Tabletop RPG Catch All

onewild wrote:

We have been playing the rather excellent Lancer. Sci fi mech game, in a world that is erm quite nice atucally just not on the outer limits of the Union, their discord channel is also like the friendlist place on the internet. This interview gives you an idea of the character of the 2 creators

Thanks for posting that, it's pretty cool. They remind me of the creators of Blaseball a little (also a very friendly Discord, btw). I got the Lancer book in a humble bundle and have read a good chunk of it, but barely scratched the surface (it's enormous). It has a lot of really cool ideas and tosses out a lot of tropes. I really like the two-games-in-one idea, but I'm curious how that works out in practice.

Igneus wrote:
manta173 wrote:

Holy crap... I don't need this... but might buy it anyway for the sheer brilliance of it.

Kickstarter for custom AI generated dungeons.

Why YES! I would like a dungeon completely made out of latrines.

Most dungeons seem to have a rather conspicuous lack of latrines, maybe the reason for that is some nasty wizard has been stealing them all to build his Latrine Dungeon.
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There is a module on the DMs Guild for Curse of Strahd that basically creates a crap-themed set of dungeon levels for Kresk Monastery. I sh*t you not...so to speak. (I don't know how GOOD it actually is because I threw it out, metaphorically speaking, after reading about three pages of it).

Anyway, it could do with having a latrine level, is what i'm saying.

pyxistyx wrote:

There is a module on the DMs Guild for Curse of Strahd that basically creates a crap-themed set of dungeon levels for Kresk Monastery. I sh*t you not...so to speak. (I don't know how GOOD it actually is because I threw it out, metaphorically speaking, after reading about three pages of it).

Anyway, it could do with having a latrine level, is what i'm saying.

It must have been pretty....."crappy".....:Yeaaahhhhh!
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Mixolyde wrote:

Thanks for posting that, it's pretty cool. They remind me of the creators of Blaseball a little (also a very friendly Discord, btw). I got the Lancer book in a humble bundle and have read a good chunk of it, but barely scratched the surface (it's enormous). It has a lot of really cool ideas and tosses out a lot of tropes. I really like the two-games-in-one idea, but I'm curious how that works out in practice.

I really enjoy it, we are playing mainly focused on the combat, so works out at like 3/4 combat sessions for every narritive down town but I could see it going the other way.

Also comp/con app they use is one of the apps for roleplay game I have ever used. Just makes everything a breeze and I have hours of fun building mechs that I will never get to play. I wish I was playing more of it honestly.

Hey, BY THE WAY, I playtested this and it's really neat. Please back it so i can play more of it

(basically it's a mad max / borderlands style "frontier sci-fi" TTRPG with a really fast paced quick combat system which, in my playtest, resulted in one of the smoothest and most exciting vehicle chase sequences i've ever had in a TTRPG. (to be fair...that's not a high number of vehicle chases though!)

Welcome to Edge. This desert region is not only the end of the known world, but of reality itself. The dimensional barrier of this world intersects it instead of surrounding it, allowing people to simply step out of reality and into the Frontier, or the area between dimensions.

Along this border, a substance known as Possibility forms. Literally crystallized reality, Possibility can warp what’s real and make incredible things possible—things like Diesels. Originally created as instruments of war, Diesels are humans that have been heavily modified and now run on diesel fuel. Every player character is a Diesel living in Edge, but their story and abilities are completely up to you!

I finished* another game!

Heavy Metal Aeons (early access edition) is now released, details here.

*It's not really finished (thus the early access). The rules are basically done, but the balance levels for quests certainly need a bunch of tweaking.

In Song of the Mountain, I just figured the cravasse of crap was the latrine.

hey at least it'll have frozen over.

pyxistyx wrote:

hey at least it'll have frozen over.

In the game I DM'd, I managed to subtly discourage the players from fishing through it.

Today my players learned the importance of the evasion and pursuit procedure in OSE.

I am way late to the party and I am sad since it seems there won't be a season 2 but Titan's Grave by Will Wheaton (and son no less) is amazing! If you need further motivation I'll name drop: Laura Bailey...

I wonder if a lot of people who would be interested in it just missed it somehow. It must have bad SEO or something because I get a ton of Critical Role stuff in my youtube recommendations. But I happened to click on an episode of Felicia Day and Alan Tudyk playing Magic and a few days later it showed up as a suggested video of another video. Needless to say I was hooked.

For whatever reason sci-fantasy or magitech doesn't seem to do well in my admittedly layman's experience. Horror, grim dark and fantasy are way more popular. I guess I just have unpopular tastes because the Buck Rodgers D&D games were terrific. And don't get me started on the unfulfilled potential of steampunk...

That was such a good series! I'm disappointed, too, that they didn't do a second season, and that Wil Wheaton hasn't put out more Tabletop. Disagreements with the Geek & Sundry management, IIRC. I loved Laura Bailey too (she's amazing!), and that whole cast was absolutely fantastic.

The Pathfinder 2e Humble Bundle is back. This time you get a physical copy of the Bestiary if you pledge $35 or more.

Great episode of the +1 Forward podcast with the creator of Ironsword talking about and giving a little actual play preview of Starforged.

https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forwa...

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Our own Mike Sands is quoted in one of the descriptions of this crazy weird thing, and he didn't tell us about it?!

Extreme Meatpunks Forever is tuned to get you straight at the action, whether physical or emotional, all in one of the weirdest, grossest, over-the-top settings ever. - Michael Sands, designer of Monster of the Week

Sorry! I don't think I'd get to rest if I posted about every weird game I find out about.

But yeah, the publisher contacted me for a quote and gave me access to the quickstart. There's some very sharp game design in there.

Sure, I get that. We all want you to get your rest. We all want what's best for you.

However, there is "weird" and then there is "players fight Nazis while piloting giant meatmechs made from flesh harvested from a dead space god and hewn together with meatallurgy weird." That is worth sharing!

You forgot the part about the lesbians...

Honestly they had me at Lesbians, to be fair. Also THAT COVER ART.

In other news the discount codes for Thisty Sword Lesbians finally dropped so got a copy of THAT winging it's way to me from Drivethru now AT LAST!

The art in the quick start is ri-gosh-darn-diculous. So is the visual novel slash mech brawler video game series it is based on.

When I saw that art at first I thought Pyxi was posting more drawings...

Oh hey I'm not THAT good (well...at least not right now because all I'm drawing are maps and I'm super rusty at everything else)

, but thanks!

pyxistyx wrote:

Oh hey I'm not THAT good (well...at least not right now because all I'm drawing are maps and I'm super rusty at everything else)

, but thanks!

That just means more people need to comission you for practice. Open your wallets, people!

So okay, I picked up that Pathfinder 2e bundle a couple weeks ago, kind of on a whim just to read. But now I'm running a game on roll20 for a few friends.

We've played some stuff like Shadowrun and Star Wars EotE, but we've never actually played Pathfinder or D&D before, so this is kind of a new experience. Everyone is learning the rules at the same time, so the play style is really casual and off-the-cuff and I'm really having fun. We're just kind of sandboxing around the countryside, fighting goblins and exploring tombs.

But we only have three players, four counting me, and one doesn't show up to every session. The book recommends four players and I could see that working better. Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations on finding players? It seems weird to try to recruit for a game with so little structure and preparation, but maybe someone would enjoy that?

(And yeah, D&D might be a better fit to find casual players but... Pathfinder was on sale and we're invested now)

If you are online and not afraid of randos, discord channels are always like 1000 players per GM, just need to find one that fits the time zone and community you are after. I don't play Pathfinder or DnD so couldn't help you find the right one.
If you are afriad of randos, then maybe just ask on here?

BuzzW wrote:

So okay, I picked up that Pathfinder 2e bundle a couple weeks ago, kind of on a whim just to read. But now I'm running a game on roll20 for a few friends.

We've played some stuff like Shadowrun and Star Wars EotE, but we've never actually played Pathfinder or D&D before, so this is kind of a new experience. Everyone is learning the rules at the same time, so the play style is really casual and off-the-cuff and I'm really having fun. We're just kind of sandboxing around the countryside, fighting goblins and exploring tombs.

But we only have three players, four counting me, and one doesn't show up to every session. The book recommends four players and I could see that working better. Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations on finding players? It seems weird to try to recruit for a game with so little structure and preparation, but maybe someone would enjoy that?

(And yeah, D&D might be a better fit to find casual players but... Pathfinder was on sale and we're invested now)

BuzzW - I may be game, when do you play? Im getting ready to run some DnD5E on Fantasy Grounds, but Id love to actually play again as well.

I'm going to be playing D&D for the first time in about 12 years tomorrow night. 5th edition looks pretty sweet and much less of a gridded tactics game than 4E (which I did love btw), but I have a question:

How do you stop obsessing over how your character looks in Heroforge? Because I think I've spent more time fixing my bards look than I have reading the PHB

Trachalio wrote:

I'm going to be playing D&D for the first time in about 12 years tomorrow night. 5th edition looks pretty sweet and much less of a gridded tactics game than 4E (which I did love btw), but I have a question:

How do you stop obsessing over how your character looks in Heroforge? Because I think I've spent more time fixing my bards look than I have reading the PHB :D

My son recently discovered Hero Forge during a D&D Summer Camp and Im not sure you do stop.