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Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 09:56:18
<div>Cover to Weather, Rot, & Ruin, a fan supplement for The Walking Dead Universe RPG by Free League</div>
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 09:56:18
by hawkeye1938
<div>Cover to Weather, Rot, & Ruin, a fan supplement for The Walking Dead Universe RPG by Free League</div>
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Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 09:38:41
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 09:38:41
by PaulS77
An item Board Game Publisher: Button Shy has been added to the geeklist If you like this, then try this...(your input gratefully appreciated)
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JUL 26: What's your most memorable experience with intrigue or espionage in a game?
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 06:26:57
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 06:26:57
by aramis
Running a sneak-n-peek in Prime Directive. They captured and stole a Romulan PF (Fast patrol Ship - the SFB equivalent to a Runabout, but which dates back many years earlier)
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JULY 27: Have you read the back pocket idea thread about campaign/adventure ideas? If so, are there any ideas there (not counting yours) that you would consider playing someday?
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 06:24:20
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 06:24:20
by aramis
None come to mind.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: Looking for system recommendations! Can you tell me about my next favorite TTRPG?
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 06:18:49
Looser fits include Twilight 2000 4E... it lacks the overarching doom spiral, but radiation effects do add up
A bunch of other YZE games, the ones I see as interesting settings: ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game, Coriolis: The Third Horizon, Coriolis: The Great Dark.
Alien has the doom effect, even in campaign play; sooner or later, you're going to get eaten. The mission building tables provide for a wide variety of situations, but 1/18 of them include some form of Xenomorph encounter. (My longest campaign had 2 alien encounters; they survived the first one.
Both Coriolis games (and they're really different games, spawned from the same origin) have interesting settings and good questions in character gen; again, not all of them go on the sheet.
If you don't mind cultural appropriation... Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game (5th Edition) and I do mean 5th. Compelling setting, lots of lore... potential doom spiral if facing lots of shadowlands critters... and the character gen is a 20 questions prompt with space for both a line or two of writing and some mechanical impact. There's social conflict as well in core.
Dune lacks the doom spiral as well, but the 2d20 system shines in the Dune implementation; the supplement for Great Houses is a great resource. If you're not a Dune fan, however...
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 06:18:49
by aramis
The few I think really fit tightly: Burning Empires, The Burning Wheel Gold, The Burning Wheel (Revised Edition).Looser fits include Twilight 2000 4E... it lacks the overarching doom spiral, but radiation effects do add up
A bunch of other YZE games, the ones I see as interesting settings: ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game, Coriolis: The Third Horizon, Coriolis: The Great Dark.
Alien has the doom effect, even in campaign play; sooner or later, you're going to get eaten. The mission building tables provide for a wide variety of situations, but 1/18 of them include some form of Xenomorph encounter. (My longest campaign had 2 alien encounters; they survived the first one.
Both Coriolis games (and they're really different games, spawned from the same origin) have interesting settings and good questions in character gen; again, not all of them go on the sheet.
If you don't mind cultural appropriation... Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game (5th Edition) and I do mean 5th. Compelling setting, lots of lore... potential doom spiral if facing lots of shadowlands critters... and the character gen is a 20 questions prompt with space for both a line or two of writing and some mechanical impact. There's social conflict as well in core.
Dune lacks the doom spiral as well, but the 2d20 system shines in the Dune implementation; the supplement for Great Houses is a great resource. If you're not a Dune fan, however...
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: Game Inventory
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:54:06
Of the 300 or so I've got in dead tree (counting major editions as new games), about 200 of the cores have been used. A few dozen got campaigns.
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:54:06
by aramis
Easily several hundred supplements/sourcebooks/expansions in dead tree. RMC V-VIII, for example. Last I ran RM, I didn't have them, but acquired them because I was hopeful to run some more RM. But I've not. And no longer plan to.Of the 300 or so I've got in dead tree (counting major editions as new games), about 200 of the cores have been used. A few dozen got campaigns.
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JUL 28: Would you prefer a carefully crafted one-shot that gives you a curated, but limited entertainment, or a sandbox that doesn't give you all the beats, but stimulates you for many sessions?
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:41:44
I don't mind needing to fill some beats, but I don't much need a sandbox (most sandboxes I don't have much use for) and I don't particularly like tightly railroaded adventures, either, and "highly curated" to me implies "particularly limited choice spectra at the story beats"... which is usually synonymous with railroad.
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:41:44
by aramis
Somwhere in between, for me.I don't mind needing to fill some beats, but I don't much need a sandbox (most sandboxes I don't have much use for) and I don't particularly like tightly railroaded adventures, either, and "highly curated" to me implies "particularly limited choice spectra at the story beats"... which is usually synonymous with railroad.
Under the Lamplight Twenty-Two. The Order of the Eye
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:09:41
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Under the Lamplight Twenty-Two. The Order of the Eye
QK405: Dunk Of Death
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:09:29
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QK405: Dunk Of Death
Viva La Queerbar (Pt. 2 of 2)
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:09:26
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:09:26
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Viva La Queerbar (Pt. 2 of 2)
The No-Hit Wonder Strategy: Survival and Success with Jake Birkett
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:08:55
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:08:55
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The No-Hit Wonder Strategy: Survival and Success with Jake Birkett
Episode 71: Allegiances Chosen (Enemy of My Enemies)
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:08:18
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 05:08:18
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Episode 71: Allegiances Chosen (Enemy of My Enemies)



