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90s Cringe Rock posted:Translator's Note: Farog means Struggle. Wait...wait wait wait! It´s....it´s ...My Struggle? Translated to German as "Mein Kampf"?...are loving kidding me?!!
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Mr.Misfit posted:Wait...wait wait wait! It´s....it´s ...My Struggle? Translated to German as "Mein Kampf"?...are loving kidding me?!! I have some grave news about Varg Vikernes my man.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a vaguely goon-approved list of Good RPGs? I'm looking to expand my collection. Try Free League Publishing's line of games (they all share the same system): Mutant Year Zero, Coriolis, Forbidden Lands, Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum https://frialigan.se/en/startpage/ I highly recommend Mutant: Year Zero.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a vaguely goon-approved list of Good RPGs? I'm looking to expand my collection. Spire, Spellbound Kingdoms and Ars Magica, to name three personal favorites that get general goon approval. Ars Magica has a good deal going on over on the bundle of holding, by the by. Haystack fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Thanks goons, I'll look around some more at those suggestions. I've already got several 4e books as we just finished a campaign I ran. Arivia posted:FATAL, Myfarog, Pathfinder, Castles and Crusades. It says a lot that you of all people have grouped Pathfinder with FATAL  .
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a vaguely goon-approved list of Good RPGs? I'm looking to expand my collection. There isn’t really a goon hivemind beyond 4e good. That said you should get Good Society and Jane Austen it up.
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Crossposting from the 4e thread because I'm desperate.FishFood posted:Has anyone used Masterplan for Gamma World? I'm trying to find an addon that adds in Gamma World's origins and energy types and have been coming up short. Does anyone have any background writing addons for Masterplan? google is showing basically nothing.
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Wrestlepig posted:There isn’t really a goon hivemind beyond 4e good. That said you should get Good Society and Jane Austen it up. I would say there are four major factions in TG 1. people who just want a better version of D&D 4E and, frankly, would probably be happier just playing board games 2. people who think literally everything, even if it's a story about invading dungeons to kill things and take their stuff, should be a fiction-first story game using PBTA or FATE rules, maybe Fiasco if you're feeling saucy 3. the loose federation of Jenna Moran / Greg Stolze / Burning Wheel / World of Darkness fans, for people who are confused by the very suggestion that narrative and crunch are somehow opposites and whose GMs are secretly alien supercomputers rather than normal people 4. the OSR and/or various old editions of D&D fans who are constantly on defensive because everyone else is always criticizing them, and while some of those criticisms are correct enough to make them insecure, a lot of them fail to understand what makes those old games appealing and throw out the baby with the bathwater
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I would say there are four major factions in TG I'm basically a mix of 1 and 4
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you forgot the faction of people who suggest you run everything in the JTRPG du jour e: also tbz is really good you guys Leraika fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Aug 5, 2019 23:43
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I'm about a 2.5, with a splash of the forbidden "would run/play loving SenZar if anyone would play with me" Tier 5
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Mr.Misfit posted:Wait...wait wait wait! It´s....it´s ...My Struggle? Translated to German as "Mein Kampf"?...are loving kidding me?!! They are. It's short for "Mythic Fantasy Roleplaying Game" and doesn't have any secret meaning. It's written by a psychopathic murdering Nazi and would-be terrorist, but it's title isn't anything nefarious. The content, however...
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Regarding what to play, whatever works, works in my case.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I would say there are four major factions in TG I think the problem is your argument is I literally do all those things. I've played strike, I've made powered by the Apocalypse and fate hacks on top of playing them and constantly by more and more games using the pbta engine and running them all at least once, I own chuubos and I've been trying to run it again and I own Burning Wheel and I ran it twice and I own better angels and Wild Talents and I want to run it and played it twice, and I created and ran the old school Adventure Club here and love Dungeon Crawl classics and made a osr hack once. I guess I am the Uber TG goon.
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Also the faction chart is missing you know, the people who actually play TCGs, CCGs, boardgames and wargames. e: actually I think I'm becoming 1 because I've only been in only one RPG on SA and one outside lately but have been playing wargames regularly for the last six months since I found a local scene
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Plutonis posted:Also the faction chart is missing you know, the people who actually play TCGs, CCGs, boardgames and wargames. the board game, wargame, chess, mahjong, and go threads do not actually exist and i refuse to hear otherwise
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a vaguely goon-approved list of Good RPGs? I'm looking to expand my collection. I bought Never Going Home at GenCon. It's WW1 with Hellboy-esque otherworldly monstrosities. Like if the Battle of Ypres included hell-monsters and shaman magic. So if atrocities and devastating nihilistic conflict aren't enough for you, you can have that along with a golem monstrosity made of severed trenchfeet!! I do think the setting is very interesting, but I haven't brought it to table yet so I don't know how crunchy it is. TheHoosier fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Covok posted:I guess I am the Uber TG goon.
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Ilor posted:Or...you know...deranged. I mean, I'm playful. In reality, I just got really into tabletop games cause I used to be part of a board gaming club and I have diverse tastes.
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Oh, no, I didn't mean deranged in a bad way. 
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I would say there are four major factions in TG As a guy who was once trapped in the D&D/Pathfinder ghetto, briefly escaped to do a bunch of one-shot indie games, whose last major campaign was Savage Worlds Deadlands, and most recently ran Shadow of the Demon Lord, this leaves me in a very weird place.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I would say there are four major factions in TG 1. Griffindor 2. Hufflepuff 3. Ravenclaw 4. Slytherin don't @ me
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Nuns with Guns posted:1. Griffindor This is meaningless unless you took an official Facebook personality quiz 4x while inhabiting each type of TGer.
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PerniciousKnid posted:This is meaningless unless you took an official Facebook personality quiz 4x while inhabiting each type of TGer. Okay but if I don't report back in an hour, assume they found out I was cooking the books and avenge my death
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a vaguely goon-approved list of Good RPGs? I'm looking to expand my collection. Freebase RPG
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:the board game, wargame, chess, mahjong, and go threads do not actually exist and i refuse to hear otherwise
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Tekopo posted:you are missing out, the board wargames thread is great, where else can you read ASL psychos talk about their game in a mixture of boring legalese and something that you would hear from a numbers station?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is there a vaguely goon-approved list of Good RPGs? I'm looking to expand my collection. For a real answer to this, you could browse through the What System Should I Use Megathread to get an idea of the range of games people like: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3430847 What suits you would depend on the level of complexity (crunch) you like in your rules and what genres you enjoy. Apocalypse World and the many hacks and iterative games under the Powered by the Apocalypse system are perennial favorites here, and there's a thread if you want some suggestions on which ones people love. I'd say the (non-D&D) tabletop RPG with some crunch to it that gets the most love here is Fragged Empire. It's a scifi game, but there's supplements out for a more standard fantasy setting, a pirate setting, and a Bloodborne-esque gothic fantasy setting too. There's a thread for it, too. You could also jump into the FATAL and Friends thread for some in-depth read throughs of good and bad systems. People there could give you some suggestions of the best games that have been reviewed in the thread and you could browse the offsite archives to get a pretty good idea of how the games play. I could keep dumping suggestions but I think I'd prefer to know what you're looking for in a game before I start.
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While we're vaguely on the subject, have any systems done good or fun "hostile environment" rules? Something beyond just "Make an endurance check, failure gives you a level of exhaustion. "
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Admiral Joeslop posted:While we're vaguely on the subject, have any systems done good or fun "hostile environment" rules? Something beyond just "Make an endurance check, failure gives you a level of exhaustion. " From what I read of Torchbearer they seemed to have a big focus on dungeons and how they wear the party down. They referred to it as "The Grind". I kinda hate attrition in RPGs though, so I didn't look too hard at it.
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The only really good implementations I’ve seen are torchbearer and the one ring. Otherwise you’re better off skipping it or having tailored scenes:
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95' was a helluva year. This poo poo reads like a time capsule
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Admiral Joeslop posted:While we're vaguely on the subject, have any systems done good or fun "hostile environment" rules? Something beyond just "Make an endurance check, failure gives you a level of exhaustion. " Fire and Brimstone has rules that aren't simply "save or suck" and are genre/system agnostic.
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Haystack posted:Ars Magica Ars Magica is loving legit, but GMing it is loving hard unless you take some liberties
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Admiral Joeslop posted:While we're vaguely on the subject, have any systems done good or fun "hostile environment" rules? Something beyond just "Make an endurance check, failure gives you a level of exhaustion. " Splicer posted:I'm looking for a game designed around being stuck in a location of limited size dealing with an external threat. Night of the living dead, the mist, that style of thing, but also things like being stuck in a moon base. Something designed around the flow of hunker down, temporary excursions, argue, gently caress up, threat escalates, argue, plan an escape, temporary excursions, final escape, with the primary threat being The Outside in some manner. Splicer posted:I'm very much looking for support for "exploring a small location" and "going outside in a hostile environment", or at least a hell of a lot of GM advice. e.g. in a *world hack there'd be one or more moves that specifically cover going from the house/mall/base through zombies/monster mist/arctic weather to get to the gas pump/car/different part of the base with a bunch of thematic consequences seeds to choose from. Also some way for searching for and finding stuff in the house/mall/base a bit more interesting than wandering around a grid map making perception checks.
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dex_sda posted:Ars Magica is loving legit, but GMing it is loving hard unless you take some liberties That's really because Ars is supposed be be run round robin, and explicitly was in prior editions. The main GM handles the central plot, but people are supposed to take turns handling character and covenant side-stories. It works way better if you do that.
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fool_of_sound posted:That's really because Ars is supposed be be run round robin, and explicitly was in prior editions. The main GM handles the central plot, but people are supposed to take turns handling character and covenant side-stories. It works way better if you do that. Which is fine but requires really strong buy-in from players, because of the crunch in the system. My players just wanted to be able to make free-form magic, and while I was able to deliver what is undoubtedly the best campaign I've ever DM'd, with the best villain I've ever created, the amount of prep that I had to do to handle the table was crazy.
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Nuns with Guns posted:1. Griffindor don’t hat me
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Is there a cyberpunk thread? I had the chance to play red at gencon and it was really fun, especially in comparison to the shadowrun game directly following it
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The PDF for the Planescape Campaign Setting, which used to have a PDF for every book in the boxed set, just got replaced with a single 600-MB PDF that includes every book in one file, and also has a large white border around the page. I think maybe this is the same file they use to make the print version? I don't really know that that's an improvement, although I have asked in the past for them to make larger files for scanned book titles, because the compression level they've been using makes the text hard to read.
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