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What is the best version of El? This poll is closed. |
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| Elminster |
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20 | 6.45% |
| Elmara |
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20 | 6.45% |
| Entwine |
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13 | 4.19% |
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99 | 31.94% |
| El Kabong |
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153 | 49.35% |
| Elves |
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5 | 1.61% |
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Evil Sagan posted:Is the TMNT game any good? Because that sounds amazing. Kai Tave posted:It's by Palladium so take a guess. Pretty much. This was the old late-80's print of the TMNT book, so it was rife with missing poo poo like "how do you even USE skills?" and an entire percentile choice missing from the table list. Like any Palladium system it took liberties with math and common sense. However, compared to Rifts, it is downright restrained and balanced--if you only use TMNT and a couple other books (Ninjas & Superspies, maybe Heroes Unlimited) you could run a pretty alright game. You'd be better off using virtually any other system though, like Savage Worlds, or even Ironclaw. It only sounds amazing because we did that poo poo when I was 16 (so, 14 goddamn years ago) and that is a magical time to be playing whacked-out tabletop games. This was the same group we ran various Palladium games with at the drop of the hat--Heroes Unlimited-meets-Doom-meets-Metal Gear Solid 1 was a hilariously awful clusterfuck. Or the time we let one player play a hive full of Mechanoids because it sounded funny. Or when we made a Nightbane game where one of the players was a toy-sized Veritech. What I'm saying is, we played a lot of stupid poo poo as a teenager, and that is probably the only time you want to deal with Palladium's bullshit rules.
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Aug 12, 2014 23:31
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Oh my god yes.
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Aug 12, 2014 23:34
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I know I'm asking for trouble, but hey, Rolemaster. Loved it back in college/grad school and am running a short arc of it again for my group. Not sure how to balance encounters so they're not either a cakewalk or instant death though. It such a swingy system - one really good from even a crappy little monster can really mess up a PC. So any tips on encounter building?
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Aug 12, 2014 23:36
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Oh my god Here's the podcast where he talks about recording it. "Motherfuckers talk like Yoda."
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Aug 12, 2014 23:36
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My first RP experience was either pretending to be a rogue in NexusTK or my first characters in DragonRealms when I was 12. Tabletop-wise, my first experience was with Mage: The Awakening. It was a neat little game that died after about ten sessions but involved our cabal being on the run from a trio of Seers that made a power grab in Kansas City. Events of note include us firebombing a church full of brainwashed people. Whoops. My first GMing experience is actually an ongoing Awakening game. It was absolute trash starting out because I had no idea what I was doing but I kinda found my legs and the campaign been going on for over two and a half years now so I guess it isn't too horrible.
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Aug 12, 2014 23:45
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I never realized that Michael Chiklis has a pretty smooth voice. Gonna have to grab some of these audio books.
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Aug 12, 2014 23:54
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I ran an awful 2e D&D game about horrible bugmen and evil anti-paladins invading the Sword Coast for my first game ever. We were all in Junior High, we still had fun with the meandering story and eventually punching dinosaurs and having a huge fight with the Tarrasque for the ending. It was dumb, ridiculous, wandered all over the place, but I still remember it.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:01
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My first tabletop RPG experience was AD&D 2E in middle school; the group consisted of my best friend, his older brother who was like a highschool sophomore or something, and his brother's girlfriend. My friend was the DM. Re: the first door in the entire prewritten adventure, into the dungeon... Brother's Girlfriend: Does the door push or pull open? DM: *scrambles to find an answer* Uh I don't think it says? I don't know... Me: Who cares? Let's get on with it. Then we had a ten or twenty minute argument about whether it mattered and why. We ended up quitting without killing a monster.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:10
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My first tabletop experience involved playing Shadowrun (1e 2e) in early high school with a guy who I was never sure if he was my sister's boyfriend or not and a bunch of other nerds he knew. Highlights of that session include a fist fight where the team troll punched through a guy, the rigger somehow managing to make a van that was rocket proof, and having to talk someone down from a roof IRL.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:16
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Zombies' Downfall posted:My first tabletop RPG experience was AD&D 2E in middle school; the group consisted of my best friend, his older brother who was like a highschool sophomore or something, and his brother's girlfriend. My friend was the DM. Now this is the D&D I know!
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Aug 13, 2014 00:16
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Evil Sagan posted:Now this is the D&D I know! But what were the walls made of?
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Aug 13, 2014 00:19
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Tollymain posted:it is possible and ok to have fun with bad rpgs while playing with good people, as long as you don't mistake the game itself for the source of the fun I once had a perfectly entertaining Rifts game in spite of the system.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:31
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And Weird Al, and Felicia Day, and David Duchovny, and...  10 1/2 hours of nerdiness. Can't wait.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:40
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I've never wanted a Drizzt book
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Aug 13, 2014 00:46
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My first experience was actually running Beneath the Twisted Tower. The first NPC they met had a belt of stone giant strength. I made the mistake of reading that aloud. The party quickly murdered the NPC and took his belt. God bless the Forgotten Realms and God bless D&D.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:47
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I wish Bacter and Mzbundifund's let's play of Baldur's Gate updated more regularly because it's the perfect encapsulation of the D&D experience right down to "we'll accept this guy's quest to find his missing loot but instead of giving it back we're going to keep it because it's way, way better than the reward he's offering."
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Aug 13, 2014 00:50
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My first RPG was the old West-End Games Star Wars system. I shot some stormtroopers and stole a ship full of expensive space cargo. It ruled.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:51
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My first rpg experience was palladium fantasy when I was 12. I only remember the system because at the time I thought the word Palladium was cool (it is) The other two guys were 30 year old ur grogs. Made it 2 sessions and swore off tg entirely until discovering wod in high school.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:00
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Alien Rope Burn posted:It was me, I made that thread.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:01
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dwarf74 posted:I stand by my original statement that the OP was Ettin. Do you have proof that it wasn't Ettin? Would you agree that I am justified in believing it was Ettin? Warning, if you cross me on this, you are legally harassing me, and you will be blacklisted by WotC and Paizo. 
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Aug 13, 2014 01:06
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My first Dungeons & Dragons experience involved me putting a lot of thought into creating a selfish but good-hearted pirate (are there any other [protagonist] kinds?) and sitting down to play a game only to have one player ask if he could play out the rape of an elf woman fleeing from the orcs we were supposed to kill. When the GM refused to let him commit rape (so progressive for 1992!) the player said that he would climb a tree to meditate on his impulses and then in turn refused to ever leave the tree. I never got to play that pirate again.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:22
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dwarf74 posted:I stand by my original statement that the OP was Ettin. Do you have proof that it wasn't Ettin? Would you agree that I am justified in believing it was Ettin? Warning, if you cross me on this, you are legally harassing me, and you will be blacklisted by WotC and Paizo. Littlefinger fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Aug 13, 2014 |
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Aug 13, 2014 01:39
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Tollymain posted:it is possible and ok to have fun with bad rpgs while playing with good people, as long as you don't mistake the game itself for the source of the fun All the loving hand wringing and apologizing over people playing things that other people don't like is ridiculous, yo.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:45
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i don't hand wring, i just like to make fun 
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Aug 13, 2014 01:47
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potatocubed posted:It's basically nonfunctional 'out of the box' - to get the most out of it use it as a source of character inspiration and port the whole thing across to a different system. The Bio-E system was fairly elegant for Palladium and still holds up well(ish) now, I think. It is direct and to the point and yeah you can make a porcupine ninja which is boss. It worked OK for Palladium since it was more or less all basic attacks against SDC; no magic, limited psionics, not a ton of stuff that usually renders that system totally awful. Chargen was kind of a nightmare outside bio-e, tho. To keep it in system you pretty much had to just houserule chargen into whatever you wanted for that game or you got a player who was feral and could not wear pants next to like, a muskrat with six PHDs who is also a ninja.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:50
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Winson_Paine posted:a muskrat with six PHDs who is also a ninja. Well, I've found my next PC.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:52
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Winson_Paine posted:The Bio-E system was fairly elegant for Palladium and still holds up well(ish) now, I think. It is direct and to the point and yeah you can make a porcupine ninja which is boss. It worked OK for Palladium since it was more or less all basic attacks against SDC; no magic, limited psionics, not a ton of stuff that usually renders that system totally awful. Chargen was kind of a nightmare outside bio-e, tho. To keep it in system you pretty much had to just houserule chargen into whatever you wanted for that game or you got a player who was feral and could not wear pants next to like, a muskrat with six PHDs who is also a ninja. I recently played a super fun one shot TMNT game with completely random generated characters. We all just agreed at the beginning to accept that it was an old game with hosed up rules and to just go with it. I played a bipedal Deer who couldn't talk but could run at 80mph and could bench press a Honda Accord, we killed a lot of ninjas and had a great time.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:59
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If we are still doing Questions I guess I owe goons 20? Also riddle of steel is like super swords and sandals Fighting with high lethality and an interesting approach to keeping combat interesting The system breaks down with like group combat though
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Aug 13, 2014 02:04
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TMNT is one of those games where you could probably have a lot of fun just sitting around with some beer and making a bunch of crazy characters. I probably wouldn't actually try to play it though.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:08
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One question: are you reading Rat Queens, and if not, what kind of dumb are you?
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Aug 13, 2014 02:09
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Mors Rattus posted:Most of what I remember about my early DMing days is a campaign that never got to end, which was about rats. The villains of the campaign were magic rats and wererats and all kinds of rats, as many as I could dig up stats for. Their evil plan was to try to propel their leader to godhood as the God of Corruption by starting and spreading a disease at some vital point and corrupting some druids and ???.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:15
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Lord Frisk posted:One question: are you reading Rat Queens, and if not, what kind of dumb are you? The only question worth asking imo
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Aug 13, 2014 02:23
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I sometimes feel like I am the only person who doesn't love Rat Queens. Like, it's pretty decent, but it exudes a palpable aura of desperate edginess.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:24
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Kai Tave posted:TMNT is one of those games where you could probably have a lot of fun just sitting around with some beer and making a bunch of crazy characters. I probably wouldn't actually try to play it though. I've actually had a couple of fun afternoons rolling random character generation in original FASERIP Marvel Superheroes and then coming up with a hero persona for the result.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:42
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Tulul posted:I sometimes feel like I am the only person who doesn't love Rat Queens. Like, it's pretty decent, but it exudes a palpable aura of desperate edginess. That's part of its charm imo.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:44
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Pouring out a 40 for Fell's Five, too good for this sinful world.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:50
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fatherdog posted:I've actually had a couple of fun afternoons rolling random character generation in original FASERIP Marvel Superheroes and then coming up with a hero persona for the result.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:54
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It wasn't my first roleplaying experience, but the first one that actually got off the ground and saw completion was running a one-shot using Feng Shui that was basically set in the Matrix, loosely ripping off the plot of Die Hard. Also, my friends managed to kill an Agent in the finale through sheer number of bullets being shot at him.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:54
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Kai Tave posted:Pouring out a 40 for Fell's Five, too good for this sinful world. Agreed. I loved that comic.
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Aug 13, 2014 03:05
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Fell's Five was the best.  And the collected hardcover is beautiful. 
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Aug 13, 2014 03:06
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