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Arivia posted:gender? No, it's just a maths joke. A single Attribute that maps to a six-dimensional space is equivalent to just having six Attributes. Though this does make me think of Mage: the Ascension: 20th Anniversary Edition, which due to Goat Man being his own editor had as an actual rule that your character's sex was rated from 0 to 5 dots...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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Darth Various posted:Tinker The espionage rules are in an expansion that never came out so it's more like Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Just Some Guy.
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Drakyn posted:See this is exactly the kind of poo poo that Peanuts kept from us about historically accurate ww1 air combat. It was perfectly accurate to how a doghouse flies, you take that back.
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GimpInBlack posted:"Spray something into their cockpit" is literally one of the GM moves.
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Hostile V posted:And if you're flying one of the planes that uses castor oil, you can in fact get a mouthful of it in one of the least convenient places to be forced to have desperate and unwanted bowel movements! Gives "dropping a bomb" a whole new meaning
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CitizenKeen posted:The recently Kickstarted Outgunned (the spiritual sequel to Broken Compass) has my favorite stat array of all time: That game looks so cool. I backed the hell out of it, here's the Quickstart... https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/433185/Outgunned--Quickstart
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I'm using TOUGH, QUICK, SAVVY, SHARP, AND COOL because I'm a 5-stat freak and more games should have a COOL ability score.
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm using TOUGH, QUICK, SAVVY, SHARP, AND COOL because I'm a 5-stat freak and more games should have a COOL ability score. COOL, HOT, SPICY, SALTY, SWEET
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Xiahou Dun posted:The espionage rules are in an expansion that never came out so it's more like Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Just Some Guy.
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Alignment: Mild, Medium, Hot, or Fire
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PurpleXVI posted:COOL, HOT, SPICY, SALTY, SWEET No UMAMI? Gross.
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PurpleXVI posted:COOL, HOT, SPICY, SALTY, SWEET So more of a COOL RANCH?
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Heraclitus, Epicurus, Pythagoras, Thales, Aristotle, Diogenes, Zeno The HEPTADZ system. Roll +Heraclitus when you step in a stream. On a 6-, it's the same stream again! Jimbozig fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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I found one of my old Despair posters and that plus the current discussion made me think of Despair, the RPG. Instead of six scores measuring how good you are at things, you have six scores representing things that undermine you and hold you back. That way when you roll you're already anticipating disappointment and failure. Doubt Indecision Fear Distraction Ignorance Decrepitude Also instead of hit points, you'll have miss points. As you lose your miss points, things hit you more. When all your miss points are gone, everything hits you. You start at level 0 and lose a level as you gain experience, to represent how the accumulation of failures grind you down. However good you are at stuff day 1 (and that's not very good), that's the best you'll ever be, it's all downhill from here. Of course, we don't call them experience points, it's just Age. You automatically get older no matter what, but at the end of each misadventure, the accumulated failures and disappointments age you prematurely. Each time you level down, your Decrepitude, Fear, and Distraction scores go up. Naturally there has to be an unskilled list. Of course by default you're unskilled at everything, but the points in your unskills represent specific areas of training or knowledge at which you are less competent than the average person and somehow getting worse over time. You can be remarkably incompetent by putting points in: Falling Annoying Animals Cowardice Blasphemy Butterfingers Shouting Incomprehensibly at Foreigners Misremembering poo poo You Read Once, Maybe Getting Lost Outside Ruining Ingredients Slipknots and Tangles Drowning Blurting Reading Incomprehension I'm not sure what to do about Feats (Beats? narrowly defined ways other people notice they can exploit you?) and probably spell lists is more for the GM than for you. Equipment should be easy.
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Leperflesh posted:I'm not sure what to do about Feats (Beats? narrowly defined ways other people notice they can exploit you?) and probably spell lists is more for the GM than for you. Equipment should be easy. Pick something to be "good" at but you always roll your worst (most likely to end poorly) score. Oh I'm pretty good with dogs, shame I'm allergic and must roll decrepitude to perform any dog related tasks. But hoo boy will I do great if I succeed! There is no despair like thwarted hope. Pick something you're especially bad at but you get to roll your least worst score. Unless my ignorance roll gets me completely lost I will definitely arrive where I want to go barely too late to do what I wanted to do. There is no despair like expected, inevitable failure. Pick your least worst skill. When using this skill you always suffer a particular misfortune. I'm going to cook something, as usual it turns out edible but oh look I'm on fire. Again. Pick your worst skill. When rolling this something always goes a little bit right. Well, I have no sense of direction but also I need milk *recovers a miss point from actually getting some fresh air this month* Splicer fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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i feel like we're just slowly reinventing Glitch here
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Leperflesh posted:Does Flying Circus also model the total loss oil system of the Sopwith Camel, which constantly sprayed the pilot with an aerosol of castor oil that - allegedly - gave them such bad diarrhea that pilots would drink gin before flying as a countermeasure? in addition to the above answers, rotary engined aircraft give extra pilot stress per mission to represent the...unpleasantness
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That maybe the case but I think English pilots drank gin because they liked to drink gin.
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Kwyndig posted:That maybe the case but I think English pilots drank gin because they liked to drink gin.
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Leperflesh posted:Does Flying Circus also model the total loss oil system of the Sopwith Camel, which constantly sprayed the pilot with an aerosol of castor oil that - allegedly - gave them such bad diarrhea that pilots would drink gin before flying as a countermeasure? what the hell is the gin supposed to accomplish here
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My current campaign is on pause and I want to run a few non-D&D (or one D&D and then other systems) one shot adventures to try something new. Does anyone have any recommendations for oneshots established as "good" that I can mine for prep as far as plot and set pieces go? It will inevitably become its own thing but I'm looking for anything designed to be run in 1-3 sessions. I've played a handful of systems besides D&D and Pathfinder, mostly d100 stuff. I'd like to survey adventures from 4-5 different systems but mostly just wondering if anyone has any resources or suggestions to throw my way. edit: The setting/genre is essentially irrelevant, maybe leaning away from pure grimdark fantasy which I personally kind of like but my players probably prefer something lighter. I'd love to try something scifi for example Tosk fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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Tosk posted:My current campaign is on pause and I want to run a few non-D&D (or one D&D and then other systems) one shot adventures to try something new. Run a DCC funnel or Lair of the Lamb.
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Call of Cthulhu is pretty good for one-shots. Grab the Starter Set and run the Edge of Darkness adventure.
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tanglewood1420 posted:- skilled pilots played towards this strength and would basically do aerial powerslides when in combat. Why the gently caress is this not in a video game?
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Megazver posted:Call of Cthulhu is pretty good for one-shots. Grab the Starter Set and run the Edge of Darkness adventure. I will second Call of Cthulu as great for one-shots. We did "The Haunting", which I would not call the most well-made module, but still had a swimming time. "The Lightless Beacon" was highly recommended by a player, though we didn't do it because they had already played it. I did something that I think was recommended here: turn off most the lights and give each player a candle. When they die, it goes out. Real nice spooky vibes. We also house-ruled that if you accidently snuff your candle you take one point of damage lol
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Tosk posted:My current campaign is on pause and I want to run a few non-D&D (or one D&D and then other systems) one shot adventures to try something new. Scroll up for Outgunned.
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Tosk posted:My current campaign is on pause and I want to run a few non-D&D (or one D&D and then other systems) one shot adventures to try something new.
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Splicer posted:What are the player goals in Despair? It's a joke to post in a forum, not something I'd actually play. But I suppose if you wanted to make an actually playable game about everything being bad and awful until you die horribly, you'd probably just play call of cthulhu. Or Paranoia! redleader posted:what the hell is the gin supposed to accomplish here medicinal counter to the laxative, I guess Ghost Leviathan posted:Why the gently caress is this not in a video game? It's been years and I don't remember the name of the game, but Grey Hunter once video LPed a ww1 piloting game where he flew Camels and they totally had this modeled. Not the laxative castor oil bit, but the turning one way is hard and one way is easy bit, plus how you had to take off without being able to see the airstrip in front of you, and landing was nearly as bad.
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Despair is actually an important design because it respects the fact that in many cases, what the PCs find hard is more important in play than what they are good at.
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Leperflesh posted:
Rise of flight. And you could get hit in the face with castor oil, the laxative effects were not modelled.
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HOMOEROTIC JESUS posted:I will second Call of Cthulu as great for one-shots. We did "The Haunting", which I would not call the most well-made module, but still had a swimming time. "The Lightless Beacon" was highly recommended by a player, though we didn't do it because they had already played it. I'd also recommend "Dead Man's Stomp" but it doesn't really involve any of the established gribbles directly.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Why the gently caress is this not in a video game? On the lighter end, there's Sid Meier's Ace Patrol for this. On the heavier end, how bad do you want to harm yourself leaning about flight sims?
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Leperflesh posted:
It’s been quite a while and I don’t have it to hand, but I recall Pelgrane’s Dying Earth game (and likely its non-IP descendant Skulduggery) having ratings for six archetypal character flaws like Pedantry, Lechery, etc, and in play you had to roll to resist giving in to your worst impulses at inconvenient times.
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In Dying Earth it's "Pettifoggery" because even the word pedantry isn't Vancian enough
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Leperflesh posted:It's a joke to post in a forum, not something I'd actually play. But I suppose if you wanted to make an actually playable game about everything being bad and awful until you die horribly, you'd probably just play call of cthulhu. Or Paranoia!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Why the gently caress is this not in a video game? It was in Crimson Skies, and also it was modeled in the old Ace of Aces head-to-head dogfighting flipbook game.
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whydirt posted:Do we have a thread for FATE? Hasn't been posted in since February but yes Fate megathread
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