Countblanc posted:

Yeah if 4e were a game with barebones, highly streamlined combat it'd be one thing, but 4e combat still has me going to check rules after years and years of playing it. Adding another complex system would just be nightmareish for me unless 99% of that added complication happened outside of the game and was something I could do in my free time (ie character building)

My Lovely Horse posted:

Starting to think that probably the best way really is to make a few themed NPC companions and a simple rule to bring them into combat. It's not quite the same oomph but all the rules are already there.

e: I keep thinking about this, how about this setup:

Magicite is a new kind of magic item that gets its own slot, so you can only have one at a time. If you have one, you can summon its esper as a standard action. The esper is built according to standard NPC rules with a heavy elemental theme and will stick around until the end of the encounter, or until reduced to 0 HP. Only one esper can be on the battlefield at a time.

You decide at the end of each extended rest whether to attune to your magicite or not. If not, you can't summon your esper today. If yes, the summoning ability replaces your highest level Daily power. Your choice sticks until the end of the next extended rest.

Assuming a 4 person party in which everyone has a magicite and uses it diligently, you can assume they're 5 strong for each encounter (since there are usually 4 encounters between rests). So just build encounters for 5 person parties and everything should be balanced enough.

Other stuff you could do with this:
- wearing the magicite, attuned or not, gives you a bonus to appropriate elemental powers
- Sidequests to beat the espers and gain their magicite, sidequests to level them up, sidequests to restore them if they've been defeated...
- magicite could take up an existing item slot if it's too powerful
- certain espers could be most appropriate for certain tiers of play: Ifrit/Shiva/Ramuh for heroic, Bahamut, Alexander and such for paragon, in epic you get the real crazy poo poo like Odin, NEO BAHAMUT ZERO ULTRA TURBO EDITION or Eden
- Knights of the Round: can only summon then once, ever, but they win you the current encounter, no matter what. Which boils down to "your campaign's end goal is now getting the Knights summon so they can beat the final boss for you".

Plutonis posted:

Like what, irl firefighters or stuff like Fire Force

NachtSieger posted:

I think you're overthinking this way too much.

Father Wendigo posted:

A very gritty and realistic reimagining of Paw Patrol.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Complete with fascist subtext?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Complete with fascist subtext?

Elfgames posted:

keep it simple, seriously. just tell people to describe their attacks as summons

Moriatti posted:

I mean, the simplest way would just be to take the Primal class transformation dailies and scratch their names out.

Presumably the reason not to do this was for big flashy once a day drops where now Ifrit is fighting for you. Usually since you've played enough 4e that the base game needs a bit of spice.

hyphz posted:

Was there some outstanding system issue with FS2 or am I remembering wrong?

Wrestlepig posted:

it's official, 2019 is when we stop loving around with other games and we all play feng shui 2



gently caress the police

Plutonis posted:

I spent new years in hospital after having a psychotic episode and trying to hang myself only to fall and sprain my ankle so I can't really scoff at that dude

NG's FB page posted:

As Nightfall Games finalise the new publication – SLA Industries: Cannibal Sector 1, we have taken a good look at the contents of the various source materials published to date. As many of you know, a number of these books were produced with little or no input from the creators of SLA Industries and as such do not represent the image, ideals, nor stories of The World of Progress. Additionally, a number of the books have been directly superseded (in whole or part) by the writing in the new book. With this in mind, only the following source books and supplements should be now be considered canon (the official vision of The World of Progress):
• SLA Industries Main Rulebook (including all reprints) (ISBN 1 899749 23 3)
• Karma (ISBN 1 880992 56 6)
• Hunter Sheets Issue 1 (ISBN 978 0 9555423 1 2)
• Hunter Sheets Issue 2 (ISBN 978 0 9556497 1 2)
• “Klick’s End” Data Packet
• “Momic 0.1” Data Packet
• "The Dream" Data Packet
• "Threat Analysis: Hominid" Data Packet
• "Hunters Sheets: Red Alert" Data Packet
• SLA Industries GM Screen

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• “Ursa Carrien” Data Packet

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Kieron Gillen will never forget the time that he was a female Soviet air bomber in WWII and an airplane turned his character into “soup.”

Gillen was playing in Night Witches, an “intensely serious” tabletop RPG about Soviet women air bombers in World War II. His character, a surly type who had escaped Leningrad, landed her plane when another character crashed behind her. She got out to look just as a third player rolled a die to determine their plane’s landing.

“The roll meant that, ‘oh, that means that plane kind of just goes through your character,’” Gillen told Kotaku. “It got quite a big laugh, and I found it quite upsetting in terms of, this is not the end I’d hoped for, for this character. But no, no, she was just turned into soup and random bits of kebab meat.”

Gillen’s latest creative work, a comic called DIE that debuted last month, is a comic about a tabletop RPG game gone bad, and it owes a lot to experiences like that one. Gillen’s character didn’t get what they hoped for, but at least it made for a good story. And also, a lot of pain.

moths posted:

I can't tell if those bottlecaps are for heroin or from being a slob.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Actually, it turns out 2018 has been renewed for another season, enjoy this garbage year all over again!

unseenlibrarian posted:

Splicer posted:

They're actually planning to reboot 1989 to 1999 to cash in on millennial nostalgia

FMguru posted:

Also, this thread could use a close-and-relaunch, or at least a title edit.