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berenzen posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for RPGs that play well with 2? My wife and I have an itch to play pen&paper but my schedule makes it difficult to play more than just the two of us. Pelgrane Press has adapted their GUMSHOE system to work for single-player (plus GM) gaming. Cthulhu Confidential is well received and Solo Ops is a forthcoming version of their spies-vs-vampires Night's Black Agents.
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mllaneza posted:I've never managed to play Leviathan or Prefect. I wouldn't be surprised than no one has. By the time they came out, there was no reason to trust RL games with a whole session of play, and nobody wanted to spend the time to prove that another RL game was broken. I wouldn't be surprised. When we posted that the game seemed pretty largely forgotten we got a few photos from some old RPers still playing all of this line at conventions. There's always a few. In like 136 episodes the amount of times we didn't get at least one message from someone saying "gently caress you guys I still play this poo poo" is like, maybe three. Vanishing Point, Great War of Magellan, and The Xro Dinn Chronicles, basically.
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 New blogpost for The Next Project is up! Final blogpost of the year, this time -- talking about where to expect the designs to go, in the future, as well as plans for the blog itself. Basically, I'm going to have to buckle down and devote more of my time to working on the designs, with the main goal of getting all the DM-side aspects complete. However, I also feel that the leveling and customization options need to expand a bit, so that will also require a good deal of attention. If you're interested in talking about the game's designs, all goons are welcome to join the TNP Discord.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Renegade Legion is, at least, a more interesting game with historical context. It's easy to forget it had three video games, five different board games, novels, etc. FASA originally developed it to be their Star Wars game, but couldn't get the license, so they did an "original" setting instead and published it. FASA was good at pushing properties but their attempt at a spaceship equivalent of Battletech never quite caught on. Some of the spaceship rules were later recycled in Battletech products as well. I love Shadowrun but AFAIK it's the only thing FASA ever put out that was very interesting.
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Pope Guilty posted:I love Shadowrun but AFAIK it's the only thing FASA ever put out that was very interesting. Earthdawn was kind of neat.
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That Old Tree posted:Earthdawn was kind of neat.
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theironjef posted:I wouldn't be surprised. When we posted that the game seemed pretty largely forgotten we got a few photos from some old RPers still playing all of this line at conventions. There's always a few. In like 136 episodes the amount of times we didn't get at least one message from someone saying "gently caress you guys I still play this poo poo" is like, maybe three. Vanishing Point, Great War of Magellan, and The Xro Dinn Chronicles, basically. Someone signed up to run Vanishing Point at our December monthly games meet up. That old garbage is still out there.
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Does anyone else have a weird blue ribbon on the side of their screen saying "lol look at this dumb poo poo?" Anyone know why it's there?
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Covok posted:Does anyone else have a weird blue ribbon on the side of their screen saying "lol look at this dumb poo poo?" Anyone know why it's there? It's just you
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 This is so weird.
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Covok posted:Does anyone else have a weird blue ribbon on the side of their screen saying "lol look at this dumb poo poo?" Anyone know why it's there? Same.
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Covok posted:
lol look at this dumb poo poo
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Covok posted:
Private Speech posted:ABP rule to block this, err, this poo poo:
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Here's a filter to block it in ublock: forums.somethingawful.com##cloudflare-app[app="corner-ribbon"]
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okay but like, why is it there, is today something special?
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It's probably just some dumb poo poo
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Lowtax remembered the forums exist and he hadn't befuddled or annoyed anyone on it recently
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Nuns with Guns posted:Lowtax remembered the forums exist and he hadn't befuddled or annoyed anyone on it recently
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As seen somewhere else on the forums: apparently the little banner thing is a product of the Cloudflare app and says something like "Protected By Cloudflare" as a default. I guess Lowtax decided to "customize" it.
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Here's the GIF that goes at the end of (almost) every System Mastery: https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1068978036119224320?s=19 That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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I love that I can tell he’s Canadian just by the scenery. I have never seen that video but youtube keeps telling me to watch it. Maybe I will.
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Leperflesh posted:Here's a filter to block it in ublock: thanks a lot!
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Pope Guilty posted:I love Shadowrun but AFAIK it's the only thing FASA ever put out that was very interesting. I think I read the MechWarrior 3rd edition book almost as many times as the Manual of the Planes. 
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Xiahou Dun posted:I love that I can tell he’s Canadian just by the scenery. Dan Olson/Folding Ideas is good poo poo.
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That Old Tree posted:Dan Olson/Folding Ideas is good poo poo. I’ve watched some of his other stuff after hbomberguy featured him and have been pretty happy. I just haven’t watched that video because the mere concept of the 50 Shades of Grey movies fill me with almost fatal levels of ennui.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I’ve watched some of his other stuff after hbomberguy featured him and have been pretty happy. I just haven’t watched that video because the mere concept of the 50 Shades of Grey movies fill me with almost fatal levels of ennui.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I’ve watched some of his other stuff after hbomberguy featured him and have been pretty happy. I just haven’t watched that video because the mere concept of the 50 Shades of Grey movies fill me with almost fatal levels of ennui.  Also what Hostile said above.
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They're good because he goes into technical ways the director and screenwriter of the first movie tried to quietly rebel against the author with monstrous control over the project. And it's interesting to analyze the results of a fanfic writer given final veto power over a film adaption of their poo poo.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Scarlet Heroes is specifically designed for 1 player 1 GM and is generally really well written to boot Black Streams: Solo Heroes is free, online, and a good place to start.
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Oh hey, rpg.net is looking pretty good after the Xenforo 2 Upgrades  Can't wait for SA to get started on it too!
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only took them a week. SomethingAwful is going to explode.
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So, anyone here familiar with Black Streams? Was wondering how it'd work with Pathfinder or 3.5 with a single player.
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xanthan posted:So, anyone here familiar with Black Streams? Was wondering how it'd work with Pathfinder or 3.5 with a single player. You could probably just apply the rules to 3.5/PF straight-up. On the one hand, it would be much easier to increase your damage rolls to the point where you're always dealing at least one, or even two, HD of damage, since even just 20 Strength would get you there. On the other hand, most creatures in the 3.5/PF milieu use lots more HD anyway, so it'll probably wash-out. Was there any part of the rules that you thought might be an issue?
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gradenko_2000 posted:You could probably just apply the rules to 3.5/PF straight-up. On the one hand, it would be much easier to increase your damage rolls to the point where you're always dealing at least one, or even two, HD of damage, since even just 20 Strength would get you there. Not specifically, just not that experienced. Could miss some glaring problems, so I thought this would be a good place to ask. Thank you!
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So, about this (by the author of the Same Page Tool): https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/a-social-truth-about-fun/ Fair, or too defeatist? It seems to make a good point, but at the same time, selling is a thing people do. And the idea that a campaign that people do want ought to “just happen” is probably a bit much?
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I mean, they're right. If the players just aren't into the game it's extremely unlikely that you're going to be able to change that. I tried to get my group into Torchbearer because hey, I think Torchbearer's great, so why not, right? But by the third session they were sick of it. They were disinterested in it for practically all the same reasons I love it. There's nothing I could have done to change their minds, so we played something else instead. I don't think it's a matter of selling people on the game. If they're not sold by like the first session they're probably not buying, in my experience.
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Yeah, there is no point in forcing people to play something they genuinely don't want to play (as opposed to having a bit of inertia because it's new), it's a waste of everyone's time. If you can't find something that both you and your players want to play, you need to either play something different or find different players. Part of being a good GM is understanding what your players are like and what you can and can't put in front of them as a game to play (or thematically, for that matter). My last couple of groups have been people who are into RPGs more for the social aspect and like cracking jokes a lot, and no matter how much I want to run Thou Art But A Warrior or The One Ring, I know full well that it's pointless to even try with these groups. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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It's not really defeatist to acknowledge that some groups and some games just don't mesh for whatever reason. It can be disappointing if you're really up to play Game A but the group wants to play Game B and won't meet you halfway, my personal opinion is that groups should at least be receptive to trying new stuff if the person generally designated as the game-runner wants to give them a shot but if they give it a shot and aren't having fun then there's no sense in forcing it. And yeah, what Lemon-Lime said in knowing your group will often give you a good idea of what you're likely to have success with.
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