D&D 5e: Nobody Talks about D&D - Games

[QUOTE=cdr248;48961877]i was batman [editline]22nd October 2015[/editline] and FEV batpuddle back from the dead mutie batman [editline]22nd October 2015[/editline] jus sayin[/QUOTE] I also accidentally nuked Chicago and then escaped to Hawaii, it was a good game.

[QUOTE=Rents;48961968]I also accidentally nuked Chicago and then escaped to Hawaii, it was a good game.[/QUOTE] I was Frederick von Beardington, a sneakyman who watched too many pre-war spy holotapes during the Hawaii run. Until that was [I]run[/I] into the ground by GM-who-shall-not-be-named. Then I was a GM for it like, 3 times.

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[QUOTE=mastermaul;48950906]Does anyone here do Dark Heresy or another 40k RPG over the internet? Is there a facepunch group or anything like that?[/QUOTE] this is precisely the place for 40k RPGs along with any other RPG. Most groups here play over the internet as well, usually coordinated by Skype/Steam and then played in Roll20. Any questions?

Just finished DMing Lost Mines of Phandelver as an intro to 5E for me and my players, who seem to love it thus far. I was wondering what I should do next, my players seem interested in popping back down to level 1 and doing one of the more extended modules, like Out of the Abyss, Princes of the Apocalypse, or Tyranny of Dragons. Would you guys recommend any of the above three in particular?

So I had a sort of a solo session with my GM after the clusterfuck that was the first session. My character, an untouchable tech-priest, was being interviewed by an old inquisitor in a perpetual state of bad mood, a Magos that made my character feel more under-pressure than usual and some man in power armour that I couldn't identify. A bit of backstory before I go further. First session, my techie was paired up with a feudal worlder, we were in a nobles party at an upper-hive with our former inquisitor (who was hailed as an idiot) and we were told to investigate anything heretical. But before we could get to asking people if they've seen anyone doing heresy, the sky went black, green lightning started shooting everything up, meteors started falling from the sky - some of which were drop pods for the Night Lords. My character ran (rolling save-or-die dodge rolls every five minutes), the feudal worlder stayed and killed a Night Lord through unbelieveable crits with a laspistol. The techie made his way through maintenance and provided a small train cart through a magnetic railway, that sped him, the feudal worlder (who lost his legs to the Night Lord), a Sororita Inquisitor and a Hospitaller (both who found feudal worlder, contacted techie and got together to escape). We got to a space port, but before we could board the ships, more green lightning shot straight through the ceiling and more Night Lords came out of nowhere. The sororita stayed to fight and cover us, the feudal worlder felt cheeky while me and the hospitaller carried him to the ship and shot another Night Lord with [I]the same laspistol.[/I] The flying astartes crashed into barrels full of promethium. We got aboard an inquisitorial ship but before we hit the sky, a Night Lord shot his bolter at the ship - he crit failed and caved in the ceiling a top of other Night Lords. So after that brief story-telling from a spastic, cowardly untouchable, he was given special permission to get whatever he wanted from the Magos. I got way more than what I asked for. My character rolled extremely lucky and found out that the munitorum officer aboard the ship was also deep in the black market place business. So cue rolls under 20s and 10s and I accidentally got myself three Best Craftsmanship Dentrine Blades, two Best Craftsmanship Bionic Arms and Good Craftsmanship Cerebral Implants. If that wasn't enough, my character also got a Mars-Pattern Inferno Pistol. He got it so he could say thank you to the inquisitor that saved his life. Apparently it was the other way around. GM made some rolls, all above 95. Those rolls were to decide the life-saving-drugs side effects the inquisitor was on. It was complete personality change. The Sororita Inquisitor, who fought multiple fallen astartes, by herself, managed to survive and come back to the ship with wounds that would fell a fucking bloodthirster, out of nowhere, lifted and [I]hugged[/I] the untouchable techie. He hastily gave her the inferno pistol and left before things got any weirder. She managed to get another hug out of him. He went back to the munitorum officer who explained that the cart the techie provided saved her life, giving her cover and an improvised weapon to smack other astartes with. He also mentioned that she found something in the cart that she wanted to give to the techie as a thank you, but left it to the officer due to being critically wounded at the time. The GM rolled a nat 1. I got a grav pistol. High-lethal DH2 games are weird.

[QUOTE=Rents;48961968]I also accidentally nuked Chicago and then escaped to Hawaii, it was a good game.[/QUOTE] hey motherfucker you didn't do it alone! granted it was an accident also we ramped a school bus into a FEV-infested drug factory staffed by muties. good times

[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;48966825]hey motherfucker you didn't do it alone! granted it was an accident also we ramped a school bus into a FEV-infested drug factory staffed by muties. good times[/QUOTE] It was great until I rolled two crit fails in a row and killed thousands of people.

[QUOTE=Rents;48967214]It was great until I rolled two crit fails in a row and killed thousands of people.[/QUOTE] Look at it this way. At least half of those people were probably racist, murdering, rapist scumbags. Do the math and it balances out killing the other half of innocent people. So you did the world a favor by bombing them. Karma, motherfucker.

[QUOTE=Aperture fan;48967476]Look at it this way. At least half of those people were probably racist, murdering, rapist scumbags. Do the math and it balances out killing the other half of innocent people. So you did the world a favor by bombing them. Karma, motherfucker.[/QUOTE] Clearly genocide isn't good, or evil. It's true neutral. Gotta keep that balance, druids!

I offered to run a one shot today, since our GM would be busy, some people claimed to be interested, yet only three replied on steam/roll20, one of them waited until today to say he wouldn't be playing, another has yet to show up, so that leaves me with a single player :suicide: Glad I don't plan story ahead with tons of notes else I would be really fucking sad.

So, uh, I have been told to post here. Basically I don't have any experience in this kind of games and I always wanted to see how games like D&D are played, I saw a few videos before and yesterday saw the one with Vin Diesel, also I got linked Critical Role's videos. Anyway, what is a good starting point to learn how to play and how things works online?

SORRY, POSTING ANOTHER COMIC. MAJOR PAGE STRETCH. THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN DND. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67144542/Drawings/2015/884_Oct23_FrogGod.png[/img]

I want a frog god to appear over the horizon for me.

That was fucking amazing. I love your precious grape child.

[QUOTE=E.C.S;48969876]So, uh, I have been told to post here. Basically I don't have any experience in this kind of games and I always wanted to see how games like D&D are played, I saw a few videos before and yesterday saw the one with Vin Diesel, also I got linked Critical Role's videos. Anyway, what is a good starting point to learn how to play and how things works online?[/QUOTE] Depends what edition you wanna play, I think they were playing 4th in that Vin Diesel video, but not many people play it, 5th is more popular and would be easier to find newbie friendly games for since it's quite easy to get started with, you can get the basic rules set for free (legally, that is) but if you can get the Player's Handbook that'll have everything you need. The other popular one here is an offshoot of D&D 3.5 called Pathfinder, which is more complex and you kinda need someone showing you the ropes, but it's nice because all the rules and stuff is on a wiki for free: [url]http://www.d20pfsrd.com[/url] Nearly every one here runs their games on roll20.net, since it just opens in your browser. I remember the fun of having to install really hacky map programs and trying to get everyone to figure out how to set up their port forwarding and NAT settings and shit just to get to play :v:

Any of you guys here play tabletop though? I never played it over a browser before.

[QUOTE=GastricTank;48971005]Any of you guys here play tabletop though?[/QUOTE] You mean Tabletop Simulator? I did some pathfinder game with friends on it months ago, sadly there no character sheet in there.

[QUOTE=GastricTank;48971005]Any of you guys here play tabletop though? I never played it over a browser before.[/QUOTE] If you mean over an actual physical tabletop, I do run a game of Rogue Trader like that.

[QUOTE=GastricTank;48971005]Any of you guys here play tabletop though? I never played it over a browser before.[/QUOTE] yeah a lot of us have rl experience playing tabletops iirc also jeezum i dont mind the comics but you really ought to use [t] tags

[QUOTE=GastricTank;48971005]Any of you guys here play tabletop though? I never played it over a browser before.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I primarily play with a group of three of my friends. But recently a bunch of other people got interested and now I'm planning on GMing Out of the Abyss for like, six people. Nervous as heck.

[QUOTE=GastricTank;48971005]Any of you guys here play tabletop though? I never played it over a browser before.[/QUOTE] All of my games are online with the same group of people. We use Roll20 and voice chat. [editline]24th October 2015[/editline] Also was your Frog God [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramenos]Ramenos[/url] or [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastri]Wastri[/url]?

Going to run my first ever World of Darkness game, using the God-Machine update rules. The players wanted to play as an FBI agent, an SWAT leader guy, a mechanic who was in the Marines, and a criminal mastermind and all wanted high-paying, high-risk jobs. So naturally I am now making them all work for a regional paper/office supplies company which they are woefully overqualified for. The SWAT guy is a security guard, the FBI guy (now more realistically merely Army reservist) and criminal mastermind are paper salesman, and the Marine mechanic is the warehouse foreman. I'm so ready for The Office/World of Darkness crossover game, and the group is behind the idea after some talking to! Oh yeah and they're all gonna end up as Hunters if they don't end up being killed by the God-Machine cult that's slowly infiltrating the office.

I started a one-on-one high-tech (at least for my usual games) futurey Mass Effect- or FTL-style space-bound Mekton game with a friend of mine. We were hashing out the campaign setting and details, and in the end, our lineup of aliens includes: Humans Orks Bunnygirls Dryders Sectoids Chozo (Metroid) Space Pirates So this'll be uh... interesting. [url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/663hojpc1cpij09/Alieums.txt?dl=0]Here's my writeup of the aliens if you want to see what I did with them besides cut and paste.[/url]

[QUOTE=Aperture fan;48971900]I started a one-on-one high-tech (at least for my usual games) futurey Mass Effect- or FTL-style space-bound Mekton game with a friend of mine. We were hashing out the campaign setting and details, and in the end, our lineup of aliens includes: Humans Orks Bunnygirls Dryders Sectoids Chozo (Metroid) Space Pirates So this'll be uh... interesting. [url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/663hojpc1cpij09/Alieums.txt?dl=0]Here's my writeup of the aliens if you want to see what I did with them besides cut and paste.[/url][/QUOTE] we really need a "what the fuck" rating

GT your merry adventures warm my heart

[QUOTE=elowin;48972062]we really need a "what the fuck" rating[/QUOTE] I thought "informative" was always the accepted stand-in for :scream:

[QUOTE=MeltingData;48972519]I thought "informative" was always the accepted stand-in for :scream:[/QUOTE] good point

Played a one-shot 3.5e campaign with a couple classmates last night. Psions are hella fun. Saved up most of my power points until the boss fight, then pelted the boss(a goblin druid riding a gorilla) with a copious amount of fire-based Energy Missiles. They didn't last long.

You tamed the gorilla afterwards right.