@besw @eimyr theres a 4e homebrew witcher class I played that worke well after a few tweaks to it, I sort of wrote one for dungeonworld and Ive played around with with ideas about one for 5e
the key thing to running a witcheresque game in any of those sysems is restricting class choices and itemization
a big part of it is tone and setting up the world to players
I am looking forward to the pen and paper rpg that will come out of them working with mike pondsmith and r talisorian
@JoshuaAslanSmith In the Witcher (books being the primary source) magic is considered either very straining or ritual based (or both) and there is much, much less in terms of "Everyday utility" involved. If it can be done by mundane means, magic for the same task does not exist.
@eimyr 4e and 5e dont really have that problem so much as previous eidtions
at will spells and 5es cantrips essentially carry the mintor task magic that a sorceror could do
its straining to cast powerful spells or when first learning, but most mages casually use magic all the time, triss and especially yennefer just use it and use it
geralts poweful signs wear him out but he doesnt have issues using igni to fix a pot etc.
books
the only times sorcery is exhuasinting to people is when they are using a lot of combat spells or trying to do extroardinary things like capture a djinn
I mean sorcerors (the class in 4e and 5e) dont have the spells per day and whatnot they just get to cast X spells per encounter and can use their ooc spells all the time if I remember correclty
Did a test run of the world-gen/char-gen part of Fate. Group really likes the mandatory 'you've already had an adventure with this party' part.
Tomb of Horrors isn't meant to have rich writing. That's Gygaxian style dungeons. "This is randomly unfair, designed to kill players, isn't balanced, but it's kinda fun with awesome traps. Bring 4 characters for yourself. Some of them will be looting the previous party."
@eimyr I can try to find you some good resources, the book itself does a great job of explaining how it works though you do need to unlearn some tripe rpg habits for it to function
Oh. I heard a comment about Dungeon World I was curious about. Is it true the majority of the rules a character needs are right on the character sheet?
@SevenSidedDie thans, on mobile and fat fingering inputs
@MadMAxJr Basically a player needs to play is on thier 2 sied (or 3 page if you are a spell caster character sheet) and a basic and advanced moves 2 sided sheet everyone shares
the system rules basically exist with in the GMs head he does most of the adjudication and arbirtration
there are clearly defined rules but all of the heavy lifting is on the GM side
at the same time you dont worry about numbers as a gm really
players roll all the dice bnd because everything is in a fixed range 2d6 plus modifier and the success bracket is 1-6 = fail, 7-9 is succeed but with a compicaiton and 10-12 is pure success each specific action or check might have scertain descrptions and choices for those but thats the range
it moves fast
the Gm gets to focus on the meta story elements while interacting with the players
there are a lot of really great GM only systems in teh game that helpt to organize the plot and move things along and the best are sort of the tenets/maxims (I forget what they actually call them) that are like a 10 commandments to guide your actions at all times and refer to when you are not sure how to respond to a plot devleopment or player action
@polyducks macros on roll20 are the future honestly thats the bes tthing about the computerization of tabletop games is you have all these management and resources to take out the tedium and busy work and focus on what matters
Ive been a subscriber to use the API based Edge of the Empire character sheet which makes that systme a breeze on roll20
Its influenced me so much that I port of lot of its techniques into other systems I run
if anyone is watching the twitters, Rob Donoghue and Dave Chalker are having a great chat about the ToH worst adventure of all time post and it's response.
ToH was basically Gygax rubbing his hands together and whispering, "Are you ready for a terrifying challenge?" and then murdering players, DM vs Player style. It's the kind of thing that would have acheivements, were it a video game.
It's simple for a DM to kill players with arbitrary traps/monsters - I wonder what Gygax was trying to prove with ToH. But then it was still early days for D&D. The real talent comes in designing a dungeon where the players can solve traps of increasing difficulty with some problem solving.
At any rate, if you want to keep out tomb robbers, just encase the tomb inside solid rock w/ no entrances. :)
@eimyr Mostly because I'm brewing on a Dark Souls like game and there are quite the number of elements that I can lift & stitch together from nWoD without issue.
Tomb of Horrors appears to be the odd one out in terms of published adventures, originally designed very specifically as a challenge to his own group.
Gary Gygax himself said "There were several very expert players in my campaign, and this was meant as yet another challenge to their skill—and th...
Our [tour] mentions "closed" questions. Shall I open a Meta thread to address the issue?
@BESW I also saw part of an interview (or something similar) where Gygax stated that it would have been impossible to make modules of the adventures he played, because there were consequences of actions and lots of NPCs moving around
@eimyr completely different beasts.
@MadMAxJr DW has it embedded in its rules. To be honest, I like AW's more.
@BESW unless classic fighter. "You all, come here and stand still, so my allies can stand still and gain combat advantage against you!"
Does anyone know of a crafting guide for alchemists in pathfinder that talks about the unchained crafting rules? Trying to do some reading for a low level alchemist.
I always thought it'd be fun to simulate fencing in an RPG with a Slapjack-style card game - sort of a game within a game. You'd play an Attack card from your hand & the opponent has to play a Parry or Dodge card before the opponent plays a damage card, something along those lines.
