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Nuns with Guns posted:I'll second that Fellowship works very well if you're wanting a fantasy Apocalypse World-type game that's come out since people got a better handle on how to make PbtA games. It's worth noting that, like any good PbtA game, Fellowship isn't just a generic fantasy adventure RPG system, but designed for a specific type of fantasy adventure: one where a multicultural group of heroes oppose an evil overlord in an ultimately optimistic setting. You'd have to stretch and bend it quite a bit to make it work for something with a different tone or focus. But if what you want is something that captures the feeling of optimistic fantasy adventure stories (anything from Lord of the Rings to Avatar: The Last Airbender) Fellowship is gonna hit you juuuuuust right. Harrow fucked around with this message at 16:09 on May 8, 2018 |
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Pollyanna posted:Wait, which DnD are we talking about right now? The version of D&D with all the free sex parties that they used to draw us into Satanism.
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LuiCypher posted:The version of D&D with all the free sex parties that they used to draw us into Satanism. So- Adventurer's League?
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Inspired by "true" events, here's a sample monster statblock for my D&D-alike, The Next Project. I figured one or more goons would appreciate this, so I posted it here. Generally, I keep all the ~*exclusive*~ inside info/teasers to the TNP Discord, so jump in there if you want to keep up with the project.
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LuiCypher posted:The version of D&D with all the free sex parties that they used to draw us into Satanism. drat I started playing in the wrong edition
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There's an old Legacy wagon that parks at my work with a Starfleet sticker and a handmade QANON sign in the back window. I didn't know what QANON was and now I'm really confused by what this dude believes in.
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cheetah7071 posted:drat I started playing in the wrong edition I know, right? About to call up all my old friends from high school to complain about us not having the wild free sex parties that the police said we did.
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Has anyone played Torchbearer? I'm after a fantasy-vietnam rpg, and TB looks perfect for the job. Anything I should be aware of? Plan at the moment is to run a one-shot to test out the system (and/or kill pregens like flies) and see how it suits the group.
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lofi posted:Has anyone played Torchbearer? I'm after a fantasy-vietnam rpg, and TB looks perfect for the job. Anything I should be aware of? Haven't played it, but my impression is that it is very heavy on resource management, especially supplies. Not so sure it would give that Vietnam War type feeling.
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lofi posted:Has anyone played Torchbearer? I'm after a fantasy-vietnam rpg, and TB looks perfect for the job. Anything I should be aware of? I love Torchbearer. It does exactly what it says it will do, which is you'll tell a player they twisted their ankle and o yeah they're thirsty. O also you need to light another torch. Then your players will ask if everything is okay at home. And you'll laugh. If you want gritty gently caress-you-dungeoneering-sucks as like the opposite of D&D 4e, Torchbearer is like the platonic ideal with a good combo of crunch vs narrative stuff. If you want anything else it is not that game. It is laser focused on its genre.
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lofi posted:Has anyone played Torchbearer? I'm after a fantasy-vietnam rpg, and TB looks perfect for the job. Anything I should be aware of? You might want to take a look at the setting Quelong by Kenneth Hite. http://dungeonofsigns.blogspot.com/2014/01/qelong-review.html Fair warning. Though it is published under Lamentations of the Flame Princess the setting is easily adaptable for and D&D alike (including Torchbearer).
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lofi posted:Has anyone played Torchbearer? I'm after a fantasy-vietnam rpg, and TB looks perfect for the job. Anything I should be aware of? Torchbearer is fantastic. It's D&D through a punk rock lens: you're an adventurer because you're a loving nobody from loving nowhere and the only hope you have of not living a life of near-starvation until you die of some disease in your middle age is to set out to maybe make something of yourself or die trying. Read the book. Not skim. Read it. Run a conflict round on your own to understand how it works before you try to teach it to people. Follow the rules closely (especially timekeeping and checks) and, if your players are a little smart, a little lucky, and very determined, they might just come out alive.
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I second everything mentioned by Xiahou Dun and Zurui, with particular emphasis on "it is laser-focused on its genre" and "read the book." One consideration with introducing Torchbearer to a new group is which scenario to use: Three Squires, or Dread Crypt of Skogenby. Three Squires is longer (it's quite difficult to complete in one session aside from a TPK, although those are pretty easy), but it teaches the game in a slightly more forgiving way. Dread Crypt is the perfect length for a one-shot, but it's deceptively vicious. The very first fight against some moldering skeletons can absolutely wipe the party (something the module explicitly warns you about), but the players should be understanding about that if their expectations have been properly calibrated. What they might not expect is that the larger lesson Dread Crypt is trying to teach is that Torchbearer is a game about information and clever puzzle-solving as much as it is about resource optimization. Spoilers for those who haven't played it yet, but might: The Crypt is composed of several small rooms, each of which provides an advantage against the boss of the dungeon: a ghost queen who will handily wipe the floor with the PCs if they come at her unprepared. Parties that take their time to explore and understand the crypt's contents will have a noticeable edge against her. More commonly, however, players will simply give each room a quick once-over for valuables, maybe look for hidden treasure, then leave - and get loving demolished by an angry ghost a couple rooms later. That route to a TPK is, for some groups, entirely unexpected and jarring. They won't even understand why they got wrecked at first. The module is making demands of them that they aren't used to from a tabletop game, and whether that provokes frustration or a satori moment varies widely. Personally, I love it, but use whichever module you think your group will respond to best.
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Kestral posted:That route to a TPK is, for some groups, entirely unexpected and jarring. They won't even understand why they got wrecked at first. The module is making demands of them that they aren't used to from a tabletop game, and whether that provokes frustration or a satori moment varies widely. Personally, I love it, but use whichever module you think your group will respond to best. When you put it that way, it sounds like those old Fighting Fantasy gamebooks where not finding the right set of items or clues throughout the book could screw you over even if you got to the end alive.
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Zurui posted:Torchbearer is fantastic. It's D&D through a punk rock lens: you're an adventurer because you're a loving nobody from loving nowhere and the only hope you have of not living a life of near-starvation until you die of some disease in your middle age is to set out to maybe make something of yourself or die trying.
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Elfgames posted:it's LotR but darker. And that's why you need to light torches
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The thing I like best about Torchbearer is that it reintroduces the logistics that were gradually discarded from D&D, but it makes them fun and manageable by making them abstract. Like, instead of drawing a map, you just list places you've been, and use the mapping skill to retrace your steps. Time is measured in phases and turns instead of actual minutes.
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You've sold me on it even more.  I've always enjoyed street-level games most, there's something about "your quest reward is eating tonight and maybe a new shield" that appeals immensely.
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So say I was going to run an event at my local RPG gameday with the following theme: It's Rick and Morty-themed. Basically, everyone is playing a Rick with some narrow specialty/personality quirk to differentiate themselves from all of the other Ricks. I'm not 100% certain what the mission is supposed to be yet, I can probably just throw some poo poo at a random table and see what sticks. The catch is - around the end of the session, I reveal that none of them are Ricks. They're all just Jerrys pretending to be Rick (something something metaphor for the fanbase). Everything they've done has been in the confines of the Jerry daycare, with the people they 'kill' (even if they vaporize them) just acting out the part to help the Jerrys feel comfortable and important while their Ricks and Mortys are out. Any attempts to cause harm to the Ricks when they finally show up at the end will fail hilariously thanks to GM Fiat, although they might be able to do something that will make Beth complain to their Rick (e.g., ruin Jerry's clothes, have him contract Space Chlyamidia) In that sense, I could theme the overall 'missions' around what the Jerrys are trying to do in the Mortynight Run episode. i.e., they're supposed to find an obscure part to repair an alien superweapon in order to turn it on and seize it for the Council of Ricks/themselves. What they're really doing is replacing the TV tuning knob for the TV in the common area so that they can adjust the picture. My major question is: What system should I use? Yes, I know we have a thread for it, but TG Chat is generally more active. I was thinking of the following systems: - Fiasco (although I've never played/run it) - Paranoia XP (because life is cheap and they should be betraying each other left and right) I fully expect/want the table to hate me by the end of the session, especially if they sign up thinking that they're actually playing Rick.
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LuiCypher posted:So say I was going to run an event at my local RPG gameday with the following theme: The Spawn of Fashan
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remusclaw posted:The Spawn of Fashan What the gently caress What the gently caress is that?
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LuiCypher posted:So say I was going to run an event at my local RPG gameday with the following theme: Zephirum posted:Paranoia sounds fine
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LuiCypher posted:So say I was going to run an event at my local RPG gameday with the following theme: Fiasco. There's a third party playset about all the players being different versions of the same character called "All The drat Time" that you could use for inspiration.
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LuiCypher posted:Any attempts to cause harm to the Ricks when they finally show up at the end will fail hilariously thanks to GM Fiat, although they might be able to do something that will make Beth complain to their Rick (e.g., ruin Jerry's clothes, have him contract Space Chlyamidia)  Please tell us how it goes.
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lofi posted:
Yeah, I want to see an after action report. Is this going to be for some die hard Rick and Morty fans?
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DocBubonic posted:Yeah, I want to see an after action report. I mean, it will be even better if they are and sign up thinking they're actually going to get to roleplay Rick. The more misanthropic and all-powerful they feel before they have the rug pulled out from under them the better. But even if they're not - it's Paranoia, so as long as they're on board with 'sabotage everything' it should go pretty alright. I might introduce the twist a little before the end. That is, only one Rick shows up and he forgot his claim check. Which one of the Jerrys is going to get to go home? The players will have to I do intend to drop a few clues here and there that maybe things aren't what they seem. Probably the most obvious one will be an NPC who only snaps his fingers and says "My man!". LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 19:44 on May 9, 2018 |
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LuiCypher posted:My major question is: What system should I use? I would suggest the Our Last Best Hope hack Our Last Best Dopes, as it's pretty good for Rick and Morty, but that's a GMless system and not up to this swerve.
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I've been going back and reading my old space comics, and it occurred to me that most superhero games have rules for very high-powered, intergalactic campaigns, but not a lot of guidance on how to actually run such a campaign. I like the idea of every character having an origin story and powerset that would make them the most important character in many other settings...I'm thinking of what it would be like to play Miracleman's club of benevolent transhuman despots, the newuniversal protagonists, the heralds of Galactus, the Annihilators...I suppose a lot would hinge on whether the players care about being based on Earth, and transforming world society into something unrecognizable, or just having cosmic adventures in a space opera setting. I like the idea of running demigodlike, transhuman sci-fi, but I don't know what I'd build a campaign around besides something rather unimaginative like a big ol' war. Then again, there are games out there like Farflung or Sufficiently Advanced that begin with the premise of very powerful spacefarers, I just haven't played any of them. Thoughts?
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Today, I had a similar thought in that I thought that would be really cool to run a campaign where you were all just Marvel Asgardians as that makes you weird space gods who actually are God's because of how Marvel cosmology works.
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I too want a better written sci-if Exalted.
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Moriatti posted:I too want a better written sci-if Exalted. Depending on what you like about Exalted - the setting, the power combo building, just the concept of playing superpowerful people - Godbound is pretty good.
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Halloween Jack posted:Farflung How is this? My FLGS has a copy, and God knows I like weird poo poo, but the "hired a fetish artist to do most of the internal art" and "poo poo-tons of playbook" elements have made me a little gun-shy.
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Slimnoid posted:Is there any superhero RPG out there that's both good and isn't an overcomplicated mess of mechanics? Masks, if you want to play Young Avengers/Young Justice.
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Slimnoid posted:Is there any superhero RPG out there that's both good and isn't an overcomplicated mess of mechanics? no not really, unless you want to go for a niche like Masks' Teen Titans focus. I always found Mutants and Masterminds the lowest on the mess scale as long as you already know D20
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