I find myself reading multiple playbooks to see if there are any particular moves from other playbooks that fit my own character. This strikes me as crushingly inefficient.
Is there a list of all Apocalypse World player moves (not generic moves) sorted in some useful form somewhere on the inter...
@CRoss A rather bastardized version of D&D was featured this past season in an episode of community. One of the major scenes involved the rather ummm intricate seduction of an elven maid in order to acquire a Pegasus. I like the episode and I showed it to my gaming group who thought it was pretty funny.
I was looking for the Wizard Handbook but all the links were broken.
Somewhere on the handbooks of other classes (on other forums) I saw a
This was archived by WotC, here's the link
But the link leads to the welcome page of WotC (since it's broken).
Is there a way to get all that info ba...
@waxeagle I had friends who had never played d&d interested because of that episode. I told themn that it isn't actually like that, but they were still intrigued. So good on community for that.
@GPierce def. It provided mass exposure to D&D in a way that made it seem interesting and fairly non threatening (in fact with the whole pierce drama it was pretty darn awesome)
@GPierce from what I read on the wizards site they seemed to feel like it was a fair representation of their product as well
@CRoss I think that aspect was what they really wanted to key in on. Less hey lets get the mechanics right and more hey people really have fun with this. Plus it saves lives yeah :)
@CRoss But I'd that is true for a lot of stuff. Even as much as WoW doesn't interest me, even I can admit how social that game can be if you make it. Now, it's still computer screens, internet, and team speak, but it's still social. Not as social as in your face group dynamics RPGs like D&D or Savage Worlds, of course.
@CRoss But I think that is a testament to social awkwardness. Fear of any confrontation which is the opposite of social. So, there are arguments I suppose for WoW not being a social game as well. (Not good ones mind you, but they exist)
Got me thinking of D&D and online gaming. I miss Neverwinter Nights and it's online games. Those were a blast. (hint hint WotC, do that!)
@waxeagle Watching the "Days of Future Past" episodes of XMen! I was eagerly awaiting these episodes.
@waxeagle Yeah, one day I watched a bunch of these episodes in the background. My fiancee was less than pleased, apparently I was supposed to read her mind that she wanted to watch XMen with me.
@GPierce he is, between that and the DK xmen book he knows most of the characters already. Poor thing really doesn't have a hope of not turning into a complete nerd
@waxeagle I was nerding out earlier when they ran into Cable. I was like, "Jean, Scott, it's your son! Cable is your son! (From an alternate future...)"
@CRoss Both, actually. Flavor is easier, of course. But the mechanical idea of "blood magic" has always intrigued me.
Lovecraftian and Howardian (Conan) is dark, and magic is generally not easy to come by. I like that, it makes magic not only a commodity, but a legitimate fear as well.
Dark Sun does a good job exploring that, but I have a love affair with the DS fluff.
Not as good as the Dark Sun one, though. And I'm not just saying that because I love it :-)
@CRoss The Shadowfell is polarizing, you either love it or hate it. I like it just fine, but I can see where some people would think it "muddles" stuff up.
I want to find the most concise and clean list of CharOp ordered by base-class, and not by build ideas.
If you take a look at brilliantgameologists forum the list is a bit messy and hard to find what you are looking for.
And some have broken links, eg WotC (Look at this question). Someone came ...
@CRoss I'd agree with that. I love planar cosmology and the connection of the different settings through it, but to be effective I think it needs to be more of a background thing. Unless of course a campaign is focused specifically on the planes and the connections between worlds.
@CRoss I very much agree. In setting specific worlds it doesn't really fit.
@CRoss What's a good novel to read into the Eberron setting a little more? I've got a short story collection from WotC with stories from each of their worlds and enjoyed the Eberron stuff, but would prefer a longer story/novel to really flesh it out and get a better grasp on it.
@CRoss Fair enough. I'll have to check out the Sharn book.
I've never actually played in the Realms but have read a handful of the books. I don't think the Realms would be fun to play in since there are way more powerful NPCs running all over the place..
I've read the Eberron makes the PCs feel epic though, which sounds great
@CRoss I'd say the biggest advantage is the Lore. It's fantastic and the world is/can be fun.
@CRoss I could see that being an issue for actual campaign building
@CRoss The feeling of being able to take on the entire world at level 8 is probably... interesting. I'm not sure how I'd feel about that unless I was in a strictly evil party.
@GPierce you have to remember most of Eberron leans evil
even (perhaps especially) the civilized parts. In many D&D settings you're shocked when you find evil in a civilized areas, in Eberron it's like saying "Oh, the sun rose..."
My DM is going to arrange a campaign of Epic Gestalts (LvL 24/24), I wanted to play a non magic user, but they are so underpowered that I probably can't, the closest to a non magic user I seem to find is using Tome of Battle. Is it the only way?
My idea was to do something like a Warblade16/Fact...
I find myself reading multiple playbooks to see if there are any particular moves from other playbooks that fit my own character. This strikes me as crushingly inefficient.
Is there a list of all Apocalypse World player moves (not generic moves) sorted in some useful form somewhere on the inter...
Does anyone know of good city specific (although I would be interested in others as well) plug-ins for fantasy RPG map making using GIMP?
