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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Mentally statting out the cast of Macross Delta as FFG Star Wars characters once got me through a really slow day at work. Got any notes on that ? I'm watching Macross Delta right now (Macross Frontier is far superior and people should watch it) and I'm suddenly interested in a PbtA playset for running a Macross series. Any of the ground work already being done helps me achieve this goal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnBgMIYA874&t=1406s
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The problem is really that Bedlamdan is rhetorically really strong, and he chooses to use that to disrupt rather than reinforce discussion. I don’t know what to do about it; I like reading his words, but hate his meaning.
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Subjunctive posted:The problem is really that Bedlamdan is rhetorically really strong, and he chooses to use that to disrupt rather than reinforce discussion. Honest question, what about 'ur all body pillow having turbonerds with no sex life' and 'any work that attempts to make an ethical or value-driven statement is Christian Rock' was a rhetorical masterpiece in this last discussion? I really don't understand your post here.
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https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1013186393626030081 I really like this mech design.
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Zurui posted:Torchbearer is pretty feature-complete but I'm sad we'll never see a ton of adventure support. If there were published adventures I'd probably run that poo poo into the ground. I had no problem just grabbing existing OSR stuff / one page dungeons / D&D modules and running them in Torchbearer - stuff like Stonehell ran way better under TB rules than D&D really. I found the actual Torchbearer adventures published didn't really suit the game that much - you want sprawling, deep exploration places to encourage the expedition feel, not tiny maps where the PCs can get from place to place no problem like Skogenby. I generally combined multiple one-page dungeons into a larger complex and didn't map it on a grid, instead doing a node-based one.
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Subjunctive posted:The problem is really that Bedlamdan is rhetorically really strong I mean not really, no.
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Is there a PbtA (or similarly story-based) game that would work well for an L5R-style samurai campaign? I really adore Legend of the Five Rings but the system is like someone tried to replicate old school White Wolf from memory during a fever dream.
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Jul 1, 2018 03:37
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Alien Rope Burn posted:It's honestly the best thing they did for Robotech, in my opinion, aside from getting Kevin Long to do some pretty solid robot art. It was by Jonathan Frater (known only for working on the Robotech line) and Jeffery Gomez (who worked on the Robotech line and... a lot of generic d20 / fantasy stuff like "Call to Arms: Ten-Foot Poles"). It's goofy and dumb but it's about the closest they ever come to embracing the musical angle... even if it was Mospeada and not Macross. But the bar was set so low it doesn't take a lot to clear it. I'll admit the "crossover" section is probably my least favorite part of Splicers for a lot of reasons Also I'd say there's plenty of other interesting things to say about Splicers besides that part or the drama the author has been involved with King of Solomon posted:https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1013186393626030081 I really need to try and run Lancer one of these days
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Zurui posted:Is there a PbtA (or similarly story-based) game that would work well for an L5R-style samurai campaign? I really adore Legend of the Five Rings but the system is like someone tried to replicate old school White Wolf from memory during a fever dream. I remember someone making an interesting high effort Far East class bundle for Dungeon World, but you'd probs need to drop in your own edits to make Dungeon World able to tell the kind of stories you get in L5R. e: Found it
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Also someone run Battle Century G! It's good, fairly lightweight, tactical, and has giant robots!
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fool_of_sound posted:Also someone run Battle Century G! It's good, fairly lightweight, tactical, and has giant robots! I read over it a while back but never got a chance to do anything with it, you played it before?
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Kai Tave posted:I read over it a while back but never got a chance to do anything with it, you played it before? I've run it, and it's direct predecessor Giant Guardian Generation as well. Between it and the expansion, you can do a lot of interesting stories, both for the pilots and mecha. My biggest complaint is that I found the encounter design to be be a bit lacking in difficulty unless I actually played to win, so I ended up sending more enemies but playing them in a less optimal way. I really like that it has enough crunch to make playing different styles of mecha fell very different, without needing to deal with much math or tracking too many moving parts.
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fool_of_sound posted:Also someone run Battle Century G! It's good, fairly lightweight, tactical, and has giant robots! I'm honestly stuck between running several different Mecha games; Battle Century G Lancer Mekton Zeta an OSR system(using the Flame Pomerium concept one of my favorite blogs came up with a while ago)
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I really wish Greg Stafford became a weeaboo and made a Pendragon like game about the Sengoku period or 3 Kingdoms China. I'd loving love a historical or semi historical trpg on those settings that has as little fantasy as possible
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drrockso20 posted:I'm honestly stuck between running several different Mecha games; Yeah, I'm in a similar place. I want to run either Battle Century G or Lancer, and I figure running a one shot for both would be a good way to figure out what my friends and I like playing of the two, but I'm also way too lazy to draw that up, haha.
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King of Solomon posted:https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1013186393626030081 I really like those mechanics -- forced movement that yanks enemies over to you is one of my favorite things ever.
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Plutonis posted:I really wish Greg Stafford became a weeaboo and made a Pendragon like game about the Sengoku period or 3 Kingdoms China. I'd loving love a historical or semi historical trpg on those settings that has as little fantasy as possible I wonder how much money it would take to get this and a Great Campaign of the Three Kingdoms book?
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Lancer's tactical combat is very reminiscent of D&D4E in a number of respects, if that's a plus or a minis for you when it comes to making the decision. At the moment in 1.6 enemies are a little bit anemic but not to a majorly detrimental degree and the action economy encourages a lot of full attacking over other utility actions. The forthcoming 1.7 version is slated to address these along with some other stuff, including a revised ruleset for pilot-level play that the writers home will make transitioning between mechs and pilots smoother. There's an extremely active Lancer discord channel where the writers hang out, and it also has a feedback channel for discussing playtest games, questions and concerns, etc.
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Kai Tave posted:if that's a plus or a minis for you did you do this on purpose or was it just good fortune
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Zurui posted:I wonder how much money it would take to get this and a Great Campaign of the Three Kingdoms book? To be honest Pendragon would port really well thematically and mechanically to a Three Kingdoms game. You'd want to reskin some things and re-arrange the Virtues/Vices and the Passions but it'd be a fun project.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:did you do this on purpose or was it just good fortune Blessed by the patron saint of highly appropriate typos. It's not strictly incorrect, Lancer has a lot of area attacks, some forced movement stuff, and particular range values so I will say that it's not what I would recommend as a Theater Of The Mind Experience, but at least one person's been playing it just with a ruler to move stuff around and no grid or anything. It doesn't have any sort of zone-based combat ranging going on.
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Tricky Dick Nixon posted:To be honest Pendragon would port really well thematically and mechanically to a Three Kingdoms game. You'd want to reskin some things and re-arrange the Virtues/Vices and the Passions but it'd be a fun project. Remake honor to let you work as a mercenary and maybe have the late game have stuff like you getting titles like General of the Eastern stables for bigger dosh and honor.
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Also have the generational baton pass from the grand campaign extend from the xiongnu raids/yellow turbans to the unification under the Jin or whoever the PC's support
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Alien Rope Burn posted:It's honestly the best thing they did for Robotech, in my opinion, aside from getting Kevin Long to do some pretty solid robot art. It was by Jonathan Frater (known only for working on the Robotech line) and Jeffery Gomez (who worked on the Robotech line and... a lot of generic d20 / fantasy stuff like "Call to Arms: Ten-Foot Poles"). It's goofy and dumb but it's about the closest they ever come to embracing the musical angle... even if it was Mospeada and not Macross. But the bar was set so low it doesn't take a lot to clear it. The Invid Regent is actually Carl Macek's fault with the abysmally boring Robotech II: The Sentinels aborted series... although the movie made out of the produced material was originally distributed by Palladium.
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Zurui posted:Torchbearer is pretty feature-complete but I'm sad we'll never see a ton of adventure support. If there were published adventures I'd probably run that poo poo into the ground. There's quite a few third-party adventures and source books (https://www.torchbearerrpg.com/?cat=24) - you might be particularly interested in Stone Dragon Mountain?
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gourdcaptain posted:The Invid Regent is actually Carl Macek's fault with the abysmally boring Robotech II: The Sentinels aborted series... although the movie made out of the produced material was originally distributed by Palladium. I still have that tape, also I've heard Sentinels was actually pretty decent in novel form
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Seems kind of a tricky issue with mech systems might be pilot skill vs mech construction. I think most systems basically treat pilots as interchangeable, or have generic 'ace pilot' type upgrades for them, though I think some have gone a bit far the other way and give pilots maybe too much focus with out-of-mech abilities. (Which isn't necessarily a bad thing for a war story, though I'm not sure how much mecha anime usually has the pilots caught outside their mechs and having to fight the old fashioned way. I think it happens every now and again in Gundam at least) Could lend itself to adapting some classic storylines, like the talented but inexperienced obligatory teenager being dropped into a high-performance mech and having to learn as they go, or a superweapon mecha that's too much of a strain on its pilots so only an expert prodigy can even survive using the thing. Or the experienced pilot having to use a machine that's different from what they're used to, whether specialised in a different way or a downright weaker mass-production model. Of course, balancing that kind of thing would be difficult.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Seems kind of a tricky issue with mech systems might be pilot skill vs mech construction. I think most systems basically treat pilots as interchangeable, or have generic 'ace pilot' type upgrades for them, though I think some have gone a bit far the other way and give pilots maybe too much focus with out-of-mech abilities. Neither Lancer nor BCG do either of those things, which is part of what makes them great.
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Flavivirus posted:There's quite a few third-party adventures and source books (https://www.torchbearerrpg.com/?cat=24) - you might be particularly interested in Stone Dragon Mountain? I was completely unaware of this and am now really stoked to drop Stone Dragon Mountain on my players. Thanks!
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Who would win in a fight between the OWOD antidiluvians and the twenty seven dead apostle ancestors
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The people who aren't into washed-up early-2000s franchises.
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drrockso20 posted:I still have that tape, also I've heard Sentinels was actually pretty decent in novel form To be honest, even the Sentinels movie was better than The Shadow Chronicles. I cannot believe that got a theatrical release of any kind, but somehow it did.
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Yawgmoth posted:Embrace the dark side and run your game, but don't invite him. Find literally any other place to play and play there. Let him know he can come back when he stops acting like a 14 year old girl who thought Mean Girls was a how-to. Eh, it worked for him. I'd consider your approach but I suspect everyone else would be playing under sufferance, which isn't something I want to run to. It's tricky - I know people say if you want to experiment with systems you have to try them, and that people should be sympathetic, but it's difficult when in fact selling a system requires some level of confidence which would be unjustified in the case of experimentation, and people playing out of sympathy aren't a good context.
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Pollyanna posted:The people who aren't into washed-up early-2000s franchises. You have just got a one way ticket to rear end whupping town.
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Pollyanna posted:The people who aren't into washed-up early-2000s franchises. so the dead apostles then
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I asked a friend if he ever played anything besides 5th edition, he said he played "one of those dnd ripoffs" a while ago I found out later he was talking about shadowrun ???? I do my best to not be king grognard but c'mon
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are there any systems which would handle a Gotenks-style fusion of player characters particularly well? this is more a curiosity thing than anything, I'm wondering how games handle stuff like that.
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Countblanc posted:are there any systems which would handle a Gotenks-style fusion of player characters particularly well? this is more a curiosity thing than anything, I'm wondering how games handle stuff like that. I think Defensores de Tóquio had a feat for that poo poo and the result let the new character use the highest stat of both characters e: Found it  Basically it's meant for a character and a NPC that's probably a mount or a mecha or a tandem character that you fight together and it makes you share damage and can only make one attack per turn BUT you use the highest stat of each character on all rolls and can use the combined combat feats like charge attack/multiple attack/terrain advantage from each character so I think that could work for a DBZ style fusion. No rules for both PCs though although you can probably just ask the GM to forgo the "ally" prerequisite feat and instead have both your characters pick it? Plutonis fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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Gah!!! Now I wanna play that dumb game again because it's my first tabletop ever.
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