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Alien Rope Burn posted:7th Sea just needed a mechanic where you randomly roll up a secret society and assign it to the players but they don't know. Five years into a campaign, you are finally allowed to inform your players they were *rolls* crab-men from *rolls* the moon and have a plan to *rolls* destroy all freedom through *rolls* a photonic virus.
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Night10194 posted:I was in a campaign that was pretty awesome right up until the GM bought all the books, excited, and decided he would follow the goddamn metaplot to the letter and killed the game right quick by doing it. potatocubed posted:I really enjoyed reading the metaplot, but I played it and it remained entirely irrelevant the whole time. This is every metaplot in every game. gently caress metaplots, I want a game book not a novel.
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KirbyJ posted:At least L5R 4e tries it's best to be timeline neutral, especially at the beginning of the line: it details stuff from certain time periods in the CCG but then usually gave you a sidebar on how to use it in another time period, etc. One of the things I really appreciate about the line. Currently my L5R game is set in the "who gives a drat" era, with emperor Not Personally Relevant. ETA: FMguru posted:Some people want to play in a world where the most they can hope to accomplish is fetching a Diet Coke for Hida O-Ushi or make a brief walk-on appearance at the Battle of Beiden Pass, and the L5R RPG is for them. Yawgmoth fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Dec 5, 2014 |
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Dec 5, 2014 15:56
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AmiYumi posted:Always the best way to run L5R. Hell, we would always just mash up the various eras on the basis of "what do people want to play?" Sometimes the answer comes up "a gaijin diplomat, a Daidoji Harrier, a shadow-branded Scorpion, and a Firefly clan bushi", and who even cares if that makes sense?
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Dec 5, 2014 16:48
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AmiYumi posted:I just don't get it, especially because L5R character creation (at least back when we were playing) seems designed to make completely insane characters.
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Dec 5, 2014 19:12
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Yeah they way we did it was that you got one roll for free, then you could either keep it, drop it and not roll again, or drop it and roll again but you have to keep the second. I think I was the only person who actually managed to roll something worth keeping.
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Dec 5, 2014 20:04
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Tendales posted:I've been flipping through Outbreak, and so far... well. The layout is awful. Text bleeds into the margin art. Character creation is completely nonsense. Honestly, this book is reading like a collection of someone's design notes, arranged vaguely into categories. Sometimes those categories are labelled wrong. Almost all of the gamemaster section's pages are labelled 'the turn' for some reason.
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Dec 7, 2014 05:53
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To steal from Jim Gaffigan: Camping was a tradition in everyone's family, then we invented "indoors". Edit: However, I don't think I could live in a city that didn't have trees and lakes scattered throughout it.
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Dec 9, 2014 18:25
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AmiYumi posted:Imagine what Reddit and 4chan would look like if the world were suddenly Exalted 4chan are Lunars, Reddit are Infernals. 
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't know a whole lot about Pokemon beyond watching friends play it on Game Boys back in high school, but I think that a game about fantastical animals engaging in sanctioned duels would be just about perfect for lots of social combat: backroom dealings and match rigging and betting and bookies. Don King: The Game, with small magical animals.
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