I'd really like to learn how to play pen-and-paper RPGs. I know that it takes a few players to actually sit down and play, but I'm not at all sure where to find more gamers.
How do I find existing groups to join? Or, are there any resources online that may help me find existing RPG groups or pl...
i've gone from playing D&D to playing lots of systems and never D&D
(the exception is a pathfinder game my friend may or may not be starting up, 'cause she's given herself such an enormous burden of prep and is dead-set on doing it that it might never happen)
Fair enough! This one is explicitly a cosmetic for-fun item, like all the other minis.
It's perhaps worth noting that GW2 doesn't have a subscription fee, so their inclusion of a cosmetic cash-shop (can be bought with in-game gold, too) is justifiable. Anyway! Pet rock.
@Sandwich As someone who writes in the RPG industry and loves writing for RPGs.
You will need to prepare yourself for howling, unending fury that will scar your soul and leave you a changed and bitter individual who arises each morning solely from the spite of death.
DSP makes solid stuff. I have very minor complaints, but they're mostly "I WANNA MAKE THIS CLASS DO THIS AND IT CAN'T" which can be answered by "Well, play this class instead. It can do that, AND this."
This is the cutest thing ever. About a dad whose 4 year old daughter wanted to play D&D with him, but of course she couldn't grasp it, so he wrote an easier game for her to play.
I've wanted a reason to RP a chef for a while, and usually I just do it to mitigate being mostly useless in combat.
(Or for flavor reasons.)
One of my ponyfinder characters had Profession Chef and that got him married off and retired, so that worked out kinda well, but the idea of an adventuring chef is very fun.
Sadly, the game I played him in doesn't allow DSP content, otherwise I'd probably take the chef thing to the next level.
@Tarmikos11 Fallout 3 was disappointingly flawed and I heard New Vegas was much better but I heard that from people who liked Fallout 3 to begin with. Much of Skyrim followed the same fundamental problems. I have no faith in Bethesda to create a good Fallout 4. It is nice that it is colourful and has a theme of the wastelands being revived. Let's see how it goes.
Fallout 3 was an enormous, empty, boring brown wasteland. (I get that's the theme of the game, but at least Fallout 2 didn't bother with filling out the entire wasteland.) It had some places of genuine life and attentive caring development by the team: the vault, the ending area, the brotherhood of steel outpost, the ghoul city.
The FF7 remake announcement along with the cable service that lets you pay for channels a la carte instead of having to buy 100 channels was a masterstroke of a conference
The rest was too little effort over too much space, like too little butter over too much bread. Places were full of meaningless encounters with the same enemies as before with the same rewards as before. The super-mutant outposts were all the same after only two or three, to the point where I got to the museum full of super-mutants it was boring facing them again. The sewer tunnels in the city full of mutant oozes were all the same tunnel copied+pasted a lot of times.
That was deeply unsatisfying, I grew bored and stopped.
Then Skyrim came along and had a quest engine that was literally templated by design, with "Go to {blank} and kill {number} {blanks} / get me {number} {blanks} then come back to get {blank}", and so on.
I am used to games that put loving attentive care into each area, and do not create more areas than they can put that care into. I do not care for games that do not do that, that bite off more than the developers can chew. So, given Bethesda's done exactly that in their most recent two games, I do not look forward to the next.
While it is true that morrowind had waaaaay more to do and multiple expansion packs it still didn't have nearly as good a story or as much patrick stewart
Whodunit is a dark brotherhood quest where you have to kill everyone in a mansion who are all convinced that theres a gold prize hidden inside and they're trying to find it
You can convince them to kill each other one by one and they start getting paranoid as the quest progresses
In Oblivion you're a prisoner who rises up from adversity when a secret passageway through the imperial city sewers happens to run through your cell who eventually becomes a savior of the realm when he manages to save the last son of the emperor and light the dragonfires to prevent the daedra from crossing planes and destroying everything
Entirely unrelated to the previous discussion, I saw Jurassic World today, and kiiind of want to run a raptor apocalypse game now. It's like zombie apocalypse, but with raptors.
i want to do the same now.
I'm gonna brew this up as a fun session for Atomic Robo.
like That Episode Where They Have To Fix The Apocalypse, kinda like the Vampire Dimension thing.
@Adeptus It's the perfect storm of bad dialog, bad acting, bad accents, bad costumes, and bad effects. So early 90s. There is also very little... tutorial in the tutorial.
Having watched its half hour tutorial, I still have only the most tenuous grasp of how this game works. :P
I love the part where the warrior and thief are bickering and the elf just starts howling.
I think the only point at which they give you any real information about the game is after they ask you to "cast a pause spell on your VCR" and send anybody who's not going to DM out of the room, at which point they explain basic information about what a DM is which all players could benefit from knowing. :P
@Miniman Ah, the old Accursed Blanket Fort of Solitude and Despair trick. But for maximum effect, you have to craft the illusion that the entire cast of NPCs is in there with you.
@doppelgreener Slap some wings on it and you've got a wyvern!
My other favorite thing is how this random guy with a coyote pelt on his head runs into a banquet and collapses, and some court dude is immediately like, "Seems to be a wizard!" I was wondering if all wizards wore random animal headgear in this world. Thankfully, the video addressed this burning question later on.
The elf, who is all about Nature, takes exception to the coyote hat. The wizard says something like, "Don't you know of the wizard's transformation abilities?" because, like, who doesn't know everything about esoteric magical arts? This yokel elf, apparently. He explains that he was transformed into a coyote to learn the secrets of Nature.
I feel like they were really bonding over Nature, but the warrior ruined the moment.
I'm rolling my very first DnD character. I'm trying to play a tank-type role in my group as a Dwarf Fighter. While looking through some forums I came across an image of an African warrior wielding 2 shields
Is this even a viable option in DnD?
What rules do I need to know when building a Dual...
@doppelgreener The fact that my only active 5e character is a Wizard/Rogue and therefore can't actually use shields at all might give you a slight edge, of course.
@Miniman this would not be a legitimate shield battle, and i would dishonour the name of shield battles and my shield battle clan. no, this duel cannot go ahead.
@Magician it did not occur to me to do this and now i will be doing this after work (in a few minutes)
Warrior: Wizard, when we barge through that door, you must cast haste on me to give me the time to do my work. Wizard: Haste is my specialty spell! Rogue: [is the wizard's ex-lover, eyerolls, deadpan tone.] Isn't it just. Wizard: Wh... hey! Not cool.
@doppelgreener My search found depressingly few actual wizards. :c (Unless these are all wizards disguised as models.) I will have to cast a google spell to rectify my keywords.
@Magician Yeah, I am disallowing myself from participating. This is a pretty work friendly chat, and spells are a goldmine for things that are... not. :v
There's been a little edit war in this answer whether or not to use the term "douchebag" as defined here.
If slang is allowed (and I believe it is), then this insulting term should be fine. If it it not, then where do we draw the line?
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@trogdor so far i have made a habit of always requesting a vegetarian meal during booking (hot if possible, hindu vegetarian if possible); i find that here they generally serve a stunningly good curry for that one.
In a world where grue rule the darkness, one man's quest for survival is about to get dark. Starring doppelgreener as the Survivor and Steve Buscemi as the Grue. Grue 2015. Get dark.
I'm rolling my very first DnD character. I'm trying to play a tank-type role in my group as a Dwarf Fighter. While looking through some forums I came across an image of an African warrior wielding 2 shields
Is this even a viable option in DnD?
What rules do I need to know when building a Dual...
There's been a little edit war in this answer whether or not to use the term "douchebag" as defined here.
If slang is allowed (and I believe it is), then this insulting term should be fine. If it it not, then where do we draw the line?
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