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Any advice for running Dragon Heist? Just started a group and had session 0, they're all somewhat memey characters but a lot of work has been put into them. Large group but it should be fine.
 
Dunsparce said:
If you want invincible nap time for your arcane casters in 3.5, Rope Trick from level 8 onwards would fit your needs. Fucking off to a pocket dimension whose entrance is safe even from most divination spells is a lot safer than making a magical force structure on the material plane. If your party has to many heads, prepare 2 of them, at level 8 you aren't using your level 2 spells in combat much for the most part(If you are a spontaneous caster with the Versatile Mage feat you can just burn up 4 level 1 spell slots instead). It's perfect for dungeons and caves crawling with monsters.
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Until you start carrying around portable holes and bags of holding. Not a good idea to carry one of those into it.

Also, while 3.5E lets you pull the rope up, PF doesn't. 5E lets you pull the rope up, but the spell only lasts an hour. Still, if you think someone is trying to scry on you, this is a good way to shake that attempt.
 
Dante Alighieri said:
Any advice for running Dragon Heist? Just started a group and had session 0, they're all somewhat memey characters but a lot of work has been put into them. Large group but it should be fine.
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Hmmm. This is something I've pulled out of my ass and I'm imagining it way too much like a computized D&D game but, lets say there are 2 kingdoms or factions. Call them by their banners Red Lions vs Green Dragons. The players work for the Red Lions. Their objective is to find various caches of weapons, spells and armor held by the Green Dragons and raid them. One such place is a fortress that holds a few powerful artifacts guarded by a fairly large dragon - they are kept here because the green dragons want to enhance the enchantments on them further.

That was a basic example.
Here are the questions to ask for a Heist.
Why, WhatWhere and When . Your players will provide the How

What are they after and why? A powerful artifact to stop the enemy from using it? a magic mcguffin that could end a drought? ancient books on magic that could be used to combat a magical plague? stop lich from becoming all powerful?
Where is this place located? An island fortress? A volcano lair? a tall mountain?
When? Is there a time limit? will things get worse as times goes on? Is there a failure state (IE plague kills 2/3rds of the nation - evil lich is invincible because the cult ritual was successful)
 
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From lots of people said:
Any advice for running X?
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I don't know why these sorts of questions broke my years-long streak of anonymously lurking like a pervert, but here goes--

1. If you're shaky on the rules and setting, start with the adventure that comes with the book (or get a cheap one from DTRPG or the Trove). File off the serial numbers, change the names, places, and monsters to hide your theft, etc.

2. Improv comedy is an essential skill. If you aren't sure what that is, the WIkiHow is a pretty decent introduction to the ideas involved. You don't have to start a nightclub act, you just need to be able to react when players do stuff.

3. Keep a couple of brief, generic micro-scenarios handy to use with your improv skills. A couple of fights and a talky scene are usually good enough for most groups. When your players swerve, be able to improvise until you find an opening to drop them into that scenario.

4. Your pre-built scenario needs a way to get the players back on track. The monster's pockets or the NPC's conversation contains clues to Big Bad's plans, the location of the hideout or the hidden treasure, etc.

There it is, the answer to the question that no one asked.
 
I need to get back into RPG's,

Had a pretty good time GM'ing one-shots for my uncle and two of my friends back in 2019 and 2020.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
It feels like there are games that are just the maker's personal therapy than actual games and in this one it's about being gay and Asian.
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I think a lot of it is simply having a platform, or being able to claim your a game designer on Twitter.

Like the old saying "To many people don't want to write, they want to 'have written'."

Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Thirsty Sword Lesbians is out in time for pride month and who is willing to take one for the team for it?
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Hasn't it been out a while? I think I read it before.
 
Francis York Morgan said:
I thought that lesbians were supposed to not be thirsting for swords.
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That's true, the Guillotine was used to execute Olympe De Gouges after she tried to reinstate the monarchy.
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Corn Flakes said:
I'd volunteer @Adamska for it, but I think he and his crew have had enough wading through the mire of "sassy queer" Powered by the Apocalypse bullshit.
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We read bad RPG books and go through splats as a hobby. I, and I suspect pretty much all of us, ain't fucking paying money for a book like that.

Especially since it's another PbtA game.
 
You know you're in for a good time when the publisher copypastas the no bigots allowed seeth into the reviews. I am honestly under the impression that this is the most important block of text to modern day tabletop RPG "developers". A lot of people in this industry aren't even trying to subvert expectations to maybe come out with something brilliant. Rather they follow the flow and do what everyone else is doing so they can say they wrote something "brave" instead.
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DeagleNationRefugee said:
You know you're in for a good time when the publisher copypastas the no bigots allowed seeth into the reviews. I am honestly under the impression that this is the most important block of text to modern day tabletop RPG "developers". A lot of people in this industry aren't even trying to subvert expectations to maybe come out with something brilliant. Rather they follow the flow and do what everyone else is doing so they can say they wrote something "brave" instead.
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So the characters will be terribly written, caricatures that would be seen as offensive if written by anyone else, probably racist too for assuming all immigrants are poor brown people who no speak English, and it will be as obnoxiously written as the Meatpunks one.

Lovely.
 
Adamska said:
So the characters will be terribly written, caricatures that would be seen as offensive if written by anyone else, probably racist too for assuming all immigrants are poor brown people who no speak English, and it will be as obnoxiously written as the Meatpunks one.

Lovely.
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Don't forget the conflict will be dull and toothless at best.
 
EnemyStand said:
Don't forget the conflict will be dull and toothless at best.
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Okay, I'm skimming through and it's very clear that there is actually no plot or setting. It's literally just "make up swashbuckling so you can do awful marvel quotes and kiss the evil witch".

By the way, the repeated use of Queers (which I still consider a slur), that very cringe and awkward attempts to describe flirting and zingers (and those are a mechanic btw) and that all examples in the text are women still is very telling. Now I'm not saying the bearded baby man seething at his game being terrible isn't a sex pest secretly but, well you know the drill.
 
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