Toshimo posted:

You could try asking in the active Lancer thread on the first page of this vey forum.

Leraika posted:

I'm playing it (and my group's thrown out the setting fluff and turned it into a fantasy game)!

Hostile V posted:

Yeah, sort of, but the short non-spoiler answer is your GM should not have been rude about it and hit you that hard and that fast with that.

The point of The Circle is that one of the previous drug testers died while on the drug and due to Outer Dark influence from his lovely abusive dad became a psychic ghost bound to the drug and bound to the people taking it. He wants to pick off the people who are doing the current trial because he wants to get a body back, but he's too spread out across multiple people. He can possess people for a bit, as can other users but because they're not hopped up on eldritch mojo their ghosts fade and they pass away, but the less people are alive the longer he can possess folks and the more control he has. The PCs are supposed to delve into the previous test's data where the guy died and figure out what's killing the previous and current testers and have a show-down where he keeps hopping from person to person, and the cure to the problem is for everyone to stop taking the experimental anti-depressant/try and banish him/trap him in a viable body and off him. One of the big ways to tip off people of what's going on is for the players to just loving lose time somehow or find themselves in weird and precarious situations at first and give them the Stability hit, and he's really only supposed to push for the suicides later in the game or put people in situations where they could die but could also escape. One of the examples is "you have blacked out for god knows how long and woke up hand-cuffed to a bed in a lovely motel, there's an empty gas can and you smell smoke" for something you can escape with expenditure of resources. Because it's Fear Itself the point is that you really didn't do anything wrong or take any questionable actions to invite the doom, you've just been unfortunately t-boned by a truck full of doom while minding your own business. That said while it is a tool in the horror game hardware store, your GM should've use a lighter touch that early in the scenario.

Warthur posted:

Idea roll description

Splicer posted:

Failing to get plot info -> you'll get the plot info at some point unless your GM really wants to watch you kill rats for dozens of sessions
Failing to succeed at combat -> you're dead lol

I mean I know which I'd save them for

hyphz posted:

It can be a shot in the gut when a system fails. Like, I thought PF2e was going to be our go-to, but it turns out to have big table time problems.

Tulip posted:

Out of curiosity, what ones do you really like? The ones I've any familiarity with are all pretty much hacks of non space games and to my mind kind of lack an independent identity (e.g. Transit is very AW derived, Scum & Villiany is very BITD, and LANCER has its relationship with DND).

BigRed0427 posted:

I found my old copy of betrayal legacy again that I only played one game of and really wanna play again.

Problem is my roommate HATES the idea of legacy games. I found out from my GF that they went on a massive rant about how I can waste money on something that we can only play once when I got JOTL Gloomhaven.

Now I'm afraid to touch My copy of gloomhaven again along with Betrayal for the same reason. Its gonna start a fight.

I just wanted to play a legacy game. The idea sounds so cool

Brass posted:

fwiw the animation looks great, but what's up with the sound?? The fact that there is no dialogue in it makes me somehow think they are going to use the podcast audio in the animation?

change my name posted:

Both my IRL group (friends) and the one I found on Roll20 (strangers) only flake occasionally, usually because of depression or natural disasters. It's totally not normal for your group to cancel regularly, and if it is, drop them imo

Nehru the Damaja posted:

I feel like what I mean by spiraling into chaos is not what you folks mean by it.

I'm talking about like how literally every plan breaks and chaos ensues because the flow of everything is determined by your least careful, most aggressive, worst memoried player.

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.

KingKalamari posted:

Terrible Opinions posted:

Between ten and twentyish depending on how you count them. Though most of those changes were the result of foreign invasion or the monarchy being restored and then a revolution against the new monarch. Galt has been stuck in Committee of Public Safety mode for 50 years somehow. With the somehow evidently being magic evil worm.

eugenics dragon- It took the devs a really long time to just use him as an actual bad guy rather than a weird unexamined setting element.
The child molestor mechanics are the daemon Folca who gives powers that require child abuse to activate
The last one is that Phrenology is a psychic skill in Pathfinder 1st ed.

Asterite34 posted:

I wasn't aware of that particular bit of lore

Captain Walker posted:

Quick, you have ten minutes to make a character concept for a fantasy RPG. Where do you go to find a portrait? Is there a repository people around here use?

Night10194 posted:

A game where 'blood mage' means 'your appendix has mystically begun to do what it was meant to do: filter out magic from the bloodstream, making you a powerful sorcerer'.

Antivehicular posted:

So, uh... is the entire Spellpunk Cyberfight book written like the DTRPG description of the core? Because that is quite a choice.

Kestral posted:

It's the opposite: the person with the augments gets mowed down by gunfire because his movement is divided among all his actions, while his slower opponents take their full movement all at once on their single turn, reach cover, and use the rest of their single turn to shoot up Cyber-Bob.

hyphz posted:

But that's where things are strange. Why aren't players as excited as the GM is?

It creates this weird kind of reverse facilitator role, where the GM is supposed to be facilitating the players' enjoyment, but in fact the players are facilitating the GM because the GM wanted it more.

It's as if the wedding planner wanted the wedding more than the bride, or the soccer referee wanted to be a referee more than the players wanted to play. It's just strange.

Leperflesh posted:

Maybe its actually that people who are super excited about rpgs wind up wanting to gm, and people who are less excited but still interested, don't eagerly dive into that deep end as often.

Leraika posted:

What's a good way to get over this sort of thing short of bothering all the other players and going 'you don't actually hate my character, do you'

Calico Heart posted:

In this example, the player character was a very ornery, anti-social snake-breeder who didn't actually know very much about snakes. An Ability she got was "Serpentine Surprise", which let her surprise enemies with snakes in combat. The Ability was more about creating chaos than causing damage, and I let her know that the snakes will try to escape whenever she used it.

Tulip posted:

lmao

BrainParasite posted:

But it's fine when an elf gets involved with a guy 1/100 her age?

dwarf74 posted:

"My mom was a huge bitch... And dad... what a dog-fucker"

Like... I think it's okay to be squicked out by a background that involves overt tones of bestiality. That bestiality being consensual doesn't make it less weird. Like, fundamentally, you're still getting turned on by a dog, right?

Toshimo posted:

Honestly, PC XP is almost completely vestigial in D&D at this point. Their Organized Play doesn't use it. Their recent 1st-party adventure books don't really use it. I can't remember the last game I've seen in the wild that used it. It's just milestones now, in other words, "You level up when the DM says you do".