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Don't know how many people played/were familiar with "Empire of the Petal Throne"... The Fall of Tékumel
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Have you ever played or owned an RPG that received excellent reviews or was really liked by your friends, but you hated? While there were excellent RPGs I've owned that weren't my cup of tea in the past like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, RuneQuest, or Dragon Age, I never hated them. A few, though, stand out, but not in a good way: FATE Core System - I read a lot of good reviews and I bought some of the digital products to get started as an alternative to Champions and ICONS, but the narrative style of gaming was just too broad and vague for me. It reminded more of me playing soldier or knight in my backyard with my friends in whether or not we hit each other or …
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I'm running an email game of Champions fifth edition. I consider my play-by-email experience of the game superior and more fun than when I played face-to-face. Does anyone else feel the same way? By the way, here's a link to my game ad on the forums here, still openings:
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Every once in a while I come across what could best be described as a hidden RPG gem that is well-written and a solid game but got overlooked for one reason or another. My most recent hidden gem is Chaosium's Prince Valiant Storytelling Game, an RPG based off of the long-running (and still going) comic strip inspired by the legend of King Arthur. In many ways, it's like a rules-light version of Pendragon that was also written by Greg Stafford, whose love the Arthurian mythology and storytelling came through in this game book that was enhanced even more with some great art designs by Hal Foster. How about you? What hidden RPG gems have you come across?
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Here's a fun exercise for our gamification pleasure. One person will state some race, class, archetype, or essentially anything else that they desire for the next person to describe. However, it cannot be used in the traditional manner, there needs to be something that is different from conventional manner. For example, a taboxoxi could be written up as some form of demon-sprung warrior. First up: elves
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The entire thread's a trip
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Will DC Comics release a role-playing game of it's own in 2023?
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Posted without comment. https://vanishingtower.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-verdict-on-runningplaying-champions.html?m=1
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https://www.rpg.net/columns/advanced-designers-and-dragons/advanced-designers-and-dragons69.phtml
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I recently ran the rules-light superhero RPG ICONS at a local game convention and it worked out beautifully, especially since out of the two groups of players that participated in the sessions I ran, only one had actually played role-playing games before. For the others, it was their first time ever and it was easy to explain the game mechanics and character sheet layout to them as well. Looking ahead to the next game event, though, I was thinking about running Champions and Fantasy Hero, which both have a special place in my gaming heart since I have been playing them since high school and college, respectively. I've owned and played other games (e.g. Robotech, Pendragon…
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I'm asking this question because my experience with the D20 system is minimal (I briefly owned Silver Age Sentinels D20 but never played it) and never played D&D or Pathfinder. However, I know the basic mechanics involved with that use the D20 to roll for an action's success or failure based on bonuses versus a difficulty rating or opposed roll from reading a rules book or two. There's been published superhero RPGs that use the D20 system (Silver Age Sentinels D20, Vigilance) and the reviews have been mixed. On the positive note, the rules were fairly consistent with the D20 system, but the impression I got was that D20 in the superhero genre has a "square…
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Greetings! No idea where the appropriate thread would be for this, thus I posted it here in this section. Dunno if there's a specific section for "character creation" in general or its a s genre specific post in forums. Personally I just create characters using the Hero System and never really think of a genre when creating them (its to me the beauty of the system). To the point at hand: Looking for some assistance creating some complications for a character. I would like to come up w/ some interesting complications for my new version a character that uses a PA (Power Armor) Focus. The PA is an alien prototype of biological-mechanical-magical nature. Imagine a bio-…
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Paul Lidberg of Crunchy Frog Games has Passed Away. His wife just posted about it on Facebook. I was at their wedding years ago, because Paul gave me and Phil Morrisey a ton of illustration work for his various mini games. Paul and I hit it off. Even L. Douglas Garret did a bit of writing for Crunchy Frog Games. How he passed away, has not been specified, but A few of you grognards have probably run into him at conventions.
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https://www.youtube.com/c/Artifexian This channel has many items on the subject of worldbuilding. It is set on mostly Science Fiction and ome Fantasy, but that's generally what most of is play here, right? This may be useful so The link for the channel is on top, and an Example I will post below.
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I often use books not related to gaming as reference guides for my campaigns. I have a ton of MERP material for my Middle-earth campaign, but if I didn't I would be okay using just Karen Wynn Fonstad's work, The Atlas of Middle-earth and Robert Foster's book, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth. Likewise, I can use Bulfinch's Mythology and Le Morte D'Arthur as primary sources. Encyclopedias are handy resources. I once used an old edition of Encyclopedia Britannica to find out information for my Castle Falkenstein game. Has anyone else done the same thing? If so, which sources have you used?
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How cutesy is Marvel Multiverse? The game system is called the D616 system. The stats are Might, Agility, Resilience, Vigilance, Ego and Logic
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Does anyone know where I can find "usable" deck plans for 20s-40s merchant ships? I can find literally dozens on Pinterest and similar sites. But they are all low resolution and I cannot actually read the compartment labels. Any guidance would be appreciated.
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Has anyone converted Powered by the Apocalypse stuff to Hero?
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Hello all, I have this one Heroclix miniature. It looks like a Eastern Monk’s outfit except it’s in Blue instead of traditional yellow and he’s hold a staff. The thing is I rebase my minis and I have no clue as to who this character is. I’d like to get another one so nice this one’s staff is broken. So hopefully someone my have an idea of who it is. TIA
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Not sure if people are tracking what's going on in Texas, but there is a 5 dollar charity bundle, with almost 500 games, on Itch if anyone wants to donate. Some headlines if you are not: "Texas governor directs state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care for trans youths as ‘child abuse’" "Texas governor calls on citizens to report parents of transgender kids for abuse" Proceeds from this bundle will be split between two organizations: Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) and Organización Latina de Trans en Texas (OLTT). TENT supports gender diverse equality in Texas through educational efforts on an individual, community, co…
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A little backstory first. My home game is 1st edition 7th Sea and my players are going through a homage to "The Amazing Race". Basically, a race around the known world doing tasks & obstacles. Right now, they're in Vodacce -- which for those who know the game world is a rather sexist & classist country. Well, they're in the city of Laurentia (Caligari territory), where I throw a curveball in the form of someone's been going around killing people ala "Don't Look Now". Since they're heroes, they decide to investigate for a day. The evidence strongly implies that the killer is a 10 year old (which she is). There's been 4 deaths in order: a vagrant, a wine merch…
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This is more on an online gaming forum problem than face to face, especially since I don't know the other players or the GM. But, a D&D game just started, only 3 folks in the party and one player has basically said "I'm not gonna ask anything -- one of you make the decisions". And the other player isn't posting squat. Which leaves me as the last member feeling rather resentful having to carry everyone's asses. What is a tactful way I can bring this up to the GM? It will be in a private message (and no, it's no one here...the problem in question is happening way away elsewhere).
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What Is Chimera? Chimera is a hybridization between the OpenD6 ruleset and the HERO System ruleset. What Chimera Is Not Chimera is not and has never been intended to be a replacement for the HERO System. Why? The answer is complex and stretches back many decades of laughter, nerdy games, bad movie fests, and terrible puns. As succinctly as possible; I love the fast-playing, cinematic feel of OpenD6 and the amazing detail and granularity of HERO System games. I bounce between the two games a lot, so much so that I started to crave a system that had the high cards of both. I decided this was a good idea to try and play around with…
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RoleMaster -- https://youtu.be/8VZpzMWGmoo
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We’ve done articles on martial artists and we’ve done articles on mutant animals, clearly there is only one place to go next. Over the coming weeks we will be hosting a series of public polls to decide the various campaign elements. After we have collectively decided on everything going into our stew pot, we’ll put everything together for our shared setting along with some interesting NPCs and locations along the way. The first poll is now live. Time Period and Broad Setting https://housedok.com/ummac-poll-1/ If you want to contribute to the polls before they go live: Patrons get to see polls early, and contribute to the options. https…
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