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hi what's the name of the game where you all play as the voices inside of a guys head and have secret desires you try to get him to do to get points? a kind of competetive lightweight rp game?
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Pladdicus posted:hi what's the name of the game where you all play as the voices inside of a guys head and have secret desires you try to get him to do to get points? a kind of competetive lightweight rp game? Everyone is John?
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Apr 10, 2024 17:42
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thank u
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Apr 10, 2024 18:06
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Kestral posted:To bring EQchat back around to RPGs in a roundabout way, and explain what I meant by how it needs a decent adaptation, if you like generational stories or stories taking place over an immense span of time, you should check it out. There's not a lot of stories anywhere that have characters grow up, have children, grow old, and then we watch their kids do the same, and it's really compelling. There's a reason people love Downton Abbey, Centennial, and The Silmarillion. There was an ElfQuest RPG from Chaosium in 1984, based on the Runequest/Basic Roleplaying ruleset, that was actually pretty good and had some original art from Wendy Pini. It even had some supplements released for it.
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Apr 10, 2024 18:30
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https://twitter.com/producerlizz/status/1778079943806652707?t=glfBK2zovr6XyTzeGCI5TA&s=19
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Apr 10, 2024 20:59
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I hope that person answers the latest RP slack scheduling post.
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Apr 10, 2024 21:14
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:There was an ElfQuest RPG from Chaosium in 1984, based on the Runequest/Basic Roleplaying ruleset, that was actually pretty good and had some original art from Wendy Pini. It even had some supplements released for it. Indeed! I own it, actually used some of the Chaosium material to run an EQ Ironsworn game, but the Chaosium system never felt like it was doing the source material justice. An ElfQuest RPG that doesn't mechanize how you feel about other people and how love and compassion (and poisonous, seething hatred) gives you strength is missing a hand, if not a heart. I've spent way too much time over the years wondering how you could handle Recognition, for example - and in a generational game you'd have to.
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Apr 10, 2024 22:02
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Strange, that description makes it sound like they should have used Pendragon.
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canepazzo posted:https://arcdream.com/home/2024/04/the-black-company-role-playing-game-in-development-at-arc-dream-publishing/ I'm playtesting it now and it's evolving a lot but it's in good hands and going in the right direction. Arc Dream has an open call for future playtesters but I suspect it's still a ways off from a wider scale playtest. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9cS127thVUuLbOAbag5zYRgnag7nfYas2sDgfNp9DZU0isg/viewform?usp=send_form
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Kestral posted:Indeed! I own it, actually used some of the Chaosium material to run an EQ Ironsworn game, but the Chaosium system never felt like it was doing the source material justice. An ElfQuest RPG that doesn't mechanize how you feel about other people and how love and compassion (and poisonous, seething hatred) gives you strength is missing a hand, if not a heart. I've spent way too much time over the years wondering how you could handle Recognition, for example - and in a generational game you'd have to. Feels like maybe you could introduce (different) bonds to help alleviate RQ's mechanics.
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Silver2195 posted:Speaking of the Fatal & Friends writeups, I’m reading the one on Wizards Presents: Races and Classes, and it’s remarkable how insistent the 4e designers were on making playable races conventionally attractive-looking. It’s overt to a degree that would definitely cause some controversy if it was written today. For example, we’re told that female dwarves are “strong, sensual, earthy, and feminine, with an exotic beauty that no one would think to splash a beard on,” and that male elves are “not effeminate.” Definitely a bit silly though generally otherwise I feel the two Wizards Presents preview books for 4e were fantastic little things and for years if I was coming up with a fantasy setting and didn't have something more specific in mind I'd go back to a lot of the ideas laid out in those books as the baseline(and sometimes still uses bits and pieces from there even though I've broadened my inspirations since then) Glazius posted:It makes a little sense given what they were going for. Elves have always kind of been woodsy elves and sparkly elves in simultaneous superposition, and 4E tried to separate that by making the sparkly elves into eladrin, leaving the remaining elves 100% woodsy. You want them all looking a bit red in tooth and claw, as it were. The Eldarin/Sylvan Elf split was one of the many good ideas 4e had and thus I was definitely disappointed that 5e went back to the more generic take on Elves(this can be said about a LOT of things they did in 5e that made it so loving bland and generic feeling compared to 4e but at least for the core book races it felt most noticeable for Elves) theironjef posted:There are so many species that the world only makes sense as like a Samurai Jack pastiche. Like no one species has more than one chunk of land to themselves, and most have at least one nearby mortal enemy species unique to them. So everywhere you go it's like "Ah, you have entered the land of the noble Hergolbs. They are proud and forthright. However, within the shadowed swamps of their land reside the Nerbolts. They are savage, cruel, and hate all art and culture. But hey, if you turn left and walk fifty feet well now you're in Ushmi territory! They're forthright and proud! Shame about the sky Flarches that hate them, and also all culture and art." Both Talislanta and Samurai Jack are works that in turn take inspiration from a long and really old tradition from the early days of Fantasy and Sci-Fi where yeah you would just cram a setting with a million different things, you see it in the Oz stories, in Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Barsoom, and so on Asterite34 posted:I would say it would be interesting to do a take on fantasy elves that are more Santa's Workshop elves or magic shoemaker fairy tale elves (or possibly Keebler elves) but that's basically the niche filled by D&D gnomes now, isn't it D&D fantasy setting inspired by most of the old Rankin Bass specials would probably be pretty kickass actually
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drrockso20 posted:
There's a DCC holiday adventure based on those old Christmas specials, and it's amazing. I ran it as a one off "dream" adventure in my last 5e campaign and my players loved it.
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Flight Of Dragons RPG when
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hyphz posted:Flight Of Dragons RPG when ugh, the skill list would be so long. algebra, astronomy, anatomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, meteorology...i can feel myself turning to dust reading it.
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drrockso20 posted:The Eldarin/Sylvan Elf split was one of the many good ideas 4e had and thus I was definitely disappointed that 5e went back to the more generic take on Elves(this can be said about a LOT of things they did in 5e that made it so loving bland and generic feeling compared to 4e but at least for the core book races it felt most noticeable for Elves) Was turning one two-note race into two one-note races really an improvement?  I generally agree that 5e lore is bad, though, for much the same reason 5e mechanics are bad: there's no particular vision behind it. Well, I guess in the case of the mechanics the apparent lack of vision is the vision; it's a game for people with different tastes to play as a compromise, basically. (Which doesn't excuse the sloppiness regarding details.) I don't think 5e lore is generally defensible even on that level, though; it's just low-effort.
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Doc Hawkins posted:ugh, the skill list would be so long. algebra, astronomy, anatomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, meteorology...i can feel myself turning to dust reading it. Just take the Person Of Science feat and get them all. Somehow. The only one you actually have to RP is high school physics.
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Silver2195 posted:Was turning one two-note race into two one-note races really an improvement? 
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Since Fallout is back, what is the most Fallout TRPG
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Apr 11, 2024 18:12
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There is an actual licensed Fallout tRPG made by Modiphus, but I’ve heard mixed reviews But I’ve had good results with Apocalypse World
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gradenko_2000 posted:Since Fallout is back, what is the most Fallout TRPG
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gradenko_2000 posted:Since Fallout is back, what is the most Fallout TRPG Nessus posted:One with early 90s nostalgia value and an enormous quantity of mods, so I'm guessing GURPS or World of Darkness.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Since Fallout is back, what is the most Fallout TRPG For Fallout 1 and 2 you could try GURPS (what they originally wanted to use) or BRP (closer to what they ended up with) or some other game from the 1990s. For NV you could use Sawyer's Fallout RPG, which I think is what the New Vegas devs used when they ran the campaign that NV is based on. For Fallout 3 or 4 you could use the official 2d20 Fallout. I've never heard anyone say a kind word about the game, but everyone agrees that it's strongly based on the Bethesda Fallouts.
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mellonbread posted:For Fallout 3 or 4 you could use the official 2d20 Fallout. I've never heard anyone say a kind word about the game, but everyone agrees that it's strongly based on the Bethesda Fallouts.
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mellonbread posted:For Fallout 3 or 4 you could use the official 2d20 Fallout. I've never heard anyone say a kind word about the game, but everyone agrees that it's strongly based on the Bethesda Fallouts. Fallout 2d20's greatest sin is that it has too much of Fallout's mechanics in it.
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CitizenKeen posted:Fallout 2d20's greatest sin is that it has too much of Fallout's mechanics in it.
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mellonbread posted:This could mean anything from "there are seven core statistics, but only three of them matter" to "every dialogue is resolved with a yes, no, or sarcastic option" Hrm, an rpg where your three stats are YES NO SARCASTIC OPTION could be interesting
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Nuns with Guns posted:Hrm, an rpg where your three stats are That would be fantastic, I'd love to see somebody specialized in Sarcastic Option combat.
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Apr 11, 2024 23:00
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hm, some kind of three stat rpg, you say we could call it, Three-Stat
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Triangle Stategy
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Kwyndig posted:That would be fantastic, I'd love to see somebody specialized in Sarcastic Option combat. Finally, I can make Sarcastro.
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I got a worrying message today. A fan site for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying said they couldn't add my retroclone because "it's an SRD of a SRD" nd "the cortex guys weren't happy there was a SRD based on their SRD." Which, one, what SRD? I thought they never finished that. Two, while I know my work isn't infringing, it got me a little worried. Like, am I gonna get a C&D?
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Covok posted:I got a worrying message today. Really, that's a question you should be asking them. Not confrontationally, just because IIRC you made this because you couldn't find an MHR SRD. If you have an actual MWP Cortex one, isn't that good for you too?
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There's no SRD on the Cortex Prime website, you can buy the rules on the website but there's no free version of the rules. Fandom might have had an SRD but there's no currently available one.
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Glazius posted:Really, that's a question you should be asking them. Not confrontationally, just because IIRC you made this because you couldn't find an MHR SRD. If you have an actual MWP Cortex one, isn't that good for you too? Well, depends on the license. I mean, if it's another "you can't make LGBTQA+ material" and "we own any IPs you make" license, then "no." But, if it's a good license, sure. But I already asked some people closer to this then me and they have no idea what they're talking about. The closest thing was an incomplete SRD released in 2018 only to backers with no license. Edit: Actually, that isn't an SRD either. The incomplete SRD was renamed the "codex" to avoid any social baggage of a SRD. I forgot about that. No Cortex SRD exists. Covok fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Yeah, the social baggage is people conflating a “System Reference Document” with an “open license”. They’re not the same thing but 95% of the time they’re hand in hand, so social expectations get weird. There’s no SRD but the Cortex Prime Handbook is identical to one except for the license bit, and can be used to rebuild Marvel Heroic pretty casually. It’s clearly meant to be the toolkit to rebuild the out of print games, and it’s currently for sale and in print. But, as noted, if you’re worried about a C&D you should reach out to the author of the system, who is still employed making stuff for the system and active on social media.
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Doc Hawkins posted:hm, some kind of three stat rpg, you say I had an idea for a Judge Dredd RPG once upon a time, where you had three stats governing physical, mental, and social tests. They were "I am," "the law," and ">scowl<"
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law-sers and feelings
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Nuns with Guns posted:Hrm, an rpg where your three stats are Alpha Protocol
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Doc Hawkins posted:law-sers and feelings Lawgivers and Feelings? Actually that's pretty much the central theme of a lot of Judge Dredd stories. He loves nothing more than when he can give out deserved and poetic justice. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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gtrmp posted:Alpha Protocol Bond, Bourne, Bauer
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