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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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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 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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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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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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Definitely Not A Role-Playing Game
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The entire thread's a trip
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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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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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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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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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Don't know how many people played/were familiar with "Empire of the Petal Throne"... The Fall of Tékumel
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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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I have a player in my Hero 6E campaign who has changed the character already once in the game prior to starting. We have played six sessions, which is maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of the way through the campaign. The player now wants to play a digressively different character, because he said it would be more fun. Would any of you allow this? As a GM, I am highly frustrated at this attitude period I believe it is showing a great disrespect for the effort that I’ve made to not only create this game, but I actually work with the players to create a backstory which will fit into the game and allow me to write their stories into the campaign material.…
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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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