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Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:20 pm #208639

Bottom post of the previous page:

I have always wanted to play a barely civilized lizardfolk ranger. Like he lived in a tribe in a horrible deadly jungle all his life and normal society is completely foreign to him

Super Aggro Crag · Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:32 pm

I wonder if you could make a war pick out of an anchor.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:44 pm #208646

Unless it is a tiny anchor you would probably need to be large sized

Screemonster · Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:06 pm

wasn't there a guy in FF8 that used an anchor as his weapon and just threw it at people

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:18 pm #208651

That is not nearly as retarded as ffx's "I fight using a soccer ball with a nail in it"

Screemonster · Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:34 pm

We all know what the best FF weapon was.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:36 pm #208659

Nail bat was actually pretty good as long as you were not using cloud as a mage. No materia slots (or was it no materia growth?) but really fucking high base damage. Unfortunately basically everyone uses cloud as a red mage so it is basically never used

Super Aggro Crag · Sun Sep 04, 2016 6:27 pm

I thought that guy used a big sword

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 10:05 pm #208723

Sorry I'm not able to play as planned Sunday, college wifi down. Will play next Friday, Cthulhufolk.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 10:18 pm #208727

Shit happens, but alright then.

Regular time or early time like we first tried this week?

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:07 pm

Drynwyn wrote:Sorry I'm not able to play as planned Sunday, college wifi down. Will play next Friday, Cthulhufolk.

Would have to be early that day since I have to work. But hey 3 hours difference I should be fine.

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:27 am #208997

Plan is 5 PM EST on Friday. That not work for anyone?

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:45 am

Drynwyn wrote:Plan is 5 PM EST on Friday. That not work for anyone?

I'd only be able to play for about two hours at that time.

Reyn · Post by **Reyn** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:02 pm #209731

Does anyone still do dungeons and dragons?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:21 pm #209740

Yeah, i am in a DnD5e curse of Strahd hack campaign right now as NOT HIGHWAYMAN the reformed criminal. The game has been very deadly and incredibly fun so far, really captures the gothic horror feeling

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 4:10 pm #210035

Someone needs to run a Shadowrun game.

M0nsoon · Post by **M0nsoon** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 5:35 pm #210054

My leviathan Dreadnought came in today, so now my salamanders are going to get even scarier with this big fucker charging down my friend's space wolves and CSM

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:47 pm #210074

An0n3 wrote:Someone needs to run a Shadowrun game.

I run TWO per week

Both full though, will post if spots open up

Super Aggro Crag · Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:58 pm

Games jewshop decides to pull their IP rights from Fabtasy Flight Games, thus killing the entire line of warhammer role playing products.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 12:55 pm #210570

Super Aggro Crag wrote:Games jewshop decides to pull their IP rights from Fabtasy Flight Games, thus killing the entire line of warhammer role playing products.

At GW lai... I mean, office:

Wait, there is a popular game about Warhammer that people like? And it doesn't involve our miniatures? Oh, what are you saying advisor, we haven't done anything really evil this season and people are forgetting how shit we are? Hmmm...

Also, anyone up for http://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rpg/Da ... 0Final.pdf ?

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 4:32 pm #210598

Nah man this:

http://www.angelfire.com/vamp/boom3/1.pdf

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 4:39 pm #210600

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:05 pm #210615

Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, and all that stuff won't die anyway

They're in pdf form and all over the internet by now. It just means no new books.
Which I'm okay with, there's plenty in the ones out there for now

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:08 pm #210616

Yeah thats what i was thinking. Those games are already more than functionally complete, and have tons of splats and extra content. I dont really see what else they could do with it besides bringing the older ones up to the new rule standards with a new edition, but that is pretty easy to hack together yourself

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Sun Sep 11, 2016 7:59 pm

Jazaen wrote:

Also, anyone up for http://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rpg/Da ... 0Final.pdf ?

Playing god sounds fun, would be down.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 10:45 pm #210670

Well, we already did most of the First Age, so you could join in into Second Age. Someone might post some stuff and pictures.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 3:33 pm #211157

Running Traveller Mongoose with my RL group, so far they are absolutely loving how crazy chargen is. I am also directly plagiarizing Anon3's campaign and setting it in the Trin's Veil subsector, starting on Trin. Luckily one of the group is as autismally interested in the trading system as I was so they will be slinging cargo and making mad bank in no time. I also have some ideas for more traditional RPG style plot hooks, namely being comissioned by one of the megacorps to take part in an Imperium sponsored exploration mission to a system that only recent was discovered to even exist. I am thinking of having Ancients fuckery have caused some kind of sensor obscuring effect that has only recently started to weaken, and maybe once they get there they will inadvertantly activate an army of ancient killbots or something that evolves into a sector wide threat.

Not gonna drop something like that until after they get a feel for the space ramblin lifestyle

Super Aggro Crag · Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:06 pm

I have dumb ideas for characters, like a merman barbarian who lives on the land and has a trident and gets mad when people ask him why he doesn't live in the ocean and a dhampir hunter with a giant leech companion who crawls around in the mud and wants to eat bloods.

Super Aggro Crag · Sun Sep 18, 2016 3:18 pm

James workshop announces: genestealer codex. Wow, very cool. Sisters of battles still pooped on. At least dark eldars got a new codex within the decade. The new dark eldars codex was cool too, except for the illidan stormrage mandrakes.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 3:21 pm #212235

what the fucking shit. GW has reached a new level of jewry by selling full price army books that are just a fraction of the models already availible to existing teams. For example the Tempestus Scions (new IG stormtroopers) as their own army

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:11 am #212332

After due deliberation, I have decided to run a Shadowrun game. A third one as I already run two

This one will be casual, 3-4 players max. It will be mainly text based. Maps may show up occasionally, but they will not be common.
Players will be detectives in Seattle, 2073. Your task will be to find the criminals - Organised crime, serial killers, runners, and if you can catch them corporate and political too, as well as anyone who is considered worthy of your time. It will not be combat heavy, a fair bit slower than the usual, and with less power involved than with the usual runners. But what you lack in power, you'll gain in being official detectives on important cases.

It may serve as an introduction to Shadowrun, if you are new to the setting or system. So if you already do know these, please be patient enough to allow the players who do not to explore the world and how things work.

Any interest in this?

ShadowDimentio · Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:21 am

I might join.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 3:29 am #212342

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGHHHH Cyberpunk noir detective is literally my fetish but i am in so many games someone help

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:12 am #212375

Shadowrun is my favorite.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:13 pm #212494

Then with interest shown I will begin prepwork on the first few cases. They'll be mainly sorta tutorial style, leading into actual cases

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:20 pm #212497

Okay what edition of Shadowrun are we talking and are there modifications to chargen?

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:23 am #212551

Fourth. There will be modifications to chargen, but I'm still experimenting with that to see what makes for an appropriate level of power and skills

Keep in mind that while a shadowrunner is generally near high level military for their combat, you won't be. You're not the SWAT team going in to make the arrests. You're the guys getting the evidence and figuring out who to send the SWAT team after.
I might at some point let you go in among a SWAT team to support them, but in general you won't want to get into combat yourselves

And giving you the same amount of points as those runners would mean everyone starts with their investigating skills maxed out(Or a bunch of ex-military detectives), which would not be that great for gameplay, since everyone would be able to do the same

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:57 am #212557

I ran a cop game once ages ago where I basically spent most of the character's points for them.

It was street resources, but I gave everyone a template of skills and attributes that they had to satisfy.

"You need to have at least 6 dice on athletics checks to represent the physical fitness requirement" for example would give people a choice between spending heavier on Str or Athletics (or the skill group), or if they had some cyberware bioware (highly unlikely given the resources) that would be okay too. Similar requirements for some combat skills (pistols then rifles or shotguns, unarmed or clubs) but also some social skills too. Can't be officer lunkhead who gets intimidated by the average street punk, can't give people tickets if you only communicate in grunts and gestures.

Just a thought if you're looking for a good way to handle that.

In the end it was a really good mix of officers. Some people went big on fighty stuff but still had to satisfy the minimum social skills and had their knowledge skills. Some people went harder on the smartguy charisma or intelligence stuff but couldn't start the game out as geniuses by dumping all their physical stuff, and could still contribute when they arrived on the scene at a shootout in a Stuffer Shack.

EndgamerAzari · Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:22 am

I would love to play in a Shadowrun game, but alas I am too busy.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:24 am #212563

That is a good way to do it. I was thinking I'd mostly tell people not to be idiots and trusting them not to make an obese troll who can't read or similar, but minimum requirements makes a lot of sense

Super Aggro Crag · Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:44 am

I don't like shadowrun.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:08 pm #212726

Never played 4th, but in 5th there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages that would not really apply if you are not a shadowrunner. For example having a SIN is a liability when you are a runner so you get a few points as recompense, but if you are officers of the law it kinda would not make any sense for you NOT to have one. System is probably rife with stuff like it, but i am not familar with 4th.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 8:57 pm #212748

It is, there are a lot of those in fourth too, and part of what I'm doing is sifting through them for ones that I won't allow

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:12 am #212787

Here we go. For now, this is the list of the basics you'll need to know for chargen
I can supply pdfs of Shadowrun as needed.

Players will be detectives who are hired by Lone Star. Hiring is done both internally and external- You do not need history with Lone Star to qualify.

This list is subject to change if I decide it needs some more work or find I missed something

Spoiler:

Revision 1: Negotiation down to 5 instead of 7
Dropped con and intimidation requirements
Chemistry is out, I had thought it would mean you'd understand what the lab tells you happened, but fuck it that's their problem now. Let them explain like you explain computers to grandma
Swimming reduced to 3, so you don't drown if things go wrong

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 2:52 pm #212852

Been working through making my character. I think for the most part the required stuff is good, but i think overall it is just a bit much on the required skills. For example assuming you have all attributes at three (on average, some will be higher some may be lower) Taking the required skills is going to cost you 132 points, which is a pretty significant chunk of change. I just think that maybe gymnastics and swimming skill could be trimmed, and possibly chemistry. Chemsitry especially seems like a specialist skill rather than something every police detective is gonna be skilled in. However it is still certainly doable the way it is, and i may also be misunderstanding something about how character generation or gameplay works

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:02 pm #212887

Revised it with some things I thought of, chemistry is indeed out

Please do keep in mind that 5 dice is generally considered below average for a professional. They aren't really very high requirements as I expect players to pick their own expertise and reason why they would be hired

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:08 pm #212888

Alright, i THINK my character is done. Kinda just in a fuck off list in a word document because that is how i was best able to keep track of it, but despite what i thought i was actually able to make him the way i liked while staying within the guidelines, they did not restrict me as much as i thought. Is there a fillable charactersheet somewhere that i can use?

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 8:56 pm #212913

Standard for Shadowrun is Chummer

http://www.chummergen.com/

It can print your sheet/save as html sheet, or you can send over a .chum file

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:32 am #213167

Do you prefer 4th over 5th?

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:59 am #213175

Still doing CoC tomorrow, but pushing it back an hour and a half. Work for everyone?

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:55 am #213191

I indeed prefer 4th over 5th, mainly because I learned with 2nd and relearned with 3rd, then with 4th, and now I feel old as fuck so I'm sticking to this for now.

That, and it has all the splatbooks and content for it

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CoC works for me, I think. I may get in some slight scheduling issues but it should work