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So, I go looking for Goblinworks videos. I found this instead and instantly stopped caring. I don't know if it's popped up here before. But it's amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHnGvdlmZEU
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Lion Lionel. We've reached true roleplaying.
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Lion Lionel doesn't have poo poo on DRIFTER and his wife, Nyarlathotep.
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My wife is Nyarlathotep I call her Nyaruko I love Nyaruko. Hoooooooly poo poo! E: it's like there's a computer out there with an encyclopedic knowledge of Pathfinder that thinks it's Ettin.
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Best way to start the work day possible.
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Apr 15, 2014 15:23
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If it eats this grapefruit, is not sanity check needed? It is sour and delicious!
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stoutfish posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX1c-YULHEA This was great, and I totally forgot there was an LP thing of D&D games, where's that thread again?
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Ironicus also mentions that they played Dungeon World as part of that, but I could never find it. So if someone has that link too, I'd be pretty happy. (I'm going to edit in a link to the thread in a second when I find it.) Edit : It's actually 13th Age. I think the 4thE D&D thread was earlier and has probably fallen to Archives (which I have but I am lazy). Xiahou Dun fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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So I don't really watch anime, but I just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and it was loving great.
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i am harf elf pirate who knew common sense 
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Here's the other video that goes with that adventure, but sadly, I think it's the last one they did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXYpBcc0WdI There a number more at their channel, but sadly most are lacking the charm of the CG voices. This psuedo-anime trailer for "Griffin Island" is a hoot, tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaeRbup9fus "Dogs make love, cause sexual excitement."
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Here's the other video that goes with that adventure, but sadly, I think it's the last one they did. Oh wait, is this the Griffin Island team? From memory, it's a group from Japan that basically just google translated everything and called it a day. They were to credit very enthusiastic and certainly enjoyed it.
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Error 404 posted:E: it's like there's a computer out there with an encyclopedic knowledge of Pathfinder that thinks it's Ettin. Nyaruko is weird though 
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dwarf74 posted:So I don't really watch anime, but I just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and it was loving great. Someone namedropped Gundam Build Fighters a while back in #bwf and since it was up on YouTube I decided to give it a watch and I'm glad I did. I also don't watch a lot of anime and I'm also not a huge Gundam person but it's a pretty rad show about people building model robots who, thanks to bullshit anime science magic particles, can make them fight each other in full-on virtual arcade space. It's a pretty basic shonen formula but it has lots of robots exploding each other and if you are a Gundam fan it's apparently crammed full of Easter eggs like nobody's business. There was a Build Fighters FATE PbP somebody was going to start in the Game Room but a family emergency intervened so it got put on hold.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Ironicus also mentions that they played Dungeon World as part of that, but I could never find it. So if someone has that link too, I'd be pretty happy. Their Dungeon World recording hosed up and parts were missing, though the unedited version may be floating around somewhere if you wanted to look. And yeah, both 4E threads have fallen into the archives. All of the mp3s are hosted on Zorak's website, though. (And directly to the index for Heroic tier). The thread mirror for Paragon hasn't been updated in, like, two years, but all of the files are here or on iTunes.
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Man, being a poo poo GM sure is frustrating. No one ever wants to run the games I want to play but me, and since my usual group is all of two people and we're always rolling new characters, I can't get any kind of story going, or even plan anything in advance. FAE and DW are too story-based for the people who want to hack and slash; 4e is too crunchy for me as a person Bad at Math; 13th Age, aggravatingly, is both. I did run a fairly successful game in 13th Age the other day for a different group though. I can't decide if I'd be any good at running a PbP, and it seems dumb to do that when I have IRL people who want to play with me and I can't deliver. But I really want more elfgames in my real life and it just ain't happening. Thank you for reading my sad little rant I hope you enjoyed it.
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Captain Walker posted:Man, being a poo poo GM sure is frustrating. No one ever wants to run the games I want to play but me, and since my usual group is all of two people and we're always rolling new characters, I can't get any kind of story going, or even plan anything in advance. FAE and DW are too story-based for the people who want to hack and slash; 4e is too crunchy for me as a person Bad at Math; 13th Age, aggravatingly, is both. I did run a fairly successful game in 13th Age the other day for a different group though. This is a problem I experience. It has nothing to do with being a poo poo GM (not saying I'm not a poo poo GM just saying... this is different). If I want to run or play a game in my town, it pretty much has to be Pathfinder. Even if the idea didn't make me grumpy, burnout is all too common, amongst players as much as GMs. I have never in my life, online or off, seen a game run long enough to earn the title "campaign." Someday I hope to experience that ideal of roleplaying in which the setting and characters carry a sense of history and purpose that only comes from actually having been played with the same group of people for an extended period of time. In your case, I don't sense an inability to deliver so much as a simple lack of cohesion in the group. Rolling new characters and not really having the same taste in games and what-not. In that case, you should consider a PbP game. There's a stable of excellent players in these forums and their tastes vary widely. If you post a recruitment, you can get players who are specifically interested in the game you want to run. Personally, I prefer livegaming, but PbP is not a bad option.
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Evil Sagan posted:I have never in my life, online or off, seen a game run long enough to earn the title "campaign." Someday I hope to experience that ideal of roleplaying in which the setting and characters carry a sense of history and purpose that only comes from actually having been played with the same group of people for an extended period of time. My first sincere attempt at DMing (4e) ran 9 months and had a satisfactory narrative conclusion  We cycled through somewhere around 20 players and switched DMs for the last 2 or 3 months of it, but 4 of us went wire-to-wire, and that game will always hold a special place in my heart. Gotta figure out an encore for that poo poo, though..
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My experience is that most GMs are way harder on themselves than players are. I've had games I feel I totally botch that people compliment me to death on. Right now I've been running a lot of short-run games just to give people a bunch of fun, different experiences we don't get when we're running games that last months or a year. And maybe that's that you need to do, just pull out the adventure from the back of a game and run that. Stuff like Pathfinder or 13th Age are really bad for this for the most part, because they assume some level of campaign play. But I ran three Golden Sky Stories adventures in three nights, and I'm currently running Double Cross, where I can run an adventure in two nights of play. If you can't run long stuff, don't stress yourself doing it, find something bite-size and work with that. Having premade characters - usually a dirty word - can help a lot, too, if you can only maintain a night or two.
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My group has found a good rhythm of playing usually nWoD games about 3 sessions long that cut right to the action and/or have lower stakes that can be resolved sooner. Burnout is averted because everyone can open up 3 nights over 2 weeks, and there's a lot of satisfaction in being able to tell a finished story, even a short one.
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Why are you always rolling new characters? You've got your two regulars, sure, but that doesn't mean they can't have their heroes and when people can fit in you provide them with a pre-made, or a more mechanically current version of whom they played last time. Some sort of wandering band of do-gooders getting the guest-star/hero of the week to help out with the latest villains scheme. I totally get the complaint about being the only person who wants to run the games you want to play, but that's true of drat near everything in my experience.
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dwarf74 posted:So I don't really watch anime, but I just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and it was loving great. The first fullmetal alchemist series was pretty mediocre, but every episode of brotherhood I have seen has been amazing. I presume this is because brotherhood was written after the comic was completed, so it doesn't have that dragging a dog on a leash pacing that most anime series seem to have.
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Yeah Brotherhood had the double advantage of being able to blow through the content covered in the first half of the original anime at breakneck speed and also knowing where the end point was on the manga so the pacing is able to be managed properly post that.
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DalaranJ posted:The first fullmetal alchemist series was pretty mediocre, but every episode of brotherhood I have seen has been amazing. I presume this is because brotherhood was written after the comic was completed, so it doesn't have that dragging a dog on a leash pacing that most anime series seem to have. Yep, it's amazing how good a product can be when the dudes doing it know the full story and poo poo. No weird nazi movie needed!
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Captain Walker posted:Man, being a poo poo GM sure is frustrating. No one ever wants to run the games I want to play but me, and since my usual group is all of two people and we're always rolling new characters, I can't get any kind of story going, or even plan anything in advance. FAE and DW are too story-based for the people who want to hack and slash; 4e is too crunchy for me as a person Bad at Math; 13th Age, aggravatingly, is both. I did run a fairly successful game in 13th Age the other day for a different group though. I enthusiastically recommend Roll20/MapTool as a supplement to IRL gaming. You can even have your IRL people in the group. Pick a weeknight, be firm on what time you want to play, run what you want. I recommend shorter sessions if you do weeknights, and people are more likely to be able to make it if they can stay at home and play in their pajamas with a beverage in hand. You can try to stipulate that it's rotating GMing, but I have not had much luck with that; in terms of numbers, people who love GMing < people who will GM because it's the only way there will be any elfgaming << vampire players who take everything you are willing to give and then some. Even so, if you don't go into it thinking FIVE YEAR CAMPAIGN and just play as long as it lasts, you can stop when it feels right and rest.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yep, it's amazing how good a product can be when the dudes doing it know the full story and poo poo. No weird nazi movie needed!
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homullus posted:I enthusiastically recommend Roll20/MapTool as a supplement to IRL gaming. You can even have your IRL people in the group. Pick a weeknight, be firm on what time you want to play, run what you want. I recommend shorter sessions if you do weeknights, and people are more likely to be able to make it if they can stay at home and play in their pajamas with a beverage in hand. You can try to stipulate that it's rotating GMing, but I have not had much luck with that; in terms of numbers, people who love GMing < people who will GM because it's the only way there will be any elfgaming << vampire players who take everything you are willing to give and then some. Even so, if you don't go into it thinking FIVE YEAR CAMPAIGN and just play as long as it lasts, you can stop when it feels right and rest. Roll20 plus Skype is the best. I've been running/playing in two games a week with players in three Wisconsin towns, Berkeley, DC, and Bangor Maine, for the past three years.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Yeah but that is because all the weird Nazi stuff is spread throughout Brotherhood. 
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Please do not post XKCD on my thread. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Roll20 plus Skype is the best. I've been running/playing in two games a week with players in three Wisconsin towns, Berkeley, DC, and Bangor Maine, for the past three years.
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Knitted Art posted:Please do not post XKCD on my thread. It's my chat thread now.
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Ettin posted:It's my chat thread now. Plut is still banned from this thread and will be dealt with, but if y'all could crank down the YCS in here about two or three notches it would be swell.
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I can't Skype because of my deafness, so all the games I play in are IRC or plain Roll20, no voice chat. Roll20's virtual tabletop isn't strictly necessary for the Precure game, but it gives it a sense of location and space, plus just many monsters my character keeps throwing herself right into the midst of. And it helps visualize the goofy monsters, too.
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As virtual tabletops go, I'm a fan of Fantasy Grounds - its not free, and its not perfect, but it does a good job on character sheets and the like. Also for D&D and other things like that, the automatic effects and damage management make life so much easier. I just wish people could see each others character sheets....
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Apr 17, 2014 14:26
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Rulebook Heavily posted:
Tabletop simulator looks pretty much fantastic. It's really great the amount of effort that's gone into it and I sort of want to try running a DnD game in it.
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Knitted Art posted:Please do not post XKCD on my thread. It's SMBC.
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