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Gau posted:We've gathered a lot of people here who really love you. You need to understand that we love you, but you have a problem and it affects the lives of the people who care about you. When are you going to actually run a game dude? You keep talking about all these exciting new mechanics and then I don't see or hear from you for a week and you're begging me for another twenty dollars to back the latest kickstarter.
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Covok posted:It's also a wonderful example how people will gush on and on about a game's setting despite never playing or planing to play the game itself. Do forum goers talk on and on about reading the book, but never talk about playing it? Then you might have a problem. I ran a game of 1e Exalted for... two, two and a half years? Something like that. It turns out that even a game as brutally and inherently flawed as Exalted can be salvaged with a good group of players who are willing to work around the dumb poo poo. But then you could say that about any game, really.
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I currently have 428 physical game books, with more on the way. That's after I sold off about seven milk crates full of 3e-and-earlier books, classic WoD stuff, assorted other books, and my current "to sell" pile. I think I have about 15 gigs or so in my DriveThru library. I am an RPG hoarder.
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I've read almost every Ars Magica book and I'm pretty sure that's why I haven't ever run a game with it. If I had only read the core book it might be easier to narrow down my interests to one idea instead of going "ok, here's my idea for a Transylvania game and here's my idea for Normandy, and Greece, and the Realm of Power books all have so many interesting things in them..." It's analysis paralysis writ large.
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Jun 30, 2014 04:31
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Evil Mastermind posted:I currently have 428 physical game books, with more on the way. 
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Swagger Dagger posted:I've read almost every Ars Magica book and I'm pretty sure that's why I haven't ever run a game with it. If I had only read the core book it might be easier to narrow down my interests to one idea instead of going "ok, here's my idea for a Transylvania game and here's my idea for Normandy, and Greece, and the Realm of Power books all have so many interesting things in them..." The trick is to make your players choose for you.
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Jun 30, 2014 04:36
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Someday I'm going to make myself really depressed and figure out how many I haven't played. Or read. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Someday I'm going to make myself really depressed and figure out how many I haven't played. Sounds like the same issues people who participate in Steam sales have: so much poo poo to play, and yet they can't even muster the will to install one new game. I curse this new age where you can get good games for under 20 dollars all the time.
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SunAndSpring posted:Sounds like the same issues people who participate in Steam sales have: so much poo poo to play, and yet they can't even muster the will to install one new game. I curse this new age where you can get good games for under 20 dollars all the time. Well, being spoiled for choice is certainly one of the better problems you could have.
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Swagger Dagger posted:I've read almost every Ars Magica book and I'm pretty sure that's why I haven't ever run a game with it. If I had only read the core book it might be easier to narrow down my interests to one idea instead of going "ok, here's my idea for a Transylvania game and here's my idea for Normandy, and Greece, and the Realm of Power books all have so many interesting things in them..." Yep this is my issue in a lot of ways so I basically play Sophie's Choice and let my players help me choose.
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Speaking of Ars Magica and tabletop games that nobody gets to play, is there a good list of RPGs that are focused primarily around realm management, wars or other big political stuff, or at least have a good coherent rule set for that sort of thing that isn't tacked on? I hear stuff about Reign's Company rules and even Pathfinder's Kingmaker side rules, but I haven't seen much comparative criticism or game design articles about this style of RPG.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Someday I'm going to make myself really depressed and figure out how many I haven't played. You should create a table of games you haven't played on your shelf, then roll on it and run that one PbP. When it fails, repeat.
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Spiderfist Island posted:Speaking of Ars Magica and tabletop games that nobody gets to play, is there a good list of RPGs that are focused primarily around realm management, wars or other big political stuff, or at least have a good coherent rule set for that sort of thing that isn't tacked on? I hear stuff about Reign's Company rules and even Pathfinder's Kingmaker side rules, but I haven't seen much comparative criticism or game design articles about this style of RPG. BECMI, ACKS, Reign, off the top of my head. If you want something modern, either use Reign or cobble the 3e/PF stuff together - the 3e stuff is in the DMG2 and Heroes of Battle with a huge expansion, fleshing out, and implementation in Power of Faerun. I like Pathfinder's realm management rules (reprinted, clarified, made general in Ultimate Campaign) way more than I do the strict 3e stuff, but the Pathfinder mass battle rules are bad in comparison to the Heroes of Battle stuff, so I'd just mush all of that together personally.
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^^^There's also Birthright. At one point I used to own a rather extensive collection of hardcopy RPG books but after the last time I moved apartments and realized what a pain in the rear end hauling a dozen boxes of just RPG books around is and yes, the fact that I wasn't actually using a lot of them, I made several trips to Powell's Books and offloaded most of it. These days my RPG collection fits on a flash drive. Also while I certainly haven't played every gave I've ever bought I like to think I've taken a decent stab at playing a variety of games both in-person and via PbP.
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Games I have run or played - D&D BECMI AD&D1 AD&D2 D&D3 Pathfinder D&D4 oWoD - Vampire, Mage, Changeling Exalted nwoD, Promethean Unknown Armies GURPS Unisystem Runequest/Heroquest Mutants and Masterminds Rogue Trader Games I own but have not run/played - Dungeon World Gamma World HoL Nobilis Hollowpoint
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Games I've played in or run: D&D 3.0, 3.5, 4E d20 Modern Savage Worlds oWoD: Vampire, Werewolf, Wraith nWoD: Mortals Dark Heresy HârnMaster Guess it's pretty anemic looking at it now. Games I own but have not run/played - Deathwatch. Just never got a group together for it.
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fatherdog posted:Games I have run or played - I forgot FASERIP Marvel Superheroes
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Arivia posted:BECMI, ACKS, Reign, off the top of my head. If you want something modern, either use Reign or cobble the 3e/PF stuff together - the 3e stuff is in the DMG2 and Heroes of Battle with a huge expansion, fleshing out, and implementation in Power of Faerun. I like Pathfinder's realm management rules (reprinted, clarified, made general in Ultimate Campaign) way more than I do the strict 3e stuff, but the Pathfinder mass battle rules are bad in comparison to the Heroes of Battle stuff, so I'd just mush all of that together personally. ACKS finally got their Domains of War stuff printed out, which is their supplement for handling army management and running big battles as pseudo-wargames. It looks pretty interesting but I haven't tried it yet. I really ought to check out Reign eventually. Everything I hear about it is really cool.
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fatherdog posted:Games I have run or played - Uhm...Ones I have owned and reffed and played? White Box Arduin Holmes Metamorphosis Alpha V&V 1st and 2nd Edition Superhero:2044 Classic Traveller Chivalry and Sorcery Runequest 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Editions Flashing Blades Psi World Space Opera Aftermath Daredevils Universe Empire of the Petal Throne Champions through 5th edition plus Fantasy and Star Hero , Espionage, and Justice Inc. Call of Cthulhu 1st through 4th editions Stombringer Hawkmoon Ringworld Morrow Project Mars Phoenix Command Delta Force FASA Star Trek Living Steel Shadowrun through 3rd edition Earthdawn 1st and second edition Marvel Superheroes TORG Cyberpunk2013 and 2020 The End 1st edition Space 1889 GURPS 1st through 3rd edition Deadlands Twilight 2000 2300 AD Dark Conspiracy Top Secret TSSI Millennium's End 7th Sea Original and d20 L5R Arcana Evolved Savage Worlds (Necessary Evil, Evernight, 50 Fathoms and some other stuff) Brave New World Castle Falkenstein Dune Chill 1st and 2nd editions Powers and perils Lords of Creation The Fantasy Trip KABAL Underground DC Heroes all the way to Green Ronins version Serenity RPG Blue Rose AD&D 1st and 2nd, D&D 3.0-4.0 Legionnaire (Renegade Legion RPG) Mechwarrior All Flesh Must Be Eaten Conspiracy X Buffy Bushido Midnight Golden Heroes justifiers Blue Planet Kult Mutant Chronicles Metascape Hollow World Spycraft 1st and 2nd edition Cyborg Commando Megatraveller Traveller New Era West End Star Wars Blood Shadows FarScape RPG The Red Star RPG Kuro Corps Fantasy Wargaming (its actual title) and I'm sure there's other I have run as one shots that I've forgotten about. I've been playing elfgames since 1975 after all. Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Games I have run or played: D&D 2e D&D 3e D&D 3.5e Pathfinder (ugh) Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed Hunter: The Reckoning Feng Shui (Best) Dark Heresy/Only War/Basically All The WH40KRP Games WHFRP 2e Ironclaw 1e Three or four so homebrewed systems All Flesh Must Be Eaten Aberrant d20 (Ugh ugh ugh) 7th Sea (edited because I forgot it. Never want to run it again) Games I Own But Have Not Run: Pendragon (Really want to) Heroquest/Runequest Night10194 fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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OtspIII posted:ACKS finally got their Domains of War stuff printed out, which is their supplement for handling army management and running big battles as pseudo-wargames. It looks pretty interesting but I haven't tried it yet. I just went through the entire old d&d thread and took a peek at your ACKS game. Run that again so I can play in it.
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This made me try to think of my own boughts-not-played. This isn't comprehensive; there's so many weird things I bought a book of then never touched again that I can't even remember. I used to love bargain bins at old dusty comic book shops. Also, I didn't realize I played so much Palladium, despite having hated Palladium since I first played it. Games I've run more than two sessions of Dungeons and Dragons Mouse Guard (barely) Pathfinder WoD (mortals) Shadowrun Iron Kingdoms d20 Games I've run less than three sessions of d20 Modern Feng Shui Gear Krieg GURPS Heavy Gear MechWarrior Iron Kingdoms RPG Games I've played d20 modern Feng Shui Earthdawn Legend of the Five Rings (d20) Rifts Talislanta WoD (Dark , Vampire, Mage, and a session of Werewolf) Call of Cthulu Nightbane Cyberpunk 2020 Fringeworthy Mechwarrior Robotech Heroes Unlimited Shadowrun Big Eyes Small Mouth Games I've spent money on d20 modern Feng Shui The Burning Wheel Dungeons and Dragons In Nomine (GURPS) Legend of the Five Rings (d20) Rifts Pathfinder Mouse Guard Talislanta Deadlands World of Darkness Nightbane GURPS Steampunk GURPS Cyberpunk Gear Krieg Mechwarrior Heroes Unlimited Shadowrun Aberrant Iron Kingdoms RPG Iron Kingdoms d20 Big Eyes Small Mouth 13th Age
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TheSpookyDanger posted:I just went through the entire old d&d thread and took a peek at your ACKS game. Run that again so I can play in it. I'm always up for running one-shots of it, if nothing else. I've got a pretty hectic schedule for the next month or so, but on any night I'm free I can actually run a session on pretty much no warning. If you think a one-shot or two would be fun PM me! As for games I've run and played, this is something I really haven't ever thought about. Let's see, in roughly chronological order. . . (bold means I've played a bunch of it, * means I've actually run it, ` means I bought it but never managed to run it) Star Wars` (I obsessively collected the books in late elementary/early middle school but never actually played) Call of Cthulhu* D&D 2E* (I've run very little, though. I think I ran one disaster of a session for some high school friends) Cthulhu Live* Heavy Gear Vampire* MET* BESM Little Fears` Paranoia Live* Changeling* I think most of the non-Wraith WoD stuff. Mostly via a talker D&D 3E* NERO (I played as an NPC once. The NPC side of stuff was fun, but the player-base was awful.) Shadowrun* A whole bunch of New England Theater-Style LARP* All Flesh Must Be Eaten Adventure` Castle Falkenstein Exalted* FATAL*  Mutants and Masterminds A homebrew Pokemon system my roommate made that was surprisingly good D&D 4E* Kobolds Ate My Baby` Basic D&D* AD&D Kill Puppies For Satan* Dogs in the Vinyard* A LARP that was basically Downton Abbey but with vikings run by Luke Crane Mouseguard Traveler (I got through character generation, at least) Trollbabe Tunnels and Trolls ACKS* Car Wars Pathfinder HoL` Dark Heresy Apocalypse World Dungeon World Fiasco* Ars Magica` Dog Eat Dog Paranoia* My Life With Master Dust Devils Doubt (kind of. . .we all showed up and tried to play it, then decided we just didn't have the emotional energy) Monsterhearts* Grey Ranks I've had pretty good luck with running stuff I've bought, but maybe that's just because I usually only buy books once I've got a group who are actually willing to play.
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Games I own + have run: AD&D D&D 3, 3.5, 4e PARANOIA Last Stand some FATE stuff FATAL Leverage Games I own and have never run: Witch Girls Adventures most of the Guardians of Order (RIP) catalog two seperate Doctor Who RPGs the Wheel of Time RPG Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Panty Explosion-turned-Didn't This Get Renamed Recently? Maid a variety of inherited older White Wolf books Monsterhearts Dungeon World any * World at all actually the Supernatural RPG 57 random titles on DTRPG I've never even heard of or recall buying
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This is an interesting game. Possibly interesting only to me, but still: Played/Run: AD&D D&D 3.0 D&D 3.5 Pathfinder D&D 4e Vampire (old) Tenra Bansho Zero Mage (new) Mage (old) Plain ol' World of Darkness mortals (new) Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Mutants and Masterminds 1e Mutants and Masterminds 2e Champions (never again) Exalted 1e (never again) Exalted 2e (never again) Dungeon World Apocalypse World Monsterhearts Fate (and FAE) Mummy (new) Fiasco Wilderness of Mirrors 7th Sea Traveller (Mongoose version) Runequest (Mongoose version) Call of Cthulhu Conan: the Roleplaying Game (2e) Burning Wheel Legends of the Wulin Owned/Never Tried: Everything oWoD except Vampire and Mage Vampire (new) Rifts - good God do I own a lot of Rifts books A crapton of other Palladium games: Ninjas and Superspies, TNMT, Palladium fantasy whatever... Nobilis 2nd Ed Nobilis 3rd Ed (one day...) Golden Sky Stories Double Cross Reign Unknown Armies Everway (one day...) Numenera Anima: Beyond Fantasy Pandemonium! Legend of the Five Rings 4e Alternity and all its supplements Ars Magica Night's Black Agents Spycraft (1e) Spycraft (2e) Fantasycraft Shadowrun (3e) Savage Worlds Mystic Empyrean Burning Empires Dark Heresy Rogue Trader Only War Leverage Qin GURPS (From about 20 years ago... 2nd edition? I have no idea.) And God only knows how many DTRPG games I've acquired without really realising. v  v...what I'm getting from this is I should probably make a concerted effort to run/play more one-shots to try out new things, and/or stop buying books because they look pretty (Anima and Numenera, I'm looking at you).
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Let me see...it's actually a little hard to say for sure but here's a rough list, more or less in order of how often played. D&D practically goes without saying. 2nd and 3rd edition mainly with one or two games of 4ed. Pathfinder Savage Worlds PDQ (QMR, Truth and Justice, Zorcerer of Zo) Aberrant Dresden Files FATE d20 Modern Star Wars (d20 version) Call of Cthulhu GURPS Shadowrun BESM Exalted Dread Blood of Heroes 7th Sea I believe I might have played a tiny bit of oMage...but honestly I can't recall if I ever got past the character creation stage. Plus a couple of weird, homebrew systems that I attempted to playtest for folks. Games I own but haven't played, not counting the many books I've owned in the past but lost/sold off. Secrets of Zir'an Hercules and Xena RPG Legends of Anglerre Strands of Fate FATE CORE Hackmaster RIFTS Vampire (old) Werewolf (old) Mage (new) Unknown Armies Feng Shui Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Paranoia Pokethulhu Reign Dungeon World Mouse Guard CORPS Runequest The Whispering Vault Anima
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fatherdog posted:I forgot FASERIP Marvel Superheroes I also forgot Amethyst modern, and Cybergen. Geez, I'm old.
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Oh, is this what we're doing now? Okay, let's see... AD&D 1e, 2e, 3e WEG Star Wars d20 Star Wars Amber Diceless Roleplaying Pendragon 4e, 5e Shadowrun 1e, 2e Cyberpunk Cybergeneration Vampire: the Masquerade (and Dark Ages) LARP of the above (don't judge me) Werewolf: the Apocalypse Mage: the Ascension Wraith: the Oblivion (briefly...) Changeling: the Dreaming Assorted other Storyteller spinoffs Exalted 1e Trinity Aberrant Unknown Armies 1e, 2e Buffy/Angel HoL FASERIP Marvel Superheroes RIFTS (ugh) Various other Palladium games like TMNT AFMBE Champions Everybody Is John Car Wars L5R, very briefly MechWarrior A few homebrews here and there various editions of Star Trek I feel like I'm missing a few - mostly pickup games at the Friendly Local Gaming Store back in the day that would inevitably run for two sessions before the GM got bored and wanted to try something different - but I can't seem to think of them right now, so.
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Stuff I've run: GRUNT Fate Accelerated Deadlands Classic Mercenary Air Squadron Rogue Trader Dark Heresy Cthulhu For President Feng Shui Shadowrun 4th and 5th Editions Eclipse Phase Stuff I am running: Adeptus Evangelion STASI, a secret police AW hack (currently moribund because 3 of the players are non-posting douchecanoes*) Stuff I've played: GRUNT Deathwatch I'm remarkably good about (trying to) running stuff I get. * as in i haven't seen hide nor hair of them since they posted their characters
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Gau posted:So, I got quoted in a Swine rant and I've never felt better about myself.
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I remember once someone saying that Pundit is just an Andy Kaufman-esque character of Tarnowski's. They failed to explain how that makes anything he does okay.
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Discounting homebrew and freeware indie nonsense... I have run: AD&D D&D 4e Ryuutama Fate Core Dungeon World Paranoia XP Mouse Guard I have played at least one session of: D&D 3.5 Tenra Bansho Zero GURPS BESM d20 Modern Call of Cthulhu I own, but have never played: Kagematsu Tianxia Fiasco I'm probably forgetting some things.
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I'll play! Have Played: Robotech Toon Rifts TMNT Heroes Unlimited Nightbane Star Wars (WEG) GURPS Call of Cthulhu Werewolf: The Apocalypse Mage: The Ascension Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade Fading Suns Mekton Z Thrash D&D 3e Fudge Truth & Justice OVA Maid RPG 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars D&D 4e Polaris The Mountain Witch octaNe InSpectres The Shab al-Hiri Roach Swashbuckers of the Seven Skies Mouse Guard Fate Golden Sky Stories WFRP3e Smallville Primetime Adventures Don't Rest Your Head Fiasco Clover Apocalypse World Dragon World Shinobigami Adventures of the Space Patrol Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Danger Patrol Meikyuu Kingdom Magical Burst Own But Haven't Played: Beast Bind: New Testament Alshard ff Aitsu wa Classmate! Families Panty Explosion GxB Agon Cortex Plus Hacker's Guide Itras By Lacuna Part I Dungeon World Tenra Bansho Zero Engine Heart Tulip Academy's Society for Dangerous Gentlemen Witch Quest Misery Bubblegum Sweet Agatha Last Stand Blood Crusade KanColle RPG Elysion TRPG Nechronica Savage Science Bliss Stage The Drifter's Escape 1001 Nights Dogs in the Vineyard Double Cross ...There's a lot more but I'm not at home, and thanks to some bundles and such I have ridiculous amounts of stuff in PDFs. Like, someone suggested I look at Little Fears: Nightmare Edition for inspiration for something, and it turns out I have it in my DriveThruRPG account and I don't actually know where it came from.
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I'm at about the same rough number, about 70% the same titles. Though I'm buggered if I'm typing it all out.
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fatherdog posted:I also forgot Amethyst modern, and Cybergen. Geez, I'm old. poo poo, and Call of Cthulhu. I keep remembering more and more campaigns I've been in.
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Games I've run or played: Kerberos Club Monsters and Other Childish Things Changeling: The Lost Vampire:The Requiem Werewolf:The Forsaken Mage:The Awakening Rifts D&D 4E D&D 3.x Shadowrun 4E GURPS (not sure what edition it was) Hero 5E Reign Kobolds Ate My Baby Mutants and Masterminds Apocalypse World Godlike Dark Heresy Stuporpowers D20 Modern All Outta Bubblegum Some homebrew stuff This one awesome WW2 LARP Possibly a couple of other things I'm forgetting Games I own but have not played: Hahahahahaha 
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Just what RPGs need: more lists. Can we organize this into a page long chart?
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Coming soon from Lee's Lists: 100 RPGs I Have Played or Ran
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Tollymain posted:Coming soon from Lee's Lists: 100 RPGs I Have Played or Ran Make it 100 RPGs I Own and Have Played or Run and just have it be an empty list.
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