correction, it's what happens in parodies and exaggerated animes.
Speaking of what happens in animus, is there a system that's close to balls-out wacky action like Hellsing? Closest I can think of is Exalted, but unless you homebrew enough, the default setting is ugh.
[QUOTE=gufu;44411938]Speaking of what happens in animus, is there a system that's close to balls-out wacky action like Hellsing? Closest I can think of is Exalted, but unless you homebrew enough, the default setting is ugh.[/QUOTE]
I think for Hellsing or any over-the-top anime you would have to take a game that could work with an urban fantasy setting (for Hellsing in this case) and then take it's wackiness up ten-notches by going light on rules or doing more narrative things than being strict with mechanics.
To actually answer the question: World of Darkness, maybe? Maybe a Savage Worlds of GURPS setting can make it feasible if you don't want to use Exalted.
Thing is, I am looking for something to accommodate Action-Anime feel rather than just vampires with guns.
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;44411799]it's an anime game
that's what happens in animes[/QUOTE]
And Avatar: the Last Airbender. Unfortunately, Samurai Jack never had a beach episode, as far as I know.
[editline]31st March 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=gufu;44412026]Thing is, I am looking for something to accommodate Action-Anime feel rather than just vampires with guns.[/QUOTE]
Mutants & Masterminds with Mecha and Miko rules suppliment
[QUOTE=gufu;44412026]Thing is, I am looking for something to accommodate Action-Anime feel rather than just vampires with guns.[/QUOTE]
there are some but they're almost universally crap
like the naruto game i'm playing
-woops its over, sorry~ -
[QUOTE=MeltingData;44412342]Eh, none of them are lolis. We may be weird, but we're not [I]that[/I] weird.
Also why is this the only log that actually raised this debate, pfft.
The last one had like mutant dogdick demons and other such atrocities, but as soon as it gets to the beach it goes over the top?[/QUOTE]
the most likely cause is that absolutely no one ever actually read them
between the grappling, the archery trickshots, the murder mystery subplots and the sake our l5r game has been going pretty anime
[QUOTE=Intense Funkid;44409480]So i'm curious, I see everyone playing all these systems and whatnot from warhammer and space adventures that i don't even know. are the dnd editions, yknow 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 just out of date to you guys? boring? or you think its awesome to be space pirates?[/QUOTE]
I personally don't play DnD as I'd rather use a single die type, mechanics that don't frighten me and not be overwhelmed by the amount of splatbooks and powergaming that seems to be present in every DnD/Pathfinder discussion I've seen in my 6 years of Roleplaying. I prefer the 40k RP system and World of Darkness as it allows for stories about people doing stuff and not optimised mages because fighters suck. If I want to play fantasy, I tend to end up playing WFRP 2E and dying in the second session while my small but vicious dog makes a run for it.
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;44412419]between the grappling, the archery trickshots, the murder mystery subplots and the sake our l5r game has been going pretty anime[/QUOTE]
It's set in japan, doesnt that automatically mean it's anime? /c
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44412665]It's set in japan, doesnt that automatically mean it's anime? /c[/QUOTE]
[I]ROKUGAN NOT JAPAN[/I]
Fuuuuck! I hate not having more free time. I can only run one game a week, but there's tons of you looking and I have tons of ideas for great games. :C
I'm excited for this weekend though, my players continue the dungeon crawl through a bunch of wrecked ships and find personalized magical loot.
[QUOTE=gufu;44411938]Speaking of what happens in animus, is there a system that's close to balls-out wacky action like Hellsing? Closest I can think of is Exalted, but unless you homebrew enough, the default setting is ugh.[/QUOTE]
I don't know shit about Hellsing 'cause I never watched a minute of anime in my life but if you want a good anime kinda setting check out [i]Double Cross[/i]
it's balls to the wall
hearing good stuff about uh... [i]Tenra Bansho Zero[/i], too - basically the development process was the writer looking at the generic western fantasy RPGs that were being released in Japan and going "fuck that shit we need something based on our own stuff"
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;44413839][url=http://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:KALI_MAAAAA.JPG]GURPS[/url][/QUOTE]
We should adapt these rules to cyberpunk so I can cut myself open and pull bombs out of my chest cavity more often
Something's wrong when Eclipse Phase, a game where you deal with dense concepts like transhumanism, post-scarcity economies, reputation networks, mind uploading, and all that other jazz has an easier to understand system than Shadowrun.
I won't deny Shadowrun 5th is an enormous improvement over any of the prior editions. But good god does some of the stuff make my head spin (namely, drone rigging, vehicle rules, critter special abilities, and magic). ESPECIALLY drone rigging and vehicle rules.
[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;44416329]Something's wrong when Eclipse Phase, a game where you deal with dense concepts like transhumanism, post-scarcity economies, reputation networks, mind uploading, and all that other jazz has an easier to understand system than Shadowrun.
I won't deny Shadowrun 5th is an enormous improvement over any of the prior editions. But good god does some of the stuff make my head spin (namely, drone rigging, vehicle rules, critter special abilities, and magic). ESPECIALLY drone rigging and vehicle rules.[/QUOTE]
Percentile dice are best dice
Systems with dice pools and success rates and all that stuff are just... more complicated and hard to understand. Probably why I like the 40k systems and Traveller so much, since they basically just say: roll 1d100 or 2d6, put some modifiers, find results
the amount of actual math and number crunching while you're playing is simple though, so it goes quickly
not that complicated systems are really bad, but I tend to feel that I have more fun in games where the crunch is fast and snappy (Especially in combat) are easier to play since if you've only got to make one quick check, you can more easily fluff your actions instead of having to just do calculations
honestly just trying to figure out Shadowrun's crunch makes my head hurt, and that's after having mostly figured out frikkin exalted (which still exists in a special kind of rule-based hell)
like it seems like it might be easier once you get used to it but just from how it's explained it sounds hard
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;44410193]Still running an Only War game with the players vs orks at the moment and I think they players are having far too much success so far. The party likes to drive everywhere in their heavily armored tank with a mounted inferno cannon on the roof (which can turn rockcrete walls to slag), and when that doesn't work, they send the "beefy-as-fuck" ogryn out to wreck everything left standing with his bare hands (which can, incidentally, peel apart tanks like The Hulk). Suggestions for maximizing player misery?
[U]Things I've tried so far:[/U]
- Orks with rokkit launchers (Run over)
- Nobs with rokkit launchers (Thrown off cliff by Ogryn)
- Rokkit Trukks (Pushed off of same cliff onto aforementioned Nobs)
- Minefield (Dealt some minor damage, but some incredible rolls led to them '[I]Tokyo-drifting[/I]' through the remainder of it)
- Orkish '[I]Train o' Doom[/I]' Battletrain (Rear cannon-carriages decoupled and derailed, caboose and engine pursued by tank on elevated rail system before something like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81LeooTiKI0&feature=player_detailpage#t=60]this[/url] happened to the train)
- Looted Valkyrie '[I]Fighta/Bomba[/I]' (Led to high-speed chase through metropolitan area before they escaped into the subway system - Somewhat effective)
- Killa Kans (Punted like a football via tank going at "[I]...standard rammin' speed.[/I]")
Save me from my players. They are insane and they read this thread.[/QUOTE]
Promote the Commissar. He sounds like a standup guy.
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;44410193]Still running an Only War game with the players vs orks at the moment and I think they players are having far too much success so far. The party likes to drive everywhere in their heavily armored tank with a mounted inferno cannon on the roof (which can turn rockcrete walls to slag), and when that doesn't work, they send the "beefy-as-fuck" ogryn out to wreck everything left standing with his bare hands (which can, incidentally, peel apart tanks like The Hulk). Suggestions for maximizing player misery?
[U]Things I've tried so far:[/U]
- Orks with rokkit launchers (Run over)
- Nobs with rokkit launchers (Thrown off cliff by Ogryn)
- Rokkit Trukks (Pushed off of same cliff onto aforementioned Nobs)
- Minefield (Dealt some minor damage, but some incredible rolls led to them '[I]Tokyo-drifting[/I]' through the remainder of it)
- Orkish '[I]Train o' Doom[/I]' Battletrain (Rear cannon-carriages decoupled and derailed, caboose and engine pursued by tank on elevated rail system before something like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81LeooTiKI0&feature=player_detailpage#t=60]this[/url] happened to the train)
- Looted Valkyrie '[I]Fighta/Bomba[/I]' (Led to high-speed chase through metropolitan area before they escaped into the subway system - Somewhat effective)
- Killa Kans (Punted like a football via tank going at "[I]...standard rammin' speed.[/I]")
Save me from my players. They are insane and they read this thread.[/QUOTE]
Orks with rokkit launchas... [I]ON A ROOFTOP[/I]
Alternatively a whole army of ork trukks with deffrollas and wrecking balls hell-bent on 'avin a roit an' proppa destrukshun derby wit dat ded killy 'umie tank
[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;44416329]Something's wrong when Eclipse Phase, a game where you deal with dense concepts like transhumanism, post-scarcity economies, reputation networks, mind uploading, and all that other jazz has an easier to understand system than Shadowrun.
I won't deny Shadowrun 5th is an enormous improvement over any of the prior editions. But good god does some of the stuff make my head spin (namely, drone rigging, vehicle rules, critter special abilities, and magic). ESPECIALLY drone rigging and vehicle rules.[/QUOTE]
Magic is really one of the simplest systems in the game.
Casting a spell is generally a much simpler process than shooting someone. Rigging is terrible though.
[editline]1st April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;44417221]Percentile dice are best dice
Systems with dice pools and success rates and all that stuff are just... more complicated and hard to understand. Probably why I like the 40k systems and Traveller so much, since they basically just say: roll 1d100 or 2d6, put some modifiers, find results
the amount of actual math and number crunching while you're playing is simple though, so it goes quickly
not that complicated systems are really bad, but I tend to feel that I have more fun in games where the crunch is fast and snappy (Especially in combat) are easier to play since if you've only got to make one quick check, you can more easily fluff your actions instead of having to just do calculations
honestly just trying to figure out Shadowrun's crunch makes my head hurt, and that's after having mostly figured out frikkin exalted (which still exists in a special kind of rule-based hell)
like it seems like it might be easier once you get used to it but just from how it's explained it sounds hard[/QUOTE]
Percentile dice are not inherently better than dice pools. The only advantage they have is that it takes about a second longer to read 10-20 dice as opposed to only about two.
Shadowrun's system is very simple at it's core, almost all rolls are done by taking your rank in a skill, combining it with your rank the relevant attribute, and then rolling the combined amount of dice.
The problem comes from the absolutely ridiculous amount of modifiers that apply to every roll, especially in combat.
I'm pretty sure we've tunnelled into the negative space zone in Exalted
because we've split the party and the game has actually gotten better
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;44425654]I'm pretty sure we've tunnelled into the negative space zone in Exalted
because we've split the party and the game has actually gotten better[/QUOTE]
(Mostly because in our usual sessions we have 6 players, and right now I'm doing a week of smaller session-y things with the group split in to 3 groups of 2, and in these smaller groups there's actual [I]roleplaying[/I] going on.)
A++ dnd session, group went to a town and two of the members rolled charisma checks to literally get babes at a brothel and basically got laid. being a DM is pretty fun :v
[editline]1st April 2014[/editline]
worst (best) part was i basically roleplayed the swooning whores :v
[QUOTE=Intense Funkid;44426100]A++ dnd session, group went to a town and two of the members rolled charisma checks to literally get babes at a brothel and basically got laid. being a DM is pretty fun :v
[editline]1st April 2014[/editline]
worst (best) part was i basically roleplayed the swooning whores :v[/QUOTE]
the last time I RPed a hooker as GM they ended up also being glamoured aberrations
that was a hilarious reveal
bricks were mightily shat
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;44410193]Still running an Only War game with the players vs orks at the moment and I think they players are having far too much success so far. The party likes to drive everywhere in their heavily armored tank with a mounted inferno cannon on the roof (which can turn rockcrete walls to slag), and when that doesn't work, they send the "beefy-as-fuck" ogryn out to wreck everything left standing with his bare hands (which can, incidentally, peel apart tanks like The Hulk). Suggestions for maximizing player misery?
[U]Things I've tried so far:[/U]
- Orks with rokkit launchers (Run over)
- Nobs with rokkit launchers (Thrown off cliff by Ogryn)
- Rokkit Trukks (Pushed off of same cliff onto aforementioned Nobs)
- Minefield (Dealt some minor damage, but some incredible rolls led to them '[I]Tokyo-drifting[/I]' through the remainder of it)
- Orkish '[I]Train o' Doom[/I]' Battletrain (Rear cannon-carriages decoupled and derailed, caboose and engine pursued by tank on elevated rail system before something like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81LeooTiKI0&feature=player_detailpage#t=60]this[/url] happened to the train)
- Looted Valkyrie '[I]Fighta/Bomba[/I]' (Led to high-speed chase through metropolitan area before they escaped into the subway system - Somewhat effective)
- Killa Kans (Punted like a football via tank going at "[I]...standard rammin' speed.[/I]")
Save me from my players. They are insane and they read this thread.[/QUOTE]
Just Kans? Give em a roight propa Dred Mob to fight! Stompas and Bigga Meks, Dreds, Grot Tanks, the fun stuff.
[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;44426430]Just Kans? Give em a roight propa Dred Mob to fight! Stompas and Bigga Meks, Dreds, Grot Tanks, the fun stuff.[/QUOTE]
dunno if I can parry a stompa...
[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;44426430]Just Kans? Give em a roight propa Dred Mob to fight! Stompas and Bigga Meks, Dreds, Grot Tanks, the fun stuff.[/QUOTE]
Alternatively, Nobs on bikes with Klaws! That should ruin the players' day roit and proppa
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;44426140]the last time I RPed a hooker as GM they ended up also being glamoured aberrations
that was a hilarious reveal
bricks were mightily shat[/QUOTE]
I mean also to add to the humor i actually had made a chart for whore prices. The bard of the group was like "i go off and play my instrument for the girls i shmoozed" and he got a 22 on his preform check and he was literally surrounded by babes. (just remember not all whores get to see handsome young men :V )
Has anyone here ever watched the movie "Krull?"
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