[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;43510247]You said that about M&M.[/QUOTE]
I don't like the combat in M&M, I think character creation is brilliant.
[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;43506073]McHugh's (Shadowrun's version of McDonalds)[/QUOTE]
I always thought that Stuffer Shack was supposed to be the McDonalds equivalent. What are Stuffer Shacks the equivalent of, if anything?
[QUOTE=Betakta;43511356]I always thought that Stuffer Shack was supposed to be the McDonalds equivalent. What are Stuffer Shacks the equivalent of, if anything?[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure they're like equivalents of Wal-Marts or something?
[QUOTE=Betakta;43511356]I always thought that Stuffer Shack was supposed to be the McDonalds equivalent. What are Stuffer Shacks the equivalent of, if anything?[/QUOTE]
Wal-Mart and Seven Eleven combined.
How is Shadowrun? I know it's popular but I don't know much about the mechanics. I've heard people say hacking is a real drag.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;43512756]How is Shadowrun? I know it's popular but I don't know much about the mechanics. I've heard people say hacking is a real drag.[/QUOTE]
Hacking got way better in the new 5th edition.
Also Shadowrun is great.
Here's the final edition of Rogue Space, by the way.
[url]http://www.lulu.com/shop/cr-brandon/rogue-space-the-dark-frontier/paperback/product-21395436.html[/url]
It's only about 114 pages in total, which actually isn't too bad for a core rulebook that comes with rules as well as supplemental resources.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;43512756]How is Shadowrun? I know it's popular but I don't know much about the mechanics. I've heard people say hacking is a real drag.[/QUOTE]
4th edition hacking goes four or five times faster than regular combat, meaning if both happen at the same time everyone else is waiting around for the hackers to take four turns. If it's not happening at the same time as normal combat, then you've got only one or two guys in the group actually doing anything while everyone else waits around. 5th edition isn't as bad since meatspace combat is a bit faster and cyberspace is generally slower too.
Man, I really need to get around to playing Shadowrun someday. I love the idea of a magic/technology mish-mash.
In that case I guess I'll need to get some Chummers together for a Shadowrun game sometime then.
I think I'm finally starting to do my job as a GM. Just finished a four-hour Pathfinder sessions, enemies were driven off but only one player was still in the positive HP and physically present (the other tried to grapple a dragon and ended up a mile out to sea). Everyone stabilized (with or without help), but they were 100% out of healing and had to wait for help to arrive.
Enemy was in a similar situation, so I'd classify it as a draw.
No real loot was handed out ([i]this[/i] group I'm actually trying to keep according to normal progression), but XP flowed like water and the PLOT is at the point where shit gets real.
No idea how to top this one, though. Maybe I'll have the dragon turn out to be a lich?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;43514308]I think I'm finally starting to do my job as a GM. Just finished a four-hour Pathfinder sessions, enemies were driven off but only one player was still in the positive HP and physically present (the other tried to grapple a dragon and ended up a mile out to sea). Everyone stabilized (with or without help), but they were 100% out of healing and had to wait for help to arrive.
Enemy was in a similar situation, so I'd classify it as a draw.
No real loot was handed out ([i]this[/i] group I'm actually trying to keep according to normal progression), but XP flowed like water and the PLOT is at the point where shit gets real.
No idea how to top this one, though. Maybe I'll have the dragon turn out to be a lich?[/QUOTE]
Have it turn out to be preparing to become a lich, and then only just don't manage to stop it in time, leading to a fight with it as it tries to protect it's new phylactery from them.
So [url=https://boards.4chan.org/tg/res/29441280]apparently[/url] it's very [url=https://exalted-thesunalsorises.obsidianportal.com/wikis/main-page]possible[/url] to run Exalted's setting with M&M's system.
Sadly I have no idea how M&M works.
Mutants & Masterminds is meant to be a universal system, so that's nothing new.
Problems I have with Shadowrun 5th so far:
Defending against grenades. how the [I]fuck[/I] do they work?
Still a bit iffy on matrix stuff, especially with stuff pertaining to cameras. I'll try to instill more of a sense of ubiquitous surveillance---if you're out in public, expect several cameras to be recording you at all times. Your face [I]will[/I] be taken. The only problem is how anyone can sift through all that information (even auto-recognize programs might have trouble).
Oh man, my first session of L5R went excellently. I'll put it in quotes so it takes up less page space.
[QUOTE]I'm playing a Tsurchi Archer, though the Mantis Clan doesn't exist at this point in the timeline so I'm still Wasp technically. The rest of the party consists of;
-A lion clan beastmaster, with a pair of lions
-A Crab whose class I can't remember, but has a lot to do with punching
-A Phoenix shugenja from an imperial family who doesn't understand what being out of a city is, nor what not having servants is
-A crane... something? I know he's good at taxing people and has a servant who's basically a guard.
We're like, the least samurai group of samurai ever to walk rokugan.
We started off at an inn we'd all come to after seeing it in dreams for a few months. Nobody in the party knows eachother, being a mix of new characters and characters that had been in previous sessions (the only character left from the start of the campaign was the beastmaster, everyone else had left or died previously). Anyway, we chill in the inn a little (I went outside, my characters claustrophobic), and they end up talking about the dream they'd been having. I went inside to join the conversation, when it goes dark and the innkeeper runs out screaming about demons. And who should appear but the ghost of my crab playing friends previous character.
Who died by setting himself on fire with magic after immolating the previous Big Bad instead of committing seppuku after the phoenix player died in a duel with him on his behalf. He explained to us how dishonourable this was on his family, and that he had brought us together to seek out someone who knew enough about what happened with said big bad to clear his name; conveniently, said person was the person who got the previous characters together for that campaign.
So we set off after him, chatted with his dad at some castle to point us towards him (he was out hunting but was a few days overdue), then went into the woods to try and find him. We found a large bear. Being in crab lands, it was also really really tainted. I put on my edgy combat mask and strung up my bow.
The crab player [I]grappled it[/I].
He then held it in place whilst everyone wailed on it for a turn (bar the beastmaster, her lions forgot how to hit people) and I shot it in the face. He then suplexed the bear. We got off another turn of stabbing/shooting/mauling it, and he tried to pull it's arm off only for it to promptly die without surrendering it's arm. There was a dead person in the cave behind the bear but it wasn't our guy, so we moved on and I found a clearing with my tracking, which suggested two people had been there. One was the stiff from the cave. The other, judging from the footprints, had just disappeared. Combined with the talon marks on the dead guys head, we pretty much concluded the guy we were looking for had been carried off by some big tainted eagle. So we went off to climb up some cliff that apparently looked like it had a nest on it. The shugenja went first, and apparently didn't even bother to look around at all, because after throwing a rope down and coordinating us climbing up too he turned around to find himself at swordpoint.
It was three flappy bird people with swords. Master swordsmen, according to the gm, known throughout Rokugan for their skill. They wanted to know what Mr Shugenja was doing here. He explained we were looking for someone, only he punctuated it with racist bird noises. They were a bit annoyed, but ominously enough once our resident bear wrestler made it up onto the cliff they flipped out and came at us. I put my mask on and strung my bow again, whilst the crab player picked up a rock. Some normal stabbing and magic occurred, and with a few raises I managed to shoot one of them in their sword arm and do 40+ damage, so it keeled over dead with it's arm pinned to it's body like a sort of really top heavy kebab. Meanwhile, birdman #2 got clubbed in the face with the rock I mentioned earlier, and stabbed mercilessly by the beastmaster, so he died too. Birdman #3 charged at me, apparently rather annoyed, and missed completely because I have a TN of 35. I then tried to shoot it point blank and missed, so it flew away and went invisible. We then wandered off and found the bird people's houses and cute little mountain dojo where the gm guilt tripped us a bit, but we [I]did[/I] find our target. Hurray. End session.[/QUOTE]
Also Exalted story time:
[quote]Last session, they got a visit from some people who told them they were being watched, and informed them of the Dogma of Nexus(One of which was "None shall obstruct trade.") and some of the current civilities.
A week later, a pulse of rainbow-hued essence exploded from the wyld zone south of them, and they went to go check it out. On the way, a caravan of merchants was arriving and blocking the path; Shaper was on his period or something and decided to over-dramatically use a sorcery to destroy one of their wagons. Then an orange bolt of energy(Think like an orange magic missile) flew in from the west and hit him. In the space of a second, he aged in to a pile of dust and bones, and his hearthstone shattered. The rest of the group didn't really pay attention to this, although Crimson tried to kill Shaper's cat after. The cat just hopped down and ran away in to the crowd.
They continued to the wyld zone where they heard a woman screaming; on investigating, they found a group of 5 heavily mutated people surrounding a woman lying on the ground. Cue combat, with the woman revealing herself to be a lunar, named Flicker(Shaper's replacement), and helping them kill the deranged mutants. They tried to find a source for the explosion of essence, but didn't succeed.
[b]THIS[/b] session, starting a week after the last one ended, they decided that they should try and find themselves some artifacts. Crimson knew of a tomb to the east of the city, and they found it; turns out it hadn't been opened since probably sometime in the First Age. In the first room, they found several columns with small holes in them, all pointed toward the central path through the room. There were also 4 smaller pillars with orichalcum boxes of varying sizes on them. Each one was trapped, and inside them they found an orichalcum harmonic resonator, a small cache egg, a sorcery-capturing cord, and a pair of essence gliders.
In the next room, the walls were covered in small holes; Prince took the lead, and was blasted with not one, but two barrages of essence. The first one did no damage, the second one did a bit. There was also a coffin, with an orichalcum bust on the top with a face similar to Crimson's on it. Inside, they found the corpse of what was probably his first age incarnation, as well as orichalcum discreet essence armor, an orichalcum sky-cutter, and a book with 4 sorceries in it(3 terrestrial, 1 celestial).
Satisfied with their new loot, they decided to head west, to Lookshy, to see if they could get more loot/gather some allies. They took Prince's ship, and about half-way there were assaulted by a giant lizard thing that Crimson identified as a River Basilisk. Orchid killed it in one second flat by turning in to a giant gazelle-carp hybrid thing and attacking it a few times. They continued sailing, and finally arrived in Lookshy. The session ended with Prince stepping off the ship and seeing the face of the Abyssal he fought shortly after exalting in the crowd ahead of him.[/quote]
I actually liked this session a lot more, since I was improvising shit as they went places instead of trying to nudge them in different directions.
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And as a result I wasn't the least bit upset when they didn't do what I expected.
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;43515351]Oh man, my first session of L5R went excellently. I'll put it in quotes so it takes up less page space.[/QUOTE]
L5R is easily my favorite system, though one problem I've encountered is after about rank 3 or so your armor TN basically doesn't matter anymore because everybody's rolling 10k5 to hit each other. At that point if you don't win initiative you might as well roll up your character sheet and use it as a torch.
Although, several times I've had situations where I've gotten really lucky and won a fight I had no business winning. Got in a duel to the death with one of the top Lion duelists because I slurped tea in front of them. He won assessment, and focus, and then he rolled his 10k5 to hit me, and got a 23. Missed. Then I proceeded to cut him to pieces because my character is a Kenjutsu master.
[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;43516054]slurped tea[/QUOTE]
Dishonorable and disgusting do you even high skills
0/10 would duel
A massive fucking Bloodletter appearing out of no where and getting shot in the head by a sniper, causing his blade to impale him in a tragic two way death. And other reasons why I like only war.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;43516822]Dishonorable and disgusting do you even high skills
0/10 would duel[/QUOTE]
Well, that character is probably doomed now.
We played tonight, and we unraveled a big plot where some Phoenix shugenja summoned an Oni and give it her name and shit. Long story short, we killed the Oni. So afterwards Kitsuki investigators arrive and interrogate everybody about what happened. My friends all lied and said it was a big disease thing. I didn't. Our GM is actually a lawyer IRL, and I have social anxiety. So basically I got manipulated by an actual lawyer into telling him the truth and the Phoenix are saying I'm full of shit. It's not really looking good for me, and I feel bad that I squealed everything to the police.
TL;DR: I told the truth, and now I'm probably going to die for it.
RIP Yoritomo Kazuma, The Mountain that Moves, and Slayer of Oni.
[url]http://i.imgur.com/17pKQdl.jpg[/url]
[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;43516054]L5R is easily my favorite system, though one problem I've encountered is after about rank 3 or so your armor TN basically doesn't matter anymore because everybody's rolling 10k5 to hit each other. At that point if you don't win initiative you might as well roll up your character sheet and use it as a torch.
Although, several times I've had situations where I've gotten really lucky and won a fight I had no business winning. Got in a duel to the death with one of the top Lion duelists because I slurped tea in front of them. He won assessment, and focus, and then he rolled his 10k5 to hit me, and got a 23. Missed. Then I proceeded to cut him to pieces because my character is a Kenjutsu master.[/QUOTE]
Well I'm already rolling 10k6 with my bow at rank 2 :v:
Which is great because I get a free raise to called shots from my school, so my cocky overconfident archer can make cocky overconfident shots
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;43519274]Well I'm already rolling 10k6 with my bow at rank 2 :v:
Which is great because I get a free raise to called shots from my school, so my cocky overconfident archer can make cocky overconfident shots[/QUOTE]
We're doing a Mantis clan game, and back near the beginning we had a Tsuruchi archer. He died when he got into melee with a Daidoji spearman during a mass battle. Poor guy thought we were playing DnD or something. That ain't how shit works in Rokugan, son.
I'm intrigued as to what you said about a lot of fights being decided by who strikes first. Does that mean that characters that specialise in Iajutsu have something of an advantage? I'm not overly familiar with the mechanic but it seems that if you focus on it a fair amount along with Kenjutsu you can really spec yourself to reliably strike first in combat.
One day in the future, I'm going to have two groups in the same universe. They won't be aware of one another directly, however each group will encounter the messes that the other caused and eventually I'd have them encounter each other and host a special session for both groups to interact, trade, roleplay or even fight.
Maybe I'll even host an evil campaign in one group and a good campaign and have them as each othere "Big bad bosses"
Man I wanna play Shadowrun. I've got some of the books for 4th Edition, but haven't gone through them. If anyone familiar with the game decides to run it, pass it along to me. Would love to get into it.
[editline]13th January 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=KnightSolaire;43520419]One day in the future, I'm going to have two groups in the same universe. They won't be aware of one another directly, however each group will encounter the messes that the other caused and eventually I'd have them encounter each other and host a special session for both groups to interact, trade, roleplay or even fight.
Maybe I'll even host an evil campaign in one group and a good campaign and have them as each othere "Big bad bosses"[/QUOTE]
I was in a group like that. Given the story got really shitty about halfway through, but it was a fun couple of years.
[QUOTE=KnightSolaire;43520419]One day in the future, I'm going to have two groups in the same universe. They won't be aware of one another directly, however each group will encounter the messes that the other caused and eventually I'd have them encounter each other and host a special session for both groups to interact, trade, roleplay or even fight.
Maybe I'll even host an evil campaign in one group and a good campaign and have them as each othere "Big bad bosses"[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of Oliolio's idea to run a game within a game type thing. The example he gave, as I recall, was a game of WoD in which they found a computer running a fantasy simulation, Pathfinder, and the WoD players would be able to do stuff on the computer to affect the Pathfinder game.
[QUOTE=KnightSolaire;43520419]One day in the future, I'm going to have two groups in the same universe. They won't be aware of one another directly, however each group will encounter the messes that the other caused and eventually I'd have them encounter each other and host a special session for both groups to interact, trade, roleplay or even fight.
Maybe I'll even host an evil campaign in one group and a good campaign and have them as each othere "Big bad bosses"[/QUOTE]
Would even be more interesting if the two parties thought the other groups were NPC's
and you switched between voice chats saying their actions
So here's the Pathfinder character sheet I've been working on. If anyone wants to take a look at it, and make suggestions on how to better format it/what to add, I'd be appreciative. The sheets are by default protected so that players can only write in specific cells, however, I didn't password protect anything, so you can remove it if you want. I divided the parts they use into the face character sheet and a background sheet for entering equipment and skills. All of the other sheets are there for calculations and tables of information to be references by equations.
[url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76376868/Pathfinder_Character%20Sheet_v0.9.xlsx]Link[/url]
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;43520867]So here's the Pathfinder character sheet I've been working on. If anyone wants to take a look at it, and make suggestions on how to better format it/what to add, I'd be appreciative. The sheets are by default protected so that players can only write in specific cells, however, I didn't password protect anything, so you can remove it if you want. I divided the parts they use into the face character sheet and a background sheet for entering equipment and skills. All of the other sheets are there for calculations and tables of information to be references by equations.
[url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76376868/Pathfinder_Character%20Sheet_v0.9.xlsx]Link[/url][/QUOTE]
The Alignments don't fit correctly
Deity doesn't fit
Race isnt big enough
you need the armor to replace the movement speed, I have full plate but my speed is still 30
[url]http://gyazo.com/ac058b706526ec438394f233287569b0[/url]
not big enough
[editline]13th January 2014[/editline]
I put race as Half-Orc and it's counting me as a Halfing.
[editline]13th January 2014[/editline]
it gave me orcish language but my racial skills are those of a halfling
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