"The geeneration that made the French Revolution possible was animated by a naive confidence in the future" - Charles Seignobos.
Now: can you create a campaign around this quote
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Now: can you create a campaign around this quote
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I'd better excuse myself from the forum for tonight. Before my current foul mood makes me run afoul of the rules.
"Ofrecer amistad al que pide amor , es como dar pan al que muere de sed."
-Spanish proverb that I plan to use in a game some time.
The start of my Feng Shui campaign.
But the unedited story is this:
And there's this totally unrelated story:
So...what do YOU think happened?
My longest-standing player-avoiding-social-interactions is now building her crime empire. And she's having fun.
In Kirighast. As a heroic mortal. Using Cepheus Engine.
More details here:
System for Domain Management in Exalted
I'm now in need to add a level of domain management to my game set in the setting of Exalted...in the year of the disappearance of the Scarlet Empress (and two years before it was officially known:angel:). Solars are only going to appear in months. (Game is heroic mortals, though, and is mostly...
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Re-reading Fractured Kingdom. I like what I'm seeing more and more!
Huh. I just realized what bothers me so much in some gaming systems where you just roll dice without many tactical options in the book (OD&D, for example).
Namely, they are actually serving a storyteller player's purposes better than mine. "Just tell me what happens next!" vs "Let me see how I might impact the outcome!"
I see (in Lidl): "Working for us, you get paid for every minute of overtime".
I read: "You won't get paid for a single minute during which you weren't working".
I know: I'm a Referee.
We have been seeing the effects of the stiltifying influence of Disney in RPG settings as well... and frankly: I doubt Disney would be ever broken, but we can at least chase it from our tables.
For the sake of cinema, Disney needs to be broken up | Guy Lodge
Disney is consuming its rivals – and creating a film industry devoid of innovation, says Observer film columnist Guy Lodgewww.theguardian.com
Street Wisdom4Cyberpunk Games: "Reality is what you've got left when all the electricity is out, kid".
Interrupted the session last night due to a player making a fuss*...is that a trend or what
?
*Over her plan to escape all pursuit, after acquiring a powerful magical item (that at least 3 other people are searching for) kinda failed. Well, she escaped 2 out of 3, but obviously that wasn't good enough.
So what am I supposed to do if the NPC chick has "owns a flying reptile mount" in her inventory notes;)?
I'm even more grateful that I discovered the Pub with its no politics rule.
Now it seems other hobby communities are following the lead of TBP...as a positive example. How is it positive is beyond me, frankly.
But, well, Guardian article says a knitting community followed suit.
Just had my first PC death in over a decade, I think. Well, it might be a bit less, I'd need to check.
Dumarest almost manages to make OD&D fun, but the mechanics really are working against him, IMNSHO.
I mean...he's running his CT and D6 Swords and Planet (Star Wars) games in the exact same "pulpy high-octane action with a mix of dry humour and pranks" style. But they work much more smoothly, IME.
After the seminar...looking at my newly-obtained certificates.
Funny, I just got 3 certificate for having trained 16 hours. If I was to get as many for the previous 20 years, I'd need a huge binder!
This week-end in Sofia: Seminar with Carlos Machado (BJJ), Chuck Canete (Doce Pares Escrima) and Lubomir Yordanov (JKD). Total of 16 hours with the 3 masters.
Anyone feeling a slight tinge of envy, perchance
?
Session canceled tonight. Two players started arguing about which one plays her character right. And I really wasn't in the mood for listening* to this!
So I told them I've got a headache, and cancelled it.
*It seems like they would be the only ones, but then they are the most regular ones!
It seems I'm tired enough that for once, practice hour is approaching and I've got no desire to go. That sucks.
4-armed insectoid demons for Flashing Blades.
Natural Armour 2/eye attack or cephalothorax hit avoids armor, stunned on 3+ damage in the head/cephalothorax and 5+ in the body, 14 HP for smaller ones, 16 HP for bigger ones, Combat Expertise14, lunge attack damage 6, or 12 if they have had 1 round to "load up for the jump". Can Attack, but not Counter as 1 action w/h 2 apendages, but take -1 on both attacks).
Done.
I thought about writing a love letter to Traveller. I just didn't know how to begin...
But then the system looked back at me, and told me "don't worry, I know".
And it seems to not mind me cheating with some d100, d6 dicepool, d20 roll under, and step dice* systems!
*I've grown more pickly lately. Guess I'm getting more set in my ways?
Today I finally:
-Started playtesting BarterTown.
-Dealt with the bank AND BackerKit at once. I was about to swear that DCC Lankhmar is cursed to not get my money: when the bank was in condition, BackerKit kept me logged out. And vice versa.
-Am writing from my laptop again!
Some recent events* leads me to wonder: have events in your campaigns ever become sources of new in-setting words?
*Brexit is becoming a verb in Russian, it seems. But I'm not going to comment on this - let's stick to RPGs, please!
YES! Finally got to start a campaign where I'm a player!
It's Cepheus Engine, repurposed for fantasy. And my PC has 4 out of 5 Psychic Talents (no Telekinesis, which I didn't want anyway).
Aaand... my players decided that we're continuing with Flashing Blades for now. Because apparently converting the characters to an osr 2d6 system was too time-consuming when I am not helping!
I'm fine with that^^.
Does anyone know how the Sword of Cepheus is progressing? Should I start a thread?
I have a non-political, RPG-related reason to be happy about the new Brexit delay.
I can at least hope a print copy of the Witcher RPG would fit my entertainment budget in the next 6 months (though there are contenders). And I'd prefer to order it from the UK amazon instead of the amazon.de (though I've set up an account there, too).
Re-reading Traveller 5. And now I remember why it has my favourite social system.
Working on Bartertown. Finally took some important decisions, like making it fit a general S&S/fantasy setting.
The provisional system is Cepheus Engine. And I might dual-stat it for OSR use, becauserobertsconley is right: that would make it useful for the biggest number of people.
Technically, 5e would be even better, but we'll see...frankly, it's simply outside my comphort zone atm.
My players kinda dislike Flashing Blades for S&S (or rather, my powers houserules. methinks). OK, we're going to change the system yet again.
I wonder whether they'd like Tales and Legends better;)!
Modern D&D Players (MDDPs) are a particular breed. One I have no desire of cross-polinating with!
On Myth-Weavers: MDDPs: "Random rolling for stats hampers roleplaying".
Me: "Can't process. System error detected!"
And it goes on and on for pages.
And now I've got the Witcher RPG! Gotta love GM's Day.
Finally ran another session of the Fantasy Food Challenge campaign (with First Daughter). Still no playing for me, and it was short, but at least she had fun!
Huh, it seems Cepheus Engine has added "osr" to its description on Drivethru. So I'm still about to play an OSR game?
Well, I guess it cannot be helped!
Sunday, Game Day at Diligence club: I am going to be running a BoL game...set in Batubatan.
I should start a thread.
The nice thing about today is that it's almost over.
Second Son sent his mother to hospital (after possibly breaking one of my teeth the day before). I'm not sure whether she shares my joy that he is obviously my own flesh and blood!
Currently moving some RPG files to an external hard drive in order to free some modest 30 GB of HDD space.
And that's less than half of my RPGs. And I'm not moving the ones that I'm currently using.
I just like many games.
Operation February 14th was deemed to be successful!
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown!"
"No. It's never Chinatown while I can breath!"
Something I just want to say in a game, sometime.
"Fans of classless systems are a majority on forums, but a minority in RL games". I've heard this so much I've come to doubt it.
More like, "fans of class systems are focused on the same class system, fans of classless systems have more diverse tastes", I suspect. -
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