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RPGs / Re: Call of Cthulhu Virginity

« on: August 10, 2009, 09:24:15 AM »

My first Cthulhu experience was actually last year's Gencon where my brother and I participated in "You too can Cthulhu" We'd played the Call of Cthulhu FFG CCG competitively for awhile and decided to give the rpg a chance.

It was fantastic. We had to survive a plane crash in the 1960's only to come across an abandoned town somewhere in the Rockies. The story was fine, abandoned towns are always creepy, but really it was the almost LARP atmosphere they created for us. I played an old vacuum salesmand with a bad cough and it was probably the most enjoyable character I've ever played. We actually started out sitting like we were in a plane with props and multimedia stuff too.

Probably one of the best RP experiences I ever had or will have. There's a reason the event always sells out superfast at Gencon.

Oh, also, I got to drive a firetruck into a giant other-worldly-light-emitting-glass lens to save the town, and possibly...the WORLD.

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General Chaos / Re: CREEPY THREAD OF DOOM

« on: August 09, 2009, 10:16:25 AM »

Creepy/awesome pictures of abandoned buildings? Could be. http://notifbutwhen.com/projects/copia/dark-stores/

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RPGs / Gencon Indy coverage - help me decide what pictures to post live from the show!

« on: August 08, 2009, 10:52:12 PM »

Obviously the RPPR crew is going to do a great job covering the big event, but I just wanted to let those who can't make it to Gencon know that I'll be live blogging pictures and other odd notes at my blog as I have now mastered the art of instant blogging! So, shameless promotion aside, if anyone wants a picture of something particular to get a better look at Gencon, I'm taking as many requests as I can. Just go to the blog link in my signature and reply to the recent post with the open offer of picture-taking happy times.

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RPGs / Favorite nWoD game?

« on: August 02, 2009, 04:22:34 PM »

Hey, I'm looking for people's opinions on the different nWoD settings and fatsplats. I'm leaning towards Hunter or possible Geist once it's released for my group, but looking for personal opinions on the different games.

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General Chaos / Re: The death of a Legend...

« on: August 02, 2009, 04:20:57 PM »

I remember reading about the filming of this before the movie was released and was obviously disappointed when it wasn't included.

Any more word on what's going to be included in the big ole' 5 disc set for Christmas? I bought the cheap-o release now for $15.00 and it came with a $10.00 off coupon for the big set, not bad and makes me even more jazzed for it.

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General Chaos / Re: NEW MOVIES!

« on: August 02, 2009, 04:17:42 PM »

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/ninjaassassin/

Ninja! Assassin! Ninja Assassin! Decent RP fodder to help us all picture the badassness of the "ninja" class of your game of choice.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/wherethewildthingsare/

Where the Wild Things Are. That's all you should need to know.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/district9/

District 9 - almost as psyched for this as I am Inglorious Basterds.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/pandorum/

Pandorum - hopefully will at least attempt to emulate the terrifying parts of Event Horizon, space horror = excitement!

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General Chaos / Re: CREEPY THREAD OF DOOM

« on: August 02, 2009, 11:13:22 AM »

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Goddamnit Japan

As an avid fan of Evil Dead 2, this actually is awesome. The only truly unsettling part is the baby squealing in the background in some of those scenes. Do Not Want.

Also, this is the CREEPY thread of doom, not the screamer thread of doom, jump scares are not genuine scares!

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RPGs / Going camping...God give me strength, RPPR Forums give me ideas!

« on: July 22, 2009, 09:29:59 PM »

I'm going camping this weekend and it occurred to me that camping might actually be a really good setting to get some gaming in. I hate camping, but the wife loves it, so she may appease me by playing a game of imagination with me Unfortunately I don't have time to pick up any new ideas or games since we're leaving tomorrow, but I was wondering if any of you have gamed while camping or have good ideas for games that would be excellent when going camping.

This trip's pretty small and I'll have two, hopefully three players along for any of my games. I hope to run a game of Mouse Guard at Gencon, and given it's emphasis towards smaller groups, I'm going to try to run it this weekend, also, any of my players are going to be straight-up noobs to tabletop gaming, so that might be something important to think about.

Anyway, odd topic I know, but any ideas?

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RPGs / Re: Looking for Advice on starting new with New World of Darkness

« on: June 26, 2009, 11:23:24 AM »

Thanks for the suggestion, and a follow-up question:

Since I'm the only one with books (in fact I just ebayed a second copy for the group), can anyone suggest a 1-2 page quick reference guide for players with things like basic rules (luck roll, how to do an unarmed melee attack, structure rules for objects, etc) that they've found that I could print out and give to my players so they don't have to keep asking me a rules question here or there?

By the way, we haven't started yet, but I'm thinking of posting some kind of record of the game here for kicks and may be to help me pick up on some plot hooks I didn't see in the middle of play.

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RPGs / Looking for Advice on starting new with New World of Darkness

« on: June 21, 2009, 11:31:17 PM »

A little intro, my group started role playing about two years ago, and before this time none of us had any real tabletop experience. Star Wars Saga Edition was our first game and we added 4th ed. D&D once that was released, and we play both on some kind of regular basis (so basically we're real familiar with current D20 products).

I've really been looking at running a nWoD game for a while now and have been making my way through the core book. I just picked up Antagonists as well, but haven't had a chance to check it out really yet.

I pitched my nWoD game idea to my group friday night and after a little time, they all got into the spirit of things because an ongoing horror, modern game is something we haven't done yet (we have played several games of the jenga-Dread game, but those were all one-shots).

I'm still really new to the nWoD game line and universe in general. My idea for my chronicle is a sandbox game in a fictional city (Parson City, Colorado) that's been cut off from the rest of the world but is quite large on its own and is starting to adapt to a system of limited resources. I'm going to run a mortals game at least to begin with so we can all learn the system and gain a healthy fear of the bad things that are starting to get to the city and leave their mark more and more.

With all that in mind, what other books would be a good place to start with other than the core book and antagonists? None of my characters are cops or military personnel, so I don't think those source books would be helpful. I want to give my guys a really developed, large city with lots of options and tons of hooks all over the place to make them feel like they really are taking the lead and I'm not railroading them even the tiniest bit (which can happen quite often in combat-focused systems like d20 stuff). I've read a little bit about the Vampire book Damnation City, would it be worthwhile and helpful for helping me develop my Mortals city? I'm not necessarily going to have a "Prince" (not sure exactly what that all entails at this point), but it seems like a good book to build NPC's with regardless, is this true?

Should I look at trying to get Armory or Armory Reloaded? Those seem to be neat books from what I've read, but are they really useful or pertinent at this point?

Last thing: I'm looking at eventually having all the characters upgrade themselves to Hunters using the Hunter: The Vigil system on after a little bit of the characters getting to know the newly changed city and giving them a chance to learn that things aren't quite right not just in the bar or park next door, but all over town. In your experiences, is this kind of transition to normal mortal to a super something that's easily doable, or will I have to have my players start brand new characters?

Ok, last question for real: any books in general, across any nWoD line, that has a big or particularly awesome list of antagonists outside of the Antagonists book I should look at?

Thanks for reading my long-ass post! Any general nWoD advice is also welcomed!

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General Chaos / Re: CREEPY THREAD OF DOOM

« on: June 19, 2009, 08:37:56 AM »

I know this isn't a video or photo, but how about legitimately freaky movies? I love horror as a genre (although hate those surprise scares that only scare you by tricking you) and when of the freakiest movies I've ever seen is Jacob's Ladder - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_(film) Any other suggestions for movies that have a high creep out factor?

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General Chaos / Re: Free RPG Day

« on: June 11, 2009, 05:03:35 PM »

So what's everyone looking forward to most at free rpg day? I have to say that I'm getting into nWoD stuff recently, so Geist has me kind of excited.

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General Chaos / Re: CREEPY THREAD OF DOOM

« on: June 11, 2009, 05:01:09 PM »

Wow, that cellphone video was pretty great. Not too creepy because it's obviously fake, but really well done and pretty neat.

Also:

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General Chaos / Re: CREEPY THREAD OF DOOM

« on: June 10, 2009, 10:59:07 PM »

I've lurked long enough! Time to contribute to my favorite kind of internety!

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSCOO06330120080530

That story and other stories like it, give me the willies.