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I've still got World Wide Wrestling RPG stuck in my head, even after I didn't get picked for the PbP game. So I'm thinking of running a one-shot of it on IRC or Google Hangouts or something. But a lot of people don't seem to be interested in using IRC these days for games and I've no experience with hangouts or any other online alternatives. Otherwise I've started playing Payday 2 again, which has my mind drifting back towards one-shot RPG One Last Job, even if the only similarity is the "Criminal Heist" theme. My RPG mood is way too easily influenced by whatever video games or movies I've been watching lately. 
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Yes. Play Apoc World and Apoc World Engine based games. Especially non-Dungeon World ones. Not that DW is terrible, but there are so many other neat ones out there! One day I'll get to play WWWRPG or Night Witches.  Speaking of WWWRPG.Tatum Girlparts posted:My group is fuckin loving World Wide Wrestling, what a great use of the Apocalypse Engine too. Care to share any stories? What kind of characters are being played and whats going on?
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Yeah, another neat mechanic for avoiding failure (though not one you directly control) is that each match has an "Announcer". The announcer is a player whose wrestler isn't directly involved in the match. Its his job to elaborate on the descriptions the active players give of their wrestling spots and give a colorful commentary. In addition, once per match he can "Put Over" each player wrestler by describing what they're doing in the most excited "OH MY GAWD!" sort of way. This automatically upgrades the player's roll one level, from a botch to a partial hit, or a partial hit to a full success. Its a really cool usage of PbtA and Momentum is a neat pseudo-version of "Hold". Momentum can also be spent in certain other ways too, like Heel characters can spend 2 momentum to trigger the Heel move, which lets them gain heat with their opponent (WWWRPG's version of Hx), Win a match even if Creative booked otherwise, "leave someone laying helplessly on the floor" (backstage Chair shot!), or weasel out of a match. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Just be careful, FFG Star Wars is a cool system, but it looks like something a munchkin could easily break over his knee.
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Seems fine to me.  [edit] Oh hey, anyone who has WWWRPG but missed the kickstarter or whatever, the author just put up the five Season 1 gimmicks (The Giant, The Gatekeeper, The Provocateur, The Clown, and The Athlete) on his website as free/pay-what-you-want. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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My biggest problem with PbtA games is none of the major ones draw me in that much. I'm not interested in Monster Hearts' premise. Dungeon World is "ok" and I'd probably try playing it, but overall is too much like D&D in various ways, IMO.Apocalypse World is the one I'd be most interested in playing, but I'm completely apathetic towards the post-apoc aesthetic. Then there is the various smaller PbtA games/hacks, but a lot of the build off of Dungeon World's style of PbtA. WWWrpg is the first one that's really grabbed me. Then again, I have basically no actual play experience with PbtA games aside from one in-ring match of a failed WWWrpg PbP game, so maybd I don't really know what I want. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:e: or Pink because Pink owns. You're missing a Floyd or two in there. 
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Impermanent posted:Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World: Dark Ages is going to make you happy. How is work on that progressing, by the way?
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Yawgmoth posted:I don't think I have ever seen a game with grappling rules that weren't awful.  quote:WRESTLING: 
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Plague of Hats posted:What games have a mechanic similar to 13th Age's escalation die? Every game you want to have it.  As Night10194 says, I'd probably throw it into Feng Shui, I once proposed to my old Dark Heresy group to include it in our campaign, really anything vaguely like D&D is something you could put it into.
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Awesome. Make sure to read Scrape and Evil Master'sminds Dungeon World guide.
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I find this link very useful.
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Loki_XLII posted:I would love a Feng Shui video game. Like, I don't even care about the mechanics, I just want to run around in the setting. I am fine with this as long as its made by Platinum.
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Eh, I love Feng Shui, but honestly its a bit of a dinosaur systemwise at this point. It had an important role in helping forge the path that lead to stuff like Fate and Apocalypse World though.
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I don't even know what a Modron is. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Also I'm reading through the Blades in the Dark quickstart and listening to Protomen and I really want to use this game to run a setting based on Streets of Fire and the non-movie The Protomen's "The Cover Up" is the soundtrack for. Blades in the Dark is loving awesome and everyone should check out that kickstarter and the quick start rules. The game itself looks awesome. Plus, I can't wait until someone hacks a Shadowrun set for it so I can finally theoretically play Shadowun with a set of rules that aren't garbage. Also can't wait till someone makes hacks for half-a-dozen other things. I hope it becomes the next ApocWorld with regards to people hacking it.
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Error 404 posted:I love how the base setting "Duskwall" is basically loving Dunwall from Dishonored. I mean it, that game owned, and I legit love what I see with this. Fuckin Backed. To be fair its got a lot of other things thrown in the blender too! Plus people in Dunwall don't come back as 
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Almost all of John Harper's RPGs on his website are free. Except the Greek Heroes one.
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So I showed Blades in the Dark to my old group's GM, earlier this week. He got so excited by it (in his words, its shamelessly pandering straight at everything he wants) that he's "put the band back together" so to speak and our group is actually gonna play its first game tomorrow since we went on indefinite hiatus last August. It may not last long before scheduling issues break us up again, but holy crap, another reason for me to love BitD, it got my group back together and I'm actually gonna play something! 
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I think that was more coincidence than intentional.
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