014 18:26
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DocBubonic posted:Do you think I'd let it fall into the archives? Hammer of Loki disappeared. I was the last player left in the thread. I'd keep posting in the thread except that a certain mod closed the thread because he decided it needed to end. What kind of hitler would let something like that happen.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:01
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TheNabster posted:Waiting on paradoxGentleman to make his turn. Any luck reaching him? I need to know if my Scientist ever gets his shadow back. 
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Jul 29, 2014 20:46
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ibntumart posted:Any luck reaching him? I need to know if my Scientist ever gets his shadow back. I dunno, I haven't been given any other way to contact him, I will most likely possibly, if he doesn't take a turn by this, Friday or something take his turn for him.
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Jul 29, 2014 21:35
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Neverwinter just hit 1000 posts! You should check us out if you haven't: totally the best 4e game on the forums right now!
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Aug 3, 2014 23:51
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Does anyone know if anyone has ever run a game of Microscope here? If one exists I'd like to read it, but search has been ineffective.
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Aug 30, 2014 23:19
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TheNabster posted:I dunno, I haven't been given any other way to contact him, I will most likely possibly, if he doesn't take a turn by this, Friday or something take his turn for him. I suppose I'm out of the game now, right?
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Sep 2, 2014 12:21
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Been reading The Disappearance Of Holly Meyer. Alyosha Kosoglad is the most powerful entity in the universe.
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Sep 8, 2014 18:43
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paradoxGentleman posted:I am terribly, terribly sorry for bailing out on you guys. University completely kicked my rear end and I forgot all about the game. Nah it's cool, at least I know what happened.
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Sep 8, 2014 21:03
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GMarshal posted:Does anyone know if anyone has ever run a game of Microscope here? If one exists I'd like to read it, but search has been ineffective. As far as I know, nobody ever tried it. Which is a shame, because it sounds like it's really fun; it could probably be played in PbP without too much trouble.
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Sep 9, 2014 12:12
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There was one Microscope game last summer. I don't quite remember who ran it or who all were writing in it, though. Seemed like fun.
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Sep 9, 2014 19:43
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So WhiteHowler just got exiled in the Dead of Winter game. I am hoping he doesn't phone it in and starts assaulting and capturing anything he can now. Exile is the coolest part of the game. If you're a betrayer you start a band of raiders, if you were innocent you have to try and scrape by without help from your former friends.
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Sep 14, 2014 17:33
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Been watching the Fallout Blood Opry thread for a good long while now. It's really good, and I've enjoyed the hell out of it. Doc Idle, if you see this, I know the group is looking to get the hell out of Nashville, and with a change in setting I was wondering if the OOC thread was still open for apps? I've got a couple of character ideas and I'd love to get in on it. I just didn't want to drop an unwanted app in the OOC thread without checking first.
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Sep 16, 2014 19:21
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RickVoid posted:Been watching the Fallout Blood Opry thread for a good long while now. It's really good, and I've enjoyed the hell out of it. Come and talk to the players in the OOC, see how everyone feels about it. I'm not against the idea 
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Sep 17, 2014 01:11
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I wish someone would do another nation sim, like that Constitutional Convention one with the crocodile men.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:40
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Mycroft Holmes posted:I wish someone would do another nation sim, like that Constitutional Convention one with the crocodile men. That game was interesting, but it seemed like there was no reason for anyone to ever compromise.
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Sep 24, 2014 15:43
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Hey, so I was trying to find a "general mafia" thread or "mafia discussion" thread, but had no luck. Can someone help me out? I just need to alert merk to the fact that he's received a PM on 2+2. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Oct 2, 2014 12:15
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MrThingyman posted:Hey, so I was trying to find a "general mafia" thread or "mafia discussion" thread, but had no luck. I think this is what you want.
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Oct 2, 2014 18:24
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Goddamn, the lovely rolls in Red Dawn 
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Oct 14, 2014 07:26
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I really gotta just fuckin' finish Betrayal already, but I keep putting it off. Next time, I am running a game that will take less time to run. On that note, has anyone heard of Neuroshima Hex, because that is what I was intending to run.
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Oct 14, 2014 17:03
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GMarshal posted:Does anyone know if anyone has ever run a game of Microscope here? If one exists I'd like to read it, but search has been ineffective. I was the one who tried to run a Microscope game. Unfortunately, the players flaked on me; I suspect I wasn't open enough about what Microscope actually was to begin with. If there's interest (say, three players?), I'd be happy to give it another go.
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Nov 24, 2014 00:12
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FredMSloniker posted:I was the one who tried to run a Microscope game. Unfortunately, the players flaked on me; I suspect I wasn't open enough about what Microscope actually was to begin with. If there's interest (say, three players?), I'd be happy to give it another go. What is microscope?
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Nov 24, 2014 00:39
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EXAKT Science posted:What is microscope? Its a game where you play out scenes in history along a timeline.
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Nov 24, 2014 00:47
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http://www.lamemage.com/microscope/ Basically it's more of an interactive live setting generator, but you do roleplay vignettes. I only played it once, and we kind of petered out after a while, but it was a lot of fun.
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FredMSloniker posted:I was the one who tried to run a Microscope game. Unfortunately, the players flaked on me; I suspect I wasn't open enough about what Microscope actually was to begin with. If there's interest (say, three players?), I'd be happy to give it another go. I've always thought Microscope looked really cool. I'm in plenty of games already right now, but I'd love to try it out sometime.
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