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The Take Aways I've had from this are Races are the rubber suit your character wears. Feats come from backgrounds. It's just a tweak. re-adjustment and overlay of 5e rules. That D&D Beyond will be your character repository, and that their Unreal Engine Gaming environment will most likely be subscription based, collecting from all participants and will duplicate a lot of Tabletop Simulator's features.
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This thread is for storing and sharing any ideas related to rpgs. The level of detail or completion doesn't matter. It's meant to be a place to put in ideas so you don't forget it, or want to revisit it in the future, or just because your players wouldn't be interested in the ideas. I got this idea when rereading my Rolemaster books. There are so many different types of spellcasters, most of which specialize in one form of magic. So I thought about a possible campaign where all magic must focus on a single aspect. There won't be generic wizards casting fireballs. There will be healers, oracles, alchemists, and other specialists. Magic will be more utilitarian …
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While updating various files in preparation for the upcoming Extra Life charity game event along with some conversations with people I know in the local rpg community, I realized that Hero System is no longer my "go-to" game of choice for superhero and fantasy as it was back when I was in high school and college. Since I now run sessions at local game events where players arrive and use a pregenerated character, player interest has leaned more towards rules light systems like ICONS that are easy to understand and pick up upon arrival. I haven't ran Fantasy AGE yet, but after some brief conversations with a few who are either new to RPGs or have played D&D, the impress…
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I'm SO sure this has been posted before, but couldn't find anything on the searches. Pretty funny stuff: http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=1
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Going to use this thread to post updates whenever there is a new Adventure Seed or one page story released for Metahumans Rising.
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Nope; this is not apropos of anything; it has nothing to do with anything we arw currently discussing (as far as I know: I tend to avoid the political thread and the news thread as if they contained a horribly mixture of syphilis and leprosy, so feel free to do le check me) I have heard so many opinions on exploding dice over the years-- even before Savage Worlds. I cant remember which ones, but it is little more than a board or smdice game mechanic applied to RPGs- well, at least one as part of the core rules; others as house rules. I have even played Exploding Dice in DnD- had a DM that, if you rolled a damage die at max, then you rolled it again and added…
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https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v
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I just tried ChatGPT, the new AI chat bot, and for fun I gave it the following command for its first task. Write a rules compliant encounter for 5th edition dungeons and dragons. Here's what it came back with, very quickly. Sure! Here is a sample encounter for a group of five 3rd-level characters: Encounter Name: "Goblin Ambush" Location: A narrow mountain pass Encounter Level: 3 (840 XP) Description: As the party makes their way through a narrow mountain pass, they hear the sound of movement up ahead. Suddenly, a group of goblins emerge from hiding and attack the party, trying to steal their supplies and valuables. …
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Over on RPGnet I am doing a WIR of the core rule book as I bought it recently. Link: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/wir-coyote-and-crow.905053/
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I Have a question:how can i create a super hero RPG fanzine?
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The LA Times gathered up a ton of demographic and economic data, and broke it down all the way to neighborhoods or sometimes smaller cities, in the LA metro area. It's a wonderful resource: https://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/index.html For example, for a character concept I'm fleshing out...I wanted a fairly high income, but also very diverse neighborhood. Hmm...flip round...yeah...South Pasadena will work. Good combination of very diverse (white, Asian, Latino anyway) and high income. It is only LA, but it's a wonderful resource if you're ok with that being where the character grew up. Most neighborhood guides don't go into a…
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I Would like to know how i can create an original version of the justice society of america in a game/fanfic world that uses the 1940s material as a seed.
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How can I run a super hero rpg game based on the dc comics mini-series”jsa:the golden age?
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5e D&D (this is non-negotiable) game. GM is a ~*Writer*~ with all the baggage that word implies. GM also likes swerves & Misery Porn. Hubby begs me to join "because they're OUR FRIENDS~!" The premise given is it's a high level game, where our toons are tasked with saving the world from Evil ASAP, with OOC reasoning we're cleaning up the mess from a previous campaign (that neither me nor hubby were involved in). Things are ok, for the most part, but there's hinky stuff in the background with someone hacking into our warforged barbarian remotely to give her a breath weapon to attack us with against her will, the elven ranger's higher-ups are being su…
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I’m curious about something and wanted to throw it out for discussion. For character portraits, do you prefer using an actual picture or a drawing?
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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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Definitely Not A Role-Playing Game
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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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