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

[Anonymus Fluhre]

It is an amazing game and the only weakness is the way how the App works with the game... or rather, how it sort of doesn't quite work with the game. However, if they fix the app and tweak the rules just a tiny bit, it'll become a pretty solid game. After all, it's currently just a beta version of a boardgame, so to speak.

I would recommend to wait until the kinks are worked out. There are plans for a Steam-based software for this game, maybe it'll be improved by then.

So something like a board game addon could fix the issues? Apps can always be fixed thankfully.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Some something like a board game addon could fix the issues? Apps can always be fixed thankfully.

We were talking about how we could pretty much ditch the app and just use a random generator to spit out a mission with random events on random gridsections and then use dice to resolve some of the things the app usually does (such as damage to a section of the boat caused by attacks and so on). Doesn't sound too far out in terms of workload.

I don't think it's hard to work around the app, but preferably, the app gets turned into something more worthwhile.
After all, it's a waste to have a game where you only use one half and wing it for the other half.
So, for the time being, I would keep an eye out for this game and see how the app changes. There's also a few issues with the rules as is (fatigue affects the crew way too strongly in the vanilla rules for instance). Unless you really want to support the production of the game before they got all the kinks resolved, just waiting until you can buy a fully tested, working version might be better.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Such a random number/ quest generator is easy to code with Java/ Javascript.

 

[DubbleBubble]

wew. Anyone around here do New World of Darkness? I always liked it because it's such a simple system and I like me some mystery solving/monster hunting. And of course the extended process of slowly becoming more insane and degenerate as the game goes on. But I feel like getting players together for anything other than D&D is tricky.

 

[Syaoran Li]

wew. Anyone around here do New World of Darkness? I always liked it because it's such a simple system and I like me some mystery solving/monster hunting. And of course the extended process of slowly becoming more insane and degenerate as the game goes on. But I feel like getting players together for anything other than D&D is tricky.

I like New World of Darkness, especially the core rules and Vampire: The Requiem

Changeling: The Lost and Hunter: The Vigil are also pretty cool too.

Vigil in particular takes the base concept of the core book and expands on it greatly.

 

[Adamska]

wew. Anyone around here do New World of Darkness? I always liked it because it's such a simple system and I like me some mystery solving/monster hunting. And of course the extended process of slowly becoming more insane and degenerate as the game goes on. But I feel like getting players together for anything other than D&D is tricky.

It usually is because there's a bit of a bad air around the games due to the playerbase. I can state though that the game is more doable on a skeleton crew than DnD though; my most successful VtM game had a coterie of two players throughout.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

It usually is because there's a bit of a bad air around the games due to the playerbase. I can state though that the game is more doable on a skeleton crew than DnD though; my most successful VtM game had a coterie of two players throughout.

Same, my first one had a rotating group of two to three people. You could probably get away with doing 1v1 easily.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

A thought about bards (lol) in PF/3.5E/etc.

I was examining the mechanics for Octavia in Warframe. One of the odder quirks is that she buffs her teammates when they attack, etc in time with her music.

And my thought was: fuck me, why doesn't the bard do that?

Keep to the Beat (Ex): A bard using Inspiring Performance can augment his teammates and impede his enemies further through the beat of his song. At 1st level, the bard affects initiative counts of 1, 5, and every multiple of 5 after (10, 15, etc). A friendly PC who acts on this initiative count adds an additional +1 to melee or ranged hit and damage, or may increase the numeric result of a spell by 2, or increase the DC by 1.

An enemy who finds themselves acting on an initiative count suffers a -1 to hit and damage, and a -1 to spell DCs.

Both players and opponents may hold actions to sync (or desync) to the beat.

At 7th level, the bard may affect initiative count multiples of 5 or 4 (he can only affect one at a time, but he can change the beat as a standard action).

At 10th level the initiative count bonus doubles (to +2 to hit/damage, +4 to variable die results, +2 DC for friendlies, etc).

At 13th level, he may affect multiples of 3, 4, or 5.

Thoughts?

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

A thought about bards (lol) in PF/3.5E/etc.

I was examining the mechanics for Octavia in Warframe. One of the odder quirks is that she buffs her teammates when they attack, etc in time with her music.

And my thought was: fuck me, why doesn't the bard do that?

Keep to the Beat (Ex): A bard using Inspiring Performance can augment his teammates and impede his enemies further through the beat of his song. At 1st level, the bard affects initiative counts of 1, 5, and every multiple of 5 after (10, 15, etc). A friendly PC who acts on this initiative count adds an additional +1 to melee or ranged hit and damage, or may increase the numeric result of a spell by 2, or increase the DC by 1.

An enemy who finds themselves acting on an initiative count suffers a -1 to hit and damage, and a -1 to spell DCs.

Both players and opponents may hold actions to sync (or desync) to the beat.

At 7th level, the bard may affect initiative count multiples of 5 or 4 (he can only affect one at a time, but he can change the beat as a standard action).

At 10th level the initiative count bonus doubles (to +2 to hit/damage, +4 to variable die results, +2 DC for friendlies, etc).

At 13th level, he may affect multiples of 3, 4, or 5.

Thoughts?

Became EDM didn't exist in medieval times, and bards are supposed to be concierge of good music.

Also, bards tend to want to go first so they can get their abilities off first so other classes can use them. Such as when you get to level ten and you're giving everyone 1d6 sonic damage on attacks thanks to the Discordant Voice feat. Soon as you reach a level where you can cast your first 2nd level spell you want to pop off a blindness/ deafness spell on the most powerful creature you'll be face, then layer some good bonuses or debuffs you can with your bardic performance. There's a really nice one you can do that jinxs your opponents called Fascination Jinx feat, you just have to be a halfling or find a way to get their jinx trait. If you succeed, the creature under the jinx takes a -10 to their initiative. This penalty doesn't have a type so it will stack with other affects that target initiative.

Just be careful with people wanting to use feats, spells and abilities for bards in 3.5 in a Pathfinder game. It's easy to utterly break the character in combat unless someone wants to just fling spells at them. In melee and range they'll be unkillable, at least in one on one battles.

 

[Techpriest]

wew. Anyone around here do New World of Darkness? I always liked it because it's such a simple system and I like me some mystery solving/monster hunting. And of course the extended process of slowly becoming more insane and degenerate as the game goes on. But I feel like getting players together for anything other than D&D is tricky.

Huge fan. If you need books hit me up.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Anything @Techpriest doesn't have I could probably fill in the blanks.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Overheard that there's going to be a major lawsuit in the Texas tabletop scene over the Rekieta stream yesterday. What company could that be? Only company I could think of is Steven Jackson Games. His company hasn't been in the news since he took the United States Secret Service to court back in 1990.

Edit: Oh gods....Otherverse is in Texas. If this is Chris Field this'll be good. If it is, Beard...Step away, you don't want to wade into that fetishes area. You'll be bombarded with furries and various hentai.

Here's hoping it's someone like Reaper Games or the guys behind Earthdawn instead.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Corruption Of Champions is not a tabletop game you degenerate.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

What is everyone's favorite tabletop game and why should I play it?

 

[Techpriest]

Overheard that there's going to be a major lawsuit in the Texas tabletop scene over the Rekieta stream yesterday. What company could that be? Only company I could think of is Steven Jackson Games. His company hasn't been in the news since he took the United States Secret Service to court back in 1990.

Edit: Oh gods....Otherverse is in Texas. If this is Chris Field this'll be good. If it is, Beard...Step away, you don't want to wade into that fetishes area. You'll be bombarded with furries and various hentai.

Here's hoping it's someone like Reaper Games or the guys behind Earthdawn instead.

If it's Fields then holy shit we're in for some fun times. It's not just furries with fields, it's all his other weird shit with him too.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I doubt it's Fields.

As much as he is a disgusting scumbag and a pervert, he's also a nobody who stopped being relevant once RPGnet's temper tantrum over Black Tokyo had finally petered out.

If he did something worthy of a legal action, you know the SJW outrage brigades at places like RPGnet and Onyx Path Forums would be all over that shit and virtue-signalling to high heaven.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's Steve Jackson. He's based out of Texas and is a lot more successful and visible in the hobby. GURPS may not be much of a thing anymore but Munchkin is still very popular and his company very recently released a new edition of The Fantasy Trip to the general public after a very successful Kickstarter campaign, and so far the reviews are pretty good.

SJW's tend to hate success, especially from an older and mostly apolitical Boomer like Steve Jackson.

Also, I've been lurking other websites as well, and it seems a lot of the woke-meisters at RPGnet are starting to attack Steve Jackson Games as "problematic", seemingly out of nowhere and with no real cause or origin point for these accusations.

When Chris Fields got attacked, it was because he was an obvious degenerate and few defended him (Pundit did defend him from a free speech standpoint but still called him a disgusting fuck) and Nu-White Wolf was attacked for making the mistakes of hiring Zak Sabbath as a freelance artist and then they essentially killed White Wolf as an independent entity over Vampire 5th Edition, despite Paradox going out of their way to pander and appeal to the SJW dangerhair crowd.

Also, V5 was targeted due to several of the hacks at Onyx Path not getting hired to work on it, and considering that said hacks tend to be the mods and admins of both Onyx Path Forums and RPGnet, and you have an obvious shit-storm.

But these recent attacks on Steve Jackson Games are pretty much unprovoked, and Steve Jackson himself is smart enough to know not to bow down and apologize to the SJW's who won't buy your product to begin with, and I'm sure after he saw how they royally fucked over White Wolf and have infested both Paizo and Onyx Path to the point that both companies are sinking, he's probably fighting back and realizes capitulating to the blue-haired internet lynch mob will do more harm than good.

If anyone in the tabletop gaming industry is going to sue SJW's for character assassination or for harassment and has enough resources to stand a chance in doing so, it'd be Steve Jackson.

 

[thx1138]

Overheard that there's going to be a major lawsuit in the Texas tabletop scene over the Rekieta stream yesterday. What company could that be? Only company I could think of is Steven Jackson Games. His company hasn't been in the news since he took the United States Secret Service to court back in 1990.

Edit: Oh gods....Otherverse is in Texas. If this is Chris Field this'll be good. If it is, Beard...Step away, you don't want to wade into that fetishes area. You'll be bombarded with furries and various hentai.

Here's hoping it's someone like Reaper Games or the guys behind Earthdawn instead.

If it's Fields then holy shit we're in for some fun times. It's not just furries with fields, it's all his other weird shit with him too.

I think it is Steve Jackson Games v. Jessica Price. Price has had a hate-boner for pen and paper RPGs ever since she tried to slander Frank Mentzer, Basic D&D creator, and has gone after a lot of other little creators too. Now she's put her foot in her mouth, attacking the wrong people. Apparently because the president of Frog God Games is a lush, and because Frog God is associated with Steve Jackson Games in some way (I think they're publishing some GURPS material), Jessica Price has gone full on slander mode, like she did against Mentzer, like she did against the company that publishes Guild Wars, like she did against Paizo. She's pathological and serial. Anyway, Jackson's not just lying back and taking it, and she's going to get a deep dicking...metaphorically, which is unfortunate for her since that would probably cure about 99% of her ills, but I digress. That's my feeling about who is getting it.

What is everyone's favorite tabletop game and why should I play it?

Hm if you mean table top role playing game, I would say D&D. You can get PDFs of original D&D and Advanced D&D on the net (to buy, you don't even have to pirate them, and they are good scans), Original D&D is very simple, you can put a whole character on a 3x5 card, or 5x7 if they live long enough. I like Gygax's tone in 1e, it's very, I guess you could call it Baroque? I will admit when I met him at GenCon in the 80s I was a little disappointed he didn't talk like he wrote! The adventures like Tombs of Horrors, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and Against the Giants are fun and deadly, I played quite a bit in college, but tapered off after graduating and threw everything into a box which I only recently unearthed (dammit Ty, Nick, I don't need another expensive hobby).

As to table top wargame or board game, Warhammer 40000 or Space Hulk. I have the 1st and 2nd editions of Space Hulk and stupidly bought the 4th edition (stupidly just because it's so expensive) the other night when I was deciding to clean off my minis. I was such a slacker though, I never bought my own armies except for a few (badly) painted ones that I'm now cleaning off and planning on trying to paint again. Space Hulk is just a board game set in the 40k universe and is a very pared down rule set but you can play a whole game in a half hour or so. Warhammer has so much lore and stories in it, it's fun to just read about even if you don't play.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

What is everyone's favorite tabletop game and why should I play it?

The Dark Eye. It's a German fantasy low-power D20 RPG (which I usually prefer over "Fuck you, everyone can cast magic or cantrips or feats or whatever. Also there's unicorn-half-demon-dragonborns all over the place") that does many things in a very complex way. Which is also what sucks most about it. In some instances, it's really nice to have things happen in complex ways, but sometimes it's very convoluted and complicated. When you have some experience with the system, you know what to avoid, though, and it is a lot more detailed than (say) DnD, which is sometimes like playing an Excel spreadsheet and boils down a shitton of activities into a handful of skills.
I feel DnD is streamlined for fast gameplay, whereas The Dark Eye is focusing on roleplaying.

However it is nice to have a lot of different skills to cover different abilities, many professions, cultures and so on that interact in neat ways.
The worldbuilding is pretty neat, too.

Unfortunately, unless you know German, you're shit out of luck with this system, since afaik, only the core rules were translated for the english market, which means you only have the basic stuff and nothing of the more interesting and extensive rules on magic, skills, gods etc.

 

[Slartibartfast]

What is everyone's favorite tabletop game and why should I play it?

It depends on what you like, really, but the Torg Eternity that just came out is an amazing system and setting. It takes the idea of Rifts (which came out the same year as the original Torg), and does something much more interesting with it. Instead of everything just spilling into our world through doorways, alternate Earths are merging into ours, and their laws (Cosms) are different than ours. That means that the Living Land (dinosaur world) has different effects on magic and technology to the Cyberpapacy (Cyberpunk Inquisition), and that's inforced by easy to grasp rules.

I'm also a big fan of Warhammer Fantasy if you like your fantasy games less epic and more Call of Cthulhu.

 

[Adamska]

First, here's intentional shilling:

Spoiler: Dice Scum Easter Special

We really just dick around with some Chick Tracts this Episode, but here you guys go

As for what system is really good for favorites, DnD 3.5 and 5e are stupidly popular and a guaranteed game in my circles. I'd personally suggest Modiphius' 2d20 system as well, mainly because they have some of the better property titles available, ranging from a very good Star Trek tabletop to an upcoming Fallout one. Lastly, I'll shill for the old Fantasy Flight Warhammer stuff as well as New World of Darkness, since both of them scratch grimdark sci-fi and horror pretty well in the right hands.