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01011001 posted:Pathfinder is my favorite edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Torchbearer is my favorite edition of Dungeons and Dragons. And now, a question: Can anyone tell me about some games with flashback mechanics? One Last Job sort of has that by letting you go "remember the time in berlin with that one guy" and then suddenly you have a +2 to shooting tiny children or something. However, I'm looking for something more like rebuilding after a civil war, and occasionally the game would drop into scenes during the war, and then back to the present day, using established backstory from the flashback to inform or twist the present day scene.
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Lichtenstein posted:LEVERAGE
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I thought the system was called "Cortex+"? 
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Davin Valkri posted:I thought the system was called "Cortex+"?
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My favourite edition of d&d is Not D&D. yes i know dumb joke but for some reason i just can't get into D&D :v
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Ningyou posted:My favourite edition of d&d is Not D&D. Well, you're hardly alone there. D&D relies on a bunch of base assumptions of What Roleplaying Should Be that really chafe on...well, lots of people. Including a lot of the people who play it, who seem like they'd be happier playing something else! And this applies even in the case where fantasy, combat-centric murderhobo RPGs are an enjoyed pasttime of the theoretical player! It's kind of a mess, but it'd be less of a problem if it weren't the RPG, and people weren't so hostile toward trying new systems. Seriously, people are really loving hostile. There's ample evidence of it in the various trials and tribulations people on this board have been through. Mind you, I try my best to break the mold, so I hope you can still come up with something nice for my campaign 
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Jul 2, 2015 17:33
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Ettin posted:Please post less about posting, and do not use the Satsui no Hado on other posters. God bless. I'm gonna turn into Oni.
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inklesspen posted:Torchbearer is my favorite edition of Dungeons and Dragons. 3:16 Carnage Among the Stars ties character advancement to flashbacks
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Good new avatar, Foo.
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The Diana Jones Award, an actual award has announced it's shortlist of nominees: http://www.dianajonesaward.org/ I hope the Guide to Glorantha wins. I also hope that Moon Design merely had to give out a PDF or two to the Ennie judges, otherwise they're out a ton of cash for something they certainly won't win, after all, the new Player's Handbook is in the Product of the Year category  FactsAreUseless posted:What is everyone's favorite edition of Dungeons and Dragons? Mine is 3.5th Edition because it has a lot of transhumanism, because you can be many transhumanist races such as Elf, Dwarf, Hobbit, Wizard, Gnome, and Half-Orc. BECMI or Dungeon Crawl Classics. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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BECMI? You don't even know me!
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Alt joke: BECMI? Well, I've already got two turntables and a microphone!
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D&D scratches an itch of mine that used to be filled in by raiding in an MMO, except I can skip all of the dumb bullshit like leveling up, random drops, needing a "balanced" party composition, grinding, gating, and so on and so forth. The game is interesting right off the bat, without having to wait until you reach that point that the developers put down as "ok, NOW the real game starts" Favorite edition is a toss-up between B/X and 4e
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gradenko_2000 posted:Favorite edition is a toss-up between B/X and 4e This guy gets it.
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess. I like a lot of cosmic horror in my dungeon crawls.
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Also you like 12161 zombies that are scared of magic plant music.
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inklesspen posted:Also you like 12161 zombies that are scared of magic plant music. Actually, I do. I like a lot of weird, irrational nonsense.
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I'm tempted to create a tabletop gaming music thread. I'm about to ask my players to go along with some... different music choices for some upcoming boss fights and someone should probably tell me that it's going to be jarring (not in the good way) switch them from generally atmospheric music that avoids sounding too modern (like some Witcher 3 combat music) to things like, well, the Titan theme from FFXIV. My intention is for it to be intentionally jarring, because I'm reserving modern musical genres for otherworldly or extremely monstrous enemies, but I worry it'll be jarring in a bad way. (I definitely need to be talked out of using Shiva's theme, too.)
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Jul 3, 2015 18:46
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Harrow posted:I'm tempted to create a tabletop gaming music thread. 
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Play Fiona Apple during tense and atmospheric moments because it will make your players confused and uncomfortable and that's exactly what you want.
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Harrow posted:I'm tempted to create a tabletop gaming music thread. I'm about to ask my players to go along with some... different music choices for some upcoming boss fights and someone should probably tell me that it's going to be jarring (not in the good way) switch them from generally atmospheric music that avoids sounding too modern (like some Witcher 3 combat music) to things like, well, the Titan theme from FFXIV. My intention is for it to be intentionally jarring, because I'm reserving modern musical genres for otherworldly or extremely monstrous enemies, but I worry it'll be jarring in a bad way. Intentionally jarring in the "unexpectedly modern" sense: a large amount of the SMT Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, and Baroque soundtracks will work. Whatever you pick, as long as it's not really overbearing, they probably won't be too thrown by it even if it doesn't perfectly fit or whatever. Just make sure it's appropriate as background music that stays in the background.
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Harrow posted:I'm tempted to create a tabletop gaming music thread. I'm about to ask my players to go along with some... different music choices for some upcoming boss fights and someone should probably tell me that it's going to be jarring (not in the good way) switch them from generally atmospheric music that avoids sounding too modern (like some Witcher 3 combat music) to things like, well, the Titan theme from FFXIV. My intention is for it to be intentionally jarring, because I'm reserving modern musical genres for otherworldly or extremely monstrous enemies, but I worry it'll be jarring in a bad way. Ravana's theme Well, the second part of it, but still. The FFXIV boss themes are incredible.
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RPZip posted:Ravana's theme Aren't they, though? It makes me wish I actually still liked playing the game. 01011001 posted:Intentionally jarring in the "unexpectedly modern" sense: a large amount of the SMT Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, and Baroque soundtracks will work. Whatever you pick, as long as it's not really overbearing, they probably won't be too thrown by it even if it doesn't perfectly fit or whatever. Just make sure it's appropriate as background music that stays in the background. Thanks for reminding me about the various SMT soundtracks I can mine, because those are all awesome. I'm still a little curious if I can get away with things like using the FFXIV Titan theme for a huge construct made out of scraps of war machines, or the Shiva theme for what is essentially going to be an "angel of death"-themed battle, but those might cross over into not being strictly background.
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Harrow posted:I'm tempted to create a tabletop gaming music thread. I'm about to ask my players to go along with some... different music choices for some upcoming boss fights and someone should probably tell me that it's going to be jarring (not in the good way) switch them from generally atmospheric music that avoids sounding too modern (like some Witcher 3 combat music) to things like, well, the Titan theme from FFXIV. My intention is for it to be intentionally jarring, because I'm reserving modern musical genres for otherworldly or extremely monstrous enemies, but I worry it'll be jarring in a bad way. If you want something that sounds more modern but fitting with fantasy, I suppose you could try the Drakengard soundtrack, which is mostly samples of orchestral music remade to sound rather jarring and dark. It might be a little too much though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZcNsaa-98&index=38&list=PL9C76300F15CC9EBD Also if you haven't heard of Drakengard, I recommend to never actually play any of the games in the series because they all suck.
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SunAndSpring posted:If you want something that sounds more modern but fitting with fantasy, I suppose you could try the Drakengard soundtrack, which is mostly samples of orchestral music remade to sound rather jarring and dark. It might be a little too much though. This is a great suggestion and something I hadn't considered. Drakengard (and NIER) soundtracks are awesome. Also my exposure to Drakengard doesn't really extend beyond The Dark Id's LPs. I could throw down with some Drakengard 3 boss music for sure.
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SunAndSpring posted:If you want something that sounds more modern but fitting with fantasy, I suppose you could try the Drakengard soundtrack, which is mostly samples of orchestral music remade to sound rather jarring and dark. It might be a little too much though. Nier is worth playing, but definitely not the others.
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01011001 posted:Nier is worth playing, but definitely not the others. Yeah, I liked Nier. It was pretty decent.
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Other great soundtracks to pilfer include Breath of Fire IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mis94WKFYhQ
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Harrow posted:I'm tempted to create a tabletop gaming music thread. I did this awhile back. It's fallen into archives though. I think because I was listening to a lot of post-rock and retrowave it ended up being mostly about stuff for cyberpunk games.
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Lightning Lord posted:post-rock 
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For 13th Age, what is the escalation dice and what are icons?
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01011001 posted:Nier is worth playing, but definitely not the others. Ningyou and I were enjoying Drakengard 3, except for the part where she had to play it. 
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I honestly didn't remember there was a third one.
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Harrow posted:Other great soundtracks to pilfer include Breath of Fire IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mis94WKFYhQ I started to make a list of my favorite songs until I realized I was just making a list of almost all of them because Breath of Fire IV loving owns, sooo. For anyone who's never played the game, listened to its music or read my LP from like five years ago go listen. Even if you don't, "~ A Man ~" is required listening, as you may expect from my avatar.
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Helical Nightmares posted:For 13th Age, what is the escalation dice and what are icons? Escalation dice: The escalation die is a 6 sided die that you don't roll. In combat the escalation die starts at 0. Every turn, you move it up one. This number is added to all PC attacks as a bonus; there are also several PC and NPC abilities that connect to it (monks can use Flurry of Attacks when at Escalation 3+, Wizards can cast Color Spray without expending it on even Escalations, etc). Technically you don't have to use a die, you could use anything else to mark numbers, but the die is generally easy to use. Overall this represents the battle getting more pumped and vicious as time goes on, while also discouraging round 1 novas. Icons are big setting-defining figures; each has an assumably large sphere of influence and a wide network that PCs can utilize. A PC with a positive relationship with the Emperor would be connected to the official government of the land; one with a negative relationship with the Lich King would be connected to various undead hunters and would probably know how to re-deadify things. At the start of each adventure the PCs roll their relationship dice; each 5 or 6 means that at some point in the adventure, that relationship is going to come up in a way beneficial to them (though each 5 also means there will be a cost or complication). Personally I've started just letting the PCs decide when they want to spend their points to announce or declare things. Can't get past a magic barrier but the wizard rolled a 6 on their Archmage? You can state that a group of arcanists are nearby, lead by Your Friend _______, and are happy to help!
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Also the best soundtrack to use for games is made of anime remixes.
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Helical Nightmares posted:For 13th Age, what is the escalation dice and what are icons? The Escalation Die is a d6 that starts at 1 on the second round of combat, and increases by one each round. It's added to the PC's attack rolls (to represent the spinning-up in combat), and some abilities trigger when the die hits a certain point. Barbarians can rage for free when the Escalation Die is 3+, instead of it coming out of their daily allotment, for instance. Icons are the major setting NPCs, who the characters have relationships with due to working for or against them. It's a way of having powerful important NPCs that don't make the PCs irrelevant, because the Icons are generally busy doing things like running the world to deal with smaller-level threats, which is what they need PCs for. They're also sources of gear, information, and threats for the characters. It's a way of solving the Elminster problem; if Elminster is the most powerful wizard in the world and can snap his fingers and solve any problem, then why does he risk having the PCs do it? In 13th Age, it's because the Archmage (the Elminster equivalent) is too busy researching and casting spells that hold reality together or stop mad gods from steamrollering the world to deal with that poo poo.
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Queen Fiona posted:Ningyou and I were enjoying Drakengard 3, except for the part where she had to play it. That loving bugged fog maze thing.
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