SunAndSpring posted:

How is Mutants and Masterminds? Might be doing a superhero game soon so I'm looking into picking that up. I read Masks and that's a little too specialized towards relationships and not general punch-man stuff.

Ratpick posted:

Incidentally, this means that the America equivalent also has the largest concentration of evil cults dedicated to nihilism and destruction (but enough about Republicans) because they were remorselessly persecuted back in their original countries, so you might have a friendly neighborhood death cult organizing a bake sale.

gradenko_2000 posted:

As a graduate of Larius Firetongue's School of Sorcery and a veteran of the Zulkir Civil War, I

senrath posted:

It's telling you there's a Timecube RPG.

gnome7 posted:

Realtalk, tabletop games, both as a hobby and a medium, would be significantly better if they were strictly PG-13.

Kwyndig posted:

At the very least if that was the expected norm and anything outside of that had content warnings it would be good.

Covok posted:

This leads to a big conspiracy of individuals who have psychic abilities, like the Russians were experimenting with in the 80s according to the roleplaying book, that have lived in secret in separate societies that believe their powers are magic.

This ends up tracing them to a school for these crazy people where Tesladyne believes the killer is living and operating in. A school where these people teach their young how to use their psychic powers, their "magic", and basically indoctrinate them into this cult that laughs at science and tries its best to live as if it were still the 1600s.

gradenko_2000 posted:

To go off a little bit more on this tangent, there was a discussion on RPPR a while back about how one of the drivers of creativity in old-school D&D was the random assignment of spells:

If you let a D&D newbie pick a Magic-User spell, they might go for Magic Missile as the most intuitive one.
If you let a D&D veteran pick a Magic-User spell, they might go for Sleep as the actually most powerful spell available.
But if you just assign a spell randomly, then the character has to make do with what they have, and that forces them to get creative, because what the gently caress are you going to do with Goodberry when facing down a pack of angry orcs?

(I suspect, but cannot confirm, that Light's ability to cause a dazzling attack penalty effect when cast on an enemy was probably a player at Gygax's table trying that exact thing once, and Gygax just formally wrote it into the books)

As a counter-point, when you allow a player to always choose what spells they get, they'll then figure out the best "combo" or most versatile/useful assortment of spells, and always lean on those. It's when their choices are sub-optimal that they resort to doing something different. Which is not to say that I necessarily advocate for this approach, but it's interesting to think about.

There was even a thought experiment of a game where a spellcaster might begin the game with a single high-level spell, like maybe ... Transport Via Plants, or Rainbow Pattern, or Reverse Gravity ... but that's all the spellcaster would be able to cast. There are a bunch of spells in D&D that are kinda cool or have a lot of potentially creative applications, but they never get used because save-or-dies exist.

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To bring it back to the Fighter discussion, obviously it's just another expression of the martial-v-caster disparity that a caster can "negotiate" with the GM on what their Tenser's Floating Disc can actually do, but then it's the Fighter that can arguably benefit the most from being able to add even just a few "utility scrolls" to their repertoire.

Vinchenz posted:

I'm also looking to trying out hex-crawling in this, which is something I haven't done before.

some loving LIAR posted:

The parts of Mutant: Year Zero that are hexcrawl-based are similar enough to what I remember doing, except that it does a better job of keeping the whole thing interesting by tying it into the civ-development minigame.

Covok posted:

Working on what is the dumbest idea for a D&D setting: Gods of America.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/tenderdnd/status/928605949060935680

You have nothing to lose but your +1 Unholy Spiked Chain of Obeisance

Hostile V posted:

Yeah and the reason I'm leery of it being approached in the game is that it directly references the 2016 election and fears of vote tampering within the book. GRU SV-8 kinda doesn't need to be seduced into playing that role. The fact that in their receipt of funding comes corruption into becoming the heir of MJ-12's throne is a much better hook than MJ-12's existence because it's the corruption of an ally and that's fine. It doesn't need to have headlines from the last 2 years rubbed all over it, it doesn't need the "new mythos Cold War" angle.

01011001 posted:

quote:

“This is the purge, right?” Will Smith asked the crowd. “This is the cleanse, this is what happens. This is the natural reaction to the amount of light that came into the world when Barack Obama was the president.” [...] “We had to expect that [the pendulum] was going to go the other way,” he said. “As a cleanse — this is the darkness before the dawn.”

When that happens, he said, “I feel very, very strongly that we are shifting into what the next age of humanity is going to be right now,” he said. “It’s just the poo poo has to get stirred up, in a way. We’re seeing it all.”

The Glumslinger posted:

Dumb question, but anyone got a recommendation for a fantasy series in the classic sword and sorcery, D&D style? Something that isnt super deep, but can give me some inspiration as try to be a better gm