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

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BlueArmedDevil said:
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A couple of years ago Holden got slapped on the wrist by Rich for saying that Opp would never hire "woman hating dude bros"
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Which I could feel sorry for Holden, but Exalted 3rd was rather meh and his new game will probably never find any traction

By the way, is Holden still saying that Mike Pence is a rapest?
 
Syaoran Li said:
I just bought Shadowrun 5th Edition at my local Barnes & Noble on a whim today. So far it looks good, but I'm not that familiar with Shadowrun so I don't know how it compares to the other editions.
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Fifth's dice system is far better, with actually playable matrix rules for non-turboautists. Their book publishing strategy and their fluff work needs some serious work but it's pretty solid. A good solid book to pick up second would be Market Panic which explores corps a bit better, or if you're interested in older books, Sixth World Almanac so you get a better feel for the geography of the world.
 
If one were to run an RPG where the PC's are little toy soldiers (think Toy Story or the Army Men video games), what system would you recommend?
 
Syaoran Li said:
I was actually leaning towards GURPS. I own the Third Edition Basic Set for it.
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Check out any of the low-tech books GURPS has, may help with some ideas for what the toys can use.


I would have suggested Rifts, but it doesn't take much to break a game in that.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Check out any of the low-tech books GURPS has, may help with some ideas for what the toys can use.


I would have suggested Rifts, but it doesn't take much to break a game in that.
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I think I will. I'm specifically basing the toy soldiers after classic green Army Men, which are usually based on either World War II-era GI's with M1 styled rifles or Vietnam-style troops with M16's. For this campaign, the Army Men will be mainly using Vietnam-era equipment.

So a mix of the low-tech and high-tech books would be very useful I think.
 
I've always wanted to try GURPS.

Tried FATE once though, even though that's entirely different.
 
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BlueArmedDevil said:
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A couple of years ago Holden got slapped on the wrist by Rich for saying that Opp would never hire "woman hating dude bros"
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I see David's still upset about GG, he's really is stupid isnt he?

Oddly enough I'm playing a Sabbat game and my guys a black social climber lasombra, he's now having to take orders from the repubican Lasombra (not the smart kind-the murica kind) ductus who's made it pretty clear he doesnt care about the Sabbat or the pack. He also suspects due to some interactions with his superiors (everyone important has been a lot nicer to the republican ) that good ol boy has been groomed and favoured from day one-Not in the least because they gave him a free diablerie once he was confirmed as ductus.
To say Viniculum is working overtime is an understatment.The GM is very smart so it's hard to tell if he's deliberatly cultivating resentment within pack for shits and giggles.
 
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I'm currently re-reading my PDF's of the OSR games Dark Dungeons and Full Metal Plate Mail. The former is a clone of BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia D&D and the latter is a very faithful albeit generic clone of Original Dungeons & Dragons, specifically the original 1974 White Box set. I know Swords & Wizardry is the more popular and supported OD&D clone, but Full Metal Plate Mail is free while Swords & Wizardry is not, at least as far as I know.

While 3.5/Pathfinder and 5e have more polished and complete mechanics and are more current, there is a certain charm to the older TSR editions of D&D, as well as their OSR retro-clones. I can't quite put my finger on what exactly gives old-school D&D its charm, but I know it when I see it.

OD&D in particular is interesting because of all the early weirdness it had, being the first true RPG out there. It was very sandbox in nature, and the rules were so vague that it's easy to make homebrew material for it.

I also like the theory that OD&D was meant to be a multi-verse styled game that used medieval fantasy as the springboard. This is supported by the references to sci-fi elements in the original boxed set such as robots, androids, Martians, and creatures from the John Carter books.

Hell, I'd like to do a sandbox OD&D game (most likely using Full Metal Plate Mail) and play with all that 1970's pulp fantasy weirdness that was present in the original set. I might even include multiverse elements as the campaign progresses.

Ideally, I'd start an OD&D campaign with just the White Box materials. Three classes (Fighter, Magic-User, Cleric) and four races (Human, Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling) and then as the campaign expands and continues, I'll start adding in supplementary material and some homebrew works as well.

Everyone would start at Level 1 and progress from there. I'd try to do this as an online game and I might invite my fellow Kiwis as well, once I find a place to host the campaign.
 
Syaoran Li said:
I'm currently re-reading my PDF's of the OSR games Dark Dungeons and Full Metal Plate Mail. The former is a clone of BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia D&D and the latter is a very faithful albeit generic clone of Original Dungeons & Dragons, specifically the original 1974 White Box set. I know Swords & Wizardry is the more popular and supported OD&D clone, but Full Metal Plate Mail is free while Swords & Wizardry is not, at least as far as I know.

While 3.5/Pathfinder and 5e have more polished and complete mechanics and are more current, there is a certain charm to the older TSR editions of D&D, as well as their OSR retro-clones. I can't quite put my finger on what exactly gives old-school D&D its charm, but I know it when I see it.

OD&D in particular is interesting because of all the early weirdness it had, being the first true RPG out there. It was very sandbox in nature, and the rules were so vague that it's easy to make homebrew material for it.

I also like the theory that OD&D was meant to be a multi-verse styled game that used medieval fantasy as the springboard. This is supported by the references to sci-fi elements in the original boxed set such as robots, androids, Martians, and creatures from the John Carter books.

Hell, I'd like to do a sandbox OD&D game (most likely using Full Metal Plate Mail) and play with all that 1970's pulp fantasy weirdness that was present in the original set. I might even include multiverse elements as the campaign progresses.

Ideally, I'd start an OD&D campaign with just the White Box materials. Three classes (Fighter, Magic-User, Cleric) and four races (Human, Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling) and then as the campaign expands and continues, I'll start adding in supplementary material and some homebrew works as well.

Everyone would start at Level 1 and progress from there. I'd try to do this as an online game and I might invite my fellow Kiwis as well, once I find a place to host the campaign.
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Swords and Wizardry as an SRD. I hope this helps you.
http://www.d20swsrd.com/
 
Syaoran Li said:
I'm currently re-reading my PDF's of the OSR games Dark Dungeons and Full Metal Plate Mail. The former is a clone of BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia D&D and the latter is a very faithful albeit generic clone of Original Dungeons & Dragons, specifically the original 1974 White Box set. I know Swords & Wizardry is the more popular and supported OD&D clone, but Full Metal Plate Mail is free while Swords & Wizardry is not, at least as far as I know.

While 3.5/Pathfinder and 5e have more polished and complete mechanics and are more current, there is a certain charm to the older TSR editions of D&D, as well as their OSR retro-clones. I can't quite put my finger on what exactly gives old-school D&D its charm, but I know it when I see it.

OD&D in particular is interesting because of all the early weirdness it had, being the first true RPG out there. It was very sandbox in nature, and the rules were so vague that it's easy to make homebrew material for it.

I also like the theory that OD&D was meant to be a multi-verse styled game that used medieval fantasy as the springboard. This is supported by the references to sci-fi elements in the original boxed set such as robots, androids, Martians, and creatures from the John Carter books.

Hell, I'd like to do a sandbox OD&D game (most likely using Full Metal Plate Mail) and play with all that 1970's pulp fantasy weirdness that was present in the original set. I might even include multiverse elements as the campaign progresses.

Ideally, I'd start an OD&D campaign with just the White Box materials. Three classes (Fighter, Magic-User, Cleric) and four races (Human, Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling) and then as the campaign expands and continues, I'll start adding in supplementary material and some homebrew works as well.

Everyone would start at Level 1 and progress from there. I'd try to do this as an online game and I might invite my fellow Kiwis as well, once I find a place to host the campaign.
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I have that discord server, and Roll20 is pretty good (although a bit clunky to figure out). I wouldn't mind playing some retro D&D.
 
Randall Fragg said:
I have that discord server, and Roll20 is pretty good (although a bit clunky to figure out). I wouldn't mind playing some retro D&D.
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I could run it over Discord. I still don't have a microphone installed but we can use text-based chat.
 
So the man behind Zweihander Grim and Perilous has been false DMCAing whole request threads and troves that don't even share his work because I guess he hates the fact no one wants to buy his book. I wonder how long this guy will take do even more drastic things like DMCAing whole websites talking about his book. One chan site has just given up on request threads all together.
 
They could just counter-file and then call him a colostomy bag. I rather doubt he has the ability and cash to be able to really fight it out... especially given he has no case in that respect. Now the other creators could fight it, but the best way to bitchsmack litigant cunts like that is to take their toy away and then ruthlessly mock them.
 
Adamska said:
They could just counter-file and then call him a colostomy bag. I rather doubt he has the ability and cash to be able to really fight it out... especially given he has no case in that respect. Now the other creators could fight it, but the best way to bitchsmack litigant cunts like that is to take their toy away and then ruthlessly mock them.
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They could but certain chans like 7chan no longer have the balls to do anything. Sad thing is from what I've read Daniel Fox, the guy who worked on Zweihander used various chans to download files and his book even has this clause in it.

Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

This license allows you to freely reduce, remix, reuse and share
the text within this book under the following conditions:
 you do so only for noncommercial purposes;
 you attribute Grim & Perilous Studios;
 you license any derivatives under the same license

So really the only thing I think he could file for is the artwork, not the rest of the book I think, one of the law guys here could figure that out.

4chan and 8ch are outright banning his books and I think three others.
 
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