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Galaga Galaxian posted:If anyone is wondering what else might be on that, I recently stumbled on this:
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I need to run a spooky one shot over voice chat with 19 hours to prep. Please point me at something that's cheap, quick to learn, and comes with modules or sample adventures. Ideally not Lovecraft related, zombies a plus.
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Oct 18, 2021 23:04
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Splicer posted:I need to run a spooky one shot over voice chat with 19 hours to prep. Please point me at something that's cheap, quick to learn, and comes with modules or sample adventures. Ideally not Lovecraft related, zombies a plus. A Wizard?
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Oct 18, 2021 23:14
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Splicer posted:I need to run a spooky one shot over voice chat with 19 hours to prep. Please point me at something that's cheap, quick to learn, and comes with modules or sample adventures. Ideally not Lovecraft related, zombies a plus. 10 Candles with uhhhh virtual tealights. I guess this would only work if you do a vidcall
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Oct 18, 2021 23:21
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change my name posted:10 Candles with uhhhh virtual tealights. I guess this would only work if you do a vidcall Leraika posted:A Wizard?
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Oct 18, 2021 23:29
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A Wizard is just that. He wears a pointed hat.
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Oct 18, 2021 23:33
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Splicer posted:I need to run a spooky one shot over voice chat with 19 hours to prep. Please point me at something that's cheap, quick to learn, and comes with modules or sample adventures. Ideally not Lovecraft related, zombies a plus. Slasher Flick?
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Oct 18, 2021 23:37
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Halloween Jack posted:A Wizard is just that. He wears a pointed hat. King of Solomon posted:Slasher Flick?
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Oct 18, 2021 23:38
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Alien? Mothership?
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Splicer posted:I need to run a spooky one shot over voice chat with 19 hours to prep. Please point me at something that's cheap, quick to learn, and comes with modules or sample adventures. Ideally not Lovecraft related, zombies a plus. A Warm and Pleasant Hum. If you got that huge Itch.io bundle a while back you should already own it.
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Oct 18, 2021 23:56
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Tribe 8 is getting a new edition(!).
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On the topic of spooky stuff had a dream last night where out of nowhere the Moon just blows up(mind you not the whole thing, just like part of it), and that definitely feels like the kind of scenario you could mine at least a one shot from, with or without any additional supernatural stuff happening as well
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Splicer posted:I need to run a spooky one shot over voice chat with 19 hours to prep. Please point me at something that's cheap, quick to learn, and comes with modules or sample adventures. Ideally not Lovecraft related, zombies a plus. Spire and Heart work pretty well for one shots and pretty simple/rules lite but have some mechanics. Spire at least had an excellent 2 books in strata and Shadow Operations. Including the group basically getting Wicker Man'd. Strata's stuff was made more variable length, but Shadow Operations were designed as 1 shots mostly. Anything Spire is pretty married to its setting though, much like Blades. Where you looking more for a full game or just interesting hooks? Also was this supposed to be like a slasher where the players are getting killed off or just spooky stuff? I found 6 bites for 6 princes from the racial justice itch.io bundle was a fun slightly creepy jumping off point but it's not really a fully fleshed out anything -just a map and vague backstory to see what players do when presented with the situation.
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Oct 19, 2021 01:03
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drrockso20 posted:On the topic of spooky stuff had a dream last night where out of nowhere the Moon just blows up(mind you not the whole thing, just like part of it), and that definitely feels like the kind of scenario you could mine at least a one shot from, with or without any additional supernatural stuff happening as well If the moon blows up like this, does it end the werewolf threat (because there's no longer a full moon at all) or make it much, much worse (because now there are a bunch of separate moon bits around the earth and some of them are bound to be fully illuminated at pretty much all times)
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Oct 19, 2021 01:48
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Johnny Landmine posted:If the moon blows up like this, does it end the werewolf threat (because there's no longer a full moon at all) or make it much, much worse (because now there are a bunch of separate moon bits around the earth and some of them are bound to be fully illuminated at pretty much all times) They're perma- slightly hairy and hangry
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Oct 19, 2021 01:53
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According to Space Station 13, an incomplete werewolf is a werebassethound.
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Oct 19, 2021 02:07
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I have been waiting for this for so long, hell yes. Curious to see how they'll leverage FitD for it, hopefully it's not just an excuse to do a lazy reskin.
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Oct 19, 2021 02:15
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Kestral posted:I have been waiting for this for so long, hell yes. Curious to see how they'll leverage FitD for it, hopefully it's not just an excuse to do a lazy reskin. "External design team" tells me it's a labor of love, not a cash grab.
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Oct 19, 2021 02:24
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I don't really know what you want from spookiness but Broken Spire definitely has ghosts and some elements of horror and is very, very ready to run as a one shot, if you know base Blades in the Dark.
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I had a dumb idea for a "horror" TRPG that's a Dead by Daylight-like where you play as Kobolds/Gobbos trying to hide and escape from XP-grinding mid-level adventurers who while being able to be deceived and tricked, are nigh-unkillable by the players. You have to work out on stuff like trying to put traps somewhere away from the rogue or avoid the sharp senses of the animal companions, get out of range from the wizard's detection spells and the like.
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Oct 19, 2021 03:22
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Farmed by Faerun
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I'm surprised Dream Pod 9 is still around. Looking at their website they seem to be only into minis these days. I liked Jovian Chronicles.
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Oct 19, 2021 05:34
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Splicer posted:I need to run a spooky one shot over voice chat with 19 hours to prep. Please point me at something that's cheap, quick to learn, and comes with modules or sample adventures. Ideally not Lovecraft related, zombies a plus. Horror Rules is the go-to for a good friend of mine.
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CitizenKeen posted:"External design team" tells me it's a labor of love, not a cash grab. I agree with that, the people behind it are definitely fans, god bless them. Unfortunately even real fans of a work have fallen prey to the siren song of "make a lazy PBTA hack for the thing we love because it's easy and it's the current design hotness." See: Interstitial and potentially the Avatar RPG.
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Vadun posted:A Warm and Pleasant Hum. Coolness Averted posted:Spire and Heart work pretty well for one shots and pretty simple/rules lite but have some mechanics. Spire at least had an excellent 2 books in strata and Shadow Operations. Splicer fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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Kestral posted:I agree with that, the people behind it are definitely fans, god bless them. Unfortunately even real fans of a work have fallen prey to the siren song of "make a lazy PBTA hack for the thing we love because it's easy and it's the current design hotness." See: Interstitial and potentially the Avatar RPG. I still feel dumb that when I tried "I'm going to apply Vincent Baker's design philosophy to make a version of Promethean where the rules aren't hateful spaghetti" I wound up making the same stats as AW. Legend of the Elements is a pretty straight, canonical even, AW-hack, but credit to those fans they did at least make the harm system 1) make more sense for Avatar and 2) more fiction-driven than even AW. Plutonis posted:I had a dumb idea for a "horror" TRPG that's a Dead by Daylight-like where you play as Kobolds/Gobbos trying to hide and escape from XP-grinding mid-level adventurers who while being able to be deceived and tricked, are nigh-unkillable by the players. You have to work out on stuff like trying to put traps somewhere away from the rogue or avoid the sharp senses of the animal companions, get out of range from the wizard's detection spells and the like. I genuinely like this. Not sure who I'd play it with, but I do like it.
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Kestral posted:I agree with that, the people behind it are definitely fans, god bless them. Unfortunately even real fans of a work have fallen prey to the siren song of "make a lazy PBTA hack for the thing we love because it's easy and it's the current design hotness." See: Interstitial and potentially the Avatar RPG.
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bbcisdabomb posted:Horror Rules is the go-to for a good friend of mine.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I'm surprised Dream Pod 9 is still around. Looking at their website they seem to be only into minis these days. Jovian Chronicles was one of the first RPGs I ever got, I have almost the entire second edition line still. I wish they'd do more with it besides minis. Heavy Gear was good too.
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Dream Pod 9 also did a really neat fighting card game called Video Fighter that was packaged in a VHS tape case and when they were still Ianus Publications released some truly weird supplements for R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk including Night's Edge, Grimm's Cybertales, and the Media Junkie and Necrology scenarios.
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I have dim memories of them putting gay relationships in the Heavy Gear metaplot as well like it was no big deal, back in the late 90s. Anyone else remember that?
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hyphz posted:Did they change the book content too? Lost Worlds Giant Goblin on the left, Queen's Blade Risty on the right! 
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Wheeljack posted:Lost Worlds Giant Goblin on the left, Queen's Blade Risty on the right! Haw haw I recognized the cover artist as one of the guys who worked on QB but not that it was a full on crossover
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So, thread, what games do interesting things with domain management? The examples I know of are Ars Magica, which has a pretty engaging (if not overly fiddly) system built around playing as part of a covenant, Spellbound Kingdoms, which has some pretty interesting systems to support PC-managed organizations, and Pendragon, which sort of half-asses an estate management simulator. What else is out there? I'm mostly thinking about RPGs, but if any wargames or even boardgames do something interesting, I'm all ears.
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Haystack posted:So, thread, what games do interesting things with domain management? The examples I know of are Ars Magica, which has a pretty engaging (if not overly fiddly) system built around playing as part of a covenant, Spellbound Kingdoms, which has some pretty interesting systems to support PC-managed organizations, and Pendragon, which sort of half-asses an estate management simulator. What else is out there? HarnManor. HARNMANOR 
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FMguru posted:HarnManor. My great escapist fantasy isn't to be a super buff courageous hero wielding a great hammer, but to be a middle manager deciding which proportions of barley and hay to grow. ninjoatse.cx fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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This is exactly the kind of management crunch my 5e campaign's wizard is always asking for but would be super pissed off to actually have to deal with
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ninjoatse.cx posted:My great escapist fantasy isn't to be a super buff courageous hero wielding a great hammer, but to be a middle manager deciding which proportions of barley and hay to grow.
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The best detail is near the bottom of the first image, where you can see that the rules require that your lord actually have to make a roll in order to convince his serfs to change what they're planting.
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