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

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Brain Problems said:
Yeah worth re-rupping this immediately just to point out that somehow, the madlads on 5e.tools have everything on there. It's shocking and I am flabbergasted the site hasn't been nuked from orbit by Hasbro. For example, if you wanted to, there's a Foundry plugin that basically lets you just download the entire book's worth of material (maps, tokens, monsters, NPCs etc.) and integrate into your world and run it as if it were designed for that purpose. It's wild.
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The GitHub repo where you could previously download all the files to locally host them got hit with a DMCA a little while ago, though from discussions I read this isn't the first time that's happened. The main site is still up and being updated as new books come out at least, but hopefully they can provide a way to download again for peace of mind, just in case they finally get hit with a C&D. It's such a good resource, and although they put a disclaimer that you should just be using it to access content you already own...well, WotC hasn't gotten a dime from me for quite some time.
 
Friedrich Hayek's Ghost said:
A buddy wants to do a Mass Effect campaign, but he's trying to wrangle 5e into handling something it's really not designed to. I've been thinking about just reskinning Cyberpunk, since it already handles things like automatic weapons, ground and flying vehicles, and cybernetic augmentations. I've looked through the core rules for Cyberpunk, and haven't seen anything that obviously looks like it won't work, but I'm also a fucking retard. Does anyone know of anything I'm missing? His only other suggestion is Starfinder.
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Traveller, Star Wars d6, Star Wars FFG/Genesys, Shadowrun, are all way better options, Shadowrun over Cyberpunk in particular because it has a good magic system which could very easily be used for biotics.
 
The Ugly One said:
You could also spend real money on people who like to make good games and don't personally hate you for existing:


I don't work for or with them, just shilling.
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Never got the opportunity to play ACKS (Adventuter King Conqueror System) but the people around it are good eggs, and r/OSR (and seemingly, the rest of leddit) has Alexander Macris, its creator, in the nono list alongside some guy named Zak Smith, an alleged rapist, the reasons? He briefly supported Milo Yannopolous's campaign as a staffer or some shit and was vaugely involved in gamergay when he worked in the escapist i believe.
 
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Adamska said:
That writer? Richard Baker. Who also wrote Birthright's setting as well as a shitload of 2e splats for a bunch of other settings.
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Richard Bakers Setting is such a great setting. Even without all the domain rules or army battles etc, it is a very well done setting it is shitty that wotc ruined it. They did not let him publish the last novel and the beastiary of the setting. he planned so many things, from underworld to a new conqueror etc. Phandelver is also great, but not great at the same time (has dragons and banshees and the dungeonsare similar to osr which i find great but not for modern players) If only tsr could have gone for a couple more years and we saw more birthright. At least darksun had a 4e version and new brom art.
 
King Dead said:
The GitHub repo where you could previously download all the files to locally host them got hit with a DMCA a little while ago, though from discussions I read this isn't the first time that's happened. The main site is still up and being updated as new books come out at least, but hopefully they can provide a way to download again for peace of mind, just in case they finally get hit with a C&D. It's such a good resource, and although they put a disclaimer that you should just be using it to access content you already own...well, WotC hasn't gotten a dime from me for quite some time.
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They have a directory where you can nab the files still, I just can't for the life of me find it again. However, I grabbed them when I found it a couple weeks ago so I can upload them somewhere if desired.

 
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Dante Alighieri said:
They have a directory where you can nab the files still, I just can't for the life of me find it again. However, I grabbed them when I found it a couple weeks ago so I can upload them somewhere if desired.

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Much obliged, I had a local copy saved from back when the whole OGL fiasco was kicking off and it seemed they might go after the site, but that's a year or so out of date. I'll pass this along to my friend who was looking to update his copy.
 
Henri Barbusse said:
And if you listen to present day 5e players, all the OSR guys they brought in were rapists and their work was bad and made for incels. Once they were gone, 5e was finally able to spread its wings and be good. Though I guess less extremely online 5e spaces might have a more moderate opinion.
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There's a reason why I don't let anything into the game that was published after 2018. Crawford got his hands on the game after Mearls and he's not fit to hold his coffee for him, much less helm the game.

Also, Zak is pretty much certainly factually innocent. All of his accusers got caught on tape saying that they made it the fuck up at the beginning of the year. Don’t feel bad for him, even though one of his accusers is David Hill. His victory lap was trying to cancel Alexander Macris for… funding his old show and refusing to fire people that he thought were transphobic.
Friedrich Hayek's Ghost said:
A buddy wants to do a Mass Effect campaign, but he's trying to wrangle 5e into handling something it's really not designed to. I've been thinking about just reskinning Cyberpunk, since it already handles things like automatic weapons, ground and flying vehicles, and cybernetic augmentations. I've looked through the core rules for Cyberpunk, and haven't seen anything that obviously looks like it won't work, but I'm also a fucking retard. Does anyone know of anything I'm missing? His only other suggestion is Starfinder.
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Just do a little research. DnD is good for exactly one thing: Swashbuckling fantasy combat. It is so in that niche that it has struggled for decades to implement a good, basic skill system when literally everyone else in the market had solved that problem by the nineties.
 
The Ugly One said:
Starfinder won't really work. It's just D&D in space, complete with a heavy dependency on spells and magic items to work as written. Cyberpunk and Traveller are your best bets.
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I dunno if you are trying to adapt the ME that's about space wizards using mind magic and nano magic and constructs to blow each other up it's fine, if you are trying to do the ME that's a boring cover shooter with abilities that do very little Starfinder is probably the wrong choice.
 
I'd also just pitch Castles and Crusades, as Troll Lord is another company that doesn't hate you.

Brain Problems said:
Yeah worth re-rupping this immediately just to point out that somehow, the madlads on 5e.tools have everything on there. It's shocking and I am flabbergasted the site hasn't been nuked from orbit by Hasbro. For example, if you wanted to, there's a Foundry plugin that basically lets you just download the entire book's worth of material (maps, tokens, monsters, NPCs etc.) and integrate into your world and run it as if it were designed for that purpose. It's wild.
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tl;dr is that you cannot copyright rules to a game, only a specific printing of them. 5e tools would present a hard target and if they
The github would be easier to nuke because:
a) You can step on Git, run by microsoft, who will have zero spine and grab their ankles and squeal when one of their fellow corpritizens sends them legal letterhead.
b) grabbing the raw data you can easily prove its not transformative. That is, 5e.tools displays data in a way that doesn't map 1:1 to the books. It will be more difficult to prove its violating your copyright vs. being able to show a 1:1 of the raw data with a dump of the books. Even though they're running the same code, its the "not what you can know its what you can prove".
 
Oddjob OTP said:
I dunno if you are trying to adapt the ME that's about space wizards using mind magic and nano magic and constructs to blow each other up it's fine
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Starfinder magic is D&D magic. Channeling divine aspects, summoning creatures from other planes, creating arctic storms indoors, etc. It is straight-up fire-and-gods magic, not psionics or nanites. It's also D&D leveling, meaning each level is a further step to literal godhood. If ME was a d20 game, Geth troopers should be irrelevant pretty quickly, not a series mainstay. Just don't try to build something on the bones of D&D that isn't about a band of mundane heroes becoming demigods. Use a system designed to do what you're trying to do.
 
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Road Work Ahead said:
You could take a look at traveler. Should have everything you need out of the box with not a whole lot of homebrew needed.
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Seconding this, especially since you only need d6s to make it work. Traveller has elaborate ship designs, a bunch of aliens you can use to help template and figure out how to do Mass Effect, tech levels, and so on.

Never use 5e to force a kludge.
 
Ghostse said:
Fixed for you.
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Speaking of trash, for those who are bothered Wizards damnatio memoriae'd the Lost Mine of Phandelver due to their digital desire to force you to eat the slop, and think you can't find it, just know that you can get it off of this truck.

Might wanna hurry, since the truck's gonna drive off due to Cuck Wendig's efforts.
 
Adamska said:
Speaking of trash, for those who are bothered Wizards damnatio memoriae'd the Lost Mine of Phandelver due to their digital desire to force you to eat the slop, and think you can't find it, just know that you can get it off of this truck.

Might wanna hurry, since the truck's gonna drive off due to Cuck Wendig's efforts.
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Why the fuck would they memory hole LMoP? That's 5e content from CURRENT YEAR theres no wrongthink in there
 
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