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

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I've got some news I'm at least happy about: the 20 anniversary version of Wraith: The Oblivion is finally coming out in the fall. I've been waiting for it for so long.
 
I'm sad that I'm the only one in my D&D group that's doing a voice for their character (I'm a dwarf so I (try to) pull off a Scottish accent). My DM had to stop at one moment and try to decrypt what I was saying lel

Campaign's been going alright thankfully but the other bard in the group keeps trying to fuck everyone and everything and the joke's already worn thin. Fortunately enough all of his seduction rolls so far have failed catastrophically.
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
I've got some news I'm at least happy about: the 20 anniversary version of Wraith: The Oblivion is finally coming out in the fall. I've been waiting for it for so long.
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Isn't already out in digital or was it backers only at this point
Dunno if it was a alpha version or something I was looking at but it had rules for orpheus cross over
 
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So, I have a confession to make. I recently played in a World of Darkness LARP and I actually liked it.

There's a Classic World of Darkness LARP group near where I live that does games of Vampire and Werewolf. Out of curiosity, I decided to check it out since there's no other White Wolf gaming groups in my area, and I was genuinely surprised at how awesome the group was.

The people in the group were really nice and laid-back and didn't take things too seriously, and I didn't see any of the stereotypical edgelord types commonly associated with Vampire LARP. There were a couple of metalheads, but they were pretty chill and the group as a whole was very friendly and welcoming to new players such as myself.

The gaming group meets up about once a month on the weekend and does all-day events that are two games in one and we played at a player's house instead of in public, which is a bonus for me.

We did Werewolf: The Apocalypse in the daytime and then Vampire: The Masquerade in the evening and I had a lot of fun playing both of those games.

I think the group is affiliated with Mind's Eye Society (the national World of Darkness LARP group) and the group wants me to officially join them and register with the organization, and I think I will.

For those who are curious, I played a Glass Walker in the Werewolf game and a Toreador in the Vampire game.

While I still prefer tabletop to LARP for several reasons, I still had a great time and a lot of fun at this LARP and I would definitely play with the group again.
 
So after a week of not playing the campaign due to the death of one of the player's mother, we got back into the campaign. After defeating the last two ant monstrosities, these three giant pillars of metal and wires came walking in. Our robotic bard plays a ditty and entrances two of the three pillars, leaving the sole unaffected pillar moving towards us. The mini red lizard with no gender (basically, after the mating window, they turn red and have no gender) managed to slow it down by biting one of the legs, and using its tail to puncture the beast, leaving a sparking hole. Albert, in his massive intelligence and wisdom, uses create water, sending two gallons of water straight into the hole, causing the entire beast to explode, which kills it, catching the area on fire, catching myself on fire, dousing the fire on myself, getting healed, and then trying to do the same thing again, only flubbing it up and freezing his feet in place. After these pillar monsters, one beast remains...
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Is that something like sexual cannibalism?
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No. I'd have to talk to my DM about it, since he has all the info about it. They stay in a child stage for centuries, mate for less than a century, and then live the rest of their lives genderless, or something like that.
 
REGENDarySumanai said:
No. I'd have to talk to my DM about it, since he has all the info about it. They stay in a child stage for centuries, mate for less than a century, and then live the rest of their lives genderless, or something like that.
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Oh, so something like a axolotl that breeds for an x amount of years before becoming genderless instead switching sexes. Interesting. I once used a lizardman species that were like Whiptail lizard's. The whole species were female so they needed males of another species to have children. Other lizardmen didn't like that as the females of this species were quite larger, even larger than their own females and saw them as a threat so a war broke out which destabilize the local small human swamp towns.
 
So, I just finished the first chapter of a story I am writing based on Original Dungeons & Dragons and posted it to Archive Of Our Own.

It's essentially a "story within a story" about a bunch of soldiers in the Army Reserves during the mid-1970's who play D&D in the barracks to alleviate boredom in their off-hours. There is the Slice-Of-Life story about the soldiers, and the adventure story about the characters they are playing in the campaign.

I've been doing research on the early days of the RPG hobby (as well as the miniature wargaming hobby it branched off from) as well as the rather chaotic and troubled state of the military in the 1970's following the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Apparently morale and discipline was at an all-time low in the 70's and both retention and funding were issues for the Army back then.

The story is titled "War Games" and it is partially inspired by the film Clerks, the television shows M*A*S*H and Freaks and Geeks, and of course, my fondness of D&D and near-autistic passion for military history.

Feel free to check it out, if any of you guys are interested.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14463987/chapters/33415731
 
Eh, dump basic stuff that may be interesting. I mostly use the books for mechanics though, given I tend to just use the broad background to paint a setting.

Never was a fan of using modules if you can't tell... mainly because you will have at one point the person who will read the book and use it for meta. It also meant that I'd butcher characters in the module or setting, which would piss off the lore fans, hence my tendency to just shrug and make stuff up for the most part.
 
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