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Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD AUG 29: What place does intoxication have in your role playing games? As a GM, how do you model it? As a player, do you seek opportunities for intoxication and why?
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 15:34:04
I think you should have some mechanical capability to emulate combinations of a simple list of effects.
I think you can amp that with specific feeling descriptions role playing tips.
I've played fantasy characters addicted to healing potions and monster teens that reveled in poisonous food, jelly fish that communicated through hallucinations, humans developing ultra steroids a la venom(bane), cyberpunks looking for edges, then there's the party after the adventure...
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 15:34:04
by shiva666
Everyone is intoxicatedall the time (food-poison-medicine-recreation-rituals), only dosage is the difference.I think you should have some mechanical capability to emulate combinations of a simple list of effects.
I think you can amp that with specific feeling descriptions role playing tips.
I've played fantasy characters addicted to healing potions and monster teens that reveled in poisonous food, jelly fish that communicated through hallucinations, humans developing ultra steroids a la venom(bane), cyberpunks looking for edges, then there's the party after the adventure...
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Reply: Dragonbane: Mirth & Mayhem Roleplaying:: Rules:: Re: Master-crafted
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 15:25:14
A master bowyer I think the term is? 😅
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 15:25:14
by Chinkster
Kristabelle wrote:
Just read my rulebook. It only defines melee weapons as being mastercraftable but following the usual conventions mastercrafted ranged weapons should exist. Using the same x10 cost and benefit seems reasonable. Therefore a Master Carpenter would make the longbow for 500 wp with a STR reduction of 3 as you suggest.
A master bowyer I think the term is? 😅
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Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD AUG 29: What place does intoxication have in your role playing games? As a GM, how do you model it? As a player, do you seek opportunities for intoxication and why?
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:50:16
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:50:16
by Ugavine
It can add character to a PC. Though I've never wanted to play a character with any serious addiction. While alcohol is frequent in games when characters visit pubs, I can get only recall it being a major part of a story once when the PCs decided to get into a drinking competition with some NPCs. What made it funny was that the PC had a high Stamina, but then fumbles his saving throws 😆
Reply: The One Ring (2nd Edition):: Reviews:: Re: Hands of the White Wizard -
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:21:24
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:21:24
by bclayj
Great review, and I agree in many respects, but I have to disagree with your general assumption that these are "Tolkien's heroes". The One Ring takes place in Tolkien's world of course, but the heroes in the game are not his, they are the players! They may even be more antiheroes, or simple men or hobbits that have no interest in heroism. Which is to say, each table or player group in an RPG like this has to make their own "rules" about moral grey areas and the like, and I - as a loremaster or player - would not want to be bound by the idea of Tolkien's strict good/evil dichotomy.
Reply: RPGGeek Help and How-To:: Re: The big QOTD Summary and Subscription Thread Volume 3
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:04:24
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:04:24
Thread: General Role-Playing:: QOTD AUG 29: What place does intoxication have in your role playing games? As a GM, how do you model it? As a player, do you seek opportunities for intoxication and why?
Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:04:09
A questions suggested by [user=rebuscarnival][/user]:
What place does intoxication have in your role playing games? As a DM, do you think there is any value to allowing PCs to engage in substance use or abuse? How do you model this at the table? What purpose do you think it serves? As a PC, do you ever play the part of a drunkard or other substance user?
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Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 14:04:09
by pdzoch
Going back 10 years ago into the suggestion thread this week.A questions suggested by [user=rebuscarnival][/user]:
What place does intoxication have in your role playing games? As a DM, do you think there is any value to allowing PCs to engage in substance use or abuse? How do you model this at the table? What purpose do you think it serves? As a PC, do you ever play the part of a drunkard or other substance user?
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