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The Vast in Faerun of Forgotten Realms was supposed to be this, but Ed Greenwood just can’t leave a blank space on any map without stuffing it full of chapters of lore.
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Gatto Grigio posted:The Vast in Faerun of Forgotten Realms was supposed to be this, but Ed Greenwood just can’t leave a blank space on any map without stuffing it full of chapters of lore. "Ho ho! So many mysteries waved before you!" - Ed
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I mean, Greyhawk, right? Or if you really want to commit to the bit, Birthright. And Meikyu Kingdom.
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I really want to do a REIGN + Birthright campaign some day. Wouldn't be me GMing, though, that's been a dream for a friend of mine even longer (and I'd want to be at the table as a player anyways).
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Godbound’s setting of Arcem has a few Build-Your-Own-Kingdom potential areas, but realistically, the answer to “Where does a Godbound PC build their empire?” is “Anywhere they want to.”
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What are some other Build-A-Kingdom settings besides the Border Princes and River Kingdoms You may also be interested in Seeds of Wars, which is a system for realm management that is sort of like a "fixed" and streamlined version of the Birthright ruleset. Also it is 40% off right now. https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/302174/Seeds-of-Wars-Strategy-Roleplay In addition I made a list (thanks to the help of goons here) of Base Building, Domain Management or Organization Building ttrpg books/resources that I've posted on my blog here: https://nightmarethoughts6.blogspot.com/2022/01/base-building-domain-management-or.html Hope these help.
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Helical Nightmares posted:You may also be interested in Seeds of Wars, which is a system for realm management that is sort of like a "fixed" and streamlined version of the Birthright ruleset. Also it is 40% off right now. https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/302174/Seeds-of-Wars-Strategy-Roleplay How many of these have you actually tested? Any highlights?
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I’ve tested Godbound’s Dominion system in multiple games. Can confirm that it’s very effective, and also easy for players to use.
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Dawgstar posted:"Ho ho! So many mysteries waved before you!" - Ed the original "dare you enter my magical realm" guy
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I wish we could forget those realms!!! gently caress,
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Sign up thread for Something Awful Wrestling is up https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4055673 Fight for your subforum! Watch your avatar do battle with your posting pals and posting enemies! Maybe give TG better representation than just like four or five of us!
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https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1764711462189109439
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Lost Universe, you say 
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godddd it's a 5e hack, what did we do to deserve this NASA. NASA please. I do not want to fight a space orc in a space 10x10 room.
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10x10x10. Gotta think in three dimensions in space. 
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Remember: the enemy orc is down.
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Moonbase Alpha rpg or nothing, NASA. 
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Maybe instead of orcs they're Flat Earthers.
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Isn't this just a Spelljammer campaign?
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Kestral posted:godddd it's a 5e hack, what did we do to deserve this quote:This adventure is designed for a party of 4-7 level 7-10 characters and is easily adaptable for your preferred tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) system. Haven’t read the adventure, but I’m not sure how easy this is to adapt to Lancer.
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so it's a 5E hack but they didn't even want to pay for the license ... well, okay, i guess on the merits that is actually slightly better than just a 5E hack
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:so it's a 5E hack but they didn't even want to pay for the license good on NASA
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So, a group i'm in started a Twilight 2000-set game (in GURPS) with the Escape from Kalisz scenario except, instead of just dropping us in with "You're on your own. Good luck" we made National Guard military intelligence people and we get to see the destruction of the 5th ID unfold, with opportunities to learn more and prepare for what's to come. We're in the 5th ID HQ, set up in an old chocolate factory outside Kalisz just doing our jobs and squirreling away things and i think it's a drastic improvement. There's so much about getting a game started as fast as possible, but i also think there's something to be said for being willing to take your time, have a preamble, and let the players get used to things before they get dropped into the deep end. I'll let y'all know how it goes.
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Roll to see if you can convert between standard and metric. On a failed skill check restart at level 1.
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The Deleter posted:Moonbase Alpha rpg or nothing, NASA.
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Panzeh posted:I'll let y'all know how it goes. Please do!
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Kestral posted:NASA. NASA please. I do not want to fight a space orc in a space 10x10 room. If you don’t fight your space orc you can’t have your pie. How can you have space pie, if you won’t fight your orc?
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Panzeh posted:So, a group i'm in started a Twilight 2000-set game (in GURPS) with the Escape from Kalisz scenario except, instead of just dropping us in with "You're on your own. Good luck" we made National Guard military intelligence people and we get to see the destruction of the 5th ID unfold, with opportunities to learn more and prepare for what's to come. We're in the 5th ID HQ, set up in an old chocolate factory outside Kalisz just doing our jobs and squirreling away things and i think it's a drastic improvement. There's so much about getting a game started as fast as possible, but i also think there's something to be said for being willing to take your time, have a preamble, and let the players get used to things before they get dropped into the deep end. I have every confidence a bunch of NG intel weenies are going to survive World War III. Got a good feeling about this one.
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Runa posted:Lost Universe, you say wasnt this basically like, Slayers in Space
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Feels Villeneuve posted:wasnt this basically like, Slayers in Space Yes, but not as good.
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The Deleter posted:Moonbase Alpha rpg or nothing, NASA.
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Admiralty Flag posted:Double-posting because this is directly a response to your situation. Have you considered asking him to play one of the starter kits? The rules for those are only something like 12 or 16 pages long. That might be easier than trying to remember a tome each time you play. In SK#1, the first scenario just has squads, the second introduces machine guns, etc., so you get a ramp-up of difficulty too. It's really just the core stuff that's a lot. I typically pick the scenarios, and I've made my best attempts at picking out mostly infantry-only tournament scenarios (though the game sort of comes more into its own when you mix in some vehicles...) that are short and only require chapters A and B for the vast majority... but chapter A is a monster of a chapter and remembering all the rules for movement and First/Final/Prep/Opportunity/Assault Fire and routing, which goes on for pages is just a lot to remember and make decisions about when I can barely keep my concentration for an hour.
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Megazver posted:How many of these have you actually tested? Any highlights? Very good question. I've only tested like three; Mutant: Year Zero, Birthright and (WFR 2nd)Renegade Crowns. However I have thoughts on some others that I have read. Birthright (AD&D); Seeds of Wars— So back in the day I actually played in a campaign of Birthright where each player was the Regent of their own small piece of land. If you are not familiar with Birthright, it is basically AD&D’s attempt to do Game of Thrones before GoT was a thing. I do remember that some of the Regent rules (base building) were useable but the wargame that came with Birthright was heavily dominated by ranged units and that seemed like a major oversight to me. Also, I recall buying the Birthright Book of Magecraft and the rules therein for managing Mage resources in a piece of land were about as exciting as doing real life taxes. Maybe I’m not giving that book a fair shake but I do recall being bored to death by that chapter when it came to designing ley lines between plots of land and figuring out how they worked. Now Seeds of Wars is the spiritual successor to Birthright, with rules for Bards’ domains, and I own the book but I haven’t gone in depth as to the base management building section to really have an opinion on it yet. Silent Legions--I haven’t used the build a cult, and then cult vs cult warfare systems but they seem really cool. Cults have three attributes: Muscle, Influence and Sorcery. These attributes vary in value from 1 to 7, 6-7 being a value for a world-wide cult or some cult of similar power. Also, cults have Power, which is a resource they spend, specifically on Assets or Asset upkeep. Assets are like equipment for a cult. For example, Assets can be anything from a Corrupt Cop, or a Fortified Lair to a Sorcerous Atrocity. These specific Assets play a role in the cult vs cult warfare mini game. Wicked Ones – So Wicked Ones is sadly unavailable though legitimate means anymore because something happened with the developer that I am uncertain about and it was taken down from drivethrurpg. However, I will point it out because even though I haven’t played it seems pretty cool. Based on Blades in the Dark, the Wicked Ones base building system is about designing and cooperatively building a dungeon for your Wicked Ones (dungeon denizens). You can expand the base dungeon and hire minions to populate it with downtime actions or gold. As it stands, you can build one of 5 types of dungeons and each dungeon time has 6 Tier 3 rooms. For example, you can build an Enclave which is dungeon infused with Arcane magic and could start with the Academy or Potion Lab rooms. Management of a dungeon involves dungeon defense say from a party of heroes, and possible calamities or discoveries affecting your dungeon. Mutant: Year Zero-- I ran Mutant: Year Zero as a hexcrawl in the Zone a few years ago. I think it was only 3-5 sessions, thus the players only got 3-5 base building actions; so, we didn’t get into the base management rules very deeply. In short your player’s post-apocalyptic base (the Ark) has four attributes: Food Supply, Culture (sort of knowledge), Technology, and Warfare (your base’s defense). Players can increase these attributes by undertaking projects or turning in Artifacts you find in the Zone. One project is taken by the people of the Ark per game session, and there is sort of a tech tree for projects with various bonuses to the Ark’s attributes upon completion of a project. Projects can range from Pigsty to Temples to Cannibalism if things are really on the edge. I liked the rules and our minor use of them well enough. I would have liked to see a more detailed project tech tree, but I just want more granular base management rules in general so I think they were sufficient. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition, Renegade Crowns – As I’ve written on the blog, Renegade Crowns is not really a base management game exactly; it is more of a worldbuilding tool. it provides background charts and tables for developing petty kingdoms and a simple system for resolving Internal and External problems for a realm. I did use the random charts and tables to make my own petty kingdoms area and I documented that here. https://nightmarethoughts6.blogspot.com/search/label/Renegade%20Crowns As I recall I wanted expansion of some of the tables, specifically the enemy tables because otherwise you would be running into the same Orcs/Undead/Bandits over and over again.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Wicked Ones – So Wicked Ones is sadly unavailable though legitimate means anymore because something happened with the developer that I am uncertain about and it was taken down from drivethrurpg. However, I will point it out because even though I haven’t played it seems pretty cool. Based on Blades in the Dark, the Wicked Ones base building system is about designing and cooperatively building a dungeon for your Wicked Ones (dungeon denizens). You can expand the base dungeon and hire minions to populate it with downtime actions or gold. As it stands, you can build one of 5 types of dungeons and each dungeon time has 6 Tier 3 rooms. For example, you can build an Enclave which is dungeon infused with Arcane magic and could start with the Academy or Potion Lab rooms. Management of a dungeon involves dungeon defense say from a party of heroes, and possible calamities or discoveries affecting your dungeon. The final update on the failed kickstarter for the offset print run releases Wicked Ones into the public domain, and there's a google drive link for the PDFs that Cass Rea, the developer of the Undead Awakening expansion, shared on the Blades discord.
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So I guess the new thing is boardgames into RPGs? When will I be able to play Snakes and Ladders: the RPG ? https://www.asmodeena.com/en/news/2024/3/6/Arkham-Horror-The-Roleplaying-Game/ Asmodee posted:Arkham Horror The Roleplaying Game by EDGE Studio
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canepazzo posted:So I guess the new thing is boardgames into RPGs? When will I be able to play Snakes and Ladders: the RPG ? That's obviously a Lasers and Feelings hack.
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That’s as close to an official confirmation that Genesys is dead as we’re going to get, yeah?
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canepazzo posted:So I guess the new thing is boardgames into RPGs? When will I be able to play Snakes and Ladders: the RPG ? No the new thing is board game: the board game /pic6365160.jpg)
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