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So at our Encounters meetup tonight (where I've been running 13th Age), a family came to try out D&D for the first time. They spent the entire night making 4e characters by hand. 
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May 22, 2014 03:16
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Evil Mastermind posted:So at our Encounters meetup tonight (where I've been running 13th Age), a family came to try out D&D for the first time. I've made this sentiment several times, but it's a shame D&D is THE rpg because it's so hard to penetrate.
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May 22, 2014 03:34
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I just wish I wasn't the only 13th Age GM or that I didn't have a full table. All I could think was "dammit, I wish I could just tell everyone there to stop and just run a Dungeon World game for them."
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May 22, 2014 03:39
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Or, you know, hand them a pregen.
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May 22, 2014 03:42
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We're kind of off the normal Encounters schedule, so the GM didn't have pregens. His table is continuing the last season on his own.
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May 22, 2014 03:45
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Zerilan posted:What are some rpgs aside from Castle Falkenstein that use cards as their system of resolution or as a major part of their game mechanics? EVERLASTING: THE BOOK OF THE UNLIVING by a former white wolf employee
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May 22, 2014 05:25
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Everlasting can use cards, or Tarot cards, or dice, or...if they'd written enough supplements, they would have created an optional resolution mechanic that uses black light bulbs and multicoloured candles. Edit: Another Dune chapter soon, I promise.
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May 22, 2014 13:51
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Halloween Jack posted:Everlasting can use cards, or Tarot cards, or dice, or...if they'd written enough supplements, they would have created an optional resolution mechanic that uses black light bulbs and multicoloured candles. Was this game the case of "I want my roleplaying game to be generic everything" so it can use anything as a resolution mechanic or was this game the case of "I want to make a novel, but I suck so I'll make a game" so mechanics don't matter?
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May 22, 2014 18:56
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Halloween Jack posted:Edit: Another Dune chapter soon, I promise. Dune? You have my full attention.
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May 22, 2014 19:09
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Speaking of Tarot cards though, I think I also saw someone on here mention once about some sort of setting creation idea that used tarot cards.
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May 22, 2014 19:31
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Zerilan posted:Speaking of Tarot cards though, I think I also saw someone on here mention once about some sort of setting creation idea that used tarot cards.
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May 22, 2014 19:38
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Mormon Star Wars posted:EVERLASTING: THE BOOK OF THE UNLIVING by a former white wolf employee Doesn't this RPG have rules for "Individual Legend Making" or something like that?
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May 22, 2014 19:39
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DocBubonic posted:Doesn't this RPG have rules for "Individual Legend Making" or something like that? Also for incorporating lucid dreaming into your campaign. Another card-driven RPG: TSR's SAGA, which had Dragonlance 5th Age and a Marvel game made using it.
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May 22, 2014 19:45
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Zerilan posted:Speaking of Tarot cards though, I think I also saw someone on here mention once about some sort of setting creation idea that used tarot cards. That might've been the actually interesting portion of my January contest. The idea was that each of the Major Arcana were associated with a different faction responsible for the apocalypse - like, the Tower was an evil megacorporation, and so on. You had a broad description for each one, and then a few questions where details would be. They also had details about characters with backgrounds from each faction. Setting generation meant drawing 4 major arcana threats from a deck of just the majors, then using the rest of the deck as a guide to answering those leading and open questions, so that your version of the setting would (in theory) differ significantly from mine. It turned out to be a bigger project than one month would allow, and I'm not really satisfied with the actual game mechanics Walker helped out on, but there's something in that setting generation mechanic. I want to revisit it, maybe rework it as a FATE game, at some point.
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May 22, 2014 20:49
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Alumnus Post also used tarot cards to come up with a character for the Create a Character thread. I believe that's also where Mimir's idea came from.
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May 22, 2014 21:27
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Covok posted:Was this game the case of "I want my roleplaying game to be generic everything" so it can use anything as a resolution mechanic or was this game the case of "I want to make a novel, but I suck so I'll make a game" so mechanics don't matter? The Everlasting is guilty of some of the same fiddly detail, particularly when it comes to combat, that shows up in games like Vampire. But as far as the resolution mechanic is concerned, I think that's a special case: it arises from the author being such a hippy-dippy, tutti-frutti moonbat that he wouldn't dare presume to tell you how to roll dice, because actual game design is against the Goddess or something. Seriously, the game refuses to call its rules "rules" because there are no rules in roleplaying, only guidelines. For skills, you can use either Abilities (Athletics, Influence, Martial Arts, Sciences) or make your game more fiddly by using Skills, which break Abilities down into more specific stats (Athletics becomes Acrobatics, Climb, and 5 other skills.) For a resolution mechanic, you can use dice or cards. The author seriously expects that you can run a game where one guy is using Abilities and drawing cards, while another is using Skills and rolling dice. To be fair, this works better than if you were trying to run AD&D and D&D 3e characters side-by-side. NPC statblocks assume you're using Abilities. Some special rules assume cards. The absolute worst is that there are experience points and Good Mojo points, and you have different ways to bet and gamble with them every time you roll or every time anyone rolls a contested action. That means that in the RAW, every single combat roll prompts the players to gamble on the outcome and possibly receive Bad Mojo points. Pham Nuwen posted:Dune? You have my full attention.
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May 22, 2014 22:06
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Halloween Jack posted:Why aren't you reading FATAL & Friends? Because until a few weeks ago I didn't really read TG at all, so I don't know all the good threads yet.
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May 22, 2014 22:12
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May 23, 2014 00:30
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Which one of you did Murderhobos? If you haven't seen it, check it out RPGNow. The cover is loving amazing.
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May 23, 2014 00:32
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So you actually are pretty edgy, is that it Ettin?
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May 23, 2014 00:33
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Haha, really funny *slowy moves fingers to mash the report button*.
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May 23, 2014 01:08
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Goddamnit, Ettin...
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May 23, 2014 01:09
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Product Page posted:Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. liar
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May 23, 2014 05:00
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By the end I was just writing a general thing about a common RPG personality, really.  People have named a lot of different designers it made them think of, mostly indie/amateur. Also Byron Hall.
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May 23, 2014 11:47
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quote:"You are so white bread that when you were born your mom dinged like a toaster."  Also, the Death Move is pretty funny.
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May 23, 2014 11:55
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Tollymain posted:Also possibly some of the games from my contest. How's the search for a new judge going?
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May 23, 2014 12:55
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50 Foot Ant posted:Which one of you did Murderhobos? I think what did it for me was the one guy impaling the kobold in the air, while the woman catches the treasure that falls from it.
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May 23, 2014 15:24
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DigitalRaven posted:How's the search for a new judge going? 
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May 24, 2014 04:53
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Just get DigitalRaven on it, I have it on authority that he knows a few things about games.
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May 24, 2014 05:27
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I'll do it.
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May 24, 2014 05:32
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Rulebook Heavily posted:Just get DigitalRaven on it, I have it on authority that he knows a few things about games. I entered it, so it wouldn't be fair even if I skipped my own.
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May 24, 2014 11:14
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My friend was really into Atomic Robo about a year ago. I noticed that they released an Atomic Robo RPG recently. Anyone know if its any good? My friend isn't too into rpgs, but he's played before and it might be a cool gift.
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May 24, 2014 19:20
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Covok posted:My friend was really into Atomic Robo about a year ago. I noticed that they released an Atomic Robo RPG recently. Anyone know if its any good? My friend isn't too into rpgs, but he's played before and it might be a cool gift. It's very good and aimed at new gamers/Fate players. We're talking about it on the last few pages of the Fate thread. e: The game also uses pages and panels from the comic as system examples. 
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May 24, 2014 19:22
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This hasn't come up yet? I could just be blind but, Guys, they are making a movie out of Dark Dungeons, the Chick Tract where the girl kills herself because her elf died. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qc9JiIiOSQ Article for the story behind it: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/dark-dungeons-movie/ I'm so happy. I have CLEARLY been playing these games wrong. Varjon fucked around with this message at 17:10 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 17:06
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Varjon posted:I have CLEARLY been playing these games wrong. What, you don't backhand your players when they speak out of character? Also Winson can you please change the forum's name to Traditional Games: Are You Ready To RPG? thx.
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May 26, 2014 17:19
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Varjon posted:This hasn't come up yet? I could just be blind but, Have the been sued for defamation by the guy that wrote the retroclone "Dark Dungeons" yet?
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May 26, 2014 17:34
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Holy poo poo. The people that helped make The Gamers are making that? Im in.
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May 26, 2014 17:44
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From all accounts, they play it entirely straight and don't make fun of it or anything. Which is good, because really, how can you improve on perfection?
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May 26, 2014 17:47
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It actually looks pretty bad, guys. Like, half Dark Dungeons, half Mazes and Monsters, all winking desperately at the audience.
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May 26, 2014 17:57
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That's some epic irony from those guys there.
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