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General Category => RPGs => : SimonLucid August 06, 2011, 11:44:16 PM
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What are some suggestions for running a wild talents game with no experience in ORE games?
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that is a very broad question
can you narrow down what you need help with
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Get some experience in ORE games? Play Monsters and Other Childish Things.
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that is a very broad question
can you narrow down what you need help with
I understand the height and width thing. Combat with games is just something you have to learn. For me it's the amount of stuff that goes into making a power, I am slight overwhelmed by it. I mean how would you go about creating someone like Gertrude Yorkes in the Runaways?
Edit: Ok nevermind I think have a better handle on it after reading some more.
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that is a very broad question
can you narrow down what you need help with
Since I too was looking for advice in WT, thought I would hijack the thread.
1) Could you clarify the Augment and Variable Effect extras? I've read through them several times, and would love a 'layman answer' about what they do.
2) (Directed at Mr. Payton, or Mr. Church, or anyone who played/ran the Zombie WT game) How did the math come out for will power investment for the time stop power? The reason I ask is that I find the will power investment for hard and wiggle die for such powers (IE the big powers like Cosmic Power and Aces) to be almost too large. If you house rule it, I'd love to hear what you do.
3) 'Permissions' seem like little more than a power check/point tax for diversifying your power or Hyper-skill/stat selection. Am I missing something important about them?
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1. I can't explain it easily. I think I should get Mr. Stolze to explain it in a short interview and do that as an episode for the podcast.
2. I basically fudged the time stop power - it's multiple actions most of the time and I improvised when the player wanted to do something unusual with it.
3. Permissions are how you decide what type and kind of powers you want for your character - the trained detective vs alien or robot or whatever. You can ONLY get the powers you buy permissions for. You cannot get any other powers other than what you get permissions for. It rewards specialists and penalizes jack of all trades.
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The cult of ORE is far better at answering game mechanics questions than I am
http://groups.google.com/group/cult-of-ore?hl=en
Also, Gertrude Yorkes would be easier to stat out as two separate characters - if you want one person to play her, let them split their powers up between the dinosaur and human. The human has only one power - 2 HD in dino telepathy limited to 1 specific dinosaur. Dino has boosted body, coordination, etc
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Monsters and other childish things has an appendix about porting PCs to Wild Talents. Make a MAOCT PC and port it over to WT.
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Are there podcasts focused on ORE/Wild Talents?
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Are there podcasts focused on ORE/Wild Talents?
yes there's one called RPPR Actual Play
idk if its any good
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Nah, they're a bunch of hacks. I'm looking for podcasts of quality.
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http://apap.libsyn.com/2011/07/24
http://www.nerdbound.com/2010/03/13/episode-26-wild-talents-the-beginning-part-1-of-2/
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Thanks Tad. I picked up Nerdbound's take on the system a while ago, and have seriously thought about adopting Neil's 'No Hard Dice for attack powers' house rule.
Since WT is very open with it's possible brokenness (IE the stop the sun power and the 10HD for invincibility entry) it would seem that the system is open for house rules.
Any noteworthy house rules for the system?
Also, since I'm a lurker... I wanted to say that Tad's APs of Deathwatch and Rogue Trader are awesome sauce.
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So my group's DnD game is going on hiatus because of one of the player's is going to have mad OT for the next two months and it looks like I might have to run my Kerberos Club game months ealier than I planned. Does anyone know where I could find lists enemies? Beyond those listed in the core Wild Talents book? I'm trying to cramp learn the rules and making characters at the same time is daunting.
Does anyone know of any good Wild Talent npc/character generators?
Mahalo
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there's an excel character generator but I can't find a link right now. I posted a question to the cult of ORE google group about it.
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If I created a slow fall type power, no damage from any fall, would it be a defend or useful?
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On it's face I'd say Useful since it doesn't stop incoming attacks, it achieves a specific goal. But you could build it as a Defense depending on how you build it. If you prevent falling damage by, say, negating kinetic force, then that works against attacks too.
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useful - defend is used to negate attacks.
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I thought it'd be useful but I just wanted to check
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I'd say a dud. Is not taking damage from a fall really worth points? How often is it even going to come up?
If you want a power, then make it immunity to impact damage.
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WT doesn't need a battle map does it? The APs make it sound more like its description. Is this the case?
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WT doesn't need a battle map does it? The APs make it sound more like its description. Is this the case?
unless you have like 15 or more combatants, no not really.
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Yet another question. I've been doing alot of research on Victorian London and I have a good handle on the background and what not, but I'm still struggling with the story. I want to start out as fighting street gangs morph into fighting Deep Ones, Prussian were-assassins, Lich Napoleon and the evil capitalism monster that the East India Company. The biggest hurdle I'm facing is I've never played superhero games. Can anyone recommend campaign superhero books? I'm looking what a superhero game/plot actually looks like.
mahalo
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You need The Kerberos Club
http://www.arcdream.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=7&zenid=f46990084d3169b1df0bc5d6648901c9
"The Kerberos Club" is a "Wild Talents" sourcebook for superheroic roleplaying in Victorian London. It includes a detailed history and thorough treatment of Victorian society in its every particular, especially the incredible and sometimes awful changes that "the Strangeness" comes to wreak upon Queen and Country alike.
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I have Kerberos. I mean something of the equivalent of Road Trip or keep on the Shadowfell. A book that lays what a campaign might look like.
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Ah. I can't think of any off the top of my head. Well, there's one for Godlike http://www.arcdream.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=40
but for straight up superhero games? I don't know.
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Could you recommend any steampunk campaign books? I figure after while there will be zepplins and steam powered robots given the proclivities of a few of my players.
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http://airshippirates.abneypark.com/
Space 1889
Castle Falkenstein
Iron Kingdoms
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Ross, have you and Tom done an episode on running a superhero game? I've been digging through old podcasts and I've found ones for running realistic games and mystery games, but not strictly superhero games.
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I've been flipping through the core WT book but I haven't found a lot about skill challenges. Are there published examples of skill challenge or rules for skill challenge construction?
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Kerberos Club has some examples - think of challenges as threats - they have dice pools that you have to reduce to 0 through skill checks and the like