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01011001 posted:It's a bit misleading, as those projects might start communally, but in most cases you can bet that if one of them got finished it was less a function of the community and more a function of the 1-5 people who gave enough of a drat about whatever silly poo poo everyone thought up to actually stick with it. That's pretty much what I can recall that happened with the Pokémon Tabletop, although it was way more than 5 people working on the development! (Before the split at least)
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Ratpick posted:I once toyed around with the idea for an RPG where you'd start each encounter at 0 and by using your basic attacks you'd also gain MP or Refresh or whatever it's called, so that you'd only be able to unlock your biggest and baddest attacks after a couple of rounds of combat. Flavor it however you like, maybe in order to perform greater magics you first need to open yourself up as a conduit between the magical realm and this one by using basic spells or something, I don't know. I had a simillar idea for a mech game I called it a tension guage and you built it up by getting hit and using basi attacks you could spend a little of it for somthing simmilar to an encounter power or when it was full use your super move.
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01011001 posted:It's a bit misleading, as those projects might start communally, but in most cases you can bet that if one of them got finished it was less a function of the community and more a function of the 1-5 people who gave enough of a drat about whatever silly poo poo everyone thought up to actually stick with it. Pretty much what happened with Chapter Master and Engine Heart (though the latter was directed by one man, Viral, from the beginning iirc)
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Aug 27, 2015 03:27
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Oh god... What have I done?
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Baron Snow posted:Oh god... What have I done? Hopefully, you've decided to do an F&F writeup because I'm curious.
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Aug 27, 2015 04:21
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Baron Snow posted:Oh god... What have I done? Is that for BESM? I remember there being a bunch of anime books for it. I have the Tenchi Muyo one, for example.
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Aug 27, 2015 04:22
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Baron Snow posted:Oh god... What have I done? ahahaha. Yesssss. I remember this. 
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Baron Snow posted:Oh god... What have I done? Something amazing and beautiful
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I actually demoed that for GOO at a con... I can't remember what con, maybe GenCon? There's something slightly surreal and great about running a demo for adolescent girls in the sea of neckbeards, particularly at the time. Who knows if they ever played the game again, but it was certainly a different experience as a GM.
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ProfessorCirno posted:To be frank the only reason most ttrpgs DON'T do this is because of TRADITIOOOOOOOOON! TRADITION! D&D started as a resource management game, and even though most of that playstyle has been left far behind, it still tries to keep the same method of keeping track of resources. And as with most things traditional in the hobby, good fuckin' luck trying to see it get changed. It becomes especially out of place when people try to use D&D to tell "sweeping fantasy epics" and then either they don't realize that the underlying mechanics are still shackled to a dungeon-crawl-based "4-6 encounters a day", or they do realize it and then have to bend over backwards to try and make it fit.
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Even sweeping fantasy epics should have some resource management and the ability to be "beaten down" a bit it's just thst they then need some sort of rules for overcoming the odds Like i love tenra bansho zero's health system as you reach new teirs of wounded you gain bonuses to hits and damage also you can't be killed unless you choose to but making that choice gives you powerful bonuses
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Well no I'm not saying that games like those shouldn't have resource management, but "your resources come back after a night's sleep" is a mechanic that largely assumes you're down in a dungeon where sleep is either impossible or requires some of those same resources you're trying to conserve anyway. Trying to enforce that, along with the "you should have 2-4 attrition battles before the big finale" mechanic doesn't always jive well with being out in the wilderness, or doing an urban adventure, or doing political intrigue or whatever.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Well no I'm not saying that games like those shouldn't have resource management, but "your resources come back after a night's sleep" is a mechanic that largely assumes you're down in a dungeon where sleep is either impossible or requires some of those same resources you're trying to conserve anyway. Or that you have Rope Trick.
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Anyone have any suggestion for a God game? I was reading this game story earlier about a group of demigods plotting for godhood, and now I want something like that! Ideally pretty free form, without being too restrictive. Or, hell, anything that's reasonably God game-y just so I can read about em'!
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Nobilis is pretty much exactly that.
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dog kisser posted:Anyone have any suggestion for a God game? I was reading this game story earlier about a group of demigods plotting for godhood, and now I want something like that! Ideally pretty free form, without being too restrictive. Or, hell, anything that's reasonably God game-y just so I can read about em'! Nobilis 3e is fantastic for this, though the default setting is very hit and miss.
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dog kisser posted:Anyone have any suggestion for a God game? I was reading this game story earlier about a group of demigods plotting for godhood, and now I want something like that! Ideally pretty free form, without being too restrictive. Or, hell, anything that's reasonably God game-y just so I can read about em'! Gods and Monsters is a pretty great game I helped playtest. Its basic idea is that it's the dawn of time and you're gods working to shape the world according to your desires. It's Fate Core, and the aspects really work to let you make huge changes to the world with a minimum of rules cruft. Just as the world is new and still being formed, your god isn't completely set, and depending on the approaches you lean on you can find your form and powers shifting as your worshippers start imagining you differently.
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Everyone should be familiar with Nobilis if you want to be a scholar of sweet games
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Flavivirus posted:Gods and Monsters is a pretty great game I helped playtest. Its basic idea is that it's the dawn of time and you're gods working to shape the world according to your desires. It's Fate Core, and the aspects really work to let you make huge changes to the world with a minimum of rules cruft. Just as the world is new and still being formed, your god isn't completely set, and depending on the approaches you lean on you can find your form and powers shifting as your worshippers start imagining you differently. Sweet, I had exactly enough left on my DTRPG account to get this. I'll check out Nobilis too. It's one of those things where I don't know if I want to PLAY them, or just, like, read them and collect them. edit: Gods and Monsters is exactly perfect! I wonder if someone's doing a PBP I could read or get in on! Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Aug 27, 2015 |
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Is that for BESM? I remember there being a bunch of anime books for it. I have the Tenchi Muyo one, for example.
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Guilty Spork posted:It used BESM's Tri-Stat rules, but it was their first licensed RPG, and had the full rules in it, with the selection of traits thoroughly modified for Sailor Moon characters. I think it was a better fit for the rules than a lot of the other things they tried to do, but it still had the fundamental mediocrity of Tri-Stat. Also the incredible vagueness of BESM 1e, where buying a level 6 attack got you "an attack of cosmic power" with no real definition of what that did, except that if you hit an enemy with it, it did like 120 damage. I ran BESM for ages, I still have a well worn autographed copy of BESM 2e, in fact, along with Sailor Moon and the book of youma volume 1. There was no volume 2, as far as I know.
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Whichever version of BESM I first played will remain my favourite stupid game because when I made my first character I just picked stuff that looked cool and ended up with a gun that could nuke cities for something like ten points.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:That's pretty much what I can recall that happened with the Pokémon Tabletop, although it was way more than 5 people working on the development! (Before the split at least) Helical Nightmares posted:Pretty much what happened with Chapter Master and Engine Heart (though the latter was directed by one man, Viral, from the beginning iirc) Yeah, I'm not saying that hypothetically, I was involved in one of them like 7 years ago. At the point where we collectively ended it, there were three of us, of which two contributed meaningfully to the conversation.
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01011001 posted:Yeah, I'm not saying that hypothetically, I was involved in one of them like 7 years ago. At the point where we collectively ended it, there were three of us, of which two contributed meaningfully to the conversation. But which one were you?!
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For what it's worth re: The Pokemon Tabletop RPG, I enjoyed playing what was basically Francis York Morgan, but with a Totodile that was the only witness to a gruesome murder.
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The newer version of the pokemon tabletop is much less cumbersome but still needs a good trip behind the woodshed to actually be smooth to use. I guess it's a baby steps thing, it went from basically unplayable to playable with some work.Baron Snow posted:Oh god... What have I done? There are like, I think, 3 Sailor Moon games (not counting the tons of generic Magical Girl games that are totally Sailor Moon) and if I remember right one was actually pretty solid, the other was decent but kinda half-hearted, and the last just outright sucked so I guess you have 2/3rds a chance to at least have a decent game?
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Evil Mastermind posted:I've always liked how 13th Age handled "daily" powers; you could only use them once per day, but after a battle you made a d20 roll and on an 16+ or something you got the power back. And you got to roll after every battle, not just the one you used the power in. 
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NinjaDebugger posted:Also the incredible vagueness of BESM 1e, where buying a level 6 attack got you "an attack of cosmic power" with no real definition of what that did, except that if you hit an enemy with it, it did like 120 damage. I'm in the death throes of 5 year(!) BESM game, and suffice to say we have plumbed the depths of that system and seen exactly how insane it can get if you don't apply a ton of restraint while statting basically anything. It's been fun, in part because BESM can actually be pretty appropriate for statting wacky anime powers, but I don't you'd get any of us saying that it was a good system or recommend it to anyone else.
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What is the gooncensus on OVA 2nd Edition? The game that is trying to be a better BESM? From reading it over, it looked good, but I haven't played it yet.
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Today is Jack Kirby's birthday, so I'm required by nerd law to post the most game-able map ever written.
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Mad-hole, Country of the screamers! My next campaign setting.
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Jack Kirby is the best superhero comic artist and writer of all time.
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Proud to live in the Expanding Tiger Empire, but my heart belongs to the Kangarat Murder Society.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Jack Kirby is the best superhero comic artist and writer of all time. Be careful to not trip on that bar.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Jack Kirby is the best superhero comic artist and writer of all time.
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I like how a lot of stuff has really extravagant names and then there's Snow Wizards. Just Snow Wizards.
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I live among what I assume are the Wolf Garibaldens.
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Swagger Dagger posted:I like how a lot of stuff has really extravagant names and then there's Snow Wizards. Just Snow Wizards. It's hard to keep up that level of extravagant for every piece of the globe. Somewhere was going to get the simple name.
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