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That actually sounds kind of funny. Jesus knock off with none of the miracle powers (unless you're going to be a Avangion) that solely wants to walk on water.
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strawberry15
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yep, this is all i wanted to do, yet never manage to do in dark sun... pity.
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Yeah, this is something I could probably roll with because while wanting to walk on it its dumb, "Locating large sources of water" is a very common goal in Dark Sun, something other people would be on board with. And searching for said water would cause them to cooperate with the party in a constructive manner.
Lots of rumors would be swirling about a big underground lake or some shit. Intentionally or not, its not just complete wacky randumb.
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as @East_Clintwood said you want the old novels. the first one came out in 1990, you can't get more fresh cyberpunk dystopia in all their pulpy glory than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shadowrun_books#Novels_and_other_fiction
word of warning tho, it will spoil major aspects and lore, like if you read the burning bright telling you what the universal brotherhood is you can see the whole twist of the first HBS game coming from a mile away. fun in it's own right, but some people don't like that (although some parts get mentioned in earlier books).
rumor has it they bid on it, lost (or didn't want it together with BT maybe), CGL being the nice people they are still being pissed about them basically fixing most of their 5e shit while giving them money for it decided to be even more retarded with 6e licensing, which means pegasus isn't even allowed to fix it to the the extend they did with 5e.
dunno if true but wouldn't surprise me...
wokies in general are ignorant retards, otherwise they wouldn't be woketards in the first place. it's like that jack nicholson clip how he writes women, only more retarded with less common sense and real world experience.
you say this, but which system had kender as default again..?
strawberry15
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Our ancestors, the greatest minds, souls and wills of humanity itself would only play kender, and would never touch Goblins. Alexander the Great would play as Kender fighter/thief .
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you say this, but which system had kender as default again..?
That's Dragonlance. That's an optional setting book not a core system book like PF2.
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Maybe an odd question: Is there a non-pozzed indie TTRPG scene at all? I've been working on something that is not a TTRPG but is very, very closely related. (I'm being exceptionally vague because it would be very easy to figure out what specifically the project is, and I have business partners that would shit a fucking brick about it being even tangentially associated with the farms in any way). I'm gearing up to release an actual, professional-grade finished product that is substantially higher-quality than the most popular product in this niche sector of the industry, and when I look at anywhere for indie tabletop design to see about networking and promotion, it's literally 100% troons, he/theys, and "anti-fascist game designers."
I'm not even looking for anything even positionally "anti-woke," just some corner of the scene that isn't a perfect overlap with the RPG.net folks.
I'm not even looking for anything even positionally "anti-woke," just some corner of the scene that isn't a perfect overlap with the RPG.net folks.
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Update: I’ve finally run Swords and Wizardry for three friends irl. I can’t say it went well, but I can say we all had fun and want to finish the dungeon.
I had wrote up three pregenerated characters- a dwarven fighter, a human cleric, and an elven elfblade (a single-classed fighter/magic-user from Book of Options)- to go through Tomb of the Mummy Priest from Basic Fantasy RPG. My first mistake was only making three characters. My second mistake was leaving the alignments blank and assuming they would lean lawful. Instead we got Tim the Chaotic Dwarf, Clork the Chaotic Cleric of Andrew Tate, and Scrungle the Neutral Elf. While I ruled that the cleric could control undead (I didnt feel like figuring out how he would control undead on the spot), he was stuck with the reversed version of each spell, meaning no healing beyond the potion of healing I had the foresight to give the dwarf (I gave everyone a few magic items, since my pregens were level 3-4).
I also didn’t memorize the rules. This normally wouldn’t be an issue, except I also didn’t write a cheat sheet (I’ve since started working on one for combat). So I was looking rules up on my phone while my players had the physical copy. Speaking of which, I was also looking up rules and reading the dungeon on my phone. That slowed things down a little bit.
So after stammering out the rules, Tim fell into a pit trap, took 2d6 damage (he rolled on the lower end of that), and demolished a zombie that was also stuck with them with the help of Scrungle’s arrows and Clork’s turn undead. Not much else of note happened before the three mummified crocodiles.
Scrungle decided to run away from the fight, assuming the rest of the party would join in. Instead, the cleric stayed and fought his own crocodile while Scrungle’s decided to go after Tim alongside the third one, leading to the two of them dropping Tim down to -2. Being nice, I ruled that death is at -10, and he loses 1 HP per round as he bleeds out unconscious. I also ruled that since only one crocodile had moved in that turn, and since both attacks presumably happen at the same time, the second crocodile would also get a hit. He rolled a hit, followed by an 8. Tim is dead. Long lived Tim.
I had wrote up three pregenerated characters- a dwarven fighter, a human cleric, and an elven elfblade (a single-classed fighter/magic-user from Book of Options)- to go through Tomb of the Mummy Priest from Basic Fantasy RPG. My first mistake was only making three characters. My second mistake was leaving the alignments blank and assuming they would lean lawful. Instead we got Tim the Chaotic Dwarf, Clork the Chaotic Cleric of Andrew Tate, and Scrungle the Neutral Elf. While I ruled that the cleric could control undead (I didnt feel like figuring out how he would control undead on the spot), he was stuck with the reversed version of each spell, meaning no healing beyond the potion of healing I had the foresight to give the dwarf (I gave everyone a few magic items, since my pregens were level 3-4).
I also didn’t memorize the rules. This normally wouldn’t be an issue, except I also didn’t write a cheat sheet (I’ve since started working on one for combat). So I was looking rules up on my phone while my players had the physical copy. Speaking of which, I was also looking up rules and reading the dungeon on my phone. That slowed things down a little bit.
So after stammering out the rules, Tim fell into a pit trap, took 2d6 damage (he rolled on the lower end of that), and demolished a zombie that was also stuck with them with the help of Scrungle’s arrows and Clork’s turn undead. Not much else of note happened before the three mummified crocodiles.
Scrungle decided to run away from the fight, assuming the rest of the party would join in. Instead, the cleric stayed and fought his own crocodile while Scrungle’s decided to go after Tim alongside the third one, leading to the two of them dropping Tim down to -2. Being nice, I ruled that death is at -10, and he loses 1 HP per round as he bleeds out unconscious. I also ruled that since only one crocodile had moved in that turn, and since both attacks presumably happen at the same time, the second crocodile would also get a hit. He rolled a hit, followed by an 8. Tim is dead. Long lived Tim.
That sounds awesome. If I was more in tune with pop culture (for my health and sanity, I try not to be), an adventure set in New York or even Tokyo would be fun.
The OSR scene (as in the part that sticks solely with old D&D editions and their retroclones) is relatively unpozzed, but that comes with its own issues.
strawberry15
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good for you. old school design rocks.
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If I wanted to dip my toes into S&W should I get the white book first or the standard edition?
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It's nice how much you can use "locate water" as a plot point. Be it survival, status, to save people, exploit people, etc. Especially if you're the aforementioned water cleric. Can't you also turn into a water elemental late game?
Swords and Wizards right? I believe Matt Finch disliked the errors in Whitebox (not book) and made S&W complete, which then got further revised or something. I don't know much about this, or OD&D in general. You can get Whitebox for $5 on the official site and DTR. So I'd say stick with White Box: FMAG as that seems to be the last revised version.
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EleventySeven
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The group I'm in got part way through Strange Aeons before the writing got too gay and retarded so we stopped, but that at least sounds cool. Earth isn't a different dimension, it just exists. If you have the means for travel either by magic or flight, you can just go there from Golarion.
But yeah, the setting is good back in the early pathfinder days with little gay shit and lots of cool sandbox stuff if you don't think about the Worldwound too hard.
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I'm sure there would be a market for it. Most normal people don't care about gay shit. I'm in a similar position though no where near done with everything. That has been one of my concerns about it going forward though.
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Yes, but in Japan.
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Not for long if the Japanese gaming scene is anything to go by.
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Very few Japanese TTRPG games are being translated, the industry connections and mis-translations that are usually used to take over largely don't apply the same way they do in games and anime.
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Yeah, but the only way to Make America Great Again would be to tell the Leafs to fuck off, reconcile with the South, and then reconquer the West and this time make sure there's no natives left alive to cause trouble down the line.
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You wish. Nechronica of all things for example got an "official" translation in Italian: having the pleasure of reading the language, I did not exactly remember the parts about X-Cards, lines and veils, mental well-being an' shit in the fan-translated English version. But maybe they were there in the Japanese original and the Italians kept them, who knows?
For sure, the weirdass game about playing cobbled together corpses of (apparent) questionable age, in a post-apocalyptic world does indeed need X-cards. If they weren't there, they should have been added, certainly. But maybe they were there in the Japanese original, who knows?
And for sure the translator note that underlines how "we prioritized ease of access over direct translation" should not ring any bells. Maybe it was there in the Japanese original, who knows.
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I attended my first game session in months a few days ago. The group had grown significantly since I left, and a smelly weirdo sat right next to me. If he has a BO issue again at the next session then I'll bring it up to the GM and offer to talk to him myself, since it would probably be less embarassing if it's another guy who tells him that he needs to wear deoderant. Otherwise the game was a blast, it's great to be a player now and not the one running things.