[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;44573848]Speaking as someone that has a copy of the corebook, I would like to go on record by saying you shouldn't even try it ironically - the rules are that fucking bad.[/QUOTE]
My LGS had a game on Halloween (since it's the scariest rpg ever made~), and my god, the stories that came out of it were fantastic. No one took it seriously, and someone penis supplexed a goblin.
I should put some more time into my homebrew at some point
the one with the dicerolled flaws that might be anything from a mild allergy to severe schizophrenia
[QUOTE=Rats808;44584657]So Exalted but with different dice/a better system? :v:[/QUOTE]
No, this is even more epic than Exalted.
Best way to describe it is to say that if D&D is ripping off Lord of the Rings, this is ripping off the Silmarillion. Which, if you've never read it, has a scene where a lone elven hero charges an army of balrogs.
And wins.
[QUOTE=Rats808;44584657]Patience is a virtue. You gotta realize, not everything that happens in a game is going to involve you in some way, so sometimes you just need to kick back and enjoy watching the other characters do things.
I mean hell WW realized this and suggested letting players who aren't involved directly in a scene control random people in it so they can still do something and influence how things are going to go. Homestuck isn't really a setting where that works, though, unless you start befriending Imps or [b]your GM decides that your sprite is player-controlled.[/b][/QUOTE]
I am 100% in favor of this idea. Calling dibs on playing Mr. Breakfast.
[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;44583856]this legit owns tbh
y'know, I've always wanted to play one of these White Wolf games and just be as mundane and regular as I could. like just instead of being a brooding whiney vampire I'd be like 'eh whatever let's go grab a literal bloody mary and shoot the shit' or instead of a ~mysterious~ loner werewolf I'd just be that friendly subdued dude who transforms into a weiner dog[/QUOTE]
Mundane characters in strange settings can be hilarious.
[editline]18th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44584867]No, this is even more epic than Exalted.
Best way to describe it is to say that if D&D is ripping off Lord of the Rings, this is ripping off the Silmarillion. Which, if you've never read it, has a scene where a lone elven hero charges an army of balrogs.
And wins.
I am 100% in favor of this idea. Calling dibs on playing Mr. Breakfast.[/QUOTE]
I was thinking about that, we'll test it next game?
[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;44585020]Mundane characters in strange settings can be hilarious.
[editline]18th April 2014[/editline]
I was thinking about that, we'll test it next game?[/QUOTE]
Hell yes, I get to play erratic birdTV, this is the best idea.
[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;44583856]this legit owns tbh
y'know, I've always wanted to play one of these White Wolf games and just be as mundane and regular as I could. like just instead of being a brooding whiney vampire I'd be like 'eh whatever let's go grab a literal bloody mary and shoot the shit' or instead of a ~mysterious~ loner werewolf I'd just be that friendly subdued dude who transforms into a weiner dog[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure that's what they intend for you to go for in the games, anyways. Or at least, based on VtR: Blood and Smoke, in which the only explicit rules are 'don't be an asshole and don't make it obvious that you're a vampire', and everything else is fair game unless someone has a personal issue with it, afaik.
Or, at least, that's what I've taken from the rules/setting info.
[QUOTE=Rats808;44584657]Patience is a virtue. You gotta realize, not everything that happens in a game is going to involve you in some way, so sometimes you just need to kick back and enjoy watching the other characters do things.
I mean hell WW realized this and suggested letting players who aren't involved directly in a scene control random people in it so they can still do something and influence how things are going to go. Homestuck isn't really a setting where that works, though, unless you start befriending Imps or your GM decides that your sprite is player-controlled.[/QUOTE]
That's what I'm saying, Homestuck just doesn't really work as a setting, unless you majorly change the lore.
Plus, I was sorta trapped into being in the game, because I really wanted to join it when it was still a mystery game and all I heard was "be anything you want" and I was a 22 year old drug dealer.
And then some people got really mad at me for roleplaying a 22 year old drug dealer who had no clue what was going on, when they all did.
Plus, I would've fucking loved to RP as Mr. Breakfast.
So I'm looking through my spell list for my summoner for pathfinder since I have nothing better to do right now so I'm just tweaking out of boredom
and I just realized that both Haste and Slow can affect 1 target/level, when I'd assumed they were single-target before
So now there is the hilarious potential to make the whole party go bullet time all the time, since I can get the whole party plus my eidolon plus up to 3 extra allies if the two primary casters summon anything, and since it's only a 2nd level spell I get 6 of them a day
This ought to be fun
you know what'd be funner
making everyone go slow
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;44585453]you know what'd be funner
making everyone go slow[/QUOTE]
But then they'd just make their will saves
also they'd kill me
[B]Let it be a lesson to all:[/B] Wary be the GM that allows the [I]crafty[/I] Druid with Hydra companion to use the Titanic template.
[IMG]http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/daily/rc/rc256_hydra.jpg[/IMG]
[B]Pictured:[/B] The results.
[B]Not Pictured:[/B] The additional 19 heads.
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;44585498]But then they'd just make their will saves
also they'd kill me[/QUOTE]
but slow as sure wins the race
they'd have twice as long to think about things
[QUOTE=MeltingData;44585156]Hell yes, I get to play erratic birdTV, this is the best idea.[/QUOTE]
That damn TV-Raven.
[editline]19th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;44584356]Apparantly there are a lot of lame people on the Pillar of Eternity forums who like Wizards and hate Sorcerors, these people are lame and foolish.[/QUOTE]
Preach sister.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44584867]No, this is even more epic than Exalted.
Best way to describe it is to say that if D&D is ripping off Lord of the Rings, this is ripping off the Silmarillion. Which, if you've never read it, has a scene where a lone elven hero charges an army of balrogs.
And wins.[/QUOTE]
that's pretty normal exalted stuff
but then afterwards a lone ~evil~ hero attacks the elf guy and then they fight each other for a couple hours not doing any damage because both sides keep spamming perfect defenses.
In Exalted you can literally become a physical embodiment of your own ideals and shit, and then make a world inside your own soul that is created [i]entirely[/i] by you.
An example of what I mean is a being called the Principal of Hierarchy's physical embodiment being a massive crystal sphere surrounded by 997 smaller crystal spheres each of which is also orbitted by 1000 smaller crystal spheres, each sphere whispering her name(you die if you know it) and representing a concept of some sort. There's 3 of the middle ones missing because someone pissed her off and she smashed the concepts in to literally no longer existing. She doesn't have the world within her soul thing, technically, because she's part of hell, but still.
[editline]19th April 2014[/editline]
And that's a canon thing that exists within the setting, what I was referring to in the first sentence is the fact that, in second edition, a player can become their own even better version of the things that created everything.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;44573332][img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/tick.png[/img]Agree for 3.5
[img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/cross.png[/img]Disagree for Pathfinder
[img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/information.png[/img]Informative for a system I've never run before.[/QUOTE]
Now, I don't know if I'm late or not but I had to throw in an obligatory recommendation/suggestion for Dungeons the Dragoning: 40,000: 7th Edition.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44583271]So is the Homestuck game happening tonight? or did I somehow miss the memo that it was cancelled?
Edit:
Yes, it was cancelled. I swear this is the only game I've ever played where the GM was the obligatory flaky player. So I got all RPG-time hyped for nothing. Bummer.[/QUOTE]
Sorry man, I'm on vacation this weekend, I can pop on steam or FP every now and then, but I dont have enough time for a full on game, things'll be back to normal next week.
[QUOTE=imadaman;44587655]Now, I don't know if I'm late or not but I had to throw in an obligatory recommendation/suggestion for Dungeons the Dragoning: 40,000: 7th Edition.[/QUOTE]
Dear lord what is this nonsense.
[editline]19th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;44587679]Sorry man, I'm on vacation this weekend, I can pop on steam or FP every now and then, but I dont have enough time for a full on game, things'll be back to normal next week.[/QUOTE]
It's fine dwarfy. It's not the first time I've had a game just stop out of nowhere, and it certainly won't be the last. Just comes with the territory. I know you put work into the game to begin with, so there's that.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;44588042]Dear lord what is this nonsense.[/QUOTE]
"Nonsense"
Poppycocks.
[quote]For ten thousand years, the Lady of Pain has silently ruled
the city of Sigil, master of the hub of the Portal network
despite the petty wars of the gods. The city of Sigil is the
largest metropolis in the Astral Sea, untold millions
making sacrifices to sustain it and ensure the continued
survival of their people in the face of a hostile multiverse.
From hundreds of Crystal Spheres, teeming with the Clue-
less and monsters, refugees and oppressors alike come to
find their place in a larger galaxy, to find treasure fame
and fortune amongst the planes. Beset on all sides by foes
of such malice it would sear a man's soul to know but a
fraction of their blasphemies, only the strongest and most
ruthless survive. Foes from within and without seek to
overthrow the Lady's rule, throwing themselves on the
Throne of Blades in vain efforts to destroy in a moment
the eons of her rule. The Great Devourer comes from the Far
Realm beyond the Astral Sea, driven to consume all before
it and Ork savages surge from their barbaric empires to
pillage and slaughter. The vengeful Eldarin cite prophetic
visions as they raid and destroy even their own cousins,
and an ancient evil arises from tombs sealed at the dawn
of creation.
In the grim darkness of the great wheel, there is only war.[/quote]
[quote]Welcome, friends. You hold in your
hands a roleplaying game, one that asks you a
very important question. Is a man not entitled
to the grandest of adventure? 'No!' says the
man with the neckbeard, 'it would be unbal-
anced.' 'No!' says the man in the high heels, 'it
wouldn't be deep enough.' 'No!' says the man
on the internet 'the new edition ruins every-
thing forever.' I rejected those answers; in-
stead, I chose something different. I chose the
impossible. I chose... DUNGEONS THE
DRAGONING, a game where the fighter
would not fear the wizard, where the cleric
would not be nerfed, where the great would
not be constrained by the small! And with the
roll of your dice, DUNGEONS THE DRAG-
ONING can be your game as well.[/quote]
Book 1.6: [url]http://www.mediafire.com/view/?vf8yb6hxtz0dcst[/url]
Book 2.2: [url]http://www.mediafire.com/view/?67z5c3x2qllxlfu[/url]
[editline]20th April 2014[/editline]
The description of Prometheans: "Each Promethean is a device created to bring about a change, machines built to bring freedom, men created to save the Great Wheel. They are typically revered by their creators, icons, perfect men, unbeatable machines, designed to destroy every evil standing between their people and freedom."
Among other awesome things.
DtD: 40,000 7e is the best roleplaying system under the sun
also i found [url="http://www.nbos.com/nox/index.php?action=1001&id=240"]this[/url] and it owns, I used it to make this:
[img]http://puu.sh/8fCX0.png[/img]
(not the full thing) (also a sneak peek at something I've been workin' on for a while!)
[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;44592461]DtD: 40,000 7e is the best roleplaying system under the sun
also i found [url="http://www.nbos.com/nox/index.php?action=1001&id=240"]this[/url] and it owns, I used it to make this:
[img]http://puu.sh/8fCX0.png[/img]
(not the full thing) (also a sneak peek at something I've been workin' on for a while!)[/QUOTE]
The disco in me cannot be contained, another excel sheet for me to make.
[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;44592461]DtD: 40,000 7e is the best roleplaying system under the sun
also i found [url="http://www.nbos.com/nox/index.php?action=1001&id=240"]this[/url] and it owns, I used it to make this:
[img]http://puu.sh/8fCX0.png[/img]
(not the full thing) (also a sneak peek at something I've been workin' on for a while!)[/QUOTE]
This program is hella useful. I used it to make a nice Magical Burst character sheet in an hour or two, it works like a charm. I'd post it, but it's 4 pages.
My only complaint with the thing is that there's no zoom function.
[QUOTE=cdr248;44593000]The disco in me cannot be contained, another excel sheet for me to make.[/QUOTE]
Beg your pardon?
If you guys are looking for a game like Pathfinder but way more balanced from the get go and also more focused toward actual roleplaying, look into the 13th Age.
It's pretty much what 4.0 should've been, instead of being a miniatures game.
It's the next actual [i]evolution[/i] of D&D, whereas Pathfinder was more of a mutation.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44594528]If you guys are looking for a game like Pathfinder but way more balanced from the get go and also more focused toward actual roleplaying, look into the 13th Age.
It's pretty much what 4.0 should've been, instead of being a miniatures game.
It's the next actual [i]evolution[/i] of D&D, whereas Pathfinder was more of a mutation.[/QUOTE]
It's more like an evolution of Dungeon World, really.
[QUOTE=Vengeful Falcon;44582752]Tonight on Eclipse Phase
[video=youtube;B25hh4ii4Rs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B25hh4ii4Rs#t=62[/video]
Take away the meteors and add even more explosions.[/QUOTE]
Are you me
My last session was basically this, but Sandra Bullock is being chased by a bunch of communist chinese space soldiers and is having a fist fight with a martial artist as two intelligent dogs that were trying to put on space suits are experiencing first hand unprotected exposure to vacuum. The piece of debris the party was trapped in was spinning constantly and they had to make constant free fall checks to not only fight, but also make sure they weren't ejected.
[editline]20th April 2014[/editline]
So far the campaign's taken place almost entirely in Lunar orbit, so I've been asking for a lot of freefall checks :v:
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;44593345]Beg your pardon?[/QUOTE]
I like taking pdf character sheets and making a far superior excel one instead of playing the game
[QUOTE=cdr248;44596425]I like taking pdf character sheets and making a far superior excel one instead of playing the game[/QUOTE]
Oh, I thought you meant me.
our Rogue Trader game is becoming more and more Paranoia with every passing day
so far, everyone has some kind of scheme to screw someone over
If we managed to get through the next session or two without having half the party die I'll consider it a win
Speaking of which does anyone have a log of a Paranoia game they've played? I am interested to see how that goes.
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