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If you don't mind OSR, Emmy Allen's Esoteric Enterprises is cool and has plenty of vampires, among other things.
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Never played it but I've heard good things about Night's Black Agents
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Jan 31, 2020 09:07
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Splicer posted:Never played it but I've heard good things about Night's Black Agents
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Jan 31, 2020 09:34
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Hey I'm trying to share with someone the story of the players who had a new DM that eventually started teaching them how to adult. Behavioural chart and everything. Does anyone have a copy or know where it's at? My google fu is weak
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Jan 31, 2020 09:40
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90s Cringe Rock posted:If you don't mind OSR, Emmy Allen's Esoteric Enterprises is cool and has plenty of vampires, among other things. Hopefully I'll have a chance to nab a physical copy of that one soon
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Jan 31, 2020 09:44
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thetoughestbean posted:Are there any good games about hunting down and killing supernatural creatures, more specifically vampires? I got into an argument with a friend about vamps and now I’m feeling like reading about staking the pointy teethed bastards I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but iHunt was written and developed by Olivia Hill -- one of my favorite RPG setting writers, a talented designer, and also a goon. It's worth a look, at least; it's not expensive and if you're really hard up she offers it at pay-what-you-want from time to time.
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thetoughestbean posted:Are there any good games about hunting down and killing supernatural creatures, more specifically vampires? I got into an argument with a friend about vamps and now I’m feeling like reading about staking the pointy teethed bastards Also, seconding Night's Black Agents. (Also also, there's The Laundry RPG but I don't know if it's any good.)
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It's funny that I have a readymade list of the games where you play vampires but am just remembering things off the top of my head when it comes to killing them.
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Jan 31, 2020 15:04
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So, long story short - I had my first D&D game with my boys, two of their friends, and my wife last night. That's two 4th-graders, two 2nd-graders, and my wife who's never played an RPG in her life. I hauled out the pregens WotC has on their site, because the alternative was terrifying. We ended up with a Druid, a Barbarian, a Paladin, a Rogue, and a Fighter. I used the new-ish Essentials Box, which has a pretty capable adventure in it. It went really great - I kept it to an hour and a half, because kids, but everyone mostly stayed involved in the game and everyone's starting to figure out the rules. There were a few breaks to pet my cat, and I think the reason they are adventuring is to save money to buy a horse. (One horse. For all of them. Because they want pets.) It went so much better than No Thank You Evil it's amazing.
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Jan 31, 2020 15:13
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There seems to be a Savage Worlds book based on the Monster Hunter International series. The books themselves are kind of blah but they introduced me to trailer park elves in the rural US so that was fun. I don't know what sort of licensing deal was involved with that. Some of your money may go to a Sad Puppies dude so think twice maybe.
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Jan 31, 2020 15:16
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That is quite possibly the best thing to come out of 5e. Good on you and well done. Very happy to hear. (Post pics of the cat.)
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Jan 31, 2020 15:18
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If your game session isn't interrupted by a cat is it even a session? Everytime I buy a new boardgame it has to be Cat Approved almost immediately. So far everything from the biggest Gloomhaven to the smallest Tussie Mussie has passed the if "I fits I sits" rule. Okay Cuckoo gave him a struggle but even though 90% of him was outside the box he called it acceptable
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Jan 31, 2020 15:30
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Just lol if you haven't had to house-rule a board game cause a cat stole an enemy and dragged it deep under a couch.
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Xiahou Dun posted:That is quite possibly the best thing to come out of 5e. Good on you and well done. Very happy to hear.  
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Jan 31, 2020 16:25
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Good catte. Would pet. A+. Thank you. Brb gonna go find my cat and give her a rub.
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Jan 31, 2020 16:27
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Xiahou Dun posted:Good catte. Would pet. A+. 
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dwarf74 posted:I think the reason they are adventuring is to save money to buy a horse
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dwarf74 posted:One more, with Heroscape. He is a very good boy who deserves many pets. Also you have some really, really low windows that I desperately want to fix the mounting/framing on. Like give me an hour with a chuck saw and a nail gun. It's killing my OCD. (Not judging I ain't a home-owner so I don't mean to throw shade on you. Just former-carpenter is coming out hard.)
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Xiahou Dun posted:He is a very good boy who deserves many pets.  And they're not as low as this picture makes it look - it's at a weird angle, and the cat's on a pretty tall box full of heroscape stuff. They are normal window-height for all homes I've lived in.
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Jan 31, 2020 17:28
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They're poorly framed (which I'm not blaming you for obvis) and it just is setting me off so I want to fix them. Ahhhhh some of the moulding isn't flush it's killing me. Sorry.
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Arivia posted:Sure, Int translates directly into skills, but I have all the skills I need for this character: Acrobatics, Athletics, Intimidation, Labor Lore, Nature, and Survival. I know this is just a missing comma but now I like the character concept of "I am Brough from the trackless wastes. I can hunt, kill, leap, find prey, and tell you the lessons of Eugene Debs and Joe Hill. Sit while I speak of the Battle of Blair Mountain, and how our own government bombed our women and children. Then I will kill a bulette and cook it."
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Jan 31, 2020 17:47
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Skill Power: Pullman Strike
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Pieces of Peace posted:I know this is just a missing comma but now I like the character concept of "I am Brough from the trackless wastes. I can hunt, kill, leap, find prey, and tell you the lessons of Eugene Debs and Joe Hill. Sit while I speak of the Battle of Blair Mountain, and how our own government bombed our women and children. Then I will kill a bulette and cook it." "Good roll! You now recognize these ancient carvings! It's a series of battle plans to take on an oppressive foe the scripts refer to as "Oily Joe." You can't be sure, but this may be the fabled tomb of Mother Jones!"
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Do you like role-playing games? Do you like the works of Hitoshi Ashinano? Do you like map-drawing games? Do you like the peaceful twilight of this age of humanity (gently caress!) as the world changes into something new and our people find a new place for themselves in the strange and beautiful world to come? Next week I'm releasing Twilight Song, my Yokohama Shopping Log-inspired hack of The Quiet Year - it's a pastoral sci-fi story set in the near future in a world that becomes increasingly unlike our own, focusing on the life and times of an immortal narrator who stays the same even as years, decades, and generations pass. Here's a preview of the season oracle (which will be freely-available in its properly-formatted form, as well as other material such as the 'Between Years oracle', when the game is released). As with TQY's oracle, this provides random events and story prompts during the game - you draw a playing card and match it to the corresponding entry (each suit corresponding to a season). There's an early alpha PbP playtest here on SA - I've refined it a lot since then, but if you want to see how an earlier version played out, check it out!
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dwarf74 posted:One more, with Heroscape. One of my cats looks exactly like your cat. This is Billie Jean. She's a girl, she's runty and smol, and she's floofy and grey, and if I didn't know better I'd swear that picture of your cat is actually a picture of my cat.      
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Leperflesh posted:One of my cats looks exactly like your cat. Ours though is not small - he's fairly beefy, and his favorite place sit to be petted is with his front paws on a shoulder, claws kneading painfully, so probably he can drink our blood through his feet or something. We had to get a special expensive cat on account of my allergies. Octavius is a Siberian, which mostly means he goes nuts whenever we track snow into the house, but which also means I can still breathe with him around.
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dwarf74 posted:That's uncanny! Slightly different eyes, tho - Octavius's are more yellowy and less green. Interesting! Billie Jean is a stray who showed up on our doorstep as a kitten (we put food out for certain TNR ferals we are watching out for). I wonder if she has a siberian as a parent.
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Cat chat: I had my cat for 6 years and not once did he show any interest in jumping up on the kitchen table. Then I got a roommate who runs PF games at our apartment. Now my cat actually behaves like a cat and hops onto his battlemap constantly. Cats just want to play games.
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I am having a hard time not being heartbroken that the author of Fellowship has to run Cypher and 5e.
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hyphz posted:I am having a hard time not being heartbroken that the author of Fellowship has to run Cypher and 5e. Huh? What's this about?
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hyphz posted:I am having a hard time not being heartbroken that the author of Fellowship has to run Cypher and 5e. ...what exactly are you talking about? I've never touched either system, don't own em, and am not running games of em any time soon. All I'm running right now is a Fellowship campaign and a Beam Saber mini-campaign, and I am playing in a Mouse Guard game and a Shadow of the Demon Lord game. I don't know where you heard this.
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I think he got you and Dwarf74 mixed up.
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berenzen posted:I think he got you and Dwarf74 mixed up. e: But still uh ... I'm only running those for my kids and their friends, and hopefully never No Thank You Evil again because while it's whimsical, kinda, it's not actually any good. So don't feel sorry for me; I have my normal game night with grown-ups, too. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Feb 1, 2020 |
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In addition to getting posters mixed up, that was literally the one story about 5e that I'd legit argue is good. Mike Mearls didn't get a paycheck out of it and a dude had a cute time with his kids. Plus he has a really good cat. I have and will continue to clock in my time at the hating 5e mine, but I ain't never gonna knock that. A family having a good time is one of the best parts of this hobby and we shouldn't forget that.
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Feeling pity for someone having a good time with a Bad Game is certainly a take
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Pieces of Peace posted:I know this is just a missing comma but now I like the character concept of "I am Brough from the trackless wastes. I can hunt, kill, leap, find prey, and tell you the lessons of Eugene Debs and Joe Hill. Sit while I speak of the Battle of Blair Mountain, and how our own government bombed our women and children. Then I will kill a bulette and cook it." No, actually, it’s not missing a comma. Lore skills represent knowledge about a specific subject, area, or concept. (Pathfinder 2e still has some large field knowledge skills in Arcana, Nature, Occult, and Religion, but a Lore skill is automatically better at its area of focus.) They can also be used to practice your skills in that area of influence. This comes up during downtime for Earn Income checks, that get you money, connections, and story developments. Every background comes with a related Lore skill. The example I was using was the Labourer background so that would probably come with some labour history and skill at doing general labour. Some other examples are Underworld Lore, from the Criminal background, which is both your knowledge about thieves and also counts for you doing small jobs when you’re not adventuring; and Sailing Lore, which is knowledge about sailing, making money by being a sailor, and actually making checks to steer a ship or whatever if your campaign hits the water. e: I haven’t looked at it yet but there’s notes in the NPC creation rules about using Lore skills and some other stuff to create challenging non-combat encounters with NPCs who are great at a particular thing. Like if you wanted to have an Iron Chef encounter and flex that Cooking Lore. Arivia fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Feb 1, 2020 |
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dwarf74 posted:So can anyone tell me if these are the Chessex dice filled with the magic pixie dust that collectors pay out the nose for? It's not a complete set, but I've had these forever.
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MadScientistWorking posted:What? I just bought that same set a month ago. How is it supposed to be expensive? Why? These are at least 20 years old. I tried to take an artsy picture, too - the one d10 is a different kind, it turns out 
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Ettin, why is Laura Bailey one of the pre-generated characters in Breakfast Cult? Did she do an actual play or something?
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