What PHD Do You Need To Play...

[sharps54]

Running Cyber Punk requires a degree in vinyl barbie costumes.

It definitely should, if you aren’t playing up the fashion aspect you are ignoring an important part of the Cyberpunk 2020 setting.

 

[burbles]

I've seen RPG people complain about subtraction, numbers higher than 9, tracking rations, ammo, healing, money, weight . . . not to mention "what do I need to roll - wait, I'm hunting for it on my character sheet . . ." in simple games with basic tasks their PC keeps doing over and over, that involve no modifiers. Like they can't/don't remember, and it's an effort to find, the number 12, for a basic axe hack attack they keep doing.

That's partly why as GM I am happy to track and roll for them, since I can resolve, and describe the results of their attack before they even find their dice.

Just wondering - would it make DMing easier by replacing them with GPTChat or something?

 

[AsenRG]

Just wondering - would it make DMing easier by replacing them with GPTChat or something?

...who, the players?!?

 

[burbles]

...who, the players?!?

Errrrr, yes!

I may be a bad person but I struggle with the idea that people are engaged with a game if they can't locate the big '12' on their character sheet for D&D. Some other RPGs (ie 4 page/dense character sheets) I can understand, but simple single pages ones.......

 

[burbles]

OK, I've just looked at my recent posts here and concluded that I've become a grumpy old man.

Just ignore me as I shake my cane at the young whipper snappers circling me on their electric bicycles!

 

[AsenRG]

Errrrr, yes!

I may be a bad person but I struggle with the idea that people are engaged with a game if they can't locate the big '12' on their character sheet for D&D. Some other RPGs (ie 4 page/dense character sheets) I can understand, but simple single pages ones.......

Well, with Skarg it's more likely to be either (simplified, low-point values) GURPS, or outright TFT...

But neither of these has an overly long character sheet.

 

[sharps54]

I actually think using AI to be the players, or even traditional solo play but as the GM asking the oracle what the party does, might be a lot of fun.

Kind of like the board game Dungeon Lords.

 

[AsenRG]

I actually think using AI to be the players, or even traditional solo play but as the GM asking the oracle what the party does, might be a lot of fun.

Kind of like the board game Dungeon Lords.

I did threaten my players in the China 1664 campaign that of nobody comes to a session, I'm just going to use Mythic as a players emulator, and will let them know afterwards what happened to their characters...

 

[sharps54]

I did threaten my players in the China 1664 campaign that of nobody comes to a session, I'm just going to use Mythic as a players emulator, and will let them know afterwards what happened to their characters...

I am going to remember that and file it away!

 

[AsenRG]

I am going to remember that and file it away!

Yeah, since they never skipped a session, either the game was that good, they weren't sure whether I'm talking in earnest, or possibly, both!