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THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:41 pm

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Maccus wrote:who zombiecide here

My friends played it, they seemed to have liked it but they only played it once. So maybe they didn't like it too much.

Playing the FFG Star Wars RPG with some friends. I play an assassin droid masquerading as a protocol droid (WOAH SO ORIGINAL!). In character the other players only see me as some useless chef droid that can't even cook; out of character they know I can end any of them an in instant.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:02 pm #150673

It's fun but it takes a LOT of time. I played with 3 other people and it still took us about 4 hours. That's not including set up and everything.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:22 am #150883

I used to go to a game shop and do DnD all the time. Eventually the place closed down because it had bedbugs.

EndgamerAzari · Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:23 pm

I really need to start working on my homemade game again; I had enough notes to start on the second version but it's such a pain in the ass to make all new materials.

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Mon Feb 15, 2016 11:11 pm

Jerkbag Jedi player sliced my gun arm off! All because I wanted to blow up the remaining speeder so that we couldn't be followed after having an obviously loud and messy firefight.

This is going to come back and bite him in the ass.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 4:25 pm #154800

Our DM's been slipping on running a game for us and I told him if he did it again I'd run MaidRPG as punishment.

He did it again.

EndgamerAzari · Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:26 pm

I've heard Maid can be a shitload of fun as long as everyone's onboard with the general wackiness.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:57 pm #154828

(These are all the result of random-rolling our characters and I apologize)
Our characters so far are:

A 19-year-old chainsaw-wielding lolita vampire elf neo-nazi masochist who can teleport and has kleptomania
A 19-year-old chain-smoking sadistic scientist who is the illegitimate child of the Master who killed her parents who thinks she's too short and is prone to violence, who wields a bat with nails in it
A 14-year-old brown-skinned knight who is prone to causing mischief, has red hair and "metallic" eyes, fights with her bare hands and speaks in Olde Englishe
A 67-year-old robot trap maid with a british accent who is prone to causing mischief and is self-conscious about the size of his massive titties
The Master, a 16-year-old albino crossdresser who rules over the post-apocalyptic manse of Retard Jail - Dr. Wily and the Eight Anal Fissures, a blast-shielded prison that has since been converted into a mansion. He owns a private army and his main attraction is that he's so talented people follow him like a celebrity. His talent is being able to clap 900 times in a minute.

This is the worst thing I will ever do.

EndgamerAzari · Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:01 pm

Well

Sounds about right.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:48 pm #154834

are you sure you didn't just randomly generate a japanese light novel

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:53 pm #154836

EndgamerAzari · Wed Feb 17, 2016 8:10 pm

Wait

Maccus wrote:A 19-year-old chain-smoking sadistic scientist who is the illegitimate child of the Master

The Master, a 16-year-old

What

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:08 pm #154873

That's not a typo. Random dice rolls.

We decided to go with time travel. It's some absurdity, this game was BUILT for That Guys.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:09 pm #154875

EndgamerAzari wrote:Wait

Maccus wrote:A 19-year-old chain-smoking sadistic scientist who is the illegitimate child of the Master

The Master, a 16-year-old
What

M'accus wrote:the Master who killed her parents

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:11 pm #154876

I wanna clarify: She killed her parents, not the Master

EndgamerAzari · Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:16 pm

I guess being an anime superscientist she could've aged herself up at age three or something.

Why am I trying to make sense of this

Cuboos · Post by **Cuboos** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:34 am #156242

I'm painting up an army of Space Marines. Don't know how often i'll get to play though, the nearest game shop from me is an hour away.

Also i'm really proud of how my plasma gun game out.

Also for some laughs, here's the first Space Marine i've painted.

I also have a finished Vulkan He'stan and a Razorback that i haven't taken pictures of yet.

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:14 am #156269

I started playing Burning Wheel (Gold/3rd edition) lately. It's a good TTRPG system!

I like the sorcery rules a lot, and the formal structures for the metacurrency and narrative options really help make it into an actual, fleshed-out mechanic rather than a "wouldn't-it-be-cool-if." The combat/injury realism is also pretty nice.

What really stands out to me, though, is how much having multiple subsystems that drill down into mechanical detail alleviates the party balance problem. In D&D 3 through 5th edition, everything centers around the combat system, with skill checks and the like all being mechanical ancillaries. This makes balance vital, because it is very, very obvious and disheartening when one character is more optimized or otherwise better then the others.

Meanwhile, Burning Wheel has three main subsystems with mechanical detail- Duel of Wits (diplomacy), Range and Cover (Metal Gear, basically) and Fight! (standing near people and hitting them)- plus a number of ancillary systems with enough mechanical detail and consequence attached to make focusing on them worthwhile. What this means, in practice, is that even if your big fucker in full plate with a large sword is far less optimized then the Range and Cover using assassin type, he doesn't care because he's still better then him at the thing he's supposed to be (Fight!).

ShadowDimentio · Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:44 am

In one of my DnD 5e games we're level 5 and our ranger picked a fight with an adult green dragon. It KO'd everyone in the party in one hit except for a wizard who was out of range and the ranger who dodged. The ranger ran while the wizard helped a cleric that crit his death save drag everyone to safety. We beat the shit out of the ranger after we escaped.

Note: We're pretty much a good-aligned party. Everyone, even the two clerics, felt an ass beating was in order.

EndgamerAzari · Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:10 am

Just because you're good doesn't mean you have to be nice all the time, or super-forgiving when one moron puts you all in mortal peril.

ShadowDimentio · Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:14 am

Best part: I play a draconic sorcerer merchant dude. I'm BUILT for talking dragons down and was in the process of defusing the situation when he escalated things out of control.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:29 am #156343

Running a D&D campaign set in a setting where the BBEG has already won

Giving every player a different story on how he won so nobody knows what's going on

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:37 am #156345

ShadowDimentio wrote:Best part: I play a draconic sorcerer merchant dude. I'm BUILT for talking dragons down and was in the process of defusing the situation when he escalated things out of control.

I woulda just said, "hey, dragon dude, we brought you lunch" and leave it alone with the ranger.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:32 pm #156562

Maccus wrote:Running a D&D campaign set in a setting where the BBEG has already won

Giving every player a different story on how he won so nobody knows what's going on

Fund it

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:55 pm

Maccus wrote:Running a D&D campaign set in a setting where the BBEG has already won

Giving every player a different story on how he won so nobody knows what's going on

Sounds pretty good mang. I hope it goes well for you.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:42 am #156581

My new dm is running princes of the apocalypse for 5th and it is fucking awesome so far. We have so much autonomy, networked with interesting characters, and are actually leveling up at a reasonable pace. My paladin of Tyr finally has the celestial warhorse he has always wanted, and the other day I killed a massive fire elemental by getting a critical hit smite for an obscene amount of damage. I am having a fucking blast

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:05 am #156699

Was in a game currently on hiatus for Into the Abyss. Due to circumstances (Read as: Me being greedy enough to risk my life to steal something) we ended up using the random magical item table. I got some dust of dryness, leading the DM to swear loudly and throw his hands up in the air.

Dust of dryness does beaucoup damage to water-based creatures. We just happened to be going up against a water elemental not an hour later.

Next session, we loot a dungeon, barbarian gets his turn on the magical item table. Gets some weird orb that generates light no matter where you are. This time the DM does the same thing, throws his hands up, swears, says we're never using that table again. We were fighting some sort of spirit weak to anything light-based, in a dungeon filled with creatures that are sensitive to light.

Also, thanks Galv. Sorry the games here never work out.

ShadowDimentio · Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:13 pm

ELEMENTAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS MOTHERFUCKER

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 03, 2016 4:47 am

So

A game store in my old stomping ground is having their used game flea market this weekend and I'm gonna go drop irresponsible amounts of cash on shit I won't play for years. It's usually older/crappy stuff, but there's a decent amount of good/popular stuff there, usually.

Thing is, I don't have any actual targets in mind. Any suggestions for things I should look out for?

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 6:49 am #159009

FATAL

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:49 am #159018

Maccus wrote:FATAL

Only if there's lizards in it.

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:11 pm

Maccus wrote:FATAL

I honestly don't know if the store would allow someone to put that in the sale, but if it was, I'd scoop it up out of a combination of morbid curiosity, collector's instinct, and the desire to keep it out of the wrong hands.

M0nsoon · Post by **M0nsoon** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:35 pm #159100

Incase you nerds like being all official and stuff if you like Pathfinder stuff; https://www.humblebundle.com/books/paiz ... der-bundle

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:41 pm #159103

Let's see. WFRP 2nd edition would be a good find. 2nd edition adnd too

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:42 pm

Well, I'm mainly looking for board games, since that's the main focus of the market. Though I think I'm probably alone in my obsession with them.

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Thu Mar 03, 2016 7:24 pm

EndgamerAzari wrote:Well, I'm mainly looking for board games, since that's the main focus of the market. Though I think I'm probably alone in my obsession with them.

There's a game called Machi Koro which is kind of like a gentler, friendlier version of Monopoly. Not really a board game though since it's played with cards. Cosmic Encounters is pretty fun too, alien diplomacy and cosmic conquest, but I feel like you have that already.

In other news I think my irl rp group is dead, deaaaaaaaaad. Which means I'm dead, deaaaaaad!

EndgamerAzari · Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:51 am

I already have Machi Koro, but not Cosmic Encounters. That's one to keep my eye out for.

I've heard Nexus Ops is good, as is Level 7 Omega Protocol.

I really need to stop buying these things, none of my friends actually like playing them.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:58 am #159185

I tried Racial Holy War with a bunch of friends once. If you hate people you could always whip this piece of shit out.

Let me just tell you one thing about this system. You know how items have stats? Racial Holy War didn't stat guns that drop from almost every enemy.

EndgamerAzari · Mon Mar 07, 2016 12:20 am

Here's today's haul. Not bad for $75.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:51 am #159717

I'm not seeing FATAL
Seems like a good day

EndgamerAzari · Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:08 am

All the RPG books there were ones I own, had previously owned, or were from outdated editions I probably won't play, so I didn't look too hard. I am kinda salty that I apparently missed a Netrunner core set that was there somewhere. Oh well. All around a pretty successful result given my limited funds.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:52 pm #160120

Maccus wrote:FATAL

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHEN U POSTED MY SKYPE ON A /TG/ LOOKING FOR GAMES AS A POTENTIAL FATAL PLAYER

aAAAAAAAAAAAAA

EndgamerAzari · Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:57 pm

ColonicAcid wrote:
Maccus wrote:FATAL
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHEN U POSTED MY SKYPE ON A /TG/ LOOKING FOR GAMES AS A POTENTIAL FATAL PLAYER

aAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ha ha holy shit that's the most spiteful low-grade evil thing I've ever heard of.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:01 pm #160122

EndgamerAzari wrote:
ColonicAcid wrote:
Maccus wrote:FATAL
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHEN U POSTED MY SKYPE ON A /TG/ LOOKING FOR GAMES AS A POTENTIAL FATAL PLAYER

aAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ha ha holy shit that's the most spiteful low-grade evil thing I've ever heard of.

It genuinely knocked the air out of my lungs.
Maccus, you are a sick, sick, SICK asshole.

I salute you.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:02 pm #160123

That is fucking hilarious.

So I finally got my group of friends back together and I am running Only War. Pretty much you play as warhammer 40k's imperial guard, and get murdered all over the galaxy by interesting people and aliens. We have created a high tech siege infantry regiment. I was wondering if you fine folks have any ideas for campaigns or battles. Probably going to focus on fighting human separatists at first

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:15 pm #160127

Well the simplest is Genestealer led rebellion where they have to uncover that there is a darker force behind the separatists.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:30 pm #160136

The seperatists are a well established force in the area where all of Fantasy Flight's campaign guides and stuff take place. they are a mini empire called the Severan Dominate that is trying to pull away from the Imperium because they are really secluded and their current ruler is a bit of a knob. I was going to bring in some chaos influence for a neat lategame twist after a few grueling battles

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:37 pm #160143

nah nids

nids are cool dude go nids

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:46 pm #160145

I guess Tyranid battles would be really cool to fight as a trencher regiment

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:22 pm #160158

heyy man did u know nids are SUPER cool

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:03 pm #160191

Why not a good ork brawl

Everyone likes orks