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Engaging with this sort of grog/derailing always dooms these threads; I recommend against it.
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inklesspen posted:Engaging with this sort of grog/derailing always dooms these threads; I recommend against it. The Doom That Came To The Chat Thread
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LuiCypher posted:(oh boy, I sure hope you have a DM who punishes that behavior) He doesn't. 
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Who else is going through an utter gaming drought right now? Other than a lone PbP game it's been months, maybe even over a year since I've played or ran an RPG. Even more frustrating since I've got a ton of games I'd like to playtest and its hard enough to get my gaming friends to try new stuff even when we could scrape together regular gaming sessions. Who knows when I'll be able to talk them into trying out my stupid "lets play D&D with playing cards" ideas.
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oriongates posted:Who else is going through an utter gaming drought right now? Other than a lone PbP game it's been months, maybe even over a year since I've played or ran an RPG. Even more frustrating since I've got a ton of games I'd like to playtest and its hard enough to get my gaming friends to try new stuff even when we could scrape together regular gaming sessions. Who knows when I'll be able to talk them into trying out my stupid "lets play D&D with playing cards" ideas. I mostly do board- and card-games these days, with a work schedule that prevents me from being able to commit to any sort of regularly scheduled RPG session whether it's in person or via Roll20/Skype. Also I'm not really sure I'd be interested in sitting in on the local RPG groups since the choices seem to be a monthly Pathfinder Society thing or games run by a dude who I got to listen to rant about rules lawyers ruining his ability to "tell a story" the other day so I'm content with my small handful of PbPs and the fact that I can at least get some other tabletop gaming in on a regular basis.
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Mar 7, 2016 22:39
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oriongates posted:Who else is going through an utter gaming drought right now? Other than a lone PbP game it's been months, maybe even over a year since I've played or ran an RPG. Even more frustrating since I've got a ton of games I'd like to playtest and its hard enough to get my gaming friends to try new stuff even when we could scrape together regular gaming sessions. Who knows when I'll be able to talk them into trying out my stupid "lets play D&D with playing cards" ideas. Get on my Exalted 3e game! It's "open"!
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So I'm running the Dracula Dossier (irl, sorry pbpers), but if I wanted to recruit a few people to be relevant nodes (Orlok, an Organizysta boss, Drac) to just email in orders once a week and respond to the party's actions/attempts to thwart yall, would a recruit thread be the right way? Probably I'd set up a storium account and post updates/let you react there
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Mar 7, 2016 22:50
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Get on my Exalted 3e game! It's "open"! Sadly the real problem is me. To avoid whining too much about life, I'll just say things have been busy, exhausting and badly scheduled in my life lately and even if I found a group or an interesting online game I wouldn't have the time or mental energy to commit to it.
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oriongates posted:Who else is going through an utter gaming drought right now? Meeeeee. My wife and I both work, but one of us needs to look after our daughter after nursery and my wife's schedule is too unpredictable for me to schedule a regular game night. So PbP it is for the forseeable future. ...I need to post in my PbPs.
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Kwyndig posted:This whole discussion reminds me of something else from the old days that always bugged me, which was thief skills. Some of them just plain don't make sense, like move silently, which in reality in urban or dungeon environments is more dependent on what you're wearing and how fast you're going than any kind of training. Now in a forest I can see it, because it does take skill to avoid leaves and branches and move through brush without making noise, but it is laughably easy to sneak up on people anywhere the ground isn't covered in crap. Of course having hiding and moving being separate skills for sneaking was also dumb anyway. Thief Skills were meant to be semi supernatural in nature when they were introduced, that's why they have such low success rates, you'd only roll for them when doing something beyond what a normal person can achieve, like the climbing one is meant for climbing up a sheer smooth surface without tools, regular climbing, especially with tools was assumed to be something you'd pass automatically if there were no significant obstacles in your way
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Hm, looks like D&D Classics just got around to releasing the 3.0 Ravenloft core by White Wolf. That's a line I've been wanting to see for a while now.
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oriongates posted:Who else is going through an utter gaming drought right now? Other than a lone PbP game it's been months, maybe even over a year since I've played or ran an RPG. Even more frustrating since I've got a ton of games I'd like to playtest and its hard enough to get my gaming friends to try new stuff even when we could scrape together regular gaming sessions. Who knows when I'll be able to talk them into trying out my stupid "lets play D&D with playing cards" ideas. I know what you mean. Currently I don't have the energy to commit to a game right now even if I could get some friends together.
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I'm running 13th Age organized play for a group each week, and we've been doing it for...at least a year now. I haven't played anything in ages, though. I always run games, generally because I'm the only person who buys new games.
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Everblight posted:So I'm running the Dracula Dossier (irl, sorry pbpers), but if I wanted to recruit a few people to be relevant nodes (Orlok, an Organizysta boss, Drac) to just email in orders once a week and respond to the party's actions/attempts to thwart yall, would a recruit thread be the right way? Probably I'd set up a storium account and post updates/let you react there Yeah, you should set up a recruitment thread. I can't be certain anyone would be interested, but its worth a shot. Also someone happens to be running a Dracula Dossier game for pbp, which means people are interested in it.
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I am in the camp of GMing-forever-but-really-itching-to-play-something too - my local university group is running a 30+player Living Dungeon World campaign, but it's just too hard to get there after work. My 13th age campaign is at 13 months now - Eyes of the Stone Thief is now one of my favorite D&Dalike campaign books of all time now.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I found the thread. Oh well in that case 
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There's this bit in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books where someone bets he can make a mountain disappear and it describes how he makes an elaborate plan, hires helpers, puts moving infrastructure in place and all kinds of things and then realizes five minutes before the deadline is up that he's not gonna make it. I'm that guy and the mountain is three combat maps that are just not gonna work out at all the way I set them up.
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All you have to do is make sure its someone else's problem.
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Mar 8, 2016 23:20
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 Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/sandy-petersens-cthulhu-mythos-for-pathfinder quote:Sandy Petersen is the undisputed authority on the Cthulhu Mythos in games as the author of the groundbreaking game Call of CthulhuIncluding: Really the draw is the miniatures.   
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In which Pathfinder subtly trolls it's player base. I've been reading Towns of the Inner Sea. There is a town called Ilsurian. Where does the following remind you of? quote:
quote:A six-person council adjudicates laws and settles disputes in Ilsurian. The townsfolk take great pride in their civic duties, and turn out in great numbers for the biennial democratic elections. Since Ilsurian is meant to be a meritocracy, citizens are instructed to vote based more on the quality and experience of the candidates than their stances on issues, though people have slowly moved toward the latter over the last several years. This meritocratic system is also why only former council members-who have supposedly proven their merit-can nominate new candidates. Council heads, too, are chosen by the rest of the council, and serve 2 -year terms. The laws don't allow council heads to be voted in for successive terms except in rare emergency situations , and only in cases where the council unanimously allows it. quote:Most of the residents refuse to socialize with them, and many businesses hang "No Varisians" signs in their windows. By the letter of the law, Varisians have all the rights of any other citizen, quote:Semere Arms: Expert weaponsmith Vea Semere (C G female half- elf expert s) satisfies the demands of Ilsurian's residents for quality weapons. Because the townsfolk consider weaponry a part of their heritage, they're constantly seeking to repair or maintain their heirlooms and purchase new weapons. It's common practice to buy a brand new weapon when a child come s of age, and not unheard of to commission a tiny weapon typically a thin thrusting blade-for a young child to carry. Vea has lived in Ilsurian for only 5 years , and is one of the few half- elves in town, but she has been accepted wholeheartedly because of her skill in forging weapons. She still struggles to understand the citizenry's fixation on weapons, even knowing that the laws mandate owning them. In order to keep her customer base, however, she's endured plenty of martial posturing and overly long conversations about the advantages and disadvantages
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Should I be ashamed that I demo'd D&D Attack Wing tonight and thought it was okay? Probably helped that I felled mighty Tiamat with Magic Missile
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Helical Nightmares posted:In which Pathfinder subtly trolls it's player base. Having to live in the place where literally everyone owns HANZO STEEL FOLDED OVER 1000 TIMES katanas and talks about them non-stop sounds really loving annoying
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MikeCrotch posted:Having to live in the place where literally everyone owns HANZO STEEL FOLDED OVER 1000 TIMES katanas and talks about them non-stop sounds really loving annoying Towns of the Inner Sea is so far not that creative or great. And no I don't think they are ripping off Japan the joke about how everyone loves their weapons (guns) and hate foreigners I think the author is referring to America
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TheHoosier posted:Should I be ashamed that I demo'd D&D Attack Wing tonight and thought it was okay? Shame on you for having fun. Shame!
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TheHoosier posted:Should I be ashamed that I demo'd D&D Attack Wing tonight and thought it was okay?
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Helical Nightmares posted:Towns of the Inner Sea is so far not that creative or great.
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MadScientistWorking posted:I don't think the connection is as tight as you think it is because you screwed up the fluff. Its colonialist foreigners who hate the Natives which of course wraps right back to America but still you got the fluff slightly wrong. 
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that's a loving hot take on the united $nake$ of amerikkka
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MadScientistWorking posted:I don't think the connection is as tight as you think it is because you screwed up the fluff. Its colonialist foreigners who hate the Natives which of course wraps right back to America but still you got the fluff slightly wrong. It's not airtight. But throw in the talk about how they love "democracy" and "meritocracy" and a lot of points line up.
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To me, it lines up rather strongly with the conservative gun cultures in the South and Midwest than a holistic snapshot of the US in general. And that's probably because I live in the South. Claim to have a big emphasis on individualism, place a huge amount of cultural emphasis on owning a weapon and even tying it to liberty, a small town where a lot of folks know each other.
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Can someone teach me how to import maps into roll20? If I had this: How would I make it line up to roll20's grid? I've tried following their guide multiple times and it never seems to line up correctly. gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Mar 10, 2016 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Can someone teach me how to import maps into roll20? If I had this: I didn't get it perfect, but I got it close. Go to the page settings and make the page size bigger; I had 40 units x 40 units. Import the image and make sure it is on the map layer (right-click>send to map layer). Then just hold the alt key while you scale and move, and it won't snap to the grid. It takes a little messing around - but you should be able to get it the right size. The automatic tool never works for me Edit: A quick picture to show you how it looked 
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It's an honor to finally meet you, Mr. Sirlin
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gradenko_2000 posted:Can someone teach me how to import maps into roll20? If I had this: Yeah, that guide is bullshit. If you know you have a perfectly square map, like the one pictured in your post, just determine the dimensions in squares by hand and right click>advanced>set dimensions. Set it to the appropriate number of 'units', which means squares, the pictured map is 29 by 29.
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Countblanc posted:It's an honor to finally meet you, Mr. Sirlin Thanks, it's great to be here on Something Awful!
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Tekopo posted:Yeah, well, STAW was also okay at the start. That's how Wizkids gets you Well that and the fact they made Mage Knight, broken clocks twice a day and all that.
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DalaranJ posted:Yeah, that guide is bullshit. If you know you have a perfectly square map, like the one pictured in your post, just determine the dimensions in squares by hand and right click>advanced>set dimensions. Set it to the appropriate number of 'units', which means squares, the pictured map is 29 by 29. thefakenews posted:I didn't get it perfect, but I got it close. Thank you both! The alt thing and just counting out the squares by hand worked.
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or, just don't use a grid your token won't snap but you can still put them inside the boxes by hand like a real tabletop
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Helical Nightmares posted:
I think I just put my head through my desk over how idiotic this is. Minis are nice, sure, but if you can't be bothered to learn how to play CoC or Delta Green for your Cthulhu fix then there's no helping you. Here's hoping that Sandy gets the better end of the deal than Ryan Dancey.
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I wonder - does any of the money from this go back to Chaosium? They're given a thanks in the credits, but they were having a rocky financial time, and now I'm curious if this is licensed through them and they get a cut, or what.
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