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RPGs / Re: Anecdote Megathread
« on: July 16, 2010, 06:52:26 PM »
Fantastic. In the Star Wars rules it states that force chokes only limitation is the target is visible.
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RPGs / Re: GURPS vs BRP
« on: July 05, 2010, 11:46:59 AM »
I downloaded those basic rules, Thanks. While I was at my local used book store and bought the basic D20 CoC book. Its not as easy as chaosiums but it gets the trick done.
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General Chaos / Re: Image Thread
« on: July 03, 2010, 02:10:49 PM »
This topic has made me lol hard.
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RPGs / Re: GM Screens
« on: June 30, 2010, 10:40:10 PM »
I use a GM screen for Star Wars all the time. It's alot like the one from DnD 4e because it has all the skills on it, plus it helps with force powers.
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RPGs / Delta Green
« on: June 30, 2010, 10:10:10 PM »
I am wanting to run a Delta green game as well but I need to know if I need the original CoC book as well as the Delta Green book or just the Delta Green book.
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RPGs / Re: Anecdote Megathread
« on: June 30, 2010, 09:29:00 PM »
No he was around the age of 18-20.
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RPGs / Re: Anecdote Megathread
« on: June 30, 2010, 09:06:20 PM »
I was just happy to have a story that actually could be added to the thread. I had been meaning to type it up for a while but I knew it would take some time to write it. Oh and after listening to many of the AP's, I would love to play with all of you one day.
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RPGs / Re: Anecdote Megathread
« on: June 30, 2010, 02:06:15 AM »
Well I decided it was time for me to put together a story for the podcast now that I have been going to the forums for a while, and tell you why I no longer play DnD. Dungeons and Dragons will always hold a place in my heart because for many years it was all I knew about role playing. I will never forget my first character, a minotaur mage for a Dragonlance Campaign, or my favorite character, nor my first world I created while DMing, a funny little planet that was way to big a task for a naive high school nerd to build. But out of all of my games I have ever played or ran, none will be as memorable, (or as scaring) as my seafaring adventure I made for my friends.
As with most games it started as an idea based off of a movie. Soon after Pirates of the Caribian came out, like most gamers, my group decided to make a pirate game. It took 4 months for me to draw up maps and find any net book I could for rules on how to run an ocean based game. After months of planing we were into the game and everyone involved was having fun. There was one player who was my best friend and he decided on playing a neutral evil kobold sorcerer. We had many talks about this character and how he wanted to run a game where he would be the villain in the form of a lich and it would be awesome to cross the two games. It would be like my game was the prequel to an awesome campaign.
It took 5 games before the players had requisitioned the ship I had designed for them and now they were on their way to starting the ocean part of the their adventure. The kobold had started to wreak havoc on the ship. He made it so bad for the players that eventually he ended up in the brig and stayed there a majority of the adventures. We had gotten a player playing a paladin along the way who was letting the evil little sorcerer live as long as he was decent to the team and I mean he is a kobold, what harm could he do right?
At the end of a hard fight the kobold tried to kill the paladin leading it to a quick fight that landed the kobold on the end of a long sword. Trying to be nice I offered my friend one Wish (from the god he worshiped) so he could wish to be a lich. Instead my friend, bitter about his character being killed, wished that everyone he had ever met was dead and in hell.
I was stunned and didn't know what to do. Should I let the wish go through and be a mean GM or do I go through with it and let the players get out of it. I flipped through the DM's guide for advice and found an artifact that would make all my months of planing not be wasted. I resorted to the Deck of Many Things. I had done this before and the results were not good for the players, but this time the were in hell and mean what worse could happen.
I stated that Asmodious was going to let the hero's try to get out by using the cards because he stood to gain their souls completely with the deck anyway. After I announce this my friend said "If you bring that damn deck in this game I will stab you in the eye." I told him that I was the DM and I was going to do it besides it was his damn character that got them into this mess in the first place.
He didn't like that answer. He leaped across the room with the ferociousness of a Dire Wolverine and jumped on top of me screaming "TAKE IT OUT! TAKE IT OUT!" With pencil just like he said. It took two of the bigger players to pull him off and restrain him during which I made my escape. (I was a little guy.) I saw him 5 minuets later acting like nothing ever happened yet I could remember the pencil being inches from my right eye.
Needless to say the game never continued from that point on. I do miss playing my RPG's and with all of my friends moving on I no longer have a group, but sometimes I am glad that I don't have to worry about running into someone as bat shit crazy as that.
As with most games it started as an idea based off of a movie. Soon after Pirates of the Caribian came out, like most gamers, my group decided to make a pirate game. It took 4 months for me to draw up maps and find any net book I could for rules on how to run an ocean based game. After months of planing we were into the game and everyone involved was having fun. There was one player who was my best friend and he decided on playing a neutral evil kobold sorcerer. We had many talks about this character and how he wanted to run a game where he would be the villain in the form of a lich and it would be awesome to cross the two games. It would be like my game was the prequel to an awesome campaign.
It took 5 games before the players had requisitioned the ship I had designed for them and now they were on their way to starting the ocean part of the their adventure. The kobold had started to wreak havoc on the ship. He made it so bad for the players that eventually he ended up in the brig and stayed there a majority of the adventures. We had gotten a player playing a paladin along the way who was letting the evil little sorcerer live as long as he was decent to the team and I mean he is a kobold, what harm could he do right?
At the end of a hard fight the kobold tried to kill the paladin leading it to a quick fight that landed the kobold on the end of a long sword. Trying to be nice I offered my friend one Wish (from the god he worshiped) so he could wish to be a lich. Instead my friend, bitter about his character being killed, wished that everyone he had ever met was dead and in hell.
I was stunned and didn't know what to do. Should I let the wish go through and be a mean GM or do I go through with it and let the players get out of it. I flipped through the DM's guide for advice and found an artifact that would make all my months of planing not be wasted. I resorted to the Deck of Many Things. I had done this before and the results were not good for the players, but this time the were in hell and mean what worse could happen.
I stated that Asmodious was going to let the hero's try to get out by using the cards because he stood to gain their souls completely with the deck anyway. After I announce this my friend said "If you bring that damn deck in this game I will stab you in the eye." I told him that I was the DM and I was going to do it besides it was his damn character that got them into this mess in the first place.
He didn't like that answer. He leaped across the room with the ferociousness of a Dire Wolverine and jumped on top of me screaming "TAKE IT OUT! TAKE IT OUT!" With pencil just like he said. It took two of the bigger players to pull him off and restrain him during which I made my escape. (I was a little guy.) I saw him 5 minuets later acting like nothing ever happened yet I could remember the pencil being inches from my right eye.
Needless to say the game never continued from that point on. I do miss playing my RPG's and with all of my friends moving on I no longer have a group, but sometimes I am glad that I don't have to worry about running into someone as bat shit crazy as that.
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RPGs / Re: GURPS vs BRP
« on: June 25, 2010, 10:43:02 PM »
Oops I just realized I might have posted this in the wrong Forum... I feel retarded now.
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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Future Ransom: The Aaron/CoC Project
« on: June 25, 2010, 10:35:46 PM »
I will surely pay for that. I want to hear it all.
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RPGs / GURPS vs BRP
« on: June 25, 2010, 10:07:05 PM »
The main reason I am asking this question is because I just got my wife interested in RPG's and I wanted something simple to play an X-Files type game. I have alot of GURPS books but creating characters is insane with those rules. I know that That BRP uses basically the same rules as CoC and I could run X-files game easily with CoC. So which one is easier for newcomers? Should I shell out the cash for CoC?
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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: How can I find a new group?
« on: April 09, 2010, 03:11:31 PM »
Thank you for all of your suggestions. I will try the pizza/slave girl option first and see how that goes...
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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / How can I find a new group?
« on: April 08, 2010, 10:23:06 PM »
Hello forum. I am just posting because I have been looking for a new RPG group. I haven't been able to play in a while seeing as my old group disbanded. I want to play a Star Wars Saga Edition game but will try anything. I have the books for Saga and Revised but not for any other games. How does one find a new group? By the way started to listen to the pod cast and love any help would be much appreciated.