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Is an X card what it sounds like? A thing you drop when a player is being One of Those and it cuts them off and kicks them from the table after enough?
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Mar 26, 2019 12:46
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Liquid Communism posted:As a counterpoint, I have never seen levels actually work for that in practice. I think there's a bit of difficult-to-extract conflation between "levels" being the cause of the bad game balance per se, and ... "bad game balance" in general being the cause of the bad game balance. As in, the D&D 3e Challenge Rating system a load of unreliable crap, despite the fact that it's clearly intended to be the kind of shorthand where you simply throw a monster of X CR versus a group of Y levels and it's supposed to Just Work with a minimum of deep investigation by the DM. In practice, it doesn't work like that, but perhaps that's more because of everything else that the game got wrong.
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Mar 26, 2019 12:52
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Len posted:Is an X card what it sounds like? A thing you drop when a player is being One of Those and it cuts them off and kicks them from the table after enough?
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Mar 26, 2019 12:58
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My Lovely Horse posted:Nah you just hold it up when something gets too much for you and then people know to tone it down or cut it out. Could be heavy stuff like edgy torture/violence/rape descriptions or just something as comparatively harmless as detailed descriptions of spiders. It's not meant to point fingers at any single player. That being said, if the X cards only ever come out when Mike is at the table, you're gonna catch on as a group and someone needs to have a proper chat. That's not a bad idea though. I've played in some pretty poo poo rear end convention games. I have an Atomic Robo game at Gencon turn into near rape when my character "succeeded at cost" when trying to get information from a Nazi
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Mar 26, 2019 13:14
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Len posted:That's not a bad idea though. I've played in some pretty poo poo rear end convention games. I have an Atomic Robo game at Gencon turn into near rape when my character "succeeded at cost" when trying to get information from a Nazi Open games at Cons where no one knows each others backgrounds/history/general comfort levels are like the number one place to use X cards. Along with the emphasis that its not meant as a rebuke, just a way of signaling discomfort and to move on to the next scene so there's no stigma in using them.
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Mar 26, 2019 13:41
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A while back someone asked for D&D 4e-inspired games that are simpler, but still use a grid, and I recommended Let Thrones Beware and Empire of Dust. But what about the tactical games that use abstract ranges instead of a battlemap? I know 13th Age does this, as does 3:16, and I know there are a few others but I can't remember them.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:41
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Halloween Jack posted:A while back someone asked for D&D 4e-inspired games that are simpler, but still use a grid, and I recommended Let Thrones Beware and Empire of Dust. But what about the tactical games that use abstract ranges instead of a battlemap? I know 13th Age does this, as does 3:16, and I know there are a few others but I can't remember them. Wait, isn't Empire of Dust more of a Warhammer-style battle game? Maybe it's just a hard-to-Google name though
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Mar 26, 2019 15:09
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I'm referring to a different game that's sadly out of print. It is very wargamey, with a map and tokens, but it's a RPG that appears very JRPG inspired. It has a Merits/Flaws system that encourages you to take unique traits like "You are the true heir to the throne" and "You're in a femdom relationship with the Final Boss' lieutenant." It even has an optional secret Real Final Boss. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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Mar 26, 2019 15:37
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Halloween Jack posted:A while back someone asked for D&D 4e-inspired games that are simpler, but still use a grid, and I recommended Let Thrones Beware and Empire of Dust. But what about the tactical games that use abstract ranges instead of a battlemap? I know 13th Age does this, as does 3:16, and I know there are a few others but I can't remember them. Unity.
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Mar 26, 2019 16:06
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Spellbound Kingdoms does zone based ranges.
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Mar 26, 2019 16:10
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hyphz posted:Unity. How is this? I remembering asking around a while ago and no one seemed to have any impressions of it quite yet.
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Mar 26, 2019 16:46
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S.J. posted:How is this? I remembering asking around a while ago and no one seemed to have any impressions of it quite yet. they put a lot of work into it, and it has some promise, but the frontloads you with a lot of very boring lore and the class powers are not written in technical language like 4e, switching between mechanics and flavor mid-sentence
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Mar 26, 2019 17:17
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm referring to a different game that's sadly out of print. You don’t get the full Empire of Dust experience without the box and feelies, but there is still a PDF at least.
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Mar 26, 2019 21:45
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think there's a bit of difficult-to-extract conflation between "levels" being the cause of the bad game balance per se, and ... "bad game balance" in general being the cause of the bad game balance. It's not even solely the game balance either, it's that designers keep trying to make every level meaningful but not understanding the actual lengths games usually run to, so they gate a bunch of the gameplay where a fair number of players never get to touch it... or learn how to use it.
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Mar 27, 2019 13:04
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Oh man, I bet I can take this hyperbolic comic and make it more hyperbolic and it'll be funnier!
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Mar 27, 2019 13:10
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My Lovely Horse posted:Oh man, I bet I can take this hyperbolic comic and make it more hyperbolic and it'll be funnier! I think the original was funny and so was this, it's just a pee pee joke, relax dude
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Mar 27, 2019 18:14
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My Lovely Horse posted:Oh man, I bet I can take this hyperbolic comic and make it more hyperbolic and it'll be funnier! The parody is good because it's also based on a good observation ("If everyone is willing to buy into what's on offer then odds are they'll enjoy it, and knee-jerk dismissive of stuff which doesn't scratch your precise itch sometimes means you miss out on that.")
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Mar 27, 2019 19:07
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Or, pee is funny
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Mar 27, 2019 19:17
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Coolness Averted posted:relax dude
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Mar 27, 2019 19:50
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:Or, pee is funny And tasty,
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Mar 27, 2019 19:52
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My Lovely Horse posted:I see we haven't met clearly, since you're not covered in cat piss
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Mar 27, 2019 19:59
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I think we need to get Zack Snyder into the thread to hear his take on the Wizzard.
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Mar 27, 2019 20:00
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Coolness Averted posted:clearly, since you're not covered in cat piss
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Mar 27, 2019 20:05
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I picked up Troika! Numinous Edition pretty much from the cover art and it is a bizarre delight. Wacky to see an entire RPG with the Fighting Fantasy ruleset, of all things, and with excellent art.
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Mar 27, 2019 23:32
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I picked up Troika! Numinous Edition pretty much from the cover art and it is a bizarre delight. Wacky to see an entire RPG with the Fighting Fantasy ruleset, of all things, and with excellent art. Elaborate on this? I've never heard of it before and it sounds neat.
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Mar 28, 2019 00:09
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Sure! Troika! uses the system from the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and is set in a surreal, strange and vaguely defined fantasy world. Character class is chosen via a d66 roll (see ex. below) and shenanigans ensue. I haven't had a chance to play it, but it's a lot of fun to go through. 
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Mar 28, 2019 00:58
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The sublime society of beef steaks sounds incredible, where can I sign up
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Mar 28, 2019 01:01
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Pretty much all the character classes are weird and great.
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Mar 28, 2019 01:05
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*scrolls through the Troika pdf, looks for the perfect spread to show folks what I see in this, the only self-evident answer being "all of them", e;fb by a mile*
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Halloween Jack posted:A while back someone asked for D&D 4e-inspired games that are simpler, but still use a grid, and I recommended Let Thrones Beware and Empire of Dust. But what about the tactical games that use abstract ranges instead of a battlemap? I know 13th Age does this, as does 3:16, and I know there are a few others but I can't remember them. Modiphius 2d20 uses zones, which are somewhat variable in size/shape/etc. So like you can melee someone in your zone, or adjacent within reach, throw 1-2 zones, and shoot farther, kind of thing. Indoors, zones might be rooms, or in a larger room maybe two or three zones, outdoors zones might be larger, and there can be barriers between them like doors or walls or a hedge or something, which the movement mechanics account for. You can still play on a map, but it's not necessary.
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Mar 28, 2019 01:15
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Holy poo poo that looks amazing.
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Troika looks incredible, like the Lone Wolf tabletop game on an acid trip.;
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Mar 28, 2019 04:09
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Does Troika do anything to mitigate the overwhelming effect of differences in Skill on combat effectiveness in Fighting Fantasy, or is it just the kind of game where picking a fight with someone even a little bit stronger than you is a terrible idea?
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Mar 28, 2019 05:08
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A Pay What You Want RPG inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog fanfics is up on Drive-Thru RPG. I don't think anything more needs to be said.
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Libertad! posted:A Pay What You Want RPG inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog fanfics is up on Drive-Thru RPG. This knows what it wants to be, which is exactly what it is. I might drop the buck-fifty.
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Thuryl posted:Does Troika do anything to mitigate the overwhelming effect of differences in Skill on combat effectiveness in Fighting Fantasy, or is it just the kind of game where picking a fight with someone even a little bit stronger than you is a terrible idea? It does not, loser of a clash takes damage even if they initiated. e: You can break a tie using luck though. Which I think is new?
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Mar 28, 2019 16:10
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I enjoy the multiple Book of the New Sun references.
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Halloween Jack posted:I enjoy the multiple Book of the New Sun references. I was so close to talking myself out of buying this PDF. Also, has anyone else here played the Age of Fable online CYOA? Because this has the exact same vibe as that, which is a pretty unique one.
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