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Lemon-Lime posted:It's worth noting that the Anima Prime mechanics don't have very much to do with FF mechanically, just in case you were specifically looking to emulate ATB or buying better equipment every town or whatever. Instead, the influence is on the kind of stories it wants to tell and the fact that you can be a summoner. which is good to point out, but I don't think it's too crazy to assume someone would want a playable RPG instead of one of the fan RPGs that sets out to replicate Final Fantasy exactly (down to the job system and multiplier equipment scaling
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Lemon-Lime posted:It's worth noting that the Anima Prime mechanics don't have very much to do with FF mechanically, just in case you were specifically looking to emulate ATB nope quote:on the kind of stories it wants to tell and the fact that you can be a summoner. yep, though I always appreciate support for geomancer-related bullshit.
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To describe Anima Prime in a somewhat negative but mostly accurate way, is this: You know how in Fate Core combats can boil down to stacking Create Advantage and then doing a big hit? Anima Prime is built around doing that explicitly and leaning into it, and having that be the only type of conflict there is. This also means that any form of roll you make outside of 'a combat' is either 'an exciting action scene' or 'an exciting action montage' and there's intentionally very little support for "roll to spot the door" or "roll to see if they're lying".
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I've just published the DEATH of NUMISMUS, a solo journal god-game about a dying god of coin, sundered by hungry adventurers breaking into their holy vaults and dethroned by jealous rival gods stealing back their facets of godhood! It's one of my entries into the Wretched and Alone Jam on itch.io,, and it uses tarot cards, a coin stack, and whatever journal-writing method you like. RTs very welcome, and give it a look if you're interested! https://twitter.com/SpeaktheSky/status/1278833493544493057 - I'm also running a summer sale on 4 horror games and supplements:
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Yo yooooo, I've got a super simple quickstart edition of grimDARK available now because I got tired of people not reading it while I wait for PoD files. It's free on itch: Clicky. And costs money on DriveThru: Clicky. https://twitter.com/TheEldritchTomb/status/1278893905598197761?s=20
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TK_Nyarlathotep posted:Yo yooooo, I've got a super simple quickstart edition of grimDARK available now because I got tired of people not reading it while I wait for PoD files. It's free on itch: this is very cool and gets my recommendation
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gradenko_2000 posted:this is very cool and gets my recommendation Yoooo thank you.
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UnCO3 posted:I've just published the DEATH of NUMISMUS, a solo journal god-game about a dying god of coin, sundered by hungry adventurers breaking into their holy vaults and dethroned by jealous rival gods stealing back their facets of godhood! It's one of my entries into the Wretched and Alone Jam on itch.io,, and it uses tarot cards, a coin stack, and whatever journal-writing method you like. RTs very welcome, and give it a look if you're interested! Wretched and Alone looks cool as hell and your game looks excellent as well, and through this post I found out there is like 16 hours left if someone wanted to do a Wretched and Alone jam game about being a deposed and disgraced webmaster or something for some reason I think I’m going to try some of these journaling games as a writing exercise for foreign language practice somehow, I’ve never even heard of the genre and it really has some wheels turning in my head.
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food court bailiff posted:Wretched and Alone looks cool as hell and your game looks excellent as well, and through this post I found out there is like 16 hours left if someone wanted to do a Wretched and Alone jam game about being a deposed and disgraced webmaster or something for some reason
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I woke up this morning with most of the idea for what I personally wanted out of a journalling game with a language-learning focus pretty much fully-formed in my head so I'm honestly thinking of trying to just put it out there, maybe not for the game jam but still I think there's something really potentially cool there.
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Using games to help do other useful stuff is a real cool prospect! I will say though, Wretched and Alone isn't the be-all end-all of journal games—just one system that's had a lot of attention during this game jam. If you need any help/advice/guides, there's a designer/publisher thread here on SA. I also run a discord server called The Backlog which, on top of being a place to play, playtest, and do OOC chat, has a workshop channel for developing and producing games.
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Yeah.... honestly what I ended up throwing together isn't really closely hewing to the Wretched & Alone model at all, but I still tossed it in the game jam as a freebie because it was still my strong inspiration for jumping into the project and honestly without some kind of totally artificial deadline like a game jam or something I would never finish it and it would sit half done in Google Drive forever
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UnCO3 posted:I've just published the DEATH of NUMISMUS, a solo journal god-game about a dying god of coin, sundered by hungry adventurers breaking into their holy vaults and dethroned by jealous rival gods stealing back their facets of godhood! It's one of my entries into the Wretched and Alone Jam on itch.io,, and it uses tarot cards, a coin stack, and whatever journal-writing method you like. RTs very welcome, and give it a look if you're interested! Yah seconding big ups to this even though I piggy backed off it to advertise. It's a killer, can't wait to play.
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UnCO3 posted:Using games to help do other useful stuff is a real cool prospect! I will say though, Wretched and Alone isn't the be-all end-all of journal games—just one system that's had a lot of attention during this game jam. Thanks for that discord link!
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TK_Nyarlathotep posted:Yah seconding big ups to this even though I piggy backed off it to advertise. It's a killer, can't wait to play. Agent Rush posted:Thanks for that discord link!
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What are some systems do people like using for games in existing settings? Like I've really enjoyed the world building opportunities of Fellowship but that wouldn't fit for like, a game where people just wanted to piss around in FFXIV's world and play as the races and people who already exist there. I've traditionally used Strike here, but I'd like to broaden my options for players who want something lighter.
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Countblanc posted:What are some systems do people like using for games in existing settings? Like I've really enjoyed the world building opportunities of Fellowship but that wouldn't fit for like, a game where people just wanted to piss around in FFXIV's world and play as the races and people who already exist there. I've traditionally used Strike here, but I'd like to broaden my options for players who want something lighter. Whitehack would be my choice if you're looking for something ultralight, helps that it's dirt cheap for a physical copy(like 10 bucks on Lulu)*, only downside is there's no official PDF for the game because the author is some sort of luddite, but there's unofficial ones floating around if you know where to look *there used to be slightly fancier versions available for a bit more but much like Yoon-Suin's print edition are no longer available cause Lulu changed up things and the print format they use is no longer available
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I like Fate for just slapping onto whatever setting you like, but I do think you need to hack it a bit to make it properly sing.
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I was unironically gonna suggest Strike for this, lol. So yeah FATE seems like the next step over.
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Countblanc posted:What are some systems do people like using for games in existing settings? Like I've really enjoyed the world building opportunities of Fellowship but that wouldn't fit for like, a game where people just wanted to piss around in FFXIV's world and play as the races and people who already exist there. I've traditionally used Strike here, but I'd like to broaden my options for players who want something lighter. Final Fantasy D6
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Plutonis posted:Final Fantasy D6 quote:What are some systems do people like using for games in existing settings? Would you suggest Final Fantasy d6 for playing in the Star Wars universe, or running a game in the Expanse, or for She-Ra: Princesses of Power?
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While on the topic, read through the FFRPG 4e pdf the other day and I loved the rules for making The Party as basically its own collective character in addition to the individual characters and the classes were fun and the ATB system was neat... but then I saw like multiple pages dedicated to weapon prices and my eyes glazed over
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CitizenKeen posted:Would you suggest Final Fantasy d6 for playing in the Star Wars universe, or running a game in the Expanse, or for She-Ra: Princesses of Power? Oh no, that's for the purpose of running a FF14 campaign on OP's post. I don't believe on a 'one size fits all' game for setting adaptations.
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Actually thinking about it someone with more energy than me might as well make a thread for a "what game to recommend to play on a setting" list.
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FFd6 is horrid though. It has the worst of what 3.5 inflicted on trpg culture, combined with the worst trends in DIY video game conversions. I would just go with a system you already know and like and work around that, or a system you want to try for the sake of a system.
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I could probably make an AW hack of it if I knew poo poo about FFXIV (I played a bit but all I did was spam Overpower), and if I knew BITD better that would frankly not be bad start point either (if the goals is to have that 'dungeon delving' feel, then BITD is a good start point), but those are both a lot more labor intensive than starting from, say, FATE.
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Mister Olympus posted:FFd6 is horrid though. It has the worst of what 3.5 inflicted on trpg culture, combined with the worst trends in DIY video game conversions. Are we thinking about the same system? FFd6 is the best explicitly FF tabletop game, even if that's a low bar to clear.
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Leraika posted:Are we thinking about the same system? FFd6 is the best explicitly FF tabletop game, even if that's a low bar to clear. Not to mention it's not even 3.5 inspired at all lol. It's got D6 on the name, not D20!
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is v1.3 the most recent FFd6? apparently that's different from FFRPG which is d10/d100-based
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Leraika posted:Are we thinking about the same system? FFd6 is the best explicitly FF tabletop game, even if that's a low bar to clear. I thought that game kain ran ages ago was ffd6 and was turbo mathy totally broken nonsense with too many options and video game formulas.
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Mister Olympus posted:I thought that game kain ran ages ago was ffd6 and was turbo mathy totally broken nonsense with too many options and video game formulas. part of that was that it was a kaingame tho e: we're discussing a mutual friend whose thing is making everything big and anime
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Leraika posted:part of that was that it was a kaingame tho is that the same kain... gently caress it's been so long i don't even remember who gmed the one i played on irc
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Plutonis posted:is that the same kain... gently caress it's been so long i don't even remember who gmed the one i played on irc Almost assuredly
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Countblanc posted:What are some systems do people like using for games in existing settings? Like I've really enjoyed the world building opportunities of Fellowship but that wouldn't fit for like, a game where people just wanted to piss around in FFXIV's world and play as the races and people who already exist there. I've traditionally used Strike here, but I'd like to broaden my options for players who want something lighter. Just play Fellowship but answer all the worldbuilding questions in FFXIV terms. It'll probably end up diverging some, but you're playing the big heroes of the current age so that's okay.
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Mister Olympus posted:Almost assuredly Ah send my regards then, Mons. As I said, it has truly been a while.
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mllaneza posted:Just play Fellowship but answer all the worldbuilding questions in FFXIV terms. It'll probably end up diverging some, but you're playing the big heroes of the current age so that's okay. I feel like the biggest problem with that is the nature of the playbooks as defining people too strongly with a D&D based race-species monoculture deal. 14 very actively doesn't do that. Culture matters more than race, all the countries have a spread of races in them, and though there's a general bias towards certain professions and fighting skills in any of the countries, none of them are really strongly elfy or halflingy or dwarfly in the way that Fellowship wants a character to be. Except maybe the dwarfs but setting a game in the First makes being a dwarf easier but fixing everything else in the game MUCH harder. In general, assuming you're on the Source, I can see: Dwarf: Could plausibly be from the Ul'dah lower classes but still a very specific personality from there Elf: Lines up well with someone from Sharlayan with the science elf thing, maybe - basically everyone that they let out of their borders is some sort of science-mage special agent anyway Halfling: Doesn't really line up anywhere besides "is a very small adventurer with size magic" which we haven't really seen but hey, could exist Harbinger: More related to a plot role than a people, should be fine Orc: Possibly from the mountain tribes or Roegadyn homelands but that's a very specific origin without much lore to go on Squire: Again works because it's more a role than a people Even if you were to remove the questions about "why are your people all like you?" for not really making sense in the setting, the playbooks do strongly pigeonhole you into narrative and stylistic types that players who are enthusiastic about the game might not want to inhabit. You'd need to write whole new playbooks for most of the really explored peoples, which is why I think you just go with a nice reskinnable game that you already like and let the already-written lore do the talking for you. Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jul 9, 2020 |
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Fellowship loses a fair bit if you go in with a pre-established setting; part of what makes it good is seeing what the players come up with in terms of lore for each of their cultures. Funnily enough, Anima Prime would probably make a good FF14 RPG. Fate also works if you're willing to write (or steal from other Fate games) enough subsystems to give the game some mechanical depth.
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UnCO3 posted:I'm also running a summer sale on 4 horror games and supplements:
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ended up coming across some legit astrology dice: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/group/Astrology-Dice/2947161_514269362.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.0.0.828b2e950ZcaiR i advise AGAINST casually browsing the sets of metallic, glow in the dark dice, as they somehow hop into your shopping cart of their own accord.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:ended up coming across some legit astrology dice: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/group/Astrology-Dice/2947161_514269362.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.0.0.828b2e950ZcaiR i advise AGAINST casually browsing the sets of metallic, glow in the dark dice, as they somehow hop into your shopping cart of their own accord. Spooky! Buy the haunted glowing dice!
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