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I don't know much about Dark Sun, but I might check it out.

I did like the Historical Reference setting books that TSR released for AD&D 2E back in the mid-90's. The books were presented as pure historical primarily, with options for Low Fantasy historical games.

They were all green hardcovers and you had settings for Vikings, Celts, the Roman Empire, Classical Greece, the Crusades, Charlemagne, and I think there was even a book for Elizabethan England. My dad owned the books for the Celts and Vikings and gave them to me, and I later purchased the Roman one off of Amazon.

The only setting I truly dislike is Forgotten Realms, simply because of how over-exposed it is.
 
Dunsparce said:
What are you talking about? Spelljammer Campaign Setting is the best official D&D setting ever. It's so stupid, but in a good way. Auto-gnomes, giant space hamsters, griffs, ect.
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Starfinder better have space hamsters. I know they can't do gith of any sort, but griff should be do able. If not, I can always use races from Aethera.

And before anyone says that Solarian class are Jedi, they're more like Vsionaries. Only Jedi thing about them really is the weapon crystals you can buy for them.
 
Got my pod copy of The book of Secrets. If I wasn't a backer with a coupon I wouldn't have gotten it to be honest. At least I know why a dirty hippy thinks I should eat organic.
 
Syaoran Li said:
I don't know much about Dark Sun, but I might check it out.

I did like the Historical Reference setting books that TSR released for AD&D 2E back in the mid-90's. The books were presented as pure historical primarily, with options for Low Fantasy historical games.

They were all green hardcovers and you had settings for Vikings, Celts, the Roman Empire, Classical Greece, the Crusades, Charlemagne, and I think there was even a book for Elizabethan England. My dad owned the books for the Celts and Vikings and gave them to me, and I later purchased the Roman one off of Amazon.

The only setting I truly dislike is Forgotten Realms, simply because of how over-exposed it is.
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I liked some of the genera settings for 2e, like Al-Quadem, which was basically Arabian Nights D&D edition. I think you could make a really great campaign based around an approaching horde of fantasy mongols that the PCs need to stop before they overrun and sack everything.
 
Anybody here a fan of Big Eyes Small Mouth? It's an old RPG (sadly it's out of print, but PDF's and old copies can easily be found online) that is anime-themed, but also multi-genre, as it focuses on multiple anime genres, making for a great rules-light generic system. Sort of like GURPS Lite for weebs, only better.

I own the First Edition of Big Eyes Small Mouth on hard copy (it's my favorite edition) and I even own a hard copy of the Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book by the same company, a licensed game which uses the exact same system as BESM 1E.

During the run of BESM 1E, there were a lot of licensed RPG's for the system that were based on 90's anime, most notably Sailor Moon. Tenchi Muyo and New Dominion Tank Police also got adaptations and I think there was even one for Demon City Shinjuku, if I remember correctly.

2E was also good and had a lot of material as well, mostly genre guides instead of licensed RPG's and even a superhero-themed version of BESM called Silver Age Sentinels.

3E was decent, although extremely short-lived (it didn't even get any supplementary material), released just as Guardians of Order was falling apart. White Wolf had to finish the distribution of the 3E corebook, though afterwards they ceased support for BESM for reasons that are still unclear to this day.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Anybody here a fan of Big Eyes Small Mouth? It's an old RPG (sadly it's out of print, but PDF's and old copies can easily be found online) that is anime-themed, but also multi-genre, as it focuses on multiple anime genres, making for a great rules-light generic system. Sort of like GURPS Lite for weebs, only better.

I own the First Edition of Big Eyes Small Mouth on hard copy (it's my favorite edition) and I even own a hard copy of the Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book by the same company, a licensed game which uses the exact same system as BESM 1E.

During the run of BESM 1E, there were a lot of licensed RPG's for the system that were based on 90's anime, most notably Sailor Moon. Tenchi Muyo and New Dominion Tank Police also got adaptations and I think there was even one for Demon City Shinjuku, if I remember correctly.

2E was also good and had a lot of material as well, mostly genre guides instead of licensed RPG's and even a superhero-themed version of BESM called Silver Age Sentinels.

3E was decent, although extremely short-lived (it didn't even get any supplementary material), released just as Guardians of Order was falling apart. White Wolf had to finish the distribution of the 3E corebook, though afterwards they ceased support for BESM for reasons that are still unclear to this day.
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There was never any players for BESM in my city so while at one time I owned the material, I never played. Same with OVA. People either played some type of D&D, White Wolf or Rifts/ GURPS game.
 
I've recently gotten into D&D in the last few months because the new hobby store in my town offers group tabletop sessions. More often than not, D&D nights result in utter hilarity because our DMs will let you get away with anything short of murdering other players.

I made a rogue princess for my most recent character (and I'm retooling her for the upcoming Adventurer's League). Myself and the halfling monk had just been rescued after being ensnared and envenomed by giant spiders. I made a CON check to see if I could function despite the venom and rolled a natural 19. The halfling looked over and said "your princess is definitely not in another castle."
 
I've been running an experimental Pathfinder game with @Randall Fragg , @Adamska , @Dunsparce , and @Dollars2010 .

It literally is everything lolrandom. Everything is randomly generated: races, classes, dungeon and all encounters, and even the treasure, all using various generators on the internet. As one who normally values deep world building and interesting settings, this method is somehow... working. I give credit to the players in hammering through it.

It's been great seeing one set of random treasure consisting of several bottles of vinegar, a bag of iron nails, a pavilion tent, a wand of mount, and an 80 lb wheel of cheese, the latter of which the party half-orc ate, forcing a roll for extreme constipation.

I'm thinking of expanding this experiment, getting more players. If anyone's interested in a game for Thursday or Saturday evenings, let me know. Must be willing to forgo deep character concepts until after the generation.
 
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I'm making a "new" character for a D&D campaign (aka one of my friends wanted me to use one I've had for a long time that I've used in other roleplaying situations. So I set up a poll with other characters and the one in question ended up winning) and I don't know how to set up its backstory. In this universe, all the characters (even if they're a typical D&D race like orcs or dwarves) are food based, and it's in space so all the characters travel to different planets. My "new" character is a walking, talking blueberry dog named Jello who has the mentality of a 10 year old. So far, them being put into the campaign hasn't been shot down by the DMs despite the fact Jello's a literal furry and I'm not sure how how well it'd fit into the universe, espeically since the character's backstory in my universe is much different. At the same time, running a new poll (if I had to) would be hell since it took so long to get a final vote.

I feel like either way, I'm going to regret this. Whoops.

The other characters in the poll were a bitter old grape man in a floating wheelchair who probably wants to die at this point, a rich cupcake girl who was cast out of her family for a time to learn how to tolerate others because she's a bitch, and a chocolate princess who doesn't feel like running her country. Or just the option to make a completely new character. I'd already had two characters for this universe but the DM for this one said it would be preferred if everyone made a new one or rehashed an old concept.

Sorry for rambling, I get really into character-building.
 
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I've been running an experimental Pathfinder game with @Randall Fragg , @Adamska , @Dunsparce , and others.

It literally is everything lolrandom. Everything is randomly generated: races, classes, dungeon and all encounters, and even the treasure, all using various generators on the internet. As one who normally values deep world building and interesting settings, this method is somehow... working. I give credit to the players in hammering through it.

It's been great seeing one set of random treasure consisting of several bottles of vinegar, a bag of iron nails, a pavilion tent, a wand of mount, and an 80 lb wheel of cheese, the latter of which the party half-orc ate, forcing a roll for extreme constipation.

I'm thinking of expanding this experiment, getting more players. If anyone's interested in a game for Thursday or Saturday evenings, let me know. Must be willing to forgo deep character concepts until after the generation.
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I highly recommend that folks join in our funtime antics. :feels:
 
I would, but my time's not exactly flexible when it comes to games, I'm in two already and I need to keep one slot free because that's when a different game will happen ''eventually''.
 
Sable said:
I would, but my time's not exactly flexible when it comes to games, I'm in two already and I need to keep one slot free because that's when a different game will happen ''eventually''.
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I'm hoping some more people will be interested in the CoC game again and just do it on Discord.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
I'm hoping some more people will be interested in the CoC game again and just do it on Discord.
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It'd need to be, PbP's on KF seem to die like starved Eritrean children.

I'll still be up for it when it happens though, I still have my sheet around somewhere.
 
Sable said:
It'd need to be, PbP's on KF seem to die like starved Eritrean children.

I'll still be up for it when it happens though, I still have my sheet around somewhere.
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I have every ones character still, no worries for that.
 
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