General Roleplaying

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-…

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.

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.

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?

How cutesy is Marvel Multiverse? The game system is called the D616 system. The stats are Might, Agility, Resilience, Vigilance, Ego and Logic

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.

Has anyone converted Powered by the Apocalypse stuff to Hero?

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

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…

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…

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).

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…

RoleMaster -- https://youtu.be/8VZpzMWGmoo

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…

Has anyone ever seen any write ups of Bettencourt's Dawn of Amber?

Brief Article At Sports Illustrated Saw this and thought I'd pass it along. Garrett and Stanton may not be as well-known to us as Vin Diesel or Felecia Day, but it's good to see role-playing being popular among those who have considered antagonistic to the hobby.

I have found a real-life example of Chaotic Good. Enjoy.

The biggest lunar eclipse in 300 years takes place in a matter of hours. Are any of our working GM’s using this as an element in their games? Or for those not currently running anything, what would you run, and in what genre?

Has anyone ever played Wearing the Cape RPG? It's a superhero themed RPG based of a series of novels by Marion G. Harmon. It runs on the FATE game engine similar to ICONS and is fairly rules-light from my understanding. It looks interesting, but am curious if anyone here sampled it as a rules light alternative to something as structured as Champions. 🙂

So, I'm looking through the Swords and Wizardry (OSR D&D clone) rulebook and I come across this spell. Isn't this just research? You'd think that a sixth-level spell would give better results than simply spending time in a good library.

In most rpg systems I seen padded armour is almost nothing. Except maybe in the Hero system which is why I put this in general role playing. While padded armour is pretty much a thick mattress topper wrapped around you its still a lot better than nothing. Imagine if you are hit with a spiked club or a sword or whatever. You would be grateful for that mattress topper between the weapon and your body then! Further more while lots of armours would certainly save your life if hit it would often not save you from getting taking an injury to the point of not being able to fight. And that is what the padded armour does. It has the potential to save y…

I recently came across Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE) and was fairly impressed by the style and substance of this universal game system. However, reading some sample excerpts and reviews are a lot different than actual game play. Has anyone played a superhero themed campaign for Savage Worlds? If so, how was it? I've been playing Champions on and off for around 20+ years now, and while it will always have a special place in my heart, the number-crunching of 5th and 6th has gotten old and other rules-light games like ICONS is a little too rules-light for me. Thanks in advance! 😀

So I was looking through the various programs out there, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, and so on. Reflecting on how overly complicated they all were with more useless non-gaming related BS than actual gaming aids. Die rollers Character sheets rulebooks References And on and on. None of which is needed to play. What is needed to play is a map people can see with ways to add or hide things. A way to talk. A way to share pictures/art. And that is it. The only reason for any of the other stuff is if your players are dishonest enough that you cannot trust them to roll their dice…

Anyone who has done any investigating about TTRPGs quickly realizes that there are much more than DnD, Hero Games, Pathfinder, and GURPS out there. You can find here a summery of some games that came out recently (at the UK Games Expo), but there would be much more than he would have mentioned in this video. While there is nothing stopping anyone from mentioning these again, lets see what other games we can find and make a true critique of each game. I would like for each post to evaluate one new game that had its original debut since 2015, if not more recently. With the exception of the start date, there are essentially no other restrictions as to what game is evaluated.…

Me...way too long. Started with...ok, need a dark, rich skin tone. Lots of variations there, but the Pueblo tribes hit my fancy. Had a wealth perk listed...cuz I can, of course...so that went into...why? And that led to "tribe found a small but rich silver and gold deposit"...then moved forward from there. So, WHICH tribe? Map time...where are the New Mexico reservations? Mescalero Apache...cool, and I love where they're located, but their reservation is also national forest land. Keep looking. Isleta...ok, that works.... Then there's the name. Hmmm...mama's Catholic, lemme see some good patron saints. Yeah...oh and there's a cool mid…