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Reign. Actually, some unholy fusion of Reign's faction rules and A Dirty World/Better Angels personality-centric spin on ORE.
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Mar 18, 2015 12:00
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Cortex+ should be easily hackable to something Reigny, treating factions basically like Hacker's Guide/Firefly treats vehicles. Mix with Smallville/Drama variant of the system.
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Mar 18, 2015 12:04
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I had a go at hacking Fate for Planescape a while back. http://www.certain-death.com/fatescape.pdf
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Mar 18, 2015 13:20
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potatocubed posted:I had a go at hacking Fate for Planescape a while back. Not that I think WotC would care, but I don't think including the OGL does anything here: the hack deals with intellectually properties that are not made public by the OGL. (It's on page 2 if anyone is wondering why I'm saying this.)
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Mar 18, 2015 13:25
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unseenlibrarian posted:...I don't know, but now I want a Fiasco Planescape Factions playset. That would be so perfect.
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Mar 18, 2015 14:20
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Covok posted:Not that I think WotC would care, but I don't think including the OGL does anything here: the hack deals with intellectually properties that are not made public by the OGL. Oh, the OGL is a holdover from the first version of Fatescape I wrote, which used the Spirit of the Century rules, which as I recall required that OGL. You're right about it doing nothing now, since Planescape isn't Open and Fate Core uses a different system (I think). Oops. But the Indesign files vanished in a hard drive crash earlier this year, so it's stuck for now. v  v
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Mar 18, 2015 15:50
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potatocubed posted:Oh, the OGL is a holdover from the first version of Fatescape I wrote, which used the Spirit of the Century rules, which as I recall required that OGL. You're right about it doing nothing now, since Planescape isn't Open and Fate Core uses a different system (I think). Oops. Fate Core is Creative Commons now, I think.
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Mar 18, 2015 16:05
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You can actually choose between one or the other now.
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Mar 18, 2015 16:08
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Were I to run interplanar politics I'd probably use some variation of FATE as well: like, Planescape's metaphysics fit perfectly with FATE as a system (you live according to your beliefs, you get narrative currency, which you can then use to add details into the environment that match with your beliefs). You can give planes aspects which characters can use to their advantage while on said planes, and once your characters become actual movers and shakers in the multiverse you can even do stories like "slowly alter the beliefs of the townspeople to get their town to drift from one plane to another" and the game's actually go rules straight out of the box to support that kind of play.
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Mar 18, 2015 16:18
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Burning Wheel would be really good for Planescape if only someone were willing to write the thousands of lifepaths and dozens of emotional attributes you'd need.
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Mar 18, 2015 17:46
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An IRL friend is running Pathfinder (no wait come back) and is distilling it down to its essence: party of 17th-level casters. As someone who played the game all of once as a low level rogue, could I feasibly create a fun character using only the SRD? Someone is playing an arcanist wizard already.
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Mar 18, 2015 17:51
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Off the top of my head running around with a cleric or druid shouldn't be too bad for that setup. (Pathfinder's similar enough to 3.x that playing CoDzilla should still be valid.)
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Mar 18, 2015 18:04
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NGDBSS posted:Off the top of my head running around with a cleric or druid shouldn't be too bad for that setup. (Pathfinder's similar enough to 3.x that playing CoDzilla should still be valid.) CoD being a divine spell, I take it? Call of Doom? I know very little about 3.5. What if I wanted to be a warlock or some kind of dark mage?
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Mar 18, 2015 18:08
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Mar 18, 2015 18:12
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Reign actually sounds really, really good for Planescape. I'm imagining all the Esoteric Disciplines you could learn from salt elementals and rogue modrons 
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Mar 18, 2015 18:26
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Captain Walker posted:An IRL friend is running Pathfinder (no wait come back) and is distilling it down to its essence: party of 17th-level casters. As someone who played the game all of once as a low level rogue, could I feasibly create a fun character using only the SRD? Someone is playing an arcanist wizard already. Arcanist and Wizard are two different types of caster. Is he multiclassed or something? As for creating a character from the SRD, yes you can. The SRD has everything that isn't setting specific. CoDzilla is less powerful than 3.5 (several of the staple spells were nerfed) but still very usable. It is just a cleric or druid who casts a bunch of self-buff spells on themselves prebattle and acts like an ultra-fighter.
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Mar 18, 2015 18:32
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PresidentBeard posted:Arcanist and Wizard are two different types of caster. Is he multiclassed or something? No, just Arcanist. I literally did not know there was a difference. Pathfinder! PresidentBeard posted:CoDzilla is less powerful than 3.5 (several of the staple spells were nerfed) but still very usable. It is just a cleric or druid who casts a bunch of self-buff spells on themselves prebattle and acts like an ultra-fighter. What domains would I want for a battle cleric?
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There's a Pathfinder thread here which would probably be a better place to ask for concrete optimisation advice. That, or try brilliantgameologists or whatever they're called these days.
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Mar 18, 2015 18:42
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Captain Walker posted:No, just Arcanist. I literally did not know there was a difference. Pathfinder! Captain Walker posted:What domains would I want for a battle cleric? Nobility is powerful for giving you a better version of the leadership feat but I wouldn't recommend it due to the followers being a mountain of paperwork.
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Captain Walker posted:CoD being a divine spell, I take it? Call of Doom? I know very little about 3.5. If you want to be a dark mage, witch is a perfectly respectable class. Nothing is as powerful as wizard or cleric but any nine-level caster will hold their own in a level 17 game and witch gets fun special abilities to play with (although you'll be one level short of a Grand Hex).
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Can I get a recommendation for a good FATE Accelerated Edition LP? I want to read/hear about how it actually is before trying to grok the rules again.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Can I get a recommendation for a good FATE Accelerated Edition LP? I want to read/hear about how it actually is before trying to grok the rules again.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm obviously biased but http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3602834 O my god how did I miss this fuuuuuuck. That looks amazing and I am so jealous. Please tell me Jack Half-a-Prayer makes an appearance. (The fact that there is not a graphic novel based around him is a terrible error.)
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NGDBSS posted:They're a gonzo element in a setting that was attempting to be deep (or pretentious, take your pick), and thus rather a jarring shift on tone.
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Does anyone know anything about the status of Last Stand: Reinforcements beyond what is posted on the Kickstarter page for it? Looks like the last comment from the dev was in September and people are still asking about it. Just curious if anyone has followed development and knows anything. Very interested in the content though I am not a backer.
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Xiahou Dun posted:O my god how did I miss this fuuuuuuck. Oh, hey! That was a fun thing. Sadly it ended from players dropping and general slow down around the second "season". No chance for Jack Half-a-Prayer. They kind of ended right when they were going to have to choose to sail up to New Crobuzon and have to deal with more gang/military poo poo or have a more traditional adventure trying to find High Cromlech.
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Fumaofthelake posted:Does anyone know anything about the status of Last Stand: Reinforcements beyond what is posted on the Kickstarter page for it? Looks like the last comment from the dev was in September and people are still asking about it. Just curious if anyone has followed development and knows anything. Very interested in the content though I am not a backer.
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She also said she was waiting on some art.
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I feel like Planescape would fit in super nicely into 13th Age, but I might be biased because I really like 13th Age.
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SunAndSpring posted:I feel like Planescape would fit in super nicely into 13th Age, but I might be biased because I really like 13th Age. I really like 13th age for anything I would've used D&D for in days past, too, and one of the campaigns I'm running in it will be heading to Sigil eventually, so we will FIND OUT.
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paradoxGentleman posted:What would be a good system for a game of interdimensional politics? My first instinct would be to go for GURPS, especially if you have the Social Engineering supplement, but I need to stop throwing GURPS at every system problem I come across. #1 for a more simulationy style of game would be GURPS with Social Engineering and the Pulling Rank supplement, yeah. For something easier, I'd use the Cortex + Dramatic Roleplaying rules, since they're all about how a character relates to the values held dear by the setting, and everything revolves around testing interpersonal relationships. I feel like it's custom built for this sort of social game in a way that FATE isn't. FATE works fine, but it works fine for basically anything, it's not bringing anything to the table for the situation besides "being FATE." Depending on how you structure the game, Primetime Adventures could be pretty cool, but that recommendation is because I just got the new edition in the mail and it's on my mind. long-ass nips Diane fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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So how is Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition? Last game i was running (long running 4th edition game) ended and I wanted to switch to a completely different system, my friends wanted to try out a super hero system, from what I've seen online it sounds like Mutants and Masterminds is the way to go with that. Is it the correct choice?
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Do you consider another D20 game completely different?
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goldjas posted:So how is Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition? Last game i was running (long running 4th edition game) ended and I wanted to switch to a completely different system, my friends wanted to try out a super hero system, from what I've seen online it sounds like Mutants and Masterminds is the way to go with that. Is it the correct choice? If your friends are used to 4E, M&M will not be a huge change for them, outside of the front-loaded CG.
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goldjas posted:So how is Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition? Last game i was running (long running 4th edition game) ended and I wanted to switch to a completely different system, my friends wanted to try out a super hero system, from what I've seen online it sounds like Mutants and Masterminds is the way to go with that. Is it the correct choice? In my experience, something like 75% of attacks against non-mooks do nothing. Your numbers don't go up. It's very easy for someone to have way more options than someone else.
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goldjas posted:So how is Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition? Last game i was running (long running 4th edition game) ended and I wanted to switch to a completely different system, my friends wanted to try out a super hero system, from what I've seen online it sounds like Mutants and Masterminds is the way to go with that. Is it the correct choice? I never tried M&M3e, but it looks like its another d20 game. Probably good or great in that context, but if you're trying to do something different from Dungeons and Dragons 3E and up, you may want to look at such games such as Icons and Godlike/Wildtalents. I haven't played the latter, though I always hear good(ish) things about it, but the former is a decently fun game. It uses a d6-d6 task resolution system, and though you can build a character in like 3 to 5 minutes, I wouldn't say it is rules light or anything better than 13th Age or whatever. Of course, you could stop loving around and get the ONE TRUE SUPERHERO RPG.
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Here's a weird one; do you think audiobooks of RPGs would be worthwhile? I have a copy of FATE in epub but no time to read, so I set my reader to text to speech so I can listen while I work. It worked okay so far. A real voice would probably be better for any non-cyberpunk game.
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