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Fuzz posted:My current PbP is dying a slow death due to player attrition despite me planning around a much shorter and more focused campaign. I highly recommend this course of action. I've met cool people by doing MapTool/Roll20 games. I recommend scheduling shorter sessions but having them on the same weeknight (2 to 2.5 hours) so that people can plan around it.
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Apr 20, 2015 16:35
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I'd like to think it's something I'm doing wrong since this is probably my 4th PbP on this forum that's met the same fate, but a lot of the others I've joined as a player have failed miserably and it just seems like barely 5% of PbPs in general even make it past one month, let alone get completed, so I'm pretty much giving up any aspirations of running my mini campaigns because it's not gonna work in that format. The days of successfully completing a PbP on SA are likely over, maybe it just has to do with the people or maybe it's just a sign of the times, gently caress if I know.
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I'm finally in a job where I have a reasonably set schedule, so I could finally commit to a live-game via Hangouts or whatnot. My only issue is that I usually go to bed by 10pm at the latest, since I get up at 4:45am. If it was an earlier-in-the-evening game, or took place on an evening before one of my days off, I would totally be on board.
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Apr 20, 2015 16:44
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Fuzz posted:My current PbP is dying a slow death due to player attrition despite me planning around a much shorter and more focused campaign. Sad to hear it, Fuzz. It doesn't help that some players had Acts of God happen to them so that's sad. Anyway, I do suggest hangouts/roll20. If you want, I can help you get some of the stuff organized and show you how to get it going when you have some free time. I probably will want to play too if the schedule doesn't overlap with my own, but we'll see.
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Apr 20, 2015 16:45
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The scheduling is the tricky part, since my call schedule shifts on a weekly basis so I don't reliably always have a certain night off every week. For the short term (next 3 months or so) I can probably do every other Wednesday pretty reliably, though. I've never used Hangouts or Roll20, but I'd have no issue with IRC or even Skype plus Orokos to do the rolls. If people focused and keep up, even with 2 hour sessions we could get through this first campaign in maybe 5-6 sessions, these mini campaigns aren't really designed around being lengthy and having lots of progression, you start with a good chunk of exp and it's more about how you use what you have. They play out more like movies, and are paced in the same way. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 16:45
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I'm free Wednesday nights for some online stuff. I can help you get Roll20 setup too, theres a full Star Wars dice app built in to it, and its pretty intuitive. Its a lot easier to do it that way than IRC.
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Apr 20, 2015 16:55
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Fuzz posted:My current PbP is dying a slow death due to player attrition despite me planning around a much shorter and more focused campaign. I'd be interested in a Wednesday night thing. Definitely PM me with details.
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Apr 20, 2015 17:00
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I'm interested, although I've never done something like this before and I don't know what kind of time commitment I can make, since work keeps me pretty busy in the evening.
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Apr 20, 2015 17:02
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Fuzz posted:My current PbP is dying a slow death due to player attrition despite me planning around a much shorter and more focused campaign. Fuzz posted:The scheduling is the tricky part, since my call schedule shifts on a weekly basis so I don't reliably always have a certain night off every week. For the short term (next 3 months or so) I can probably do every other Wednesday pretty reliably, though. I've never used Hangouts or Roll20, but I'd have no issue with IRC or even Skype plus Orokos to do the rolls. If people focused and keep up, even with 2 hour sessions we could get through this first campaign in maybe 5-6 sessions, these mini campaigns aren't really designed around being lengthy and having lots of progression, you start with a good chunk of exp and it's more about how you use what you have. I'm also down for this and I'm fine with hangouts/Skype. The only problem for me is that I live on the west coast and on Wednesdays I have class up to 7pm so I won't mind if you skip over me due to that. I just love Star Wars and love this RPG system.
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Apr 20, 2015 17:19
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Fuzz posted:The scheduling is the tricky part, since my call schedule shifts on a weekly basis so I don't reliably always have a certain night off every week. For the short term (next 3 months or so) I can probably do every other Wednesday pretty reliably, though. I've never used Hangouts or Roll20, but I'd have no issue with IRC or even Skype plus Orokos to do the rolls. If people focused and keep up, even with 2 hour sessions we could get through this first campaign in maybe 5-6 sessions, these mini campaigns aren't really designed around being lengthy and having lots of progression, you start with a good chunk of exp and it's more about how you use what you have. As a player of the dying PBP I wouldn't mind starting fresh with this in a live game. I don't have PMs but I'm sure I will see you in IRC sometime, Fuzz?
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Apr 20, 2015 17:21
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Flame112 posted:As a player of the dying PBP I wouldn't mind starting fresh with this in a live game. I don't have PMs but I'm sure I will see you in IRC sometime, Fuzz? You definitely will, and the current players/characters will have priority if they want to make the jump.
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Apr 20, 2015 17:37
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I'd love to do a roll20 (since with my in-person group, I've accepted that I'll never not have to GM). If you do something on Sunday late afternoon/evening, I'm totally down. Speaking of having to GM, my group (who have only played D&D) is getting the hang of the system. I had an adventure set in basically a space truck stop, and they were in the motel-sequel section of it. I had placed a wall console that controlled, among other things, the cleaning/housekeeping droids, basically for flavor and a way to get past the locked doors in the rooms, should they fail a check. Not only did the Drall scientist pick up on this right away (getting the doors to open for the droids), but when the party got attacked by security droids, he immediately asked, "can I have the cleaners identify a security droid as 'dirty' and swarm it." "Hell yes, you can." I just had him make a computers or mechanics check to give the security droid a setback die to its attacks, he spent advantage on causing strain. It created a great scene where this security droid was getting knocked around by a swarm of those cleaning bots from WALL-E while being pelted with blasters and arrows (our hired gun is an archer). I love this game. It's so much more fun than D&D or PF.
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Apr 20, 2015 17:48
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Is it just me or are proton grenades from Dangerous Covenants really overpowered? You can four-shot an AT-AT for 1200 credits and they aren't even rare or restricted. If you use more or roll well on mechanics you can do it more efficiently at a larger range, until you can win the Battle of Hoth for the rebels for less than what a landspeeder costs.
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Apr 21, 2015 18:40
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TaurusTorus posted:Is it just me or are proton grenades from Dangerous Covenants really overpowered? You can four-shot an AT-AT for 1200 credits and they aren't even rare or restricted. If you use more or roll well on mechanics you can do it more efficiently at a larger range, until you can win the Battle of Hoth for the rebels for less than what a landspeeder costs. The main issue with all the explosives is what happens when you DO NOT roll well.
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Apr 21, 2015 20:49
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That and you have to basically walk up to something and plant the explosive. I guess you could throw it but you still need mechanics skill to arm the grenades and bundle them into one big bomb, and you'd still have to get in murder death kill range of your AT-ST.
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Apr 21, 2015 21:56
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TaurusTorus posted:Is it just me or are proton grenades from Dangerous Covenants really overpowered? You can four-shot an AT-AT for 1200 credits and they aren't even rare or restricted. If you use more or roll well on mechanics you can do it more efficiently at a larger range, until you can win the Battle of Hoth for the rebels for less than what a landspeeder costs. 12 damage vs 30 soak? Are they considered planetary scale?
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Apr 21, 2015 22:14
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Jawdins posted:That and you have to basically walk up to something and plant the explosive. I guess you could throw it but you still need mechanics skill to arm the grenades and bundle them into one big bomb, and you'd still have to get in murder death kill range of your AT-ST. You can add grenades past the first to increase the blast radius, at 8 grenades it does 150 to everything in extreme personal scale range. alg posted:12 damage vs 30 soak? Are they considered planetary scale? 5 Proton grenades do 150 damage vs the 50 soak of the AT-AT, letting 100 personal or 10 planetary damage through, taking 4 to do the 40hp to kill the walker.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:38
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I guess I am looking at the wrong profile on the page, or I'm not aware of how damage works vs soak for grenades. That math seems wonky to me. edit: ah I was looking at Plasma Grenades. I don't see them as OP since you have to get into range to drop one on an AT-AT, and you need a shitload of them. Look at Luke using a landmine to kill one in ESB. alg fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 21, 2015 22:44
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TaurusTorus posted:5 Proton grenades do 150 damage vs the 50 soak of the AT-AT, letting 100 personal or 10 planetary damage through, taking 4 to do the 40hp to kill the walker. I dunno, 4 detonations of linked explosive charges to disable an armored vehicle seems entirely reasonable. Especially since the hard part is getting close enough to place them without being destroyed by the thing's guns/stormtrooper escorts.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:46
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So reviewing the rules, I reconsidered my opinion, I thought it was impossible to exceed a formidable check by any means, but the rules allow it, so for a extreme range daisy cutter you'd need to beat 8 purple dice. I don't think a failure automatically causes the detonation, since thats special to a despair on baradium. So I don't have to worry about my players nuking every threat I throw at them until they hit higher levels.
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Apr 22, 2015 20:10
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So those that were interested in a live game, would you want to run the same Hapan Connection campaign, or one of my other ones? I have several, and they all have the same overall style of not TOO much progression but you start with a lump of exp and it's more about the storyline and where you guys run with it... they're formatted not unlike a film, so they're not crazy long drawn out affairs, they're relatively tight in the overall plot arc, it's just you have a lot of leeway in how you get from point A to point B. Premises range from the Hapan one to a campaign about some archaeologists uncovering some old ruins, to a story about a small group of Jedi during the Old Republic, to a bounty hunter game, to a straight up western in space. I'm pretty flexible, but I thought I'd throw it out there... I'll eventually try to run them all, but I don't know if people were bored by the Hapan premise, even though that PbP barely even scratched the surface of that campaign, and got as far as like... half of one session.
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Apr 22, 2015 20:33
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Just looked over the Hapan thread and I very much like the premise. Anything smuggler-related or wild western style would be a lot of fun. I guess I'd be most interested in playing Jedi (though I wouldn't roll a Force user for a primarily edge-style campaign) since I haven't had a chance to try that out yet.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:38
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Fuzz posted:So those that were interested in a live game, would you want to run the same Hapan Connection campaign, or one of my other ones? Whichever one you want to run. When the GM is excited about a campaign I'm usually more more into it.
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Apr 22, 2015 22:42
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Is it just me being impatient, or have we been getting less RPG reveals and info from FFG lately?
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Apr 23, 2015 21:28
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Probably just being impatient, but we have the Force and Destiny Beginner Box coming out soon, right? Also they're going to have more announcements on May 4th I think
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Apr 23, 2015 23:33
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So, anyone having fun with their players getting themselves nearly killed when it is vehicle adventure time? I decided to plop them into the Battle of Hoth for the Imperial side as they were good friends with Veers commanding their own AT-AT. Well, the pilot went full throttle and increased the speed of the AT-AT through one of his talents to outrun all the others. He was ahead of the pack, meaning, they all were getting shot at. Then the rebels begin to tie up their legs and only survived because Veers was in range to shoot down that snowspeeder. Also, they kept getting crit and ended up having results on their tables be ones that are about shields down and such. It was very hilarious. So they finally reach the generator and destroyed it with +60 toward the Walker's crit and having less than half of the armor left. They also saved Veers too. Then there was a session where they were getting past an enemy blockade and ended up crash landing their ship in the forest. All the players were having fun with that especially when that ship also had like, irc, a +50 on the crit table and could have exploded too. They really, really, really like to drive and fly dangerously. Now I want to see how they'll trash a Star Destroyer under their command next.
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Apr 24, 2015 00:11
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jivjov posted:Is it just me being impatient, or have we been getting less RPG reveals and info from FFG lately? Since they announced Desperate Allies and Strongholds of Resistance so close to one another, I think there's a lack of things to announce, honestly. Unfortunately, Desperate Allies is still being printed, and Strongholds of Resistance is still undergoing development at the moment. I honestly can't wait for either one. Diplomats are cool, and sector sourcebooks are really useful and chock-full of interesting fluff. I enjoy reading Lords of Nal Hutta just for the fluff.
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Apr 24, 2015 00:23
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Fuzz posted:So those that were interested in a live game, would you want to run the same Hapan Connection campaign, or one of my other ones? Are you still looking for people for this?
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Apr 24, 2015 14:15
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Bad Decision Dino posted:Are you still looking for people for this? Yes, I'll put up a real recruitment tomorrow. Speaking of: PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO LIVE GAME: Check the existing recruitment thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3701119 We will be using exactly the same rules. The 10 Obligation are baked into your extra exp and credits, I'm gonna be running the same adventure. If you want, start working on a char now, Recruitment will open tomorrow, 4/25, and will CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT THE NIGHT OF MAY 1. I'll be taking 4-5 people, don't feel the need to mimic the characters that were accepted last time, I can roll with whatever. Try to use them as a template for the style, though, particularly Mez, the Doctor, and Sebrano, as all three of those characters were amazing.
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Apr 24, 2015 16:30
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So I was telling you guys about my "stealthy" players? Well, this session, they managed to steal a holocron containing the galaxy's most depraved porno. Stuffed Snooters 2: Snoots&Glutes. RodianxHutt, starring the offspring of the party's employer. (Guest appearance in Scene 3 by Space-Sasha Gray)
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Apr 25, 2015 04:58
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jivjov posted:So I was telling you guys about my "stealthy" players? Well, this session, they managed to steal a holocron containing the galaxy's most depraved porno. Stuffed Snooters 2: Snoots&Glutes. RodianxHutt, starring the offspring of the party's employer. (Guest appearance in Scene 3 by Space-Sasha Gray) Hey, you gave me that porn as the result of my "searching for anything valuable" last session, the rest of them had fun and started naming it while recapping the session to the person who missed last session.
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Apr 25, 2015 05:22
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Krysmphoenix posted:Hey, you gave me that porn as the result of my "searching for anything valuable" last session, the rest of them had fun and started naming it while recapping the session to the person who missed last session. I choose to believe that your droid character spent the time between sessions committing every single glorious frame of said porno to memory.
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Apr 25, 2015 05:25
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jivjov posted:I choose to believe that your droid character spent the time between sessions committing every single glorious frame of said porno to memory. Yes, the entire time between sessions consisting of "I blew up a warehouse" and "I am now running away from the warehouse I just blew up"
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Apr 25, 2015 05:53
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Krysmphoenix posted:Yes, the entire time between sessions consisting of "I blew up a warehouse" and "I am now running away from the warehouse I just blew up" CPU clock cycles are WAY faster than human brains.
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Apr 25, 2015 05:55
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Krysmphoenix posted:Yes, the entire time between sessions consisting of "I blew up a warehouse" and "I am now running away from the warehouse I just blew up" Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V is a hell of a drug.
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Apr 25, 2015 06:10
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jivjov posted:So I was telling you guys about my "stealthy" players? Well, this session, they managed to steal a holocron containing the galaxy's most depraved porno. Stuffed Snooters 2: Snoots&Glutes. RodianxHutt, starring the offspring of the party's employer. (Guest appearance in Scene 3 by Space-Sasha Gray) Just to make you feel bad our group was tasked with extracting the Imperial, err Governor, of Corellia. Our GM had planned out a running fire fight between us and an Inquisitor with a squad of the 501st (we are now a year after Endor) during a ground extraction as the Inquisitor had been sent to assassinate him due to not being reliable enough. But instead we did an air to air passenger exchange with his air speeder and our freighter as we inserted our PC pilot as a late change to his regular pilot. Was a bit of an anticlimactic game but when a plan comes together 
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Apr 25, 2015 20:55
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3716041 New recruitment is up for that live game I had mentioned last page. Hope to see some of you ingame!
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Apr 26, 2015 00:42
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Any official stats out for the Venator Class Star Destroyer? In my group's game it turns out there's a collective of Sith cannibal pirate raiders operating around our sector that have one as a flagship, with a full fighter compliment and a few frigate-level escorts, and I need to figure out a way to bring it down with a Y-Wing and a HWK Light Freighter.
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Apr 26, 2015 08:07
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susan posted:Any official stats out for the Venator Class Star Destroyer? In my group's game it turns out there's a collective of Sith cannibal pirate raiders operating around our sector that have one as a flagship, with a full fighter compliment and a few frigate-level escorts, and I need to figure out a way to bring it down with a Y-Wing and a HWK Light Freighter. Get captured, escape, rig the engines to blow and finish escaping.
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susan posted:there's a collective of Sith cannibal pirate raiders operating around our sector Rannos22 posted:Get captured The PC mindset in a nutshell.
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