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I was asking about wfrp 3e and 4e lol. I’ve heard about Zeitgeist and it looks like my jam.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Been thinking about what pre-made campaigns I've ran and want to run eventually. Echoing Eyes of the Stone Thief.
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The Chained Coffin is another good campaign
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MonsieurChoc posted:I was asking about wfrp 3e and 4e lol. It's got a fantastic premise, and intriguing antagonists (mostly).
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Parkreiner posted:I have sat in on two different attempts by geopolitics wonks to run Dracula Dossier and seen them both admit defeat. Perhaps one day there will be a third. I made the decision that Chuubo's was an art piece rather than an actual game. Beautiful, fantastically well-made, and should be viewed and studied rather than played with.
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I think actually knowing anything about geopolitics would be a detriment to trying to run Dracula Dossier Much easier if you just double-down on Russiagate and the
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I made the decision that Chuubo's was an art piece rather than an actual game. Beautiful, fantastically well-made, and should be viewed and studied rather than played with. Chuubo's is the unified field theory of other Jenna Moran games. It's a set of instructions for how to make something like Nobilis or Glitch, which is tremendously powerful, but requires each player to be immersed in the system to the extent that the GM has to be immersed to run either of the latter, which is already a big ask.
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now if you REALLY want an incomprehensible art object disguised as a TTRPG, there's always Wisher, Theurge, Fatalist 
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 My dumbass preordered this when it was first announced and it finally showed up yesterday. Gonna flip through it after work today.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:now if you REALLY want an incomprehensible art object disguised as a TTRPG, there's always Wisher, Theurge, Fatalist WTF is harder to read than Chuubo’s, but my group found it easier to actually play. Maybe we just weren’t ready for such a rules-heavy version of textual analysis.
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Bumper Stickup posted:
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Parkreiner posted:WTF is harder to read than Chuubo’s, but my group found it easier to actually play. Maybe we just weren’t ready for such a rules-heavy version of textual analysis. I thought WTF was just a disproof of role-playing.
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Arivia posted:The best big campaign for 4e is Zeitgeist by ENWorld. For 3e the really notable campaigns are by Paizo and were basically ancestors of Pathfinder: Shackled City, Age of Worms, and Savage Tide. Shackled City has a hardcover compilation, but the other two are only available in issues of Dungeon. I can’t think of any great 3e third party campaigns that haven’t been updated to Pathfinder 1e or 5e. The most memorable 1st party D&D 3.5e adventure I can think of is The Red Hand of Doom. There were a few charming free ones they had up on their website back then, too. I remember one that ended in a fight with a calzone golem being a fun 1-shot one for 1st level adventurers. I did also really like Voyage of the Golden Dragon, an Eberron-specific adventure about intrigue and dangers aboard a massive luxury airship. I've heard good things about the other Eberron adventures, but some of that could also just be that Ebrreron had a distinct enough setting to make the adventures stand out more.
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Red Hand of Doom gets a lot of good press as an adventure due to nostalgia, but I looked it up on a friend’s recommendation and wasn’t impressed. The good parts felt like “what if the Battle of Helm’s Deep but with hobgoblins?” (not surprising since it appeared around the time of the Jackson LotR movies) and the bad parts felt like some WWI-propaganda “protect the fatherland and its womenfolk from the foreign horde!” kind of poo poo.
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As for my favorite pre-made campaign I’ll chip in a vote for Deep Carbon Observatory.
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Nuns with Guns posted:..ended in a fight with a calzone golem being a fun 1-shot... I need more details. Did you go after it with forks? Was a pizza oven it's crucible of creation?
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The calzone golem was created by the wizard Ben “Ice Clown” Wyatt to defend the Cones of Dunshire.
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Gatto Grigio posted:As for my favorite pre-made campaign I’ll chip in a vote for Deep Carbon Observatory. I just finished running this earlier this year and can say my players loved it. Highly recommended, though I would advise keeping the original non-remastered version at hand because the remaster makes a few things more confusing than before.
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Gatto Grigio posted:The calzone golem was created by the wizard Ben “Ice Clown” Wyatt to defend the Cones of Dunshire. of course
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Helical Nightmares posted:I need more details. Did you go after it with forks? Was a pizza oven it's crucible of creation? Something's Cooking was a free adventure featuring the calzone golem (complete with spurting boiling sauce when you attached it with a piercing or slashing weapon). DTRPG sells it for a dollar but since it was free in the past you can just google it and get the adventure just as it was.
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Gatto Grigio posted:Red Hand of Doom gets a lot of good press as an adventure due to nostalgia, but I looked it up on a friend’s recommendation and wasn’t impressed. It was designed, I assume, with some drive to integrate and cross-promote the Heroes of Battle rules, since it uses the victory point system out of that as a centerpiece to the campaign. I do appreciate how that lends to some variability in the ending, even if ultimately most parties will probably have the sense to try and do almost everything for the best outcome. Some of the notable Pathfinder/Paizo 3.5e D&D modules use similar win condition counters to help the DM see different ways a campaign could shake out. The big deal centerpiece fight is very Helm's Deep-y, but it's also fun that it gives the PCs chances to fight a few different kinds of dragons, too. I don't know what you mean about WWI propaganda beyond the general problematic nature of "this outside threat is going to destroy us!" that's inherent to D&D and the setup of a large portion of D&D campaigns. Helical Nightmares posted:I need more details. Did you go after it with forks? Was a pizza oven it's crucible of creation? I couldn't remember the name but bewilderment is right, it's "Something's Cooking". It's a very basic setup of "something's gone weird in this wizard tower! You adventurers should go see what's up!" But with a memorable little end fight that fits a one-shot well. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Does anybody remember where to find that fan kiddy version of 4e d&d that somebody made for his daughter? Been found, http://jamesstowe.blogspot.com/2011/09/dnd-for-dads-2-girls-part-1.html NinjaDebugger fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Hiro Protagonist posted:I'm genuinely curious to see how it is. Quick impressions after flipping through it today. It seems neat? I like the idea of optional actions at the cost of enemies getting to do meaner things in response. The action economy, by the way, is set up so players can do all of these actions on their turn: move up to three spaces plus your movent modifier, make a melee or ranged attack or use your action skill, thrown a grenade/item, and drink a potion. You can take extra actions if you wish but that creates mayhem tokes which let's enemies do meaner things on their turns. There isn't a down system like in the games so once you hit 0 hit points you get sent straight to a new-u station. All the classes from the first two games have been translated to tabletop format so there's not really much customization to be had. There are archetypes to bolt onto the classes to give them some spice but it's very obvious that the archetypes are meant to go with specific classes. Like there's a punch focuses archetype and two (three if you count the assassin) classes who specialize in punches. Elemental damage works like it does in game as well except for cryo. If something is frozen it can still move one square or do one melee attack per turn. However it doesn't say how long frozen works. The blurb for frozen reads: "Targets hit by cryo damage at slowed, which means they can only move one square for one turn after being hit and get -2 to traverse checks. If a target is hit again with cryo, they become frozen. A frozen target can either move one square on their turn or make a melee attack." Seems busted. There's only about 100 pages of rules so I'll actually read through it in the coming week and post more about it. I just have a hard time focusing on reading rules in RPGs. I will answer any questions in the mean time though.
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NinjaDebugger posted:Does anybody remember where to find that fan kiddy version of 4e d&d that somebody made for his daughter? This is extremely cool. Looks like he spun it off into its own game, but the site is now down. Sidekickquests.com.
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My favorite pre-made campaign is the 2E classic The Night Below, just a grand underdark adventure that gets cooler and cooler the deeper you go. My second favorite requires some work to actually run because it's more an outline and setting book than a published series of adventures, but it's maybe the best book released during 4E: Neverwinter.
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It's been a busy weekend but:hyphz posted:One of those looks like it says "amante de amore" which is a song title and probably wouldn't be a person's name. I have no idea how people read that kind of writing and I can't make heads or tails of it even in person. Having a song title in there makes a lot of sense with the whole "high school binder art" thing going on. That's a whole lot more response than I was expecting, so thank you! I sent the whole thing to my buddy and he's decided to use the picture on the front of his DnD2e binder.
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bbcisdabomb posted:It's been a busy weekend but: You mean... cursive?
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How are the non-Blades games in this FitD bundle? I've heard of exactly zero of them. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Forged
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grassy gnoll posted:How are the non-Blades games in this FitD bundle? I've heard of exactly zero of them. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Forged Wicked Ones has been well received, and does more than just reskin blades. It was discussed here and in the blades thread. Copperhead county I've heard mixed stuff about, and the others I've heard nothing about either. The SCP knock off game is at least new enough it might just be there's been no word of mouth, but I'd assume the cyberpunk one is another "so we just reskinned Blades" like the other half dozen mediocre FitD cyberpunk hacks I've seen so far.
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Xiahou Dun posted:You mean... cursive? I don't know what I did to deserve being called out like this I can read cursive but I have real problems reading signatures.
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Wait Signatures are meant to be legible??
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bbcisdabomb posted:I don't know what I did to deserve being called out like this I ain’t mean to put you on blast, hoss. I just… That’s some pretty bog-standard I-learned-this-in-3rd-grade cursive. Can’t even imagine what you’d think of my gross scrawl.
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grassy gnoll posted:How are the non-Blades games in this FitD bundle? I've heard of exactly zero of them. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Forged Copperhead County is pretty good, I was in a campaign of it. It's still under development so it might change but it's pretty close to the final version. edit: Oh looks like the standalone version is out and part of the package, that's good Heliotrope fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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Siivola posted:Wait If your signature is legible you are writing it enough.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I ain’t mean to put you on blast, hoss. I just… That’s some pretty bog-standard I-learned-this-in-3rd-grade cursive. It clearly says amante da anime 
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Way back when, me and some friends who were all unemployed did some daytime gaming where we would take it in turns to pick & run a prewritten adventure to try out. At the end of somethings cooking we decided that any wizard who makes a calzone golem is obviously a danger to others and murked him. We still bring it up sometimes as a joke for an obviously dumb thing to do/make
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https://www.facebook.com/secretworldlgds/videos/1376699796170928/ Secret World ttrpg for 2022. So I guess we are getting a third world of darkness after all.
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MonsieurChoc posted:https://www.facebook.com/secretworldlgds/videos/1376699796170928/
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Xiahou Dun posted:I ain’t mean to put you on blast, hoss. I just… That’s some pretty bog-standard I-learned-this-in-3rd-grade cursive. You're fine, don't worry about it. I really should have been able to read at least the "amante de amore" bit but I've never heard of the song.
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https://twitter.com/championsteven_/status/1468302325198430209 Hell yeah.
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