Friday
Well-Known Member
I want to play in a Deadlands game so god damned badly....
I want to play in a Deadlands game so god damned badly....
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
It's gonna be a weekly chat-based session game. We're probably looking for another player or two.
Friday
Well-Known Member
So.
4th edition.
I might try it.
Thoughts?
4th edition.
I might try it.
Thoughts?
Lynx
Well-Known Member
I like what I've seen. I also like the "Three Books a year" thing, with different classes, monsters and situations every year.
I don't, however, like the online stuff. The fact they're charging $15 a month on top of the books for a tabletop game is ridiculous.
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Bass
Nexus of the World
I don't know this "three books a year" thing you mention.
However, I think 4e is right in spirit, but still floundering in execution.
However, I think 4e is right in spirit, but still floundering in execution.
Friday
Well-Known Member
Three books a year thing?
And the online thing doesn't bother me. People to play with aren't much of a shortage here. I just never took to 3E.
And the online thing doesn't bother me. People to play with aren't much of a shortage here. I just never took to 3E.
Bass
Nexus of the World
3e was stupid. I remember a line in Millar's AUTHORITY run where the Engineer says, "I'm down to my last ten amusing ways to kill a supervillain."
After you create a wall with multiple layers that first burn you, then electrocute you, then turn you to stone, then drive you insane, and finally dump you in a parrallel wall, but you decide to open the wall in the air and reverse gravity to send the monsters into it... well, I think you hit the apex.
Christ sake, I had a guy who could just turn villains into loot. Their body disintegrates but their belongings remain.
Stupid game.
After you create a wall with multiple layers that first burn you, then electrocute you, then turn you to stone, then drive you insane, and finally dump you in a parrallel wall, but you decide to open the wall in the air and reverse gravity to send the monsters into it... well, I think you hit the apex.
Christ sake, I had a guy who could just turn villains into loot. Their body disintegrates but their belongings remain.
Stupid game.
Lynx
Well-Known Member
I completely agree. I might check out 4E. We'll see.
Bass said:
Yeah, supposedly they're going to release a Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual every year. The Player's Handbook is to introduce new classes, races, and update rules, the DM Guide is to introduce specific types of play and the Monster Manual will give new monsters. Those three books will come out every year and that's it. No Manual of the Planes, Cityscape, Complete Adventure or any of the extraneous bull****. Just those three.
EDIT: Wait, I lied. Apparently, they're releasing a new Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual every yearin addition to all the extraneous bull****. All of a sudden, I'm less excited about this game. Much less excited.
As for the online thing. . .it's not just for the virtual tabletop. There's also access to Dungeon and Dragon magazine articles, and stuff like that. I don't really mind them charging for it, but $15 a month is just stupid. I can play WoW or Conan for the same damn price without buying books and the world and story are already created for me!
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Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
I just don't understand how anyone can care about Dungeons and Dragons anymore.
I mean, I haven't really checked in on Pen and Paper RPG books in years, but surely there's got to be plenty of better things out there than D&D, right?
I mean, I haven't really checked in on Pen and Paper RPG books in years, but surely there's got to be plenty of better things out there than D&D, right?
Lynx
Well-Known Member
D&D is pretty much the epitome of Fantasy Role-Playing Games. Nothing really comes close.
However, if you're talking about any pen-and-paper RPG, then yeah, there are (Although, I'm pretty biased as an avid WoD GM).
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
What about F.A.T.A.L.?
:roll:
Lynx said:
See, White Wolf used to be my thing, but I've got my own bias. I've as much as given up shelling my money on roleplaying books. There's better ways to spend my money, and the ideas I can come up with are way better than anything I'll find in a book anyway.
Lynx
Well-Known Member
Please, please tell me you're kidding.
I agree about the books. I usually just use the books for rules, anyways. And when I need detailed histories of things like clans or covenants (Which I don't have the time to write).
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
How can you not love a game where you roll for your character's anal circumference?
Lynx said:
Yeah. Well, I just wing it when I don't have the history. I've drawn away from real life RPG sessions though. I just hate most of those people. All my stuff's online, and collaborative, and either slim on rules or entirely absent.
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Lynx
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:arrgh::arrgh::arrgh:
See, I'm lucky. Everyone I play with isn't a typical role-player. And we're all old friends, so it works well. Getting them to play anything outside of WoD, though, is like pulling teeth. They just love the horror setting.
Ultimate Houde
UC's Resident Genetic Recombinator
Where?
I use to do alot of online roleplaying would like to check out how guys do it.
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Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
Private venues mostly. I've got a square, small group of players that I usually play with. Right now we're doing a superhero game, with a wiki and everything. I'll PM you some links if you want to get a feel. My friend hosts the chat off her server.
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Friday
Well-Known Member
Eh. It's something to do with my friends. Little Washington here doesn't have a whole lot to offer on a regular basis. Everythings pretty much one shot deals.
* hugs his Demon: The Fallen book *
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
Friday
Well-Known Member
I ran a Demon in a general WOD game for a while. He had some sort of EMP ability that really hosed on of our party members, a Mage who had a computer system wired into his brain.
We should have killed him then. Thats how our WOD group rolled.
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
Really? Was your game a motley of different WoD characters? I'm curious about seeing how different games like that are run.
I've always been of the mind where I try to keep groups homogenized to one particular game line, with antagonists sometimes trickling in from other books, but retailored to fit the themes of the game in question.
But I'm interested in seeing how other people pull a more hodge-podge game off.
