http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ Role Playing Public Radio Forums: Recent Posts en Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:40:54 +0000 http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=101#post-770 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:32:01 +0000 scottlynch 770@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm...no takers? </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=101#post-769 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:18:22 +0000 scottlynch 769@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>I'd like to know what the reasons are for people hating RIFTS. I've only been introduced to the game a decade ago and have not played it enough to hate it, as others I've heard.<br /> People say that they are "sick of it" andon the RPPR podcast Tom and Ross say they despise it, but have never gone into any long reasons for this.<br /> Any comments? </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=86&page=2#post-767 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:56:51 +0000 silentjudas 767@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>apparently we have new forums. want me to move this one or you? </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=99#post-766 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:18:00 +0000 LexIcon 766@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>"I originally BBpress for the RPPR Forums"</p> <p>Did you also accidentially 56K of .jpg files?</p> <p>please forgive me I am VASTLY overcritical of simple typos on the Internet </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=100#post-765 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:59:15 +0000 admin 765@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Also: Go ahead and register again. I don't even know if it is possible to export BBpress DB to SMF sooo there. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=100#post-764 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:38:27 +0000 admin 764@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://slangdesign.com/forums" rel="nofollow">http://slangdesign.com/forums</a></p> <p>I will change the links on the podcast page in a bit. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=86&page=2#post-763 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:40:45 +0000 silentjudas 763@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>[OCC] That's fine mate. No worries.</p> <p>I make sure my equipment is all fitted and give a weird look to Peter. Standing up, I smile at the two girls and thank them for the introduction. "Yeah, it's no problem. I'm military, so I know all about that 'secret' and 'classified' shit. So when exactly are we heading down? Pretty soon, no?" </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=86&page=2#post-762 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:21:06 +0000 Jacen 762@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>The suit fits as if it was tailor made for you. In fact all your equipment fits perfectly. in your locker you find a wet suit, belt, shoes, and a diving knife.</p> <p>Peter Lights up at the sound of your name. "OH!!! your MR. Turon!!!" he says with a grin. suddenly like a flash of lightning one of the pretty women next to him slaps peter upside the head. "PETE! were not at liberty to say anything yet." she has a scouring look on her face. it quickly softens as she looks to you, " sorry kid, Id love to tell you more but were under orders at the moment from the big guy over there." she motions with her head to Cunningham. </p> <p>"I'm Natasha by the way." she says as she holds out her hand. she has a very fine build, with sandy blond hair. "and this..." pulling the other girl close "is Sara." Sara gives a slight wave and a smirk. she has almost a librarian look to her, yet she doesn't look a day over 25. "shes our med officer for this trip."</p> <p>OOC-sorry my post have been so erratic, my brothers back from the sand box so Ive been kinda caught up with him. when he leaves my posting should return to normal. please just bare with me. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=99#post-761 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:25:32 +0000 Phelanar 761@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, I think it would be a good change. This is functional, but a bit clunky and barebones. As recommended earlier, having some extra sections might be nice too. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=97#post-760 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:38:08 +0000 Jacen 760@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>okay but just remeber onr of the key rules to running a campaign. focus on the bubble, ie focus on what the players are doing. I recomend listing to episode 21 and 10. theres some good advice in there. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=99#post-759 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:30:03 +0000 Jacen 759@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>yeah that would be great. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=99#post-758 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:54:59 +0000 JonHook 758@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, I think a change would be good. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=60#post-757 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:14:19 +0000 Maze 757@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>It actually would be REALLY easy to do it as all the sounds in the game are mp3 files. I gave my cousin a good scare by putting the hunter pounce scream on her iPod.</p> <p>Hmm.. You just gave me an idea actually. I think I should record alternate sound files for the zombies and survivor using my mike. One where the zombies sound retarded... oh excuse me, "mentally challenged" I mean. And probably another one full of profanities where, for example, the tank would go "Fuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkkk!!!!!" instead of "roar". </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=99#post-756 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:09:10 +0000 Maze 756@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Please do. The ability to easily log in and be remembered would be nice. Also, it would be nice to have separate sections, here's the ones I suggest:</p> <p>[The Show]<br /> [Pen &#38; Paper]<br /> [Play-by-post]<br /> [Anecdotes]<br /> [Other stuff] </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=99#post-755 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:40:27 +0000 admin 755@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>I originally chose BBpress for the RPPR Forums because I thought its integration with wordpress would be good and that it would be updated rapidly. After fucking around with it, I'm not too impressed.</p> <p>So I'm thinking of switching over to SMF <a href="http://www.simplemachines.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.simplemachines.org/</a></p> <p>If I change I'll leave the BBpress here but I'll change the link on the front page and add a little graphic icon so people notice it better. What do you think? </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=98#post-754 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:47:17 +0000 Dawnsteel 754@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Seems to me I read something (written by a GM) about littering his campaign with "useless" magic items. I think the rationale was that his world was rich in these types of objects, but no one knew the original purpose of many of them. So the party had things like a four-foot pole that, when set down, would reorient itself so that it was standing on one end.</p> <p>Once I gave my D&#38;D players a Wand of Useless Wonder, based on the Wand of Wonder from 2nd Edition. I made my own chart of effects (harmless, useless, comical) and I'd roll a d20 every time they used it...with the stipulation that it would not do the same effect twice in sequence (I'd use the next effect on the list if I rolled the same one twice). These were things like surrounding the target in a cloud of soap bubbles, a flight of doves bursting from the end of the wand, spouting about twelve feet of silver tinsel, screeching like a siren for ten seconds, creating a floating sphere that would strobe for a minute and then disappear...that sort of thing.</p> <p>As a player, I have enjoyed inventing uses for magical items...I used one of those ropes of entanglement to "help" dwarf up a twenty-foot cliff (he couldn't climb it in his armor, and before he decided to take it off, I'd secured one end of the rope around a nearby tree, tossed him the loose coils - when they hit him I gave the command word and it wrapped him up, winching him up the hill).</p> <p>I love the hat that is just slightly too large for everyone! How about a pouch that continually fills itself with fine white sand? Or a ring that makes you leave prints on anything you touch, like a toddler who just finished finger painting? </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=4&page=2#post-753 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:53:30 +0000 JonHook 753@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>A friend of mine recently loaned me a bunch of 2nd edition FASA Star Trek books, the core rules plus a ton of extra stuff. I'm scanning all of the books so I can have PDF copies for myself, and then I want to design an adventure to run via play-by-post. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=4&page=2#post-752 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:44:42 +0000 admin 752@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>I just finished up the heroic tier of the new world campaign, session 12. I'm going to a brief mutants and masterminds game inspired by the Watchmen and other dark comics from the 80s (the iron age if you are a comic nerd). Once I do that, then I will start the paragon tier of the new world campaign. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=98#post-751 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:32:22 +0000 Tadanori Oyama 751@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>A hat that is always just a little too large. Whatever puts it on, it slides down their forehead and over their eyes. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=96#post-750 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:30:53 +0000 Tadanori Oyama 750@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>SanDisk's Sanco MP3 player, 4gig video model. It has a built in microphone and has served me well thus far. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=4&page=2#post-749 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:06:10 +0000 Phelanar 749@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Added a Shadowrun game to the list of games I'm in right now. Have serious qualms about the house rules and mechanics that one of the co-GMs is working with, so gods only know if it'll last and how long. Also finally actually kicked off the Dark Heresy game I mentioned last time. I'm struck by how similar Dark Heresy can be to Paranoia if you look at it from the right angle. It amuses me greatly. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=60#post-748 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:03:54 +0000 Phelanar 748@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Not 100% relevant, but L4D players will like this. Someone modded on the PC it to replace zombie sounds with Macho Man Randy Savage. It's awesome. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqPG4S80bo&#38;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqPG4S80bo&#38;feature=related</a></p> <p>Also, I don't have L4D, but I could use more people to game with and talk to on XBL in general, so hit me up there. Gamertag is also Phelanar. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=98#post-747 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:44:03 +0000 Dragonshaos 747@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>If you could start a game with some sort of bizarre item that had no real purpose other than for fun, what kind of item wold it be?</p> <p>For example, i think it would be fun to have a bag of bubbles that when used on another person, changed their skin color to green, blue or red for an hour! Oh the fun!</p> <p>Or have a hat that when you lied it got bigger and bigger till it covered your head! Oh the fun!</p> <p>Try to keep things like a knife that when you stabbed someone they laugh themselves to death. (But that's still fun!) </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=97#post-746 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:32:07 +0000 Dragonshaos 746@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Alright, i though up of a way to start the campaign. It starts with players as slaves blah blah blah...and then the Red Mage loses his power once he send the sacrifices (the players and all the slaves) into the newly built dungeon surrounding an old power source of magic. Once everyone is sacrifice he gains amzin powers and stuff of doom. But then! *gasp!* It dosent work! So he leaves the slaves in the dungeon so they dont escape and runs off to find out what happened to the magic. I plan on him being gone sometime until the players get some allied factions. Anyway...</p> <p>Now inside the dungeon I plan to have the 4 'guilds' Fighters, Mages, Thieves and Masons (masons is basically the village as a whole/ the builders). Fighters are against mages cause of the power struggle, Masons hate thieves cause the thieves kept stealing from them during their slave lives and were bullies. This means that players have a better (not only) chance of alling with 2 factions easily. However, there will come a point in the dungeon for when the players can allie with more than one.</p> <p>Ill simply put in a giant square room with 4 passageways. Each passageway leads to a secret way out built by each of the 4 factions. Since i have 4 players i know will play this, each one could ally themselves with a faction and help lead them to the surface. Examples of the passageways will be that the Fighters way is filled with more monsters, the Thieves has more traps, the Masons has more puzzles and the mages will have...uhhhhh...Oh! A couple riddles! In the end all 4 factions will make it out. This is where they decide to start a new life (they do not know that the Red Mage will return, and thus think all is peaceful.) They can do some favors for each faction and gain more trust and more supplies by helping this new town.</p> <p>I may later introduce the 'Native factions' which would be the wolf and hamster people and 2 more of some sort of humanoid people. In general i want 8 factions, with the players being able to join 4 of them fairly easy, and any more being hard due to past and current fueds between the factions.</p> <p>Aside from favors to gain favor with a faction, I will have there be some natural problems that will need to be solved, and when solved will yeild rewards and favor. An example is I want there to be a large cave some distance away from the dungeon where some sort of monster lives with his flock of large sheep (Cyclops Polyphemus from the Greek poem Odyssey was the inspiration). If players get the sheep somehow they gain favor with the Masons guild cause they now have food and clothing. After this event a den of wolves becomes active, they start to attack the village nghtly and kill the sheep. Killing the wolves will make the Fighters guild happy cause they see how useful you can be in combat. BUT! By killing all the wolves you upset the wolf humanoid people and thus lose favor with them already, and gain favour with the hamster people cause they wolves attacked them too.</p> <p>Chained events like this was something i had planned, where depending on what players did would always affect someone. After they get maybe 3 factions on their side they will revieve word somehow that the Red Mage is returning to finish the job. here i will have a map of the town depending on the events and will give the players time to get a militia ready and a strategy to combat the Red Mage.</p> <p>Phew...this is alot of work...If anyone reads this thanks for the time, any comments are very much appreciated. Anytime i GM i tend to be a bit of a player killer, cause when its obvious the players are about to die, and suddenly "Oh, uhhh, the giant dragon remembered is left the oven on. So it flew away yelling 'Ill be back'" Ruins the moment for me. I know that if i spend enough time making the campaign however ill be sure to keep the players alive longer. Im trying to be a good GM. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=60#post-745 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:58:32 +0000 Jacen 745@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>look me up if you want a match, my gamertag is cross0325. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=96#post-744 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:33:48 +0000 admin 744@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>I use Garageband usually to convert the files, but sometimes I use Compressor which is part of final cut studio. You might try Audacity if you use windows. What are you using to record the games? </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=80#post-743 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:34:22 +0000 Jacen 743@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>dude I want to play in your scenarios!!! lol. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=97#post-742 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:32:42 +0000 Jacen 742@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>well Id also leave the "teaming up option" just an option. players find a way to turn all your hard work to fodder, especially since most decisions are fueled by the roll of the dice. hell if they crit diplomacy with both the hamster people and the wolf people then that throws that idea out the window, granted it would be an uneasy truce, but a truce none the less.</p> <p>Instead Id let the players do as they want and if they discover they can gather allies great. other wise when the red mage comes back have them make a mad dash to rally all the groups together to bring him down.</p> <p>a tip, write out a general guideline for the dungeon for your self. ie if pcs go find the hidden cavern there is a small band of peaceful gnolls living there, there will be no gold in this system, etc. etc. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=4&page=2#post-741 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:31:05 +0000 Dragonshaos 741@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>A player in my group is trying to run his own campaign from the Wheel of Time book series. The stories themselves are interesting but overall unless you've read the series your lost...which no one else in the group has. I feel the d20 system the book uses in broken and could really be looked over, but im being nice and playing along cause i like to make my players happy! (Dont get this book btw unless you love WoT). </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=96#post-740 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:39:50 +0000 Tadanori Oyama 740@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>That's been my biggest problem so far, trying to record my own sessions: getting the files down to 100megs or so an hour. Their hovering around 150megs/hr right now in MP3 formate. Need to find a better way of converting the WAVs. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=97#post-739 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:04:59 +0000 Dragonshaos 739@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Interesting ideas. I'm still working out everything including the details to the story. What i have was just a rough idea Ive formed over the course of a few games Ive run and what my group likes to do. The idea for the Red Mage losing his power and trapping the players in the dungeon while he seeks for new power was interesting. And for the factions is was going to work something like how the wolf people liked to prey on the hamster people so if you allied with one you gain their benefits and are then enemies of the other, losing their benefits. Its all still a rough concept, I wanted opinions as to whether this may be worth playing or any more interesting things i could throw in.</p> <p>I just got back from a game of Wheel of Time rpg my friend has decided to try and Gm. I think the story in interesting but the game system and mechanics are bad...but I cant complain because he seems to enjoy it a lot. So that's one system I considered but will not do. I originally planned to play this with Burning Wheel but that game seems to be more character driven and thus pretty hard for me as an inexperienced GM to do with this sort of campaign in mind.</p> <p>But anyway...I will be considering locking the players in the dungeon they themselves built, and ill find a way to incorporate the factions into it. (Oh, i just made up the druids and corrupted druids for an example) I originally had the idea of this being a sort of sandbox village builder but it expanded a bit after more thought was added. Maybe ill return to my more original idea of excluding any outside factions and making the factions from the slaves be the only sort of real interaction. Im not sure. I'm open to more suggestions and anything helpful or tips whatever. Ive gotten more excited about this campaign now so i want it to be fun to the players with some resemblance to my original idea. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=96#post-738 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:51:52 +0000 admin 738@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>The Zoom H2 recorder -&gt; 4 channel surround sound onto .WAV then I mixed it to a stereo 192kbps mp3. </p> <p>For comparison, I record games using a 2 channel 360 recording onto 320kpbs MP3 that I then mix down and export as a mono 80kbps. </p> <p>The raw mp3s of a game go about 100 megs or so per hour. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=86&page=2#post-737 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:40:18 +0000 silentjudas 737@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>I give Peter's hand a hearty shake, saying, "The name's Darren Turon. Yeah I'm new. Cunningham over there um...'hired' me to do some guard duty for your group here, in case for some reason something goes wrong. Though I doubt that. I mean, Hell, we're going to a science lab. Unless someone goes nuts I don't see much use for me. But hey, I'm getting paid, so I don't much care." I give a chuckle and look around at the lockers, trying to not stare at the women to the side, trying to avoid the perverted military boy stereotype, but it isn't easy, considering where I've been for the last...age and a half. The only women were covered from head to toe. <em>Guess you could say eyes are my favorite feature now. Sheez....</em><br /> I take the suit from the locker and begin to dress, hoping the funky-feeling suit fits well enough. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=80#post-736 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:42:14 +0000 Phelanar 736@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>Gamer 16: Captured a bus full of Catholic church goers to feed to an unholy cosmic horror from another dimension. Actually captured two buses worth, but one of them was blown up in a firefight at a gas station with biker nuns. </p> http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/topic.php?id=96#post-735 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:33:44 +0000 Jacen 735@http://slangdesign.com/rppr/bbpress/ <p>I really wouldnt because its torture enough to know I wont get to make it to Gencon this year. last thing I want to do is hear everyone else there. </p> <p>it be like seeing all these people eating ice cream out side but your locked inside.</p> <p>but the sound quality is great. what kind of set up are you using? </p>