The most I've written for a game was in my old Amber Diceless game, where we had several dozen session summaries, most written at least partially in-character, for 5 characters. It comes up to quite a bit.
I am pained that the site is gone offline. I can get most of it via the Wayback Machine, but not the session summaries.
@ProfessorCaprion I dunno, from what I've read (haven't seen it yet myself) it sounds like it kinda goes off the rails. Like, instead of doubling down on what it's been doing, it does something else entirely.
Which, to be fair, is in the context kind of the same thing, but...
@BESW Well, sort of. A lot of the episodes went beyond what McGoohan wanted to do, from what I understand. So a lot of the episodes in the middle were things he had to come up with that didn't necessarily fit in with his view of the story.
@JonathanHobbs The inspiration for my name was a young whipping boy whose love and loyalty for his prince lead him to study forbidden and unholy magics that consume both body and soul of their practitioners.
In the end, that Gareth lost everything - his last act was to betray his prince, trying to do the right thing. His soul was condemned not to have an afterlife until the one he'd served was redeemed or destroyed.
@JonathanHobbs I always felt very sorry for Gareth. His life was full of misery and neglect before his scheming parents made him the whipping boy. His prince, Dagnarus, was the first human being beyond his nursemaid to ever love or care about him.
And in the end Dagnarus dragged Gareth down with his evil and, as evil inevitably does, destroyed his happiness, his hopes, and his life.
Dagnarus didn't do it on purpose, exactly. He just expected the loyalty that he was given. Gareth could have left at any time and gone back to being unwanted, and unloved.
I was first exposed to Weiss and Hickman via The Death Gate Cycle, which was AWESOME. I kept going back to their other series hoping to find something comparable and was invariably disappointed.
@JonathanHobbs The original version of the question made it hard to tell if it was asking about edition compatibility or class compatibility. I left you a comment.
@Lord_Gareth Was this the series with the Japanese elves?
When that question came up about the Kender god, I had to resist so many different and recurring urges to post comments like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" with a link to that image tearing the Kender write-up a new exhaust port.
@BESW no... i said my 15K word count was practically (almost) half a novel and a novel is 40K. currently yes the 15K would be a novelette, but it would be a really crappy one
(really crappy because the begining of the word document consists of recaps of game session that are only a pararagh, when in reality those sessions probably deserved 2-3 pages)
anyway, i see the conversation has progressed past what we were talking about when I went AFK to talk to my dad about me accidentally writing almost half of a novel... and I need to sleep
so farewell all you party people, don't get partied out!
@Lord_Gareth I read... I think it was The Soulforged? Because one of my players thought Dragonlance was the coolest thing since Star Wars d20 Modern, and one of my favourite bands at the time (Blind Guardian) did a song about Raistlin.
@Lord_Gareth I currently run D&D 4e, and sometimes All Flesh Must Be Eaten. I have been playing (until recently since the GM got a promotion at work and has like ZERO free time) 7th sea. Other systems I have played with that GM (or his wife running) have been Legend of the 5 Rings and Scion
@Lord_Gareth suuuure ask me a question then go AFK [/end sarcasm]
Scion was written back when WW's lead designer aggressively believed that caring about mechanics made you a bad roleplayer, that designing good mechanics meant your game was for filthy munchkins and the only way to make a 'real' RPG was to not give a damn.
I have enjoyed SCion the few times my buddy's wife has filled in for him. my character is basically a mix of Sherlock Holmes and a 1940s Film Noir P.I. ... who just happens to be the son of Athena
@Lord_Gareth I'm actually mostly burned out from the WW-style being-of-mythical-power genre. After several years playing Vampire back in the day, I decided I'd rather play human-scale characters.
I've mostly gotten over it, and I also really enjoyed it back in the day (which was when I was 17, btw). Also enjoyed In Nomine, and Amber Diceless, and some Exalted.
but to add just a bit more to your question @Lord_Gareth, I have books for DC's RPG (the one based off mutants and masterminds), Mutants and Masterminds, Fate Core, Gamma World, Victoriana (2nd ed) and in the mail on the way to my house is a game called Spaceship Zero
I'm asking this because of this question: Are there any WWII tabletop RPGs?
The question is simply asking whether games of a specific type exist. The question has been put on hold, and answers downvoted, because it has been deemed to be a bad game-recommendation question, and they want to give m...
noe of which i have really dug into extensively, though i have spent some time reading up on character creation for the DC game, and now I am trying to spend some time going through Gamma World (and soon Spaceship Zero) my gaming group is mostly college kids, since I am a local to the town I found some others in school who are also local, yet half of my 9player D&D4e group will be gone over the summer and I am trying to choose either Gamma world or Specwhip Zero or DCuniverse for a fill in
i have a few trick to make it go faster, i use more elites and solo creatures in order to promote the team focus firing on a certain monster, I tell people that they will be up next so they can prepare their turn, I skip them (with a held action) if they dont know what to do on their turn after 20-30 sec, and even if the dice are being lame and they roll 3 misses in a row, I allow the 3rd miss to be a hit
The question was about how you can explain to people what RPGs are about / the fascination about it. The answer was a short story about someone showing it to some people rather than explaining them, by starting to tell a RPG story (something like "A XY enters the room, what do you do?" and the people get hooked on the fantasy.
I'm no gamer at all, so this could be like a very silly, basic question for you guys. The thing is that I always read about "Dungeons and Dragons" game (not the video game, but the normal game to play with friends that are actually gathered together). And I would like to know how to play it.
I'v...
"So, what's everyone's hobby?" John asked that evening, opening a beer.
"I love gardening," Kyle said.
"I'm into assassinations." Nick was apparently trying to be funny, again. Making a face even. Nobody laughed.
"I play roleplaying games," Zora said. Some started chuckling about that. "No, I ...
Good advice. My mistake was that I was looking for the question. I thought it had to be as popular as the answer, but thats where I was wrong obviously.
@JoshuaAslanSmith Your soul will shrivel and burn, and all joy you know in life will be slain as you read each blasphemous letter, until the only thing left within you is hate and sorrow.
@JoshuaAslanSmith It's only really abyss-y if you can see the deleted bits. I imagine mods have to roll saves just loading the page, because they can see deleted comments as well as deleted answers.
what is a good analogy for something crumbling under the weight of something? i am going to use it to express how the Stack Exchange Q&A system handles list questions.
I seriously consider that whole VoP thing to be one of RPG.SE's lowest points because the entire thing was like a forum argument, complete with sniveling curs being passive-aggressive and hiding behind the rules.
@waxeagle "As you can see, this renders the whole voting and accepted answer system kind of irrelevant, and thus the Stack Exchange Q&A system crumples under the weight of a bridge with enough force to compromise its structural integrity." does not have the witty ring to it I'm after unfortunately
@JonathanHobbs mostly just it's that people complain when their stuff (or stuff they like) is deleted. If there is actual private stuff it gets scrubbed
I have read plenty of things about the Vow of Poverty in forums, and i have seen both opinions expressed.
If i understand it correctly, it does work on the assumption of a linear magic item acquisition from the rest of the party, and it is "balanced" on that assumption. I also do understand that...
the historical lock does do a few things to limit the visibility of questions that have it. Not sure exactly what and if there are reputation issues there
@lisardggY Oh! Well. Yes. BD&D and AD&D 2e were both with a group on the other side of the city. D&D 3.5e was with the University's D&D group, the semester before most of the people in the game (DM included) graduated.
It depends on the class. For item relaying classes it's underpowered, but for a class such as monk it's overpowered. In our dnd-3.5e campaign we had an exalted human monk with vow of poverty, and it was extremely powerful.
(Formerly Magic: the Gathering, but we could not figure out how to break out of its pressure to keep buying cards, and that was becoming a major problem for us, so for the time being we're not playing at all.)
@InbarRose Sure seems to be! We've played two games based on the First Game recommended set. In the second game, one of my friends accumulated villages, moats, a smithy and a mine, and discovered how to make a formidable draw engine. Another friend doesn't want to play with the First Game set again.
@Lord_Gareth when I use best its 'best' best being a subjective term but I guess Im saying its not my best so I understand the confusion about the distinction
@InbarRose I believe that. I am accepting my friend's request to move to another set, because I hope in doing so we will discover other, even more terrifying strategies, and he will be less worried about draw decks by comparison.
In particular, I might've actually beaten him that game. Except I was playing Big Money, and we'd misread Mine: we didn't notice until near the end you could keep the new money card.
thats the thing about Dominion, everyone starts with an identical deck and then has the ability to buy all of the same random 12 cards (though limited quantities available) into their deck
@waxeagle I believe that the internal implementation is that Jon Skeet has all the rep, and any time any user gets any rep in any SE site, it's actually taken from Skeet's pool.
Intelligent violent mutant rabbits with the ability to turn metal into rubber (but at will vs always hence the ability for them to use armor, swords, guns)
@Aaron The formatting and layout are a bit of a bother. I think you should use indented bullet-points for things like Class Abilities, instead of having whole paragraph breaks between them all.
@Aaron Also, I see that you're using <blockquotes> for citations. And as @BESW predicted, the styling (provided by your WP theme, I'm guessing) isn't meshing that well.
@lisardggY So add a bullet beside each of my bold sections? I only used a single paragraph break so all it would do is add the bullet. I will see if it looks better though. I can't edit for some reason right now so.
@lisardggY Yea I meant to edit that but as I said above the network I am on blocks the editing function for whatever reason.
According to a number of social media sites, including Reddit:
“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner.
Is this attribution correct?
@JoshuaAslanSmith gonna be a long article to read, but rest assured I will, and if Gamma World turns out to be as ridiculous as the article's intro makes it weem, I think I'll have a hard time picking a game for the summer since I want to veer away from the more serious tone of my D&D world
If the concern is "but other people might want to play WWII games, so shouldn't we make it as broad as possible?" - then no, because then everyone is given a useless list telling them what none of the things on there actually do. Better have several questions along the lines of: "I want to play a WWII game about X", "I want to play a WWII game about Y", and "I want to play a WWII game about Z", than just "I want to play a WWII game." And having those first three is actually good. For a similar issue, see this. — Jonathan Hobbs1 min ago
@lisardggY I LOVE Fallout. It is easily my favorite video game series ever (even though I started with Fallout 3 I went back and played 1 and 2) and originally I wanted to play Gamma World since I figured it would be similar, but now that I am looking at it as a fill in for the summer whil 1/2 my group is out of town between semesters the whacky tone of GW seems better
@MC_Hambone I actually meant fallout in the original sense of "nuclear fallout". But yes, the Fallout games are terrific. Well, the first two, which I've played. Will get to 3 at some point too.
Fallout 3 is my favorite story line. Basically you grow up in a Vault and when you turn 18 your Father escapes from the vault and the Overseer thinks you helped him so you have to escape and find your Dad, because in Vault 101, no one ever enters and no one ever leaves....
yeah rolling a PC is part of the gammaworld experience its a game where if you character dies your supposed to re-roll immediately and rejoin the party as someone who just saunters up after the combat ends and says hey
"So, what's everyone's hobby?" John asked that evening, opening a beer.
"I love gardening," Kyle said.
"I'm into assassinations." Nick was apparently trying to be funny, again. Making a face even. Nobody laughed.
"I play roleplaying games," Zora said. Some started chuckling about that. "No, I ...
It depends on the class. For item relaying classes it's underpowered, but for a class such as monk it's overpowered. In our dnd-3.5e campaign we had an exalted human monk with vow of poverty, and it was extremely powerful.
According to a number of social media sites, including Reddit:
“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner.
Is this attribution correct?
