aldantefax posted:

dumb idea time:

Oath thread, but for reporting in that you had a good tabletop RPG session as a GM

aldantefax posted:

I think this thread isn’t followed by everybody and can get/feel kinda clique-y (not saying it is at the moment) and maybe you just want to post a joke and just throw that out there.

I’m just thinking that there can be more posting instead of trying to collapse everything into existing threads since you could ask simple questions in the 5e D&D thread or post your gripes or what not but then your epic zinger gets lost in a flood of posts arguing about if the sky is blue enough or not

PerniciousKnid posted:

Probably the same kind of people who currently have ham radio licenses or whatever.

Nessus posted:

I certainly can't think of any uses for an eternal nuclear battery in the post-apocalyptic hellscape. Pretty single-use technology right there, honestly.

Xiahou Dun posted:

If you haven't at least glanced at how they're treated in Spire, you really should.

butts

Arivia posted:

Kingdom Death: Monster, a boardgame with incredibly high quality super detailed miniatures.

The only reason I wouldn’t call it borderline porn is because they sell literal porn expansions and options tagged as “pin-ups”, which are frequently explicit instead of the soft core meaning of that name.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Isn't the dicklion in the core set?

(Let's be honest here, KDM has a ton of problems outside the weirdly porn-y art, like the fact that it's a long-rear end campaign game with a "if all your characters die start the whole thing over" factor.)

Rand Brittain posted:

Any of them probably works, depending on what you want to do? I actually just started selling a licensed Nobilis one-shot but given the theme it might be more suitable in another eleven months.

I think you might mean Retail Magic, which... I'm not sure if that ever got released in final form?

ZearothK posted:

Yeah, I'd say you're right. I do put a lot of effort in my sessions as a hobby time, and the same most likely applies to most GM's. I feel to warrant asking for a price I'd have to put in even more time into preparing the game and by that point it would definitely not be worth the return for work hours involved at any reasonable price for the players.

alg posted:

What the gently caress is this

https://twitter.com/Wizards_DnD/status/1356641032226680832?s=19

Xiahou Dun posted:

Hey there, Huckleberry. I ain’t passing out wolf tickets, I’m just asking them why that’s where they go to the fence.

Jesus that was one hick sentence that just formed. If I spent another 20 seconds I’d be talking about “rumble seats”.

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.

Len posted:

You guys are much better at naming things than I am, my next plot arc of Monster of the Week is taking place at a renaissance/larp festival in Kentucky. The gimmick of the place is that it's not people dressed as elves/goblins/etc larping what it's like to be in Ye Olde World but is instead actually elves/goblins/etc doing a reenactment

I need ideas for the various booths, performers, and foods that will be available

CitizenKeen posted:

I'm probably never going to run Sentinels again, and yet, it's a good book with good production values, so I'm going to pick it up anyway. drat this hobby.

Len posted:

I FORGOT CAREN HAS KIDS AMD CANONICALLY TAKES THEM ON HUNTS THATS SO GOOD

They wait in the car, she isn't a monster

hyphz posted:

Legacy can work well in co-op games, but in competitive games it can be very easy to break balance. Charterstone just about gets away with it but Risk Legacy can very easily break down quickly, in part because missiles are a terrible design.

SkyeAuroline posted:

I like unified mechanics in games, and by God I never want to subject someone to original Cyberpunk's hacking system... but there's something lost by stripping these subsystems back to just "make a check". Sometimes it still works (Eclipse Phase 2e strikes a decent balance with its hacking), but most of the time I feel like it's losing more for the player(s) investing in doing the thing than it's gaining for anyone else who stands to gain from a "simpler" system.

That Old Tree posted:

Blades in the Dark has some pretty robust crew/operations/territory rules. Your whole criminal enterprise gets a character sheet for itself.

Xiahou Dun posted:

Wait, did I have a stroke? Since when does Dungeon World have base-building mechanics in it?

I'm not against it of course, but I have no memory of that from the rulebook.

Whybird posted:

I think the point is more that giving them another word they can say which carries all the same negative connotations -- which is effectively what renaming the smiley would do -- doesn't make things any better, it just means a different word is now bad.

KingKalamari posted:

I think that was even reflected in D&D-likes and other fantasy heartbreakers of the era. Two of the more memorable heartbreaker flops from the early 90s (Synnibarr and Senzar)were much maligned in their time for catering to "power gamers", but I feel that was really more a case of the games trying to cater to people who wanted to play a more comic book superhero-level of character, but trying to do so poorly with AD&D-style mechanics.

I wonder if it had anything to do with the boom in the comic book industry around the same time?

90s Cringe Rock posted:

Sometimes when I read a "no, you can't play fascists, and if you're a fascist you can gently caress off" section in a new RPG I think - for the briefest of moments - that it's perhaps a little unnecessary.

Splicer posted:

Oh no, my friend group star trek adventures interest check has suddenly jumped from "not quite enough" to "far too many".

aldantefax posted:

Are there any RPG systems which focus on resource mechanics regarding wilderness survival other than, uh, the old Wilderness Survival splat book for D&D?

e: prominently, rather, than as a footnote (or other interesting mechanics of a similar nature regarding resource acquisition and depletion)

My Lovely Horse posted:

I wish two of my players weren't always so passive in responding to mails cause right now I don't know if they accepted me shutting the campaign down and are making plans for next time, or if they're still processing me shutting it down, or if they're in fact only going to learn about it the night before our next online meeting.

I'm learning to categorize that kind of stuff as Their Problem tho

That Old Tree posted:

Len posted:

How do you guys handle a game where you just run out of ideas for future sessions?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

What's stopping you from taking a one-character-per-player WWII RPG and simply having each player build a squad of character? Are you looking for mechanical support for intra-squad dynamics?

theironjef posted:

After years of watching Justice League Unlimited and Young Justice, etc, I have come to terms that heroes just rise to the level they need to to matter. Batman slaps on electric knuckle dusters, Vigilante crashes his motorcyle into the bad guy and shoots the gas tank, whatever. Since the comics and their accompanying other sources of media rarely seem concerned with measuring who can strictly punch harder between heroes, I tend to prefer games where I don't have to do that stuff either.

BlackIronHeart posted:

I think there are two main issues with superhero RPGs. The first is that you've got a table with 1 GM and two to N characters who are Main Protagonists when the superhero genre is about having 1 Main Protagonist (which would be whoever's name is on the cover of the comic book). Sure, crossovers can happen and maybe someone has a prominent sidekick but if you're reading a Batman comic, he isn't sharing equal page time with Aquaman or whoever.

The second issue is simply scope. A lot of superheroes tend to have a limited scope as to their responsibilities. Let's use the MCU for this. All the Netflix heroes (Luke Cage, Daredevil, etc) are mostly concerned about their neighborhood or maybe the whole city they live in, they're street level heroes. Spiderman usually falls into this area as well. Then you can go above that to international stuff. Iron Man (at the start, anyways) is worried about international crises that might take out a whole city but he's not sweating it if Queens or Hell's Kitchen has some mobsters running around. The next step up is global crises where Nick Fury, most of the Avengers, SHIELD and others start worrying about the fate of the entire planet. And then even above that you've got intergalactic/interdimensional poo poo that worries people like Thor or Dr. Strange.

The second issue becomes a big problem when you've got a street level PC palling around with an interdimensional PC and the GM is trying to introduce plots that both will care about. That's hard. Thor doesn't care if MJ gets kidnapped by one of Spiderman's enemies because he has much, much bigger poo poo to worry about but she's Spiderman's whole world so he's gonna concentrate solely on that. And the stuff that does rustle Thor's jimmies is going to shoot a multi-colored laser beam at Spiderman and turn him to dust unless the rules system is very forgiving to the web slinger. Even if you do manage to have all your players create heroes who inhabit the same scope, you run into the first issue again.