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I played Microscope with a group once and had a good time, is Fellowship sort of in that vein? Interested in the bundle.
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1upmuffin posted:I played Microscope with a group once and had a good time, is Fellowship sort of in that vein? Interested in the bundle. Depends on what you mean by "in that vein." Fellowship gives players a lot of control over the world (officially, you, the player, are the one who gets to tell us about your people--so e.g. if you play the Dragon, you get to decide what dragons are, what they're like, and what their culture is), and it has some good rules for a structured, shared world-building session at the start of the game, but the actual gameplay of Fellowship is "a party of heroes going on journeys and having adventures," not "a shared experience of building a world and its history" like Microscope.
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May 8, 2023 16:30
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To be overly reductionist, Fellowship is "Let's roleplay the Lord of the Rings" and Microscope is "Let's semi-collaboratively design (with some RPing) a Manichean fantasy world where evil never seems to be truly defeated, but resurges in cycles."
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GimpInBlack posted:Depends on what you mean by "in that vein." Fellowship gives players a lot of control over the world (officially, you, the player, are the one who gets to tell us about your people--so e.g. if you play the Dragon, you get to decide what dragons are, what they're like, and what their culture is), and it has some good rules for a structured, shared world-building session at the start of the game, but the actual gameplay of Fellowship is "a party of heroes going on journeys and having adventures," not "a shared experience of building a world and its history" like Microscope. Gotcha, thank you, this makes sense.
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Admiralty Flag posted:To be overly reductionist, Fellowship is "Let's roleplay the Lord of the Rings" and Microscope is "Let's semi-collaboratively design (with some RPing) a Manichean fantasy world where evil never seems to be truly defeated, but resurges in cycles." ehhhh IMO Microscope's Light/Dark system is meant more to reflect how historical events often have counterintuitive ramifications but that's certainly one way you can use it
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May 8, 2023 19:46
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Xand_Man posted:ehhhh IMO Microscope's Light/Dark system is meant more to reflect how historical events often have counterintuitive ramifications but that's certainly one way you can use it Sure, I was just talking about the specific example of Tolkien -- asking what's the "thesis statement" (I can't remember the actual term) that you'd use to frame a game of Microscope for Middle Earth as a whole through the ages.
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Ah, nuts, I had surgery like RIGHT before the BoH, and now that I'm back on the computer, I find out I missed it! Well, at least Fellowship Ultimate Edition will probably happen eventually.
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May 21, 2023 02:27
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update: I spent above my means and bought all of Fellowship 2E because it's a real good game
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Jun 1, 2023 23:42
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You have purchased wisely.
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Tsilkani posted:You have purchased wisely. Not THAT wisely, as it turns out, because Blaseball ended forever, necessitating me purchasing a bevy of related clothing from the store, so I'm broke as hell! ...But I have a culturally-important jacket and a sickass tabletop game, so it's all cool.
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For the Turncoat option in 'What is a Spy'- should players be made aware that the Spy is playing as a turncoat?
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Skeletome posted:For the Turncoat option in 'What is a Spy'- should players be made aware that the Spy is playing as a turncoat? I'd say yes, for three main reasons. 1) Fellowship is a very collaborative game in a lot of ways, and there aren't great ways to handle long-term intra-party conflict. It's better to have everyone knowingly work together on the story of this character possibly betraying the party than it is to do a bunch of wrangling to somehow make it a secret the rest of the party needs to pry out OOC. 2) It's a very specific mechanical effect. There's good odds that the rest of the party is going to realize the Spy isn't throwing bombs, doing stunts or breaking hearts, but they do seem to know every major enemy the party meets. 3) If the rest of the party doesn't notice, they might not do anything to investigate the Spy because why would they assume their IRL friend's character would betray them? This goes back to point one, where it's better to tell players that there's a fun investigative story to be had here than it is to just hope they stumble across it.
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Something I should have set up ages ago but literally just, did not check if I could: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/453707/Fellowship-Complete-Collection-BUNDLE Fellowship is now available as a hardcover collection. Get all four books for $60 off! okay now i go back into hiding until i manage to write something again
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just checking, has there been any progress wrt the next Fellowship edition? i was really impressed with the outline.
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I have not worked on any games making or writing in months, unfortunately. The burnout hit me so hard. I am looking over my outlines and notes from last time I tried to write this and am also impressed with past-Vel. So there is no progress to report, but thanks for the check-in all the same, it got me looking at it again.
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Huh, I didn't know you could bundle multiple PoD books. I'll plan on picking those up once the trickle from the Vault ticks over the required amount.
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I've gotten way back into writing lately - burnout defeated! And I have something big I'd like to announce. I've been workin on Fellowship 3e for a while in the background, but it'll be a while more before it's really, done. But I started writing a DnD style wizard as an interesting "what if," and I genuinely love it? It's so EASY to write. So: https://x.com/Veliministriari/status/1794430141361217741  Official announcement: I'll be releasing a preview book for third edition, with 5 hero playbooks, all the core rules, and 2 villain playbooks. Fully playable, ready to go, and a great teaser for the massive tomes that will be Fellowship Ultimate Edition.
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gnome7 posted:I've gotten way back into writing lately - burnout defeated! And I have something big I'd like to announce. That's awesome! Congrats:)
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oh hell yes, this is fantastic news so glad to hear you’re feeling better about writing (not just selfishly…)
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I've been wanting an Old School Fellowship since 2e, I'm super psyched for this!
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really excited to see more, every bit of Fellowship stuff you've made has been awesome
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I've been wanting an Old School Fellowship since 2e, I'm super psyched for this! Glad to hear it, I wasn't sure this had a market tbh but I am having fun. I cannot overstate how easily this has come to me, especially compared to other writing. I started on this just this morning, now here is the entire Wizard playbook. Enjoy the preview!
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May 25, 2024 21:07
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I always did think of Fellowship as "what if Dungeon World was good" so I'm looking forward to everything coming full circle as it were.
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gnome7 posted:I cannot overstate how easily this has come to me, especially compared to other writing. I started on this just this morning, now here is the entire Wizard playbook. Enjoy the preview! That's the good stuff right here.
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gnome7 posted:Glad to hear it, I wasn't sure this had a market tbh but I am having fun. This is a lot of fun, I'm excited!
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I like the change of renaming Gear "Limited Moves" and giving them more detailed descriptions than previous Gear entries entailed.
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Fighter also owns- feels like when I was getting psyched about Dungeon World back in 2014.
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this is real good stuff
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So Blood is renamed to Nerve, Sense to Patience, and Wisdom to Mercy?
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That's correct. I wanted to make all of the stats into virtues, since they're meant to describe Heroes. And Blood just kept being too much of an easy fallback for "you got hurt, damage Blood" and that's gotta go, damage in fellowship is emotional. Sure physical wounds will hinder you too, but losing your Nerve or your Courage is just as impactful.
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I like that change! Quite thematically appropriate.
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gnome7 posted:I've gotten way back into writing lately - burnout defeated! And I have something big I'd like to announce. This looks super loving rad, and "minoring in Conjurer does not make you Useful" may be the greatest line ever printed in an RPG.
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Loving this news and preview.
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Fantastic to hear! I'm also glad you got rid of that writer's block.
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gnome7 posted:I've gotten way back into writing lately - burnout defeated! And I have something big I'd like to announce. Congratulations! Glad to hear you're writing again, Fellowship very quickly became one of my favorite games so I'm excited to see more of it!
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congrats on getting back into the swing of things, I've really enjoyed the bits you've tweeted out so far. in your original ideas draft for 3e you mentioned rules for GMless play, was that still something you were considering working on in the future?
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That is still the plan, yeah. I'm restructuring the core rules a bit - the game is technically always GM-less, some players are just the villains. It will be possible to play without any villains and have a Horizon team playbook to guide you, but that's not going to be in this preview book, I need to work on that a whole lot more.
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A very good video review (and very fun example fight) of Panic at the Dojo just came out, and it reminded me just how much it ruled. Once I finish up the CoC game I'm running, I'm gonna start bullying my friends into making some heroes I can piledrive into the sidewalk with the slowest, beefiest grappler I can manage. Also, plot and character arcs or whatever, but mostly POTEMKIN BUSTER. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gib72XuA3A Capfalcon fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 6, 2024 |
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Hell yeah, excited to hear about things going so well, gnome! The currently available preview clears up my quibbles about the previous exploratory version of 3e, too. https://x.com/Veliministriari/status/1798544783377629268 also hell yeah
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