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

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Randall Fragg said:
I'd like to know a bit more about 5E. Maybe make it something like a fantasy WWE game?
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if you can play pf you can play 5e- it is the same game just with simpler modifiers, casters only able to have one active spell at anyone time, crits auto confirming and you can move-full attack action-move. The skills have different names but are the same skills as they ever were.

the biggest differences are under the hood- monsters have lower AC but more hitpoints, classes can use HD to heal between encounters. It is a smoother game but the character options are hugely limited compared with 3.5 or pf.
Legatus Lanius said:
I'm on board!
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If its ok i'll run Pathfinder instead of 5e- its slightly more complex and clunky but if you learn that you can master 5e in literally 10minutes and 3.5 in about an hour- also the stuff is legally availiable online free in one place so i can guide you all through character creation together.
 
If it were one of the ones I didn't know about I'd have asked, but I already know 5e and PF enough, so I shalln't bother by asking.

It's as you say, 5e is much simpler than 3.x/PF, but it's done in a better way than 4e did. It's an easier starting point if you want to get into D&D.

Of course, any earlier than that and things start getting a little...different.
 
Sable said:
If it were one of the ones I didn't know about I'd have asked, but I already know 5e and PF enough, so I shalln't bother by asking.

It's as you say, 5e is much simpler than 3.x/PF, but it's done in a better way than 4e did. It's an easier starting point if you want to get into D&D.

Of course, any earlier than that and things start getting a little...different.
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Honestly, 4e isn't really a roleplaying game as much as it is a tactical skirmish game with roleplaying elements. It's honestly a shame it never got a video game adaptation, since you could make a pretty killer tactical RPG with it.
 
I tried DMing a game of MYFAROG but no one was willing to play along with the white supremacy mechanics
 
Pathfinder isn't has bad as 3.5 in terms of crunch. I remember back in the day when it could take a full session to determine grapple affects.

5th Edition I still find to be broken in terms of rules, I swear they never payed any attention to us alpha testers when they were designing the game because little changed in beta and release.

@Sable you mean like AD&D's THACO? some people still don't understand that. Me personally, I only played my Wizard so I rarely had to worry. Usually on my turn things just "popped" due to how powerful Wizards were.

@Hodor you mean like Neverwinter Online?
 
Yeah, THACO. I get how it works, but it's just a little bit...opposite to what I'm used to.
 
In terms of game play, subtraction doesn't "click" well with gamers, addition does far better. It's one of the reasons why you wont see too many people using something like Hero System just due to all of the math involved.
 
There's far far too many RPG's I want to try. I keep picking up books and never getting a chance to read them because I either get new comics, new text books, research articles or just new RPG's to read that I lose track of what I have if I don't take the time to organize everything
 
I think by the end of the year I'll have to invest in 10TB hard drives just to archive all my files. That doesn't include all of the space I need for video game design. I can just imagine the space I'll be using for that alone.

Luckily Seagate has their new 10TB Ironwolves.
 
You could play the one player RPG's that are out there (they're basically choose your own adventure games with crunch) or work on a Java based program that will simulate players. Would only work for combat, but hey there's people out there that need that sort of thing.
 
You can also check message boards, local gaming stores (some have bulletin boards up for LFG's) and if you're in Canada, Kijiji (or something like it). Even Facebook can be an okay place to find a group. Just don't piss anyone off as you'll make it harder to find a decent group (of course)
 
Here, DM's seem to hate it when I ask too many questions about their games. Like I'm not a rules lawyer, I just want information about their world and home rules so I wont die so easily. That, and here you'll find GM's who don't know how to tailor an encounter for a given party. Like you'll have one that will have six or more CR 12 monsters, four CR 14 monsters and a CR 15 monster against a group of nine level 8 characters.
 
So, anyone have any funny/cringe-inducing tabletop stories to tell?

In my case, in a D&D 3.5 game I was playing a Human Duskblade in a party of 3(the other two characters were a Druid and Bard), and we were level 3 and went to fight a boss that was basically a heavily-templated Bear, it was supposed to be a challange for us but we killed with killed it with little problem and minimal damage much to the DM's dismay. But on the way back to town we ran into two wild boars and ended up spending like 2 hours almost dying against them due to bad rolls on our part and good rolls on the DM's part(He was rolling openly so we know this wasn't anything done for revenge for curb-stomping the boss. If anything it lowered his spirits even more.)

That's the thing about dice-based games. Sometimes the bosses you spend weeks stating up go down like chumps, when a random encounter almost causes a TPK.
 
I ended a 20 year campaign by using the Apocalypse from the Sky spell against the final villain only to find out I did exactly what the villain technically wanted even though I thought I was doing the right thing when I used it against an opposing army.

Needless to say I summoned Atropus and I had the Gods on my ass and the players. Luckily at this point we were using Epic rules so it was pretty hard to take on an Epic level Wizard/ Archmage who once made a city into a transforming puzzle golem and the moon into another golem. So knowing all hope was lost against a being that supposedly created the gods themselves, I planeshifted away leaving everyone to die, even though given the time I could have just planeshifted the planet into another dimension, but the players were too upset with what I did.


More recently with a wizard in Pathfinder I broke the Mythic rules and started killing everything in my first round of combat, even the Demon Lords in the Wrath of the Righteous adventure path.
 
Never actually gamed with a Brony before. I have Ponyfinder, but only to complete my Pathfinder 3pp collection. In terms of art and crunch it's okay. It has more art than most 3pp games, it's fluff is okay for a kids game, but fluff? It and My Little Pony is lacking.

I can't take anything serious that's based on a toyline that never had any articulation, unless you consider hair to be articulation. Like really, He-Man Staction figures are more interesting in terms of toys.
 
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