Ominous Jazz posted:

We forgot the most anime game of all, Cthulu Tech.

Nuns with Guns posted:

Tenchi makes so much more sense now

Helical Nightmares posted:

wondering what game to run next?

Here you go:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=827628497











Yes that is a Mi-go with a braincase.

Phi230 posted:

RPG chat

Are there any historical RPGS? WW2? Air/naval?

gradenko_2000 posted:

Ratpick posted:

Someone on tumblr posted a way back about using Strike! for Mass Effect. I have to admit that I'm not familiar with the series myself, but as far as I understand they're essentially sci-fi RPGs with some cover-based shooting, so it does not seem that far-fetched an idea. You could probably even hack the emotional attributes system in some way to make a Paragon/Renegade system. Maybe? I don't know.

Nuns with Guns posted:

I like the tapir men who herd non-sentient humans around for food

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Everything I've ever read about the setting of Exalted makes me want to play it, and everything I've ever read about the mechanics, of any edition, crushes my dreams.

Glorantha on the other hand is a lot of serious stuff I like for what it is and a lot of silly stuff I like for what it is, but combined it just doesn't appeal to me for some reason.

Covok posted:

What's the best F20 (fantasy d20) game?

Halloween Jack posted:

I was playing the Arkham Asylum series at the same time I was reading through people's attempts to do superheroes in OSR rules frameworks (note: they're all bad), and got the idea that "street-level" supers would make for a pretty good dungeoncrawl where the dungeon is the villain's lair, or Arkham island, or just the mean streets of Gotham. But I was uncomfortable with the latter idea for exactly this reason.

Maxwell Lord posted:

I've been toying around with doing something that would basically just be Saints Row: The TRPG. Make everything as insanely over the top as possible, you're shooting bazookas at rival drug farms and battling gangs of masked wrestlers and wannabe Draculas, etc.

Covok posted:

Where? I would post there.

Also, looks like there hasn't any new big F20 games since most of the answers to that questions were the sames one from a while ago. Shouldn't be that surprised as, while many come out, most are bad.


Entered.

Guardians of Order? More like Guardians are poorer B-because I'm better at this than them. Which I will prove through the entry. To the contest. Of which I applied. Uh...

Kwyndig posted:

You mean Pocket OGRE?

Good luck. That edition is reselling at a ridiculous premium and is OOP.

Kwyndig posted:

Basically it's like a nine dollar game going for at least twice that used, making it difficult to guarantee you get all the required counters.

Edit: Actual MSRP was 2.95, because Steve wanted to thank everyone for still being interested in his little tank game after all these years, and that was the original price.

Ratpick posted:

What games are there that actually have some manner of rules for character death beyond "roll up another character, you're dead Gary"?

I started thinking about this a while back because most traditional RPGs still have the idea that all fights are to the death and once you die you just roll up a new character. I know some games have qualifiers for character death (like "If you TPK the whole group it doesn't actually count for reals unless they were fighting a big baddy, but having the entire group beaten should carry some dramatic consequence") but I'm thinking more along the lines of games that actually prescribe in the rules what happens upon character death beyond having to roll up another character. Not necessarily even death, but codified consequences for what happens when you reach the point of critical existence failure where by the rules your character is taken out.

Examples of the sort of stuff I'm looking for: being reduced to 0 hp (or whatever the equivalent) doesn't kill you, but instead gives you a permanent scar of some kind; your character dying meaning that you immediately come back as some kind of undead with appropriate drawbacks; being killed meaning that you must roll a new character, but your new character already starts with some benefit relative to our previous character's power level or achievement (alternative: if your character dies in a really dramatic manner that perfectly encapsulates what the character was about, the player's next character might start with dramatically better benefits).

The reason I'm thinking about this stuff is that most RPGs are still based around what you might call challenge-based gameplay (i.e. the GM's role is largely one of setting up challenges and obstacles for the players to overcome) and death is almost always on the line in that sort of gameplay, but most games don't seem to consider the effects of death beyond having to scrap your character or waiting for the rest of the group to resurrect them.

Plutonis posted:

There were local demons and dieties that were converted by Sanzhang yes. And IRL there is a massive amount syncretism on several Buddhist communities in which for example the Herakles of Bactria was turned into a diety that protects the Buddha and his iconography inspired the fierce Nioh statues of Japan.

Halloween Jack posted:

drat it, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna hack Mass Effect into Strike! As soon as I finish 3 F&Fs, and probably rugby season.

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

If you want to watch a visually impressive war anime, Gundam Thunderbolt is great. It's a short miniseries, lots of jazz, and mostly about low level soldiers being stuck in a lovely war and how it's destroyed their lives. The ending is a bit of a let down but it's a good ride.

The barrier to entry is also low, it's mostly a visual story and not lore heavy, but it's pretty much the Das Boot of Gundam series.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I have a very specific thing I'm looking for: I'm dabbling in ordering POD books from DriveThruRPG, as I've discovered that shipping to here is quite reasonable. I just placed an order for Exemplars & Eidolons and Swords & Wizardry White Box.

Is there a d20/3e clone that's POD-able that you could recommend? Iron Heroes, 13th Age, and FantasyCraft are all PDF-only, and Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved is waaaay too rich for my blood (34.95 for softcover B&W!)

ProfessorCirno posted:

I've legit never "clicked" with gnomes and I've never known where to really put them. Outside of 4e gnomes, they have the least traction and the fewest hooks to really utilize.

drrockso20 posted:

I had a really neat setting prompt involving some of the short fairy races lying around somewhere that I thought did Gnomes pretty well, let me go dig it up and I'll post it here

Plutonis posted:

There's a lot of NJPW dudes on the new Tiger Mask and the original manga/anime inspired four different dudes to take that name.

SunAndSpring posted:

Superhero game set in the Golden Age of comics would be a good way to do it.

Drone posted:

So as someone who's been really interested in the system for awhile: how does the OSR-ness of Stars Without Number's basic game gel with the mounds of additional rulebooks for mass naval combat, cyberpunk stuff, military games, etc.? Or is my definition of OSR (just a cool relatively simple game without all the cruft) just flat-out wrong?

Does the stuff from the additional books play pretty seamlessly with the core book or does it just become super daunting?

gradenko_2000 posted:

On the topic of superhero games and OSR: get you an RPG that does both

Reene posted:

I have the itch to run 13th Age again and I want to whine about it.

Nuns with Guns posted:

Having gotten to look over the Nocturne book more, I have to say that I really dig the classes in there a lot too. One's kind of a mage class but mostly relies on building a battle construct to fight for them. One eats ghosts and uses powers derived from that to fight. And the last one is a Blade-style monster-hunter-who-is-also-sort-of-a-monster. I'd throw all of them in a pool alongside the Glorantha classes (when they come out) and the regular 13th age classes if I ran a game

Covok posted:

Outside Fen Shui and Feng Shui II, Exalted, Legend of the Five Rings, Tenra Bansho Zero, Reflections, and Ninja Crusade, what other games have Asian-inspired settings that are worth looking at?

Lightning Lord posted:

What would be a good modern system for running XXVc? Fragged Empires?

Lightning Lord posted:

I wonder how likely a purist Grey Box + FR1-16 campaign would be to change the mind of someone who likes D&D or "D&D fantasy" but doesn't dig the Forgotten Realms because they view it as Elminister nutting on their faces while gods punch each other out and nothing they do matters because a novel will retcon it anyway? I'm sure people like that are out there.

I've been working on and off on sword & sorcery Forgotten Realms, mostly for use with Barbarians of Lemuria and Crypts & Things. Pretty much I make the gods distant and unknowable and priests that have magic abilities are wizards, like in Conan. Also the factions aren't as black and white good and evil. Based on what little I've run it's a great way to introduce people who've played like Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate who aren't familiar with the sword & sorcery genre to it.


What did you think about the setting? Do you think it would be worthwhile converted for use for another system?

Plutonis posted:

All WoTC settings suck rear end except Eberron and Dark Sun

gradenko_2000 posted:

There's a pretty well-maintained list of retroclones here: http://taxidermicowlbear.weebly.com/dd-retroclones.html that could be used as a starting point.

The curation would come to identifying which ones are actually worth playing, and why. (Arrows of Indra? seriously?)

Drone posted:

How much effort would go into running a Mass Effect game using Stars Without Number? And how would it work?

It feels like the "background" metacampaign stuff from SWN would fit pretty perfectly to Mass Effect -- you could base it in a sector with a cool name at the very edge of Citadel space, where maybe only one system has a mass relay connection to the rest of the network, and the rest of the systems need to be explored by slowboating around with spike drives conventional FTL. Biotics are also already present in the system in the form of psychics, so there's little that would need to be done there. VIs already exist in SWN as "braked" AIs, so no conversion necessary there either.

I saw someone's homebrew document for running ME in SWN on Reddit a bit ago, but it seemed like they introduced far more crunch than is really necessary (replaced/augmented the three core SWN character classes with individual warrior/psychic archetypes that corresponded to each class in the video game).

Beyond that it seems like all you'd need to do is stat up the other Council races and then maybe rename some weapons to sound more Mass Effect-y.

Edit: also found this guide for running ME in SWN written by some dude based on feedback from Kevin Crawford. I've not yet had the chance to play with SWN so I'm not sure how good most of this looks, but if it came straight from the horse's mouth for the most part, it's probably not bad.

Fuego Fish posted:

You mean the former, not the latter.

Covok posted:

Ever notice there isn't a lot of settings based on Greek mythology despite that being the cornerstone of western civilization's culture and a shared touch stones for most western nations?

Fuego Fish posted:

Been watching a bunch of cowboy stuff lately, and I've still got a bit of an itch to run a PbP, so I gotta ask a question of everyone.