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Really Pants posted:ask me about the rich lore of the Magic Elf, Melf
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Here's my Fiasco tip for anyone running Fiasco: build the pool out of 3 dice per person instead of 4 (just add a single extra die if that gives you an odd number, so you can split acts 1/2 evenly), because every single Fiasco game I've ever been part of has fizzled out about 30-50% of the way through act 2.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Didn't they intially make Oerth by taking a map of Earth and flipping it upside down, with some of the in-univese cities replacing Chicago and Milwaukee? Wikipedia posted:Castle Greyhawk was the most famous dungeon in Oerth, the home campaign world of Gary Gygax.[2]:25 Players in the earliest days of this campaign mostly stayed within Castle Greyhawk's dungeons, but Gygax envisioned the rest of his world as a sort of parallel Earth, and the original Oerth (pronounced "Oith", as with a Brooklyn accent) looked much like the real-world Earth but filled with imaginary cities and countries.[2]:24 Several years later, when TSR produced the original World of Greyhawk folio (1980), Gygax was asked to produce a map of the world and decided to create something new which still featured many of the locales from his original world of Oerth but with all-new geography.[2]:24 Gygax also connected Dave Arneson's Blackmoor to his world by including a country by that name in Oerth.[2]:388 In his later novel Dance of Demons (1988), Gygax destroyed Greyhawk's Oerth and replaced it with a new fantasy world of Yarth.[2]:239 Yarth.
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Sep 14, 2018 21:07
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Oerth being pronounced "Oith" makes me want to run a Low Life game set in post-many-dumb-apocalypses Greyhawk.
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So like... Adventure Time?
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Sep 14, 2018 23:33
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Moriatti posted:So like... Adventure Time? Yes, but much dumber.
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Also one of the differences between Oerth and Earth IIRC is that the formula for smokepowder on Oerth works as a good silverware polish on Earth, and the formula for black powder on Earth works as a good silverware polish on Oerth.
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I found this at a local comic shop for $10. Looking through it, it seems to be for something called Rolemaster. 1985.  Swink is my favorite.   edit: Apparently it is fairly common and not as much of a strange find as I thought 
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Sep 14, 2018 23:53
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:AD&D 2E had an Ecology heading in the Monster Manual and both 3E and 4E, as much as they improved on the rules, were giant steps backwards in this respect. 4e's Monster Vaults were a good step in the opposite direction; some monsters, like the Manticore, got more flavor and background text in their MV entries than they did even in their 2e writeups.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:19
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Rolemaster? Percentile dice, your time is now (again)
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1337JiveTurkey posted:Also one of the differences between Oerth and Earth IIRC is that the formula for smokepowder on Oerth works as a good silverware polish on Earth, and the formula for black powder on Earth works as a good silverware polish on Oerth.
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The best news, of course, being that Ignition! just got a new print release. And if that’s your kind of thing, the cruel and unusual chemistry thread may be for you
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1337JiveTurkey posted:Also one of the differences between Oerth and Earth IIRC is that the formula for smokepowder on Oerth works as a good silverware polish on Earth, and the formula for black powder on Earth works as a good silverware polish on Oerth.
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm certain he cribbed that from Zelazny's The Guns of Avalon, where the hero accidentally discovers that some jeweler's rouge he used to polish a bracelet works as gunpowder in his home dimension. I would've thought that was in response to one of his players trying to cheat in gunpowder from scratch and him going "aha, you cannot out-clever me" again
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Mister Olympus posted:I would've thought that was in response to one of his players trying to cheat in gunpowder from scratch and him going "aha, you cannot out-clever me" again
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Lemon-Lime posted:Here's my Fiasco tip for anyone running Fiasco: build the pool out of 3 dice per person instead of 4 (just add a single extra die if that gives you an odd number, so you can split acts 1/2 evenly), because every single Fiasco game I've ever been part of has fizzled out about 30-50% of the way through act 2. Have you played with 5 people? My first game was with five people and we had an issue with scenes dragging on but I've played with smaller groups and it works fine.
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Pollyanna posted:edit: Apparently it is fairly common and not as much of a strange find as I thought Haha, yeah, here's my extensive collection:  The older stuff (most of the bottom shelf) took me literally dozens of dollars to amass. Not pictured: Another copy of Run Out the Guns and a box set version of RM2 Spell Law that I got at GenCon's 2017 auction, and my original RMSS core that's all loose-leaf in a three-ring binder. No Spacemaster of any edition, though. I never got into it. I'm pretty sure the local used book store that has tons of RPG stuff still has another one to three copies of a lot of the RM2 books, all priced at $3-$10. RM2 went strong from the mid-80's to the mid-90's and was one of the bigger D&D knockoffs, so there's just a boatload of used books floating around out there. Rolemaster is one of those neat, old artifacts that some people will not let die, or at least not let go grey with dignity, so people on RPGnet have opinions at each other about it, and ICE itself is a shambling corpse slowly churning out a half-baked new edition Real Soon Now. Anyway, it can be fun to flip around in the old books and look at all the weird, inventive, dumb poo poo they'd just throw around with little rhyme or reason. It's why the old D&D Monster Manuals are some of the best venerable RPG books to have. They're just so much more full of fun, crazy poo poo than two whole pages about how to roll your stats and then be a Fighter because gently caress you you dumb idiot you rolled your stats. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Antivehicular posted:Yes, but much dumber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nw0R5-l5Y
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Really Pants posted:
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thank you that is the best joke I will ever make
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Owlbears are probably even more at the point where the party will attempt to make a pet out of them. I think there's a 4e module that recognises this.
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The biggest reason not to make players fight bears or wolves is that they're insanely weak.
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I've been internally replacing bears with kobolds in every one of these posts and it has yet to fail to work.
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Anniversary posted:I've been internally replacing bears with kobolds in every one of these posts and it has yet to fail to work.
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Anniversary posted:I've been internally replacing bears with kobolds in every one of these posts and it has yet to fail to work. So did owlbear become kobold or owlbold? Because that's a monster I'd like to see. Der Waffle Mous posted:Yarth. "Sgt. Angel's been taken care of?" "Yarth." "He's not going to get back up again?" "...Narth?" theironjef fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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some loving LIAR posted:My favorite thing about the Greyhawk pantheon is that it includes 1) a literal cowboy and 2) a god named after a car. I know Murlynd, but my knowledge of Greyhawk or cars is lacking because what's that second one?
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Lurdiak posted:The biggest reason not to make players fight bears or wolves is that they're insanely weak. That's why dire wolves and dire bears exist.
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Completely off-topic, but I've seen this picture (and others like it, all coincidentally by the same guy as the first) and always thought it would be cool as hell if those were the typical housecats. I mean sure, it'd be weird for players the first time one swoops out of the awnings of a house to grab a mouse running by, but I've always liked the idea. That, and the Caucasian Ovcharka as pets for humans (guardians for the children), and riding dogs for halflings. Love me some big doggos, too.
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Lemon-Lime posted:That's why dire wolves and dire bears exist. They are like normal bears and wolves but their love of rubies and gemstones is increased tenfold. In addition, they are simply more dire in demeanor. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Lemon-Lime posted:That's why dire wolves and dire bears exist. What's a Dire Kobold?
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Anniversary posted:What's a Dire Kobold?
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Yawgmoth posted:A dragon. 
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Really Pants posted:
Man, you are just going all out today.
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Anniversary posted:What's a Dire Kobold? A Kobold who colors fabric, but that’s not important right now edit: a step up from a Tanner Kobold Zephirum fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Lurdiak posted:The biggest reason not to make players fight bears or wolves is that they're insanely weak. I can see that as a point in its favor. Like a low-stress encounter that just makes the PCs feel good about their characters and sound awesome. I think the reason that Savage Punch art turned into a meme is because like...nagas or goblins or whatever aren't real, but bears are, so you have a good barometer for how badass it is to punch a bear and win. Lots of D&D stories are hard to explain without context, but "And then we FOUGHT A BEAR and won!" is something you could tell anyone and they would see why it was so exciting. Probably why they played Honey Heist on Critical Role, actually.
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Zephirum posted:A Kobold who colors fabric, but that’s not important right now
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Howdy. Could someone direct me to a thread, or if anyone has suggestions on video conferencing software for gaming? Nobody wants to drive three hours to game anymore.
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