[QUOTE=Redswandir;46076407]how did I never know about this, I gotta get it[/QUOTE]
It only has one supplement unfortunately. It's called Shadow Knight, and it gives some more details on stuff from the 2nd Chronicles of Amber, when Merlin narrates. More was planned, but shit happened with the self-publishing and then Roger Zelazny died, and then Erick Wujcik, the guy who wrote the RPG, ended up dying as well and that's all there was.
Which I guess is sort of why Lords of Gossamer and Shadow (which is on sale for 30% off on DrivethruRPG by the way) exists at all.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;46075915]I didn't wanna talk about this, but being fun and silly is good, but some people cross that line, and stop respecting the game and the gamemaster and just start treating it as "do whatever you think would be funniest".
Just my take on it.[/QUOTE]
There's a time to be serious and all, but all the time is too much to ask unless you really hate anything exciting happening ever. Trust me, I DM'd for a group that had one of those guys, he was the super serious play the game like an MMORPG paladin. His character was a halfling male named Zelda, carried a trident and tried to argue with me that the trident immobilized any enemy he hit with it 100% of the time until he decided otherwise. Bitch, the trident doesn't do that, if you're going to try and be a rule stickler, fucking actually read the rule book at some point in your pathetic life.
So exalted was a success, not as much collateral damage as first session though.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;46077593]So exalted was a success, [B]not as much collateral damage[/B] as first session though.[/QUOTE]
You call that a [I]success?[/I]
[QUOTE=dai;46074487]I saw rents's avatar looking nervously at funkid's title and thought I was in a different thread
mine/dalndox's game is hitting rough seas as we continue to suffer from people's flakey schedules and it's worrying me a bit. We still have more people than the campaign was designed for anyways
> the hunter's car died and he's apparently out shopping saturday (our normal day) for a replacement
> Our bard, Eric von Clapton, would be unable to make it if we do it on sunday, and he missed session #2 already.
> we've got one guy who's missed the first two sessions (over the course of three weeks because too few people could make the second one and we skipped), and I haven't seen whether he's MIA this week or not. He also crashes at my place because he's friends with my friend who stays here and they play games all night. I don't hear about whether he's crashing til he's already being driven over.[/QUOTE]
As long as we have four people, the show will go on.
Whether or not that results in a TPK on your guys' part is up to the dice. :v:
Also, that shit with him staying at your house for days on end needs to stop like... ASAP. For your guys' sake. Boundaries, yo.
Speaking of dice-less RPGs, I remember running across a system on 1d4chan that is based upon players drawing cards from a deck, and playing them to take control of the story: You always kept your hand till you played all of the cards, so you needed to specifically choose which particular cards you wanted to play and when, which includes failures. Can't find it right now, but it's up there.
Also, I am working on a Homebrew Post(?)-Cyberpunk game where you play Mercs in MGR-like environment. Cue heavy autism over weaponry and transhumanism.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;46075915]I didn't wanna talk about this, but being fun and silly is good, but some people cross that line, and stop respecting the game and the gamemaster and just start treating it as "do whatever you think would be funniest".
Just my take on it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, and you've crossed that line pretty fucking hard.
RIP Hurricane, never forget.
Some say Hurricane still roams the Mediterranean, wall running up boats and boarding them wherever he finds subtlety, to blow people's cover and punch out anyone who knows how to operate the boat.
[QUOTE=Aperture fan;46077866]You call that a [I]success?[/I][/QUOTE]
We've been doing our best not to kill people
Beating up a half dozen soldiers, thrashing my nemesis to within an inch of her life with my finishing move, nearly leveling a restaraunt and leaving one guy paralyzed and another neutered is pretty light on collateral
Unlike our first fight where we knocked down a giant landmark, we left this place relatively un-destroyed
Went to Pathfinder Society Organized Play yesterday. Met That Guy in the form of a perpetually hyper, passive-aggressive, socially inept seventeen year old scrawny child. Things he did include:
-Threatening one of the most powerful men in a large town by threatening to cut off his cock and called him an ugly bastard. Reason for doing so: "I'm bored irl."
-Made extremely cringe-worthy and unfunny jokes, constantly interrupts the GM, talks about how he loves berating his sister for her "garbage" artwork
-Decided to eat sand. Got upset when the GM ruled his character is sickened for eating two mouthfuls of sand. Reason: "I thought it would be funny."
-Almost set fire to an ancient library full of precious scrolls, which would have hurt us, story-wise and prestige points wise. Did not do so because the other fighter blocked his path. Reason for doing so: "My character hates reading."
-Sexually harassed my character, a female human investigator (one of the new hybrid classes, rogue/alchemist) and suggested I play her in a more slutty manner. Reason: "Why else would you play a girl?"
-Activated the blatantly obvious trap, almost killing the entire party since he activated it BEFORE the cleric could heal us after a major combat. Reason: "I'm board."
-Faked being a priest, "blessed" some water, threw it at a ghost. Got very upset when it did not work and the ghost slew him. Reason: "I thought it would be funny/my guy worships the god of magic, this SHOULD have worked."
Other than that? Had a blast. Rest of the party was awesome and the GM had god-like patience for the kid.
In tomorrows Dark Heresy session, the team will likely be investigating the crashing of a small space ship into a Hive Spire, and answer the real important questions of whodunnit and why. The 9/11 hype is real!
[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;46080515]
-Sexually harassed my character, a female human investigator (one of the new hybrid classes, rogue/alchemist) and suggested I play her in a more slutty manner. Reason: "Why else would you play a girl?"
[/QUOTE]
If I were GM he'd be banned from future games. Not just for this, but holy shit how awful can you be?
Oh man I played a couple sessions of D&D with a couple friends about 2 years ago, shit was pretty cool, even if we didn't get too far.
Eventually, due to lack of proper organization and because we didn't really like the GM, things got really sloppy, people stopped coming and we called it a day. I still have the facebook group, which now I realized everyone but me and another guy left.
I wished I could play it again some time.
Well the best way to get a game going HERE is to offer to GM, otherwise you should go check out local game shops, a lot of them have meetups for gaming groups.
I realised I should probably sum up my Exalted game so far, so here's the first entry on the chat log
[quote]Announcer-san: The year is 2012, and our story begins in Knoxville, Tennessee! Located deep in the american heartland!
Founded in 1792, the city celebrated its 100 year birthday by hosting none other than the World's Fair, the golden globe of which stands to this day!
And on this day in which it stands, four new arrivals to the town have been told to meet! Their fates are inextricably linked, each having been invited for their own purposes!
And the first words uttered of the most unlikely of adventures was...!
Yui Daichi: ...this is not entirely what I was expecting.
Announcer-san: Something that will be said many times in the future!
EXALTEDO MODERNO
-lightning strike-
Announcer-san: Part 1! HELLRAISERS
[/quote]
Our party is:
Guy Fabulous: A Solar playboy millionaire. The only thing more powerful than his skills with a gun are his wit, charm and chiselled good looks.
Yui Daichi: A Japanese Catgirl Lunar. On a quest to avenge the death of her Mentor, the Dalai Lama Guru Chodak. Chodak was a white tiger that knew kung fu.
Trexh: An Alchemical Robot Paladin with a gigantic extendable lance. On a quest to find out his past.
Barry: An infernal with a magic staff on a quest to take out the illuminati. Really good at hitting people with said staff
Writing up a more complete summary now
[QUOTE=Chronische;46081061]Well the best way to get a game going HERE is to offer to GM, otherwise you should go check out local game shops, a lot of them have meetups for gaming groups.[/QUOTE]
Not sure if any of you would bother taking a plane here just for a game anyway. Or can you play online? I don't know much about it.
Kinda sucks, the few more nerdy groups around here that play this kind of thing are in general composed by assholes.
[QUOTE=Broryt;46081110]Not sure if any of you would bother taking a plane here just for a game anyway. Or can you play online? I don't know much about it.
Kinda sucks, the few more nerdy groups around here that play this kind of thing are in general composed by assholes.[/QUOTE]
A lot of the games in this thread are played online, so it's definitely possible. I suggest checking out roll20.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;46081114]A lot of the games in this thread are played online, so it's definitely possible. I suggest checking out roll20.[/QUOTE]
Cool, I will, thanks
[QUOTE=Stren;46079560]Some say Hurricane still roams the Mediterranean, wall running up boats and boarding them wherever he finds subtlety, to blow people's cover and punch out anyone who knows how to operate the boat.[/QUOTE]
Others say that he was brutally murdered by a team of shadowrunners because he was about to get them all torpedo'd to shit, while being incapable of understanding how that's a bad thing.
I am going to do a bad thing and attempt making a cyberwared-up adept for Shadowrun (since even with all my firepower and armor I don't trust these dice not to kill me in the future so having a backup on hand will be nice)
Fortunately the Burnout path is pretty decent, especially to start, and in theory since you can keep increasing your magic even if you spend your essence, so it'll be interesting to try at very least
Also probably going to make a literal samurai, like using a katana and a bow and all that
This ought to be fun
[QUOTE=elowin;46081233]Others say that he was brutally murdered by a team of shadowrunners because he was about to get them all torpedo'd to shit, while being incapable of understanding how that's a bad thing.[/QUOTE]
Hey, I was trying to get the group more money!
...it just so happened that my plan to get more money involved blackmailing the johnson and being a lunatic... I never said it was a good plan!
Thing is I wasn't doing it to be funny, and then a certain other party member decided to kill me after I had surrendered, which is why I left.
Session 1 of exalted went like this. Still typing up Session 2.
[quote]So the exalts are lured to Knoxville to meet under the Golden Globe for various reasons, and there they're met by a blind infernal seer called Eye Scream Jo (A reference to Icecream Joe, a much beloved NPC from a previous game). Jo reveals that she can offer each of them what they desire in exchange for dealing with an inconvenient problem on behalf of her employers.
As it turns out various infamous figures throughout history have come back to life and are causing havoc all over the world. Gilles de Rais is slicing up people in Paris, Montezuma is sacrificing hearts in Mexico City, Ned Kelly has been robbing banks in Australia and Josef Stalin has raised an army in Volgograd. The party has been asked to hunt down and kill each of them, refusal will result in them being sent to Guantanamo Bay (The other one, not the prison every hears about. That seems nice in comparison.)
Before Jo can elaborate further the meeting is crashed by two NATO enforcers - Israel Williams is a well dressed special agent from the US Federal Special Operations Division, and informs them they are all under arrest - an attempt to leave has him swing his cuff links (connected to his sleeves with monofilament wire). His partner, Huey Driscoll, provides back up in the attack helicopter MEAN MACHINE.
Obviously as they do not wish to be arrested the party decides to stay put and fight. Yui starts by jumping up onto the helicopter and tearing into it with her claws while the party members on the ground take on Israel. Israel clearly wasn't expecting them to be as powerful as they were as he gets pummeled pretty easily, culiminating with him getting shot by Guy Fabulous (his vest fortunately prevents him from being killed). Highlights of the fight include:
* Israel cutting a bullet in half with his monofilament wire
* Yui punching clean through a windshield
* Yui tearing up the helicopter's engine
* Barry propelling himself through the air to smack Israel around with his staff
* Israel firing a bolt of razor-sharp wind at Texh
* Texh taking it like a champ
* Huey firing a missile at the party, which misses and strikes the golden globe
* "Guy Fabulous spins the gun around and juggles it from one hand to the other and throws it over his leg and bounces it around like a hacky-sack before grabbing the revolver and and winking through his Starglasses at Huey. Sparkles accommodate the whole show
Huey Driscoll: ...you're kidding, right?
Guy Fabulous fires the bullets into the cockpit at an angle so they ricochet into Huey"
* The globe collapses, destroying a nearby structure. The helicopter crashes, although Yui saves Huey from dying.
To cap it all off the party flees the scene in Guy's sports car (Jo made herself scarce during the fight). They ditch the two beaten up agents at a gas station before getting a jet to Mexico.[/quote]
[editline]26th September 2014[/editline]
[quote]Landing in Mexico (although still a fair distance from Mexico City) the party begins by debating how they're going to get an eight foot tall robot and their guns past customs. They make Texh go rigid and pretend to be a statue and bluff they way past with their guns, although this all seems pretty unnecessary as the Federales searching their plane settle for a bribe instead.
Hiring a VW Van, they begin an 8 hour drive south through Mexico. The radio station plays nothing but songs by The Bee Gees for the entire trip. Yui asks if there is a Mrs Fabulous, and finds out there isn't.
Arriving in the town of San Miguel de Allende, the party meets with an expert provided by one of Guy Fabulous' contacts: Dr Estrades. Dr Estrades has a home-made diploma in Thaumaturigcal analysis and wears a lab coat and a cowboy hat, along with an american flag lapel pin. He tells them that Montezuma has been stealing hearts and that he has an undead army, he also demonstrates that essence, the source of the power of the Exalted, comes from their chakra. He reveals he was told the party were secret agents and that they were going to give him a green card in exchange for the information.
A Mexican Army officer walks in, and makes a ruckus.
"He appears to be in the army: wearing a dark green jacket with a black Cravat and beret. His sleeve has a patch on it, and his feet rattle with every step from the spurs on the back of his cowboy boots. His flexes his fingers as he tugs on his black leather kid gloves. The man himself is young and clearly hispanic, his medium length black hair swept back and he has black face paint in a thick bar across his eyes.
He kisses the hand of the waitress, and you swear she almost melts. He smoulders."
He then uses his hipnotic bishonen good looks to brainwash the party and tries to arrest them, but they are too strong for his powers. Guy Fabulous then demonstrates his own prowess, and they decide to settle this like gentlemen: a pistol duel to first blood. The officer introduces himself as Pistolero Cozumel.
They order everoyne out of the bar, and get ready for a good old fashioned pistol duel. Cozumel starts [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YooJhQTZFiA]juggling and spinning his revolvers[/url] before telling Guy to draw.
Rather than paraphrase, I'll post the duel here:[/quote]
[quote]Guy Fabulous spent his time concentrating on the movement of Pistolero's revolvers. The timing of his juggling, the pauses between each moment of the guns flying into the air. The weight of firearms, the quality of make, the type of ammunition held within. The calculations for this would have to be more precise than a bullet. It would have to be the equivalent of two swords crossing in the sunset. A draw. A draw for a draw. Enough to set a spark in the air. Enough to catch him off his guard. Guy Fabulous goes wide-eyed and fires his gun into the exact trajectory of Pistolero's revolver, causing his bullet to hit and deflect his own.
There are two shots at once, then silence
Pistolero Cozumel grins, waiting to see blood
Pistolero Cozumel then stops. His expression goes cold as he sees two bullets, fused together, fall to the floor
Pistolero Cozumel: ...what!?
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuy30GJK4A[/url]
Guy Fabulous smirks in response
Guy Fabulous: Too slow.
Pistolero Cozumel is sweating
Guy Fabulous throws the pistol from under his arm so it goes around his back and to his front. In the meantime he strikes a dual handgun pose and makes a 'pow' motion. He catches the gun as it arrives to his front and fires right across Cozumel's cheek. A eruption of sparkles and lights erupt from Guy Fabulous's gun and the bullet create a rainbow-colored light streak. A giant "BAM" appears behind him in a stylistic fashion.
Announcer-san: A moment of hesitation!
As the bullet found its mark, that is all it took for it to strike Cozumel and see him defeated!
The skin just below his eye erupts in a spray of blood as he is thrown backwards
Pistolero Cozumel: Impossible!
Guy Fabulous butterflies float around Guy Fabulous, one flashing between neon colors rests on the end of his barrel
Guy Fabulous: It's over!
Pistolero Cozumel is sprawled on the floor. One hand covers his eyes while the other is clenched into a fist. He punches the ground in frustration
Yui Daichi blinks a few times.
Guy Fabulous strikes his most fabulous victory pose, turning his back to Pistolero
Bird gives a round of applause
Pistolero Cozumel then stands, grimacing. His eye appears partially damaged and can no longer see, although for an exalt it is a superficial wound
Guy Fabulous appears to glow in fabulousness
Barry Amirmoez claps as he stands up.
Pistolero Cozumel picks up his beret and puts it back on. He turns his remaining eye up to look at Guy
Pistolero Cozumel: ...you're pretty good.
Guy Fabulous points at Pistolero
Guy Fabulous: That's my line!
Pistolero Cozumel: No one's ever managed to hit me before.
Guy Fabulous writes something on the paper with the pen
it is a fabulous signature with his name on it
Guy Fabulous: Well then
Guy Fabulous throws it over to Pistolero
Guy Fabulous: Here's your reality check.
Guy Fabulous stylishly walks out, butterflies and sparkles following him
hands in pockets
looking back
in slow motion
Barry Amirmoez snickers as he follows Guy out.
Yui Daichi follows Guy-senpai out.
Texh picks up bird and a bottle of Tequila
Pistolero Cozumel: ...[/quote]
[quote]Outside, Cozumel's back up and commanding officer have shown up to crash the party. Commander Santiago, the finest hunter in the world and one of Mexico's leading military geniuses announecs her intention to kill the party, and the fact that she was the one that killed Yui's mentor. Twelves soldiers and a turret gunner take on the exalts. Highlights of the battle include:
*Guy shooting the turret gunner and causing him to spasm and shoot at his comrades before sliding under the jeep to get behind it
*Texh ramming the jeep, almost crushing guy
*Yui and Santiago having a lunar battle on the roof
*Barry taking out four soldiers at once with his staff
*Six soldiers hosing Texh down with assault rifle fire. The bullets bounce off of Texh's back.
*Texh rips apart the turret gunner's turret.
*Guy fabulous kicks a guy in the junk so hard he makes him infertile. He then kicks him through a window.
*Yui does an ultra finishing combo on santiago, knocking her into the air, cutting her up, smashing her down into a jeep, then slamming down otno her and digging her nails into her heart
*Santiago survives all that and escapes
*A soldier surrenders to Guy before he can also kcik him in the junk
*Barry whacks a guy so hard he cripples him
*The soldiers, once they've sustained 70% casualties, run off.
Pistolero Cozumel then tells the party he "likes them" and offers to misinform any reinforcements that come to buy them some time. The party flees the scene in their shitty VW Van.[/quote]
[editline]26th September 2014[/editline]
That's a lot of text, sorry guys
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;46081336]Thing is I wasn't doing it to be funny, and then a certain other party member decided to kill me after I had surrendered, which is why I left.[/QUOTE]
;)
It was worth it.
[QUOTE=elowin;46081233]Others say that he was brutally murdered by a team of shadowrunners because he was about to get them all torpedo'd to shit, while being incapable of understanding how that's a bad thing.[/QUOTE]
All we know is, he's called The Stig.
[QUOTE=Dalndox;46080752]If I were GM he'd be banned from future games. Not just for this, but holy shit how awful can you be?[/QUOTE]
Well I'm sure he thought it was justified because "it's cool, we're all guys right?" Which I'm normally okay with, but I think the line was crossed when he said "I hope your character doesn't get knocked unconscious alone in a room with my character! *nervous grin*"
Can't wait until he tries the same thing with an actual female player playing her gender in-game, since there are quite a few women who go to PFS that day :v:
What is the dumbest thing you guys have ever done in a game? Not dumb like "haha" but just plain stupid.
My dumbest moment was when I first started playing dnd and being a new player I didn't know jack shit. So when we were being taken to a city by a coastline by a magical flying beast and one of the players failed their check to stay on because of some wind I said, "I want to see if I can save him by grabbing his hand or something." The GM rolled and I made the check so I ended up grabbing him. One of the players spoke up and said, "You could have let him go. We are over the ocean after all and no one would have blamed you."
So what do I do? I say I let him go. Which wouldn't have been bad except the GM didn't "pause" the game and said, "you guys are by the rocky coast and you let him go." He didn't even give me a choice if I still wanted to or not and made my character drop him there. We were over 500ft in the air and the ground was littered with jagged rocks. I was kicked out of the group because of this. I felt bad for a while because of how hard these guys worked for their character, but then I didn't because later I realized how much of a dick the GM was.
I think most of the stupid things I've done have been entirely intentional so I don't have many of those stories because most of them were planned
Though I must say the chain of events that led to us curing zombie aids in shadowrun were precipitated upon extreme stupidity on most of the party (or, us missing clues)
Which was:
Us getting mysterious pills from our johnson with no labelling or instructions
Us fighting zombies, someone succeeding their check to learn that ghoulism is transmittable, everyone forgetting this
Us fighting ghouls in melee and two of us getting hurt
Us forgetting this fact after we'd healed most of the damage
Myself seriously forgetting this and proceeding to go home and nookie my boyfriend after the run
The next morning the other injured sammie notes an extreme hunger for meat
We all remember the pills
We all remember that two of us got hit
Expletives ensue
Then we went amd captured a super-ghoul-spider in mexico, made a cure, and everyone is happy
[QUOTE=Zernbrog;46082779]What is the dumbest thing you guys have ever done in a game? Not dumb like "haha" but just plain stupid.
My dumbest moment was when I first started playing dnd and being a new player I didn't know jack shit. So when we were being taken to a city by a coastline by a magical flying beast and one of the players failed their check to stay on because of some wind I said, "I want to see if I can save him by grabbing his hand or something." The GM rolled and I made the check so I ended up grabbing him. One of the players spoke up and said, "You could have let him go. We are over the ocean after all and no one would have blamed you."
So what do I do? I say I let him go. Which wouldn't have been bad except the GM didn't "pause" the game and said, "you guys are by the rocky coast and you let him go." He didn't even give me a choice if I still wanted to or not and made my character drop him there. We were over 500ft in the air and the ground was littered with jagged rocks. I was kicked out of the group because of this. I felt bad for a while because of how hard these guys worked for their character, but then I didn't because later I realized how much of a dick the GM was.[/QUOTE]
wow that's terrible on the GM's part
almost reminds me of another GM
and maybe a helicopter
Dumbest thing I ever did was get invited to a private drinking session with some Geisha in L5R (I had to, otherwise the ghost of Ikoma would abandon me!)
There was like two minutes of drinking and geishas and then the rest was Ninja pummeling me.
I played Battletech drunk and fired on the wrong units, if that counts.
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