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

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Syaoran Li said:
Anybody here a fan of Big Eyes Small Mouth? It's probably one of my favorite RPG's of all time, and I own the original 1E corebook in hard copy along with hard copies of the supplement Hot Rods & Gun Bunnies and the Sailor Moon game they made that used the same system as BESM 1E.

A lot of people dismiss BESM as "GURPS for weebs" and to some extent it partially is. But it is a lot more rules-light and easier to run than GURPS and requires a lot less math, which is a bonus for me. See, the thing is that despite being designed as an "Anime RPG" it is suitable for a whole wide variety of games, because it is a multi-genre RPG, trying to encompass a wide style of settings rather than focus on a specific anime sub-genre like Mecha or Magical Girl.

They even made a short-lived spin-off called "Silver Age Sentinels" that was more along the lines of old-school Marvel and DC superhero comics.

I've heard rumors that Nu-White Wolf is looking into a revival of BESM. If that is true, that could be the only thing Nu-White Wolf has done right since the advent of the Storyteller's Vault.

I generally dislike Nu-WW's creative decisions regarding World of Darkness (not a fan of continuing the metaplot or side-lining New WoD/Chronicles of Darkness) but I do love the ST Vault and would love to see a new edition of Big Eyes Small Mouth.
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BESM evolved into the dX generic system, didn't it?
 
Wallace said:
BESM evolved into the dX generic system, didn't it?
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Indeed it did.

So, I'm wondering if anyone is running any games over Discord? If so, I may be interested depending on the game.

Also, I want to DM my very first campaign over Discord, and if anyone is interested, feel free to PM me.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Indeed it did.

So, I'm wondering if anyone is running any games over Discord? If so, I may be interested depending on the game.

Also, I want to DM my very first campaign over Discord, and if anyone is interested, feel free to PM me.
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Yeah dude, you're in the Discord group where we run shit.
 
I created a new Discord account when I was able to get a computer with a microphone, I had forgot about my old one.
 
Today I played my first DnD game. At first I was very sceptical. I prefer pc hackn slash rpgs like Diablo, Titans quest etc. But it was very funny

We also were a kinda "diverse" group (that means over 9000 sjw points) but that was pure coincidence. This oppressive white male nerd shit is so stupid. Everyone was friendly even though these guys looked (but thankfully didn't smell) like stereotypical nerds and none of them had a gf.

I would never ever tell people that they can't play xyz because they are white etc. That's so fucking cruel. I was the only woman but everyone was so friendly. "Shockingly" (not) I was neither molested nor insulted.

Thank god I'm not an sjw and able to enjoy stuff.
 
Sinners Sandwich said:
Today I played my first DnD game. At first I was very sceptical. I prefer pc hackn slash rpgs like Diablo, Titans quest etc. But it was very funny

We also were a kinda "diverse" group (that means over 9000 sjw points) but that was pure coincidence. This oppressive white male nerd shit is so stupid. Everyone was friendly even though these guys looked (but thankfully didn't smell) like stereotypical nerds and none of them had a gf.

I would never ever tell people that they can't play xyz because they are white etc. That's so fucking cruel. I was the only woman but everyone was so friendly. "Shockingly" (not) I was neither molested nor insulted.

Thank god I'm not an sjw and able to enjoy stuff.
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I find that a lot of the supposed bias against women in the tabletop gaming community is exaggerated. I've never had a problem as a woman playing D&D. Or maybe I can just subconsciously tell if the people I'm going to be playing with are rapists? I dunno.
 
I've never once met a REEEEE THOTS GET OUT misogynerd despite them apparently being 150% of the nerd population. Met a few suuuuuuuper awkward nerds who are terrified of women and act sorta weird as a result, but they're not being that way on purpose and are harmless. I wouldn't warn any women away from gaming if they're interested in it, they should expect to be welcomed by the vast majority of gaming groups.
 
Lackadaisy said:
I find that a lot of the supposed bias against women in the tabletop gaming community is exaggerated. I've never had a problem as a woman playing D&D. Or maybe I can just subconsciously tell if the people I'm going to be playing with are rapists? I dunno.
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robobobo said:
I've never once met a REEEEE THOTS GET OUT misogynerd despite them apparently being 150% of the nerd population. Met a few suuuuuuuper awkward nerds who are terrified of women and act sorta weird as a result, but they're not being that way on purpose and are harmless. I wouldn't warn any women away from gaming if they're interested in it, they should expect to be welcomed by the vast majority of gaming groups.
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I posted this elsewhere, but it's still relevant:

Anyone who believes that geekdom has a problem with exclusion has to be off their fucking rocker. Up until 2001, geek entertainment and hobbies were horribly stigmatized. If you were older than 10 and thought that Star Wars or D&D was cool, you were a social leper. I can remember teachers telling me not to read fantasy in high school.

We don't gatekeep to keep people out of the hobby. We're not even in the bloody castle--we're in the gutter rolling our funny dice while the cool kids sneered at us. The idea of excluding someone from our group because they were a girl would never have occured to us, because it was rare enough that any girl would want to play in the first place. I mean god damn, have you seen the people that game stores allow to sit down and play? Why the fuck would we choose a 400 pound furry neckbeard with hygiene issues when we could have a relatively well-adjusted woman? The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through the lens of structural oppression.

Now that geek is cool, the social justice generation doesn't think we understand what it feels like to be "othered" and therefore must be reeducated for our own good. Bitch, I remember the last evangelical wave telling me the exact same fucking thing. The cool kids are just trying to shame the nerds out of the space that they've taken over for themselves.
 
Why do so many GM's think that just adding Cthulhu is guaranteed to make their shitty homebrew setting cool and edgy?
 
The problem with BESM - and I say this as someone who treasures his copy of 2E, because yeah, it's a fantastic little universal RPG in a trade paperback format - is that while it can kind of be made to do almost anything, it's very easy to break it if you know how and the GM doesn't know what abilities to restrict. There are things that can be done multiple ways, and one way is clearly superior to others. Likewise with point values or stats verses skills. Etc.

Neat system, neat book, but it's.... rough around the edges.
 
Boot Hill 2E is now Print-On-Demand and has been for a few weeks now. I've played Boot Hill before in online games, but I am a sucker for hard copies so I am probably buying it.

While Boot Hill has one of the deadliest combat systems I have ever seen in an RPG, I do admit that I am a fan of the game as a whole.
 
I’ve been curious about tabletop rp games for about seven or eight years, but never really had the guts to bite the bullet and become a part of the community. I love to watch campaigns on youtube because they can be entertaining as fuck and has given me a good idea of what to expect if I were to take part in a campaign (hell, I even find the debates people have over opening doors in dungeons and such to be interesting). I have the starter set and the player’s handbook for DnD. While I’ve investigated going to sessions IRL I’ve unfortunately discovered that tabletop roleplaying games are not all that popular in my area and most of the people I encounter who play online are usually sjws who get pissed when people don’t use the right pronouns for their characters.

As a side note a game I’d really like to get into is Monsters and Other Childish Things because it pretty much has everything I could want in terms of themes and genre, but unfortunately literally nobody has heard about it in my area so as you can imagine finding other people to play with is impossible. It doesn’t help that there aren’t many campaigns online to watch/listen to either.

I would be interested in being a part of a campaign if anyone can work with a newbie like me. Just let me know!
 
Wanna see something cursed?
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Gingervitis said:
Wanna see something cursed?
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Barmaid-"I used to be a guy"
Dwarf-"oh"
Barmaid-"thankfully we live in a universe where becoming a woman costs about a 100 gold, with no sexual dimorphism."
Dwarf-"yeah it's cool, it's nice we live in a setting with that sort of stuff, it means that queer culture is impossible to organically develop and nobody really cares."
Barmaid-"you'd think that but because the universe we live in comes across as designed by an external soarce so often social events develop with a cause or somethings which should occur don't because some ineffible force doesnt get it or is living through us . So we've got loads of gender queer shit."
 
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