TRPG General Chat

12:53 AM

@V2Blast Yeah, I try to use the first session to establish (or re-establish, if it's an ongoing group with a new system/game) the mutually collaborative nature of the activity.

Ben

1:04 AM

Morning all

Played some board games on the weekend. One was Bloodborne, which was actually quite fun, and the other was "King of Tokyo", which was similar to @BESW's King of Monsters

We played both of those multiple times. Was very enjoyable :)

V2Blast

1:18 AM

Nice! I've heard of King of Tokyo. Actually, it was featured in the first (and only, so far) episode of Achievement Hunter's board game show, Let's Roll: youtube.com/watch?v=-axyMhKkmMU

Ben

I really enjoyed that one. They have big, heavy dice too haha

nitsua60

@Ben I've enjoyed King of Tokyo a couple of times. It has a nice, "gonzo" feel to it =)

Ben

Yeh, definitely haha

So I think we've decided to have one "board game" night a month after that :)

Miniman

@Ben What's the bloodborne boardgame like? A friend of mine has the dark souls boardgame, but we've never gotten around to playing it.

Ben

@Miniman I think, from what they've mentioned is that the Dark Souls game is a lot more "brutal"?

But the Bloodborne one is good... It seems complex at first, but it's pretty good.

Shalvenay

1:22 AM

hey there @nitsua60

Ben

You each have cards; weapons, items and a couple of special cards. You take turns to deal damage to an enemy, and collect tokens. At the end of the game, the person with the most tokens wins

It also has a "cooperation" play to it... Some monsters have a lot of health, so it's beneficial to get rid of it asap, so you can coordinate - discuss what you are going to do, like all play damage, etc, then you play your cards. And you don't have to cooperate at all, if you don't want to haha

It adds a new level to it.

nitsua60

@Shalvenay hiya hiya

Ben

My only qualm is that the end "Boss Monster" is a bit anti-climactic. They have an effect that is active for the whole game, but when you finally get to them, there's nothing special. So one boss has a rule that all players have a reduced health, but then being the "Final Boss", they're just big and tough, which by the time you get to them, everyone has a lot of good weapons.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 d60 question -- would a die like that be biased towards one face-shape or the other?

Ben

So it's a bit anti-climactic. But my friend and I are already working on a "home-brew" addition for that :P

nitsua60

1:29 AM

@Shalvenay Not sure what you mean? What shape(s) are you imagining? A 62-sided barrel-prism could be obviously fair, as could a 30-30 zocchi-like kite-based shape. (Think like a d10, but moreso.) Personally, I roll a d6 and a d10, call it a d60, and move on =)

Ben

@nitsua60 How would >10 work?

Wait... <10

Shalvenay

@Ben 6=0

Ben

@Shalvenay Fair enough. I thought that might work (Unless you get a 6 and a 0, that would be 60)

Shalvenay

@Ben or just a 0

2-dice d100 sets are 00-99

nitsua60

@Ben Either that or it's d6-1 with 00 read as 60, like most percentile sets are used. I don't use percentile dice--prefer just rolling 2d10--so I'm pretty used to the index-offset for the first-read die.