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Re: custom skills/backgrounds, I always liked the burning wheel-esque (iirc?) solution of not being able to improve your skills until you've used each of them. That or flat skill modifiers, so there's no mechanical incentive to use the "best" skill over the most apt.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 11:24 |
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PDQ# does something a bit similar, Training Points are earned for failing significant rolls. So you advance slower if you're doing stuff like picking a single overlarge Quality and trying to apply it to everything. Also helps self-correct if you choose Qualities that are less relevant, since you'll probably fail more at the tasks you can't handle well and you'll earn more Training Points. Although I know asynchronous advancement rules are a bugbear, this is probably my favorite variant of them.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 11:47 |
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oriongates posted:PDQ# does something a bit similar, Training Points are earned for failing significant rolls. I was already familiar with RuneQuest's idea of "you increase the skill whenever you fail to use it" as a means of incentivizing people to use low-level skills, but drat, letting people gain skill points that they can spend on skills besides the one that they used is a brilliant next step.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 11:54 |
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Mark Rein Hagen is a loving moron.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 12:32 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Don't play the Fighter, and probably don't play the Rogue. It's a Monte Cook game, so Wizards are the best. My favorite bit is the HP pools are split across Might, Speed, and Intellect, and you have to pull from the appropriate pool to boost a roll through Effort. The abilities each class uses also generally require an expenditure of points from one of those pools, as appropriate. So, the wizard class uses their Intellect pool to cast spells, etc. The thing is, Might damage will always be the most common one because it's the default damage of any attack unless noted otherwise. Now, the fighter class has abilities that use the Speed pool, too, but the Speed pool is what is used to dodge attacks. So you can either burn points from your main HP pool for abilities, or burn points from your main defensive pool. There's basically no enemy attacks in the base rules that deal Intellect damage.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 13:46 |
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Yesterday I went to my LGS for the first time in over a year and one of the employees there talked about Guild Ball in what I assume was an effort to drum up interest for it. Within 2 minutes he mentioned a character getting raped in the fluff as part of their backstory and chuckled about it. I loving hate people. also hi it's my birthday, Pandemic Legacy season 2 is fun and y'all should play it.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 15:41 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:I was already familiar with RuneQuest's idea of "you increase the skill whenever you fail to use it" as a means of incentivizing people to use low-level skills, but drat, letting people gain skill points that they can spend on skills besides the one that they used is a brilliant next step. It's a great system with a couple of glitches (most notably, it incentivizes players and parties to make a lot of extraneous skill checks and sub-optimal attempts in order to maximize the number of tick marks, which leads to things like the "weapon caddy" effect). RQ also had (like a lot of early RPGs) extensive rules for spending money and time on training to improve skills. RQ Classic Reprint Rulebook posted:To learn a skill by experience, a character must use it
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Slimnoid posted:Yesterday I went to my LGS for the first time in over a year and one of the employees there talked about Guild Ball in what I assume was an effort to drum up interest for it. Within 2 minutes he mentioned a character getting raped in the fluff as part of their backstory and chuckled about it. What the gently caress. I'm a huge Guild Ball fan, but that poo poo would've driven me right the gently caress away.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 17:22 |
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LeSquide posted:What the gently caress. I'm a huge Guild Ball fan, but that poo poo would've driven me right the gently caress away. It's seriously turned me off from giving it a closer look. I was interested for a while since skirmish games are kinda my thing but when some 300lb neckbeard brings that up as an example of how "dark and grim" the game is, then maybe I don't want to play that game!
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 17:28 |
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Are you guys talking about Gutter from the Union? Because uhhh when I read that, I finally realized that this was not the wacky Soccer themed Blood Bowl I came in for...Guild Ball Season 1 posted:
I mean, even after that there's a lot of stuff that's either grim or just downright depressing. The team captain of the Butcher's Guild, for example, goes on a killing spree to get revenge for someone shanking his teammate, only to be left for dead by his number two. And in season two you get stuff like a team captain from season one basically getting tossed away like garbage because they were crippled in a match. I mean, different strokes and the fluff is largely irrelevant to the game itself but I went in to the setting fluff expecting a hoot like soccer themed Wacky Racers and Blood Bowl's 'dark-elf assassin that was hired after he killed a player during a match, only to be passed the ball accidentally and fleeing all the way to a touchdown' but then I read the fluff and it was a downer! Bedlamdan fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jan 2, 2018 |
# ? Jan 2, 2018 20:29 |
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gently caress this lovely hobby
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 20:33 |
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loving hell
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 20:55 |
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Wow that's garbage.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 21:15 |
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 21:15 |
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Speaking of garbage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fm89zmb3G0
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 21:19 |
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I have a good 20 Guild Ball models, including the one that the terrible fluff's about, and now I'm really glad they don't put any of that poo poo in a place where I might've actually read it.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 21:28 |
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I didn't know about Guild Ball or Steamforged Ltd. until today; now I am familiar with all their products to ensure I never give them any money or praise ever.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 21:32 |
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:I have a good 20 Guild Ball models, including the one that the terrible fluff's about, and now I'm really glad they don't put any of that poo poo in a place where I might've actually read it. Yeah the fluff is super duper easy to ignore if you want. I do think they've done a better job with the writing as the game has gone on, but I also understand if the Gutter stuff still turns people away. The early stuff is definitely "my first grimdark"
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 21:55 |
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I think my first grimdark was, like, a particularly gothic episode of The Real Ghostbusters, and not fantasizing about raping a woman until she loves me
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 21:58 |
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Halloween Jack posted:I think my first grimdark was, like, a particularly gothic episode of The Real Ghostbusters, and not fantasizing about raping a woman until she loves me Yeah, I guess the better way to frame it is that whoever wrote the early stuff was very clearly a big Game of Thrones fan and copied a lot of the worst parts of that (and in this case, turned it to 11)
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:01 |
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CaptCommy posted:Yeah the fluff is super duper easy to ignore if you want. I do think they've done a better job with the writing as the game has gone on, but I also understand if the Gutter stuff still turns people away. The early stuff is definitely "my first grimdark" Yeah, I think part of why I found Guildball less appealing for me was that I went in wanting and expecting Soccer Bloodbowl. Malifaux is over the top in edginess too, but I’m more willing to tolerate it because I already go in knowing it’s edgy. The Ressurectionists have Seamus, the bastard child of Jack the Ripper and the Mad Hatter, who ressurects the prostitutes he murders as his undead minions and is at a minimum implied to be a necrophiliac. But Malifaux isn’t vaguely similar to a different game that I have nostalgia for so I just shrug and make an Ortega crew. Because family values and violence are my jams.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:13 |
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https://twitter.com/nekoewen/status/948265344195379200 Dunno about you guys, but I'm going to be buying some stickers for the next time I run a big game. Also possibly getting some sticker sheets custom made.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:32 |
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I'm still boggled by what anyone would get out of being a preschool teacher but for 20 something manchildren.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:40 |
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if a GM started putting Good Job stickers on my stuff I'd immediately assume they were dripping with irony venom and it'd take a long time to be conditioned away from that notion
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:45 |
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Ewen Cluney posted:https://twitter.com/nekoewen/status/948265344195379200 If any of this is true, my favorite part is how these adults have been completely conditioned to actually care about these stickers. They're cooking the meals to get the stickers, and they backed off something because they threatened to take the sticker away. They are literally demonstrating the behavior of a five-year-old child in preschool.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:48 |
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Countblanc posted:if a GM started putting Good Job stickers on my stuff I'd immediately assume they were dripping with irony venom and it'd take a long time to be conditioned away from that notion
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:49 |
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A nerd conditioned to bath through stickers is better than a nerd who doesn't bath.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:54 |
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:56 |
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we found out, ya know, you can just buy psychological validation..
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 22:58 |
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Literal good boy points.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 23:20 |
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Covok posted:If any of this is true, my favorite part is how these adults have been completely conditioned to actually care about these stickers. They're cooking the meals to get the stickers, and they backed off something because they threatened to take the sticker away. They are literally demonstrating the behavior of a five-year-old child in preschool.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 23:31 |
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I dunno, it sounds like she's teaching some young manchildren to clean and groom and cook real food, this is serious public service she's doing here. It's too bad they probably though listening to their own mothers was beneath them growing up or they'd already have this.
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 23:46 |
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I think the stickers is a genius ploy, after all it speaks to our inner child, and my inner child is a huge fan of dungeons and dragons :B
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# ? Jan 2, 2018 23:52 |
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One of my players, in order to get all the PCs to work together better, did up a poster board depicting all the PCs' names, meant to be a representation of the same thing in the party's headquarters. When a PC did really well, he gave them a gold star; if they went off and caused problems for the rest of the team, they got a frowny face. One of the players complained mightily about the concept (in a way that his complaints were half IC and half OOC.) He just so happened to be the player whose PC was most likely to go against the grain of party consensus, and often mess things up for the rest of them. After the third session of this, he'd accumulated the most gold stars. Sadly, the player who started it stopped bothering with the poster after the fourth session or so. But by then the PCs were working together much better so mission accomplished.
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 00:00 |
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I'm just saying, if it was an in-person game, you'd have loved my cooking.
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 02:24 |
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Who on Earth complains about people not dressing well for a game of DnD or Fate?
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 02:50 |
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Paranoid Dude posted:Who on Earth complains about people not dressing well for a game of DnD or Fate? As someone with a sense of smell and limited French language skills, this moi.
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 02:56 |
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Paranoid Dude posted:Who on Earth complains about people not dressing well for a game of DnD or Fate? e: also what Weirdo said
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 02:58 |
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Paranoid Dude posted:Who on Earth complains about people not dressing well for a game of DnD or Fate? I don't think it's about showing up to the game in a coat-and-tails, or even in pants and a collared shirt, but just coming to the game in clothes that have been worn for less than 24 hours.
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# ? Jan 3, 2018 03:08 |
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Stickers are cool and a fun visual acknowledgement that you did something well. I won a book of puppy stickers in a joke raffle at work and started slipping them in stuff that got returned by our fact-checkers for corrections because wtf else was I supposed to do with them. Now they get upset if there's not a puppy sticker in something they get back from me.
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