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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! Hello from the Cyberpunk RED trenches, where our current main goals are to a) find a buyer to sell off quite a lot of crude oil to b) pay off the cyberpsycho who would 1000% have killed us if we didn't promise them a giant share of the haul, to get them to help us c) survive sea nomads and a police/coast guard posergang that really loving want to take this boat away from us and d) the communist ship computer (it's complicated) that we promised to transfer shoreside in exchange for it not scuttling itself. Side goal E, replace our fixer's missing leg because two different people in the party got leg critted in one firefight. This is not at all the way CPRED was intended to run and as usual for our group it comes down hard on the pink-mohawk action movie side of things. Still having fun anyway. I may like my purity of themes in games but these are good folks and it's fun to have a romp around Night City with them.
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SkyeAuroline posted:the communist ship computer (it's complicated) I'm just picturing Danger Boat from The Tick. You can't stop me.
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KingKalamari posted:...Now that I think about it, why does he have a fanbase to begin with? His only real contribution to the scene mostly involved throwing money at other, more competent people and being an rear end in a top hat. If I recall correctly, he was the only person with a working OSR storefront for years, since he had previously published some heavy metal zines.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I'm just picturing Danger Boat from The Tick. You can't stop me. I can't stop you. So now between sessions my washed up war reporter Media is interviewing it to figure out what the hell it's been doing the last 20 years, and whether letting a shipboard AI that led a worker's revolution and executed the officers on board get transferred on land to take over a factory or something is wise. What could possibly go wrong?
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! Mostly PF2e at the moment, running through the third part of the police adventure path. Was pleasantly surprised that the "heist" section has an ending twist that deals with some of the system problems in doing that. Still very unsure about the system personally, but the argument tends to end with "it's better than 5e and people who only play 5e will play it".
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Kind of the opposite, perhaps, in that I just concluded my first campaign, which was in D&D 5E - but this increases the chances of me living up to one of my year's resolutions, running not D&D. Actually, my other resolution was to play not D&D, which I did recently! Can't really go into it in detail for self-doxing reasons, but it was definitely a breath of fresh air.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! I've resolved to actually prep for my campaign this weekend and hope I can stick to it.  I have been playing a Dice Throne Adventures campaign with my kids and that's been going wonderfully. DTA is a really good game, and I made a thread for it.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! Got a blades campaign that is running very slowly (two people work retail, two people work office, the GM is a grad student, what could go wrong?) and am going to be in a second BITD campaign starting Saturday, so I guess I'm gonna be doing a lot Victorian ghost stealing. My dormant Promethean game that I was STing for a long time is probably going to resurrect in a month or two, I've got some long term projects that need too much attention for me to go back through my campaign notes and straighten it out. Honestly I want to play more games, especially to try out more systems, but getting 4 different 30 year olds to figure out a regular time is proving to be an absolute bastard, and nobody I know is a 'natural' GM we all just kind of accept the mantle when necessary and tend to get stressed and burnt out on the role pretty fast. I think the obvious solution is more GMless games but so far people aren't really taking the plunge on that.
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SkyeAuroline posted:I can't stop you.
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My Lovely Horse posted:There are some complex socioethical concerns involved in workers owning the means of production when the means of production are sentient and have free will. I think SPECTER decided that it and its robots are the workers in this equation. The enlisted crew was "safely evacuated at a neutral port" (likely code: sea nomads) and it's been running the ship solo for... a while now. loving SovOil. At least Night City has some derelict automated factories in the nuke zone probably?
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dwarf74 posted:Playtesting Frosthaven has eaten basically all my nerding time for the past few weeks, and I've been neglecting both my main weekly game group and my occasional hometown friends group. We totally don't have a Frosthaven thread, I think, but it might be in the "miniature games too small for their own thread thread".
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! I'm also in a Dark Ages V20 game with one other player (everyone else got too busy with life to keep playing). We have woken up and befriended a very old vampire/mummy hybrid, have each diablerized our way to 6th generation, and are generally threatening/stealing/killing our way into whatever secrets of blood magic we can obtain. We're fast becoming the guys you'd fight as an end boss in any other game and it's amazing.
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aldantefax posted:We totally don't have a Frosthaven thread, I think, but it might be in the "miniature games too small for their own thread thread". Frosthaven is just Gloomhaven, right? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3840191
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aldantefax posted:We totally don't have a Frosthaven thread, I think, but it might be in the "miniature games too small for their own thread thread". There's no reason to separate them out.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! Gearing up to run Fellowship in real-time for the first time on Monday, for a group who know D&D and almost nothing else. It's exciting, and also a little bit nerve-wracking -- I feel like I have to get this absolutely perfect or risk tainting them on non-D&D games forever.
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Angrymog posted:Also started a solo game of Ultraviolet Grasslands, which I'll start writing up and putting on my solo-rpg blog soonish. I'd love to read these write ups because Ultraviolet Grasslands is my jam and I'll never get to run it. dwarf74 posted:Playtesting Frosthaven has eaten basically all my nerding time for the past few weeks, and I've been neglecting both my main weekly game group and my occasional hometown friends group. I'm as green as a goblin with jealousy. dwarf74 posted:I have been playing a Dice Throne Adventures campaign with my kids and that's been going wonderfully. DTA is a really good game, and I made a thread for it. I've been eyeing that thread rather seriously and you nearly have me sold on the product. Yawgmoth posted:I'm also in a Dark Ages V20 game with one other player (everyone else got too busy with life to keep playing). We have woken up and befriended a very old vampire/mummy hybrid, have each diablerized our way to 6th generation, and are generally threatening/stealing/killing our way into whatever secrets of blood magic we can obtain. We're fast becoming the guys you'd fight as an end boss in any other game and it's amazing.  Glad to hear the campaign is continuing and you are reaching Supervillan status!I recently got roped into "playing" the wargame Star Wars: Armada with some friends on the East Coast. Since I can't be there in the room with the miniatures, I can't actually move the pieces around and fight ship-to-ship combat. So I was given authority to control three pirate fleets, the Mandalorian fleet and a Mining guild fleet in terms of making their strategic moves (ie what planets the fleets try to occupy/raid) to take some pressure off of the GM running the story behind the wargame. My pirate fleets are happily bumbling about the Outer Rim, acting as commerce raiders and targets for the main players of the wargame to blowup and take over their ships. I'm reading Wicked Ones which is a Forged in the Dark game that is basically a Dungeon Keeper tabletop where the players are monsters. I don't have much game time, but I can see myself playtesting the game once (or twice) because the cooperative narrative play and the mechanics are very cool. Maybe this month? We'll see.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! I’m running, somewhat poorly, a Fellowship campaign for my girlfriend and our respective daughters (10 and 13). Need to really work on the pacing, and my description of the ritual they interrupted last time was, while not graphic, apparently a little scarier than the 10yo wanted. I’m still nervous through the whole sessions that I’m messing it up, but they keep asking to play, so I guess I’m doing well enough!
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Helical Nightmares posted:I'm as green as a goblin with jealousy. quote:I've been eyeing that thread rather seriously and you nearly have me sold on the product.  It is almost like a dice-based gloomhaven-lite, with non-destructible progression and a quick, repeatable campaign. It also adds really clever deck-building mechanics to the heroes. It honestly has no right working at all - turning PvP into PvE like it does. But I go into that in the Dice Throne thread, probably to excess.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! My group is still playing 4e. I started DMing back in May 2020 and two different players have taken turns DMing and we're finally into paragon now. I'm on a space kick right now, so I'm considering running traveller, mothership, or alien.
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dwarf74 posted:It's gonna stay with Gloomhaven or we'll close that thread and make a combined one. I need more coffee. I was thinking of Frostgrave.
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aldantefax posted:I need more coffee. I was thinking of Frostgrave. Frostgrave is talked about here I think: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3253037 Personally, since I've been on a Sci-Fi kick for like a year now, I can't wait for Stargrave.  https://ospreypublishing.com/stargrave quote:In a galaxy torn apart by the Last War, vast pirate fleets roam from system to system, robbing, extorting, and enslaving. Amidst this chaos, thousands of independent operators - smugglers, relic hunters, freedom fighters, and mercenaries - roam the dead stars in small ships, scratching out a living any way they can. Publication Date: 29 Apr 2021 Like Frostgrave, it is a miniatures agnostic system.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Recently ran a couple Delta Green games. I thought I had squeezed most of the juice out of that system, but every time I run it I remember why I like it. And I'm running a playtest of my Fallout: Two Sun game on Sunday. If it goes well, it could become a recurring game.
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I never really played Delta Green before, but I did play Black Ops once or twice. I think there are some people who wrote Delta Green published adventures that hang out on here too! I'd love to hear more about that.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? I'm quietly gearing up to run a PbP conan game with four other mods, lol. I've never even played this system and I foolishly said "just make dudes with the char generator with all options turned on" so of course they've pulled character abilities from like five other supplements that I then needed to track down and read about, and of course one player on a whim decided to engage with the game's most complicated subsystem (sorcery), but y'know gently caress it we're all into the deep end and it seems like the kinda group that can cheerfully cope with the chaos. The PbP bit helps a ton. You can take 20m to look up a rule between every post without slowing down the game at all. There's no chance I could just wing this in a live game. It's not that the system is especially complex, it's more that there's a pretty large amount of lore, and action is supposed to be fast-paced and skipping over the downtime stuff for the most part, so you don't get tons of slow scenes while the PCs are, say, spending three sessions bumbling their way through a dungeon searching every 10' corridor in which to thumb through the bestiary or whatever. In a single 3-4hr session you'd want to be ready to run like four action scenes and four noncombat scenes? I guess?
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Is there an "Enough talk!" clause in the Conan game which allows you cut to the point and whoever throws a knife at a cultist first gets the game moving again? If not, missed opportunity imo
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Also, I forgot about this but stumbled across it and I don't have anywhere to put it, but: It's free real estate!
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aldantefax posted:I never really played Delta Green before, but I did play Black Ops once or twice. I think there are some people who wrote Delta Green published adventures that hang out on here too! I'd love to hear more about that. Delta Green is great. You don't have to make up dumb hooks why a party of wildly diverse backgrounds (in the 1920s usually) will want to get together and solve Mythos mysteries when they really should be running the gently caress away from anything that even hints at the gribblies. In Delta Green you are part of an illegal (or quasi-legal) Conspiracy that is probably embedded in the US government to shut down supernatural phenomena, that if left unchecked will lead to a worse situation. Therefore you can plausibly have a professor of archeology tagging along with a couple of law enforcement officers and a cryptographer out of Quantico because everyone has had experience with the unnatural and has been tapped by the Conspiracy. http://fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/ https://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/category/systems/call-of-cthulhu/delta-green/ Also Caleb Stokes, a goon of Roleplaying Public Radio and Red Markets fame, has been tapped to write some official Delta Green material. One of his first (?) Cthulhu inspired adventures, Lover in the Ice has been translated to the DG system. He is currently writing the series God's Teeth for DG and has been tapped to finish off ARCHINT and add to The Labyrinth. I think his goon handle is Cthuluzord? Not sure. Lover In the Ice Actual Play : http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/05/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-delta-green-lover-in-the-ice/ Game : https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/184098/Delta-Green-Lover-in-the-Ice God's Teeth Actual Play: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/gods-teeth-a-delta-green-campaign/ Caleb working on ARCHINT and The Labyrinth: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/delta-green-the-role-playing-game/posts/3072517 I'm sure I'm missing other DG authors that are goons too. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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aldantefax posted:Is there an "Enough talk!" clause in the Conan game which allows you cut to the point and whoever throws a knife at a cultist first gets the game moving again? If not, missed opportunity imo It sure as heck does! The rules say the GM should start tossing Doom tokens into the Doom pool if the PCs are hemming and hawing too long about what they're gonna do. And Doom tokens directly translate into poo poo like free actions & interrupts by enemies, fresh reinforcements, and other twists of fate that go against the PCs.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Also Caleb Stokes, a goon of Roleplaying Public Radio and Red Markets fame, has been tapped to write some official Delta Green material. One of his first (?) Cthulhu inspired adventures, Lover in the Ice has been translated to the DG system. He is currently writing the series God's Teeth for DG and has been tapped to finish off ARCHINT and add to The Labyrinth. I think his goon handle is Cthuluzord? Not sure. Either gonna be awful or fantastic, and I for one am okay with gambling on the former. I should get back to my Red Markets F&F... just as soon as we start actually getting the posts from last year's thread stuck on inklesspen/etc like I've been waiting on...
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Leperflesh posted:It sure as heck does! The rules say the GM should start tossing Doom tokens into the Doom pool if the PCs are hemming and hawing too long about what they're gonna do. And Doom tokens directly translate into poo poo like free actions & interrupts by enemies, fresh reinforcements, and other twists of fate that go against the PCs. That rules so much. I'm currently playing a really fun Blades in the Dark game with a GM who puts in a lot of work. I'm also running a game of Spire. that has some player overlap. It's funny seeing where the games have similarities, not just in terms of parallel development and ruleset goals, but also just some of the same archetypes we've had for characters and locales that interest the players. Now that I've read Heart I'd love to run it, it's definitely both an iterative improvement of the system resistance ruleset Spire runs on, but also goes some neat new directions that can't be backported easily.
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aldantefax posted:I was watching some Lindybeige videos and while they are interesting I guess he is also a monster as well so really I have no real idea what affiliations people have as a downstream consumer a lot of the time. Apparently a lot of Youtube pop historian / HEMA types also may fall into this category, but I honestly haven't the energy to touch the poop and sift through it since I'd rather be thinking about dumbass West Marches ideas or whatever it is bouncing around in my noggin at the moment. He is? I know he has a sort of dress-up colonialism theme to him, which is eh, but I'm not aware of anything beyond that. I've watched a bunch of his videos (I find them ranging between fascinating and boring) but I havn't in a while, and I don't follow him on twitter, so maybe I missed something and need to unsub. aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Just wrapped up another GURPS session and gonna run D&D tomorrow, then more GURPS on Friday. Hooray! I was just playing more of my Curse of Straad 5e Campaign last night. My blue dragon School of Valor bard and friends were fighting some hags in a daring rescue of some kidnapped children in an old windmill. The dwarf Sorcerer and I climbed to the second story and crept to the windows while the others knocked on the door below, causing one of the enemies on the 2nd floor to go downstairs. After a fight broke out downstairs we crept in and went upstairs, fighting off a third enemy. The dwarf cleric broke the locks and I went downstairs and helped the kids climb down out the window to freedom and then we joined the battle downstairs. The dwarf and i got targeted with a lightning attack. I passed my dex and with immunity only took 1/4 damage. The dwarf absorbed it and she shoot it back. GM: "Ha! I choose the wrong people to target!" Hags spoilers: I also found out hags are immune to both Charm (Hypnotic Pattern) and sleep (since being immune to charm makes you immune to that spell). This is my first bard, i've never played one before I'm not a very outgoing person, but I found I don't really need to be a super outgoing bard. He likes to preform, but he's not the show-offy or flirtatious/horny. He's more of an honorable swashbuckler/musketeer type (sort of patterned after Gurney Halock from Dune) I'm really liking the balance of swords and magic (though it feels like my rapier+dagger attack is the most reliable thing I have) I've been itching to do some sort of star wars RPG, and I've been fluctuating between trying to run EotE again, or do something like a FATE hack (i saw there is at least one already made, called "Star wars fate edition" but I don't know how good it is). Also, I'm not sure I have the energy to do two RPG things a week. plus my weekly game design playtests.
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Froghammer posted:Does this thread know about the Monte Cook Google story? When I get off work I'm gonna give you all the Monte Cook Google story
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Foolster41 posted:I've been itching to do some sort of star wars RPG, and I've been fluctuating between trying to run EotE again, or do something like a FATE hack (i saw there is at least one already made, called "Star wars fate edition" but I don't know how good it is). Also, I'm not sure I have the energy to do two RPG things a week. plus my weekly game design playtests. Have you considered the Forged in the Dark game Scum and Villainy? Should be easier on a GM since the players contribute to the setting.  https://www.evilhat.com/home/scum-and-villainy/
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Helical Nightmares posted:Have you considered the Forged in the Dark game Scum and Villainy? Should be easier on a GM since the players contribute to the setting. Oh, I'll have to check this out! Thanks!
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Helical Nightmares posted:Delta Green is great. You don't have to make up dumb hooks why a party of wildly diverse backgrounds (in the 1920s usually) will want to get together and solve Mythos mysteries when they really should be running the gently caress away from anything that even hints at the gribblies. In Delta Green you are part of an illegal (or quasi-legal) Conspiracy that is probably embedded in the US government to shut down supernatural phenomena, that if left unchecked will lead to a worse situation. Therefore you can plausibly have a professor of archeology tagging along with a couple of law enforcement officers and a cryptographer out of Quantico because everyone has had experience with the unnatural and has been tapped by the Conspiracy. I don't run the Shotgun Scenario contest. In previous years, it's been run by Ed Possing, and in 2020 it was run by Elendil004. Maybe you thought I ran it because of my FATAL and Friends series on the winning entries? I have never written a published Delta Green adventure. I write a bunch of stuff for myself though, which you can find here.
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Hi it's me. I've run almost all the Night at the Opera contests, including the current one going on right now which people should submit stuff into. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rd5K5u9di1fAMiCR9LyNNVhF4h1uYmc4uKXgpuR6jFo/edit I also did run the shotgun contest this year because Ed Possing had to step down for work reasons and because we can't have nice things they're still getting uploaded to the Fairfield project but Ed is doing it and some are going to transition formats poorly. I've put my own stuff here: https://sites.google.com/view/kevinhamdeltagreen/home
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Foolster41 posted:Oh, I'll have to check this out! Thanks! I like Scum & Villainy, but it was also literally the first Blades hack that was being worked on almost in parallel with the final Blades rules, and there's a few places I think that shows.
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aldantefax posted:Anybody playing any games recently? Mondays are RIFTS and have been for 40 goddamn sessions now. We're level 5. Thursdays are DnD5 with a fairly new DM, it's his first time writing a game. We started in Ravnica and immediately left it. I have no idea where the game is going but the characters are fun. Fridays are DnD5 run by a guy who has been running DnD and other games for longer than I've been alive. We're running through his conversion of Rise of the Runelords and I'm learning why high-level wizards can be so much fun. Saturdays alternate Monsterhearts where I play a Hollow described as "Mr. Crocker but convinced they're out to get him" and running a DnD5 group. This week, the gang goes to a fancy dress ball!
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