― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Amber is supposedly neat but I never played that.I kind of wish the Rifts campaign had lasted a bit longer, but finals + summer put that one to bed.
Jesus christ I was a dork.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 May 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 5 May 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I have played:
D&DAD&DShadowrunParanoiaTravellerTop SecretMage/Vampire/WerewolfArs MagicaDoctor Who RPGJames Bond RPGGangbustersBushidoCall Of CthulhuChampionsDC HeroesGolden HeroesEn Garde!various GURPSRunequestGamma World Boot HillMERPWFRP2300ADC&SChillSkyrealms of JoruneJudge DreddTwilight 2000PendragonStormbringer
TOMBOT, I trump your dorkiness. I AM NOT PROUD.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
heh, balance, yeah... in places. house rules are necessary in places.pace... no, that was 2nd Ed AD&D.
― teh_kit has 20 friends (g-kit), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Later, I would attend my senior prom, with a girl.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
We did something like this with from ages 8 till 14
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
what's up w/ pathfinder? seems like everyone loves it?
― the late great, Saturday, 4 August 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
It's a logarithmic evolution of D&D 3.5. For those who thought the number crunching nerdiness hadn't reached it's proper apogee. I got lost just reading the rulebook.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 4 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
the best RPG ever was my free-form intergalactic anything-goes-but-magic one where nobody had any dice or character sheets or anything written down, I just sat there in the school cafeteria and GM'd as my friends came up with ridiculous shit for their characters to do, probabilistic issues were solved by having people guess numbers between one and ten.We did something like this with from ages 8 till 14
dittoalthough i had a mini notebook which held all the initial details of various locations and inhabitants on the world map, we didn't really use it much as I'd memorised it all being the creator and all.
My friend kept all our work at his house, and then he moved to America abrubtly and I never saw him again. I would love to know that he kept that little book as I know he loved it.
― PSOD (Ste), Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
the pathfinder people are making a space opera game
http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/11/17/13625140/starfinder-rpg-pathfinder
August is a long way off though
― El Tomboto, Friday, 18 November 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Would be more inclined to play a space opera setting than trad fantasy, due to genre preferences.
― (rocketcat) đđą đđ (kingfish), Saturday, 19 November 2016 06:24 (seven years ago) link
Ditto. So is Pathfinder as fun as sales figures would suggest? Anybody know?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
No love for Car Wars itt...?
― ÎáŊĪΚĪ, Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Car Wars was pretty all right.Mechwarrior 2nd Edition was better though.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
I kinda want to see if I can use this starfinder thing to build a sort of airtight garage/ jodoverse campaign setting
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 November 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
omg lol wtf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metabarons_Roleplaying_Gamehttps://rpggeek.com/rpg/1449/metabarons-roleplaying-game
The Metabarons Roleplaying Game is a mystical space opera role-playing game which uses the D6 system. The players play characters who are not the Metabarons, but common people who are affected by the Metabarons.Character progress depends upon adhering to an honor code. Heroes also have "NecroDream points" which, when they outnumber their "Amarax" (heroism) points, strip them of their heroic quality and throws them back into idleness and decadence.This game actually re-implemented Star Wars, since West End Games had been bought by a French company but could not keep rights. Therefore they chose to adapt another sci-fi universe.
Character progress depends upon adhering to an honor code. Heroes also have "NecroDream points" which, when they outnumber their "Amarax" (heroism) points, strip them of their heroic quality and throws them back into idleness and decadence.
This game actually re-implemented Star Wars, since West End Games had been bought by a French company but could not keep rights. Therefore they chose to adapt another sci-fi universe.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 November 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
The players play characters who are not the Metabarons, but common people who are affected by the Metabarons.
thank god for escapism
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 19 November 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
tbf being a Metabaron would be pretty boring and terrible too. You could probably make a Cards Against Humanity style character-creation system, but after that it's like okay you're an unstoppable warrior whose main motivation is to have children so you can mutilate them and then they grow up and murder you. OTOH making a game based on The Incal also belongs in the your terrible ideas thread
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 November 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
didn't realize metabarons used the old west end games d6 system ... was going to pop on the thread earlier to say that i thought that the old d6 star wars was the perfect sci fi RPG
i have a soft spot for star frontiers, as that was the first RPG i ever bought (1983 iirc)
although i could never get a game going! so i suppose that is my favorite RPG i never played
― the late great, Saturday, 19 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
my group was actually playing d6 star wars for a few months but we just switched to d&d 5E which is awesome
Paranoia
i have owned old editions of paranoia and currently have a copy of paranoia XP chilling on the game shelf. played a few times. reading the books is very entertaining, i found it hard to run a game that lived up to that level of funny Toon
used to own, played a few times. again, found it hard to be as creative and funny as, say, warner bros cartoons. also makes you realize how much cartoons depend on visual humor / mood setting which is difficult to convey in an RPG
Car Wars
good board game. i had car wars / boat wars / air wars. i believe there was an RPG called "autoduel" but i never owned that. didn't play a whole lot of this or battletech. the paper pieces were just too flimsy and the rules too fidgety. we always ended up playing WH40K instead. the pieces had a reassuring solidity.
― the late great, Sunday, 20 November 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
also FYI they made all of the star frontiers stuff public domain
http://www.starfrontiers.com
― the late great, Sunday, 20 November 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
so the Traveler page on Wikipedia has this awesome table of scenario types. Poll material imo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_%28role-playing_game%29#Adventures
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Saturday, 17 December 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link