Countblanc posted:

1) that system does exist, it's just called freeform roleplaying and thousands and thousands of people do it every day.

Nuns with Guns posted:

A challenge you'll always face with RPGs done via discord or pbp is that any given scene will require back and forth between all of the participants until the scene resolves. Even in a system where a lot of work (die rolling, actions, etc.) is declared by a player, the GM usually has to respond and interpret the results in some way. The players that have to wait on the scene to resolve before they can act won't be as engaged. If there's a significant delay in response from any participants, that ruins the momentum of the scene.

Kwyndig posted:

Yeah the ideal pbp system would have to be GMless in some way, like entirely module driven like an old school D&D tournament. So you'd enter a room and use a player controlled resolution mechanic to deal with the threats in the room, then make a choice as to which room you tackle next and repeat until you reach the end of the adventure. Of course there's nothing stopping you from making your own adventures too, but you'd want some first party ones to get a good feel for the design and the mechanics.

gradenko_2000 posted:

There was a website a long time ago called Conclave which was 100% a hex-based rip-off of D&D 4e and supported asynchronous turn-taking across multiple players, with the website acting as the GM.

Of course, this essentially limited the gameplay to CYOA non-combat scenes, and set-piece battles the rest of the time.

Cinnamon Bear posted:

Kids have to learn early that life is nasty, brutish, and short

gradenko_2000 posted:

I tried running a PbP in reddit once, under the impression that the BIG RED ENVELOPE TELLING YOU THAT YOU HAVE A NEW MESSAGE would help with people flaking out, and while it worked for about two months, it still died after half the players stopped responding.

I don't think it's really a tools-based problem so much as a player enthusiasm problem.

Plutonis posted:

Yeah THAT is THE big loving hurdle (Player/GM enthusiasm) that PBP players have to deal sooner or later. No system can fix that.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/ChargenBot/status/900664293657542656

Plutonis posted:

LuiCypher posted:

And just think - you haven't even touched the Nasuverse yet!

Plutonis posted:

He's from Fate/

Plutonis posted:

Saguaro PI posted:

So Silent Legions is on sale at DTRPG. I know folks here think highly of Kevin Crawford, but as someone with less than zero interest in paying money for a dude's D&D houserules is the system agnostic stuff worth it?

potatocubed posted:

I started whipping up a sample setting with the generators to see what they were like, and with about 15 minutes' work I had a six-aspected god, a lesser copy of the six-aspected god, two dancers in silence and a mortal sorcerer who'd bootstrapped themselves to divinity.

Also, the lamest alien race ever: exiles from their home world, they're terrified of humans and have completely failed to dominate or eradicate us several times.

And there's another 100 pages of this stuff.

gradenko_2000 posted:

The system agnostic stuff is the reason to get Silent Legions.

Like, Crawford put in a functional set of D&D-based game-rules so you can play it with just the book if you really wanted to, but the heavy implication is that you're going to use the back-half of the book to create your own mythos against players who've read Lovecraft one too many times, but you're still doing all this in Call of Cthulhu or whatever.

Pope Guilty posted:

Pelgrane's got a Bundle of Holding which is the entire run of The Esoterrorists for $20.

Saguaro PI posted:

The bolded sentence doesn't really mean anything to somebody who doesn't already have the book.

potatocubed posted:

Yeah, I see your point. Was posting in a rush.

dwarf74 posted:

Yup! This was recommended to me several times in this thread, so I grabbed it and now I really, really want to run it.

DigitalRaven posted:

What the gently caress is a 'Nasuverse' and why should people who don't like anime titties give a poo poo?

Plutonis posted:

So there's like these twenty-seven super 'vampires' who can range from a living labyrinth to a giant robot spider alien from mercury to a man who's made up of a trillion animals in a chaotic primordial soup but they just want to chill out despite the church wanting to exterminate them and there's this association of rear end in a top hat wizards who want to reach the akashic records and hold a deathmatch between mages that summon historical and pseudohistorical figures as familiaras once in a while to get their wish granted by a mystical thingamajig and that deathmatch was plagiarized centuries later by the quantum supercomputer built by aliens in the moon and there's some people who can see the conceptual lines that separate life and death and can sever them to 'kill' anything, including other concepts and what if i tell you that other than a few branching timelines these are all the same setting

DigitalRaven posted:

What the gently caress is a 'Nasuverse' and why should people who don't like anime titties give a poo poo?

Alien Rope Burn posted:

It also, like many VNs, has a lot of misused proper nouns and often vanishes up its own rear end with farcical amounts of self-important lore vomit, which is what folks are referring to above.

gradenko_2000 posted:

The Esoterrorists always struck me as the pulpy HRT/SWAT-team equivalent to Delta Green's nihilist X-Files vibe.

And I do want to run it, too.

Hostile V posted:

The Book of Unremitting Horror has some fascinating monsters (the Organ Grinder, the Torture Dogs, the Shattterer) and some other monsters I will never use (the Man at the Bar, the Blossomer, the Snuff Golem). It is an impressively creative book and also not a book for people might be squeamish about abusive content. I would say that's generally worth the price of admission.

The Mystery Man can go eat a dick, though. He sucks.

dwarf74 posted:

Yeah, it's a lot more outright regular, disturbing, and/or body horror than the kind of Lovecraftian cosmic horror, mixed with aliens, reptoids, deros/hollow-earth residents, etc. that I was originally going to lean towards.

Serf posted:

Just today Rob Schwalb posted a content warning about the next Shadow of the Demon Lord supplement. Apparently it will be about the troglodytes who are pretty hosed up. Basically telling folks to not buy the PDF if they're not down with some pretty horrific poo poo. That's not something I see too often, especially in this genre of games.

SirPhoebos posted:

I mean I'd rather they give those warnings than not.