What are y'all up to these days?

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Baulderstone said:
DCC is my absolute favorite edition of D&D. The best DCC dice I have all come from Impact! Miniatures. I have a number of sets, but for maximum legibility, you can't beat the yellow dice with black lettering.
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Baulderstone said:
I used to have green, glow-in-the-dark DCC dice, but my youngest nephew claimed those.
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I ended up getting the yellow and the glow in the dark, which allowed me to get a new dice bag to go along with it. this one comes with a dragon eye, but I suppose I SHOULD just use the crown royal bag I have saved for just such things, as is tradition.

I get to play after a flight back from Copenhagen. Like, I land and go to gaming almost immediately. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
 
Going to be a busy few days of RPGs. Playing D&D tonight; running The Black Hack at the library Saturday afternoon; running Savage Worlds for my friends Sunday afternoon; possibly playing more D&D Sunday evening or Monday evening.
 
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WFRP4 is a skip, FoC is a skip, First Daughter said she's not in a mood to play this week-end, and I'm at work this week-end...:thumbsup:

As a result, I'm skipping everything RPG-related except for beer, meatballs and planning my soon-to-be Japanese campaign::honkhonk:!

Hey, teens with superpowers (using an unholy mix of Destined and Raiders of R'lyeh, most likely), proto-cyberpunk environment and ages-old secrets. What's not to like:grin:?
 
Not directly gaming related, but Schlock! magazine is interested in another story I wrote. They sent me some suggested edits that I hope to work on early next week. My earlier story (featuring some luchador heroes fighting Deep Ones) should be coming out next month iirc.
 
urbwar said:
Not directly gaming related, but Schlock! magazine is interested in another story I wrote. They sent me some suggested edits that I hope to work on early next week. My earlier story (featuring some luchador heroes fighting Deep Ones) should be coming out next month iirc.
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Congrats:thumbsup:!
 
E-Rocker said:
The library Black Hack game only happens once a month, so theoretically, I have plenty of time to plan and make up cool stuff. And yet I nearly always end up making 90+% of it up off the top of my head.
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Today I ended up pulling a dungeon from The Lazy DM's Workbook and basing most of the adventure off of that. Wasn't my best-ever session, but it was pretty good.
 
My Japanese game is basically done, a couple weeks earlier than I expected. I might get a group where most players are about half my age or less, too:tongue:.

And I'm going to run for them the kind of game I'd dream of someone running for me, a sandbox that's actually the product of a century-old curse, and they would also play PCs from a century ago whose actions impact their other PCs...:gooselove:

Then we'll see how it goes::honkhonk:.
urbwar said:
Thanks! The publisher is putting together an Anthology based on Exo Moons, and I'm trying to write a story to submit featuring this lovely critter....

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If this thing doesn't get slammed into the concrete, I don't know you:grin:!
 
Got to play some Talisman 2e the other night, a rare treat these days!

The co-leader of the library BX game and I are working with some of our coworkers to organize a two-day mini "adventure gaming con" at our public library this summer. Since space and our number of participating GMs are limited, one day will have games and events aimed at kids, the other adults. Various flavors of D&D, a few other RPGs (FASERIP Marvel Super Heroes, Gamma World 2e, Classic Traveller, etc.), some Magic tables, miniature painting, and maybe some sort of GM workshop.
 
Slowly managing to work on Bugswarm Swamp for the Jonstown Compendium, nearly there, then it's Foulvale (Ducks in Dorastor) followed by Hahlgrim's War. Eventually, I'll finish what I want to do in Dorastor and move on to Prax.
 
stonetoflesh said:
The co-leader of the library BX game and I are working with some of our coworkers to organize a two-day mini "adventure gaming con" at our public library this summer. Since space and our number of participating GMs are limited, one day will have games and events aimed at kids, the other adults. Various flavors of D&D, a few other RPGs (FASERIP Marvel Super Heroes, Gamma World 2e, Classic Traveller, etc.), some Magic tables, miniature painting, and maybe some sort of GM workshop.
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Very cool! I look forward to hearing how it goes.

I'm doing some mini-painting events in my library this summer, with a combination of painting kits and minis donated by Reaper and some minis from home that I will probably never use. I'm going to focus on the tween/teen age categories for those, mainly because that is the hardest age range to pull in for summer programs. I would like to do the first one before summer, to try to build up an audience for the later ones, but that is going to depend on some scheduling and staffing issues (we're a tiny library).

At some point I would like to get an ongoing group diorama project of some sort going, as well. I'm still in the early planning stages of that, though.
 
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Lets explore magical transforming characters with Twilight Lancer champion of the Moon God Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto.
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Tonight went off perfectly. A single minute long combat distracted the players but they have until next week to realize that if the people with camera footage make it out of the star system there will be two videos of them making unprovoked attacks on people with area effects that kill dozens of innocents.

Having a personal enemy who knows that you're an anti-social killer robot, has time to plan, and is willing to kill your reputation & legal status before they really try to kill you... its bad. That the mind flayers are going to start manipulating things too is worse. But thats just business and at least they don't want you dead.
 
Telok said:
Tonight went off perfectly. A single minute long combat distracted the players but they have until next week to realize that if the people with camera footage make it out of the star system there will be two videos of them making unprovoked attacks on people with area effects that kill dozens of innocents.

Having a personal enemy who knows that you're an anti-social killer robot, has time to plan, and is willing to kill your reputation & legal status before they really try to kill you... its bad. That the mind flayers are going to start manipulating things too is worse. But thats just business and at least they don't want you dead.
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At what point are the authorities going to dispatch anti-robot bounty hunters, I wonder:shock:?
 
AsenRG said:
At what point are the authorities going to dispatch anti-robot bounty hunters, I wonder:shock:?
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Well they've fallen behind the news front on the first one. Its possible they could salvage from the current bit of slaughter (they're legit not to blame this time and Doc Nobs did do paramedic stuff on the scene) but unlikely given their history. Mostly this is cutting off one of the PCs from their main social/information resource and setting them up for being disgraced & hated before setting up a real murder attempt.

And I've remembered the humie empire has a couple werewolf commando squads. Although there are bigger developments than minor terrorism going on. I think it'll just be bounties and being kill-on-sight in a major political zone. For now.

And gosh darn, those mind flayers are so helpful and trustworthy...
 
urbwar said:
Given the story I'm planning takes place in deep space, there won't be any concrete. So I guess you don't know me! :clown:
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Be creative, man! It can get slammed into an asteroid, a moon, a star, thrown in a black hole... I'm not that picky to keep arguing for concrete:grin:!
 
My gaming update

After a bookshelf reshuffle, these are the most prominent trpgs titles I can see at present:
  • D&D OGL 13th Age
  • D&D OSR Shadowdark
  • D&D 5E AiM/LOTR
  • D&D 5E Fateforge
  • D&D 5E Ruins of Symbaroum
  • D&D 5E Trudvang Adventures
  • Numenera Discovery/Destiny
  • Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4E
  • BRP Mythras (Hyborian Age, Glorantha, Mythic Britain, Lyonesse)
  • BRP Call of Cthulhu
  • BRP RuneQuest (RQ2/3, RQG)
  • Pendragon 5.2
  • Against The Darkmaster
  • Vaesen
  • Broken Compass
  • Fate Core
  • 7th Sea 2E
  • Honor + Intrigue
  • Talislanta 2E/3E
  • Conan (Mongoose D&D 3E, Modiphius 2D20)
  • Crown & Skull (recent acquisition )
Currently backing/awaiting:
  • D&D 5E LOTR: Moria, Through The Doors of Durin
  • Against The Darkmaster: Secrets Of The Golden Throne
  • Legends Of The Mist
  • Talislanta Epic Edition
  • Knave 2E
  • Dolemwood (which I'll adapt for Shadowdark or possibly BRP OpenQuest)
  • Cypher: Adventures In The Cypher System
  • Storypath: Double Feature They Came From The Cyclops Cave / Classified
  • Fate Core Chronicles Of Future Earth (five years overdue)
  • BRP Revolution D100: Red Moon Rising (currently SEVEN years overdue...)
Over the past four years, as a player:
  • HARP Fantasy Cyradon
  • D&D 5E Forgotten Realms
  • Fate Core Arabian Nights
  • Fate Core Middle Earth Shire Tales
  • Fragged Empire (most recent)
Over the past four years, as a GM:
  • RuneQuest (now converted to Mythras)
  • Call of Cthulhu 6E, then 7E (including Pulp Cthulhu)
  • Middle Earth (TOR, D&D 5E AiM, Fate Core)
  • Modiphius Conan (now converted to Mythras)
  • Numenera Discovery/Destiny
  • Currently 13th Age
  • Next WFRP 4E
Everything going well, but we'll see how long I stick to the plan with all the life interuptions at present
(I rarely stick to my own plans, heh heh)
Still, I'm just happy that I'm still running loungeroom trpgs, I'm holding the drought off as long as I can!
 
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It's a bit of a relief that the dimension-hopping PCs in my Savage Worlds Adventure Edition campaign have recently landed on Rifts Earth, specifically the North American portion, because I can use my real-life firsthand knowledge of North American geography. Much easier than making locations up whole cloth.
 
And today I tracked my rolls. 18 d20 rolls, average on the die: 9.5. The first ten rolls averaged 8.0. Unsurprisingly, given this was D&D 3.5, my character looked like a complete chump.
 
Sharrow said:
And today I tracked my rolls. 18 d20 rolls, average on the die: 9.5. The first ten rolls averaged 8.0. Unsurprisingly, given this was D&D 3.5, my character looked like a complete chump.
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Did you change your die after the first ten?
 
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Developed by the legendary Bruce Lee, the way of the intercepting fist is as much of a philosophy on martial arts as it is a fighting style. With any luck, we've captured both the fundamentals of JKD as well as the spirit.

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Codified in 1967 by Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do was not intended to be a style in the traditional sense, but a martial philosophy and way to ingest knowledge. Jeet Kune Do can also be seen as a new stage in the legendary martial artist’s life as Lee developed a way to integrate the lessons […]
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Just got back from running the opening session of my Hack100 sci-fi game at the local pub. Went decently well, with a few of the usuals stumbles for being a new game with a couple of new players, but nothing that wasn't quickly worked through.

Also had a couple of tasty beers while noshing on some chicken quesadillas during the game, so that didn't suck.
 
AsenRG said:
Did you change your die after the first ten?
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At about roll six. I went from a physical die to an on-line roller (which doesn't roll so horribly for other people). The first half-dozen were bad, the next nearly as bad, and then some terrible rolls, and finishing with decent rolls.

As the beginning and the mid-point were when the rolls really mattered, this was not good. Needing 5+ to regain psionic focus and failing twice in a row (thus only making low-damage hits), then finally getting it and then missing with the big attack results in looking pretty terrible.
 
Need to check timelines & communications spread but I think the PCs may now be hunted criminals with bounties on them for space piracy, resisting arrest, terrorism, mass murder, demon summoning, unsanctioned sorcery, and...

Nope, I can't throw jaywalking on there yet.

Turns out that just up and running away without saying anything after you're videotaped blowing shit up has... repercussions.
 
Teyrnon said:
Heads up, I just tried that search term, and that link isn't in the first hundred or so results. I had no idea there were so many websites about the academic study of games...Google has us all in bubbles and can't be relied on to show two people the same results.
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Google is broken. #enshittififcation.
 
Sharrow said:
Well, if there were injured bystanders that adds 'failing to render assistance'.
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So I do this little news handout every session or so, when its reasonable for people to have somewhat up to date news-like stuff. Its about 50% fluff and 50% doom clocks (there's 7, plus sub-clocks). A couple bad decisions and rolls and the party spends three weeks making a couple jumps through the Warp. Sixteen months have passed for the rest of the universe. An NPC had a plan that was to take a bit more than year and a half to ruin the PC's life.

I have now written the headline "Infamous Terrorist Cyborg Pirate Dwarf Makes Inquisition's Top 50 Kill-On-Sight List". And that news will be more than two months old when they get it. We're past "failing to render assistance".
 
I've finished my last 5e campaign. Overall, things went well. Players had a benevolent patron and a single task, bring home 13 McGuffins; each one diegetically leveled them up. A simple structure for them to be have free rein on the D&D power fantasy.

Let's see how that One D&D shapes up, but for now, there are so many games on my "man why am I not running this" pile, that I can't see myself running any D&D for the remainder of the year.

Meanwhile, whenever I give my Stars Without Numbers players a choice, they choose crime. Next session will probably be them planning their heist on City Hall to raid a cache of illegal tech.
 
DornKratz said:
Let's see how that One D&D shapes up, but for now, there are so many games on my "man why am I not running this" pile, that I can't see myself running any D&D for the remainder of the year.
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Which is great:thumbsup:!

DornKratz said:
Meanwhile, whenever I give my Stars Without Numbers players a choice, they choose crime. Next session will probably be them planning their heist on City Hall to raid a cache of illegal tech.
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There's such a tendency with PCs, indeed...:gooseshades:
 
Currently running a Marvel Super Heroes campaign using the 1985 MSH RPG (aka FASERIP). Having a blast. It’s mostly improv; I come up with a supervillain plot and see what happens. This game works well with ”just wing it” style play.

Also been playing Shadows of Brimstone, an ongoing campaign, with a mix of characters from the original set and the Forbidden Fortress “Asian mythos” set.
 
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