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Judge Dredd said:
I don't. I ignored Shadowrun because I didn't like the magic. I've been struggling for content for a cyberpunk campaign I want to run, and it sounds like Shadowrun has the good stuff. Only one I know of is Renraku Arcology, and that I only know from the Spoony episode.
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That one's pretty easy to modify for a purist game. IIRC, there's one or two points that involve bug spirits and it involves technomancers, but it's mostly just killer robots, fragments of an evil AI, and a few cultists that can't accept that their "god" is dead. Plus there's still people living in there who aren't allowed to leave since the corp shut down the Arcology. It's one of the most commonly run campaigns (I suspect because it's easier for GMs coming from fantasy stuff to grok because with a few tweaks it could also be a fantasy dungeon crawl).
 
Judge Dredd said:
I don't. I ignored Shadowrun because I didn't like the magic. I've been struggling for content for a cyberpunk campaign I want to run, and it sounds like Shadowrun has the good stuff. Only one I know of is Renraku Arcology, and that I only know from the Spoony episode.
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this might help: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/the-worlds-of-android/
android setting is more blade runner than neon chrome cyberpunk (if that makes sense), you got clones, you got bioroids, a space elevator but no magic. also leans a bit more into noir with murder mysteries and espionage than outright action.

there's also a oneshot you could probably rework: https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgam...-22a285cdf0a8/night_on_the_town_adventure.pdf
1d4chan also has a short overview while talking about the card game: https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Android:_Netrunner#Factions

Jeff_the_Thriller said:
I ran this game last weekend and it was a great. I kept the game kind of casual because all the players were new and I didn't want to scare them off during the first session. Plus I haven't GMed in like a decade.
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I think there are several, I saw the 2019 one with chariot of the gods recommended quite a bit for total newbies, but never tried it myself.
 
Brain Problems said:
OSE Kickstarter is up for those interested.

www.kickstarter.com

Old-School Essentials Fantasy RPG Box Sets

Two deluxe boxes of monsters, magic, wonder, and peril. 100% old-school rules, 100% modern design.
www.kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com
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Usual caution for folks eyeing this:
This is being driven by Exalted Funeral and they'll get a cut even if you're in Europe. Exalted Funeral are woke as fuck and they hate you. If you are in the US, they'll do the shipping and have really bad order tracking. The Euro shipper does too, but its the same one every other small publisher uses because they are the cleanest end of the turd by a wide margin. Everything arrives, but they are blackholes so don't expect to have any info about your order.
And while Exalted Funeral is woke, the guy behind OSE, Gavin Norman is (from my understanding) very apolitical; I see they are adding niggers to the new cover art, but content remains unchanged.

That said, the books from previous kickstarters are good quality: nice hardcovers, good wrapping, saddle stitching - the stuff you'd expect from someone willing to spend a few extra bucks to make a good product. The books are nice inside as well. Information is organized into one or two page spreads.


Their last kickstarter for Advanced Fantasy was sort of a clusterfuck because they relied on a despressoid who fucked their timeline + COVID. They don't seem to be waiting for any 3rd-party modules this time so probably only need to worry about COVID fucking transatlantic shipping.

Speaking of Advanced Fantasy, they did a kick starter for that which completed last summer, and looks like this one is out-dating the previous AF kickstarter books by adding new races, classes, & spells - so fuck everyone who backed them before. I guess what I'm saying is I'd view the AF section with a wary eye since I don't think they've settled on what OSE "Advanced Fantasy" is.
Basic Fantasy hasn't changed other than renaming some books and new cover art featuring darkies.

regarding the addons:
The DM screen is good quality but the information is very so-so. The screen is A5 height but A4 length so it sticks way out if you care about that. I'm also not huge fan of the art style. If that's your type of art, snag it.
The hard cover adventures are nice on a shelf, but so short they are almost more cover than book. This + the really good print/bind quality makes them difficult to use at the table since they don't like to lay open. The content is good (I haven't gone through all of them) not the best, but competent modules & adventures, so unless you want to have some shelf-deco I'd just get them from DTRPG and print 'em.

Summary:
I'd pass on the kickstarter and buy aftermarket (Though trying to get OSE after market suuuuucks) from non-Exalted funeral sources. If you go for the Kickstarter, I'd only get the Basic set. Skip any Add-ons except maybe the DM screen, and just get the PDFs from DTRPG and print them.

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Bought OSE Basic books from Exalted Funeral, fully backed the Advanced Fantasy kickstarter before I realized Exalted Funeral was part of the SJW collective.
 
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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
Saw this in the pictures thread.

For those of you who want to run Ravenloft, this is fucking Ravenloft.

looks beautiful.

Until you look a little closer.

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Hell, this is good advice for ANY horror game. Call of Cthulhu GM's should also take notes.

Jeff_the_Thriller said:
I ran this game last weekend and it was a great. I kept the game kind of casual because all the players were new and I didn't want to scare them off during the first session. Plus I haven't GMed in like a decade.

The marine PC played it like a video game and had three different situations where he should have died but like I said I didn't want to scare anyone off on session one. The next is a medic completely paralyzed by inaction when she has to make a decision. Last is a marshal who had never seen any of the movies and wanted to explore the vents with the results you would expect. They had great time despite me being a subpar GM but they have no frame of reference what good GMing looks like.

I really enjoyed the d6 system and can definitely see this being my go to ttrpg. Some information in the book can be a pain the ass to find on the fly but other than that can't recommend this game book enough.
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Good game, and I wish COC had a similar Stress system. My only complaint with it was that it required EVERYONE to have some subversive agenda, which especially in the case of our team being centered around a Colonial Marine squad, didn't make sense.

Judge Dredd said:
I talked about this in another thread, but troons love cyperpunk (the genre) for the reasons you describe, yet are hostile to the actual games like CP2077 and Shadowrun because it clashes with their utopian "Be gay, do crime, bash fash!" mindset.
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Which confuses me further! Edgerunners/Shadowrunners live and thrive by crime and the people they hit are fash as hell! They're not out running soup kitchens for fuck's sake (Unless it's a Fixer with a front or a Corpo doing it for tax reasons, ect...)
 
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Brain Problems said:
OSE Kickstarter is up for those interested.

www.kickstarter.com

Old-School Essentials Fantasy RPG Box Sets

Two deluxe boxes of monsters, magic, wonder, and peril. 100% old-school rules, 100% modern design.
www.kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com
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I backed at the double boxed set level, but then I re-read the free rules on their website, and got reminded of the stupidity of the Thief skill system.

Cancelled my pledge once I remembered how much I’m done with D&D quirks.

…the OSE books are very nice though.
 
Airbrushed Van Art said:
I backed at the double boxed set level, but then I re-read the free rules on their website, and got reminded of the stupidity of the Thief skill system.

Cancelled my pledge once I remembered how much I’m done with D&D quirks.

…the OSE books are very nice though.
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Skills? Listen here you piece of shit OSR doesn't have skills.
Thieves have ABILITIES that they roll to see if they worked or not.
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Anyone have any experience with The Storymaster's Tales? They seem well reviewed and the game play videos look interesting. But it looks like they changed a few things in the latest edition and no one seems to really talk about them.

It seems to have a nice balance of player decision/resources limiting those decisions (with maybe a bit too much linearity) but might be a good game to use to vet filthy casuals to see if they're worth inviting to D&D night so they can learn REAL MAGIC.
 
So I come to you fellow RPG chads with a hilarious tale from my latest Shadowrun campaign. I added another person to my campaign (it was only the second session in and the team went to five so it wasn't a big deal). The main crew consists of 3 Humans (1 mage, 1 gun oriented Street Sam, 1 Melee oriented street sam), 1 Fox Shifter (Decker), and an Elf (Face). The new player (bashy sammy) decided to create an Amerindian character with an extreme hatred towards metahumans. This dude was so unironically excited about it he wrote down the proper slurs for each branch of meta on his character sheet. Yeah. Needless to say, we were about six minutes into the session when the elf face complained to their shared fixer (my GMPC who only really acts as a quest giver and general info resource) and the decker hacked the player's commlink and started sending random emojis into it. Which sounds like a typical session so far but lead to an absolutely amazing bit of RP.

They were doing a VR Matrix meet with Mr. Johnson in the Pew Pew Sammy's van (who was an anime fanboy using a sexy foxgirl miko persona on the Matrix to get the runners to steal an old Jojo Blu Ray that happened to have a blood magic ritual in its special features at an anime convention) and after accepting the job they began to discuss their plans and trade info. Chief Runs-with-Klansmen torqued off the elf face so much he left to get a coffee (and bitch to the GMPC again). Then he tried to get the other sammy to buddy up with him, which prompted the player (who is a borderline aspy at best) to launch into a long, extremely inspirational IC monologue about how everyone on the team pulls their own weight and he doesn't care what their ears look like or how big, small, or tusky they are, they're all his brothers as far as he's concerned. In another bit of great roleplaying, Chief Runs-with-Klansmen leaves in a huff, peels out on his motorcycle, and logs onto, in his words "my right-wing extremist message board" and literally TYPES OUT A GIANT ANTI-ORK SCREED ON HIS PHONE NOTEPAD. Complete with calls to violence. Seriously, you could have replaced the word "ork" with "nigger" and it would've made perfect sense as a Stormfront article. The RP was great, but it even made me a little uncomfortable.

I think I got too cocky bros.
 
EnemyStand said:
So I come to you fellow RPG chads with a hilarious tale from my latest Shadowrun campaign. I added another person to my campaign (it was only the second session in and the team went to five so it wasn't a big deal). The main crew consists of 3 Humans (1 mage, 1 gun oriented Street Sam, 1 Melee oriented street sam), 1 Fox Shifter (Decker), and an Elf (Face). The new player (bashy sammy) decided to create an Amerindian character with an extreme hatred towards metahumans. This dude was so unironically excited about it he wrote down the proper slurs for each branch of meta on his character sheet. Yeah. Needless to say, we were about six minutes into the session when the elf face complained to their shared fixer (my GMPC who only really acts as a quest giver and general info resource) and the decker hacked the player's commlink and started sending random emojis into it. Which sounds like a typical session so far but lead to an absolutely amazing bit of RP.

They were doing a VR Matrix meet with Mr. Johnson in the Pew Pew Sammy's van (who was an anime fanboy using a sexy foxgirl miko persona on the Matrix to get the runners to steal an old Jojo Blu Ray that happened to have a blood magic ritual in its special features at an anime convention) and after accepting the job they began to discuss their plans and trade info. Chief Runs-with-Klansmen torqued off the elf face so much he left to get a coffee (and bitch to the GMPC again). Then he tried to get the other sammy to buddy up with him, which prompted the player (who is a borderline aspy at best) to launch into a long, extremely inspirational IC monologue about how everyone on the team pulls their own weight and he doesn't care what their ears look like or how big, small, or tusky they are, they're all his brothers as far as he's concerned. In another bit of great roleplaying, Chief Runs-with-Klansmen leaves in a huff, peels out on his motorcycle, and logs onto, in his words "my right-wing extremist message board" and literally TYPES OUT A GIANT ANTI-ORK SCREED ON HIS PHONE NOTEPAD. Complete with calls to violence. Seriously, you could have replaced the word "ork" with "nigger" and it would've made perfect sense as a Stormfront article. The RP was great, but it even made me a little uncomfortable.

I think I got too cocky bros.
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Okay, I am SOOOOO ripping that character off for a NPC someday...
 
So, I heard you guys like Kender...

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Took them long enough to add the "quirky" race to 5e.
 

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Kender are mislabeled as thieves in the same way troons are mislabeled as perverts.

"Oh no I didn't steal those things, they just fell into my pockets!"
"Oh no I'm not getting an erection at the thought of being in the women's bathroom, I'm just overcome with gender dysphoria!"

Both should 41% themselves.
 
Corn Flakes said:
So, I heard you guys like Kender...

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Took them long enough to add the "quirky" race to 5e.
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If you never had a reason to loathe 5E, trust me, this will do it.

I have NEVER hated a race/species/class as much as I hated Kender back in the day when Krynn was a boxed set and a few so-so novels.

What's worse is that the race is just a glimpse into the kind of people who are going to be playing them.

The insufferable, make the rest of the group miserable, try to start inner party conflicts, steal the mage's spellbooks and components for fun, the game has to be about me Me ME MEMEMEMEME! type of fucking people. Every fucking thing they do to derail the campaign and hurt other players and fuck up everything will be met with "tee hee, I have child-like wonder, it's right there! I'm playing in character!"

And then they gargle on their own blood from a mysterious neck wound.

If you've never had the urge to stab a living breathing human in the throat with a pen before, you will after twenty minutes with the kind of fucking pure-D motherfucking shit head that wants to play one.
 
Are they seriously making a race about taking stuff from other players again? Really what's up with designers and pushing shit that tries to fuck with party cohesion? I've thankfully never played with Kender (that shit was way before my time lmao) however the idea and horror stories behind them would make me wary of anybody looking to play a Kender or include Kender in anyway.
 
Jet Fuel Johnny said:
If you never had a reason to loathe 5E, trust me, this will do it.

I have NEVER hated a race/species/class as much as I hated Kender back in the day when Krynn was a boxed set and a few so-so novels.

What's worse is that the race is just a glimpse into the kind of people who are going to be playing them.

The insufferable, make the rest of the group miserable, try to start inner party conflicts, steal the mage's spellbooks and components for fun, the game has to be about me Me ME MEMEMEMEME! type of fucking people. Every fucking thing they do to derail the campaign and hurt other players and fuck up everything will be met with "tee hee, I have child-like wonder, it's right there! I'm playing in character!"

And then they gargle on their own blood from a mysterious neck wound.

If you've never had the urge to stab a living breathing human in the throat with a pen before, you will after twenty minutes with the kind of fucking pure-D motherfucking shit head that wants to play one.
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Fun experiement: get four Kender players in a room together with a robotic GM. Place bets on who's most likely to survive. Murder the survivor in cold blood in Minecraft. Science is fun!
 
Memento Malum said:
Kender are mislabeled as thieves in the same way troons are mislabeled as perverts.

"Oh no I didn't steal those things, they just fell into my pockets!"
"Oh no I'm not getting an erection at the thought of being in the women's bathroom, I'm just overcome with gender dysphoria!"

Both should 41% themselves.
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41% nothing. Any character of mine is 100% not letting that thieving trash near me. Touch my gear and I'll cut your fucking heart out, shorty. last one in a group I was in tried to pilfer my Githyanki Gladiator's masterwork weaponry. Result was this...

and having to be stopped by the captain from straight up feeding her to the sharks. It's one of maybe three times in 20 years I've ever initiated PVP.
 
I think you guys may be over-reacting a tad to this Kender bullshit. If you are a part of a group of people you know and trust, this should be fine. If people start showing up in online games with these Kender, and get in, then you know to avoid that game like the plague.

I've played with a Kender player in a Dragon Lance setting, and he was actually really cool. Then again, the dude was in his fifties and had been playing since AD&D. He was a Druid, and me and him had fun fucking with people. He'd turn into a bear, and then my Warlock would make him invisible. At one point, we were facing down this crazy witch we'd been tracking, and mid-way during her opening villian monologue a fucking grizzly seemed to appear out of thin air beside her, and bit her arm off. Good times....

With the right person, any class and race can be fun. That said, I wouldn't trust any of the CR crowd with that kind of race. So much about good roleplaying groups revolve around trust and communication. Maybe during a second campaign? I can accept PVP in my games if it makes sense, and all the drama at the table stays strictly at the table.
 
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