Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[LovisXVI]

A campaign with 4e rules that started with this module and the Urban Operations supplement would be another sick all Kiwis game.

One of my players has been trying to get me into Twilight for years now (which is funny because I have been trying to get him into Traveller for an equal amount of time, given they were both GDW products), but the base Poland setting never grabbed me super hard. But this sounds way cooler imo.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

One of my players has been trying to get me into Twilight for years now (which is funny because I have been trying to get him into Traveller for an equal amount of time, given they were both GDW products), but the base Poland setting never grabbed me super hard. But this sounds way cooler imo.

GDW has a whole series of modules set in America and supplements for other countries as well. The Poland stuff gets the most attention because it was the default when the game was first published, and because starting a campaign there is so unusual.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

How about focusing on other eras if you crave diversity and representation so much like an 80s or 90s setting?

I’m not bothered that much by having black characters on the cover, hence my disagreement on your earlier post.

If they are trying to go with angle of having more stories which could include non-whites, they can still stick with the 20s. Classic voodoo, esoteric writings from Harlem, perhaps the Moorish Society was a secret cult.

 

[titty skeleton]

The amount of effort that gets put into TTRPG products is very low, and despite that they expect a premium for it.

If you think that's bad I suggest you look at some of the 'classic' digital mapmaking software such as Hexographer/Worldographer and Campaign Cartographer.

The asking prices are astonishing for such old and clunky programs.

Compared to their modern contemporaries in Wonder/dungeondraft et al that ask for 25 bucks or less it's certainly eyebrow raising.

Recently I indulged in a hex mapping venture following ACKS2's realm creation guidance to experiment. I found it very frustrating that Worldographer is seemingly the only program that does multiple map scale layers in the same file. Flipping from 6 mile scale to 24 mile scale for convenience is handy; you keep consistent features between the layers while swapping between exploration and long distance travel perspectives. Plus you can overlay the larger grid over the smaller.

I did find some web applications that attempt to do similar. Unfortunately they are either too narrow in scope or expect a subscription.

The only saving grace is that a Python script exists, and can be found on search engines, to generate pre-2025 Worldographer license keys. The 2025 update fixes some ancient jank and adds some nice features, but nothing worth the asking price.

I'm pleased that ACKS2 offers so much guidance for sandbox creation. The Judge's Journal is an interesting read if the concept or philosophy of ACKS clicks with you. It tickles my particular flavor of autism nicely.

 

[HomosexualCheezeMaker]

I found FGU's Psi World in a corner of the web and I swear that it's calling to me so I printed it out. It's kind of like the Scanners/Scanner Cop franchise I'm a fan of. You're either ostracized psychics trying to survive in a near future (for the 80s) setting or the ones hunting them. I already wrote down some notes for a campaign set in the restored Kingdom of Hawaii but I'm up to my neck in CoC and WFRP and will be for a time.

How's Conspiracy X? I was really into Ufology in my younger days so it looks like my jam.

Excellent but revised edition is is 150 physical
I have a full set of classic which is definitely a Ufology paradise and a great read
Some of the rules are janky like using Zener cards for psychic abilities
I won't spoil the rest but you can find everything on the internet archive

 

[Ghostse]

If you think that's bad I suggest you look at some of the 'classic' digital mapmaking software such as Hexographer/Worldographer and Campaign Cartographer.

The asking prices are astonishing for such old and clunky programs.

Compared to their modern contemporaries in Wonder/dungeondraft et al that ask for 25 bucks or less it's certainly eyebrow raising.

Recently I indulged in a hex mapping venture following ACKS2's realm creation guidance to experiment. I found it very frustrating that Worldographer is seemingly the only program that does multiple map scale layers in the same file. Flipping from 6 mile scale to 24 mile scale for convenience is handy; you keep consistent features between the layers while swapping between exploration and long distance travel perspectives. Plus you can overlay the larger grid over the smaller.

I did find some web applications that attempt to do similar. Unfortunately they are either too narrow in scope or expect a subscription.

The only saving grace is that a Python script exists, and can be found on search engines, to generate pre-2025 Worldographer license keys. The 2025 update fixes some ancient jank and adds some nice features, but nothing worth the asking price.

I'm pleased that ACKS2 offers so much guidance for sandbox creation. The Judge's Journal is an interesting read if the concept or philosophy of ACKS clicks with you. It tickles my particular flavor of autism nicely.

Tried DungeonDraft?
Honestly I do all my mapping in MapTool, its just easier and better performance to build in there.

Though honestly $70 for niche software isn't something I'm going to blink at it if does what I want. Where I'm going "yeeeee" us the $20-25 for icon packs.

 

[Manly_Brony]

I’m not bothered that much by having black characters on the cover, hence my disagreement on your earlier post.

It's not just the covers, it's the race swaps I'm already expecting like in the Arkham supplement's case. I own a physical copy of the Escape from Innsmouth campaign and there are 0 Black people in that accursed town. The only minorities are Europeans: Poles and Portuguese. The Hybrids running Innsmouth are the actual POCs because their seafaring ancestors had children with tainted Kanakas/Polynesians. They will most likely fall over themselves to balance this with a dozen good POCs.

If they are trying to go with angle of having more stories which could include non-whites, they can still stick with the 20s. Classic voodoo, esoteric writings from Harlem, perhaps the Moorish Society was a secret cult.

I would like this but they're afraid of the South if you ask me. That's why they stick to New England/Lovecraft Country. It's safe. The Tatooine of CoC if you will. Harlem was tried but the retarded author ruined it with the bullshit that America was built by Blacks, Klansmen are everywhere, cops will practice their aim on you on sight, there is no reverse racism and Whites are only allowed to use his book if they follow his rules: no stereotypes, no blaccents and no period accurate talk AKA N bombs. Call me a dumbass but you can just feel that Black America has a ton of superstitions, delusions and cults often tied to existing Mythos deities you're not supposed to touch unless some sensitivity reader approves. Like the Afrocentrist Black Egyptian Pharaoh Nyarlathotep Avatar parallel which reaches all the way to Hollywood if you remember the Netflix documentary about Cleopatra.

 

[HomosexualCheezeMaker]

Cease purchasing luxury pulp. Intellectual property isn't real.

It's crazy how expensive books are, but it also makes sense considering how bulky and heavy they can be. It still blows my mind that people want like $10 for a dozen page PDF of slop with bad artwork meanwhile you can buy amazing indie games off steam for like $5. The amount of effort that gets put into TTRPG products is very low, and despite that they expect a premium for it.

I only buy decent quality hard covers with some some exceptions like Conspiracy X or All Flesh must be eaten

Usually don't even bother with the slop books like modern WoD
>Was out of the loop and bought Werewolf, Vampire and Hunter 5th and regretted everything

If it's slop I don't even bother like the pride bundle they did on drive thru rpg that had one single page about arguing with conservatives on Thanksgiving

 

[HomosexualCheezeMaker]

That already exists, it's the Armies of the Night module for Twilight: 2000. There's even an evil Duke!

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A campaign with 4e rules that started with this module and the Urban Operations supplement would be another sick all Kiwis game.



300 mb rulebook...



I have a physical copy of Nightlife, a game that's like if Vampire the Masquerade wasn't for fags.

0MB with a hard cover version
Guy had his bad hospital comic archive be 3gb what did you expect?

I'll look into nightlife