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Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD FEB 21: What is a system you love to play but hate to run (or hate to play but love to run)?
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:46:12
Actually, I like shared GMing. Games I found where it works well include Ars Magica (3rd Edition), The Burning Wheel (Revised Edition), Cosmic Patrol, Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game (5th Edition).
I suspect both Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game and Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set would likewise work.
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:46:12
by aramis
prefer to run: everything...Actually, I like shared GMing. Games I found where it works well include Ars Magica (3rd Edition), The Burning Wheel (Revised Edition), Cosmic Patrol, Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game (5th Edition).
I suspect both Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game and Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set would likewise work.
Reply: The Tavern:: Re: What are you drinking right *now*?
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:42:26
Paying the price for this morning's coffee... 12 hours later. I love coffee... but man, it hates me.
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:42:26
by aramis
Cherry Limeade Sparkling Water Beverage.Paying the price for this morning's coffee... 12 hours later. I love coffee... but man, it hates me.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: Looking for GMing advice
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:40:19
I wasn't familiar with the term kvetch but after a search I get what you're saying, I definitely have to react to the actions of the players but I do have the tendency to overdo stuff at the start and just get depressed when it doesn't go where I wanted (in most things, DMing included). Thank you for the advice! I'll keep it in mind.
Always happy to expand someone's vocabulary.
And seriously, not having a story, but instead playing the villains as if a solitaire as your prep is a way to get coherence without prior planning for plot. It fails when the villain can't get away... ;)
The advice on tone from others is excellent...
I had a group that wanted a sat morning tone, but presented me with...
An alien disguised by illusion powers
A nuclear powered cross between a Hazard boy (as in Dukes of Hazard) and a tactical nuclear device (seriously - he literally blew up in a 10 Ton TNT equivalent "Nova Strike"). He was also a police detective.
A basic brute.
A tinkerer.
A 1960's Cosmonaut, changed by the Van Allen belts on a secret long-duration mission... who landed near Moscow, Idaho.
It worked, but only because they bomb boy only used lethal power sparingly... something about the badge.
One of the elements that kept it light was agreement to do so; another was that the meddling NPC cameraman was also a useful source of information and comic relief. The other was the stakes not being world shattering. It also helped that death was player discretion (I was using Sentinel Comics). And Sentinel Comics can be played very light in tone with no mechanical changes needed.
That certainly seems like a mix of a party, the bomb guy kinda sounds like a character I'd play.
I can see having villains being more helpful than having a full plot plan. I'll have to restructure some things but I can make it work with a villain focus (as far as setup goes).
We came up with the press name for the detective mid campaign: The Rad Blaster. Signature Weapon Rad's Blaster, Signature Vehicle: Rad Machine.
KH, the player, played him delightfully.
Do let us know how things work out.
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:40:19
by aramis
GrimoireOfJank wrote:
aramis wrote:
GrimoireOfJank wrote:
I wasn't familiar with the term kvetch but after a search I get what you're saying, I definitely have to react to the actions of the players but I do have the tendency to overdo stuff at the start and just get depressed when it doesn't go where I wanted (in most things, DMing included). Thank you for the advice! I'll keep it in mind.
Always happy to expand someone's vocabulary.
And seriously, not having a story, but instead playing the villains as if a solitaire as your prep is a way to get coherence without prior planning for plot. It fails when the villain can't get away... ;)
The advice on tone from others is excellent...
I had a group that wanted a sat morning tone, but presented me with...
An alien disguised by illusion powers
A nuclear powered cross between a Hazard boy (as in Dukes of Hazard) and a tactical nuclear device (seriously - he literally blew up in a 10 Ton TNT equivalent "Nova Strike"). He was also a police detective.
A basic brute.
A tinkerer.
A 1960's Cosmonaut, changed by the Van Allen belts on a secret long-duration mission... who landed near Moscow, Idaho.
It worked, but only because they bomb boy only used lethal power sparingly... something about the badge.
One of the elements that kept it light was agreement to do so; another was that the meddling NPC cameraman was also a useful source of information and comic relief. The other was the stakes not being world shattering. It also helped that death was player discretion (I was using Sentinel Comics). And Sentinel Comics can be played very light in tone with no mechanical changes needed.
That certainly seems like a mix of a party, the bomb guy kinda sounds like a character I'd play.
I can see having villains being more helpful than having a full plot plan. I'll have to restructure some things but I can make it work with a villain focus (as far as setup goes).
We came up with the press name for the detective mid campaign: The Rad Blaster. Signature Weapon Rad's Blaster, Signature Vehicle: Rad Machine.
KH, the player, played him delightfully.
Do let us know how things work out.
Ep 270 - Starting Your Campaign
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:08:21
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Drift Delvers - Episode 74: Malacanta Hardly Wait Part 2
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Dice Funk S12: Part 56 - Nipple Clamps of the Wasteland King
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:04:52
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This Week in Geek History February 22 - 28
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:00:02
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February 22
February 23
February 24
February 25
February 26
February 27
February 28
I'm sure this list is incomplete. Feel free to offer suggestions for this and upcoming weeks. If you want your birthday included just add it to this geeklist: [geeklist=58992]
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 06:00:02
by Steve
February 22
1915- Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare [microbadge=8868]
1962- Australian naturalist Steve Irwin [microbadge=7347]
1975- American actress Drew Barrymore [microbadge=3938]
1993- First airing of Babylon 5 pilot [microbadge=1542]
1997- Scientists announce a sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned [microbadge=43898]
2017- Scientists announce discovery of 7 Earth-like planets around the dwarf star Trappist-1 [microbadge=34398] [microbadge=4844]
????- Astinex
February 23
1932- American actress Majel Barrett [microbadge=40322]
1965- American computer manufacturer Michael Dell [microbadge=3854]
1983- English-American actress Emily Blunt [microbadge=38022]
1987- Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604 [microbadge=37604]
????- Edige23
February 24
1786- Wilhelm Grimm, historian and, with his brother Jacob, compiler of Grimm's Fairy Tales [microbadge=28103]
1840- John Phillip Holland (Inventor of the modern submarine) [microbadge=8868]
1921- American actor Abe Vigoda [microbadge=24366]
1955- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs [microbadge=12864]
February 25
1943- Former Beatle George Harrison [microbadge=6038]
1971- American actor Sean Astin [microbadge=35048]
February 26
1802- French novelist and poet Victor Hugo [microbadge=9691] :halfstar:
February 27
837- 1st recorded passage of Halley's Comet [microbadge=40444]
????- Annowme
February 28
1953- Crick & Watson discover double-helix polymer structure of DNA [microbadge=20836]
1983- Final episode of M*A*S*H aired: one of the most watched shows in TV history (125 million spectators) [microbadge=49509]
????- PZVie
I'm sure this list is incomplete. Feel free to offer suggestions for this and upcoming weeks. If you want your birthday included just add it to this geeklist: [geeklist=58992]
New comment on Item for GeekList "[US] RPGG Pay It Forward: No Obligation List"
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 05:54:35
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by BG05
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Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD FEB 20: What's the longest single session you've ever been in?
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 05:23:40
Posted: Sun, 22 Feb 05:23:40
by AZBarbarian
As a teenager we could easily play through an entire weekend with only breaks for sleep and meals.
