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ljposting: I seriously need to find a decent boardgame group around auckland, moving out to NZ was the best thing I've ever done but it's pretty much stopped in-person boardgaming cold. herding people around at work is basically impossible and even then they aren't really open to doing 3-4 hour sessions like I am, mostly just card games and lighter stuff rather than anything I can get my teeth into fully. flgs has a boardgame day every so often but it's mostly couples and while we've got a boardgame cafe it's weird to walk in there and book a table in hopes of just Finding Someone
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I think there should be board gamers on the livegame thread. If not, well there should be a thread to find people for board game stuff at least.
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Plutonis posted:I think there should be board gamers on the livegame thread. If not, well there should be a thread to find people for board game stuff at least. Oh there are, just not exactly many takers for this neck of the woods
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I don't care who you ignore as long as you don't make 20 posts about putting someone on ignore/But It's An Internet Comedy Forum, that would be hella boring.Stelas posted:ljposting: I seriously need to find a decent boardgame group around auckland, moving out to NZ was the best thing I've ever done but it's pretty much stopped in-person boardgaming cold. herding people around at work is basically impossible and even then they aren't really open to doing 3-4 hour sessions like I am, mostly just card games and lighter stuff rather than anything I can get my teeth into fully. flgs has a boardgame day every so often but it's mostly couples and while we've got a boardgame cafe it's weird to walk in there and book a table in hopes of just Finding Someone Have you tried Meetup? I haven't used it for gaming but it might be worth a shot.
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Stelas posted:ljposting: I seriously need to find a decent boardgame group around auckland, moving out to NZ was the best thing I've ever done but it's pretty much stopped in-person boardgaming cold. herding people around at work is basically impossible and even then they aren't really open to doing 3-4 hour sessions like I am, mostly just card games and lighter stuff rather than anything I can get my teeth into fully. flgs has a boardgame day every so often but it's mostly couples and while we've got a boardgame cafe it's weird to walk in there and book a table in hopes of just Finding Someone Open yourself up to the couples. The FLGS in my area basically has a 'looking for group' board that I've found some groups on (that I need to get back to). If they don't have one, it shouldn't be a very hard sell to convince them to put one up so you can advertise, so to speak. The group that I typically played with was a lot of married couples, but there were some single guys/gals in the group as well. I've never used Meetup, but it seems like an effective route if you want to take it.
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Nuns with Guns posted:In an effort to move chatty discussion out of the TG industry thread I want to continue talking about sports rpgs here They are. I've been brainstorming one for pro basketball and it is a bit more difficult than I thought. The audience I would make it for are more interested in the things behind the scenes than the games themselves. Think MyPlayer mode from the NBA2K series. They want to do things like establish/maintain relationships with teammates and players on other teams (fishing trips, nights out to restaurants and/or strip clubs, bowling, movies, etc.), interact with team staff (coaches, trainers, and front office), and developing new skills with retired players like Hakeem. The games themselves would be secondary to the stuff above. So, it would be a bit more abstract. Usually. There is interest in playing out in more detail games that involve rival players/teams, marquee games (national TV, basically), and playoffs (especially conference finals and the Finals). So, most games would either be handwaved or have a very simple resolution mechanic while the others would have more involvement. How much more? I have no idea.
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I wonder how well it would work to build an RPG around, say, Guild Ball. Just more or less keep the core mechanics, but add extra layers for player drama and team management.
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What do people use for creating dungeon maps nowadays? All the mappers I can find either focus on overland maps, are massively overblown (CC3) and/or ancient, or are extremely lazy and focus only on drag-and-drop tiles. It's rather sad to say that the DROD editor still makes better maps more easily than most map makers, which is a bit of a shame. Has there been any innovation there?
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hyphz posted:What do people use for creating dungeon maps nowadays? All the mappers I can find either focus on overland maps, are massively overblown (CC3) and/or ancient, or are extremely lazy and focus only on drag-and-drop tiles. It's rather sad to say that the DROD editor still makes better maps more easily than most map makers, which is a bit of a shame. Has there been any innovation there? What is your criteria for the dungeon?
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hyphz posted:What do people use for creating dungeon maps nowadays? All the mappers I can find either focus on overland maps, are massively overblown (CC3) and/or ancient, or are extremely lazy and focus only on drag-and-drop tiles. It's rather sad to say that the DROD editor still makes better maps more easily than most map makers, which is a bit of a shame. Has there been any innovation there? I use RPG Maker VX Ace with he Mapshot script.
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hyphz posted:What do people use for creating dungeon maps nowadays? All the mappers I can find either focus on overland maps, are massively overblown (CC3) and/or ancient, or are extremely lazy and focus only on drag-and-drop tiles. It's rather sad to say that the DROD editor still makes better maps more easily than most map makers, which is a bit of a shame. Has there been any innovation there? I'd suggest checking out deviantArt, there's a decent number of mapmaking nerds on there with really HQ stuff up for use.
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I just do it by hand as needed
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Yeah, my standard is iff dungeon is small enough to fit on my 1" square grid paper do it by hand. If not use Dave's mapper.
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Ettin posted:Have you tried Meetup? I haven't used it for gaming but it might be worth a shot. I gave it a try a while back but it's a bit scattershot - and seems like it's more regularly used to sort out lunch-break gamers in my area rather than anything. (i'm in the CBD so there's a ton of offices around) I should deffo give it another go, though, it's a fair point LuiCypher posted:Open yourself up to the couples. The FLGS in my area basically has a 'looking for group' board that I've found some groups on (that I need to get back to). also fair, I did ask about that a while back but they were more interested in pushing their boardgaming days (which, again, everyone's already in small prearranged groups it's hard to muscle into)
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Yet another person that's clearly never read FATAL. The recipient of a sexual act NEVER likes it.
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M:tAsc should be "go back to arguing about what sphere you need to attack the darkness, whether or not it's a coincidental spell, and after an hour just decide it's entropy like everything else and make all six loving rolls you need for a single combat action."
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Rolemaster one is surprisingly accurate.
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Yawgmoth posted:M:tAsc should be "go back to arguing about what sphere you need to attack the darkness, whether or not it's a coincidental spell, and after an hour just decide it's entropy like everything else and make all six loving rolls you need for a single combat action." So, combat as usual.
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Is there really no thread for "The One Ring", or am I bad at reading the forums?
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starkebn posted:V:tM should be more like "attack it with your Katana or your MAC-10?" Well it depends. Was the darkness created by Obtenebration, or Chimerstry? Or Phantasm, or Pandemonium? Or Forces? Or some Kuei Jin thing? If it's Obtenebration, you can shoot it, because the literal darkness is a literal dracula. But you'll make it angry.
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For map making stuff I point people to Google+ and the Map-Making in Games community. It's active, and people use everything from pens to software. I subscribe so I get to see several cool maps a day.
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Is that table trying to tell me there's a Timecube RPG
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Yawgmoth posted:M:tAsc should be "go back to arguing about what sphere you need to attack the darkness, whether or not it's a coincidental spell, and after an hour just decide it's entropy like everything else and make all six loving rolls you need for a single combat action." Last mage game I played I literally grabbed the darkness and put it in a headlock, while the other players were thrown out a window by their mirror duplicate, and stabbed their mirror duplicate to death with a magic marker respectively. We have a 10 minute limit on debates and it's mostly my fault.
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hyphz posted:What do people use for creating dungeon maps nowadays? All the mappers I can find either focus on overland maps, are massively overblown (CC3) and/or ancient, or are extremely lazy and focus only on drag-and-drop tiles. It's rather sad to say that the DROD editor still makes better maps more easily than most map makers, which is a bit of a shame. Has there been any innovation there? Dungeon Painter Studio It's $15 on steam right now, it's in constant development (the dev just improved the UI within the last week) and supports Steam Workshop (meaning the people on the internet have already done the hard work of making expanded tile sets to work with). Oh, and unlike Campaign cartographer it has an interface that doesn't suck poo poo from a dead dog's rear end. Here are some of the maps I've made with it     There are a couple of others here
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muscle wizards! https://twitter.com/spookperson/status/886075809751982081
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Lurdiak posted:Is there really no thread for "The One Ring", or am I bad at reading the forums? I distinctly remember discussing it with Effectronica, in this thread. So, no, there is no thread. 
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:Is that table trying to tell me there's a Timecube RPG It's telling you there's a Timecube RPG.
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The extent to which that looks like a 1st/2nd edition Shadowrun book is incredible.
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DalaranJ posted:I distinctly remember discussing it with Effectronica, in this thread. So, no, there is no thread. I feel like I should play at least one session before making a thread about the game.
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Lurdiak posted:I feel like I should play at least one session before making a thread about the game. This has never stopped anyone in the history of the hobby from weighing in, often extensively, about whatever game strikes their fancy and I see no reason why we should change our ways now.
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Pounded Hard In The rear end By Musclemancers With Forbidden Levels Of Physical Perfection - Dr. Chuck Tingle, MD.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Rolemaster one is surprisingly accurate.
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Are there any RPGs or even board games that at least somewhat resemble Darkest Dungeon on PC? I would assume some form of Cthulu would get the dread aspect pretty easily.
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I really wish there were games that took a stab at the positioning-based combat DD has. It's fun for one player but getting shuffled around by your partners and missing your chance at using your best skills due to that would be really annoying.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Are there any RPGs or even board games that at least somewhat resemble Darkest Dungeon on PC? I would assume some form of Cthulu would get the dread aspect pretty easily. Torchbearer is pretty much the go-to game for the low fantasy resource management style.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Torchbearer is pretty much the go-to game for the low fantasy resource management style. This. Adding sanity-blasting horrors to Torchbearer is a perfect fit.
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