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Xiahou Dun posted:Couldn't you make a bunch of spells that conditionally required some mental action? (I am so rusty on this poo poo and it's hard since I prefer nWoD's response of going "No, that's bad game design so it's also the rules of magic. Basta.") I wish I hadn't thrown out all my oWoD books in my last move, but yeah that right there I think was the loophole. You couldn't use speed or turn enhancers to reduce cast time but you could do conditional casting stuff like that. I think the only check against it (and one encouraged in the book) was rear end in a top hat GM fiat. Like 'Oh the paradox backlash from doing that is it summons the time paradox spirit who corrects things by making sure you were never born,' and all backlash fires off on the trigger instead of allowing a slow bleed like if you'd had those 50 spells you cast over the past few months fire off when you cast them'
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bbcisdabomb posted:I'm talking to a friend about a game he's gearing up to run, probably in the next year or so, and got this doozy: Play as a Street Fighter character and demand that everyone respect your hex maps.
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theironjef posted:Play as a Street Fighter character and demand that everyone respect your hex maps. World of Darkness: Combat rules apply.
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If you show up to the table with a full on Blanka I don't think anyone's gonna be anything less than impressed.
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Coolness Averted posted:I wish I hadn't thrown out all my oWoD books in my last move, but yeah that right there I think was the loophole. You couldn't use speed or turn enhancers to reduce cast time but you could do conditional casting stuff like that. I think the only check against it (and one encouraged in the book) was rear end in a top hat GM fiat. Like 'Oh the paradox backlash from doing that is it summons the time paradox spirit who corrects things by making sure you were never born,' and all backlash fires off on the trigger instead of allowing a slow bleed like if you'd had those 50 spells you cast over the past few months fire off when you cast them' I haven't played with an rear end in a top hat GM for decades, but my immediate response is to just cast more spells with the conditional trigger of [when Paradox happens] that burn everything around me/turn everything into penises made out of bees/rewrite time so I was always Abraham Lincoln/whatever bullshit oMage would let me do, plus another that'd make a bunch of fireworks spell out "K33P 1T W4VY 420 BL4Z3 1T LOL" as large as possible. Cause gently caress that guy.
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oWoD was extremely dumb about saying 'We know your players will be attracted to a concept. But that's dumb and childish. This is the mature game for smart people, so we're going to mechanically penalize that, and encourage you to use ST fiat to punish players for wanting to play a vampire werewolf, or a Ronin or <whatever>.'
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theironjef posted:Play as a Street Fighter character and demand that everyone respect your hex maps. Well I guess I'm throwing out my Werewolf character I have half-made for a fighter. 
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Yes but they were also really bad at actually stopping it mechanically, so whatevers. Yeah the GM can always just make poo poo up, but that's outside the system and I always have the option of telling Todd to get the gently caress out of my apartment we're just gonna play Tzolk'in cause you're a dick. loving Todd. We're RAW dogging it.
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Coolness Averted posted:oWoD was extremely dumb about saying 'We know your players will be attracted to a concept. But that's dumb and childish. This is the mature game for smart people, so we're going to mechanically penalize that, and encourage you to use ST fiat to punish players for wanting to play a vampire werewolf, or a Ronin or <whatever>.' Exalted 1e was also terrible for this. "Hey, here are a ton of weird flavorful character options! Almost all of them are either ineligible for exaltation, which means they'll never be mechanically equivalent to even the lowest-tier PC Exalt, or they can exalt and have insane mechanical penalties for it barring a few really boring edge cases. Have fun ignoring these rules and building a generic Solar so you can actually do something!"
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Years ago a friend of mine worked out how you could roll 168 damage dice as a werebear.
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Feb 7, 2020 08:10
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Kestral posted:Kid character backstories get buck wild, keep us apprised of their delightful weirdness and see if you can spot which elements of their media diet are showing up. My kidgroup is played troupe style, with every player running a small stable of 2-4 characters that rotate in and out of play, and it's always amusing to watch them try to slip something in from whatever game or book they're super in to at the moment.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I still mostly run my games like that Hell, the Mage game I'm planning right now features such Original NPCs Do Not Steal as "Captain Raymond Holt," "Elliott Spencer" (the Leverage one), "Elliott Spencer" (the Hellraiser one), and "literally the entire cast of the Glitch Mob's We Can Make the World Stop video."
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Have the two Elliotts make-out and I think you got a hell of a pitch for a graphic novel.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Have the two Elliotts make-out and I think you got a hell of a pitch for a graphic novel.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Elliott would never cheat on Hardison and Parker. This 1000%.
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DoctorWhat posted:Does anyone else on these forums ever play KLASK? Just got a personal copy after playing a friend's and it's a blast. Googled it after seeing this and it looks rad. Is there an online version? Seems a great candidate.
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theironjef posted:If you show up to the table with a full on Blanka I don't think anyone's gonna be anything less than impressed. No, pick Zangief so he can throw a 20-die spinning pile driver and obliterate a 4th gen in a single glorious instant.
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Kestral posted:Kid character backstories get buck wild, keep us apprised of their delightful weirdness and see if you can spot which elements of their media diet are showing up. My kidgroup is played troupe style, with every player running a small stable of 2-4 characters that rotate in and out of play, and it's always amusing to watch them try to slip something in from whatever game or book they're super in to at the moment. The second session was kinda rockier than the first, with the kids getting really easily distracted. But they had a fantastic time talking to a pair of dwarves from the adventure, including one who insisted they split the dead rat they picked up 'fifty-fifty.' The biggest surprise of the night to me? When they emerged from the dungeon/excavation site, there were some orcs who decided that the excavation was their new house. They were just like, "Oh, okay, sounds good." When the dwarves protested, they gave them an ultimatum of "come back to town with us or we're gonna leave you with the orcs." So unlike most D&D groups who would have just gone straight at the orcs swords drawn, they had no interest in extra fights. Everyone leveled up to 2nd. I just handed out the 2nd level pregens. I'm not even gonna go into leveling up yet with this particular group. 
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"I used to be a bad guy, then realized this was wrong because I saw people who weren't terrible." is a classic backstory for a reason, that's a great starting place.
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Night10194 posted:"I used to be a bad guy, then realized this was wrong because I saw people who weren't terrible." is a classic backstory for a reason, that's a great starting place. And as far as the 'other pop culture references' thing - it's all very immediate and surface-level. My older son has decided his druid is literally Hagrid, and went off on a 'Do you know Dumbledore?" conversation with a shopkeeper last week. My younger (the one with the backstory) is calling his character Zuko, though spelled differently. The barbarian is Pumpkin McGee, which is new to me, dunno where she got that one from. And the 2nd grade girl named her fighter TIGER SORD but thought about changing it yesterday to FOX SORD (The 4th grade girl tried to correct her spelling, but she was having none of it.)I have also discovered that my 2nd grader is surprisingly quick and accurate on HP subtraction math.
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dwarf74 posted:Yep. I'm getting your children to name all of my future characters, these are great.
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D&D will legit improve kids' math and reading scores, and it happens fast. When they start rolling a bunch of dice, like Fireballs or what-have-you, show them the trick of "counting by tens" - making 10 by combining two 5s, or 6 + 4, or 2 + 2 + 6 etc., then adding up all the 10s plus the remainder. Suddenly they're doing math homework and not even realizing it, it's great. Also, the adventures of TIGER SORD and FOX SORD need fanart in the vein of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.
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FOX SORD's going to grow up into KITSUNE KATANA if you're not careful.
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TIGER SORD and FOX SORD would be perfect concepts for WoD or CoD changelings. A pair of beast seeming buddies, fighting hobgoblins!
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Aww, thanks for the comments, folks. I've been having a blast with the game. And my wife is a saint for patiently playing the party leader and letting them do their thing. Now that everyone is back in town, my younger son has told me that his dark elf needs sunglasses, so next time we'll do that I'm sure. The girls decided they wanted to buy cats instead of pooling their money for a horse and I uh ... I am going to roll with it, of course, but also I don't want the game to become The Cat Herder Hour. They get distracted with my actual cat plenty already, and I think an in-game cat would be... like... too much cat? We will see what happens! My older son is the druid and has said he wants an in-game snake to match his real actual pet snake. I can't for him to find out that he can now turn into a snake himself. I expect, upon finding this out, everyone else will be jealous and will want to turn their characters into druids.
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Kestral posted:D&D will legit improve kids' math and reading scores, and it happens fast. When they start rolling a bunch of dice, like Fireballs or what-have-you, show them the trick of "counting by tens" - making 10 by combining two 5s, or 6 + 4, or 2 + 2 + 6 etc., then adding up all the 10s plus the remainder. Suddenly they're doing math homework and not even realizing it, it's great. Yup magic also got me into math far better than most lessons when I was in the 3rd grade. Card games also got me actually understanding probability before it came up in middleschool. Unfortunately since I was a product of the US public school system there was nothing to bridge that whole 'this thing you understand is actually directly the math we're talking about' before college. I really hope getting kids to play and understand 'the guts' of some boardgames takes off more. I've seen a bunch of 7-10 year olds from geeky families learn to understand numbers far better thanks to them.
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Yeah - dice taught me probability, and I'm using that in my job these days. The 1e DMG introduced me to bell curves at an early age. And I forgot to share this! While I am not posting pictures of my children (and especially their friends who are not my own children) I'll gladly share their artwork. Here's TIGER SORD by the 2nd grade girl. 
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That Old Tree posted:Cat beard!? e: Her dad sent it to me earlier this week. I also think the tiger has horns instead of ears, if I am looking at it right, which is great.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:FOX SORD's going to grow up into KITSUNE KATANA if you're not careful. On the one hand, this reads like it's supposed to be a cautionary tale. On the other hand, KITSUNE KATANA sounds gently caress awesome.
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 Free League launches Community Content Program quote:Free League Publishing today launched the Free League Workshop – the official community content program for Free League tabletop roleplaying games, in collaboration with OneBookShelf. In the Free League workshop, gamers can publish their own adventures set in the worlds of the acclaimed RPGs Tales from the Loop, Mutant: Year Zero, Coriolis, Forbidden Lands, and Symbaroum. https://www.mynewsdesk.com/us/free-league/pressreleases/free-league-launches-community-content-program-2969398
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We don't seem to have a Fate Core thread anymore so I'll post this here. I have a Fate Condensed Hack that is ready for feedback. Let me just say that this is a game that will require the X Card Let me explain some backstory. Somehow, when I saw this scene in Persona 5 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeO1g8iWvs ), I got the idea for a game where you played teenagers with transforming superpowers fighting society. It was a vague idea but it just kind of came out from this one scene. You can see lingering influence of it in the document. Then this developed oddly in my head. See, I kind of view Persona 5 as a superhero property. And I love superheroes so that mixed together. I was also rediscovering World of Darkness for a tick, until I learned how abusive the parent company is So, World of Darkness was on my mind. That's why the in progress document is called The Lost. I needed a name and just went with The Lost from Changeling The Lost with no greater thought. Everything kind of just started as weird anti-establishment teenage superheroes. It started to mix with WoD. But then, at some point, it basically started to get very LGBT+. Probably because I'm trans but everything shifted to LGBT+ superheroes at some point, specially trans, non-binary, agender, gender fluid superheroes fighting against oppression literally. It's honestly a little muddy As a result, like with some microgames I made in the past, it started to touch on some real life issues and beliefs that I have So, kind of why I think its unsellable, even if I cut out the placeholder GIS art, did layout, etc. This is just a design doc. Anyhoo, without further ado, the game: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-xqWge25Ii-SeaED8rETur3A7uqKxpARCgEKbxVB3VE/edit?usp=sharing Any commentary is appreciated! I'm really worried this game might be offensive, honestly. Oh also, I haven't touched Fate in forever. And I lucked out that Fate Condensed came out mid development. So I think I may have hosed some things up.
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The Fate Core thread is literally on page 1 right now.
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Lemon-Lime posted:The Fate Core thread is literally on page 1 right now. It wasn't at the time of posting though, it was super buried 
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I am sure it comes as a surprise to nobody that Robert Bledsaw II of Judges' Guild is of a chud nature, but it seems like he's letting his whole rear end show.
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"O this looks really bad." *scrolls down* *sees JEWSMEDIA* 
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It's not his fault. His account was hacked by a swarthy Antillian.
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Yeah, apparently the alt-right are just incredibly hackable. (By waiting a small amount of time for them to out themselves as enormous racists. Their passwords must all be "imperceptible amount of patience".)
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dwarf74 posted:Yeah - dice taught me probability, and I'm using that in my job these days. The 1e DMG introduced me to bell curves at an early age. I was taught negative numbers by an angry 6th grader during a game of Vector 3 - a space combat game using vector in three dimension. He slapped me with a tractor beam and I did the vector addition wrong, sending my ship careening in a wildly wrong direction.
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