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I've been playing various tabletop RPGs for 20+ years now, starting with Original D&D, although lately I've mostly been playing In Nomine and GURPS. I thought I'd start a thread for discussion of tabletop games and things related to them.
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Hiya. Big time RPG player here, even since I was introduced to D&D back in the 80s. I haven't been doing a lot of it the last few years, mostly due to a lack of people to play with and transportation. But I enjoy all sorts of games. Also, kudos for including Feng Shui on the poll. It's not a well know but awesome game.
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Hardcore table top player here, I've even worked in the industry! Not playing much right now sadly. D&D, FFG Star Wars and Warhammer 40k... I really want to play a World of Darkness mod called "Princess: The Hopeful" because the idea of playing magical girls in a dark setting appeals to my fucked up little brain OH! And Eclipse Phase! Feng Shui is really good too! And Shadowrun!
...*coughs* ahem... so yes I game a little.
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Relatively new player here. I never got around to doing it until maybe a year and a half or so ago. Currently trying my hand to DMing for the first time. Problem here is mostly finding groups, or finding groups that actually want to play without any drama getting in the way (other than the make believe one of course).
All in all tho, it's a great outlet, glad I finally played it :)
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I used to play Traveller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_(role-playing_game)), but I haven't for years because I lost touch with other players after I left uni.
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I have fond memories of Feng Shui, although I haven't played in years and haven't got the books. I've been doing a lot of playing via chat for lack of a face to face group, and I had to end the game I was GMing in meatspace last year due to a new job interfering. I've also had a bit of luck with virtual tabletops; there's a new GURPS game I've just gotten involved in on Roll20.
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My group is taking a break from a 4e game to learn the mechanics of 5e (which we like a lot), I've played Shadowrun and Pathfinder, and I hear all sorts of funny stories about the GURPs games my husband plays. I'm relatively new to RPGs (less than 10 years), but I don't see myself stopping any time soon!
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My company helped WoTC release 5E, everything I've heard indicates it's a superior system to 4E and 3E
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I've always wanted to be a part of a tabletop campaign but I could never seem to find a group that would fit with scheduling. My one board game group tried some Pathfinder (I made a druid :D ) but a couple of people in it just weren't into the game and our schedules just made it impossible to keep it going.
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*squees* So many Feng Shui players.
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My company helped WoTC release 5E, everything I've heard indicates it's a superior system to 4E and 3E
Very much so. Our group doesn't want to go back to 4e because 5e is too awesome.
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Gooood. Gooood.
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My gf sent me a PDF of DnD5. It's an incrediblely well put together system. Simple, elegant, and fast. I haven't had a chance to play it, yet, though.
I've mostly just played D&D, WoD, and Shadowrun.
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I need to get the D&D5 books, but I'm waiting till I do my next bulk Warstore order/hoping my company hooks me up with a comp set. I do have the Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle D&D Next Preview that Wizards released at Gencon last year, and I was super fucking impressed with that, apparently in the 8 or so months from Gencon 2013 before the books started the proofing and printing processes it got even better. All the good stuff from 4E (giving all the classes something more to do besides swing a sword) was kept while jettisoning the rubbish and getting back to D&D's roots.
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As it turns out, the game I mentioned above is seeking players, if anyone's up for a fantasy GURPS adventure.
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My Primary Addiction....
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and I played
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and
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during college
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I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that someone with your nym is a wargamer. :-o
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I need to finish painting my assault star... and get to work on my Germans, and Brits for Flames of War... then there's the Dark Elves...
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Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Eldar, start my Dark Eldar assembly, Undead Legion, my Malifaux Crew, my Deadzone miniatures... To many games, not enough paint. :clairedoge:
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I have a Tau army that I could get to close to 2000 with, but I haven't played in about a year in a half. The interest just fell off for me, for some reason. (Probably the fact it costs me $70 for a pack with three models in it.) To be quite honest, if I could find a buyer, I'd be more than happy to dump my Tau army, the codex for it and even the bit of SM I have for it.
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Tau you say.....
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Yep. Going from memory here as to what I have for it: (keep in mind my skills as a model builder and painter suck and everything I have is unpainted except for a few things, and everything is glued. I'll note the exceptions.)
x1 Riptide (With Ion Accelerator and Twin Plasma Rifles)
x1 Hammerhead (Turret is not glued and can be freely swapped with a Sky Ray missle array or the Railgun can be replaced with the Ion cannon)
x1 Devilfish (This is primed and basecoated.)
x6 Crisis Stealthsuits (These are also primed and basecoated. Two have fusion blasters. )
x6 xv25 Crisis Battlesuits (3 have twin plasma rifles and these are primed/basecoated and 3 have twin fusion blasters which are neither)
x1 Tau Ethereal w/honor blade
x2 Broadside Battlesuits (Both have their twin-linked High Yield Missle Pods and one has a seeker missile)
x1 Broadside Old Model w/shoulder mounted railguns (This has a crappy Ebay paintjob)
x10 Tau Pathfinders (8 w/carbines and markerlights and 2 w/rail rifles. All three drones are also available)
x12 or x24 (Can't remember if I have one or two full squads) Tau Firewarriors (At least 12 have a rudimentary paintjob and all would have their pulse rifles)
At least x12 Kroot (warriors only, no hounds or riders. All basecoated and primed.)
x1 SM Librarian (Got second hand in a trade. Painted and metal)
x1 SM Tac Squad (Also Got second hand in a trade. Painted and a few models need reglued.)
I did enjoy playing the game, though it tended to frustrate me at times because I can't roll dice very well. My fondest memory would be the time I dropped a friend of mine's daemon prince on the first turn with my old broadside (before the new Tau dex that nerfed the railgun on it.). Nothing like reaching 6 ft across the table to put a magnetically accelerated slug right into something's face.
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I can relate to the dice rolling thing. As my room mate says, I can roll 1s on dice without numbers. That is one of the reason I love Eldar. So many dice to roll, and so many re-rolls. :)
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Most evil thing I've ever read:
"I ran a campaign once where the darkest, most terrible secret was kept from the players until the end. It was a Monty Haul campaign. Evil characters, for a year and a half, eventually reached level 24. They conquered the entire continent and divied it between themselves. The ruled all the land with an iron fist, and laid waste to everyone that stood in their path. The Necromancer, a Human named Rah'Shied, had five liches and two Deathknights swear fealty to him. Unfortunately, this was a Dragonlance campaign, and the Balance must be Restored. By any means necessary.
After they had each spent a year creating the most powerful villains they'd ever seen, I them made them turn in their character sheets and roll level 1 heroes. I'd been planning this from the start."
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Most evil thing I've ever read:
"I ran a campaign once where the darkest, most terrible secret was kept from the players until the end. It was a Monty Haul campaign. Evil characters, for a year and a half, eventually reached level 24. They conquered the entire continent and divied it between themselves. The ruled all the land with an iron fist, and laid waste to everyone that stood in their path. The Necromancer, a Human named Rah'Shied, had five liches and two Deathknights swear fealty to him. Unfortunately, this was a Dragonlance campaign, and the Balance must be Restored. By any means necessary.
After they had each spent a year creating the most powerful villains they'd ever seen, I them made them turn in their character sheets and roll level 1 heroes. I'd been planning this from the start."
My god.
It's full of stars.
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Pathfinder is my go-to. It's basically D&D 3.75. I started with 3rd edition, though, and my greatest adventuring team was in 3rd. We were playing an evil party. it started off, oh, we're adventurers, in it for gold and glory, we just happen to be evil, but it quickly got more ambitious. I was a tannaruuk, a demon-orc crossbreed. I roleplayed the Leadership feat. Every time we met some orcs, I would yell at them, asking who the chief was, kill him in one hit with my 24 strength power-attacking greataxe, then ask again. Before long, I had hundreds of orcs following me. The cleric, a demon-elf thing, suggested that we needed a better way to get around, and told our slightly crazed gnome wizard to get on it. The gnome had previously made himself a floating iron sphere to keep him safe, decided that a mobile fortress was the next step.
He had covered the window in his floating sphere with a cone to make it harder for people to shoot into, unintentionally making a flying teapot. This tells you a bit about the gnome in charge of making our fortress.
Much of the funding came from our thief, a murderous little halfling who spent every coin he had making a ring to be permanently invisible. Once he did, we never saw him again, though people would often die of unexplained throat slittings. He had the wizard slap silence spells on him and then cleaned out entire bank vaults on his own.
When the tower fortress was done, the gnome revealed that it wasn't just mobile. It could burrow. We asked why burrow instead of fly. He said because shut up. We immediately went about collecting more orcs, then surfaced in the middle of the kingdom's capitol city. About a thousand orcs set about killing everyone, while we went straight for the important people. The city fell in about 30 minutes. So we went from city to city, until finally all the heroes of the world banded against us. The cleric told us he could summon an avatar of his god if we held them off long enough, so he went to the top of the tower and started the ritual. The orcs fell quickly, and the heroes eventually killed my barbarian, the gnome wizard, and even the invisible rogue. They surged up the tower, and reached the cleric just as he finished.
It was at this point that we finally learned who our cleric worshiped. He followed an elder evil, the Devourer, an entity of pure destruction, banished at the beginning of time to the space between the worlds, and if it was ever released onto any of the planes again, it would instantly snuff out all of existence.
The last words to ever be uttered before the universe blinked out were, "Gentlemen, meet my God."
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Orkboy: That is pretty epic.
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In the Pathfinder game I'm running, they met one of the primordial forces. Chaos. Chaos was a chill dude. I intentionally underwhelmed them. Chaos was just some scruffy guy who played with a knife the whole time he laid down the exposition about how Order was fucking shit up. Short version: Good creates, Evil destroys, Order keeps them in balance, and Chaos is just sort of there. He's Chaos, he doesn't have a role in the cycle of the universe, because that would be boring and predictable. He prefers making the wheel of creation and destruction wobble a bit as it goes, but he understands that if he makes it fail, then there won't be any hilarious mortals any more. Order decided to keep Good and Evil balanced by taking power for himself, which may unmake everything. Seriously, everything. The universe, the past, the future, time itself.
Chaos being a chill dude was intentionally underwhelming. I'm setting them up to be expecting something low key for the other three, when in fact, they're going to have to make fortitude saves to stop from vomiting themselves to death when they meet Evil. He's depicted as his greatest servant, the Tarrasque, when he's actually much, much more horrifying. Good, on the other hand, may strike them blind just by being himself, like looking at the sun. Order is posing as a god of Law, and also as the general in charge of the armies of his own church's empire.
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Aww, you mean he wasn't a milkman called Ronnie?
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I'm not as awesome as Terry Pratchett.
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No one is as awesome as Terry Pratchett. This includes Terry Pratchett.
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Terry Pratchett has a long standing bitter rivalry with Terry Pratchett. They can't even be in a room together, that's why you never see more than one of them at a time.
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Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men releases to day and my FLGS has their supply in stock. I have my starter set and a full gravity feed already pre-ordered and I can't wait to tear into them. There's a few of us that have pre-ordered and we'll be doing a trading circle between us.
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In my Pathfinder game, they found their first cache of Mythic items, but they're going to have to give them up pretty soon. In keeping with the theme so far, it was a knife for destroying things, a druid's club for healing peoples, and a ring that helps spellcasters be balanced. The knife ignore object hardness, meaning it cuts through plate armor like paper, the club can be planted like a tree to make it sprout healing potions in the form of fruit, and the ring powers up a damaging spell whenever the wearer casts a beneficial spell, and vice versa. They only figured out the knife through trial and error, and they're in for a surprise as soon as the rogue tries to sheathe it and has to make a reflex save to avoid losing a toe as the knife cuts through the sheathe and buries itself up to the hilt in the floor. A few levels down into the dungeon, they'll have to use the items like keys to open the doors to meet the primordial forces of Good and Evil. Order used to be down there too, but he's a dickbag.
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Robotech RPG Tactics arrived today.
Once I get it put together, I get to teach myself how to play. :D
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Starting a new campaign today as the DM. Low fantasy, Conan-style. The first enemy is going to be a small cabal of necromancers and their skeleton horde, encountered in a crypt. Sooo many skeletons. I hope one of the PC's brings a hammer, since it's so hard to stab a guy with no flesh.
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Today is D&D Day. Still stuck at work for 3 more hours and then I have to take my cat to the vet first. I hate responsibilities!
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Made characters for a battletech game today. Made a mech pilot with a military background, and kept rolling Promotion and Vehicle traits. Ended up with 6 promotions, and I have my very own personal heavy mech. Rolled for it, got a Grasshopper. Not bad, middle of the road laser-y heavy mech. One of the guys ended up with the Wealth trait 8 times, and we decided that he owns the mercenary company, while I'm the second in command and just yell at people to make things happen.
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I used to play a ton of shadowrun and D&D back in the day and I still have some misplaced affection for oWoD. The way nWoD collapsed on itself was also hilarious.
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First session playing the the new game earlier in the week. Nearly killed another PC by accident. My character is enormous, has a high Health score, and has a further resistance to toxins of all kinds, including alcohol, due to fiendish ancestry. She therefore can, and does, put away soursop brandy by the pint without any ill effects. What she didn't realize when pouring toasts was that her fellow burly warrior in the group has a specific weakness to booze, but didn't want to alienate her new employer by turning down the refills. The squishy wizard and squishier scholar had the sense not to even try matching her drink for drink, and only sipped for the toasts, thus preserving their heads and livers.
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Was playing a rogue in a DnD game a while ago, and I needed to escape the guards for, uh, reasons. I was doing well, almost out the gates in fact, when one of them spotted me and I was forced to use my Pocket SandTM to blind him and make my escape.
Seriously, if your DM allows it, Pocket SandTM is one of the cheapest and most useful things you can carry.
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Was playing a rogue in a DnD game a while ago, and I needed to escape the guards for, uh, reasons. I was doing well, almost out the gates in fact, when one of them spotted me and I was forced to use my Pocket SandTM to blind him and make my escape.
Seriously, if your DM allows it, Pocket SandTM is one of the cheapest and most useful things you can carry.
I prefer to put the sand into a tightly sewn leather sleeve, myself.
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I prefer to put the sand into a tightly sewn leather sleeve, myself.
Eggshells full of blinding-powder is the traditional thing where I come from.
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That was an incredible read.
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I prefer to put the sand into a tightly sewn leather sleeve, myself.
Eggshells full of blinding-powder is the traditional thing where I come from.
I meant to make a cosh, and then hit someone with it.
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Longtime gamer here myself. I've played:
D&D
2nd
3rd
3.5
Exalted
Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Vampire: The Masquerade
D20 Modern
Star Wars: Roleplaying Game
Saga Edition
7th Sea
The Transformers RPG
Pathfinder
Dresden Files RPG
Call of Cthulu
Champions
Various Homebrew
One of my favorite gaming moments though came during a very rules light game I played with friends back in high school. If we thought something was awesome of hilarious we let it stand, even if it didn't quite work with the rules.
Our party was exploring a cave system being used by a cult as their base of operations. It was far larger than we had believed it to be, so in the interest of saving time, we split up to search. I took what had appeared to be a vacant barracks to search. At first nothing unusual happened. I looted the room a bit and looked for clues about the cult's numbers and motivation.
I turned to leave just as a guard entered the room. This set off alarm bells for me because I was a low-level sorcerer at the time. With no useful spells left and no other way out I have no choice but to try and fight my way free. I attack and of course I roll a Natural 1, causing my dagger to break.
My dagger is gone, and after the guard takes a couple swipes at me my hp is low. It's just me, my rat familiar, and no way out. Out of desperation I cry out "I throw my rat at the guard's nuts." DM sputters and stares. "Huh?"
"I throw my rat at him, using our empathic link convey the sense that there is delicious cheese in his pants."
Stares again. Finally he says, "Okay... First roll a strength check to throw the rat, then roll against AC to see if you hit what you aim for, finally roll a skill check to see if you can manage to convince the rat the guards nuts are food. If you can actually make all these I'll allow it."
He does some math behind a screen and tells me to roll. First is the Strength check. I make a quick prayer to anyone listening and roll. The DM raises an eyebrow and informs me I barely made it, but the rat is successfully lobbed.
Next is the to-hit roll. I cross my fingers and roll again. Natural 20! The DM blinks and tells me to roll to confirm for a critical. I roll again. Another nat 20! The DM informs me I am a lucky S.O.B. and that I need to look into the Lotto later.
Now that my noodle-armed sorcerer has not only managed to hit what I aimed , for critical damage, all I had to do was roll to see if I could convey my impressions to my rat. I crossed my fingers again and prepared myself for the likely possibility that I'd be rolling up a new character soon. Then the die shows 19!
The DM blinks a few times, looks at something behind his board and I can see him scratching out some kind of math on scrap paper. He looks at me with a grin and a raised eyebrow and says, "Congratulations. You've not only managed to fling your loyal trusting familiar into your enemy's crotch, but you've also convinced him that there is lots of yummy, yummy cheese within. The rat immediately starts to tear into him, the poor bastard. The guard is running around attempting to dislodge the offending rodent. Given the location and nature of the attack go ahead and roll 4d4, times 2 for the crit.
I did so and I reported the results. The DM shook his head and informed me the guard is, to his own sweet relief, dead.
So proud of that familiar!
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Yeah, getting better of the DM is fun. One time during a prolonged fight, I actually managed to get hit in combat. I tell the DM that I drop. Next round, when my turn comes up, I tell him "I get up and stab that vampire bitch in the back with both daggers". He gave me a look, and I replied "dude, I said I dropped, not that I was out of HP".
Edit: That was a fight that the PCs were *supposed* to lose, and with everything I pulled out of my arse, we won. He would have got 90% of what he wanted if he hadn't insisted on one of the baddies demanding a tissue sample from my PC (she was rather vain, 25 appearance). She would have totally let the last standing super-mook take samples from everyone else. Still got beat up hard enough that my last actions were to heal the cleric up to being able to fix up everyone else, at the cost of all but 5 of my HP and half my con, and turn myself invisible so I could pass-out in relative safety. Then again, I do tend to power-game a bit, but here my weak spot was having a lousy con score, which, as a mage, I had to burn in order to heal others.
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One of these days I'm going to just make a bunch of characters and start hunting for a group. May even settle for an online group.
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Online groups aren't as fun. You can't pull tricks like passing a note to the DM that says "just scribble something on a piece of paper, roll a few dice, and pass the paper to me". It's a lot of fun for inducing group paranoia. Of course, at least the DM can still say roll a $whatever check/save out of nowhere to freak the players out.
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Online groups aren't as fun. You can't pull tricks like passing a note to the DM that says "just scribble something on a piece of paper, roll a few dice, and pass the paper to me". It's a lot of fun for inducing group paranoia. Of course, at least the DM can still say roll a $whatever check/save out of nowhere to freak the players out.
Oh yeah, I would much rather prefer a live group to game with but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of RPG activity in my area. Quite a few 40kers and cardboard crack addicts though.
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Online groups aren't as fun. You can't pull tricks like passing a note to the DM that says "just scribble something on a piece of paper, roll a few dice, and pass the paper to me". It's a lot of fun for inducing group paranoia. Of course, at least the DM can still say roll a $whatever check/save out of nowhere to freak the players out.
I have totally managed that in Roll20.
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Which? The former, or the latter? Messing with players and GMs (no relation to you) is always fun. It's especially fun to run their plots off the rails because of being able to pull stuff out of your arse that they hadn't anticipated (like when the enemy uses "Mirror Image", and saying "Well, I close my eyes, and use my blind-fighting, since I'll still be able to hit the squishy").
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using MechWarrior 2nd edition and Battletech rules, I've written several adventures, then GM'd the event.
after "The Von Neumann hornet's nest" adventure, my group unilaterally ruled that I can't GM anymore. :(
it isn't my fault that they arrived with a battalion and left with an understrength company.
I frakk'n told them to look up 'Von Neumann Machines' and 'Bezerkers'...
it ain't my fault their SciFi literature skills sux.
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In our last game I had to defeat the big bad almost alone since my comrade managed to get himself dominated (Big Bad was a vampire). I managed to kill him with one single hp remaining after losing two temporary levels to the vampire's life drain and just barely making the saving throw agaimst my comrade's mightiest spell, which would have blasted me to pjeces. Talk about an intense fight.
Oh, and of course then I had to make it to the next city within 24 hours to get the life drain effect removed before it became permanent.
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Been in some of those, and had to pull stuff out of my arse in order to win. I will say, that it *is* fun to get one over the GM. Congrats on the good work there. Vampires (no pun intended) suck to fight.
Edit: I did have one character who dated an evil vampire warlord. When the party confronted her with that fact, she pointed out that "You people call yourselves 'good', yet when you're not treating me like shit, you're treating me like a walking tac-nuke, or tac-blender. Every tactical solution that I have thought of was correct, yet you never try it unless it's the last resort, and you don't like my singing, despite the fact that I have a flawless voice (and she actually did). He may be some evil undead thing, but at least he treats me with some fucking respect. Well, that, and he's a good lay, and has given me access to libraries containing more magic than you can even think of. Actually, I'm thinking of joining *his* side, because you're a bunch of idiotic hypocrites".
Aah, first-ed rules, where a 25 comeliness could be so abused.
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Occasionally, I'll poke around rpg.se. Does that count?
I recently DM-ed a session where my players fought a group of yuan-ti. I kept casting Suggestion, and the players who it worked on had a ball pushing the limits of the orders they were given, seeing how they could work within the words used, and just generally playing the game to enjoy themselves. When ordered to attack his own party, one player immediately attacked himself until he was unconscious, since he was the closest member of his party.
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I'm waiting for the release of Fragged Empire. I contributed to the Kickstarter campaign. Its a really cool setting and an interesting rule set.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wadedyer/fragged-empire-tabletop-rpg
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Welp, that's it for my sorcerer. It was supposed to be an easy fight but some incredible bad luck in dice rolls (including an ego whip for maximum damage which reduced me to only be able to cast 0 and 1st level spells) turned that right around. I couldn't use my fireball, which would have reduced every single one of the spear wielding gimps that accompanied the Psion to a pile of ashes and thus was hit by a max damage spear hit.
Left with only a few HP I managed to take two of the spear gimps out before taking another almost max damage spell by the Psion that pushed me well below -10 HP. At least my next character is already made and ready for action.
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I never understood why it was always "-10". One of the house rules most of my gaming groups used was "-Con". Granted, it meant that the dwarves would last longer than anyone else, but they tended to be combat classes anyhow, whilst the mages generally tended to go "squish" earlier.
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Well, -10 is what the rules say, so we go by that. In this case it wouldn't have made a difference, I dropped to -20 or so.
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Aah, I had several GMs who used the -Con rule, because it did respect that some people have more endurance than others. Why, should the under-weight elven fighter/necromancer have the same ability to survive as the beefy dwarf fighter/priest. Then again, this was a campaign that lasted over a decade and had a list of GM rulings that approached British Common Law on complexity of precedents. Our resident "rules lawyers" (myself included) usually kept them in a folder for future reference. We sometimes had rules arguments that lasted longer than combat.
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I briefly played a cavalier/paladin just to prove a point that some classes were just over-powered under first-ed rules. Dude got a fly spell cast on him, and realised the pit-fiend was immune to his sword, so I told the GM "I grab his wings, and hang-on all the way down". A 7th level character shouldn't be able to take on that kind of monster, but *did*, and was at -14 (in first-ed, cavaliers were able to function at negative hp equal to what they had at first level). So I stood up, used "lay on hands" on myself, and walked away. The more splat books an edition has, the more mess happens.
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I've been into roleplaying games for more than 28 years. An older cousin of mine introduced me to them with The Dark Eye, a cult classic game that curiously came from the Land of Board Games (aka Germany). I was 11.
From then on, I started dabbling in creating makeshift RPGs to play with my few close friends, then in Senior High (I hope I get the equivalence right) I tried joining the school's RPG club (it was called ADT, for Advanced Delirium Tremens), but I never really got along: my general awkwardness and social cluelessness was at play. But, parallelly, I played a nice campaign of Rolemaster with classmates I got along better with. And I've been given Paranoia as a Christmas present, so I mastered it with the same classmates.
Paranoia is a fine game to learn how to master games, if you tend to be too kind to your players: it teaches you that you can be unkind (and even unfair) in interesting (i.e. funny) ways.
But it's after high school that I really got into it, when I joined a club of crazy passionate RPG players. We would play every Saturday from 2 pm to 6 pm for a first game, then after a pause from 8 pm to midnight, and then from midnight to 4 am. After which, many of us would migrate to an early bar for some coffee, hot chocolate, viennoiseries, and would improvise more games in the bar, sometimes until late in the Sunday afternoon. Fun times. I still see a few of the players from those times with various regularities. One of them texted me this very afternoon so we can hang out (I named it elsewhere on this forum as my friend Nao).
I'd be hard-pressed to list exhaustively all of the games I've played during that period, but there were the original Star Wars RPG (with the system that has since been called D6 Legend), the original Star Trek RPG (epic campaigns with my Caitian starship pilot: I played her fickly arrogant and sweet at the same time), various settings of the Old World of Darkness (mostly Vampire: The Masquerade and sometimes Werewolf: The Apocalypse, but Nao made some bitchin' Wraith: The Oblivion campaigns, and later on I mastered Changeling: The Dreaming, and I'm still fond of it), Shadowrun of course, Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer, and some others you probably never heard of, like Thoan, Shaan, and...
In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas, the original French game Steve Jackson Games' In Nomine is based on. By what I read, In Nomine tends to takes itself waaay too seriously compared to INS/MV. In the latter, I've always tended to play angels if given the choice. I simply find the petty rivalries among demons less interesting than the philosophical conflicts between angels about what is Goodness. I mean, there's an Archangel of Inquisition, for example. He doesn't get along very well with some other, more gentle and forgiving, archangels.
I could go on more, but that'll be for later, I'm tired.
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Got to try out my new character after Christmas break. Holy Crap this is fun. Duskblade may be my new favourite class.
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So, one of the guys is gonna run a 5th edition game for us. Having perused the rules, it seems like a solid system. Streamlined, simplified, but not so simplified that it's like 4th, where all fighters are basically the same. I rolled up a warlock with the Noble background, and I'm playing him as the third son of a noble house, who intends to use adventuring as a way to test, practice, and perfect his dark magics so that he can one day return home and seize control of the family from his older brothers, one of whom is a proven military commander (Stannis Baratheon style). The other brother is a trader in secrets, and has amassed a spy network that allows him to generate massive amounts of wealth by outwitting rivals in both business and the politics of the noble houses. So there's my character, the black sheep, outcast for his unhealthy and borderline blasphemous interests, intent on nurturing his powers until he can return home at the head of an army of cult followers and madmen, seizing power in a single stroke, one night of blood, fire, and terror to pave the way to the power and respect he desires.
And so, the Outcast Son shall rise, and the noble houses shall know fear.
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Does anyone out there have experience of playing with the Fate system? Someone I know was talking to me about running such a game, so I downloaded and read the Fate Core book. The examples given seem to be full of a lot of rather immersion-breaking negotiation between GM and players. Thoughts?
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Sorry, don't know the system, but it helps if the GM sets up a policy like I've always used when I was under the other side, which was taught to me by some friends: Never ret-con anything. Much like FIFA, the call made on the pitch stands. And leave the rules-lawyering for either before or after game unless absolutely *needed*. It has worked well for me under various systems, and I'm glad that I was told. I can look into the system, if you'd like.
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Does anyone out there have experience of playing with the Fate system? Someone I know was talking to me about running such a game, so I downloaded and read the Fate Core book. The examples given seem to be full of a lot of rather immersion-breaking negotiation between GM and players. Thoughts?
I've known a lot of people who seem to like it because it's rules-light, but like most rules-light systems there's a whole lot of handwaving involved.
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I'm a relative noob to these things, but every now and then I will play a random game online through Fantasy Grounds II. Met some good people on there, and fun times to be had. I've played NWoD, Pathfinder, My Life with Master, some form of Traveller... 1 game each. I particularly like the NWoD Mage setting, though I have yet to play it. Still have my eyes open for just such an opportunity...
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I've just joined a 5th ed. game, set in Eberron. My character is a barbarian, but I somehow managed to roll a 14 for his intelligence, so he also works as a librarian.
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Conan the Librarian?
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Conan the Librarian?
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In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas, the original French game Steve Jackson Games' In Nomine is based on. By what I read, In Nomine tends to takes itself waaay too seriously compared to INS/MV. In the latter, I've always tended to play angels if given the choice. I simply find the petty rivalries among demons less interesting than the philosophical conflicts between angels about what is Goodness. I mean, there's an Archangel of Inquisition, for example. He doesn't get along very well with some other, more gentle and forgiving, archangels.
While I haven't actually played INS/MV, I've read over the materials, and I don't know that that's necessarily an accurate comparison. The SJGames version is intended to support multiple styles of play; you can play it as tongue in cheek satire like INS/MV, but you don't have to. You can also run it as superhero action, a grim and gritty Cold War spy pastiche, or, admittedly, wangst and armchair theology, although I don't personally favor that style. They also kept a lot of the internecine politics; the Archangel of the Inquisition is called the Archangel of Judgement, but still runs the Heavenly Inquisition and has similar relations with, e.g. the Archangels of Flowers and Creation.
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I've just joined a 5th ed. game, set in Eberron. My character is a barbarian, but I somehow managed to roll a 14 for his intelligence, so he also works as a librarian.
That is hilarious!
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Speaking of play styles in In Nomine, the long-running game I've been in recently reconvened after a lengthy hiatus. I like the opportunity to play a very alien being who still has a valid reason to give a shit about humans and what they do. Specifically, a body-hopping shapeshifter that has no physical needs and is capable of being in more than one place at a time.
I'm currently lying like a rug to some (possibly demonic) police to avoid several of my fellow angels and possibly one of my human allies being arrested on (technically accurate) charges of kidnapping, child endangerment, and a slew of related crimes, using the magically aged body of the aforementioned child to do so, while providing an alibi for another character's absence using a human associate, phoning a distraught friend, and touring Scandinavia with a metal band.
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since I've been doing the online college thing, I find my time for sitting down to GAME has mostly evaporated.
mostly.
I'm hoping I can make an event this Saturday.
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Hi everyone!
I usually play board games rather than RPGs, but I recently found this card-based RPG on Kickstarter that sounds really cool and that I really want to try!
(Does anybody here have any experience with card-based RPGs?)
This one is called 'Neon Sanctum' and plays in a world that, people tell me, is a bit like a mixture of Shadowrun and Numenora (I haven't actually played any of those) -- it's post-apocalyptic with lots of old technology still around. The current society is controlled by mega-corporations that vie over the control of that technology.
You make your character by choosing skill, item and 'body modification' (for want of better word) cards that help you with skill checks and in combat. If your character is injured, they (temporarily) lose cards. The system looks very easy to learn, yet complex enough for lots of variation.
Now, I don't know if this is allowed -- moderators please tell me if not -- but I'd like to invite people here who are interested in board games or RPGs to check this out! It is very reasonably priced and shipping to the US and UK is free. I'll put the link here, if anybody wants to have a look.
I am not affiliated with the designers, I just think it's a very, very cool idea that deserves to be funded!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1233586901/neon-sanctum (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1233586901/neon-sanctum/description)
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I will be switching places with our current DM because he won't have time to prepare adventures for the forseeable future. Gonna run a horror campaign. Has anybody had any experience with the taint system of D&D 3.5? I'm thinking of using it, although probably in a modified version, and would like to hear some opinions about it.
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Has anyone here heard of Dusk City Outlaws? I picked up the PDF tier of the Kickstarter (now finished), had a look through the rules, and pitched it to a friend who I thought might be interested - he was on it like a dog with a bone (I've just got back from visiting him, where two nights running we were up until the wee hours discussing when we could get a game startes. When I told him I was home, he told me that he'd been watching preview sessions of the game on YouTube). We were up until some time in the wee hours talking about the game and who we could get in on it.
My only concern is that he's about four hours away from me, as are a fair few other people that I might be playing with. It doesn't require maps or minis, but it does require dice that they don't have, and they also don't currently have a copy of the rules (I showed them the PDFs while I was visiting). Has anyone here had any experience running a game over Skype or similar, with new players and with a GM that's never GM'd before?
Full disclosure: while this really is a question that I have, I've also partly posted this because there's an offer of a free scenario for posting about the game. I'll happily take this down if it's out of line.
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Haven't heard of it, but it does look interesting. Been curious as to gaming over skype as well, since I don't drive and the only gaming group I could realistically get would require a lot of work to physically.