Never really got into the multiplayer aspect of the NWN series. I had some fun playing with friends, but in the end playing NWN and dealing with all its limitations just made everyone want to play real D&D so that's what we'd go do instead.
[editline]29th September 2012[/editline]
The NWN1 map creator was amazing though and I really wish modern games had things like that; simple to use and quickly makes decent shit. A trait most modern map creators do not have I've come to find.
I just like Co-opping it through the campaigns.
Hell that's what I want in every game, coop
My friends and I tend to do what I call pseudo-co-op when we can't legitimately play with each other. Which is we simply get in Skype or some other similar thing and play the game at the same time from the same point. No one does any of that waiting shit though, we just make it a point to start out in the same place in the game at the same time. We all tend to play in a similar fashion so we usually end up moving along at the same pace and going to the same places (in the case of open world games). It's become a matter of course and is something we naturally do nowadays, I can't remember the last game we played truly alone.
Gotta make do with what ya got without real co-op I say.
Getting a little off-topic here, to get back on track:
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I think I find it easier to create new classes in PCGen than Hero Lab. I feel dirty.
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;37852978]I see my friends playing it on Steam a lot and I'm saddened by it not being around anymore. If worst comes to worse I'll just order Platinum off of Amazon and wait the week to get it, the multiplayer just seems too good to pass up[/QUOTE]
NWN2 is really not very good for multiplayer, atleast not compared to the original.
But you should get it anyway, Mask of the Betrayer is amazing.
So I decided to play Darkspawn Chronicles just for the hell of it
i never thought a simple "lol what if all the main characters sucked and you were a badguy" expansion pack would be so cool.
Killing the main party was so satisfying, figured out I could just spam heals on the Archdemon and he just flew around eating people.
[editline]30th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=elowin;37854581]NWN2 is really not very good for multiplayer, atleast not compared to the original.
But you should get it anyway, Mask of the Betrayer is amazing.[/QUOTE]
By multiplayer I mean "oh man my friend has platinum too, what if we buddied our way through the campaigns?
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;37854587]By multiplayer I mean "oh man my friend has platinum too, what if we buddied our way through the campaigns?[/QUOTE]
I haven't played Storm of Zehir much, but from what i've heard that one campaign is pretty much made for multiplayer, the original campaign and Mask of the Betrayer are both pretty bad for multiplayer though.
[QUOTE=elowin;37855149]I haven't played Storm of Zehir much, but from what i've heard that one campaign is pretty much made for multiplayer, the original campaign and Mask of the Betrayer are both pretty bad for multiplayer though.[/QUOTE]
Storms of zehir has an interaction system that allows multiple characters to have input in interactions, in different parts and use different skills throughout conversations or on the over-map
The main campaign and mask of betrayer it is one person playing the main character who gets to make all the decisions all the time and can do whatever he wants despite the others, and generally apart from combat the other players aren't really included
Does anyone have a Dark Heresy game going on?
You guessed it, I would like to join it.
I would be up for anything but I am a total noob, also is there a way to play online?
Me and 2 friends are planning to start a Runequest game. We're not entirely sure how it'll be yet, but I can tell you that
- It's probably doing to be in a somewhat dark/grimdark environment, and the player party will be morally questionable
- The setting will be on a frontier town on a huge kingdom that's a bureaucratic nightmare, and corruption is rampant.
- Magic is quite common, but magic crystals which provide powerful boons are like a legal drug in that frontier town. Hunting for them can be profitable.
The game is thus probably going to be about surviving in that city and seeing what works best. It also allows us to go in different directions plot-wise
We're with 1 GM and 2 players right now, and think we could use about 2-4 more players. We'll use skype voice chat while playing and will probably play in the weekends. Preferably European players are sought for, because timezones are a bitch.
Also it's going to be moderately serious. We don't expect 100% roleplaying, but don't munchkin and don't be an idiot. Just... Play it cool. We don't really care whether you're a veteran or total newbie, as long as you're nice to play with. It'll be my first game, too, so that's that :v:
[QUOTE=deltasquid;37855984]Me and 2 friends are planning to start a Runequest game. We're not entirely sure how it'll be yet, but I can tell you that
- It's probably doing to be in a somewhat dark/grimdark environment, and the player party will be morally questionable
- The setting will be on a frontier town on a huge kingdom that's a bureaucratic nightmare, and corruption is rampant.
- Magic is quite common, but magic crystals which provide powerful boons are like a legal drug in that frontier town. Hunting for them can be profitable.
The game is thus probably going to be about surviving in that city and seeing what works best. It also allows us to go in different directions plot-wise
We're with 1 GM and 2 players right now, and think we could use about 2-4 more players. We'll use skype voice chat while playing and will probably play in the weekends. Preferably European players are sought for, because timezones are a bitch.
Also it's going to be moderately serious. We don't expect 100% roleplaying, but don't munchkin and don't be an idiot. Just... Play it cool. We don't really care whether you're a veteran or total newbie, as long as you're nice to play with. It'll be my first game, too, so that's that :v:[/QUOTE]
I might be interested in joining, if I follow through on leaving the Fallout PnP group I'm in. I've done enough damage OOC and none IC.
[QUOTE=deltasquid;37855984]Me and 2 friends are planning to start a Runequest game. We're not entirely sure how it'll be yet, but I can tell you that
- It's probably doing to be in a somewhat dark/grimdark environment, and the player party will be morally questionable
- The setting will be on a frontier town on a huge kingdom that's a bureaucratic nightmare, and corruption is rampant.
- Magic is quite common, but magic crystals which provide powerful boons are like a legal drug in that frontier town. Hunting for them can be profitable.
The game is thus probably going to be about surviving in that city and seeing what works best. It also allows us to go in different directions plot-wise
We're with 1 GM and 2 players right now, and think we could use about 2-4 more players. We'll use skype voice chat while playing and will probably play in the weekends. Preferably European players are sought for, because timezones are a bitch.
Also it's going to be moderately serious. We don't expect 100% roleplaying, but don't munchkin and don't be an idiot. Just... Play it cool. We don't really care whether you're a veteran or total newbie, as long as you're nice to play with. It'll be my first game, too, so that's that :v:[/QUOTE]
I have no idea what Runequest is, but I`ll figure it out if you sign me up. :v:
Well last night's session was exiting. We constructed a pedal-powered Dragoon in a scrap yard in Tulsa, then blew up a barracks and killed 12 guards in the explosion to steal a small plane. No one had a high enough pilot to fly the plane safely though, so we made a break for it as soon as we had the plane hooked up to the Dragoon. It was a bit over the top, but whatever.
So I got to DM my first campaign about a week ago. I decided to go simple, yet horrendously complicated.
Basic classes, starting level of 1.
The Dungeon?
[url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/UM_1_Master_20060405.png]Motherfucking Undermountain[/url]!
The first session was pretty pretty hilarious. Some highlights:
Gnome Bard almost gets eaten by a Mimic
Paladin almost gets pulled in to a diseased pool full of Ghouls
Rogue jacks up a search attempt so badly he sets off the trap, poisoning the whole group
Acid-spraying monster nearly kills the whole group
Cleric activates a trap, taking an iron post to the face
Rogue mouths-off to a Behir, getting crushed against a wall and knocked unconscious.
I'll be doing another session this Friday. Hopefully it goes just as well. :v:
A group of first levelers in fucking undermountain?
That's crazy, how aren't they all dead yet?
played my first in-person game of 4e today, it was super fun
only a one-shot for now while we sorted out who was joining the group etc but the highlights included:
- our dwarf rogue going DWARF TIME and pulling out a warhammer and owning the faces off of everything (with a little assistance from me with Furious Smash)
- me, as a half-elf warlord, doing some clutch heals that pulled our asses out the fire
- we entered a trapped area with coffins. me and the dwarf had initiative, so he ran in, leapt on top of a coffin, yelled DWARF TIME and scored a critical hit on a kobold with his sling. i followed him in, leapt on top of the same coffin and threw an axe which [I]also[/I] scored a crit to finish it off. then we high fived and yelled RADICAL and air guitared for an intimidate check (which succeded)
- near the end of the same combat, guessing exactly where the deadly trap was, leaping down and using Tide of Iron to shove the remaining kobold right onto it for the kill
unfortunately i had to leave early but this campaign is going to Own Bones
Oh man, Runequest. My friend's dad's group had that as their system of choice, I've only ever played a single game in it.
[url=http://krootox.tumblr.com/post/32425749435/exalted-review]Also my ST from that exalted game posted some thoughts about the game.[/url]
Though, he didn't mention my character. Humph.
[QUOTE=elowin;37854581]NWN2 is really not very good for multiplayer, atleast not compared to the original.
But you should get it anyway, Mask of the Betrayer is amazing.[/QUOTE]
The campaigns seem to be much better than the original but I really dislike the camera controls. They don't work worth a damn compared to the original in my opinion.
[QUOTE=elowin;37859421]A group of first levelers in fucking undermountain?
That's crazy, how aren't they all dead yet?[/QUOTE]
I'm using a combination of the Expedition to Undermountain book (lvls 1-10) and preset encounters on the WotC site. Everything else is just made up as I go. I've got a system set up that keeps them within a defined area until they collect certain items/complete certain mini-quests.
The group:
Gnome Bard
Half-Orc Cleric
Elf Rogue
Human Wizard
Human Paladin
I've actually had to make events harder because they're doing so well. At lvl 2 they beat a CR4 monster. That's not ok, so I gotta' revamp a few things.
Pfft, that's nothing, my old party killed a beholder at 5th level.
While half of them were naked.
[QUOTE=Dalndox;37864596]I've actually had to make events harder because they're doing so well. At lvl 2 they beat a CR4 monster. That's not ok, so I gotta' revamp a few things.[/QUOTE]
A lot of people don't seem to realize this but the party's average level+2 (at low levels) up to the party's average level+4 at mid to high levels is meant to be doable. They're just supposed to be challenging or boss encounters for the party.
[QUOTE=Onyx3173;37863527]The campaigns seem to be much better than the original but I really dislike the camera controls. They don't work worth a damn compared to the original in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
They were especially horrendous when DM'ing. Even with camera tweaking modulus and the like it was still a pain in my ass.
My group ( level 16, 6 players. ) suffered four casualties against a pair of CR 10's. My group is comprised of idiots. I clean up afterwards.
sacrifice them all to your god of choosing, ascend to lichhood before their very eyes
[QUOTE=Oliolio;37866207]My group ( level 16, 6 players. ) suffered four casualties against a pair of CR 10's. My group is comprised of idiots. I clean up afterwards.[/QUOTE]
The last 3.5 campaign my friends and I played, we pissed off the DM because he kept throwing things that were 3-5CRs above our level at us and we kept mopping the floor with them. That was including a white dragon that we weren't even supposed to kill. After a certain point it was supposed to flee and we managed to pin it down so it couldn't escape. We got a full level for that one.
I'd be up for the Runequest game, what'll we play over, like do you need my SF, Skype?
I'd be up for Runequest too
I misread one of those posts as Runscape and was very confused.
[QUOTE=Rents;37868017]I misread one of those posts as Runscape and was very confused.[/QUOTE]
The thrilling adventure of chopping wood and fletching arrows. Level 8 recommended.
[QUOTE=Axznma;37870674]The thrilling adventure of chopping wood and fletching arrows. Level 8 recommended.[/QUOTE]
Naw man, we can't fletch arrows, you gotta buy some dumb splatbook for that.
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