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Lizard Wizard posted:Dang, nice, our party started at level 1 
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Tried to get into Pathfinder once. I had never played any live RPGs before and it was a new group forming and we're all meeting for the first time. Long story short: the DM didn't know poo poo about anything and was basically recruiting a captive audience for his lame fantasy novel. Highlights: DM on rolling stats: "roll seven D20s and throw out the lowest number". No further instructions. DM when asked how wizard opposition schools work: No coherent response, didn't seem familiar with term. DM running combat: No grid present. Positioning/distances not accounted for or even acknowledged. Essentially rolling attack in a void. Even with my limited experience consisting solely of Baldur's Gate rules I knew something was very wrong. Did not go back.
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Oct 6, 2016 20:59
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pathfinder seems like a bad one to do for a first time meeting
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Oct 6, 2016 21:03
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What's the best board game to play in a room, alone
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Oct 6, 2016 21:04
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Help Im Alive posted:What's the best board game to play in a room, alone Eldritch Horror.
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Oct 6, 2016 21:07
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Protip: if you're new to D&D just roll a spellcaster so you don't have to know a bunch of combat rolls.
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Help Im Alive posted:What's the best board game to play in a room, alone
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Oct 6, 2016 21:08
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anyone who wants to play d&d should know that fights take an hour per player
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Oct 6, 2016 21:09
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My favorite d&d moment was when my warrior got put into near death and I told our wizard to have his golem throw my body at the warrior that was killing us, since my dude was about 200+ pounds of full platemail. I got the kill, technically. 
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Oct 6, 2016 21:12
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nice, crosscode 0.8 is out. they're getting closer to finished...
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Oct 6, 2016 21:13
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oddium posted:anyone who wants to play d&d should know that fights take an hour per player This is real.
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Oct 6, 2016 21:36
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Tabletop RPGs are very enjoyable when the person running the game actually wants people to have fun. If they are trying to force you through their fantasy or sci-fi epic and making the experience boring inside combat or not, they're are only playing for themselves. A good DM knows what clues to drop to move the story along, and when to fudge a roll in the player's favor. They also know to tailor the game to the players. One of the best sessions I ran involved a torch lit room that was filling with oil, skeletons crawling out of recesses in the wall, and a giant grid of letters on a slab. Two people fought, two worked on riddles, everyone got very close to exploding. The larger campaign wasn't the best and was too circuitous, but I learned from it and got better. When I discovered MUDs (shout out to Achaea) I thought a great idea for a game would be a text-based client that could manage small parties with an AI DM. Make it a little like a CYOA with a handful of modules and let players keep their character sheet between games. You could even have a save function in case you couldn't finish the whole thing in one sitting, just like real tabletop RPGs. I also thought having different DM AIs would be neat, with the players being able to vote for who they wanted or to leave it random. One could be easier than normal, one harder, one more irreverent, etc. Canned dialogue and reactions, not really AI but you know what I mean. Now I see all these programs that simulate the tabletop experience on the PC, but none of them simulate the DM for you.
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Oct 6, 2016 21:39
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D&D 5e is a lot faster than 3.5/4e/Pathfinder but is pretty bad otherwise. For a newbie I who wants a D&D style experience I would recommend something like Dungeon World before any edition of D&D. It's lightweight, easy to learn and gets you to the actual roleplaying very quickly.
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Oct 6, 2016 21:41
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oh good news clockwork empires comes out on the 26th. i don't know if it's done yet but i trust gaslamp games
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Oct 6, 2016 21:45
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Dubstep everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOrlmuprm-8
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We were fighting a witch last night and my friend (a wild mage) was hiding in a tree because he's incredibly squishy. He cast a spell on a stick and threw it at her, but got a bad roll and got hit with a surge. Throwing the stick ended up causing his skull to shrink and nearly killed him. Oh and he missed.
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I put in for three days off including my birthday, but I did not foresee the result being seven straight days of work. gently caress me I guess!
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Lizard Wizard posted:I put in for three days off including my birthday, but I did not foresee the result being seven straight days of work. gently caress me I guess! I'll never understand why that loophole exists.
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Lizard Wizard posted:I put in for three days off including my birthday, but I did not foresee the result being seven straight days of work. gently caress me I guess! Today's my birthday and I was so caught up planning our wedding later this month I forgot to ask off 
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Oct 6, 2016 23:43
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my birthday is wednesday. happy birthday to the best birthday month people
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Oct 6, 2016 23:44
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Happy birthday!oddium posted:my birthday is wednesday. happy birthday to the best birthday month people Happy almost birthday 
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Oct 6, 2016 23:49
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oddium posted:my birthday is wednesday. happy birthday to the best birthday month people Only time i"m jealous of my best friend. Birthday on Halloween. Lucky. BASTARD.
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Oct 6, 2016 23:55
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Also, I wish I knew how to play D&D but I always forget pretty much everything in between sessions and even with a DM book I could never figure out how to actually run a game. I'm hoping that if I ever somehow have money and am able to obtain a copy of anything like uhh     I've heard they're super random but I don't really care, I know I'd have fun with them. If I could get mage knight, I'd probably enjoy that, too. And all of the Pixel Tactics decks.
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FirstAidKite posted:Also, I wish I knew how to play D&D but I always forget pretty much everything in between sessions and even with a DM book I could never figure out how to actually run a game. I was really sad 4e never got some kinda computerized version where the rules and possible actions are laid out as nice buttons and the math is done for you. It seemed really well suited for that and it would have allowed people who have trouble with the rules to play with veterans without problem, as well as sped up combat considerably.
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Lurdiak posted:I was really sad 4e never got some kinda computerized version where the rules and possible actions are laid out as nice buttons and the math is done for you. WoWJoke.rtf
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Make sure you play Animal Crossing on your birthday so you can spend it with the people that really care about you
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Also the Phantom Pain and most of the DS Castlevanias (if not all of them?).
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Only now do I truly understand the feelings of the lowly orc peon. Work work. 
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I highly suggest that whoever it was that had the PSVR on preorder look at bits of that long 5 hour stream GiantBomb did with it because it looks real bad.
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Lurdiak posted:I was really sad 4e never got some kinda computerized version where the rules and possible actions are laid out as nice buttons and the math is done for you. It seemed really well suited for that and it would have allowed people who have trouble with the rules to play with veterans without problem, as well as sped up combat considerably. it's criminal that the wii u never got anything like that
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Phantasium posted:I highly suggest that whoever it was that had the PSVR on preorder look at bits of that long 5 hour stream GiantBomb did with it because it looks real bad.
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Looper posted:it's criminal that the wii u never got anything like that yeah, the Wii U controller is basically made for being a DM. It's really dumb they never did anything with that potential.
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Phantasium posted:I highly suggest that whoever it was that had the PSVR on preorder look at bits of that long 5 hour stream GiantBomb did with it because it looks real bad. while i support not buying vr, i think gb had either a broken setup or were doing something wrong cause no other reviewer i watched had the head tracking issues as bad as they had. part of it might be jeff's high level of experience with other more expensive headset/camera array set ups vs people who aren't expecting to do more than sit at their desk right in front of the camera idk. cancel your preorder in general imo regardless.
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the OG Wii's most popular third party title was shovelware Carnival Games as if the analogy couldn't be more perfect, guess what comes out later this month http://store.steampowered.com/app/458920/
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Lurdiak posted:This is real. Pretty much every time I play a pen and paper rpg it is mostly me trying increasingly stupid ways to avoid any sort of combat or completely trivialize it. Nobody wants to play a straight up intrigue game with me
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D&D is good fun and I am still down to play with goons if that ever happens
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I wish I was like rich and poo poo so I could have a weekly DnD game, but alas I am a poor and I have no friends/time so I just read the 2nd and 3rd edition rule books. They make good toilet/bed time reading. I also got a whole poo poo load of Pathfinder core books and mods from a humble bundle earlier this year, I should break those open one day. e: Even though I haven't played in 15 years I still think up campaign ideas all of the time. If I ever have kids I will probably force them to play like a bad parent. ONE YEAR LATER fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I wish I was like rich and poo poo so I could have a weekly DnD game, but alas I am a poor and I have no friends/time so I just read the 2nd and 3rd edition rule books. They make good toilet/bed time reading. If physically playing D&D is a problem, you might want to look into Roll20.
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VR is pretty fun and neat.
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As a big fan of pink eye, I agree
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